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It must be bad if they need to bring in green folks from NXT TWO POINT OH to fill time.

When your dad tries to meme

Intergender matches in WWE are so silly, they have to be so carefully separated why even bother.

I admit I popped for the RKO fake out

Will WWE have enough people to fill three hours of TV? I guess that's one way to get people to stick around to find out.

Seriously, Roman came back to this company to be the only full time ratings mover and the company slaps him in the face like that. I wouldn't blame him if he pulled a Hansen and ran over the belt with his truck before mailing it back to Vince.

This comes on the heels of them not having enough producers due to half of them testing positive. If I'm Roman, I'm going to Vince like "wtf are you trying to kill me?"

Hook has that aura already of someone not to fuck with which is pretty much unheard of in anyone his age/experience.

Seth announced he has COVID so him and Becky are out, and Roman has been pulled off house shows for obvious reasons with another round of people getting sick.

David Crockett in the house! LOOKIT HIM TONY!

Miro's birthday is today too, which seems too perfect to be true that the Redeemer was born on Christmas.

WHO CAN STOP THE PATH OF HOOK

Opener was fun, Jungle Boy seems like he should be more than a guy in a tag team at this point but that's the breaks when you have so many talented people.

FIVE MINUTES TO HOOKMAS

Shanky looks like a giant sized Rush.

Also your reminder that swag is genetic (Shinsuke's mom doing his pose):

OK that Rik Boogs shirt is awesome.

Well they sure are getting Toni Storm off to a great start by leaving her blubbering in the corner before the mighty Charlotte.

Watching SD on delay, and man as much as we all agree Heyman is a great promo it still seems like he's underrated as a promo. The emotion he puts into this really is something not too many people can reach. Like he's seriously at Eddie Kingston levels of "this motherfucker can make you feel something".

That would explain why my head canon in 1994 was that Bob was screwed, I was a voracious PWI reader and seeing that mentioned in this thread jogged a memory of that exchange.

So I never noticed until recently that watching Peacock on my laptop that has Adblock gives me the ad-free version apparently. I get a message saying to disable it when I first load the page but after that I can watch whatever without ad breaks.

Maybe the earliest bit of WWF(E) revisionism? The only knock I can see on Bob is he's 100% not a fit in VKM's vision, but there didn't seem to be any problem with him drawing fans.

Yeah there's no way 1984 Bob Backlund is going to agree to turn heel even if you held him at gunpoint. The idea that Vince suggested it sounds like he was trying to pull one of his moves where he asks someone to do something he knows they will never agree to so he can paint them as unreasonable. I would gather Bob saw that BS coming a mile away and just noped out. Also looking back, there really wasn't any other person that would be a better transitional champ than Sheik. The cartoony Iranian heel is the perfect launching point for Hulkamania, I suppose maybe Ivan would have worked too, but he wasn't as over the top as Sheiky and the Iran/US tension was more of a hot button at the time than the usual US/USSR deal. Actually, I've always wondered if maybe giving Sheik a little longer with the title to build heat would have made the eventual Hulk win even bigger and maybe some of the markets that were initially rough to break into would have had an easier time, but obviously things worked out pretty well the way they did it.

I loved Taz taking great joy in calling CM Punk the #2 seller on Pro Wrestling Tees (#1 of course is HOOK)

What kind of moral issues could anyone possibly have against KOR unless terminal dorkiness offends you for some reason.