Knowing WWE they would just make ECIII Derrick Bateman again and he'd go back to jobbing on SmackDown.

I swear Jericho is the best on twitter during live TV events.....

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Dean Ambrose/Steve Blackman feud plz

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Well that was awkward.

Tom Phillips has a very manly chest. No manscaping necessary.

Really looking forward to Money in the Bank. Should have Rollins vs Reigns, hopefully the let the women have a MitB ladder match. Feel like AJ Styles is the only guy to give the briefcase to. In a perfect scenario Balor gets involved in New Day/Anderson&Gallows and The Club win the tag titles. Later on in the night all three help AJ grab the briefcase and Bulletproof is born.

Absolutely love the name Bulletproof.

I don't know why the New Day keeps undressing Tom Phillips. So not complaining, though.

Jack Swagger rumored to be the next one to give their notice to the WWE according to the Observer's forums. Something about a huge argument backstage and him storming out of the building happening prior to the start of last night's ppv.

Wouldn't be surprised. WWE wouldn't be any worse off for losing Swagger (or Cody for that matter).

No more swaggie time.

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I said it last night and I'll say it again. Dude has a major set.


Side note: ROFL at the "date" in the title.

the elbow ones skeeve me out way more than the back ones. elbow skin is so thin. part of the reason he got cut to ribbons there

Observer confirmed her injury is legit and likely is a concussion.

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From today's Observer Radio show about Sasha's injury.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/201...ssion-severity

Reigns could be the best heel in a long time if only they would push him that way.

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Ouch.

Funny how that move went form being a suplex into a sit out tombstone, later variations he just seemed to grab them into a tombstone position and the suplex element vanished.

He used to be so fucking good before he took all the steroids around.

I want to see Corporate Kane showing up for town hall meetings at lunch, and Demon Kane terrorizing the citizens of Knox County at night.

this. especially with seth coming back.

Swagger leaving would be entirely unsurprising. They've had absolutely nothing for him for ages.

Probably said
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Hope he goes to be a beast in Japan. He is underrated.

Well, Adam Rose is not suspended anymore. He has been FIRED!

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Dana Brooke as Ric Flair was months in the making

"WWF Did You Know"

This was a story that was out there in 1991. Hulk Hogan was on an episode of the Barbershop after Wrestlemania 7. Brutus asks Hogan what he's going to do when Slaughter sprays Agent Orange on the little Hulkamaniacs (agent orange is a poison). This caused a drop in House Show attendance because parents were afraid that their kids were going to be poisoned.
I have heard the promo and I sooooo want this to be true even though it's probably not

:lol: that is amazing if true

Isn't his entire wrestling history the WWE's developmental system? It's incredible to think of how good he could get if he went elsewhere and got some more tips from guys. He can protect himself a lot better too. Would love to see him doing a super-pro-American gaijin gimmick in Japan.

Something I thought about, what with the Wyatts being out: Luke Harper is just as important to the Wyatt Family than even Bray Wyatt.

I don't mean this strictly because of his in ring work. But, because, when Luke is healthy and Bray isn't, they still had Wyatt Family segments. With both out, you got two other guys who are healthy, but are more or less doing nothing.

Wouldn't be surprised although think at least one of the stories regarding the Hulk-Slaughter feud got debunked or was likely a fib. The one about the WWF changing Mania 7's venue because of a legit bomb threat when in reality they likely were well short of a sell-out for the original venue.

Harper is a crucial component. I'm sour on The Wyatts when Bray is there and he isn't.

this has potential to be good.

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Lol oh dear God. That should be interesting.

I was thinking about the AJ/Gallows/Anderson stuff on RAW. It seemed a little soft and almost too much of a foreshadowing. My first thought was "They're going to beat-down Styles and we're going to get him and a partner versus Gallows & Anderson at MITB." Finn Balor crossed my mind, but then I thought about John Cena needing something to do. I'm not really keen on seeing him facing Rusev again this early on. Cena vs. Del Rio is also too...meh. It's no fault of Del Rio's, but he just doesn't feel "major" at this point.

Then I thought to myself: I think Anderson was the guy saying "I hope you reconsider" or something as they were walking off from Styles -- who then lost his match clean. What if next week they have Cena cutting a promo in the ring about some unfinished business he has, then Gallows & Anderson come waltzing out. They head to the ring and start to beat on Cena. AJ Styles hits the ring and pulls them off...then he starts beating Cena too.

