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Table for 3 with Jim Cornette, Eric Bischoff, and Michael PS Hayes was the best episode of that show ever, by a country mile. It's just a shame that an obviously much longer conversation got cut down to 19 minutes. I kinda wish Vince Russo would get back into WWE's good graces, at least as a "talking head," so he can appear on these sorts of things. I know there was new footage of him shot for the Monday Night War series and a couple of other things, but not much.

If that happened, WWF would have still had a disastrous '94-'95, but without WCW Nitro there to give them a kick in the pants, wrestling spirals downward and becomes another obscure curiosity like roller derby. There is no late-'90s comeback and none of what we have now. ECW would have served a niche but that would have been the extent of it.

I love these "What If" threads, and I think this is a good one. According to lore, John Cena was almost fired before he impressed Stephanie McMahon by doing freestyle rapping on a bus. Whether bullshit or not, everything about WWE changes if that happens. Who becomes the "face that runs the place" instead of Cena? Can anyone match Cena's longevity, merchandise sales, years of great matches, etc.? Does Cena end up as "just another face in the crowd" in TNA, where he makes no difference at all? Between the trainwreck management and the fact that Cena wasn't yet a main eventer and "Super Cena," he's unlikely to get the WWE nostalgia act World Title push most others received. See: Punk, CM. Do we get several more years of Triple H on top? So many "what ifs" and potential ramifications.

Don't forget Stone Cold Steve Austin's cringe-worthy "I see sand people" promo directed at Hassan and Daivari. Still arguably the lowest point of Austin's career.

I caught debut of the Velveteen Dream (Patrick Clark). I'm not quite sold on the gimmick, and Clark doesn't seem entirely comfortable with it yet, but he was much more impressive in the ring than I was expecting him to be.

Meltzer apparently said Lita was being considered as a commentator for the tournament. I hope not! She's awful in that role.

From "that Indian guy" to WWE Champion...wow.

LOL at JBL citing Nakamura's 3 IWGP titles and then saying "this is the big time now" about WWE. Please tell me I misheard and he really said NXT.

Imagine an alternate universe where Nia Jax had an extra year of seasoning in the PC and debuted as the person to beat Asuka.

They're not signed full-time?! I'm glad Dunne won, but both are great.

I'm surprised this doesn't have its own thread... - Roderick Strong vs. Eric Young - WWE UK Championship: Tyler Bate © vs. Pete Dunne (with guest commentator J.R.) - NXT Tag Team Title Ladder Match: Authors of Pain © vs. DIY (Ciampa might be injured) - NXT Women's Championship: Asuka © vs. Ruby Riot vs. Nikki Cross - NXT Championship: Bobby Roode © vs Hideo Itami From the main NXT thread:

Roderick Strong is good in the ring but has zero personality. Whereas, Roode is strong character-wise but a bore in the ring. Eric Young is really who I don't care about on any level.

More "Broken" TNA drama, this time between Reby Hardy and Dutch Mantell. http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2017/5/19/15667954/hardys-vs-impact-wrestling-twitter-fight

I don't think Foley's reigns get affected. If anything, I see a great Foley/Bret feud over disagreements in their differences in style. Didn't Undertaker and Kane have a couple of short reigns during the Attitude Era? I think those would be the casualties. Austin vs. Bret would've headlined WM14, Austin would've won, and it would've been a much better match. Triple H still ends up in the same place, more or less, because they were always grooming him. Remember, he was originally going to win KOTR the year Austin did. Shawn in WCW ends up in the same kind of position that Jeff Jarrett eventually did - a few meaningless World Title reigns. It would be worse though, because unlike Jarrett, Shawn's best years would have been behind him due to a combination of drugs and injuries. In WCW surrounded by his enabling junkie drug buddies, Shawn may not have even made it to 2000 alive.

Not worth its own thread, but there's a new hashtag going around - #BL2017 - which supposedly means Block Lana 2017, and it has caused some controversy among the women. It started with Melina defending Sasha's loss on Raw to Alicia Fox as a good storyline, Lana "liking" those tweets, and then Sasha, Summer, and someone else tweeting out #BL2017. If it really means Block Lana 2017, I think that's childish as hell. If Sasha wonders why she's constantly the Randy Savage to Charlotte's Hulk Hogan and now putting over Foxy, this is why. Hopefully it really means something else - Becky Lynch 2017? - and there's nothing to all of this internet speculation. I'd really hate for Sasha's career to suffer due to maturity issues, because they have something special with her. It always sucks when a really talented wrestler is his/her own worst enemy. You can see some of the tweets here: http://wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2017/0518/626314/lana-likes-comments-made-by-former-wwe-women-champion-on-sasha/

Now $2.99. If you bought it within the last seven days, go to http://www.amazon.com/myk, push the refund button, and then re-buy it at the lower price. One review, though, warns that the Kindle edition is formatted abysmally. "Tremendously great book for anyone and everyone. The only down side is the Kindle publication is awful. Typos and repeat paragraphs galore." I'll avoid it for that reason. So tired of ebooks with lazy and inexcusable formatting issues. Ali vs. Inoki is particularly bad for this, and nothing has been fixed despite the author being made aware of it.

I prefer long hair on a woman too, but like everything else in life, there are exceptions. Halle Berry is definitely one of them. Show me one pic of her with long hair that looks better than short hair. You can't, because she doesn't, and I think even she knows it. Anyway, why am I in this thread? Why was it created? Does anyone really care about Roman Reigns' hair? He'd be an idiot to cut off that long, luxuriant mane. It's one of his most distinctive features, and I know the ladies love it. When he starts balding like The Rock, then we can talk. Until that happens, he should leave his hair alone.

Does this mean NWA on Demand will finally end up on Roku and other streaming platforms now? I hope so...

To me, that whole thing feels like a rib/meta reference to Paige and Alberto.

Halle Berry says hello.

On this week's Bring it to the Table, did anyone notice that they shoehorned a random JBL rant about Sami Zayn between two commercials? It wasn't on the list of topics and the positioning felt extremely odd and out of place. JBL spouted some nonsense about how he'd rather be captured by ISIS than listen to Zayn. WTF???

I'm surprised no one mentioned Hogan vs. Flair. I thought that would be in the first post. Even in the WWF in '91-'92, it felt a few years too late - never mind WCW in '94, where the bloom was really off the rose.

In today's "Thank God" news of the day, Dylan Miley has apparently changed his name to Lars Sullivan.

Except, this was likely pure bullshit too. Maybe he really feels that way, maybe not, but the reason he got to express that "controversial" opinion was because he was a Raw guy showing disinterest in a Smackdown feud - thereby promoting the whole Raw vs. Smackdown rivalry narrative between the two brands.

I figured the NWA on Demand footage wasn't included. So, without that, what is the value of the actual NWA - other than nostalgia? Honest question.