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How was she sold as a "beast"? Her vignettes didn't show anything other than her eyes, mouth, and hands. And her attire wasn't great but to say it was unflattering is amazingly sexist - it definitely wouldn't be said about a male of comparative size. And, yeah, maybe we do need a giant in the women's division. But I'd rather them try and get over a larger woman without taking that shortcut first before giving in and saying, "welp, here's Awesome Kong II, then".

Meltzer seems to be claiming that the TMZ story was WWE-fed/approved but that Vince was blindsided by it. Which is, well, uh...

It's hugely lazy to see a larger woman and expect her to dress and wrestle like a beast. Plus, she's made ONE appearance.

Was Eva Marie's terrible delivery of her promo part of the act? Because there's no way they could put anyone on TV who is that bad at both talking and generally moving about...

I tweeted about Becky Lynch - not @ her, about her - and He Who Shall Not Be Named replied. Wow.

I almost cried three times. Once when Cody spoke after the tournament final, another time when Izzy was crying, and then at the end. Fucking professional wrestling, eh?

I did too! Let me know when you're wearing yours so we don't clash...

My favorite Mean Gene in WCW moment was when Nick Bockwinkel, who was playing the figurehead president, issued some silly Blackburn-esque edict, and Gene replied with, "What have you been smoking, Bockwinkel?" Not when he told Sean O'Haire to "blow it out your ass!"?

Lucha Underground wasn't about matches. It was a show. If you're not going to start at ep1 and go through to Ultima Lucha you may as well just not bother. And, unless you're terminally ill, who doesn't have time for 28 hours of wrestling before they die? I hope you're not terminally ill, btw

The Paige/Sasha thing confused the hell out of me. Paige was selling/had an eye injury and then anger-speared Sasha and they fell out of the ring. They brawled at ringside and the cameramen had a stroke by the looks of it. Then, in the TV equivalent of peripheral vision, we saw another referee run down, with the first nowhere to be seen. It cut back to a wide shot and both refs were there, Team BAD ran down, and THEN the bell rang for the no contest. Confusing as shit.

And now I've edited it to preserve spoilers

Did this not happen on a house show and was Hype Bros vs Wolfe & Noah Kekoa?

Yeah, that wouldn't work. The London crowd will be from all over the country, and even if it was just London folks you have 5 top flight clubs and a whole slew of fans of Liverpool, Man Utd & Man City because gloryhunters. The best way to turn Paige would be to get her to heel on NXT - "I left this behind blah blah blah, now I've been dragged back blah blah blah"

So Fenix got kicked out of KOT for saying a swear? WRESTLING!

Added to Jarrett's database

Ooh, ooh, let me try! "For all I know, she has a (n) intricate knowledge of quantum physics and an iq that shames and embarrasses your typical MENSA member and can go from wrestling badly to discovering a way to travel between parallel universes." NXT MadLibs could become a thing. I may need to do one a week now. Please don't.

Is Boby Zavala injured? Weird that he'd win Busca and then not make the show...

If anyone going to BOLA could chant JUMP TUCK PRAY at Will Ospreay when he goes up top it would probably make his year.

Perfect to team with Ambrose & Reigns? Johnny. Curtis.

Lordy, lordy, I'm going to NXT! Got tickets for Sheffield through a pre-sale but couldn't get Wembley - the rumoured Takeover - because it all went futzed. I'm not alone it seems!

It's also really skewed towards the North, almost as if they want everyone South of Birmingham and east of Bristol to go to Wembley... Having said that, I'm going to Wembley.

COLLECTIONS THEY ALL!

I use the term "Area Wrestlers"

On the 1996 Slammy Awards (stay with me), the Best Threads award was presented by Mr TV Trivia & Fatale. Who were these people???