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Mauro gets all the attention for good reason, but Beth out here sounding like the outtakes from the latest video game commentary track is no shakes either.

The focus would have been on Ronda and Shayna, so having the other two as basically the Buddy Roberts of the team to take a beating and do a job would have been fine. In the long run it was better for their careers to stay in NXT and learn, but a Horsewomen program (IMO at least) would have been a bigger deal than the wet fart we ended up with at Mania last year.

The problem is they really need to do something diabolical with the Fiend to really distinguish him not only from his Mr. Rogers alter ego but also from his previous gimmick. When WWE tries to do stuff like that we get worms projected on the canvas at Wrestlemania.

I don't have any inside SCOOPZ but I get the feeling they are waiting until Ronda tells them she's coming back to call up Shayna. Everyone wanted the Horsewomen feud to happen and you have to think WWE knows that was a missed opportunity. Considering that Ronda keeps putting out videos on her YouTube indicating she's getting the itch to come back, it might be sooner than we think.

Funny thing is this isn't the worst looking card on paper, but I can't remember the last time a Big Four PPV had such little hype. lol WWE never gonna stop WWE'ing ....they're too sophisticated for blood n' guts right?

Charlotte's a weird one, she can do PR just as good as the Miz does but he's hardly a household name either. She's only known as Ric Flair's kid and not for anything she's actually done herself.

Worst people on wrestling Twitter*: vanity searchers or people who tag-snitch in conversations trying to rope someone famous in to an argument? (*obviously the racists and whatnot are the real worst)

This. He always looks like he's embarrassed to be seen in his gimmick, when I would have no problem believing him as a complete 80s metalhead.

Doesn't make sense, since WWE already has the Network, and purchasing Fite TV would cancel their agreements with other companies and defeat the purpose of anyone signing up with them. Edited to add: like, I get this would just be WWE swinging its junk around to mess with other promotions, but why would they spend whatever the cost is to buy Fite just so people in the EU can't watch AEW or ROH on PPV?

Seth Rollins' theme reminds me of those memes where they take a song and have it repeat right before the riff ends, so you're anticipating the rest of a song that never happens.

Man, I keep hoping that all this CWF footage means they are going through all the Florida stuff to make that the next Classic TV dump.

From what I can gather companies don't seem to like her because she's the rare type who actually will speak out when she sees bullshit going on, and that same outspokenness tends to rub people the wrong way. It's like she's CM Punk minus the whole "suing your best friend into oblivion" thing.

This year in particular they were aiming for a more mainstream, casual audience with Cain. Which to be fair worked pretty damn well for them by all accounts, so fair play there. The only problem is there are probably slim odds anyone drawn in for Cain will stick around for the usual WTF-ery that is the usual AAA event.

My personal theory is Dorian Roldan either is incredibly naive or has the worst case of goldfish brain in history as he keeps letting the same people (Park, Vamp, Konnan for starters) work him over and over with the same results every time.

Roddy Piper's daughter Teal was announced for the women's battle royal set for All Out.

If Chael's talking, he's working. AAA really isn't good at long term booking or storytelling though. Or more accurately, they keep trying to pin long term plans on people no one should believe would stick around that long. Cubsfan mentioned AAA's original plan was to have LA Park beat Wagner for his mask one year, hair the next, and then pay it off by having Psycho Clown be the one to finally take Park's mask in the end. That's a great plan except that no one who's paid attention to the last 20+ years would have expected Park to stick around that long. The moment he got his name back out there, there was absolutely zero chance he was going to drop his mask.

Independent Contractor status (as WWE claims it) wouldn't stand up in court as is, WWE just banks on no one wanting to end their own career by being the first one to challenge it.

It's interesting watching this match knowing that Xavier Woods was posting on Twitter about how he had to sleep in his car last night since he couldn't find a hotel to give him a room last night/this morning.

Doing a whole segment just so KO can ask "Shane will you agree to the stip we should have added to this match from the start?" kinda just exposed how little thought went into Summerslam. Makes KO look like an idiot for not making that the match originally.

Real missed opportunity on Dolph's part to not give Gillberg a payday.

It'd be great if Charlotte could do something else other than speaking...really.....slowly.....when.....doing.....a......heel......promo. She sounds like that kid in grade school who couldn't read well but the teacher kept calling on them to read out loud.

Yeah SummerSlam is pretty much a sellout every year now based on the name and WWE positioning it as the #2 show after Mania. It's been puzzling seeing them appear to be booking in a way that seems designed to boost a show struggling to sell tickets when it's been sold out for weeks. Honestly I think it's all stemming from a combination of them reacting to poor sales of recent shows and the reality that they actually have real competition on their hands about to go full bore in a couple of months. As far as Charlotte, she was out for a while since her and Andrade were dealing with family issues (Ric's latest hospitalization and Andrade's mom and aunt dying pretty much back to back). It is weird for her to just waltz back in and get a match with the top legend on the women's side seemingly out of nowhere. I suppose "I'm the queen and you're time is over" isn't the worst motivation for them to feud, but it could have been way stronger had they put more than a couple weeks into it.

That whole segment with Roman was so weird on multiple levels. Roman dove into the car well before any impact, and the attacking car hit the back of Roman's car. From the way it was shot it was clear he wouldn't have received any significant injury unless something crazy happened like one of the windows falling out on to him. When they showed Hunter and the medics assisting Roman, there wasn't any damage on the car, which is a pretty major miss for a company that usually excels at things like this.

It comes off as if someone in AAA did a cursory search of the largest Spanish speaking areas in the US, and didn't bother to find out that in NYC the Hispanic population is largely Puerto Rican and Dominican. Chicago would have been a better choice demographic wise, but that wouldn't have the status appeal of running a show in MSG.

It would be more than half full if AEW was involved and promoting it.