Strummer

Yeah Ronda v Becky v Charlotte is going to main event so regardless of what you think of Seth he won't be closing the show

I still think Becky or .Charlotte is winning Rumble but wouldn't be shocked if they go with Alexa. Remember no one thought she had a shot at mitb. And they absolutely love her backstage. Then get .Charlotte and .Becky with .Rousey with the two ppvs before Mania

I agree but I think him being announced for the Rock movie made people think he'd be ready to come back

Wwe just announced Braun will replace Cena in the rumble match

To elaborate, John Pollock in his update today seemed to be implying that there is a surprise planned for the men's rumble and that the company thinks it's going to get over well. Seth just seemed too obvious

Yeah I saw the stuff about the surprise as well. I was thinking Roman

Fightful.com is saying the men's rumble is closing the show and that Becky v Asuka will open the main show

I think it was Prichard who said that the WWF actually hired comedy writers to come up with those puns at the beginning of Superstars. Pretty sure they started in 1988-ish and lasted until like 92/93

Meltz also says tickets for the Rumble aren't selling well and neither are they for Raw the next night

could have sworn last summer that it was reported that Ronda helped them land the Fox deal because Fox wanted a "real sports feel" to SD and Ronda would help out in that

Scott Keith of all people brought up a valid point. Wonder if Fox is pissed now that they won't be getting Ronda on their show? Maybe they knew before hand and that's why there are rumors the brand split won't be ending when the move is made

yep Dave says that Ronda will be finishing up with WWE at mania. Ric Flair was right last year. well Becky is def. going over. I think she would have even if Ronda was staying

PWI reporting Sonjay Dutt and Abyss are both headed to WWE looks like in behind the scenes roles/producers

ha yeah was actually going to post that. Hunter has been cleared to train. He's gonna work mania after all... LOL

Damn that Mustafa Ali promo was great

Wow Ronda badly botched that promo at the beginning but recovered pretty nicely

Rey v Almas in 2 out of 3 falls announced for SD also Joe v Ali was announced for Raw Nattie and Ronda v Bayley and Sasha

weren't they really mad at Maria at the end of her initial run because she asked for creative control of her character and wanted to pursue outside projects? I swear I remember she had a ton of heat on her from the office so kinda surprised they brought her back

I assume the new plan is saving Braun/Brock for Mania with Braun finally getting the big win. quite a star making night for Finn. When wwe wants to they still can make people feel special. Wish they would do that more

According to the Observer Lars was supposed to debut in a dark match on Raw in Orlando but had an anxiety attack and it didn't happen. They worked things out and he was supposed to work the SD tapings in another dark match but apparently had another attack and flew back home. Pretty damn sad. also the plan is/was for him to wrestle Cena at Mania

It's quite alarming how less over Braun is than a year ago. If he loses again to Brock at the Rumble I think he's cooked as a top guy. What happened to the program they were teasing with Drew? I know a lot of the talk was that he was only so over because he was feuding with Roman but even post Roman he was getting gigantic reactions. The weird heel turn in September killed him and then he turns right back after the Shield program was over. Such strange booking

Listened to some of the Mean Gene Show. Have to admit the story of Tony, Jimmy Hart and Gene jamming out to N'SYNC in 1999 on a car ride got a legit LOL from me

the Bliss segment seemed underproduced as well with everyone talking over everybody else. Both were weird segments

On your 3rd point to think there were lots of people defending the booking of Bryan in 2013/2014. Yeah hindsight has not been kind to that. Ask Bayley

Question: Was this "new direction" forced on them by USA network or was it 100% Vince? I guess we won't be able to really tell till holidays are over but I'm starting to think this was a USA/NBC universal/Bonnie Hammer initiative