AJ Styles & The Club were listed as house show opponents for like Cena, Reigns & Ambrose or something. Styles deciding that maybe he does need them could be an interesting turn of events for him. Thinking of potential New Day opponents at Money in the Bank too -- and you do have to consider them somewhat of a priority for the company at this point -- Gallows & Anderson are the best fit. You can have them re-align with Styles who challenges Cena while they going after the tag straps.

Cena vs. Styles would be something special. AJ is also arguably one of the best workers in the company, so if someone can drag something out of a 60% John Cena, he's as good an option as anyone not currently in the Ladder Match. Eventually you bring in Finn Balor as the fourth man to The Club and build tensions between him and Styles.

It's potentially a lot of turns for Styles, but he's going to be cheered against Cena anyway, so it could kind of be a "shades of grey" thing, like what they were doing with Styles and Reigns. But they seemed to distance themselves from that this week on RAW. I guess you could also have Cena vs. Styles completely babyface with the ever-looming threat of Anderson & Gallows hanging over the match. I'd mark the fuck out if they helped John Cena, but that's not happening.

Thinking about what's going on, here's my ideal Money in the Bank card:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Roman Reigns (c) vs. Seth Rollins

John Cena vs. AJ Styles

Women's Championship
Charlotte (c) vs. Becky Lynch
Special Guest Referee: Ric Flair

NOTE: The Ric Flair inclusion isn't necessary, and I feel the company is done with him on-air at this point, but it'd play off the emotion this week to have Stephanie announce that due to Charlotte's actions, she's appointed him the referee. There is the emotional turmoil of Flair wanting to win his daughter's love back, him being scorned by her, the prestige of the championship, etc. Does he just call it down the middle? Is he going to screw his daughter to teach her some humility? Is he going to help her retain as a "I do love you" move?

Money in the Bank Ladder Match
Sami Zayn vs. Cesaro vs. Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Kevin Owens vs. Kofi Kingston vs. United States Champion Rusev

WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day (c) vs. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson

Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (c) vs. Randy Orton

NOTE: I'm not sure if Orton is ready to return. In the quarterly investors' meeting, Vince implied that he'd be back soon. There's very few places to insert Orton. I could see The Miz talking up the prestige of the championship and his role in the company and Orton just coming back and giving him the RKO to set something up. Simple and elegant. Orton doing for the IC Title what Cena did for the US Title last year could be pretty neat. If Orton's not ready, you can slip Kane, Big Show or Mark Henry into this role and have them play the babyface big guy that you think Miz has no chance against, but he finds a way to retain anyway. Those matches may not be pretty, but they're something different in contrast to the rest of the card, and say what you will, I do feel that they've been off TV enough for them to have that casual fan attraction on a minor level, especially against such a perfect douchebag like The Miz.

10-Man Tag Team Match
Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, Baron Corbin & The Dudley Boyz vs. Apollo Crews, Kalisto, Dolph Ziggler, Enzo & Cass

NOTE: It seems like they're setting these programs up separately, but if you run everything else, there's not really that much room for them on a seven match card. Sheamus & The Dudleys are both playing these heel thugs that want respect from the newer generation, and putting Crews with Enzo & Cass might help endear him to fans. Corbin and Ziggler could do something on the Kickoff again, but you could throw them in here for some main card shine. You can also do something with Corbin's "Lone Wolf" persona not getting along with the others. Del Rio and Kalisto are random additions, but I can imagine they want a Hispanic presence on the show. Kalisto is going to need something to rebound with after Rusev, so I can see him working some more television matches with Del Rio (I know, it's not very exciting) and they continue that tension here. It's a clusterfuck, but it gets a few prominent players on the show to highlight their stronger points. I originally had this as a mere six-man with Sheamus & The Dudleys vs. Crews, Enzo & Cass, but the inclusion of Ziggler, Corbin, Del Rio & Kalisto somewhat makes sense.

Kickoff Match
Natalya vs. Dana Brooke

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They shoulda called it the Federation of World Wrestlers. FWW

I really don't like this Flair stuff. Nobody watches wrestling for that shit.

I thought it was one of Charlotte's better promos. And if its going to get Flair off TV I'm good with it.

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gotta love the IWC.

so quick to throw someone like Ric fucking Flair to the curb. the guy should be around as long as he wants to.

of course sadly he really is just some old guy that is Charlotte's dad to these kids.

Him speaking last night was horrible. He was probably about half drunk.

That promo between Ric and Charlotte was one of the worst segments I've seen on RAW in years.

I thought it was great for Charlotte.

