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I don't believe the Savage-Steph bullshit at all. It was invented in the sleaze thread and somehow took on a life of its own. I'm sure rubes who were in the company at the time, like Bruce Prichard, believe it. But yes-men types like that will never actually ask Vince. To be fair, even no-men like Heyman wouldn't dare approach the subject with Vince. Regardless, I think it's a big, steaming pile of bullshit.

Is this supposed to say different or difficult? Probably doesn't matter, as I don't think the meaning changes much either way.

No idea, but you have to give them credit for putting that out on 4/20.

I was there too. Damnedest thing I've ever seen live.

I hope so, but it blows me away how hands-off WWE has been. Yes, that's a good thing in a lot of ways, but the severe shortage of video content struck me as so lazy and non-caring on WWE's end. A lot of things that cried out for video didn't get it.

It's more than "whatever" to me - it's a major handicap of the show, and it's not going to last on the Network if they don't fix it ASAP. Any newer viewer tuning in and seeing choppy low-res video will tune out immediately, as I almost did. Only the reputation of the podcast kept me going. I don't know why WWE doesn't put them in a studio and/or film it themselves, or at the very least give Conrad Thompson and Jimmy Del Ray top of the line equipment to work with. It's ridiculous.

My thoughts on the WWE Network version of this: (Note: I'm new to Bruce Prichard and Conrad Thompson. I have not listened to their podcast before, but I have read the recaps on PWPodcasts.com.) First of all, the content is INCREDIBLE - "Dave Meltzer would have given Kane vs. Undertaker 18 stars if Kane had set the Tokyo Dome on fire" haha! - and some of Prichard's imitations are spot-on. Others are...less so. Cornette sounds like a chipmunk, Heyman sounds nothing Heyman, and Patterson is impossible to understand. With that said, he at least nailed the word choices Cornette and Heyman would make. Also, the argument between Prichard and Conrad about Prichard kissing Triple H's ass felt really forced, as did Conrad constantly sucking Meltzer's teet by quoting him seemingly every ten seconds. But that's obviously their shtick. Overall, it's fantastic. But what the hell is the deal with the piss-poor production values? 1. Prichard's feed is choppy as hell, to the point where I thought something was wrong with my connection. 2. Conrad Thompson's feed is even worse - choppy too, low res, just awful. 3. The entire presentation looks like shit. Really ugly blue borders and boxes for Bruce and Conrad that are actually crooked on the screen. 4. Very little video footage. Geez, Conrad wasn't kidding when he said he didn't really work for WWE Network, because there's no way WWE had anything to do with this. That's a plus content-wise but a minus in every other way. How hard would it be for WWE to give these guys a studio or oversee the production in some way? It looks abysmally bad. I've seen amateur YouTubers with more professional presentations - I'm not kidding. Edit: I believe both of them. How is that it possible? Prichard is probably right that it happened. But I also believe Michaels' denial. When your back is in that much pain, you're not looking around - you're focusing straight ahead and trying to block out the pain as much as you can (which is nearly impossible, BTW) - so I can totally buy that Shawn may not have even noticed Undertaker. Plus, Shawn was on a variety cocktails on top of that.

Did anyone else watch the Bruce Prichard podcast - Something ELSE to Wrestle With - on WWE Network? (Note: I'm new to Bruce Prichard and Conrad Thompson. I have not listened to their podcast before, but I have read the recaps on PWPodcasts.com.) First of all, the content is INCREDIBLE - "Dave Meltzer would have given Kane vs. Undertaker 18 stars if Kane had set the Tokyo Dome on fire" haha! - and some of Prichard's imitations are spot-on. Others are...less so. Cornette sounds like a chipmunk, Heyman sounds nothing Heyman, and Patterson is impossible to understand. With that said, he at least nailed the word choices Cornette and Heyman would make. Also, the argument between Prichard and Conrad about Prichard kissing Triple H's ass felt really forced, as did Conrad constantly sucking Meltzer's teet by quoting him seemingly every ten seconds. But that's obviously their shtick. Overall, it's fantastic. But what the hell is the deal with the piss-poor production values? 1. Prichard's feed is choppy as hell, to the point where I thought something was wrong with my connection. 2. Conrad Thompson's feed is even worse - choppy too, low res, just awful. 3. The entire presentation looks like shit. Really ugly blue borders and boxes for Bruce and Conrad that are actually crooked on the screen. 4. Very little video footage. Geez, Conrad wasn't kidding when he said he didn't really work for WWE Network, because there's no way WWE had anything to do with this. That's a plus content-wise but a minus in every other way. How hard would it be for WWE to give these guys a studio or oversee the production in some way? It looks abysmally bad. I've seen amateur YouTubers with more professional presentations - I'm not kidding.

