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So sad. TNA is on a channel that people with normal cable/satellite packages actually get here America. El Rey is extra.

Really good show. Makes me regret not submitting a ballot like I was going to do but I got super busy leading up to Mania weekend.

I'm currently listening to the show but I wanted ask this cause you guys talked about Ultimo Dragon. You guys talked months ago about Ultimo jumping to AAA with the Moreno sisters because he was part of the family. Which one was he married to at the time?

My thinking is that either Kevin Dunn or the head of the production at the time knew too thus other people in production had to know. They continued rolling the cameras after the screwjob happened and Bret destroying everything included him writing WCW in the air with his finger. Somebody made the call to the camera guys to keep rolling on it.

Minneapolis just got jobbed out of hosting Wrestlemania in 2017. Which means Roman will miss his opportunity to run through the crowd and eat a Jucy Lucy, truly the best burger in the nation. End of debate. Whataburger is great but now I want that.

When did Flair and Morton go an hour?

Do they become members-only once they're archived? Because I'm looking at the site now, and there's only one show with the "FREE" tag that's been posted in the four days since I asked the question. I think it's only free to listen to the Sirius show live. Afterward it's a members-only audio with all the commercials cut out. If get the Tune In App on your phone or tablet and search for Observer Live, they do have the shows there but there are commercials and they couple days behind on shows.

What do you mean by decent? I just checked Ticketmaster and I see offers for seats in Section E (camera left, stage right) and C. The ringside seats go up to 10,000 dollars per ticket? I am all for a brand split and I would perfer everyone I don't like to be on one brand with HHH and Stephanie so I can make sure to never watch that show. In order to accomplish this WWE will need to re-brand the women as mentioned above. Total Divas would need to be re-casted to include retired/non-wrestlers so they can be on the HHH/Stephanie brand and the other brand can be for the actual workers and NXT calls ups. Again, WWE can have its cake and eat it to. The new Total Divas would be: Rosa, Cameron, Eva, Summer Rae, Lana, Jo Jo, and of course The Bellas. Decent meaning that the $150 tickets that decent seats are selling for $500 on StubHub. But what is there end game number for paid attendance in a reality sense? They want to claim 100k but what's the real number paid that they want to get? 70 or 80k?

I thought Dylan was out of mind when he said it last year on one of the Reaction shows after Payback (might have been that show but in that time frame). But now it's getting ridiculous. I turned off Raw after the Golden Truth segment but I woke up and saw the closing segment (not the YouTube version). You have Reigns holding his arm (which he sold well) playing scared to Triple H (without a sledgehammer btw) but at least he brawled with him. But to bang his head on the table to the rhythm of the fans chanting "Yes" was alarming to me. Even Vince Russo of all people on Wrestling Inc thought something might be there. To me, the most sensible angle to shoot during that segment is what they did with Roman vs Bryan : brawl like hell until everybody breaks it up. Reigns getting over is lost cause now so you might as well make him look strong but nope. To be fair, most of the roster is booked horrible but the bungling of Reigns since Mania of last year has been so glaring bad. Dylan and Kris stated on the Reaction show and Parv laid it out in his article at PTBN. But last night proved it.

This is the same guy who thought Tugboat and Hogan would draw 100k in LA. His mind been gone.

The one thing about the political hit theory that I've always wondered about is that Kris mentioned in a Reaction show a while back saying Roman was Triple H's guy and Big E was Vince's guy coming up from NXT. I want more clarification on that cause I'm not a current Observer subscriber. We all know that they protected the hell out of Roman when he was in the Shield and Punk confirmed it. Now, when did Roman fall out of being Triple H's guy and why did Rollins become his guy. It's interesting cause when watching WWE 24 as Rollins say "We run this joint" after he won the title around Cesaro and Sami Zayn in a non kayfabe environment.

What makes this funny is that all of what you mentioned has a realistic shot of happening at Mania.

