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Kenny/Ospreay vs Fletcher//Takeshita is gonna be a banger. Someone said earllier AEW and New Japan should be fighting over who gets to push Takeshita harder and I agree 100%.

I suppose WWE must have forgot CW doesn't do overruns like USA did, as the Bayley/Roxanne angle got cut off at the end of the show tonight.

This is pretty much the pro wres equivalent of getting sent to the minors, and if it isn't some kind of storyline going from calling Wrestlemanias to calling matches in front of a couple hundred folks on a campus in Florida because your boss is a mark for celebrity commentators has to sting a little. I'm torn though. Part of me hopes it is a work so he doesn't seem like such a whiny baby, but if it is I don't really care to see him wrestling since he was becoming one of my favorite announcers in terms of how seemed like he was really hitting his stride. If it's just something he wants to do because he didn't get to end his in ring career on his terms, I get it, but it's not something anyone is really hankering to see. I will say I enjoyed how half his commentary on NXT was asking Booker wtf he just said. At one point he seemed legit exasperated and was like "you have to deal with this every week?" to Vic.

Wow, this is a pretty shitty thing to do to the guy if that's what happened.

I was pleasantly surprised how quickly Penta got over, and I assume that Rey Fenix will be joining him as soon as contractually possible. Also it's wild to hear AAA get namedropped on WWE TV in 2025/

Rick "Black Bart" Harris passed away at age 76 after long battle with cancer. He wasn't the biggest star but he was a guy who always showed up if even for a little bit in pretty much every promotion I watched as a kid.

Hulk getting booed on Raw probably means we won't see him around much after that, so it's probably a moot point anyway.

ZSJ/Umino was very good in ring, i just didn't get the vibe anyone in the building thought Shota had a shot in hell of winning. I'll admit I haven't been paying super close attention lately but it sure seems like he's in his "WWE pushing Roman as the top babyface and the fans disagree' era.

Overall I'd say it was a pretty good first show. A lot of angles kicked off, they did well explaining things to a new audience too.

It's an easy payday I don't blame him

Looks like MAGA didn't make the Hulkster any more beloved to the audience lol

I suppose now that they got that Netflix money they can have Raw in MSG more often.

good lord Rhea committing murders and she's not even in the ring yet

Noted California indy superfan Danielle Fishell (seriously she is) in the house!

The fans cheering Super Cena win one more world title at Wrestlemania is such a great send off.

This is like a WWE New Year's Dash show setting up all the Mania angles.

Yeah, the last time Hogan came back there were multiple stories about how the locker room wasn't really wild about it and the crowd reaction was tepid at best since at least half the crowd seemed uncomfortable cheering a guy exposed as a racist shitbag. They pretty much have to, for multiple reasons. If they try to rug-pull his deal they know he's not afraid to sue them over it, and if they try to force it to happen Jesse is absolutely the guy who will cut a promo on Hogan and bury the shit out of him.

Loyalty to business partners is a big thing in Japanese culture so him going off script like that (even in the attempt to sell an angle) was going to cause an issue.

Also Dustin Rhodes having a match in the Tokyo Dome in the year of our Lord 2025 is fucking wild when you think about it.

I agree the women should be higher up on these shows, but I'm still kind of shocked that women in NJ shows is actually happening. Not to give them a pass but they're pretty new to this whole women's wrestling thing it's going to take a minute to get the hang of it.

So I was reading the luchablog and CMLL was dropping a hint on their news show that they would be working with Stardom, which is interesting since they normally work with talent agencies and freelancers. A pairing like that is gonna bang pretty hard.

Oh I absolutely prefer the way things are now, but it just seems like HHH took the lessons of everyone hating Vince's booking to heart to the point it feels like he's gunshy.

So Tiffy finally cashing in after months of teases made me think about how a criticism I keep seeing about the HHH Era is how it seems storylines are getting drawn out too long now. It sounds like a crazy thing to complain about after decades of Vince tearing up scripts every day and starting over, but it does seem at times we've gone too far the other way.

Real ones remember the best use of that song anyway: