NintendoLogic

Alpha owned the trademark because Vince sold it to them (read: sold it to himself) in his capacity as CEO of WWE. Before that, it belonged to WWE. Vince McMahon and WWE are separate legal entities. When dealing with property belonging to WWE, Vince has a duty to act in the best interests of the company. There's no way selling a company-owned trademark to a shell corporation at well below market value after turning down a much larger offer can be rationally construed as such.

As CEO, Vince has a duty to place the interests of the company ahead of his own business interests. The XFL trademark was WWE's intellectual property. What he did with it would be like if he turned down an offer to buy a building owned by WWE and then sold it to himself at below market value.

https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/29031903/wwe-deemed-essential-business-florida-mayor-says So the mayor of Orange County declared WWE an essential business after "some conversation" with Florida's Trump crony governor. And Vince's wife runs a pro-Trump super PAC. Like I said in the XFL thread, it must be nice being rich enough that the law doesn't apply to you.

The XFL's bankruptcy filing revealed that the WWE held an ownership stake in the league, which pretty well puts the lie to the notion that the two businesses were completely separate. Apparently, it was done to make up for the fact that Vince turned down a $50 million offer for the XFL trademark from the AAF and gave it to himself basically for free, which was a major breach of his fiduciary duty since the trademark was owned by WWE and not Vince personally. It must be nice being rich enough that the law doesn't apply to you.

Kairi Sane is scheduled to wrestle Nia Jax, which is almost as dangerous as being exposed to coronavirus.

If that's the case, then they're idiots at best and sociopaths at worst and nobody should evince even the slightest concern for their well-being.

I could see Fox trying to stick it to WWE, especially since they apparently thought they were getting a serious sports-oriented wrestling program built around Brock Lesnar and Ronda Rousey. But I was under the impression that USA needs WWE just as much as WWE needs them, if not more. After all, WWE programming is basically the only thing they have these days that anyone watches. The days of them being the most watched cable network are long gone.

This is your worst take yet, bubba.

I believe he's referring to Austin and Dude Love winning the tag titles in 1997. People have often called Bad News the proto-Stone Cold, so he was jokingly calling Austin a poor man's Bad News. At least, I hope he was joking.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't somewhat disappointed in Bryan, but I'm also not too surprised. I don't think it's possible to achieve a position of prominence in WWE without being reprogrammed to a degree by Vince's reality distortion field. Also, Brie said in her podcast that they see a naturopathic doctor, so it's possible he subscribes to all sorts of kooky ideas.

https://www.espn.com/xfl/story/_/id/29021347/xfl-suspends-operations-lays-employees-no-plans-return-2021 What do you know, another McMahon business failure. It's not even his fault this time, though. It was probably doomed in the long run regardless, but it seemed to be pretty well-run before everything went to hell.

Looking forward to them teaching the Young Bucks and Lucha Brothers how to work.

Isn't AEW getting millions in guaranteed money from TNT through 2023?

Don't get me wrong, I'm far from a Cole fan. But he does appear to be HHH's latest pet project. Although Vince is apparently losing faith in Hunter, so who knows.

Their PPV title matches were both in May of 2016 (Payback on May 1 and Extreme Rules on May 22).

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a high-profile Roman match from the past couple of years that wasn't either an overbooked clusterfuck or a clash of the titans finisher spam match. Those match types both lend themselves to spending a lot of time laying around and taking a breather, which leads me to suspect that his physical condition is even worse than he's letting on. Even if it isn't, the ship has long since sailed on him being The Guy. The current era is just a holding pattern until Adam Cole is ready to take the reins.

I have a sinking feeling that I'm going to give in to FOMO and renew my Network subscription so I can watch this shitshow in real time even though I know it's far more likely to suck in a boring way than be the entertaining trainwreck we're all hoping for.

Only if he continues defending against top guys. I don't think it'll mean much if all of his defenses are against midcarders, just like beating the Young Bucks in the tag title tournament didn't do much for Private Party because there was no real follow-up.

A meaningless secondary belt isn't going to make anybody a bigger star. And it's not like they can make it the workrate title like the Intercontinental Championship in the 80s because pretty much every match in AEW is a workrate match.

Count me among those who think they have to use wrestlers to get the belt over before they can use the belt to get wrestlers over. Without the prestige conferred by a tippy-top guy, it's just a meaningless prop.

Serious as a heart attack, bubba.

I don't think any of us expected Michelle McCool's finisher to play a prominent role in a main event feud in 2020.

All I know about Kane's book is that it contains a chapter titled How Vince McMahon Took Over Pro Wrestling in the '80s As Explained by Austrian Economics.

KawadaSmile expressing dissatisfaction with the political situation in Brazil? Must be Monday! By the way, this is the commercial Samoa Joe got injured filming.

The Go Shiozaki/Kazuyuki Fujita GHC title match is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. It's like the Finnegans Wake or Trout Mask Replica of wrestling matches.