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Listening to tonight's show with Dave and Garrett, and laughing at Dave's response to being asked about MJF praising Roman and Heyman. Basically he said there's a reason he's never had MJF on Observer Radio since Max told him he's always 100% in character and Dave wouldn't be able to stand that. (also a clear message to the WWE stans who think MJF is unironically praising WWE when he does stuff like that)

Roman-Brock has been built up pretty good, but I don't think anyone believes for a second the titles will stay unified very long.

I hope to one day love something as much as WWE loves counting the days in people's title reigns.

Watching SD now, and Brock being impressed with Roman's dressing room cracked me up. He's been amazing on this run, no fucks given Brock is the best.

DX became a midcard act when it was mainly the New Age Outlaws and X Pac, but the original version and up to when HHH took over as the leader was pretty much bigger than anything other than Austin. WWE documentaries do blow them up by making it seem they were relevant way longer than they were, but they were absolutely a top level act.

They did a good job rebuilding the feud, and I'm down to see Rosa and Nyla have a match. Also Nyla can promo good enough that there's even less reason to have Vicki around.

I was thinking more along the lines of how Eddie died from an enlarged heart and Hunter's issue seems to have been along the same lines other than his was caught in time. Guys in that era largely saw HGH as "safer" than the anabolics of the 70s-80s, which I guess it was to a degree, but somehow everyone just seems to think the only risks were an increase in muscle tears instead of creating a time bomb in their chest.

Josh Woods vs Wheeler Yuta for the Pure title was announced for the show, so that should be fun as well.

Also it's interesting that no one's mentioning that the guy who got super buffed out so fast he tore both quads and was called "HGH" by the internet back in the day ended up with severe heart issues.

The original DX was probably the signature act of the Attitude Era, their merchandise was only surpassed by nWo shirts. People still do crotch chops to this day and everyone knows what the reference is. Evolution kicked off the careers of Batista and Orton as main event players and was an important part of 00s WWE. Social media has been full of current era stars sharing how HHH helped them in NXT. So when you look at it, his best work has been part of groups and when he was on his own cosplaying as Harley Race during the Reign of Terror that was really terrible.

He's truly a man of multitudes, famous for his backstage politics but also probably the biggest key figure in the careers of pretty much everyone who started off in NXT. The "Hunter pointing at a guy/girl backstage" became a meme but it's clear he meant a lot to the folks there.

Not that it was unexpected considering the severity of his health issues, but he confirmed that his in ring career is over due to him having a defibrillator put in. It's amazing to see how things played out for the guy: he went from being HBK's luggage carrier to the GAME-UH to the heir apparent to NXT Dad to having it all pulled away. If you would have told someone five years ago that in 2022 HHH would basically have a no show job with no power you'd have been laughed out of the room, yet here we are.

If TK's plan is to use ROH as their version of black and gold NXT, Pillman is someone who could really benefit from that.

I hate to defend anything here, but pro wrestling has a long history of champs fucking with their belts on. Yes, people will probably make the same assumption I did earlier in the thread, but at least I can see the plausible deniability here. Honestly everything wrong with that segment would be corrected if Sammy was a heel, and even if he was he wouldn't get nearly the heel heat Dan Lambert does and would end up babyfaced anyway.

I get that the segment wasn't great, but Rosa is clearly going to vanquish the evil heels which you can't always assume will be the case in WWE.

Then again, Brodie did smash the belt into a million pieces over Cody's head, so it's not like he was someone who felt that a title belt is sacred.

Wow, I didn't even think about it like that, but yikes.

Swerve vs Starks on Rampage sounds pretty fantastic

LOL Sammy and Tay Paige'd the TNT title

Tay's speaking voice sounds so much like Asuka's it's freaking me out.

Jesus, Hangman whipped Cole in the damn face with that belt

Blackpool Combat Club, I like it.

Mox and Bryan Murder Time coming up next!

Darby not gonna let old man Sting take his spot as crazy bump guy it appears.

Punk bustin' out the long bois tonight, you know it's a special occasion.