Having personally met her and her parents this Saturday I'm more than qualified to hate her and her parents.

Was listening to Busted Open go on about the entire Becky Lynch storyline has a huge "yeah..but" next to it. Becky won the rumble. Yeah but she tapped out to Auska and her entering the Rumble was totally a heel move in retrospect. Becky Lynch won at Mania .yeah but she didn't have Rondas shoulders down and she brought in a table which is another heel move.

My theory is eventually Becky will turn heel on everyone for good and say she used the fans to get the titles. Now that she has two belts she doesn't need the fans

Did Izzy speak ill of Joe Flacco or something?

Oh! What was the interaction like?

I don’t really buy into that. WWE always has faces doing heelish stuff nowadays. That’s just how Vince books.

Did she say something mean to you?

Well if you remember they tried to turn her heel originally and it backfired. I don't know who she could turn heel on that fans would care and be mad about it but the whole storyline arc could go back to the failed heel turn and her claim she used the fans

Fightful did some math figuring out how much it would cost WWE in medical and benefits per year if all of their current talent were classified as actual employees.

Based on their math, it would come out to about $28.5 million per year or roughly 25% of what they made in net income last year. That percentage will shrink by a considerable amount once their new tv deal kicks in.

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https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/w...ker-conditions

This is a great question that I believe deserves its own thread.

That’s not really an excuse. The Asuka stuff, weak build and fucked finish are definitely possible dampers.

Just watched this, really good!

she didnt say anything to me but its just how she wenr from cute little kid who loves bayley to shes taking wresyling lessons and selling her own Izzymania merchandise

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Some people want to be firefighters, doctors... My daughter chose pro wrestling.&quot;<br><br>Here's how 12-year-old <a href="https://twitter.com/ItsIzzyMania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ItsIzzyMania</a> became a viral sensation and why she wants to headline <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrestlemania?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrestlemania</a> <a href="https://t.co/s0Lvz63huH">pic.twitter.com/s0Lvz63huH</a></p>&mdash; TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1114679814039003142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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she just comes across wrong to me, I dont care what everyone else thinks

Looks like the next call-up for the main roster got revealed from tonight's NXT tapings.

:y::y:

I'm hopeful.

Just did a quick count of the matches I attended this weekend:

NXT Pre-Show TV Taping: 3 matches, 8 participants
NXT Takeover New York: 5 matches, 14 participants
Pancakes and Piledrivers 3: 9 matches, 50 participants
G1 Supercard Pre-Show: 2 matches, 37 participants
G1 Supercard: 10 matches, 32 participants
WM 35 Kickoff: 4 matches, 53 participants
WM 35: 12 matches, 37 participants

TOTALS: 45 matches, 231 participants

And of the 231 participants, the only ones I saw more than once were Kairi Sane, Candice LeRae, Aleister Black, and Ricochet.

Fucking hell.

lol

Scott Hall saying in the Randy Savage doc that he'd bang Randy if he was a chick was funny

Austin Creed represents our souls.

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Creative team member Robert Evans (former indy wrestler Archibald Peck) was apparently fired at the gorilla position during the HOF ceremony because one of the speeches he wrote included praise for Vince.

Vince notoriously hates being mentioned during HOF speeches and it's a 'golden rule' to not bring him up so I could see it.

Road Dogg has quit as head writer of SmackDown

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Whoa! I hope this wasn't due to the HOF controversy.

Yeah, that seems like something a writer would know.

Road Dogg moving out is something I kind of expected. He doesn’t perform well in the role, doesn’t seem to handle the stress, and the show is about to go “big time.” I can see Road Doggy Dogg doing agenting or stuff in developmental.

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Road Dogg apparently couldn't take the last minute booking changes, like the Hardys over the Usos

They should bring MVP in to manage The Street Profits.

Road Dogg going out is great news for Smackdown.

Get the other guy back in charge and let's get Brand Blue back to the show it used to be when it went live.

Is it just me or does it seem weird that Vince doesn't like praise during the HOF? Just doesn't seem like him. He's the kind of guy that will toot his own horn just for the sake of tooting his own horn.

Apparently WWE has been slowly ditching the use of buttons in favor of velcro for their belts with the Universal belt being the most recent one changed.

Supposedly it started around this year's Elimination Chamber event and a reliable source thinks its due to WWE not bothering to scale their designs to factor in smaller waists and wrestlers.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Switching the belt fastenings from snaps to velcro is the worst thing WWE did this weekend and nobody's talking about it. <a href="https://t.co/dJITFNYopV">pic.twitter.com/dJITFNYopV</a></p>&mdash; Velveteen Breen (@wiretap804) <a href="https://twitter.com/wiretap804/status/1115619372415049728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No official reason. Logic would lead towards the belts being larger and the wrestlers holding them being smaller. The belts should really be scaled properly. We saw the influx of velcro belts start after Elimination Chamber.</p>&mdash; BeltFanDan (@BeltFanDan) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeltFanDan/status/1115947701131202561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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For Vito:
https://www.cameo.com/mandysacs

Scott Steiner is on Cameo as well

https://www.cameo.com/v/j8n2qcCu-

Apparently Pat McAfee almost quit WWE the day of WrestleMania because Micheal Cole caused a big backstage incident with him. According to McAfee it all revolved around him wearing suit-style shorts for the event and only Cole flipped out when he saw it. Cole only backed down from his verbal bashing once Vince saw the shorts and loved McAfee's look.

A former NXT announcer has been telling stories of how bad Cole is backstage to work with based on his personal experience.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cole is a straight shooter, but he has a ridiculous and irrationally non-sensical temper. <br><br>I got yelled at for taking a selfie at the Axxess set (which was the same live event set for house shows) I got yelled at for being scruffy on the plane to Mania.. <a href="https://t.co/tYR1mNuIB0">https://t.co/tYR1mNuIB0</a></p>&mdash; Alex Del Barrio (@alexdelbarrio) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexdelbarrio/status/1116066923652034560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LOL! He's the most defensive person ever... until he's on headset....I was on headset at the Rumble and hearing him call Vince &quot;sir&quot; was surreal considering the way he carries himself</p>&mdash; Alex Del Barrio (@alexdelbarrio) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexdelbarrio/status/1116070087415484417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthridgeHigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SouthridgeHigh</a> student's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> style <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RKO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RKO</a> attempt on principal matter of humor during his bond court appearance <a href="https://twitter.com/FernandoG_T51?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FernandoG_T51</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Telemundo51?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Telemundo51</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/caughtoncamera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#caughtoncamera</a> <a href="https://t.co/5KzH7F7ug2">pic.twitter.com/5KzH7F7ug2</a></p>&mdash; JRodriguez (@JRodzMIA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRodzMIA/status/1116427605891219458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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I love how Kalisto's wife wears a mask too.

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery...4830d8954e.jpg

Also, Sonya is doing well for herself.

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery...3795169488.jpg

Billy Corgan was there as well

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery...3badc1a8f8.jpg

Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Abyss as well.

Apparently NXT's Donovan Dijakovic could end up in some hot water based on a tweet that ended up giving off white supremacy vibes due to interpretations of its meaning.

The tweet by itself comes off as just the stereotypical heel upset over how life has changed in the US compared to the old days but ends up taking a darker tone once you consider a certain person he tagged and his newest feud in NXT based on recent tapings. The "purifying" part comes off even worse when you factor in recent real life instances involving white supremacists.



Dijakovic realized he messed up big time and quickly deleted the tweet instead of trying to defend whatever he meant with it.

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Am I the only one that doesn't think that has anything to do with white supremacy?