C.S.

Harvey: Hey, Vince, I'm in the music business now! Vince: Congratulations, Harvey, I'm in the auditory-entertainment business!

Dave is terrible on Twitter, but... 1. Are you sure he even saw your post? He is pretty boneheaded when it comes to technology. Case-in-point: He doesn't even have the good sense to get the official blue checkmark next to his name. Even the fake Heenan's wife account went for that. 2. Writing has never been his strong suit. That flaw is only going to be amplified on a platform as limited as Twitter.

Bucks sell out at places like Hot Topic though and have a worldwide fan following - is Meltzer really going against the grain by championing them?

I caught a bit of the Cody Rhodes promo about Roman Reigns' failed drug tests, etc. and had to turn it off. He comes across as someone cosplaying a top guy main event wrestler - like a kid dressing up in his daddy's clothes for Halloween (although, in this case, the proverbial daddy is more Flair than Dusty). Not an ounce of believability or legitimacy whatsoever. Sorry, folks, WWE didn't miss the boat on this guy at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYlt2ukoVwA

It's a trolling tweet to be sure, and while I'm admittedly unfamiliar with PWG's product, are we really pretending an AJ Styles carry job was one of the best matches of the decade or something? It was good, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't even my favorite match on this show.

I don't usually like "car crash" matches, but KO-Shane last month was great fun, and so was this. I had a blast watching it. I can only assume Braun-Kane is leading to the Monster Among Men being the one to retire the Big Red Monster. Whether you like Kane or not, that's a pretty big deal in WWE lore. We'll see though. It might very well lead to nothing.

Weird point. Bryan is on Smackdown and would not be working this show anyway. Edit: Never mind - just realized Smackdown's AJ is working the show too. So, yeah...

In no scenario should Wade Barrett have ever beaten John Cena. Even Cena beating Nexus in the SummerSlam tag as a "bad thing" is overrated, because that match marked the return of Daniel Bryan, who was a far bigger deal than Wade Barrett - even then - and became a far bigger star.

Great interview with ROH COO Joe Koff. https://www.avclub.com/ring-of-honors-joe-koff-on-the-indie-label-and-whether-1819450908?2 He says all the right things, but as someone who has dipped his toe periodically into ROH a couple of times over the past year and walked away extremely unimpressed, I'm not sure how much of his words are based in reality.

Wrong thread.

Former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts' book, Best Seat in the House, is 99 cents - today only. It goes into the toxic WWE bullying culture. https://smile.amazon.com/Best-Seat-House-Justin-Roberts-ebook/dp/B06XBHBZ88/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-seat-in-the-house-justin-roberts/1125259823?ean=9781782554516#/

I fell asleep and missed it live. I just finished watching it. I cherry-picked what I watched, but I think I picked the right stuff. I watched New Day/Usos (very creative), Natalya/Charlotte (good until the finish), and KO/Shane (more below). I skipped the rest of the matches because I knew exactly how they would end and I was right. I think I'm going to watch all PPVs like this from now on, because it was so much more enjoyable this way and so much less of a slog. I personally thought the main event was AWESOME. As a spectacle/stunt show, it delivered. And that Sami Zayn turn, as horrid as it sounded on paper, was really well-executed.

Please ask him why on earth Billy would ever consider doing ANY business with TNA again after everything that happened? He of all people should know to run far in the other direction. TNA will never be a viable, respectable, money-making operation.

Corgan now officially owns the NWA. Billy Corgan Officially Announces Rebrand of NWA, Outlines 20-Year Plan For Success https://www.si.com/wrestling/2017/10/02/billy-corgan-officially-announces-rebrand-nwa

That doesn't make sense, because Bagwell and Flamingo are all over other shows already on the Network (Nitro, ECW, etc.), so why would a lawsuit specifically affect Thunder being uploaded?

The tournament was mentioned, but that's about it. I'm trying to remember if they showed any footage of the earlier round matches Alundra was in, but I don't think so. I ended up wondering the same thing - if it was a phantom tournament or real. It seemed pointless to me, even at the time, to run a tournament at all - or the claim of one - when it was so obvious Alundra was going to win. On another note entirely, I don't blame Madusa for throwing the belt in the trash. It wasn't her idea anyway, but even if it was, I remember agreeing with it at the time - or at least not disagreeing with it. WWE abandoned the entire division, including its champion, without any explanation. It annoyed me as a fan back then. It was bad enough that Madusa was miscast as a babyface. At the very least, she could've been kept around as a badass heel manager - similar to the role she played in the Dangerous Alliance. Really dumb to just let her go.

The Madusa/Alundra Blaze documentary, "Trailblayzer," was pretty good. Nothing new, and WAY too big a deal made of the "infamous" angle where she trashed the belt, but it was still an enjoyable watch overall.

I like Enzo, but he's awful on Raw Talk.

Brock doesn't feel special anymore because he's lumbering dead weight. I can't think of someone more useless and overpaid.

Terrible fucking match. The two main events were both really disappointing.

Eh, I thought it was a good match, and the right guy won. People care about Enzo. He draws money. He's more over than the rest of the Cruiserweight division combined.

This feels like a Cena retirement. I hope not.

Did Jern sabotage Romey by purposely having a bad match? Both of them are usually much better than this.

A disappointing match with the worst version of the "WWE Big Match formula" - endless finisher bombs and kickouts. Yawn!

Poor Bayley.