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Should be interesting to see what they do from here. After the obvious Braun feud there's really not much out there for Roman to do.

Historically, the people in wrestling who were the biggest draws and made the most money also were the most charismatic. Like Loss said, it's not like it's an either or deal where you can only be one or the other, but those who have charisma and lack the in ring ability tend to have more success than those that have the ability and lack charisma. I think a part of it is cases like Hulk Hogan and the Rock, who pretty much lapped the competition in their eras in terms of charisma it created a sense of "well no one can compare to *that* so why bother". One thing I always seem to notice when watching old territory stuff on either the Network or Youtube is how much more charisma I see in mid or lower card guys. Part of it might be it stands out more because it's not something common in today's overscripted WWE style, but it shows how important making a connection (or at least trying to) was in the days where your income was based on the size of the house. Everyone had a vested interest in getting an ass in every seat.

It's a looks based business and they keep giving her bad looks. It's not that she personally is bad looking.

It's like the makeup team has been doing a long running troll job on Ronda since the start.

Suddenly the room got dusty seeing Nattie come out wearing Anvil's jacket.

As far as I can recall, they haven't been on Raw since 205 Live became an exclusive Uncle Paul Production.

One of the best parts of Wrestling Twitter is Dixie tweeting at EC3 as if he's actually family.

Next match in this series: Canadian I Quit Match where the loser say's he's sorry.

If I'm booking, the mystery guy who killed Black takes out Johnny to give him a non-Ciampa related program until Mania time.

Shayna is so great as the asshole bully heel.

I just got really sad realizing Henry vs Keith Lee probably will never happen.

Fun note, co worker who is an old school wrestling fan but doesn't watch current stuff saw the show on my iPad and asked me I was watch "that old NWA stuff".

I thought the show started at 8pm EST instead of 7, missed most of the opening tag.

Jesus Christ, Mauro nearly missed the finish of the match trying to shoehorn another reference in at the end.

EC3 out here looking like KFC's Extra Crispy Colonel.

Popped big for the Notorious DREAM

Yeah I thought they would have Riccochet win the NA title and have Adam Cole weasel his way into the title match, or something along those lines.

I realize shit happens in wrestling, but I was a little surprised they didn't use this as an opportunity to stick someone else in the match.

I get that people are burning out on the Ciampa/Gargano feud and all, but this looks on paper to be one of the better Takeovers if everyone performs as expected.

Hogan absolutely made a weak ass apology and expected the boys to have his back. Both things can be true. The most telling thing is he's way more shocked at the idea of another wrestler not supporting him than he was for the things he said in the first place.

That *was* how the brotherhood worked back in his day. Not that it makes him saying it in 2018 acceptable, but still...

Binging on Mid Atlantic now, and for as good as he was in the ring, Jack Brisco is human xanax on the mic. It's an even more stark contrast when Jimmy Valiant and Roddy Piper are running around like they combined to snort the whole GNP of Columbia.

I'm thinking based on the build (and rumored/assumed Mania plans) that Charlotte wins by either straight up heel turn or by morally ambigious "well it was legal in a 3 way match" style that builds to an eventual heel turn. It does seem like this Joe/Styles feud is a make-good for Joe, which sucks, but at the same time having bad ass killer Joe as champ for a run wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm at the point with Roman where I just hope he beats him Goldberg style ASAP to just get off the pot already and go all in on ROMAN DA CHAMP finally. The whole saga of him having multiple coronations has got so tiring, it's like a movie you got bored of but invested so much of your time in you at least want to see how it ends.

Dave was trying to do that thing he always does where he tries to say something by not saying it but alluding to it, in this case that WWE tends to want their women to get implants for reasons largely for the benefit of certain people in charge, but as his wont it was phrased badly. To his credit he fully owned it and hoped his mistake was a learning experience for others. As far as Peyton, she absolutely has the right to do whatever she wants with her body and anyone who says otherwise can fuck right off. I'm just afraid based on history that her and others are doing things not because they wanted to, but because it's something that was impressed upon them by the company as a quid pro quo for career advancement. Same as when guys like Eddy juiced to the gills to get the look WWE wanted and it ends up negatively impacting their health.

I'm kind of digging Teddy Hart leaning in to his rep of being a weirdo d-bag by having that be his gimmick here.