For those in Canada, Smackdown won't air live on tv tonight due to the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.

They have good matches, but I think there are people with better chemistry. Zayn has Owens' best match; but Owens doesn't have Zayn's best match. At this point, I'd like it if they gave them a break, but when you need to fill some TV time, they're good for it.

I forgot that they often team together, so they might actually end up in that Raw tag division, which I was completely naive to. Dolph & Drew, KOSZ, Deleters of Worlds, Mojo & Baron and The Authors of Pain. I mean, it's kind of juxtaposed in the head, but maybe some good will come out of it? It makes me hope that Rollins & Balor stay on Raw and team together.

Looks like FOX might have lost interest in the WWE since they just signed a joint tv deal with ESPN for UFC.

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I was looking forward to WWE moving and Raw going back to three hours. How naive of me? I can actually see SmackDown going to three hours in order to justify the increase they want from USA.

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I had no idea who this was with Pritchard for a moment. :nono:

Scott Steiner is about to do a teleconference on YouTube for Impact if anyone is interested in that. They finally gave him a mic on last week's show.

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Orlando is preparing to bid on WM again...would be really funny if it went back there again for WM36 b/c people on the internet would get 'angry'.

I think TX will definitely host WM again sooner rather than later too....AT&T Stadium seats so many people...AlamoDome was really 'well-received' when they hosted the Rumble last year, WWE said it was the least amount of complaints they ever received from fans in attendance at a stadium/dome event.

Pretty stoked to go to Mania next year

Actually, iirc WWE wants to start hosting both SummerSlam and The Royal Rumble in baseball stadiums going forward and WrestleMania in larger stadiums, so there's a lot of $$$ to be made and more fans can attend all three than ever before.

This is the last year Barclays Center gets SummerSlam, their contract to host it ends this year. Royal Rumble 2019 already booked for Chase Field in Phoenix, which seats 45,000 for baseball.

Still waiting (against hope) for a UK Mania (or any proper PPV)

Maybe the UK will get to host TeaLC soon!

Could be a Crumpets on a Pole death match!

(London should definitely get a big 4 ppv)

According to a reliable dirtsheets source, Alexa Bliss supposedly had cosmetic surgery done recently which is why she wasn't on RAW besides a pre-taped promo or traveling with the rest of the brand this week for house shows.

Me waiting for a UK WrestleMania:

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:lol: Nakamura's new gimmick as a dick puncher is really great

Orlando not joking around


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needs the old low blow bell sound effect from one of the old WWF games

This is better than their raw promos:

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Same. I thought it was Christopher Daniels.

Its ridiculously easy to get wrestling fans to buy into that whole thing no matter how globalized we may be Ed said I do hate those kind of Foreigner equals evil gimmicks

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Safe to say she's probably come the furthest from when she started in NXT to now. I totally forgot she had the fairy cheerleader gimmick when she started

the only advantage Orlando has is its like WWEs 2nd. Home now but there's no way they'll go back there before going to the new stadiums in LA and Vegas

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I got a better idea for something she can eat..

:heart: Becky

Too bad she will rarely ever be on PPVs now

I dunno, I can see her popping up. She'll be an extra in the Survivor Series and they'll need people to put over Charlotte/Ronda/whoever else is getting the push at the time.

Lol, Eli Drake is claiming that he was blackballed by the WWE for 5 years or so, and that he didn't get into developmental until his 10th in the business. It couldn't just be because you're fucking terrible, could it? Dummy! Yeah! Dummy! Fuck.