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At least it's pretty clear what are their priorities too. Gotta love the build-up to a PPV that is gonna happen "somewhere" again...

Just watched it. Tremendous indeed.

That's a super cool and unexpected news. This is gonna be the highest profile single Dustin match in how ? More than 20 years easily I'd say.

Doesn't even scratch Vanes Naldi's classic angle. Piss poor booking on every level.

Damn, Wagner Jr. and Blue Demon Jr. managed to have quite a compelling last part of the cage match main event at the big show earlier this month. Those old mofos sure have done a much, much better job than Trip & Batista (then again, we're talking about Wagner Jr., who ruled, and Blue Demon... ok, who apparently never was that good) as far as pushing a hundred years inside the ring and having a blood feud. I guess this is gonna main event Triplemania this year ? Well, I'm invested in this one now. Good job. Also, Fantasma is gone for good then ? Meltz talked about him showing up in NJPW, which would be interesting.

Seriously now ? People are pissed at the way Sasha expressed being pissed ? Is the audience working in WWE's Talent Relation office now ? That's how it sounds to me, sorry. As far as taking a leave of absence, well, considering she's an "independent contractor", I guess she can do whatever the fuck she wants... That's not being unprofessional. Being unprofessional would be, I dunno, hurting people left and right like say... Nia Jaxx. Or refusing to do a job and go home with your belt championship like multiple time Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels.

Damn, you speak like Vince now. It's not a question of comparing the status of Sasha & Harper either. And honestly, although Harper is a really good worker, it's not like he could have anchored the promotion or anything like Sasha (for the women's division) could at one time. Sasha got pissed off, and then what ? People have the right to get pissy and salty. The fact people assume that they are "babies" because they don't go all corporate and shit is ridiculous to me. Again, it's not like she refused to do the job or was unprofessional as a performer, so what is the big issue with her being pissed, really ?

But come on, WWE is the dream work of every sport entertainer in the Universe. You may laugh, but I'm sure that's how corprorate WWE sees things... Like I said a few days ago, we've reached the #Brand Era, where the audience are supposed to support the Brand against its workers.

It doesn't really matter. And really, Sasha has been booked like shit for the last year or so. Yeah, her and Bailey was given the brand new tag titles. And then what did they do ? Tell them they are gonna job the title away to an undercard comedy tag team and split them up without doing anything more with their brand new team. So yeah, whatever, Sasha had all the right in the world to be pissed about her current push, honestly. As far as someone like Bliss understand the game much better, no issue about that. Hell, I would even agree about pushing Bliss over Sasha, simply because I thought Bliss was terrific in her role anyway. But that's neither here nor there.

Well, yes. Sasha has been called every name in the book, been laughed at, been called a baby, people talked about her attitude problems and whatnot. Harper asks his release ? Awesome, great talent, deserved much better, gonna kill it in the indies... Also, apparently dropping the belt was not the only issue, the fact they were gonna get split as a team was also a reason why they were pissed, Meltz said. Which is perfectly understandable. Bailey & Sasha's booking has been horrendous last year (the "feud that wasn't a feud"), and now this ?

Wow, what a shocker. Corny has talked about him explaining to Vince and the crew what a screwjob was only for years on podcasts now... Anyway, he came off like a star though, no one tells a story like him (can't believe he did the "piss on his grave" promo at the end though, that and the framing of death threats were soooo pro-wrestling). You gotta love Corny dropping knowledge with historical details in his attics full of memorabilia, and then you got that complete idiot Russo going "Bro, I told Vince what to do bro." No idea why they even bothered with this imbecile. Scott Hall was also worthless here. Never talked about the Montreal Screwjob with Shawn. Yeah. Sure. A fair amount of bullshit in this episode, but Corny & Bruce made it smooth, at least. Gotta love Bruce talking about "dropping the championship". Even in a documentary, he has to speak like a WWE drone...