I say Vince, Triple H and Steph come out and award it to .... Vince. Then Vince turns around and gives it to Triple H. Thus Brock and Heyman come out with Heyman talking about knowing Vince J McMahon as a teenager and Triple H not being the man that he was. Out comes Roman and out comes Dean and that is the first 30 minutes of Raw cause WWE creative is not that creative. I hope they prove me wrong.

So Vince giving the finger to the fans when he was referee part of the show too?

I'm surprised no one brought up Vince giving the finger to the fans a couple weeks ago when he was guest referee. Or the story Jericho told on his podcast of Vince bumped shoulders with Kofi Kingston on the plane. As corporate as they want to be, they are still a wrestling company and people from the outside look at wrestling as a wacky thing and Vince is the ringleader of the circus.

I got to see Smackdown this morning and it was a really good show. Almost ROH TV like in terms of how simple the format was. All 4 matches were at least decent and there wasn't any unnecessary comedy that went on long. Sasha vs Naomi was decent but I think it could've went better. I like WWE's version of Sky Team with Neville and the Lucha Dragons plus AJ vs Jericho II was better than their first one.

To put context on the London smiling deal, it was when they did that deal on Raw where Vince walked in front the roster to his car. It was supposed to be serious but it was moments before his car blew up. The next week was supposed to be the funeral of Vince but Benoit happened.

Who else saw the commercial for MSG show that has Owens vs Ambrose in a 30 minute Ironman Match? I wish that was on the Network.

Steve now has the curse of picking the coolest intro song ever that people are going to constantly ask about it, he posted it in the thread for the last episode Thanks for posting the song. I wouldn't have guessed it being from Taiwan.

I enjoyed the show. I can see people having a problem with the choices being limited to the roundtable but it's happened with other year in review shows I've also heard. It's based on preferences. But one thing you can't deny is that 2015 was a really good year in wrestling. Also, Steven - Where did you get that music? It's fascinating to me. It's Japanese R&B can't put what subsection of it is.

She's been the one Joshi wrestler that I've dived into deep since I started going back and finding as much older Joshi as I can. OJ is the best guy to talk to in terms of promos since he lives in Japan. But from what I've seen of her, she's a heel to the AJW roster when she comes back from Mexico in 92 but stands up for them against the outside women. She beats up Yamada before and after the Finals of the Fuji TV tournament against Aja and Bull but tags with Bull when they go face Combat and Kudo at the FMW show. She's a dick to Mima Shimoda when they win the 3WA tag titles by taking both belts. So it goes like that from what I see. And I haven't seen a match with Kansai either.

I've seen this thing about AJ going back to his TNA days when they used the NWA World Championship. Hell, the first time I saw him on those weekly PPVs all I kept thinking about was "Who is this little guy with the NWA World Title?" But it all goes away after you watch him and the casuals will get over it as soon as they see him on Raw. The guy carries himself as a star. People forget about Daniel Bryan when he debuted that he looked small but once he gained weight and grew the hair, he was fine. AJ having long hair helps him cause if he had the same look as he did in 2005, then he's small.

I feel the same way about Chi Town Rumble. You can sit someone down who is a new to wrestling and it will give the viewer everything they wanted to know about Steamboat vs Flair in a concise time. With the two others, I ranked Wrestlewar above the Clash. The Wrestlewar match gives a sense of desperation for both guys that I didn't feel in the Clash match given you add the judges at ringside (I know they were meaninglessness at the end but it helped build up the match). Clash was the best worked match but the poll asked for favorites so I went with my favs.

Watching the stuff on the Network made realize they were a good team. Plus it inspired my avi. Jesse Ventura having the balls to wear a Malcolm X hat in THAT promotion will always stick with me.

It was more 50/50. I went through the Ring of Hell Thread a couple of months ago cause I read some chapters of it during a weekend and it was back and forth on what was truth and fiction. I voted no btw.