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Continuing the recent welcome trend of bringing back delisted collections, the Wargames and 80s Ric Flair collections are back.

Its a real shame they had those injuries last year, each time when they were on the cusp of a push. The main roster can be a harsh place.

You weren't the only one to do that. Previously undone household chores are grateful for Raw's vast amount of filler. That said, Constable Corbin could be amusing. They may as well have Roman become Kurt's lackey and have CONSTABLE CORBIN vs DEPUTY BIG DAWG.

WWE has launched a new Performance Center site.

The latest episode of Sheamus's ongoing series Celtic Warrior Workouts (in which he does various superstars' gym routines, from Rusev to Alexa Bliss) is quite good. He tries out Charlotte Flair's leg workout, with the video also featuring cameos from Daniel Bryan and Becky Lynch. Ep 34: Charlotte Flair

Fair take. His promo style worked perfectly on Talking Smack.

I think its basically one of those shows where you can't go home again. Its a shame there's only 50 odd episodes in the original three seasons, but in these sequel seasons they haven't been able to recapture what made it special.

It is indeed. Speaking of Hidden Gems, looking forward to today's uploads. The only match confirmed so far to my knowledge is a 1984 Ric Flair-Jack Brisco match from Georgia Championship Wrestling.

At least Baron can slide in and out of the ring real quick.

Recently finished Primo Levi's The Truce in a new translation as part of the splendid Complete Works of Primo Levi[/i ]box. It, [i]If This Is A Man, and The Drowned and the Saved (in a different register) are such powerful books.

July and August releases for Criterion UK: King of Jazz (July 9th) F for Fake (July 30th) sex, lies, and videotape (August 6th) Smithereens (August 27th)

Abbi Jacobson's character on the upcoming Matt Groening show Disenchantment has been revealed

Sasha Banks won the last open slot in the women's match this week, with Samoa Joe winning the last open slot in the men's. I'm simultaneously happy that Sasha is is and disappointed that Ruby isn't, she's been on a roll over the last few months.

Liked Mandy's performance against Asuka (including a swank-looking inverted suplex) and looking forward to Becky/Charlotte next week, who in a rare show of continuity did not enjoy Paige's attempted PCB reunion. Not a standout episode on the whole, but SDL of late has had a very enjoyable pace, and has returned to virtually everything having purpose rather than the filler-packed show it was for much of 2017. Even the early Paige segment addressing Mandy/Sonya and the Cass/Joe/Bryan triple threat was a good example in that it briskly dealt with two feuds at once, and thankfully Paige is better at acting than Kurt Angle currently is. And yes, f**l Big Cass. All this effort to make him seem like a big deal but fans just don't care. He's the male Carmella.

Really felt the gauntlet had some issues even besides it being so similar structurally to the one they did last year, though I was glad that Ruby impressed again. (She's been on a roll since her title match at Fastlane.) I thought they needed another ten minutes or so to make it feel less rushed, and feel the crowd would have been more into it if they had Mickie and Bayley swap places. Gives Mickie a couple of quick wins to fire up the hometown crowd, and at least raises the possibility of Bayley/Sasha to make Ruby's win mean more. As for the show in general, Raw's really been frustrating me since the Shakeup. For a while they'd been running shows that were quite well-paced for being three hours, and usually had at least something compelling, but of late they've been filler city. I know they didn't get the best choices in the Shakeup, but its been disappointing to see how lazy the writing has been. Sure Seth's been consistently strong, but its not enough to carry whole episodes.