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I really hope that Punk and Bryan are in the main event tonight so when the inevitably terrible ratings come out, we get to hear about how this was a conspiracy by HHH to prove Bryan and Punk aren't draws. A lightbulb just went on over HHH's head. For those of you in Kentucky, a light bulb is like a tiny sun, enclosed in glass. ...I'll show myself out.

The best Perfect moment was once he threw his towel over his shoulder totally blindly and Bobby Heenan just nonchalantly does a behind the back grab like it just weren't no thing.

Maybe the finest "old, crazy Flair" moment ever.

I personally blame Triple H for the 1845 Irish Potato famine, Obamacare's website problems and Firefly getting cancelled.

If Daniel Bryan's fans would have paid to see him, things might be different. But since they all stole that shit online, now he's back to the midcard. Blame yourselves! You should have paid $50 three months in a row to get screw job finishes like good fans!!!

Hahaha Table I can't imagine anyone have holding a grudge against you. If anything you probably fixed his personality defects.

If it this episode ends being a success, Then I hope we get more gimmick episodes. *Crosses finger for a new RAW Bowl*

Cena is smarter than the average wrestler and is better at predicting if his partner will turn on him in the future.

Did you climb off your cross to watch it?

Assuming those people would have bought it in the first place. Which is a big if,

I love that the Bills suck so much they can't even get their own dumpster fire thread - they have to take over the Dolphins one.

I think he just kills them regardless.

I know...I know...No Raw talk, but, hey, a musical act, watch me join the rest of the country in changing the channel.

Don Cherry murdered a guy?

Because I understand the scoring system. Seriously, this is like the people that watch a close fight and at then end when a guy wins a unanimous decision 3 rounds to 2 they say "I think it should have been a split decision". It's really that stupid. If you're going to give three rounds to Hendricks two of them can't be 3 or 5 because anyone watching those rounds would understand that Johny didn't do enough to win those rounds. So when you call bullshit you're essentially saying "there's no fucking way GSP could have won round 1" and that makes it even more stupid because that round was a tossup.

I don't know what country magic is, but I am 100% behind it if we get Jeff Jarrett as some sort of redneck Papa Shango.

It's very close to being a clothesline and anyone acting mystified that in live time refs gave a penalty for that is completely out to lunch. That won't even crack a top 50 of questionable NFL calls this year.

Lucky, Calgary is a tropical paradise, what with your fucking Chinooks and all.

Here you go:

Whatever he says, it will be completely awesome. GRIM VISAGED THUGGEES.

I don't consider stating the truth to be whining.

I really don't understand why the hell they don't lower the price of the damn PPVs. Unless they're contractually obligated to price them the way they are, they should try selling one of the lower tier PPVs for, say, $29.99 and see if buyrates jump. That's the big reason I haven't ordered a PPV in over 5 years. I refuse to put down 50-60 bucks when, if I really want to watch the show, I can buy the DVD of it a couple months later for 15-20 bucks.

Casual fans are not paying fifty bucks to watch pay per views. Once you part with that much money, it is not a casual interest.

Well, if you think I am blaming Triple H for this you haven't read my posts But in all seriousness, I DO believe that Bryan's most vocal fans are not paying to watch him on PPV or watching every single RAW match that he has when it is happening. They hear Bryan fought Cesaro and they run to torrents or YouTube to get their fix. By comparison, I think Cena's supporters.. the younger crowd and the wait for it.... CASUAL fan do pony up (or make their parents pony up) for the shows. Listen, ten-year old Jack is not hopping on the net and finding the best way to download fucking B-PPVs.. He is pleading with his parents to buy a PPV because his hero Cena is fighting Rock or they hear Cena will be in the main segment on RAW and make sure to turn it back on and watch.

When was the last time the WWE invested a ton of money in getting a guy over? Like Lex Express levels? Daniel Bryan getting a Prius Lex Express to rally the nation into getting behind him in getting an opportunity to become the face of the company would be awesome

I think it's definitely true that the people that love Bryan the most, pretty much refuse to pump any revenue into WWE. I've said before, and more or less got shouted down, but it boils down to trust. People don't trust WWE to do anything right, so they don't invest. Frankly, WWE keeps proving these people right over and over.

It doesn't matter who the guy they choose to push is if the push fucking sucks.

I feel like the amount of television WWE produces weekly along with a PPV every month is ultimately what causes a lot of these hot angles to fail. Forget the Attitude Era, wrestling was red hot... Austin/Rock were massive stars, they were able to overcome terrible booking. Remember with Austin the double pin against Taker/Kane a couple months into his title reign? I think the internet would have shit on that completely. Back to the point.. I don't think the WWE writers are good enough to produce this much television. If the Bryan v. Authority angle happens in 1992.. they could have built towards Bryan v. Orton or Bryan v. HHH for months. These days they have put themselves in a position where Bryan and Orton have to face one another sooner than later and then they need a selling point to ANOTHER PPV 3 weeks out.. so they run a rematch. That's why we have terrible finishes and the angle loses steam. Maybe more talented writers find a way to keep it interesting but you have to admit.. it's a lot of fucking television especially with Bryan appearing on both RAW and SD! every week.

What's a paladin?

