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With the roster as large as it is, if they could just plan a little goddamn bit better, they could easily phase people in and out so they had built-in 'off seasons" for different people at different times while not interrupting their precious USA contract. It would sure as hell tighten up feuds too knowing they only had a few PPVs to tell a story before someone was going on break instead of stretching it out over six months or a year with the same matches over and over.

Wow, so people are going to “forget” who Ronda is within two years? Really? From the company that still parades people around from the Attitude era that was 20+ years ago and practically lives on nostalgia acts? Thats about as hilarious as “We need Charlotte in the main event to be the heel because Ronda will get so flustered by being booed that she might accidentally break Becky’s arm.”

Wrestling and MMA are synonymous with each other. Thinking the same Ronda Rousey who broke into the Hollywood and the mainstream news realm and drew a million buys on PPV three times isn't a big enough star for the average WWE consumer to know who she was without education from the announcers is highly disingenuous and driven by personal bias. That's also ignoring the pop she got on her debut at the Rumble with no prior ''education''. Her promos aren't that bad either.

When was the last time you saw this kind of hate and intensity from a mere lock up?

If that were a poster and I was anywhere from age 12-15, the height of my Fangoria reading years, it would be on the wall of my bedroom, guaranteed.

I didn't know Russo posted here.

Shoot angles. Dudes jumping ship for big money contracts. Kurt Angle getting a push. I can't wait to fire up Eyada on Tuesday and get all the quarter hour breakdowns!!!!

Yo @Niners Fan in CT bUt SasHa hAs moRe fOlLOwErS

Well, you certainly add a lot to the discussion... 34 posts! I'll bet we've missed out on some real insights. However, your ideas intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, (assuming that it isn't written in crayon.)

It’s hilarious, because Ronda’s a moron.

Holy shit. If you think Stephanie is insufferable now, wait 'til she gets this whole new thing to take credit for. On the subject of Kevin Owens' funny moments: "We want wrestling!" "THIS IS WRESTLING YOU FUCKFACE!"

Ronda Rousey, 11 year old efedder is quite the gimmick. Her match with [email protected] will be something

"A competent company that has patience could easily book a long term program out of this." To quote the late, great Gorilla Monsoon: "Will you stop!"

It's unfair to suggest that idolizing John Wayne makes you a bad person, especially on a message board where people still say "but I still like Benoit's matches."

I hate the shift as a strategy, but I despise this rule. The shift exists because batting coaches seemed to stop teaching batters how to use the field, and since every MLB park in existance shortens right field for da long ball, every friggin left hand batter pulls right. You want to stop the shift, teach your fucking batters to use the whole field.

I get that some people are like "Oh yeah, this is cool" or ok with the Ronda stuff, but the shooty stuff is Russo era BS that should've been left in the 90's. Having your now top heel constantly shitting on the industry with scripted and fake doesn't help a damn thing. Because at the end, Ronda won't be less because she'll walk and be like "Yeah, I got to fake act everything, so I didn't really lose".

This happened tonight. YES.

Oh, so now Ronda’s mma career is comparable to Enzo’s wrestling career? Glad we’re not being ridiculous.

Exactly. I think Ronda is much better known as "a pioneer in women's sports" than she is as "objectively awful human being." That's just the world we live in.

His roundhouse is still better than CM Punk's.

The thing with the twitter stuff is, to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't been brought up on Raw and Smackdown. At least, not any of the shooty stuff. Everything on the actual shows has been strictly kayfabe for the most part. And that's what they consider canon. Ronda's bullshit (and yes, I agree it is bullshit, and you can throw Becky's in there too if it suits you) is just something for the hardcore fans (or really it's a layer of fans between casuals and hardcores) to give the veneer that there is really animosity between Ronda and Becky, and maybe plant the seed of 'shit, I have to watch this match to see if Ronda is really going to shoot on Becky'. I'm not trying to defend this at all, but I do think that it should be pointed out that Ronda tweeting 'it's fake' or whatever isn't actually part of the build of the match as presented by WWE. It's something running alongside it.

Don't you realize the rules of this feud: Ronda (or Charlotte, or...well, anyone) says something: "They're ruining wrestling, this is inside baseball, it's shooting shit, they need to be drummed from the business!" Becky says something: "YAAAASSSS QUEEN SLAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!"

No way Jack, it's the summer of 1978, me and Jackson Browne are running against the wind in a Chevy Kamala convertible with the roof down, sipping on a quartz of Jack, an eyeball of coke, wearing nothing but our waistcoats, daddy, our naked foreskins at the mercy of the sizzle sizzle of the sun. I was a chapter down into my first novel about alien erotica which I'd just written while getting my beekeeping license, and I stopped to think "If there was ever a guy that would buck the trends of professional wrestling and say yes to a nice coiffered mat of pubic hair gloriousness over the mantra of none makes it look all bigger, it'd be that Buddy Roberts...wait where was I going with this baby?"

