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It's notable that other than Ronda/Becky/Charlotte and Brock/Seth, there's not any obvious Mania matches even being hinted at. Usually by this point you can at least see the direction they are heading toward. I can't recall another build where other than the top one or two matches the rest of the card is "I guess this guy can face that guy".

The best is when someone overdoes the fake tanner (I seem to recall Miz being guilty of this more than once) to the point it leaves brown stains on the mat like someone shit themselves in the ring. There was also that awkard time when HD first started to become a standard and TV makeup crews had to adjust, resulting in a year or so where half the people on TV looked like they were wearing clown makeup. Looks aside, she absolutely has Tully's smug charisma down to a T. The reason why Tully was such a great heel is he'd tell you how he was better than everyone and then he'd go out there and do it, and come back even more smug the next time all "See, I told ya!".

He went from having great matches with the champ to not even being on the radar of people like us for possible Mania opponents. He might be "alright" but he sure ain't going anywhere.

Amazing how Mustafa Ali has disappeared from everyone's mind after missing one show.

Charlotte is just so physically bigger than nearly everyone else on the roster she comes off looking mannish as a result. So many of the women are either barely over 5 feet tall, stick thin, or both while Charlotte just towers over everyone not Nia or Tamina.

Oh no....Lacey Evans and Heavy Machinery...

I think we kind of overestimate how many people watch NXT on a weekly basis, not surprised that a Raw crowd would not have any idea who they are.

NXT Takeover: Raw Edition

There's towing the company line, and there's saying shit so patently the opposite of the truth it makes people wonder if your brain got replaced by a corporate robot. I mean, you could argue that the company gives as little of a shit about the 205 Live guys, yet they end up able to get a reaction when they get put on the opening of a PPV because they are given the time to. So even the talent on the very bottom of the totem pole on the men's side got more of a change to get themselves over than the top of the women's side back then.There are numerous examples of women talking about how they were told to not overshadow the men, and it wasn't until an enviroment was created separate from the WWE main roster did women's wrestling ever get a fair shot at showing what they can offer.

Said it's the fans fault women's wrestling was marginalized because people would chant "boring", "we want puppies", or start the wave during their matches. Which is of course 100% something the fans did spontaneously on their own and not at all because that's how the company presented them at the time. Clearly the fans should have been more appricative of the 30 second classics the company was generously sharing with them.

Paige stating it was the fans rather than the company that kept women wrestling from being taken seriously is some next level corporate shilling/historical revisioning.

She's been vocal on social media about everyone hating her and generally being unlikable (and not in a "I'm being my character" wrestling way) to the point it colors everything she does now. It seems pretty clear that she ends up rubbing nearly everyone she interacts with the wrong way. Also WWE is announcing DX will be the first entry in the HOF this year as a whole group (HHH, HBK, Chyna, X Pac, Road Dogg, and Billy Gunn). I suppose Hunter and Steph don't worry about their kids googling Chyna anymore.

This Mark Henry doc airing now is fantastic. Pretty sure he legit is the strongest person who ever lived.

Isn't Luke Harper ready to go?

Well that was odd.

Seems like so long ago Vince took Braun out of the match against Brock since he didn't want him to lose another match. Now he's getting beat by the Geek Shield.

To be fair, Jimmy didn't get a DUI, he was arrested for squaring up with a cop. He was probably drunk, but Naomi was driving.

Looks like she got inspired by Mark Henry and decided someone was gonna get they wig split.

I expect people to be upset if/when Bayley and Sasha don't win despite the obvious endgame is them winning at Mania to have their offical WWE Moment.

Apparently Eddie Edwards signed a "long term deal" which is both a "why would you do that?" moment for Eddie and a Joe Swanson-eqsue "how do you afford these things?" moment for Impact.

Welp. It seemed like he was just lashing out during that whole escapade, I guess it's pretty clear why.

It would be about the wrestling war in Knoxville discussed here . Doesn't make sense that they would create an atomic bomb like this, but they actually ended up winning (sorta) so I suppose that explains why it never saw the light of day.

One day US wrestling will reach the point AAA is at where men, women, minis, and exoticos all fight each other and it's nbd. (I'm half sarcastic, half not at the same time. It's always amazed me how the stereotypical macho Mexican culture has way less of an issue with this than anywhere else)

The idea that Vince doesn't give a shit that one of his most iconic creations is attending a convention set up by a hot new competitor kind of flies in the face of everything we've ever known about him. Surely this is a big payday, but I doubt AEW is dropping seven figures for a convention apperance. I'm sure Vince would be more than capable of matching whatever he's getting paid for this to not have the image of a legend showing up for the competition.

It's weird that he even has social media, given how protective he is about the gimmick. You would think WWE wouldn't want him to appear at anyone else's events, especially ones for potentially the biggest competition they've had in decades. I suppose they're confident that Taker's not going to show up on the first episode of AEW Nitro (or whatever they end up calling their TV), but surely Vince can't be happy about this.