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So we have : Young Bucks superkicking David Arquette. Then a Johnny Mundo/iMPACT cameo. MJF being awesome as always at being a prick. Tony Schiavone doing a voice over. How wrong can this go ?

I dunno. Kofi was an mid-card tag team comedy act and a yearly gimmick performer at the Royal Rumble for ever. He stumbled into a great spot because Ali got hurt, got over like crazy thanks to Daniel Bryan in the cage, then Bryan worked his magic again at Mania. Kofi is not exactly a great worker himself. It's like back in 2000 if Grandmasta Sexay of all of sudden worked a program against The Rock and won the title. Once the great moment is done, he's still Grandmasta Sexay.

Finally watched the Salina edition episode. Yeah, fun stuff. LA Park's got some much explosiveness for a overweight 50 year old guy. That plancha between the ropes and the post was sick. Plus, Mance got out of a box. Damn, Corny, you can't help yourself !

So apparently it's because some of his tatoos with religious overtones might be offensive over there. Imagine that, these people being triggered by tatoos... Gotta love WWE making their show a safe space for wahabite biggots. No women, no gay flag, no Sami Zayn... How precious.

I guess. Yep, no shit. Meltz is apparently going hard on the fact they throw her basically with no training which is why she got injured as much as she did, which could also have led to substance abuse and depression (not to mention the Kuwait "incident" that might have happened). Agreed. He's got them by the balls. He'll get everything he ever wants from them. The more we know about this, the more it seems like this is a really, really fucked up situation. Obstetric violence is a thing, so... Yeah, not good at all.

Interesting bit from Meltz in the latest WOR, coming from talking to McDevitt, Maria apparently is saying she "doesn't remember". Which is one odd take on this thing. I mean, either it's not true, either you probably remember your co-worker/friend telling you she just got raped. It's sad the fact a bad lawyer writing a shitty lawsuit will make this a non-issue. Either case, what a tragic story.

WWE : we are saddened about this girl who didn't work for us anymore's death but BOUHHHHHH WE DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT ANY DRUG RAPE PEOPLE ARE MEAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN TO US WE'RE GOOD GUYS AND HUMANITARIANS !!!!! Stay tuned : next : a progaganda show for the Saudi Regime. They have a knack for painting themselves as victims, haven't they ?

Well, he sure could be their Lex Luger for their big debut on TNT.

Happened in the Slamboree 99 episode too, with a long ass rant about "dirt-sheets" in general. His new thing is that "dirt-sheets" have actually damaged pro-wrestling... I got a kick out of him loving Charles Robinson vs Gorgeous George though. Terrific bullshit match indeed.

Who are you to doubt Glacier ?

I wonder if AEW being around doesn't shake things a bit too. I mean, it seems like the whole "be afraid of being fired" attitude is less and less of a thing. And WWE won't fire anyone over not wanting to go to Saudi Arabia anyway, especially now. Ah ah, well done.

Well, let's see (not for ourselves, because I ain't watching this) if there is gonna be any propaganda (I mean pro-active, the mere fact they are doing the shows are propaganda) on the next show, because it's basically why the Saudis bought those shows to begin with. I'd be surprised if it doesn't return in one form or another. Maybe it's too close from last fall debacle still, but... Good for Bryan & Owens. Hey people, if Kevin Owens can refuse to go, many others could have too.

Well, not believing women who say that have been raped because "some details don't add up" is actually what happens most of the time anyway... Well, that girl ended up killing herself and the WWE was über quick to publish extracts from some e-mails to absolves themselves before anyone asked any questions. So there, it's an awful story no matter what.

Considering military culture, I can totally see how that stuff could happen without anyone saying jackshit. Sexual abuse and the covering of it is totally part of the military culture. The fact a 39 years old women with a daughter just hung herself maybe because she got raped by military pigs while working for WWE and got told by WWE executive to slide that "bad experience" under the rug. The long-term consequences of rape are totally undersold.

Because a girl who says she's been raped by military under a WWE tour and that Vince told her to basically not talk about that "bad experience" is not interesting to people, I guess. The fact WWE jumped the gun while her body was still warm by publishing post-failed lawsuit e-mails to basically say "Hey, look, she loved us, she surely didn't kill herself because of depression linked to those bogus incident stories." makes the whole thing a new level of disgusting. Hey, look, a new title !

Head-on-a-pole Deathmatch...

In a company that already has way too much titles that don't mean shit, yeah, they need this relic idea from the Attitude Era...

Disagree. Making wins and losses matter make wins and losses matter, basically. See : All Japan in the 90's. Current New Japan. And actually, the most clean wins you do, the more DQ's and draws mean something when you do it once in a blue moon, and then those appear as special. Clean wins aren't the issue. Shitty 50/50 booking and not having any logical fallout from wins and losses are the issue.

Watched only the women matches. Nikki Cross is the most annoying character on a decent worker in a long while. Half Bushwhackers Half Ultimate Warrior. It' was allright, although way too choreographed in spots. I mean, the ending was kinda stupid, with all the girls selling forever and Bayley popping up from nowhere. Why the other ones stayed down, they took the same bump ? I thought Lacey Evans did quite allright, all things considered. She's indeed really good as a character. Completely generic music theme though, it doesn't make her look different. The booking was at least conducive toward something a bit exciting, with Charlotte showing up and acting like a complete bitch, Becky being punched in the face before losing, then Bailey cashing in (although that part was typical drawn out bad WWE drama-acting that Shawn Micheals probably teaches at the PC). From what I saw in FF, Shane vs Miz looked godawful. Rey vs Joe is snakebit apparently. Elias is still losing time on overlong PPVs. And pretty soon, Undertaker vs Goldy, SOMEWHERE !! Lesnar ? LOL.

Come on, they made those titles so much more important and heated than Sasha & Bailey, those babies...

From the last two posts : these people have major psychological issues.

As a worker, killed it in the G1 Climax last year. And they are going with new guys. They are gonna establish their own people. That's the right thing to do.

Conrad : You should always buckle your seatbelt... JR : oh yeah absolutely (then goes on a whole tangent) Conrad : So. you should always buckle your seatbelt (proceeds with the PS add) Funny stuff.

Sansa wins MITB. She cashes in immediately on Dany, who does the job on her way out. The end.

And then basically admits it was a complete cop out and a way to cover their ass, which is refreshing. Yeah, this show is a clear cut winner thus far. Really curious about next week's edition, it's really an heavy topic.