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Dirty Player.

Project Ciampa: Bionic Build begins.

I think I'm in love...

I have to think that the highest compliment that you can a pro wrestler is that they elevated everyone that they worked with. You can't say that about too many people, however, you can say it about Dick Beyer. Win, lose, or draw whether working with a young lion or an aging and virtually immobile Giant Baba, the Destroyer got the absolute best out the guys that he worked with. Of course, I only saw the very tail end of his career (until the advent of Youtube) and even aging and obviously slowed down a lot, he was entertaining as hell. During his prime, based on variety of opponents and his general globe-trotting, you'd have to rank him pretty damn high from the 1950s through the early 1970s as one of the best workers in the world. We talk a lot about Ric Flair in his prime as a travelling champ getting great matches out of just about anyone, Dick Beyer did that world wide not just nationwide. When you're considered one of the best ever on four continents you've had one hell of a career.

I, for one eagerly await the first installment of HOSPITAL COMIX. DEAN! Remember this, it will serve you well... If they're giving you pain meds (which from the sounds of the procedure they absolutely must be doing), you aren't responsible for anything that you say or do. It's the opiates talking! So offering the nurse a cat bath or similar behavior can just be written off as "under the influence of narcotics"; work that for all it's worth. Makes the stay in the hospital go so much quicker... Trust me on this.

I haven't either for the same reason and what I think about Ronda Rousey. I posted the GIF of Rousey getting KTFO by Holly Holm, but I didn't when Amanda Nunes finished Ronda in less than a minute. Mistake rectified:

Fairly easy to forget that match tbf.

I hope you're vaccinated if the prescription is Dirty Player.

Well, Ronda is a multi-millionaire, so she doesn't really have to do anything after wrestling if she doesn't want to. She's also a star outside of the wrestling world, and could probably see out her days doing movies and TV and other media stuff if she so desired. Regardless, it was my understanding that she was done full-time, but would still be a part-timer going forward. What exactly that means I'm not sure, but it suggests to me that she'll at least be coming around for the big shows, and will probably be, at minimum, on a Lesnar-like contract. Try as I might, I can't forget about Lesnar, so I doubt the WWE Universe is going to forget about Ronda anytime soon. As for why WWE would want her? Well, she's a star who gets them mainstream attention, which is pretty much all Vince seems to care about. She's also picked up wrestling quicker than just about anyone ever in her first year, and really can only get better if she so desires to do so. WWE may have the ability to fuck just about anything up, but if they can't promote a Ronda comeback as anything more than the return of a washed-up MMA fighter who lost the big one at WrestleMania then they're not even worth talking about any more, let alone watching.

Um, no. It hasn't been swept under the rug, it's been completely overshadowed by the nonsense of Ronda's bullshit.

Who will be the 4th person to post this?

Only if the pool explodes like in FMW

KISS acronym: Keep It Simple Stupid. Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch don't like each other and want to settle it in the ring. No need to add unnecessary shit.

Btw, CHARGE YOUR PHONE!

Fun fact, in my original Shimmer watching when I really fell in love Rebecca Knox there was a wrestler I couldn't stand in Cindy Rogers. She was incredibly boring technical wrestler, and I'm a John Walters fan. My biggest problem with her is that she did the worst thing someone who isn't charismatic can do: try to be charismatic. She was a super boring face, so in other to spice it up they turned her heel. Her idea to work heel? Wear a ring jacket. That was basically it. So it became a running joke with me and my Shimmer fan friends of the Cindy Rogers version of charisma: "Look at me, I have a ring jacket!" Shorly afterwards, my RoH fandom was hitting the pits to boring strikes dudes. Tyler Black was positioned to be there guy. Problem is he was boring. Like. Super boring. So what was his response? Wearing a baseball cap. That is who Seth Rollins is to me, and he somehow hasn't really changed in a decade.

Have they signed him for talent relations, or for commentary? Hopefully he's just office. I mean, if you were to tell a young aspiring wrestler in the late 90s that one day he'd have a match be called by Jim Ross, he'd be happy. But then when you told him Ross would pronounce his name wrong every time he said it, perhaps less pleased. Marty Shurll and all that.

FTFY ;). Going to be different with no NXT TakeOver and SummerSlam in NY.

It's so dumb. I think the number is actually a bragging thing as in "look how many years we have been we have been doing this!".

Yeah, if Kairi Sane doesn't get to have her version of Rusev On A Tank by commandeering the Buccaneer Boat then Wrestlemania 36 has already bombed.

“KHAAAAAN”

When I was sick there was one thing on this planet that motivated me to feel better. It wasn't my wife. It wasn't my kids. It was TERRY FUNK~! Get well soon DEAN.