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Where did you hear that? WWE.com has her as part of the Raw roster. https://www.wwe.com/superstars/eva-marie

I wouldn't want him having my back in a fight and I have no interest in seeing him in a wrestling ring, but he seems like a swell guy. To be honest, though, I think he felt compelled to do something like this to make it clear he hadn't really gone QAnon. He seemed taken aback by how many people fell for an obvious troll job. Poe's Law in action.

But you see, the flip side of "If you hate it so much, why do you even watch?" is "How can you criticize it when you don't even watch?" The goal is to shut down criticism entirely by ensuring no one has standing to criticize.

It's a weird dual dynamic. Within the company, Vince is the benevolent all-father and underlings like Johnny Ace and Bruce Prichard are the bad cops. To hardcore fans, Vince is the devil and guys like HHH and Paul Heyman are internal dissidents trying to save real wrestling from his malign influence.

That's a pretty big bump when you're a guy the size of Drew, so I don't blame him for not wanting to kill himself on a show with no fans. I mean, they shouldn't be wanting to kill themselves on shows with fans either, but you have to start somewhere. The shot of the hand under the ring, on the other hand, is an inexcusable production gaffe we'd never hear the end of if it had happened in AEW.

At the end of the day, the buck stops with Vince McMahon. It's his company, and he owns whatever shows up on his TV. It makes no difference whether a terrible idea comes from Vince's brain worms, one of the 800 writers, or the wrestlers themselves (see also Wyatt, Bray). Speaking of Bray, it's kind of hilarious how quickly he got sidelined once WWE realized the Fiend bullshit can just as easily be done by a pretty blonde girl.

It looks to me like Charlotte tried to pass it off as mocking Rhea when she realized the first boot was going to whiff, kind of like how people will start jogging to try to cover up the fact that they tripped over something. Then again, she's not exactly known for thinking on her feet when things don't go according to plan. So who knows. As for Drew, Cornette thinking he could get away with not honoring stipulations that involved babyfaces getting screwed is one of the things that killed SMW. There's obviously no chance of that happening today, but that doesn't make it good. The only way a Midnight Rider gimmick would work today is Mr. America style where it's openly played for comedy. Trying to do it with a serious main event babyface would only kill him deader than he already is. If the faces don't want to fall victim to distraction roll-ups, they should stop being losers and make some friends.

It's Frank Seebransingh, who is now a preacher. https://www.facebook.com/WordAblazeMinistriesDrSeebransingh/ His bio on that page reads in part as follows: Although born in Trinidad, he lived in Canada all of his adult life. Dr. Seebransingh pursued a career in amateur and professional sports. He excelled in soccer, tennis, bodybuilding, amateur and professional wrestling. It was his career in wrestling that brought world fame to Frank and his partner as "The Cuban Assassins". After years of world travel and many successful heavy weight wrestling bouts, "The Cuban Assassins" captured every Major Heavyweight Championship Belts, including the North American and the International Championship Belt.

If you're wondering where Drake's next stop will be, it won't be IWA-MS. Apparently, it's too woke for him now. Seriously. Imagine being such a piece of shit that Ian Rotten wants nothing to do with you. Having seemingly burned most of his bridges in pro wrestling, it looks like he's moving on to an even more lucrative con.

According to the latest Observer, the plan to get Roman over is to have him kill all the babyfaces dead until the fans basically have no choice but to cheer for him. Bold strategy, let's see if it pays off. Also, for those of you wondering what Piper's name on the main roster will be, WWE has filed a trademark application for Doudrop.

The laughably bad strikes from both men completely killed the match for me. Worked MMA only works if you lay your shit in. Otherwise, it looks even faker than traditional pro wrestling. It's a bad sign when the best punches were the ones thrown by Jericho in the post-match run-in. She has no connection I'm aware of to the famous Hart family other than having the same last name. She may be green as grass, but AEW's track record with bringing green wrestlers up to speed has been pretty great. The one thing you can't coach is natural athletic ability, and she blows the other girls away in that regard.

Dave has given high ratings to matches he personally hated if the crowd ate it up. And there's usually not much of a gulf between what Dave likes and what live audiences like to begin with. Like it or not, long matches with big moves and a million near falls are what modern audiences go for. So the best way to give Dave what he wants is to give the live audience what it wants, and vice versa.

I mean, Drake wore a Razor Ramon shirt a while back. I can't imagine any rappers wearing a Seth Rollins shirt 20 years from now.

Tony's more hands-on than some of you seem to think. Not only did he take greater control of the booking after the Dark Order angle, he's had to overrule Omega and the Bucks on multiple occasions when they wanted to lose more.

Their first stadium show is also their first show in NYC. I have to wonder why Omega, Moxley, and the Bucks are missing from the photo, though.

How long before Piper is feuding with Nia Jax over Reginald? They even gave her Bertha Faye hair.

I wouldn't even go that far. My impression is that only WWF and WCW from, say, 1987 to 1999 have any kind of cool cachet with the general public. Territory wrestling, to the extent that people are even aware of it, is seen as dumb hillbilly shit that's too low-rent to even ironically appreciate. In other news: I hate to see anyone go crawling back to a company that threw them out like yesterday's trash, but it's his life and he knows what he's getting into. And a backstage role is likely more secure.

I think you guys might be putting me on when you say Smackdown is good.

VKM isn't a junior, though. His father's name was Vincent James McMahon. I think most people who aren't juniors wouldn't appreciate being referred to as such. In fact, even if I was one, I'd despise the idea of being seen as mainly an extension of my father with no real identity of my own.

Forget wrestling. Raw might legitimately be the worst television show in history at this point. At least the Star Wars Holiday Special only aired once and wasn't three hours long.

Speaking of deathmatch goofs, Angel o Demonio (the guy who threw a cinder block at the head of his opponent) died of complications from COVID.

Credit where credit is due, Miz rolling down the ramp in slow motion during Morrison's entrance was legitimately hilarious. This, on the other hand...

Poor Piper. Beween her appearance and her accent, I'm not sure there's anyone in WWE less suited for the main roster. If she does get the call, the only roles for her will be silent heel enforcer and comedy babyface doing romance angles (since the idea of a man being attracted to a heavyset woman is inherently hilarious to Vince).

This seems like a rather decisive refutation of the "look at all the money Zack Ryder made in WWE" argument. I don't think a guy who's set for life would be signing up to do indy deathmatches.

Bros. He's talking about the precognitive powers of the lighting in his promos. And subliminal messages in his ring gear. This is Lore of the Fiend-tier shit.