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Vince walks into the writer's room. "I've got a great idea for hell in the cell" writers look at their Polaroids....

This has been retweeted into my timeline 2-3 times already today. I don't actually follow Brazzers. Honest. No, seriously!

Cane Dewey. Die Rocky Die. Seth Rollins is Not Cool.

One of us, one of us. We accept you. We accept you.

are you ready for the McMahon Genome Federation?

Now is totally the time for this: Kairi can go with some kind of skull/dead pirate design.

Gannon is in Hyrule of course

There's plenty of "cool" people in WWE like The Usos and Naomi. It doesn't matter who is cool or not, the booking fails mostly everyone.

I hear the show had a monorail.

Inoki ISM LIVES!

FTFY

As a reminder Malcolm Bivens > *.

I know I'm a little late to the party, but as someone who was kind of against all this nonsense (Not a HUGE fan of the Elite, rather meh on Omega, cool on Cody, and a little contrarian when it comes to anything that has a "cool" vibe or seems overly pandering to Meltzer) and a guy who feels like he's somewhat of a WWE apologist, I watched this with an open-mind last week and LOVED it. Gave me a real Nitro vibe (Not just because of the announcers!) with lots of emphasis put on the wrestling, storylines for wrestlers up and down the card and everything came off a little less polished and little more real than your average WWE show. I'm really excited and looking forward to this week's show which is not something I've said about a WWE show in a long time.

Fuck that referee having a moral debate with Seth Rollins over a use of a weapon in a damned hell in a cell match.

I keep picturing your avatar saying this and that just makes it 1,000 times better.

I am getting a massive kick out of nerds tweeting at Oilers fans "well we will see who won the trade in a few months", no bitch, Lucic had 6 goals all of last season. Neal has 6 goals this week. This isn't rocket science math.

Loved it...top to bottom.

They should release a premium version that excludes Thor 2 and the Iron Man sequels.

With IT 2 & Joker killing it at the Box Office her doing Zombie Clown would be perfect.

I understand Dolfan's warning to keep it civil but just want to point out how incredibly sad it is that such a warning is needed for a WWE show. Won't say the obvious but I'm sure you can tell where my head's at on this. As for the show itself the 10-man tag sounds kind of neat but seems like it gives away those who will stay on their respective brands. Unless they say they'll pick people from both brands in which case nevermind. And I skipped the Hogan/Flair segment so unless I missed it I'm not seeing what incentive there is for the winning team. Do they get a bonus? A title shot of some kind? Or is it just bragging rights. It's a nothing show but fuck it may as well have some stakes in this to try and make it matter.

BONUS CONTENT: More horror movie monsters that are supposed to be scary but are actually sooooooo Cuuuuuuuuute The Green Slime Star Crystal Rat monster from Creepozoids (Full Moon) The rats in the amazingly fun Deadly Eyes: BONUS: This skeleton who is really happy to see another skeleton GET 'EM, GIRLS

Peak wrestling cool is always going to be white guys wearing Fubu and fanny packs.

Tito Ortiz is going to beat him like a fucking drum, and then celebrate like he just beat Mike Tyson in 1989.

opinion is still divided over whether it's Vince or Heyman who actually can't get enough of this shit, so the reasons for Cuckamania running wild on RAW remain unclear.

Mox needs to be a loner through all this (unless he can poach Shooter from NJ for an excursion).

Rusev deserves better. I got nothing else.

Looks like Becky vs Asuka is next.

For what it's worth, we're 20 minutes into Raw and the words "Seth Rollins," "Bray Wyatt," and "The Fiend" have not been mentioned or even really alluded to.

The minute they decided to name PPVs after gimmick matches is when the gimmicks were destroyed. Gimmick matches should always be administered to elevate feuds, they upended the element of surprise. Money in the bank works because the entire concept is working toward that element of surprise. It's by far the best concept they have.

IMHO a referee stoppage is a TKO and a decisive finish. That's not what happened here. And also, it's a Hell in a Cell match. When has a HIAC ever been stopped for use of a weapon like that? And also the referee having a moral argument with Seth Rollins like he's a fucking superhero talking down Punisher or Wolverine from killing someone.

Pretty much what Alvarez was saying. It really is some remarkable arrogance.

you're all crapping on that main event but they developed some sick photos during it

Shawn Michaels was wearing assless chaps and dancing to ''Sexy Boy'' well into his 40's. The idea that the Bucks (Nick only being 30) are somehow middle aged is such a dumb talking point that I'm not surprised it's hatched in this thread.

AEW Dark, and NWA Power. I can’t believe the first wrestling of the week I watch is exclusive to streams.

Exactly. Bret vs. Austin at WM13 was a ref stoppage (and one that actually protected and even helped the loser, but that's another story) all the physical/non-verbal cues they gave the audience lined up with what wrestling has spent decades and generations telling its audience is a DQ finish. As for the verbal cues, well, that's the problem, there wasn't one. You've got ring announcers for this sort of thing. Use them. Debating whether it was a ref stoppage or a DQ is almost beside the point. Or perhaps it is the point. There was no official announcement. They did not deign to tell their paying audience what the finish was. Nor, it seems, did they deign to inform their promotional partners since FOX had to make an ultimately incorrect guess in that since-deleted tweet. If you want a mystery or to keep the live audience in suspense about the decision, sure you can have a delay. Or have a huddle of referees have a spirited discussion with wild gesticulation like they're having a serious argument. But you pay it off for the paying audience. What do they always do after a baseball or football game or whatever? The Public Address Announcers announces the final score, no matter how apparent it is. It's part of the presentation. Kayfabe may have gone out the window long ago but wrestling still presents as a sports-like product (hence the "sports" in sports entertainment) Hell, even the "we create moments, pal!" should remember how many of those moments involved the official announcement. Howard Finkle's "...and NEW champion!" is as memorable as the matches themselves. If you're that worried the audience is going to react badly to the official announcement of your fuck finish, maybe that's an indication you should rethink your fuck finish. The crowd was already shitting on the finish. Saying "the ref has stopped this match and awarded it to Seth Rollins" wouldn't have made it worse, and wussing out and saying nothing sure as hell didn't mitigate anything.

I always like how "Hollywood" John Tatum when from being from Hollywood FL to Hollywood CA.

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You think there's a kid in America who's dying wish is to meet Seth Rollins?

How do you get disqualified in hell? With vince's pop culture lag, you' de think he'd have read dante's inferno by now. It's only been 700 years