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I wouldn't want Arn reacting to things he didn't know firsthand every week but him giving logical thoughts on things he didn't know about was very interesting.

I skimmed through that quickly but didn't see anything on the Houston library.

It is in our nature to think about solutions and it feels like there are almost none. Building the entire product around Rey feels like it might get traction.

"Gregory" Helms is an agent, right?

Where are they tonight? Could the crowd rebel?

Congrats to @Superstar Sleeze for his very important social media achievement today.

I feel like Fox strongly overestimated the overlap between wrestling and sports. People get something different from wrestling.

Likewise, the Fantastics vs MX/Cornette match may have technically been out there but everyone should still watch it with this video/audio.

We were robbed of a long heel Ronnie Garvin run.

Today's the 7/16/1988 Bash card from Greensboro. ~2 hours of it. Bugsy McGraw & Tim Horner vs. Rip Morgan & Larry Zbyzsko The Italian Stallion vs. Ronnie Garvin. Dick Murdoch vs. Gary Royal. Rick Steiner vs. Jimmy Garvin. The Sheepherders vs. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express. Al Perez (w/ Gary Hart) vs. Brad Armstrong. 2 vs. 3 Handicap: Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers vs. Jim Cornette, NWA US Tag Team Champions Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane. Scaffold Match: The Road Warriors vs. Ivan Koloff & the Russian Assassin. Sting vs. NWA TV Champion Mike Rotunda (w/ Kevin Sullivan & Rick Steiner). War Games: Lex Luger, Steve Williams, Nikita Koloff, Dusty Rhodes, & Paul Ellering vs. NWA World Champion Ric Flair, NWA US Champion Barry Windham, JJ Dillon, NWA Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard. If I'm not mistaken, we definitely have Sting vs Rotunda and the War Games match. Are the rest new though? A new Sheepherders vs RnR match and that Fantastics vs MX/Cornette match both look well worth seeing.

I think Brock is not just the worst thing to happen, he's produced also generally terrible matches that feel important due to the breaking of established narrative rules. I can give people some of the multi-mans or specific moments of matches or maybe something like the Goldberg sprint, but even the almost universally lauded stuff like the Bryan match doesn't work for me. This is the farthest I'm on with Eric/Phil, and I've expressed why plenty of times.

What killed Ambrose was the exploding TV/hologram. I actually thought he might break out for a minute there.

It's more like you guys are losing than I'm winning.

I'm not watching but I want to guess what happened. Did Corbin interfere to set up a feud with Roman?

That's why it's a "Maybe."

This is basically the thread, right?

I know we have a 12/27 Gino vs Kerry match from the Houston collection. This feels new?

So, we had the Duggan/Sawyer match obviously (#4 on the DVDVR set though maybe this version has something new/different/etc.), and Pete thinks we have the Gilbert/Nightmare tag. But do people think that: El Corsario & Steve Williams vs. The Bruise Brothers (Mad Dog Boyd & Pork Chop Cash) Jake Roberts vs. Lord Humongous Bounty Match: Butch Reed vs. Dick Slater are new?

A lot of what makes this fun is that you don't have any idea how Arn will respond to certain things. Nothing Bischoff or JR says at this point can really surprise me.

They've been having Rollins win by DQ on house shows (Also Tamina's teaming with Bayley).

There's no rhyme or reason to a lot of the stuff in the draft. Even Smackdown, where they didn't shuffle anything, was weird. Why Drew in round one instead of Owens? Why the Lucha Dragons so high? Why not Nikki/Alexa as a team? etc. Here it's pretty ridiculous that Bayley went two rounds after Charlotte when she had the belt. Cedric going right before the US champ. Etc.

The champ, and thus the belt, went rounds after Charlotte? Ideally Bayley turns this into a bitter promo.

Dude, don't imply that Joe got injured picking his nose.

No one in history has ever been that excited about Nattie.

Steph chastising the crowd for booing her was pretty funny. 'Guys, come on. I'm being a corporate professional. Don't embarrass me in front of the fox robot.''