This thread needs more Cena and Nikki. Why? I don't know. It sounds like he's just promoting his weird guest and doesn't actually believe any of this crap himself... ...at least I hope so.

Bad timing on Dave's part, but it's already been established that he's awkward at best on Twitter. Can we assume no malicious intent instead of being quick to play the "wanker" card?

I heard Kane was pulled from the GRR because of his political duties. If that was posted in this very thread, please accept my apologies for re-heating old news.

What a very sad and unexpected loss to log on to, even though he was getting up there in years. I'm glad he got reconcile with WWE and enter the HOF, though I suspect he did that more for the fans than himself. I hope we're still getting a loaded DVD (or at least Network Special) and that a documentary retrospective was filmed in time. Bruno deserves to have Raw and Smackdown next week dedicated to his memory, with tributes from current stars and any old-timers they can find, but I'm not sure how many people on the roster today have realistically ever seen any of his matches.

Why is this still a belief? There's no way they didn't have Bryan sign a new multi-year contract.

I don't know if it's that as much as "Holy shit, we have to fill this match with 50 people - let's get anyone and everyone even remotely recognizable into this thing."

Why? Goldust hasn't been a gay gimmick in 20 years. At this point, he's just another colorful guy with facepaint - no different from Demon Balor in that respect. I wonder if hope Finn Balor shows up wearing his rainbow getup.

Nattie's cat is more over than Asuka.*

Owens is hardly garbage. Nattie is good and always useful to have in any place in the card. She can put over Ronda or be a champion. She's versatile. Revival will eventually be pushed. Can't keep a good team down forever. (Well, you can, but it would be dumb.) Miztourage and Breezango have the potential to be pushed (but won't be). Joe is not a true main eventer IMO. I'd put him more in the Balor/Rollins category as someone who occasionally flirts. I'll be shocked if he wins one match against Roman.

My guess is Nattie turns on Ronda to give her a safe veteran to work with, learn from, and win her first singles feud against.

Fair enough. But I genuinely wasn't thinking "concussion." That's absolutely not what I meant. I can see why it came across that way though. My apologies there. I was just thinking Jeff got his ass kicked a bit, and I wasn't exactly sad about it because he's a selfish, reckless, irresponsible piece of shit and so is Jey Uso. My guess is nothing happened to Jeff at all, and nothing will happen to Jinder even if he was clumsy, because he's been clumsy before (during the last Superstar Shakeup on Raw, right before he was traded to SDL, if memory serves me correctly) and nothing happened then either.

I never said anything about concussions though? I swear, sometimes this board is worse than a game of "telephone."

Didn't Jose turn heel in NXT, or am I imagining the whole thing? I remember him being pretty awesome at it too. One hell of a dream if it never happened.

Sorry, not sorry. When you recklessly endanger other people's lives by driving under the influence, you're a selfish piece of shit and I don't care what happens to you.

Jeff deserves it for getting a DUI. Fuck him and Jey Uso. Hope they become riding buddies on Smackdown.

I'm glad the worthless U.S. Title is now paired with the worthless Universal Title. Put Miz and IC back on Smackdown with Bryan. Edit: I forgot Miz lost the title. Tells you how memorable Seth Rollins and Finn Balor are.