How? She clearly got lost and had to keep saying the same things over and over again. It was forced and obvious that neither one of them were comfortable with how it was going. She went from praise to hate to a little praise to more hate. It was utterly ridiculous and awkward. She seemed so confused out there like she didn't know if it was a promo or real. That's the problem I had with it: It was too real. They already had the issue with someone taunting her about her brother committing suicide on air a few months ago and now the writers put her in an angle disowning her father on the air? It was entirely distasteful.

Everyone in the crowd seemed to realize how horrible it was.

That's what I liked about it. It felt real and she showed a lot of emotion. I think it's time for her to drop her father and do her own thing. It did drag on a little bit but I liked it.

Seph nails it there.

I think if they would've just had her talk about "riding coat tails" and "stealing my light" instead of "personal problems, daddy issues, never home" it would've come off better.

I was digging it when she accused her father of the first two, but when she tried to get personal neither she or Ric could really handle it, and that's when it went to shit.

Exactly. It got too personal and they couldn't handle it.

The whole time I was sitting there trying to imagine how awkward Dana Brooke must have felt in that ring.

Agree but I think it needed to go there. He wasn't there for as a child why should he be there now. Got great heat for Charlotte to.

She already had heat. It's beyond that now.

She will get booed more than Reigns now. That's saying something.

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She's a heel though. She's supposed to get booed. Why is that bad?

Because they made it too real. People weren't just booing a character at that point.

I thought that segment was awesome. Brought genuine emotion out of me. Tough to do in today's WWE. Whether you thought it came out perfect or not shouldn't matter. I hate when people complain when somebody stumbles on a few words.

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:rofl:

I liked the Charlotte segment. Cool King would definitely hate it, though, since he dislikes all female rasslers who aren't Kaitlyn or Aksana.

I initially had a very different image of Sheamus "destroying" Dana Brooke tonight before I realized Becky was posting this.

I didn't watch the segment yet so I can't comment on how good or bad it was but "getting too real" seems like a nitpicky gripe. She disowned her father. It's a heel tactic. I'm not seeing the problem.

Sheamus should be eating either lucky charms or oatmeal

the charlotte promo wasn't the smoothest thing ever, but nowhere near as bad as the level of complaints i've seen today imo.

It was great. If people are upset then Charlotte did her job and did it well. She's a top heel right now along with Kevin OOOOwens.

Sort of reminded me a little bit Solo/Ren scene in The Force Awakens.

They didn't mention Reid so I don't think it went too far.

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In terms of weekly stuff, Thunder-Warriors game did more damage to last week's RAW numbers than yesterday's Cavs-Raptors game in terms of sports. Last week's first hour was stronger but yesterday didn't have the big 3rd hour drop last week had.

Basically POP TV trying to downplay them getting rid of Impact replays and their relationship with TNA souring recently.

Steele mentioned on Twitter his rehab is going to take at least 5 weeks assuming no serious setbacks.

Got hurt during the recent ROH-NJPW tour in the US.

Link to the charity fund for those interested in donating: https://www.gofundme.com/22vqm7w


Some other sheet news includes:

• Update to the Gawker-Hogan lawsuit news as the founder of Gawker is currently claiming a conspiracy against his company due to allegations of an outside source funding Hogan's case. A report from Forbes basically revealed who is funding Hogan's case and why he's doing it as payback against Gawker. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/bu...uits.html?_r=2 , http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/.../#4e32c0167805
• Also another update to the Gawker-Hogan lawsuit involves Hogan requesting Gawker to put at least $100 million in an escrow account so if they were to lose the appeal, Hogan would be guaranteed at least $100 million of the original award. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/102...orrow.html?p=1
• According to PWI, the judge for the Jimmy Snuka trial could make an official decision regarding Snuka being mentally fit for trial as early as June 1st. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/102...pdate.html?p=1
• The Adviser website had a recent interview with Charlotte with topics including how she became the leader of the Divas's Revolution and the hard work being done to change the Women's division perception in the WWE. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entert...85feac75af9368
• During a recent episode of The Not Sam radio show, former WWE writer Jensen Karp revealed some details on how Creative works in the WWE along with the average turnover for a writer's job in the company being around 3 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAg...ature=youtu.be
• WWE might have teased their plans for Cena's upcoming return in a recent poll which included feuding with Rusev for the US title as an option. All other options were not feud specific. http://www.wwe.com/polls/what-would-...s?sf26872920=1
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Cena needs to wrestle just 1 more match on RAW to tie Kane for the most matches wrestled in RAW history. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...will_tie_kane/
• WWE ring announcer Eden revealed on Twitter she is leaving the WWE after tonight. Cody Rhodes had previously teased she was going to make an announcement regarding her future very soon. https://twitter.com/RealEdenWWE/stat...85917221593088

So It feels like era of OOOOOOOOOOOOwens is over. Eden Stiles is leaving WWE. :(

No more OOOOOOOOOOOOOOWens, or YOU NITED States.

