Matt D

Matt, do you anticipate the weekly TV to be more important now? With the PPVs on the network, it makes them more like an extension of weekly TV than ever before. RAW, SD, PPV (with a NXT, ME, and SS on the side) are kind of all the same thing now. There's not even a brand split, as I understand it, except WWE and NXT. It's tricky because once they get the new TV contracts, they're sort of bulletproof.

Yeah the company does that...I was coming from the fan perspective. Perfect example is the Sheamus/Christian feud which I had 4 people at work on Tuesday whine about they are tired of seeing since they have wrestled so much on TV. WWE has a bad habit of running the same match every week sometimes twice a week instead of back in the old days when you would run the series of matches over a span of months. There are definitely ways to keep a feud going which don't involve two mid-card guys wrestling twice a week for three weeks. Some of this talk is almost moot since we don't know how the PPVs being on the network will change the tenor of weekly TV this year.

Another huge thing here, as with Survivor Series, is that in any given year we see almost every wrestler interact with every other wrestler due to the nature of the weekly TV. With the old Rumbles and Survivor Series, it was usually the one time a year where certain guys would come anywhere near each other. WWE was so regimented and planned out back then (look at the house show results relative to JCP) that it was great to see something so outside the usual formula and made it seem like we were looking at one coherent world instead of what we usually had.

I think Dave still left it up in the air. He mentioned TBS/TNT amongst others too.

That makes you Julianne Moore The real reason that I want the like button inactive.

We, collectively, can't even figure out what the main event of Beach Blast 92 was.

Johnny just wants to be happy, man. He's our version of "The Dude." You can be John Goodman.

Oh yeah, absolutely no reason not to work within the system.

Isn't this more due to the shift towards 4+ hours of primetime TV a week against actual competition instead of wrestling companies buying time in syndication? You have to do big stuff every week and it's harder to plan ahead.

Kevin Sullivan.

A lot of the time I freeze if people are watching on demand while I try to watch the network but this wasn't that. I was just checking it out on the laptop and it'd freeze after less than a minute of watching the livestream. i still need to follow up with them about my tablet since the fact it crashes the tablet completely within 5 minutes no matter what I'm watching is kind of ridiculous.

I don't know about you guys but Main Event is freezing up pretty consistently for me tonight. I can't say that bodes well.

Dave thinks that Hall's still on the table.

Toby Keith Promotions.

So if he shows up to TNA, he will or won't have to be called MC Phil?

Can we have Flair manage Batista for 3 weeks? It'd be even better if he turned on Miz to get there.

All I'm going to say is that he better damn well invite Jake to the bachelor party before the HOF.

The only way I can possibly see them swerving is if Punk comes back to spoil it all for Bryan setting up a multi month feud between the two of them.

It's weird to me that they sort of end up appealing to the hardcores every ten years. Bret at X. Eddy/Benoit at XX. Bryan at XXX.

Saturday Morning Slam was pretty great.

I'm sure we'll get Cena vs Harper before Mania. We've still got a few weeks.

Do you think some of this is because a kid watching wrestling might see it as real while a kid watching The Walking Dead would know it was a show? Or at least the likely false notion of that?

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I actually think it's even more complex than that. Bobby Heenan was hired by Andre the Giant and Paul Orndorff. Bobby Heenan hired Brooklyn Brawler. Bobby Heenan bought Hercules' contract from Blassie (I think it was Blassie) and then sold it to Million Dollar Man. What's the deal with Red Rooster? Did he fire heenan or did heenan fire him. I feel like with Heenan you got the "You can't fire me, I quit" speeches a lot blurring the lines.

Are we sure that it's not sometimes more like a temp agency, where the manager hires you, places you into matches, and then takes a share of your winning?