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Also lets not forget that Charlotte had another short title run. At this rate she'll end up with 30 reigns with little over 2 months of total time as champ.

Basically half the roster was in the pool to pick from today and the other half tomorrow. There's no real reason other than otherwise Raw would just be three hours of drafting guys like the B Team.

Dark Phoenix Bayley is going to be quite a thing.

Bayley not looking like an 8 year old anymore is a good thing.

The whole deal with everyone on the roster having to show endless corporate fealty and gratitude for the McMahons for taking the time to employ them is like reason #1797808298 WWE is super un-cool and lame with the youth demo they crave so badly. What kids are going to get behind folks who are such ham-handed company drones? It's like the entire roster are those unrealistically happy people in McDonalds' help wanted signs only more sports-entertainery.

Joe broke his thumb. His nose is just that boxer thing where it's squishy and tends to bleed a lot.

I mean.....she has to be trolling at this point, right? I know she has a history for being clueless, but at some point it seems like she's just fucking with everyone doing this.

Dave mentioned that the NXT folks got their pay bumped once the move to USA was announced.

The funny part is they advertised it as a typical WCW houseshow type event so fans bought tickets expecting like Sting and Lex Luger and got a lucha show instead.

Scarlett's all but announced that she signed with WWE at this point though. Like it's a done deal but they're in that "WWE doesn't want anyone to know yet" period. I would love to see some luchadoras from AAA show up and make AEW's women division the female version of the first hour of Nitro.

The Crash is quickly coming to a point where if they want to step up and become a big promotion or just be the place guys go in between US indy gigs. CMLL seems intent on shooting itself in the dick as a promotional mindset, and AAA is gonna AAA, so this could be their chance.

It seems like they are trying to work Ronda back in by having her on Total Divas, and she's done videos on her YouTube where it seems she's getting the itch to come back again, but they've not come out and said she's 100% coming back yet. I wonder if her time away counted against her deal or not (it absolutely would have been frozen for anyone else other than Brock).

He still was a main part of them getting the biggest crowds they've had in 20 years, so continuously painting him as just the guy who worked with a 9 year old is disingenuous. As such, Cornette is much better suited in roles like this that play to his strengths, rather than throwing out hot takes on a podcast in an attempt to try to work programs with the guys he trashes.

If nothing else, I'm glad AEW exists to give Tony a second chance to be remembered as one of the better wrestling announcers instead of the guy fresh out of fucks to give in 2001 WCW.

Yeah baseball would have put a dent in both shows.

TNT was reportedly going to be happy if AEW brought in 600-750k, so they have to be pretty stoked for the numbers so far. Plus the deal they brokered for TV meant the more viewers the more money AEW got from ad revenue so everyone's a winner here.

Dave actually talked about that on the last WO radio show, Kenny and the Bucks are big on not wanting to come off as office guys who put themselves over everyone to the point it's hurting their potential to be big stars. He specifically mentioned it being the big reason Kenny has way less of the aura he did in Japan and how the Bucks wanted to lose every match they've been in so far.

Is it me or is Ciampa coming back really fast from major neck surgery?

Assuming the photo of that shiner AEW posted was legit, looks like Bea stiffed Britt again.

I'd be interested to see how these first to weeks of excellent TV have done to move the remaining tickets that haven't sold for upcoming tapings.

My goodness this is so great.

AEW just stunting on them now, Mox vs Spears with PAC on commentary.

Not unless they try to make shirts or something. "The List" is a generic enough term that there wouldn't be anything they can do.

He looks like he's thinking "just be cool, no one can tell how high you are".

I would argue there's probably a case to be made that Shawn was such an unredeemable shithead from 1996--97 that it made Vince determined to never let a top guy have as much sway as he had during that time. Lest we not forget that the reason the Rock goes by his real name in movies is that Vince was demanding producer credit for the Mummy movies he was in because he owned the "Rock" name.