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I'm not saying it's the moral high point of journalism or anything, but to say a celebrity sex tape isn't news in 2016 is disingenuous.

Dunno. Too bad the fans probably don't trust the WWE to honor any stipulations involving the Authority but I think Taker not wrestling again at Mania is a pill the fans would be ready to swallow. He has nothing going for himself now. The streak is over. He is 50 and not gonna put on the instant classics he was with Shawn or Hunter or etc anymore. Ending the Authority at Taker's expense I think is an outcome the fans would accept as a necessary loss. One of the biggest complaints people have is since the Authority steamrolls everyone, there's never a happy ending. So they go and add stips that ensure there won't be a happy ending no matter what the result.

I did love how when they ran off a list of names Sheamus's parents could have used, they mentioned Stephen which I'm pretty sure is his real first name. But yes, it's hard to kick off a babyface run when your first opponents are the worst heel faction in WWE.

Basically Hogan's team wanted the story and the video pulled, which was bullshit because the story was legit news, Gawker got too cocky and kept both the story and video (which had they pulled the video, would have made the following lawsuit moot). Gawker has grounds for appeal since there are recordings of Hulk talking about the tape with Bubba and he's clearly only worried that the racist stuff was on there.

The opening segment just reeked of typical WWE almost-self awareness though. They knew HHH would get cheered in Philly so their master plan to get Roman cheered this week was to have him be the one babyface who doesn't allow Steph to emasculate them. WM is still a mess. There's no need for two multi person matches, Steen-Zayn would have been a stellar match using their NXT history as a build, but goddamn we have to have a multi person ladder match every year now. Props to Zack for getting a spot on the card, but he's the most obvious replacement guy on a WWE PPV since Bobby Heenan filled in at Survivor Series after Tully got fired. Also very interesting to see Taker-Shane get hyped as the main event during the show, but the local cable company commercial for the PPV was all about the title match. Wonder if that means Vince is losing faith finally in Roman, or just wants his program to get the top billing.

Wasn't the amount of cocaine found in Gino's system several times higher than even the biggest addict would consume at one time? That combined with him possibly pissing off people capable of putting a hit on someone seemed to be the rationale behind the foul play story. Plus there's probably folks connected to WCCW at the time who still believe David died of ruptured intestines from being kicked in a match that was scheduled a day or two after his death so anyone from that era should be taken with a grain of salt.

That's not the message I took from that. The message I took was that they didn't expect anyone to know about AJ at all because he spent so much time in TNA, and that was incorrect on their part.

Dave mentioned that WWE didn't expect most of their fanbase to know who AJ was, and him getting huge reactions made them realize their fans know TNA guys. That comment was in response to being asked if Bobby Roode and Eric Young asked to be released to sign WWE and/or NXT deals.

The award was that high since the jury basically wanted to give Gawker the biggest fuck you possible. Considering the laws in Florida require Gawker to put up around $50 million to appeal, this may be it for them either way.

This really can't be undersold. I see a lot of newer fans who honestly believe current WWE is the WORST SHOW EVER and have no idea (luckily for them) what it was like watching the dying days of WCW. I might get mad at WWE's stubbornness, but Russo booked WCW shows usually left me feeling like I just gave myself brain damage by watching it.

Joan Lunden, she actually appeared on Raw during her battle with cancer.

The last two days have been another ECW TV mega dump. What I find weird is how there's like a four year gap from 2006-2010 where there's no episodes of Raw at all. I went to go re-watch the build to WM and the Ric Flair retirement show, and imagine my surprise when there is none available.

Well technically Taker submitted him, even if it was the pass-out variety.

The end was great too when Regal came out to announce the women's title match. Asuka had a grin looking like a great white shark with a bucket of fresh meat, and Bayley looking like she was just sentenced to death.

Have to give Jericho credit for still finding a way out of the match despite being pissed off. Trying to remember the last time I saw a match end in a shoot DQ.

Robinson didn't appear to know that A: Neville was legit hurt and B: Jericho was trying to call an audible to end things quickly. You could clearly hear Jericho say something like "I fucking told you he was hurt" and Robinson saying "don't fucking touch me".

There's still a significant portion of the US that doesn't have fast enough internet to subscribe to a streaming service like the network and their only outlet would be PPV no matter how much WWE calls them idiots for doing so. Also Dave confirmed on the WO show today that Neville broke his shin and ankle like RVD did on the same spot years ago, so that sucks.

The thing about JR is that a lot of his anti internet stuff is kind of a work considering he's been tight with Dave forever and was probably one of his inside sources.

Dave mentioned that Roman isn't healing from his nasal surgery as quickly as expected.

That's why I don't go to parties. No one wants to hear about failing babyfaces deflating crowds.

I really hate when the person who's obviously not winning dedicates the match to someone important.

Big Cass rockin' that main roster tan.

Jericho bringing back the "best in the world at what I do" is only going to encourage more CM Punk chants.

Holy shit, i thought Kofi broke his neck in that match.

I'd be willing to bet that Vince sees the success Brock had as proving his point though, since that's likely the only time he paid attention to UFC.