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The Shield 3 way program for the title on Raw this summer should be great. It's going to be real tough make Reigns the main guy here but this is great for Ambrose and Rollins

Meltz update today

as an aside WWE TV has had a real "lame duck" feel to it since the announcement of the split. Seems like everyone is just waiting for the draft on July 18 and then the product is "current' again. The lack of discussion of the current product the last 3 weeks or so here (and a lot of other places) seems to back that up with that tweet from Dave it seems the company is going at this rather haphazardly and was caught off guard by the USA Network here. Its like they are finally realizing they have to fill up 5 live first run hours of TV in a 2 day span every week

UFC not promoting Brock's ESPN appearance and aren't mentioning him at all now. Maybe something is up. He'll be on ESPN at 10 AM so we'll find out

As mentioned in the other thread surely this means Rousey and Connor will be working with WWE now. Steph/Rousey is most assuredly going to happen. Oh well not a huge UFC fan so this is not something Im really excited for

listening to Meltzer on the LAW and he seemed to strongly imply that this was a total USA Network move and forced upon WWE. USA was not happy with SD ratings

That was the segment of the year. "I did the world a favor!" "Thank you world"

AJ heel turn!! Legit wasn't expecting that

And they are going right to the Cena/Styles program. Good for AJ

Oh God they are going to do Steph v Charlotte aren't they?

Wow the crowd was absolutely dead silent for most of that opening segment And btw dorky babyface Steph who thinks she's cool but isn't is much better than the ball cutting .Steph we've gotten the last 3 years. I really hope they stick with this instead of doing the obvious and have her turn on Shane

Paul Orndorff turning on Hulk Hogan in 1986 and the Midnight Rockers/Summers + Rose feud in the AWA the same year

Pretty sure I mentioned earlier this week (or last) that I don't think they want Reigns to lose via cash in *again*. I was thinking how they were going to get around that and bam Wednesday morning they announce the split. Assuming Owens wins (and I agree it may be so obvious now they might change it up) I don't see them ever putting him over Reigns. Now they have a second option. Probably better for whoever gets the case

I couldn't tell if Charlotte was holding back tears or laughter

I just can't imagine Steph running the B show now

I have a feeling Raw will get most of the workrate guys to fill the three hours. And anyone who can remotely cut a promo winds up there

Can't say I was a fan of the original but I'm kind of indifferent here. Could go either way. I assume Steph runs Raw and Shane Smackdown

Eden has announced she is leaving WWE. Yeah this was inevitable

so at the SD tapings it looks like Rusev is being paired with

Seems pretty obvious Owens is winning the briefcase. Can't see them putting the title on him anytime soon. If he does it will probably be a deal where Reigns wins it right back. Hope I'm wrong but has been the case with the briefcase lately they will probably book themselves into a corner. Ie Sheamus last year

My only guess is taking it out on Vince and Hunter could be dismissed as "well they are playing heels so that might be the desired reaction" Messing with the next top potential babyface seemed more effective I guess

Steph getting mad at Dusty for ad-libbing during their promos seemed to kill the Rhodes's push. They went from feuding with the top heel faction to losing to the friggin New Age Outlaws on the Rumble pre show

Maybe I'm wrong here but I just think there is a certain segment of the fan base that will never forgive the company for what happened at the 2014/2015 royal rumbles and they are going to boo any pushed top babyface no matter what. They're really mad at Vince McMahon not Roman. If Daniel Bryan won the 2014 Rumble none of this probably would have happened. Fans would accepted Reigns if they had been satiated by a Bryan push on top the year before

Per Alvarez there was a longish McMahon segment scheduled for the show that was cut. The extra time went to Jericho/Ambrose I was suspicious why there was no McMahon involvement tonight

It was never not weird seeing Bret wrestle in a WCW ring. Which is sorta strange because Bret fit the bill of a typical WCW type wrestler more than a WWF one but he just screamed WWF. Dean Malenko in his first few months in WWE was surreal to see. Terry Gordy and Steve Williams in ECW