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He was made an offer by WWE that would basically involve him transitioning into a player-coach role like Ohno on NXT before becoming a trainer. Dave pointed out he turned them down right before Robert Roode showed up on Raw with a Joey-eqsue porn stache.

In news that will make @The Thread Killer happy, SoCalUncensored (the website, not the tag team) reported Joey Ryan turned down an AEW deal.

It was absolutely planned, going off script like that would be a suspendable offence (they aren't firing anyone now). What's even sadder is Vinny Ru is now convinced WWE and AEW are working together (because commentary on DON mentioned El Generico, and Sami mentioned AEW) and we're all marks for not realizing it.

Technically yes, but nothing but the hour breakdowns ever seem to get out anymore.

So it looks like either WWE is trying to work the boys by cutting Sami's AEW mention off the YouTube clip (implying it was an off script remark), or someone in the company had a rare moment of clarity and realized how stupid it was to mention them in a way guaranteed to get a babyface pop.

It's not just an hour of no wrestling, it was after that the first match we had was with Shane. It was like they were saying "oh you liked all that wrestling you saw Saturday? well fuck you then".

Why do they insist on cutting to "crowd watching on the big screen" shots during the Fun House?

B-Boy Brock with the boombox briefcase makes him winning MITB worth it.

Have at it folks.

Has it been mentioned anywhere if Dustin is going to be a coach/producer/agent/whatever? He's a guy that needs to be around in some capacity when the day comes where he does finally retire.

All WCW footage (as well as all the libraries Crockett owned via the territories they purchased) were part of the WWE deal. In fact, it was pretty much all WWE wanted when they made the deal.

Turner would have anything that aired on CNN or Headline News, but actual WCW footage is all owned by WWE.

Surprised? No. I'm sure they knew what his plans were when he made it clear he was letting his deal run out. I'm just thinking they're so petty that they'll still take it out on her because that's the type of thing they tend to do.

Gonna be an interesting day at the office on Monday for poor Renee.

Yeah I saw pics of it on Twitter, looks pretty good. Generic WWE belt it is not, for sure.

Couldn't really get that good a look at it to be honest.

I'm assuming they had more time to kill since the Page/Pac match was cut.

Holy fuck, Bret!

Excalibur was wiping tears from under his mask.

If you didn't like that whole deal, maybe wrestling isn't for you.

Fuckin' A man.

Good luck following that.

Remember, Cody and Dustin wanted to do this (well probably not the blood part) as a Mania match and WWE was all "nah, we're good".

This is fucking great.

Wow, a bloody Rhodes trapped in a figure four. Can't get more symbolic than that.