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Don't forget about Big Show's quickie 2002 reign and the last few months of CM Punk's year-long reign. Didn't Heyman also manage Show when he was ECW champion?

Heenan in the WWF managed a revolving door of heel challengers to the dynastic babyface champion. Heyman manages long-term heel champions, which is a completely different dynamic. He's a lot closer to AWA Heenan. Going back to the question I posed in the Crown Jewel thread over who should be considered the greatest manager of all time in kayfabe, I wonder how close the cumulative world title reign length of Heyman's clients is to the time Bockwinkel spent as AWA champion while managed by Heenan.

That doesn't look all that different from how Ricky Steamboat would sell his throat in his matches with Randy Savage.

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

I need to say that I hate hate HATE that thing Danielson does where he bends his opponent's arm back so their hand is on the mat and their elbow is sticking up and then stomps on it. It's like, dude. Just roll out of the way. Is your hand glued to the mat? Any wrestling that forces someone to sit there and take an opponent's offense like an idiot is bad wrestling.

Vince has openly stated that he pays for rehab solely for PR purposes and he takes no responsibility for wrestlers' drug problems. Also, let's remember that it took the Benoit murders to get them to institute a wellness policy that wasn't a total joke.

I said a while back that WWE is quite tolerable if you cherry-pick. Subjecting someone to everything they put out on a weekly basis should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions, but they produce so much content and have so many talented workers that some good stuff is bound to slip through the cracks.

Sounds like a great place to work for.

WWE clearly saw her as a big star. She was always heavily pushed and protected and allowed to get away with what would be firing offenses for most wrestlers. But it looks like there's a good chance I was wrong on that call, so I'll take the L there. As for the other releases, the Observer says the number going around is that 5 of the 18 were unvaccinated but one talent in the company says the number is larger.

If Murdoch does make it back on, I suspect the Klan thing will weigh much more heavily on the minds of voters than it did in the past.

A WWE source apparently told the New York Post that Nia was released partially because she was unvaccinated. https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/keith-lee-karrion-kross-nia-jax-among-surprise-wwe-releases/ She commented on the release on her IG. Note how coy she is when discussing her vaccination status, only saying that it was never mentioned. If she was vaccinated, you'd think she would explicitly say so.

We need to talk about how Tamina keeps managing to avoid the ax when you figure she'd be among the first on the chopping block. She's never been remotely good or over, she's about as far from WWE's cosmetic ideal as you can get, she's well above the age cutoff, and her family name is poison. I genuinely have no idea how she does it.

The latest Observer says the wrestlers released for refusing the vaccine weren't big enough stars to get away with it, so that would seem to rule out Nia. That also raises the question of which WWE stars are unvaxxed. Talent can't work overseas without being vaccinated, so anyone who worked Crown Jewel is apparently out.

Eva Marie gone as well. I'm sure everyone recognizes that experiment was a complete failure.

Holy shit.

Ember Moon as well. I can't be the only one shocked that Scarlett got the axe before Karrion Kross. Like a lot of people, I figured it'd be a Sable/Marc Mero scenario.

I suspect the real issue was SDS saying he spoke to Brodie's ghost and drew on his spirit energy. I took it as Jericho and Amanda telling him not to use Brodie's name to clout chase because he didn't know him like that.

Added. Thank you.

Ballots are out. Okada is a no-brainer, and Taue is long overdue. Charlotte is eligible already? What the fuck

In fairness, he is doing better than Tucker.

Especially a paid message board. It takes a high bar of jackassery to get someone to turn away a paying customer.

From Moxley's book:

Time to bring back boxes for wrestlers to stand on during backstage interviews.

JCP ran several shows at the Civic Arena in the 80s. In fact, a February 1987 show headlined by a Dusty Rhodes/Big Bubba Rogers cage match set a gate record for the city. In the 90s, though, all of WCW's Pittsburgh events took place at the Palumbo Center. I read somewhere that the WWF made a deal with the city's Sports and Exhibition Authority that gave them exclusive rights to the Igloo.

That's not even a hypothetical. When Brock Lesnar was trying out for the Vikings, he gave an interview to ESPN where he flat-out said "I don't like gays" (among other things that were apparently unprintable) that barely raised an eyebrow. https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1830855