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WWE just fired back hard at Paige in the NY Post. “Saraya-Jade Bevis tested positive for an illegal substance, not a prescription drug,” WWE’s statement to The Post read. “In addition, WWE is providing world-class medical care for her in-ring injury.” http://nypost.com/2016/10/11/wwe-fires-back-at-banned-beauty-spreading-lies-about-drug-test/

Ricky Knight, Paige's papa, posted this on Facebook: Ricky Knight 33 mins · ok here we go again yes i know about my daughters suspended once again she has not failed a drugs test. My daughter has had a long term neck injury which imo has not been dealt with. i have ask my daughter to return to UK For help with this injury as help and direction in the USA Has not been forthcoming imo. She has been in pain and out of in ring action for a fair while now and has been prescribed pain killers which apparently is against the wellness program. i feel my daughter has been let down big time in the USA and the proper care and advice needed in the position she has been in has not happened to say i am pissed off with the situation is an understatement, this is my statement i am not open to questions thankyou for your cooperation. https://www.facebook.com/wawno1fan/posts/10157530701130453

Saraya is throwing a tantrum on Twitter:

Alberto's immature girlfriend Wellness'ed again: Paige suspended for 60 days STAMFORD, Conn. — WWE has suspended Saraya-Jade Bevis (Paige) for 60 days effective immediately, for her second violation of the company’s talent wellness policy. http://www.wwe.com/article/paige-suspended-60-days

Great match, lousy finish. Dolph's HBK cosplay is horrendous, especially since HBK himself buried Dolph for it on the Stone Cold Podcast.

So, Orton vs. Wyatt - the least interesting match on the show with the two least interesting wrestlers on the roster - is being positioned as the new "main event"?

Is it just me or do all the moves seem super low impact?

That's a relief, at least. Glad I didn't miss it.

It does make a difference though. I missed Thwagger-Corbin because it was on the pre-show. Kinda disappointed, because I was kinda looking forward to that and couldn't care less about the pointless tag match I did see.

Apparently, Alberto was stabbed. Explanation: https://www.instagram.com/p/BLH2szPhUOE/ Image (warning: slightly graphic): https://www.instagram.com/p/BLH3IV3hMtT/

I watched the new episodes of Ride Along and Table For 3 the other night. Ride Along: This is even more obviously fake than it was before. Charlotte acted like a spoiled brat and gave Ric the silent treatment for 25 minutes (I believe this was filmed right before she turned on him) while JBL and Cole were completely cruel cunts to Byron, who is always smiling, happy, positive, and ready to his job. While I realize there's no way some of what happened could be real, their animosity toward him didn't seem entirely faked to me. JBL and Cole came across as bullies. #BeAStar! Table For 3: Nothing special, but some fun road stories. Poor Mark Henry comes across as really dimwitted.

No matter how shitty Raw is, all is right with the world on Smackdown because of posters like this.

I think I'm the only one who liked the cluster KO/Rollins/Jericho booking. At least it injected some much-needed excitement in an otherwise dull card and actually provided some follow-up on Jericho's victory over Zayn. Zayn-Jericho and Perkins-Kendrick never shifted out of first gear. Rusev-Reigns wasn't much better. As much as I love Zayn, it pains me to agree with goc - he's brought none of the magic from NXT with him. Part of that is WWE booking him as "just another guy" randomly all over the card. There's no progress with him. One minute he's in I-C matches or grudge feuds with Owen, the next minute he's in a JTTS team with Neville. Cesaro-Sheamus was a beast of a match, but Mick Foley can kiss MY arse if he thinks that was a good finish.

You really expected him to lose his first title defense?! Match was kind of meh, disappointing by CWC standards, but I'm glad the feud is continuing.

New Day is stale, but Gallows and Anderson aren't over. May as well give New Day the record at this point. Heel turn with that Francesa finish? I doubt it, but it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

Can I please refer you to... Vince's Golden Rules of Sports Entertainment #24: Black people love to dance, sing and have fun. Unless they're an ANGRY Black person. But Swann gets angry too. He froths at the mouth and becomes WILD.

