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I think I read that Becky and Ronda are supposed to return post Mania. If true this will be Ronda's first time without Heyman booking all her stuff. I think Heyman was behind a lot of Becky's run as well. Prichard seems to prefer the diva era booking

Holy shit that's legit surprising

WWE announced that NXT is officially moving to Tuesdays and they've signed a multi year extension with the USA Network

From what I gather I think the point is that it isn't that story doesn't matter in wrestling but it doesn't have to be a multi layered narrative that goes from point to point over episodic television. The story can just be " I want the title", "I want to see if I can beat you". the WWF of the 70s flourished with almost no big angles or stories under Vince Sr. Honestly a lot of of Hogan's biggest programs in the 80s didn't have a deep story behind them. Everyone just wanted to see him win.

Bryan recently gave an interview and said he really doesn't have much booking power on SD despite what's being reported online. So I guess everyone saying he pitched all those losses to Cesaro and Nak might not have been true after all

Being reported Road Dogg suffered a heart attack on Thursday. Currently in the hospital

Having Lacey being Becky's first big program after Mania turned out to be a huge mistake. Lacey lost every match and yet kept getting title shots well into the summer for some reason iirc, people criticizing Becky's Mania build were shot down with a bunch of "omg stop complaining, she's getting pushed isn't she?!? Isn't that enough!?What else do you want!?!?" type comments. Two years later it's obvious those criticisms were valid.

Don't know if it's anything but I saw something on twitter recently that Heyman told Ronda to lift her shoulder on the 3 count in the main of WM 35. I guess so that they could build to a rematch later on? The fact that it was never mentioned again maybe means Heyman and Ronda tried to go into business for themselves?

Charlotte just tweeted that she has tested positive for covid

Bryan Alvarez just tweeted that Mania main event will be a 3 way match with .Roman, Edge, and Bryan

Wwe just announced that they have released Andrade

Wwe has announced Rhea Ripley will "debut" on Raw Monday. I guess they are erasing her brief run last year

He was absolutely supposed to be a babyface. They had other babyfaces, including JYD, trying to give him the seal of approval. Heenan also makes fun of him on commentary. according to Honky it was Vince seeing the merch revenue in foam Elvis wigs, jumpsuits, etc. that made him see the character as a babyface. People loved Elvis so they would love Honky

there has been yet another covid outbreak in NXT

This was quite awhile ago but IIRC Nash said Dusty went over his head (to Craig Leathers? I believe) to try and get on the booking team. Nash saw that as a political ploy to try to get his job so he told Dusty to quit it or there would be trouble.

Dusty was at least contributing in summer 98 because Meng got another push again out of nowhere. according to Nash, Dusty tried to work his way on the booking team in late 98/early 99 and Nash basically told him to fuck off

I should remember as well. I think Terry Taylor was helping out but I don't think was lead booker Ha,, Loss beat me to it!

Was Kevin Sullivan booking all the way till Nash took over in Oct./Nov 98? The attention to detail seemed to stop around late 97ish

There were some people who liked the AJ match at WM 33 but other than that probably not

As for Shane in 2016 I think you have to account for the fan base being so sick of the HHH and Stephanie characters at that point. The .Authority had dominated tv for 3 years at that point and I think a tease of something different got people interested. Of course it meant nothing as the stips were never adhered to and the .Authority would still be on tv for the next 2 years.

According to wrestling inc, Andrade has requested his wwe release

WON says Revolution earned 7 million dollars in buys and was the highest grossing non wwe ppv since 1999

To add to what Meltz said last week, @wrestlevotes is saying the Mania card isn't close to being finalized and everything is basically back to square one

Apparently the audio problem was on TNT. All other outlets had no audio problems. the ghosts of wcw

The PA system is on in the background. That's what's messing with the audio