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I would say stars in someone who was given a chance to get over and not get cut off at the knees. Enzo and Cass definately count, and Enzo was probably going to be the biggest star of all until he had to go all CONSENTUAL PENIS on everyone.

It seems a little disingenious to include Strowman since it seems all he did in the PC was work out in the gym and be a Rosebud. Big E would probably be the biggest star so far of the NXT/PC era.

I think it's been kind of underrated how quickly Tom Lawlor has grasped pro wrestling. He really has only been doing this full time since his UFC suspension and he's already someone carrying themselves like a star.

I don't get why Toni got dumped on, it wasn't her fault the company decided to make her the champ in what was essentially a shoot situation knowing she had limited dates with them.

JCP would release VHS tapes, but they were famous for being edited like it was being done by Edward Scissorhands after 10 cups of coffee.

They tried to hide it as best they can without running afoul of financial rules, and there's likely other things stuffed in that category as well, but it appears they got over $40 million for the show. Now that could be the lump sum for the year or just the amount they got for the Greatest Rumble, but either way it's pretty clear why WWE was so eager to sell the women down the river. From the Observer site's synopsis of the Q2 report that dropped today:

Part of the reason why Dave gets asked all the time if different people have final say on Raw and SD is how it seems to be two separate promotions. SD is able to have focus on multiple storylines and generally try to elevate people, while Raw is usually the same way-to-long slog with the same people as the focus constantly. So while SD has seemed to go back to the better show it was for a while, it doesn't make it any less true that the rest of the main roster programming has been lacking.

This week is a tribute to the Poffo family, in additon to the tag match they're also adding Angelo vs Pat Patterson and Lanny vs Nick Bockwinkel.

joeg made a good point in the "Comments that don't require a thread" thread: It seems that the Performance Center is functioning more as a finishing school for guys who wrestled elsewere to get the needed polishing to go to the main WWE roster. Yet WWE itself claims that the PC is where all this homegrown talent is coming from, something that really hasn't borne fruit as of yet.

Good idea.

Good lord, this. I guess it got forgotten since apparently Sydal didn't break his neck, but holy crap that was a scary moment.

Miz/Bryan is also helped by both guys lighting each other up in promos, and while Styles/Joe may get there it's not yet.

Saw that they are bringing in Matt Stryker, which has the potential to greatly diminish my enjoyment of their show.

My favorite part of the Penta-Sami match was after a blinded Penta mistakenly put the ref in his arm breaker spot and when the fans chanted "you fucked up" Don Callis just deadpanned "he sure did".

They just started another female ref in NXT so there's at least two now, so it's possible they could do that.

WWE seems to be going out of their way to make Ronda as unattractive as possible. There was that week where the makeup they put on her made her look like she had pink eye, the wierd cross-braiding they did the other week to make her head look like an iced cinnamon bun (she even posted the best memes of it on her Instagram), and now this pic. For a company so obsessed with looks, it's a strange thing to see constantly happening.

Seems like the only thing the main roster writers know how to do is make their babyfaces look like geeks and/or losers, so I could see them doing something like having Braun fail his cash-in.

I couldn't get past them choosing a photo that makes Ronda look like a stroke victim to even notice the makeup.

Going to laugh so hard when Roman wins and gets Coronation 3.0 at SS, only for Braun to come out and cash in 30 seconds later.

So Impact just put on the best show they've done in a long time, maybe ever. Slammiversary blew away anything WWE has done this year by a large margin, which seems an amazing and unlikely thing to happen...yet here we are. OGz vs LAX was a great crazy brawl, Penta vs Callahan was such an AAA apuesta match all that was missing was Hugo at ringside, and I didn't think Aries and Moose could possibly deliver after all that yet they did.

Not to mention once you see Spider Lady in her bodysuit there's no one else it could have been. It's right up there with WCW wondering who Doom could be when they only had two black guys on the roster at the time.

WCW used to do this all the time, most of the matches on their PPVs were really good, but the top couple matches when they were bad were often horrendously bad. Thus a lot of people left WCW shows thinking they sucked despite most of the show being excellent.

The in ring work is usually solid to great on a WWE show depending on who's featured, the creative usually sucks. That seems to explain it pretty good to me. WWE having top to bottom the best roster in professional wrestling (yes other places have better workers on top, but I'm looking at the whole roster here) yet doesn't seem to know what to do with any of them save the 2-3 guys you've deemed worthy.

Plus there's a whole cottage industry of workers trying to troll Dave like it's the wrestling version of "triggering the libs" only they don't seem to realize how lame it all comes off as. *random Twitter person who listens to podcast* Man, Wrestling Guy With A Podcast sure owned Meltzer on that one! *Dave, mookie, or Bix type person* Here's all the actual legal docs and proof that shows Dave was right and/or Wrestling Guy With A Podcast is full of shit. *second random Twitter person who listens to podcast* YEAH HE GOT OWNED, SUCK IT DAVE MARKS HASH TAG CASTRATED . ...repeat ad nausem

The popular theory is that Becky fell victim to Kevin Dunn's dislike of accents, which seems like a silly reason to depush someone but at this point it makes as much sense as anything else.