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Like if Vince feels he needs to cover up his upper body, fine. Have him wear gear like Mark Henry, no need to have him in those Kevin Owens shorts that had everyone on Twitter calling it a tennis onesie. That made it seem like someone was trying to sabotage him right out of the box.

Surviving the initial burial/squandering on the main roster is the new "paying dues" in THA BIZ these days.

Yeah, music rights can get messy in a hurry, I don't begrudge anyone not wanting to deal with any of it. My issue with his debut was more how his debut match was used as a backdrop for the angle with Drew and that they gave him the Kevin Owens makeover. Anyone who never watched NXT but maybe heard buzz about him on the internet would see that and not understood what the big deal was. A main roster debut is your chance to knock it out of the park and I thought they squandered it. He should have been out there killing jobbers and shoulder blocking them into the top level of the Thunderdome.

Yeah unless AEW's audience completely falls off the cliff they'll be in good shape. TNT is getting solid ratings for a decent rate, and and AEW got enough money to let them survive the pandemic with minimal impact to their bottom line. That's why it's so annoying to see the smooth brained Twitter takes like "wHo cArEs aBoUt RaTiNgS" considering between TNT/AEW and USA/Fox/WWE TV deal are what is keeping major league level pro wrestling alive in the US.

He really seems like an all around solid dude. Seeing WWE guys respond to fan concerns without treating them like dumb marks to barely be tolerated shouldn't be the exception but more often than not it is.

Saturday Dynamite got 755,000 viewers which is way better than I was expecting. Also Dave mentioned the new guy in charge of TNT is not an anti-wrestling type of person, and when he was running Hulu putting wrestling on was part of his game plan. So there shouldn't be any fears of Jamie Kellner stype purge of the rasslin to happen again.

He said "I made you, you wouldn't be a monster without me" which is at both heelish and kind of fourth wall breaking at the same time.

Yeah the primary thought running through my head (well, after "wasn't he concerned about covid"") was "this is how he should have been presented the whole time".

He was more aggressive than any point since the days where the Shield was destroying everyone. Plus they didn't play his music after he laid everyone out, which are two noticeable presentation differences for someone who's presentation was one of the more highly managed ones in the company.

The openly and unabashedly racist ones used to have at least a little restraint unless you were on the real bad parts of the interwebs.

Apparently someone put up the mugshot of Sonya's stalker on the screen during the Sonya-Mandy match as well. Also I have to agree that racists/trolls/morons certainly always have existed, but in the last 3 years have felt extremely comfortable airing their views in public ways not common before.

The PC is basically like Amway or some other pyramid scheme, except instead of useless home products they peddle the chance to be a WWE Superstar®

Someone had Chris Benoit up on one of the screens earlier tonight.

Smackdown's whole roster rushed out to save Johnny Mo and Big E, Raw's roster is like "fuck dem Mysterios".

For real though, getting to team with your dad on national TV must be one of the coolest things humanly possible.

Lance Storm > any of the geek trainers at the PC

Rey and Dom quickly becoming the best father-son team since Brad and Bullet Bob.

Funny how the Mysterio family looks like a kid (Rey), the older brother (Dom), and the cool aunt (Angie).

I could be down with Underground turning in to Bobby Lashley just killing dudes for an hour.

LOL multiple people on my social feeds asking why WWE dressed Keith Lee up like a cheerleader tonight, clearly the sign of a well done debut.

Also if one punt is enough to put a legend out for an indeterminate amount of time, Drew should be in a vegetative state by now.

I mean, why would you have someone debut against a guy you just set up as the main event in your PPV (that takes place in a week)? It's a no win situation, either the new guy gets beat or you have a non finish that does them no favors. Plus in this case it literally gets overshadowed in seconds by furthering the angle you just started. Piss poor presentation all around, and another example of NXT guys having extra obstacles placed in front of them.

Doing the "geek who disappears when the big boys enter the segment" is not filling me with enthusiasm.

I knew Vince was gonna make him wear something to cover the upper body, I'm sure he was too "fat".

BASK IN HIS BALLER SHORTS