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It's worth noting that WWE no longer bans Therapeutic Use Exceptions for testosterone or other substances.

Fan education really shouldn't be an issue by next year's WrestleMania. I think an argument could be made that they made a mistake by rolling the Network out so close to WrestleMania. After Royal Rumble might have been better, but I guess they weren't ready by then.

I'm not sure I quite buy the spin. Some people double dipped as they didn't have confidence that the WWE Network would be able to air WrestleMania 30 without a hitch. Some of those people may not have high speed broadband or are only interested in watching one pay-per-view a year. Also, it's very early to have accurate pay-per-view buy estimates, so the number could end up being on the high side. To hit a million subscribers, you'd need to convince 80-85% of those WrestleMania PPV viewers to pick up the Network. Unless they have a huge SummerSlam special attraction match, I can't see them hitting the mark until next year.

How successful the WWE Wellness Policy is will be determined by the mortality of the current generation of WWE stars. Obviously things are much better than they were, but whether that is good enough remains to be seen.

Meltzer on Nancy Grace:

To be fair, Warrior said a lot of cruel things about many people that he never publicly apologised for. I don't think it's right to unmercifully bury a guy when he's just died like Deadspin did, but equally we shouldn't put him on a pedestal and airbrush his history too. In Bret's case, it's probably the right note to make.

He mentioned on his podcast that Warrior could be strange like that. Do a non-contentious interview for someone and then threaten to sue them if they posted it.

I don't think you can blame Vince for everything, given that Jerry Jarrett, Bill Watts and Fritz Von Erich gave Warrior jobs before Vince did despite being really green and he was New Japan's first choice to be Big Van Vader.

That's the first thing I thought. The strangest thing for me was when I was at the bar watching WrestleMania someone shouted out "Why don't you drop dead you f***ing c***" during Warrior's big entrance on the show.

I thought he was going for a Gronda look. Regarding not billing it as Undertaker's retirement match, maybe WWE were hedging their bets. If Undertaker feels he can go next year, there's a built in rematch. If not, there's no pressure on him to come back and do the time honoured tradition on the way out, because he's already done the passing of the torch.

Today's WWE press release announced 667,287 subscribers, much lower than many predicted and on the low end of respectable.

The main criticism was that Robinson could be a bully and uncooperative in the ring, especially against wrestlers who weren't legitimate shooters.

It's also nice to see Sean Waltman stick up for Wade, just a few months after Hunter threw him under a bus to Grantland.

One thing people forget here is that ECW had to pay for syndication in many markets. It wasn't just the talent costs exploding in the midst of the Monday Night Wars, but other costs of trying to be competitive too.

Would it really be possible to shame her into quitting? She seems happy to play the incompetent buffoon heel owner, which isn't a flattering role.

To be fair to Janice and Bob, I wouldn't want her anywhere near their main business.

Jim Cornette would be a fourth choice.

Wasn't it WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt who argued that in professional wrestling storylines, if you say something isn't going to happen it means that it will?

No Punk tonight, I guess the opening was to tease it so the crowd wouldn't turn on the whole show.

I was half expecting Paul Heyman to bring Ricky Ortiz out.

I think he didn't have a ring style that meshed well with Mick Foley's, who was his most outspoken detractor. Also, it can be very hard to shake off a bad rep as a worker and when he debuted in 1991 as Johnny B Badd he was still very green.

I think it's the same reason why they didn't turn a lot of over babyfaces at the time (and few top babyfaces wanted to turn heel). Merchandise sales.

No-one is stopping UFC from doing their own in-house enhanced randomised drug testing, but they don't want to pay for it. They like the status quo where they can brag about their athletes being tested by the Government, while placing the heat on the ACs for anything that goes wrong.

The F4W Board and the Torch board were like night and day from my limited experiences, because Wade always had a strict policy of moderation in place unlike F4W. It's one of the things Wade clearly did much better than Dave, cultivating a community on his board and engaging with them in a cordial, friendly manner.