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To put in perspective my comments about the time wasted on WWE shows: the first match didn't start until around 15 minutes in on both nights. I don't understand how people can sit through this. Also, making the wrong call in both potential crowning moments for women that aren't The Same Four Women? Ridiculous.

Damn, y'all, were your expectations low enough? "The best possible use of Taker" if he has to be there is this, I guess, but the best possible use of Taker is sending him home and never having him work a match again. I'll go ahead and say again that the biggest problem in WWE is the amount of video packages, replays, and absurdly long intros and exits. They waste SO much of their time. Literally nothing happens quickly in WWE, and it's so fucking boring. The opportunity cost of having that much filler in every single show is very high. Also - licensing music is awesome, and it's a great way to add to bigger shows - right up until the time they dub it over for replays on the Network. If you want to use them, that's great. PAY for them. If you're just going to overdub them later, don't use them in the first place.

Jesus, that guy never ages, does he?

I think he's trying to turn the "push" thing into a Prichard-style running gag.

Douglas James is the exact kind of wrestler that every major organization needs to stay away from at this point. LOVED the kayfabe explanation of Killer Kross's departure. Don't like MJF babyfacing in his promo, but he's on the way out so I guess it doesn't matter too much. Mancer is a star. AEW needs to pick him up before WWE starts paying him to sit at home.

...and remember folks, that's just a sneak preview of some of the horrible ideas that could come out of this.

The tag titles being decided in a three-way singles ladder match literally made me start laughing at my screen.

That makes more sense. Otherwise I'd have figured he would have declined the call and said "We're entertainment, pal."

I think Cornette is a big reason why Dave didn't get interviewed. Not because he actually tried to prevent Dave from being on the show (you'd think if he had that pull, he'd use it on Russo first), but because a lot of the interview with Dave would have been him putting things in historical context, and all of those questions can be answered by Cornette. If they can get Corny to cover that ground, they can cut the cost of having to fly out a crew to California to interview Dave.

MLW does a video for their PWI rankings that would indicate that policy is still in place.

Bunkhouse and the Gigolo teaming with Boogie? Come on, y'all

I meant 5 months since Dynamite's debut. The Dark Order stuff took a *while* to build. If what we get for our wait is the 2020 version of Billionaire Ted vignettes, it's kind of a weak payoff IMO.

The "yawn" stuff was a thinly veiled reference to Vince's reported hatred of sneezes. Whether you're one of the ones enjoying these segments or one of its detractors, it's very clear they're lampooning Vince. Brodie will be fine when they re-tool him and drop this horrible gimmick they've been trying to force for 5 months now.

The producer that did the majority of the talking was asked about the rumor by Conrad. He basically said it's true they're fans of Bruce's podcast, but their resources were finite and they could only interview so many people and didn't need Dave to give historical context to things when they already had the ground covered in other interviews. Conrad chimed in too and said there was no truth to it, though I'm not sure how he'd know. The guy put the Observer over as an invaluable resource for their research and then said he had called Dave to clear the air. Sounded sincere enough. I didn't really buy the rumor in the first place. Just seemed like the usual someone getting in Dave's ear to stir up shit, and Dave taking everything he hears at face value and reporting it that way.

I think it might have a lot to do with people knowing both companies are just treading water right now. We're all expecting them to do the right thing and shut it down, and we don't even know what wrestling will look like on the other side of this. Hard to get invested in storylines when we're just waiting on them to press pause.

Still weird that people keep trying to shoot down any discussion of ratings.

Conrad interviewed the producers and all involved shot the Meltzer rumor down, for whatever that's worth.

There was a second Battle Kat played by Bob Bradley.

Didn't Enos stick around after Bloom for a while solely because he could take the Steiners' asskickings?

Team Buddy looks pretty unfuckwithable.

Okay, pump the brakes: Ratings are as important as they have ever been, that is to say, not at all. However, it's clear Vince makes a number of decisions based on those numbers. If Vince decides to shut down and send everyone home because these horrible shows aren't performing to expectations, then that's a good thing and also a big news story in the wrestling world. And y'all? We need distractions right now. For basically everyone on this board, wrestling is the best possible distraction. Let us talk about it. Of course it's not important when compared to a global pandemic. If you want to see us lose our collective shit about that, that thread is in the Land of Confusion sub. It's the one named after that catchy asshole of a song. Thanks a lot for that one, by the way, @Dolfan in NYC...

Spineless motherfucker. I'm surprised he even did that much.

This may just be my personal preference, but if the World title is on a face, the secondary title should be on a heel, and vice versa. Just seems like an easier way to tell unique stories.

If they pulled Mania from the Network, they'd hemorrhage subscribers.