Can I also add that, watching the botch, seeing 3 other guys not get touched but bump for the move anyway is equally awful? Like, yeah, I know not everyone can improvise on the fly, but that just made the whole thing even worse and more laughable. 

To quote the great Dennis Green, THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY ARE. They've always been 3 green workers but now they don't have someone great like Swerve to bail them out.  I recall B-Fab having an attempt at a match in NXT that was near Jenna-Sharmell territory, but they wanted her on TV. 

Now to be fair, I think the rehire was great as a morale boost to the locker room, with that move Hunter let them know it was a new era and he would be undoing the moves Vince was making that were very unpopular. 

2 hours ago, rovert said:

I've zero understanding of American Football. 

But WWE wise Top Dollah just knows to say the right things around Triple H and that's it reputation wise. He isn't talked up by his peers on a "give him a chance basis" of anything.

He was traded around various NFL teams for YEARS despite achieving nothing. Knows the art of self preservation to an annoying degree:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Francis

Looks like his career was basically several teams stashing him on their practice squad, which is where they put guys they want to keep around to fill holes if someone gets hurt. 

2 hours ago, strobogo said:

The Hit Row rehire is the weirdest of all of HHH's rehires. A group that was barely on TV a month, where three of the four were barely trained, and the fourth was their leader and star and now in a different company. 

I'd never want to call into question Mr. Levesque's iconogropy or general artistic/cultural tastes, but Hit Row would seem to check a box. 

There's probably not much more to it than they were an act that was popular in NXT and got fucked on the main roster, and Hunter saw that as a wrong that needed righting. Except of course by the time he could do that, the best part of the act went to AEW. 

 

Wow this World Cup final is nuts, just two GOATs throwing haymakers. 
 

Bubba @KawadaSmilehas probably died several times watching this.

What a fucking game. So happy for Messi. Mbappe has one already, and he'll be back for more

Argentina is in the Western Hemisphere, so the US can claim this championship under the Monroe Doctrine.

I caught the end of the game at my parents' house - I don't watch soccer otherwise - and I have to agree it was incredibly exciting!

I was shocked to find out Messi had never won a World Cup until now. Glad for him that he finally did. 

Great near-fall towards the end with Argentina's third. I thought the highspots were very well-timed, with enough space inbetween to let things breathe and sink in. Rodrigo de Paul with the Rumble ironman stint, lasting 102 minutes of go-go-go smashmouth in-your-face. Clean finish and the right team won; it's about time they pulled the trigger on Messi.

I don’t know what’s worse…AJ Francis, or all the Soccer talk in this thread.

3 hours ago, The Thread Killer said:

I don’t know what’s worse…AJ Francis, or all the Soccer talk in this thread.

Top Dolla vs. Messi at Crown Jewel - book it, Trips!

From what I've seen since their return, B-Fab at least comes off like a total star, so I hope she does well if nothing else.

21 hours ago, sek69 said:

Wow this World Cup final is nuts, just two GOATs throwing haymakers. 
 

Bubba @KawadaSmilehas probably died several times watching this.

As I said to bubba @MoS, it was the best damn game of football I have ever seen in my life.