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Referee Chris Jericho:

Chris Jericho?

Has he pointed at the sign yet?

Well of fucking course you did.

My only question is how is ANYONE in their right mind going to be able to eliminate the Big Show? This is a 7-foot, 450-pound monster we are talking about. The largest athlete in the world! He's got to be the odds on favorite to win Sunday.

Well, i think the guy with a brain tumor should not be lumped in with jackie gayda and linda miles.

I repeat...

I'm 100 percent positive that Jericho playing up all the things that net fans hate about him is part of an eventual heel turn that's been planned for some time. It goes back to that finish of the six man with Ambrose and Reigns where he fucked up and lost the match. He said on his podcast that he had a long term idea and I think this is clearly it.

As someone who grew up on WWF in the 80's on, Iron Mike was a fixtures on shows in the area. He had the gimmick with the loaded armbrace (somehow WWE ran a picture of him without it on) and you always knew when Mike was wrestling because of just how loud he was . From his arms up bellow after introductions to his "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!" when the babyfaces had him on the ropes and he was begging off that they not low blow him. Gorilla would often wax about the time Mike got locked in the Boston Garden because he was taking so long in the shower and nobody noticed he was still there (apparently, he didn't sing the at the same volume he yelled in the ring). Via con dios Canada's Greatest Athlete... you're clubbing the angels with your loaded forearm brace in Heaven.

I can't imagine enjoying sitting through an episode of Raw, however, castigating Greggulator because he does enjoy it is, well, sorta shitty.

or March Madness

Only without the shitty tattoos.

He's more like Rob Bartlett at this point. Oh wait... wrong Bartlett James

Seeing the Wyatts out at the end of a show in the middle of someone else's angle is now like when your Trump supporter uncle shows up at your barbecue.

I think my "How Total Divas Teaches You To Be A Horrible Person" thing has legs.

HHH vs Roman and Brock vs someone who hasn't been annihilated by 50/50 booking and shitty Raws for the title (a resurgent Bray, a renegade Harper, an insurgent AJ Styles, Finn and the Bullet Club, fucking Samoa Joe for all the sense at makes I don't care I would absolutely pay to see that.) Seriously, there is WAY too much talent in WWE right now for the main roster and the main event angle in particular to be such a clusterfuck.

If there's one thing I know children like it's corporate politics.

I've watched enough Bray Wyatt to think he just needs an opportunity where he is given an actual purpose. He's had some really good matches when allowed to be what he should be. The biggest problem with the Wyatts is they've done so much to kill them off as a legitimate scary act. This is the group that divided and conquered the best trio team in the companies history. His matches with Cena were actually pretty good when they just actually wrestled. It's easy to keep Wyatt as a major threat: Just treat him like one.

Two Royal Rumbles at the same time.

Anyone but Denver. Preferrably, I'd rather have Carolina or Arizona win their first, but New England winning is always good for the mental breakdowns it causes in people. But fuck Denver, fuck Peyton Manning and fuck John Elway.

To be fair - I was talking about him not being included in the Social Outcasts list. But for some reason he is already confirmed. So clearly he is the only Social Outcast who knows how to properly move some money around.

Actually, aside from the Jericho stuff, I mostly enjoyed Raw. I like Roman turning into the "Fuck it all" asskicker he should have always been. I liked KO verbally murdering Saxton for 15 minutes. I liked the Becky-Flairs interview. The New Day funeral ruled. Hell, in my heart of hearts, I loved the absolutely non-sensical turns of both Paige & Big Show last night. I did not like the main event angle because the Wyatts need to be faces at this point. I am not buying Bray as a threat yet, because he needs his 3 big bears to do any of his dirty work. I am not buying the LoN as any kind of real threat. And I think no one else other than Ambrose, KO, and possibly a new Bullet Club seems to have any remote shot at winning on Sunday. It's Reigns & Brock and no one else is even close. I appreciate they tried to show someone else could win. Because any of the other 29 could. It's just that they've thrown the champ faces impossible odds trope at us for the last 10 years. Why is it such a surprise when I don't think there's any other outcome other than Superman is going to punch Brainiac into the sun again to end this comic book? Kids need and like heroes. The WWE isn't for us. It's for children. Some of it's steered more towards us, but the A-plots almost never are. Sometimes one of the big storylines (Daniel Bryan) captures the hearts and minds of everyone. But there's a reason why Cena wins -- it's the payoff the kids watching wants to see. You can repeat the "WWE isn't for us, it's for children" stuff all you want, but you're going to get it wrong each and every time. You're applying a very cut down the middle, black and white description to WWE programming and it's not accurate. Tell me, who exactly is the target audience when WWE conjures memories and images of angles gone by, which involved wrestlers like Steve Austin? Tell me of the children who WWE is speaking to using some of the language Roman or HHH or Vince does. And, please, tell me who is the primary viewing audience for Raw each week? Oh, and if this is for children and not us, why does Raw air so late? Just so there's no mistaking it, none of this is to say WWE isn't for children, because they're selling to kids, but they're also selling to adults. Adults are the ones who turn this on each week, subscribe to the Network, purchase tickets to live events, purchase merchandise at live events, etc. If WWE isn't for us, they're fucking up. Majorly. There's no denying that kids need or want a hero to watch. Cena fills that role. So does Roman. So have others. That doesn't mean that said hero must win all the time or can't turn heel, and it also doesn't mean that you can't have other heroes, even if they're swamp monsters.