I just want to know why DB's fans are so damn cynical of his success. There's always a "but" attached to whatever the WWE decides to do with the guy: - They tried to build him as the underdog on NXT, BUT he lost every match! - They brought him back after the tie thingy, BUT Nexus died when he got fired! - He was having killer matches every week, BUT that damn Sheamus squashed him like a damn bug and those damn Bellas! - He won MITB, BUT why is he losing to Wade Barrett! - He won the title, BUT Big Show and Mark Henry! - He got the most attention at WM for jobbing, BUT Sheamus squashed him again! - They had him, CM Punk and AJ do some shit for months, BUT why does a woman have to get involved! - Kane reinvented DB, BUT Kane! - He got over as the most guy in front of a live crowd, BUT he probably jobbed again at some point! - He cleanly pinned Cena and Orton, BUT HHH! - He is teaming with Punk, BUT he ain't in the main event anymore! Not bad for someone the internet thinks the WWE has a thing against. How many guys would shank an anonymous hobo for that much give?

My two cents: PPV is a dead technology. Wrestlemania is an exception because it has the advantage of the 30 year history of being an "event", like the Super Bowl or Final Four, so it will always have an audience. The death of PPV is a direct result of the availabilty of high speed internet and streaming sites. Everyone has pretty much summed up all the reasons why. But to expend the area of discussion, people don't have the same viewing/buying habits as they did 10 years ago. Because of DVR/DVD/Netflix, people now binge watch episodic tv, and networks/media outlets pay top dollar for live events that draw viewers. The same thing that has happened (and is still happening) to TNA's PPV business will happen to WWE, it will just take longer because their business is bigger. People already often mention how it feels like a ripoff when PPV matches pop up on Raw the week or two after - that isn't going to change. Fewer and fewer people will buy PPV, and eventually it will become cost prohibitive for WWE to produce them, and they will stop. Look at it this way: if NBC Universal is willing to pay WWE $1M each week to produce Raw, at what point will WWE stop pumping their own money into producing a PPV on their own dime? What will end up happening is that when WWE's tv rights pop up for negotiation again, they will leverage the ratings that Raw has for a third tier cable network under that media conglomerate's umbrella. For example, a timeslot for Raw on a major cable network (USA, TNT, FS1, etc) and the "WWE Network" will be a part of that company's cable/satelite package. This is what has happened with college sports, the EPL, MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, etc., and the same will happen with WWE. The biggest hinderance will be if they rely on the idea they are "episodic television" or an "action adventure soap opera"... because networks will shy away from that because they can't package the programming in an effective way to suit customer needs.

The Alliance singing "Wind Beneath Our Ring" on Austin Appreciation Night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTdEmw2NNM

I'm actually happy Bryzgalov has arrived in Edmonton. At least now if we suck, we should suck with some interesting quotes afterwards. Ryan Rishaug was stirring shit with him about 5 minutes after he got here, which is no surprise at all. It's possible I may have lost my mind.

No, a group of casual fans are splitting that $50 bucks 3 or 4 ways with the one "hard core spend money on every PPV fan to watch" Or hitting the bar to watch because it happens to be on there...

It's one reason why giving away the PPVs to subsidize the WWE Network might not be the world's worst idea.

A vegan food truck.

No-one really wants to see Daniel Bryan do anything outside of wrestle, and chant "Yes!". You wanted to see Austin cut a curse laden promo, drink beer, beat somebody's ass, hand out Stunners to a million other people around ringside. You wanted to see The Rock cut a promo about pie, lay the Smackdown, go through his cool moveset, raise an eyebrow, drop an elbow, do funny backstage stuff. You wanted to see The Undertaker have a lot of pyro, and smoke and mirrors, do the whole dead guy sit up and beat up some big fat guy before putting them in a bodybag/casket/grave/setting them on fire/embalming them/tying them to a giant symbol/drag motorcycles through the desert You wanted to see Hogan cut a promo coked out of his mind, hulk up, big boot, leg drop and pose for everyone. Live audiences aren't exactly chomping at the bit for him to tell us what's on his mind, or hang around after a house show has ended to see what shenanigans will take place so you can film it on your tiny camera phone.

I don't even know what he said, and I've only seen Onita wrestle maybe once or twice, but that might be one of the greatest non-Dusty promos I've ever seen.

Except that's over, and done with. Bryan lost the fight, end of story. Is Bryan's fight w/ the Authority really over? Who's behind the Wyatt Family going after him? The devil made me do it? As much as I don't want the devil to turn out to be HHH pulling the strings for Bray Wyatt. There's still so many places to go creatively for a group of backwoods cultists to just end up as HHH flunkies.

Oh come on, everybody knows john cena had two massive cases of plastic surgery, Vince died twenty years ago, and Roids have been scourge in wrestling only in the last five years. . .

I'll be damned if that isn't the prettiest tope I've ever seen in my life

I had to live thru Vader being jobbed out to Edge and Al Snow and Sabu jobbing to Doug Williams. The ROHbots need to learn to deal.

You guys know Bryan just stole it from Diego Sanchez anyway, right?

For a second, I thought that was a young Gino Hernandez.

Especially since he died in 83.

Old School Sabu

RE: Nikki's vibrators. Credit to the girl, she's found a way to replace John Cena. More than WWE's booking crew have done in the last 5 years.

OSKEE F'N WEE WEE!