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I think her reaction was legit, they were trying really hard to keep what Becky was talking about under wraps.

At least having the MITB match actually be for the title gives them an out saying Asuka actually won a match for it instead of just getting it handed to her.

Well its good that Rey and Alestar survived death.

When the Fiend character started, there would be times on Smackdown where the puppets would show up in the background in segments. I suppose that having them show up during matches was the next logical step (I know they did it for the Funhouse match but that was just one big acid trip).

No Fucks Given Bryan is one of the best things in WWE right now.

This Undertaker doc has been tremendous so far. The symbolism of a legendary character trying to wring out one more match from his battered body, and going to the gym wearing an Andre the Giant shirt was probably unintentional but it struck me.

Any group getting a TV deal has always been the line where they go from "under the radar" to "must squash now" in Vince's eyes, so in that aspect the UWF could be considered somewhat of a threat. As mentioned above, had there been someone in charge who wasn't completely out of control, the pieces were there for it to be somewhat of a success.

So Jacare Souza tested positive for COVD-19, and apparently some of the UFC and AEW guys stayed at the same hotel since both are running shows in Jacksonville.

Also I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before, but the hard cam and the mobile cams being a different framerate on Smackdown is visually jarring and annoying once your eye notices it.

The song was pretty cool, Kross was bad ass and menacing looking. Scarlett's part was pretty bad/borderline embarrassing and probably only didn't get completely dunked on because she's hot and was dressed like a goth stripper.

I got a chuckle at Foley, when asked if it was possible Herb could have possibly faked his own death, correctly stated there's no way he did because it wouldn't have been possible for him to go this long without drawing attention to himself.

Popping for guys in jeans and t shirts for a streetfight style matches.

It's long been a (somewhat overlooked) Vince fetish to give women only one name.

Breaking news: MJF is still great. Film at 11.

This may all be 100% true, but it's something how nothing that went bad anywhere he went was never Eric's fault.

Yeah he was one of those weirdly anti AEW types from the start.

Also they totally need to do a Midnight Rider gimmick with Moxley where he comes back as the masked Mr. Good now.

It's still real to them, dammit. Also $10,000 is just the cost of doing business there. It's hardly the harbinger of doom.

That's absolutely true, but I think the argument can be made that wrestling fans just aren't liking the crowdless shows. I don't think it's a coincidence that AEW's drops are lower (granted they had less audience to start with) because they've put more of an attempt in to make shows look as "normal" as possible. WWE TV has just been strange to watch, with entirely empty arenas and wrestlers having to still do their video game entrances and poses to crowds that aren't there. WWE's style has just been so exposed as rigid and inflexible at a time when the whole world had to change how they do things, they keep doing things as if nothing different is going on.

I will say the best part of Raw by far was Asuka trying to resist being able to sing Nia Jax's theme song as she came out for that MVP segment.

I'm not saying I think it's what they are doing, but if someone wanted to argue that Vince is trying to do some "The Producers" shit and purposefully make a bad show I would at least hear them out.

Inserting Roman into a WM main even for reasons is the kind of thing that turned people against him in the first place, so I would suspect a lot of people saw that as opening old wounds. I'm at the stage where Roman's a sympathetic character to me for how the company has so badly bungled making him a top guy when it should have been a slam dunk. He's one of the most charismatic people you'll see when he's away from WWE TV, and it seems his biggest flaw as a performer is not having that ability to spin the shit he's given by creative into gold.

Dr. D seemed like the most straightforward person though. He felt he had to do what he did to protect his livelihood and felt betrayed that his boss didn't have his back. Now you can fault him for expecting Vince to have any kind of loyalty that wasn't a top level star, but I never got the sense he was bullshitting at any point.

Considering the ladder match was set up due to Shawn losing the IC title due to a flare up of not-gonna-job-itis, you could make the claim the seed were already planted for the Kliq to run amok.

it actually would, since he'd either be forced to up his game or get eaten alive. I'd be down to watch either. Corbin seems like a guy who "gets" wrestling and would probably be more palatable in an environment not so micromanged.