The way iMPACT currently presents its product is actually really good, it's a shame no one seemingly watches it. Two man both near ringside, but in an old-school setting. Usually begins the show with a hot match. No authority figure, really. No epileptic directing. Some Lucha undergroundesque cool little fuckery (although with less budget and less well done). Booking that flows pretty well with nothing overcomplicated or convoluted. A few special TV shows which allows more important matches to happen without having to go on PPV. Fun vignettes, some of which have a musical theme (LAX, Scarlett Bordeaux). I mean, it's really easy to watch and follow. Sure, there are still some stuff from the 00's that could go away, like the "Hit girl holding the mic and looking disgusted/bewildered at the heels and not doing anything else", but overall, they present a really good pro-wrestling TV show now. As far as AEW goes, the further away they go from WWE presentation, the better it is. I used to love the Nitro era for its themed PPV and different kind of settings. Hope this comes back eventually. As far as Smackdown goes, who the fuck cares, as long as Vince & Dunn are there, it's gonna be awful anyway. Not sure it's gonna get much better whenever Dunn is gone, but NXT is a lot more watchable (although still over-directed) at least, if not more listenable (Mauro, shut the fuck up).

And they still do Nu Metal videos.

Yeah, that would be it. Definitely the Cena at its peak era.

Yeah, this would be my timeline too, although I would probably go from around Rumble 97, really, for the unravelling of the world title scene and the Austin vs Bret feud putting itself together. SummerSlam 98 is the end of the road, indeed. A Bundy episode would probably not be that interesting. He was gone pretty much as soon as Bruce got in, and his 94 stint was nothing.

Yeah but what is Lacey's character ? She dresses old-fashion ? So she's a female Vaudevillain ? I have no fucking idea.

Lacey has shown exactly zilch in the ring thus far. Her very short sequence at the Rumble was awful. As far as a character she comes from exactly nowhere, she just walked down the aisle for weeks, now she's gonna challenge the top woman. Reeks of shoving down someone who's not ready, yet again. If she catches fire, good for them. But to me it has failure written all over it. With the actual life story this girl has, they managed to just make her a non-character because she's just hot and tall and blonde and they figure it's gonna be enough. That's why they pay a hundred writers, I guess. As far as Ronda goes, well, she sure ain't gonna be on FOX for the big debut. Not kicking any ass anyway. So there... Totally agree with the gap issue, at this point you have Becky, Charlotte (who would be the third now ? Bliss ?), then a huge void, then the rest.

Austin 98/99 aka recycling shit we've already discussed to death. Really now ? If anything, a good reminder than most of the Austin vs Mr. McMahon stuff after the Dude Love feud was actually complete trash. It's funny how because something was really popular at the time, it gets romanticized as being good.

Yeah. Make him carry a French flag and call himself Manu Makron (the K for copyrights). About the IIconics, for the longest time I had no idea how to write the fucking second letter. It was so confusing I would actually *hear* they name pronounced as ILconics (I know it would not have sound the same, I know, but I did hear somewhat of a L there). So, yeah, I feel your pain Charles.

No shit. It's almost comical at this point all these people who straight ahead ask for a release after years of "don't move, don't talk, don't get fired".

Ok, so I have seen the most amazing entrance ever. Priscilla Kelly at the Penis Party (yeah, again, I had to split that one up in parts). With guys dressed up as giant bloody tampons. To the sound of the awesome "How Soon in Now" by the Smiths. OK, that's it, don't even try, this is the greatest pro-wrestling entrance ever. And really, that whole show, as ridiculous as it was at points (that DDT match was.... uncomfortable to watch at times ?), is easily in my TOP 2 of the week-end, the other one being Bloodsport, obviously.

The Montreal one sounds like it's a complete waste of time. Not like another doc on the matter was appealing to begin with, but this looks like complete crap.

Don Callis always came off smart and funny anyway, but hearing him call the Penis Party show without any leach on, he's really, really, really funny.

Well, the Phantom of the Opera's name was Erik. That's kinda cool. But yeah, the Viking Experience ? Sounds like a name for a roller coster or something. Wow, yeah, remember those guys ? They basically vanished into thin air pretty much immediately.

It is more, believe me. Some movies from Quebec are subtitled... in France. Why the question BTW ? Was there some French on the Montreal RAW ? (Yeah, really sucks for Notre-Dame. It's amazing it's one of the most famous monument on the planet... )