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According to WWE canon, Husky Harris and Bray Wyatt are separate people so that wouldn't be an issue. I'm just not sure that Barrett's character would settle for being #2 to Bryan after leading the initial incarnation. Sure, but most adult WWE fans kinda remember it's the same guy and anything that reminds them is bad. So it is an issue. You can't ban the Nexus from ever being mentioned again because one of its participants was repackaged. That's just silly. There's a difference between never mentioning something and doing a redux, and it's just silly to pretend there isn't. They certainly don't talk about Nexus much, and rightly so imo. Nexus more or less got retconned out of existence after CM Punk won the WWE Title from John Cena anyway.

According to WWE canon, Husky Harris and Bray Wyatt are separate people so that wouldn't be an issue. I'm just not sure that Barrett's character would settle for being #2 to Bryan after leading the initial incarnation. Sure, but most adult WWE fans kinda remember it's the same guy and anything that reminds them is bad. So it is an issue.

According to Jericho, Cena realised that he should have put Barrett over at Summerslam pretty much as soon as the match was over. The problem with a Nexus reunion is that you have a guy like Bray Wyatt who was in Nexus as Husky Harris. Now if TNA goes under, then I'd maybe look to rush Bobby Roode through developmental and have him lead a similar style group of guys who are 'above this NXT shit' - Roode, Storm, Devitt, KENTA, maybe Joe and some others. I'm sure they'd fuck it up, like all invasion storylines - but it could be fun.

The moment Brock signs a full-time deal than I'm in. Until that time, that can't be his role. Besides, Punk already went toe-to-toe with him - the Taker win has built his mystique back up again, but his role is ultimately to put people over.

Confirmation that square-end knit ties are now officially BOSS. P.S. And we'll have Nathaniel Clyne as well please, Ronald!

Ultimately Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton cashed-in on knocked-out guys, so anything is possible. The issue is how to do a cash-in without putting sympathy heat on Lesnar; if Lesnar wins clean tonight that makes it harder. With Cena being off house shows (at least) whilst he films 2 movies, and Lesnar not doing house shows, and Daniel Bryan out indefinitely, I don't see them holding out on a Rollins cash-in until next year. Rollins cashing in on Brock will be something else, but Miz cashed-in on Orton so I think it's on. Edging into fantasy booking but I could see Orton punting Lesnar over who the real 'Legend Killer' is or something, given that Orton/Lesnar is a fresh match and one that I think could work well. Orton's heel run is dead anyway, and they could do with a fallback babyface at this point.

For the record, the UK bookmakers predict: Lesnar over Cena Reigns over Orton Stephanie over Brie Rollins over Ambrose Wyatt over Jericho Miz over Ziggler Swagger over Rusev AJ over Paige That seems like too many heels going over in major matches, yet I think Paige has to go over if her feud is to continue with AJ and I don't see them running with anything else. I'll believe Cena's jobbing when I see it and not before. I'm not convinced they're going to put the belt on a part-timer, and I'm not sure you can have Rollins cash-in on Lesnar without one of them turning babyface - too soon for the former, not a good use of the latter (Heyman and Lesnar are awesome heel promos).

Reigns is featured last on the Smackdown intro sequence - that's a pretty big clue that he is the guy they're pushing.

Man, I swear one day we're actually going to see Grado in a NXT shirt shaking hands with HHH.

Staying in Denmark, I have just joined the Network. I like to put a smile on HHH's face. Clash of the Champions I for starters.

I don't doubt he's let go of the diet a bit, but most of us aren't going to look very good from that angle.

I really liked Oskar Blues G'Knight Imperial Red - but I'm wary of drinking American beers with the distance they have to travel. Victory Hop Devil wasn't quite what it claimed to be on this side of the Atlantic, though was still tasty. The Two Roads Road 2 Ruin DIPA was better. I can certainly review Mikkellers if there's interest.

Welcome to Jazz Club.

Last one a bit blurry, but you get the point - Copenhagen is awesome!

I am now residing in Copenhagen. I'm working quite a nice contract which means I'll be staying in a hotel and drinking some of the best beer the world has to offer (principally Mikkeller, but I had some Polish craft beer yesterday) for 6-9 months, with paid for trips back to London every month. If I'm lucky, I may also get to go to Budapest afterwards.

Booker T suggests not much because Hogan thought it was funny - it clearly wasn't racist anyway, if anything it put over Hogan.

Or, y'know it's two happily married people having fun with their acting job. That's why Reed wrote 'in the storyline'. Christ.

"Yes, Vince?"

Strictly speaking, I think Devitt is wearing a slim rather than a skinny tie. With the new dress code enforcements, KENTA is actually pointing the way with his unstructured patch-pocketed jacket and buttondown collar

This was July!

So are The Mechanics a parody of the mid 90s 'occupation gimmicks', a rib on Steve Austin, or both?

The Swagger push is just a holding pattern for Rusev. I believe, in actuality, Outsiders did one clean job where the decision wasn't reversed the next night - against the Steiners 2/22/98 in El Paso, Texas. Scott turned on Rick two weeks later and Outsiders got the titles back.

Dissastified with the current product. Upset certian things aren't up yet, Nostaliga trip over, realization that the Attitude Era was actually really embarassing, didn't realize that you need a decent connection at worst to get it, upset that its not all in glorious 1080p 60fps HD, bored with it, realized that they no longer used it after that initial Mania push, canceled because they're joining Cibernetico's Class Action Lawsuit because a couple "fucks" got bleeped out of old ECW PPV's, thus its not uncensored like they promised... I actually think they undercharged for it. They should have charged 10$ just for the new PPVS and another 10$ on top for the archive (but only if you get the PPVs, otherwise 15$). I think they showed a real lack of confidence in the value of their product.

I won't buy it quite as hard. When someone gets natural momentum and you throw it away, there's no guarantee it's coming back. You could still push Ryback, but would it be exciting? No. The people who won't buy it are the people who *don't* buy it, who don't watch etc. This idea that there's a block of wrestling fans who will watch no matter what is very silly. People who say it's fine to do lots of jobs because they can be rebuilt etc need to point at someone that's worked for. And don't even think about saying Daniel Bryan, because he really didn't ever do that many jobs. CM Punk? Yeah kinda, but only because he had a moment where he got to shoot on everybody (indeed Daniel Bryan got really over by beating the shit out of the Shield, upping his wrestling style from 100 -> 200mph and then beating John Cena at Summerslam). When (and if) Cesaro gets to beat John Cena clean in the middle, we'll see. Cesaro really isn't fine, he's got a lot of problems. Like most of the jobbed out roster. If jobs don't matter, why did wrestling promoters go to such efforts to protect their main-eventers? Or even their midcarders. Jobbers do jobs, and heels - for money.

The common man thing is a complete false flag. The common man doesn't have any money - Walmart and the merging Dollar chains are struggling because their customer base's paychecks have shrunk or disappeared. Same reason many working-class bars have closed and TV advertising just isn't interested in that demographic. Additionally, appealing to the common man can often mean alienating other demographics when you have Austin giving Stunners to Stacy Keibler. Beyond the above, I think the issues are systemic. WWE without competition was always going to be problematic and they've slowly ran themselves into the dirt. Vince should have really given Shane WCW to run as a vaguely separate entity. But he wanted to WIN and be the only game in town. He's now the last buggy whip manufacturer. Throw in the death of PPV, the rise of YouTube and Video-on-Demand and it's looking tough out there. Completely overexposing the product and the roster with 7-8 hours of TV per week (including a 3 hour RAW) doesn't help any - even Lesnar/Cena is a retread at this point.