However the Championshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Era rolls on.

Just need the Rated R Sooooooooooperstar Era to make a return on Raw specials.

For now. Greg Hamilton worked the Raw after WrestleMania hyping the crowd up and announcing Lilian Garcia to the ring.

Did anyone else catch Lilian Garcia announce AJ Styles as being from "Gainsborough, Georgia" on RAW this week? I know she's a lovely person and her dad is sick, but God she fucking sucks as a ring announcer. Have her turn heel and manage someone if you want to keep her around. Put her with a heel Dolph or something.

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Man, I really wish Eugene had dumped the special needs gimmick at One Night Stand '06. He could have been a tremendous face (in ECW) or heel (RAW or SmackDown).

I had no clue the Intercontinental Title used to have a purple strap until reading the lovely weekly column by Mathew Sforcina over on Gerty's website.

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Also had no idea Goldust brought a gold strap in. Looks pretty slick.

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You saw Noid posting pictures and thought they'd be of Becky Lynch, didn't you?

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she needs to start wearing a mask

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It brought genuine emotion out in me as well. Namely disgust for whoever in creative sent them out there to do that angle. Also pity for Ric and Charlotte having to suffer through airing something as legit as that in public when they clearly weren't comfortable doing it.

And it does matter if it comes out perfect or not as well. Otherwise Roman Reigns is gold on the stick because screw the fact he stumbles on his words and repeats himself.

I am sure Ric and Charlotte were okay with doing it. Regardless, I found it boring.

I got my picture with both .......

lol why the fuck does matt hardy look like tna raven?

I know, not really a fan of the way he's speaking right now either. Basically Jeff swantond him off the top of the the titantron and now he's obsessed with putting an end to Nero (Jeff) since he returned.

Surprised he hasn't tried a TNA version of "Mattitude 2.0" or some shit.





Dude was cool when I met him at Secret's Cabaret in Fayetteville NC with Shannon Moore....we did a couple shots, shook hands and that was it.

Kind of had something like that when he was TNA Champion. Had the Matt Hardy Brand as he called it with him, Reby, Rockstar Spud, and Tyrus carrying baby Maxel.

Love me some Peyton but....

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Is this worse than Brie mode?

Need something like Victoria used to have. Venus fly trap/Poison Ivy vibe needs to come from the song.

Doesn't really fit.

Worse than Brie Mode.

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Observer on some of the possible reasons behind the push to make Smackdown a live show and TNA possibly being the biggest loser in the end.

Some updates to the Brand Split news according to the Observer and F4W. In regards to the "each brand will have a champion" part, Observer teasing the WWE is planning on bringing the World (Big Gold Belt) back.

More details regarding recent developments in the Hogan-Gawker trial: http://www.pwinsider.com/article/102...ealed.html?p=1

From a recent Observer Radio show about a new directive from Vince/management in regards to wrestlers told to stop "selling" injuries and moves to a degree during matches.


Some other sheet news includes:

• Randy Orton recently revealed on Twitter he was upset regarding Cody Rhodes sudden departure from the WWE. Considered him as one of the few close friends he had in the locker room. https://twitter.com/RandyOrton/statu...53974514814977
• Eden Stiles recently wrote a farewell letter to the WWE and wrestling on her official website. http://www.beingbrandirunnels.com/2016/05/free-yo-mind/
• Newest episode of WWE Network's Table For 3 show was revealed to have Edge, Christian, and Mick Foley as the guests.
• Newest episode of Talk Is Jericho had Ric Flair as his guest. Jericho also revealed his feelings and thoughts on the Asylum match against Dean Ambrose. http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program...93&pid=1652415
• Aparently there is a big petition or campaign by WWE's India fanbase to have Charlotte suspended due to the way she treated Ric Flair. Threats of people no longer watching WWE until she gets punished due to the cultural taboo of children disrespecting their parents in the country. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...th_indian_wwe/
• Triple H revealed on Twitter, the next NXT special will be called Takeover: The End. https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/735636638487957504