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I'm surprised during those times when Flair was on the outs with WWE and Hunter and Shawn that he didn't just start counting those other Reigns. 16 is a good number but if I was in his shoes I'd be a big enough mark not to want any of these modern era guys close to my record if I was him. Plus it would probably get people to recognize Harley Races phantom title changes and whom ever else as well

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I'm always for younger lesser experienced guys touring Japan. This situation has been poorly handled but I think him working for New Japan is great for him experience wise. It's not even been a week since the footage aired and it seems the Bucks are working him into whatever they have going on so I don't think they dropped the ball with Perry yet. The PPV is next week. If he doesn't show up by The following Dynamite or Colission then maybe it would be a cause for concern.

On one hand I'm Jey misses teaming and traveling with his twin brother but on the other hand, he probably wants to continue riding out being one of the other ginuwinly top acts on RAW and the company over all. I'm sure if the idea is to pit him back with Jimmy and Roman it's probably going to be a slow build. That match vs Jimmy exposed Jimmy even more as not being as good as Jey as a singles and probably more of a reason to get these two back together but as a Booker, if I was Hunter I'd keep Jey as a singles a little longer. They are doing great business anyway so they don't need it but with Jey being so over on his own and top selling merch I'd keep it going. I'm sure the Usos and the Bloodline with those 3 as faces would probably get over just as much. I just don't know about the Tribal Chief as a Babyface although people are probably ready for it

People are clowning Mercedes for promoting her upcoming appearances in her tweets saying she wouldn't have to do that in WWE but hey, she was obviously out bid by Tony Khan. I'm not saying she doesn't care if the houses are not close to full but it obviously meant more to get a better paying deal. I would have never expected to see her ever wrestle outside of WWE a few years ago so im loving getting to watch her wrestle outside of WWE. I'm sure she'll go back one day but I don't understand why people are upset with her choosing not to got back to WWE just because it's the bigger known promotion. Mercedes has the most loyal fans of all the women in the industry so I want to see if alot of them support her outside of WWE.

It's more recency bias with Jacob. I think people forget Tonga was even signed and Jacob being signed on the biggest week of the year for the company. I don't think it was a Swerve. It's possible they could have brought them both in but I think it's better to bring in Tonga first the way he did and let it breathe. Who knows we may get Zilla by the end of the year.

I know this isn't '98 ,'99 era WWF were you can be a completely terrible worker and still be pushed to the top but he's a much better fit in WWE than anywhere else. There's still a handful of bad workers in WWE even though they are still in a really good era in terms of workrate being high. He's not going to bring it down especially if he has people around him that's still good. 6 months ago people would have been more happy he's moved on from NJPW than concerned that he'd bring the workrate down. Plus I would assume we'll be having Jacob Fatu in the Bloodline and he's probably a better worker than Jey or Roman in my opinion. They are atleast in competition with each other as the top workers in that family ever. So I don't see Tonga ruining the waters right now.

Just over a year later , I still don't see why they couldn't have just left Solo undefeated. I know this particular use of him wasn't something they planned on a year ago but once they had him take the fall for Cody the SD before last years Mania, they made him the Pin eater of the Bloodline. Him overthrowing Roman for losing when he loses more than any of the Bloodline members is my only gripe but WWE is good at making us forget he has hardly won any matches in the past year on tv Kevin Owens acknowledging the camera is something that should have started 25 years ago or so. I love it people like Owens that are great and improvising and doing stuff on the fly are going to do well with talking segments like that like the Miz promo when he first talked about being bullied when he got to the main roster. He was on the mic from the locker room all the way to the ring. That was like '10 or '11. If he came in a year ago Tama Tonga would probably have a different name or be starting in NXT beforehand

If they don’t get any type of ratings increase,that will make it even worse but if bringing in Mercedes, Okada and Ospreay doesn’t increase ratings than i doubt Punk choking out someone who isn’t even prominently featured isn’t going to do it. Are they bringing Jack back and attempting to do something with him? They’ll have to now

Its okay if he looks like a geek if he is going to be out. He's probably going to be taking off time to heal up. He's been hurting for a minute. Not just the Knee but his back too. He's been running pretty hard. He's still out of the most over acts on the roster and he'll continue to be when he returns if he is going to be out.

This a new Era, capping it off by Saying Professional Wrestling over and Over lol

That's why I never understood the Super Cena criticism she started to get about a year or so ago. She's had a few lengthy reigns and Wins at Mania. Sure they think highly of you if you're leaving Mania as Champion but most of her reign have had no real substance as far as memorable angles. She is one of the most credible women on the roster but even the Damage CNTRL feud seems very lazy and uninspired. Outside of the powerful visual of having Noami, Jade and Bianca aligned together. I hope they do go to the Rhea vs Bianca feud they teased last year. It could be a Money match on the Women's side if they can put Bianca in some meaningful angles. The only comparison to Cena is the fact that she's a good spokesman for the company. She's is amazing at doing appearances and is a great representation for someone that didn't grow up watching wrestling. As good as she is and as prominent as she's been featured , I think they could get much better use out of her

Wasn't he cleared to Wrestle a few years ago? 90 % of the audience probably forgot or never knew he was an actual wrestler. Unless he wants to somehow work an angle as an announcer like Lawler did during most of his WWE run he has no reason to ever take a bump again. He's still young relative to the time you subtract from the time he was away from the ring. It would be foolish for him to want to start be working in the ring especially for someone who had never wrestled on the main roster

Fully agreed, if Jade spent half the amount of time that she spent in AEW in WWE without being pinned, she’d will have had quadruple the amount of matches as she had in AEW. If always been a sucker for the Goldberg like pushes. They’ve done similar things with Braun and Nia Jaxx as heels. Braun turned out to be pretty good and he was a guy that was barely on NXT tv. Nia Jaxx is a terrible example because she never turned out to get any better but she has been led to a few good matches. Before coming in to WWE she worked with Dustin Rhodes, Bryan Danielson and people like that. I think it will finally click eventually but she just needs time and she won’t be held by the hand so much as time goes on. If they keep her in tags right now on these bigger shows it’s going the best way to hid her inexperience and let her shine in doses but now have her work squash matches every week like Ryback and eventually give her more competitive matches. I seen a clip about her talking about her not being young anymore but she hasn’t even started really using that bump card. She’ll be fine and I think she still has time to get really decent at least