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I'd say it's even money at this point. Although I cut him a lot more slack before I realized he was in his early 30s.

Shahid Khan is Pakistani-American, not Saudi. This map might help.

If you want to pick nits, they billed it as a "coffin match", not a "casket match."

They haven't really done this sort of finish before, but they could have Miro get disqualified for excessive violence, giving Fuego a win (and thus a contract) without the title. But I don't think they'd go that route based on how they've booked in the past.

Mims? I wondered what he was up to after "This is Why I'm Hot"

Mark Henry is on there, man, don't worry too much. It could be something as simple as "We only want one white-face-painted guy on here, and Sting is more recognizable."

If the Acclaimed was in serious danger, they wouldn't be booking Bowens on Unrestricted. They'd keep him out of sight for a while. Remember, they used a Shot of Brandi to progress the Dark Order/Rhodes feud.

No matter how much it hurt, it would be nothing compared to what would happen if he vomited on Dr. Death.

Who's the top-left guy with the shaggy bowl cut?

Isn't it just a coaster?

I'd say this is unfathomable, but I don't think anything short of Orton or Reigns would surprise me now.

Well, there was a stretch where she wasn't in the title picture. Sure she was out with a medical issue, but still! When she wasn't there, people should have been asking "Where's Charlotte?"

Wait til they start banning chants. Only company-approved crowd noise, helpfully provided by the production team!

Or the show nobody watches gets more than 1/4 the viewers Monday Night Raw does. I'm not arguing that it's a flagship show or that being on it is as good as being on Dynamite - those are both obviously false - I'm just pointing out the hyperbole. I will admit, though, I'm not the best to take up an alternate position because I don't get Dynamite where I am.

For the record, last week's episode of Elevation is currently at 464k views.

This main event on Elevation is gooood. And Crockett is really loving it.

Which is crazy, since they're the ones who decided to push him as one. "We don't see you as a singles guy. So we're going to break up the tag team you're in and give you the Money in the Bank briefcase."

It's never. I know they haven't been shy about referencing wrestling history or bringing out names from the past, but Bray would be dragged down by bringing in Sullivan. It's not like having Jake with Lance Archer while the crowd familiarizes itself with him, or having Tully accompany Shawn Spears. Bray is a former world champ, a man who beat John Cena, and a man who was one of the WWE's biggest merch sellers for a while. He doesn't need to be some other guy's crony. The amount of rehash-our-youth fantasy booking we get up to here is truly astonishing.

You know, if they're going to pull more than one labour from memory lane for Jericho (and I'm not convinced they are, it's only 1/3 so far), they've already got a former tag partner of his doing commentary on Elevation...

As far as benefiting from the pandemic shows, Drew MacIntyre managed to parlay a "Thank God someone got rid of Brock Lesnar" pop into several months in the main event.

Mick Foley accidentally called him Wade Bryant once. Not the worst name - better than the FTR ones - but maybe a bit to "Scott Nash" / "Randy Hogan". Too bad he doesn't have an established indy name to fall back on like Mox, Black and Brodie Lee did.

"Attacked by pizza cutter?" That should be "Attacked with pizza cutter." What has the standard of copy editing come to? Unless Gage has a side gig, well, cutting pizzas.

What about the Punk match? I guess technically he was distracted by Laurinitis et al, but I'd argue the effect was the same.

What sort of condition is Lance Storm in? The Thrillseekers explode!

I'm gonna guess it's not the latter in this case.