Forgot that UT-Mankind was on the same show. Was this their first match and the one where Foley shockingly went over after Bearer turned on Taker? Yeah, that was good. Anyway, the problem with all of these "Mero had a great WWE run" posts is that they're coming from a forum full of people who likely weren't watching the product week after week at the time and notoriously only pick and choose the "good" matches to watch, sometimes years after the fact. Almost anyone is going to look like they had an impressive run under those circumstances. Week to week, Mero's run was shit, his bland character was a disappointment, and he never got over in any context. His wife's boobs were more over than he was, and it's to his credit that he had a good head about that and did everything he could to help her. After all, like he said, the money was going to the same household anyway. Still, not many people in wrestling would be that secure and mature. Most wouldn't be.

Come on. Atrocious. Yeah, the gimmick was bad and nondescript (he said it himself he had no idea what they wanted him to be), but Mero had plenty of good matches there. He stole the show working with Austin at KOTR 96. And then he was a lot of fun as a Marvelous Marc bullying Sable around. I don't remember ANY "great" Mero matches in the WWE. KOTR with Austin was just "okay." Did they steal the show? Probably, but not hard when every match was weak as hell. That show is remembered for THE promo and nothing else. There were glimpses of fun stuff in Mero's WWE run, sure, but he never had a sustained quality run in the WWE like he did in WCW with Johnny B. Badd in his last year or two there. Mero's WWE run was a colossal disappointment.

I watched the Raw Cruiserweight segment on Hulu last night. Atrocious! (Not the match, which was fun, but everything else.) - Mick Foley looked like he was half-asleep when he was introducing the Cruisers. Didn't help that he had to read from notes. WTH? Just awful! - The commentary sucked (of course). - No TJP was a bad idea, despite fakeplastictrees's point: "You want to see THE CHAMP? Tune in on Sunday." That works for Hulk Hogan or Brock Lesnar. It does not work for TJP, who most of the Raw audience is unfamiliar with. We needed to see TJP on Raw. We needed to be shown what makes him such a big deal. If you didn't see the CWC, you're not going to be hyped for a match between Brian Kendrick and some random guy you know nothing about yet. - I agree with InYourCase: Rich Swann is already just another "dancing black guy." Sigh! The bloom is already off the rose. I wish Smackdown had gotten the division. My only hope is that Kendrick will put over TJP and then end up on SD in a non-Cruiser role.

The fact that the past their primes weren't drawing a dime Road Warriors were the top paid guys in WCW when Hall came in can't be right, can it?

TJP not appearing on Raw is baffling and a bad, bad sign for the division. Raw should have opened with him and his monumental victory. The Bully Choke thing is also bizarre. I guess this proves Vince really had nothing to do with the CWC, as if we didn't already know that. I too understand it from a PR and PG perspective, but Captain's Hook is an atrocious substitute unless they're going full-blown stoner/tweaker with Kendrick's gimmick.

Was Mero wrong about anything he said in 2007? I'm sure a lot of rasslin' fans drank the grapefruit-flavored Kool-Aid, but that doesn't mean Mero didn't have a point. His time in the WWF was atrocious though. This was the rare instance of a WCW gimmick and run being better than what the WWF came up with.

A new Legends With JBL was posted last night with Hall and Nash. Nothing new here, but it was a light, breezy hour of conversation. A little too sparse, if you ask me. It might have been better if these guys had been interviewed separately, because it was hard to get any in-depth responses with this format. A few observations: - When JBL was rattling off his epic introduction, his heart didn't seem to be into it the way it usually is. It wasn't quite as over-the-top complimentary as it has been for past guests. I wonder if JBL doesn't think as highly of Hall and Nash? Of course, I could be reading into nothing. - Nash struggling to recall Nick Lambrose's name was amusing, and it proves that wrestling geeks on forums like this one care so much more about the minutiae of the business than actual workers. - JBL thanking Hall and Nash for guaranteed contracts is the type of revisionist history that makes me roll my eyes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Marc Mero the first wrestler to get a guaranteed contract in either fed? History really is written by the winners, I guess, and Mero wasn't a "winner" in WWE's eyes. Such a shame, because I think he was a great representative for wrestling and continues to be a good guy today with his inspirational public speaking tours.

Been a while since I've read the religious sequel (took a chance on it when it was a $2 Kindle Deal of the Day, which was and is unheard of for a wrestling book), but I believe it does go into some of those wrestling topics. I can't recall what exactly he talks about or how in-depth it was, but I do remember thinking the second book was actually more enjoyable than the first.

Meltzer Update: http://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/terry-funk-alive-and-well-texas-after-exhausting-weekend-221171