Strummer

Yeah it was strange hearing Miro defend wwe management over Dave when you think about all the bullshit he had to put up with the office over the years. They've been conditioned to hate him I guess

WWE released AOP

@wrestlevotes also reporting NXT might be moving nights soon enough. have to say teenage me hates Shawn constantly getting shit on here

With Roman turning that leaves only one main event male babyface left in the roster, right? Drew? while I mean I guess if you think Fiend can get there. And I guess Big E as well?

PWI reporting going forward Roman will be pushed as the top heel on SD with Fiend as top babyface.

I can't remember the exact report but I remember reading that Shawn's children educated him on the racial issues in the country and that inspired Shawn to take a stand

Well Road Dogg is there

As an aside I used to think Tim Dillon was a pretty funny stand up. Goodbye dumbfuck... off my radar now

I haven't seen it but I'm reading that Orton had to do the punting spot quick due to sensing a Drew run in coming. I guess that makes it less deadly.

Actually Kevin Nash has said for years that Shawn is taller than you think, he was just surrounded by monsters like himself. Shawn is 6ft plus legit I believe. Drew is just a skyscraper I guess

I haven't watched a wwe show in full since probably the beginning of last month (maybe late June). Legit shocked seeing that a bunch of people liked that Fiend/Braun/Alexa stuff from last night. Man I thought it was bottom of the barrel stuff. Even saw people fantasy booking the rest of this story. We've been through this before.. mentioned above about live sports bombing in the ratings. Not that surprised I guess. Personally I just can't get into the games. Always been a diehard baseball fan but just have no interest in these games (to be fair my passion for sports has declined pretty significantly the past 10 years or so) The real test for me will be when the nfl returns. If that does nothing for me...

I believe this month (or last) is the 7 year anniversary of the Wyatt character appearing on the main roster. To put it into perspective Wyatt was on tv before the .Authority was officially formed. A stable that somehow lasted all the way to 2016

Anyone know what happened with Jim Duggan in 96/97? He disappears from wcw tv sometime in late 96 and doesn't return until sometime in 98 I believe (when he announced his illness). Was this like Madusa during the same time frame where he was still under contract but was paid to stay home because they had nothing for him? I ask because apparently Heyman tried to get him to appear at Hardcore Heaven 97. I would assume in the spot Jake Roberts eventually had

AEW beat Raw in the demo this week.Hot damn

Last night's show did over 900,000 total viewers and a .36 (5th) in the demo the show is starting to get back to pre covid numbers

Meltz was on the wrestling inc podcast and said that for the first time ever the investment community is questioning the creative direction of the company and Vince's overall effectiveness. I guess before they didn't pay attention and just assumed no one knew wrestling like Vince. WWE was apparently caught off guard by this so that's the reason for the sweeping changes coming now

Maybe this a stretch but kinda telling they think bringing back Shane instead of HHH/Steph will help ratings more. Although I expect the latter will be back soon enough

Brie Bella gave birth to a baby boy. Congrats to Brie and Bryan!

Bryan's push was far from perfect though. Post Summerslam 2013 he got beat down nearly every week by the Authority on tv, got screwed over in multiple ppv title matches and then spent a few months putting over the Wyatts. By early 2014 it was clear they had no plans for him on top of the card for Mania season

Newest Observer says Daniel Bryan and Edge have joined the writing teams. Bryan on SD and Edge on Raw. Orton and Edge were supposed to have their third match at Summerslam before Edge got hurt. They hope to have the match at next year's mania

Eight years ago today Raw officially moved to three hours. so eight years ago today Punk turned heel on the Rock. I can remembering marking out hard for that at the time

Actually iirc people really liked SD after the brand split in 2016. But I can't remember if it was Road Dogg or Ryan Ward booking. The show went to shit in 2017 I believe and that's where the Road Dogg hatred started

Yeah I really hope talent refuse to work with him after that. and Shawn Michaels is still awesome for shouting that horseshit down

Confirmed that Wendy Barlow has covid. Flair is denying he has it

Yep, how much of it was a long term heel champion or Flair constantly being booked to be ineffective and getting punked on tv every week? I'm sure the thought was one promo would undo all the bad booking but it built up and by 87 everything started going down