please don't insult wrestling's greatest Mummy-Amercian by calling that guy the Yeti

I'm very excited for this weeks game. Tickets sold out in 4 minutes and I was lucky enough to grab a very nice one in section 256. I've been to games before but never one where the atmosphere will be as insane as it will be Sunday. Keep Pounding boys!

I'm 42 and have a 15 year old and an 11 year old. I now know exactly how I look in front of their friends.

BECAUSE HE NEVER WAS.

Daaaaad!

Holy god. EDIT: Oh man I couldn't resist... I'm actually watching this right now. My first exclamation out loud was "ARAYA WAS THAT FUCKING SKINNY?!" Now I'm watching a man in a skull mask and formal wear beat up an out of shape former journalist.

24 years ago today .........

Luke Harper's Lariat on Reigns was beautiful.

I don't really want to see Brock vs. Bray, but I want to see Brock and Luke Harper beat the piss out of each other.

The Authority's beef with Roman is a classic action movie trope - heel crew that runs the town wants to recruit some badass loner type, he entertains the fact but turns them down because of his principles and instead sides with the people they're holding down, they take offense to someone daring to defy them and want to destroy him.

Ok. You're right, that is your opinion. The fact still remains that I never said I didn't like anything he said, I didn't say his opinions are suspect and I certainly could not care less about how loud or quiet he is. He got his chops busted because he remained the contrarian and I pointed out the inaccuracy of something he said in response. Next time I'll put a smiley face in the comment just to make sure jimmies aren't rustled.

Well of fucking course you did. Come on. People are allowed to have different opinions and express them, or no? FWIW, I don't think it was a great show, or even a good show. But I don't think it was garbage, either. Point to where I said he isn't allowed to have a different opinion or express it. Resident contrarian known for being notoriously contrary with a penchant for moving goalposts (intentional or not) lived up to his reputation. Balls were busted as a result. My point is that you don't have to rail against someone every time they say something you don't like. That alone at least lends some belief that you rather he keep quiet. You think Gregg's opinions are suspect. So? 95% of the opinions on this board are suspect in some way. We can't and shouldn't mollywop each over it so much. It just takes away from the fun, IMO.

Another SS poster

Biggest surprise of the night was Adam Rose having smaller legs than Brie Bella.

I still hold steady that the Wyatts if turned face will be the most over act on the roster that second.

What you're not understanding is that people aren't worked up because they think John Scott is super great or whatever. They're annoyed because the NHL looks like a joke when it handles things this way. Imagine this scenario. I win some sort of workplace award (that comes with a cash bonus). A while down the line, my boss comes up to me and says "hey... so about that award. Instead of rationally selecting the recipient like intelligent people, we had a dart-throwing monkey select the winner. Turns out that was a terrible idea, and the person we actually wanted to win didn't win. So... could you please just decline the award so we can give it someone else? Oh yeah, and if you don't do it, we'll fire you." First off, that would be entirely unreasonable, and I would be pissed. Second, it would make everyone involved look like a colossal joke. That's pretty much the NHL here.

Oh. I thought you were calling ME a 13 year old.

Yes, he explained it wasn't white boy day.

Props to Ken Shamrock for fullfillng the legacy of Thesz, Harley, and Flair by making his first appearance as NWA Champion wearing cargo shorts and sandals. Lol.

Best kind of punch: looks like it's full force, opponent doesn't feel it. Usual example: Dick Murdoch. Type two: looks like you're punching the guy in face because you basically are. Example: Vader Type three: Makes little to no contact and you can tell. Example: Big Cass Worst kind: looks like it barely connects, somehow does actual damage. Example: RVD

And then she gave him the Balor to Bayley suplex