The folks over at LAW berated the act for bringing comedy to the title picture.

Who the fuck listens to that?

A buncha fuckin dinks who jerk off to cornette rants do not speak for the masses

Comedy draws more than people think.

It just actually has to be funny which most attempts by the wwe are not.

Its basically the reason the Hardys are back in WWE. Fashion Files have been great and Smackdown has can be knocking it out of the park with the skits between them and Total Divas BS.

The tag match @ Backlash was great, especially because of the comedy. The Uso's played their part well too. It was a good change of pace and the mop trip actually made me laugh out loud.

Also Chris Jericho just had one of his best WWE runs in years based mainly in comedy.

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I feel bad for Patrick Clark

That gimmick is DOA even in nxt

Not sure about that... Not much different than "Prince Pretty"... True talent will rise no matter what....

Funny don't draw money

I'm all for it if it ends when the bell rings. The mind games negatively effecting the wrestling in the ring of the people performing it doesn't work for me. Goldust's act never hindered his ability to effectively wrestle.

ERAG matches are world wide :cool:

Jinder's theme sounds like a remix of Hunico's to me. Mostly because of the rap cadence.

Well it's a good thing the world champ isn't throwing pies in people's faces then.

Is it safe to assume that Akam might become WWE Champion in the future since Jinder did :?:

It's probably more likely that Jinder will feud with Ho Ho Lun.

No. Why would you think this?

I just caught Jinder's ceremony from Smackdown...I love his new theme and video/staging. It actually got me really excited for this old school "foreign villain" championship reign.

"Hey let us use the Broken Universe"

"Ok let us use Cody Rhodes name and ADRs name"

I've not really been following this whole "broken" WWE vs Impact thing... how come Matt Hardy doesn't own the rights to the gimmick? Didn't he start off doing it himself, away from TNA?

Nah he's tried a few "out there" gimmicks on the indies but not Broken Matt. He created it but TNA were the platform it debuted on.

And TNA are saying that his contract says that TNA owns any characters or gimmicks that appear on their show.

Had Matt worked the gimmick on the indies he could argue for prior use rights.

I just have a feeling it's never going to make it to WWE. They're still teasing it but TNA don't want to sell it and WWE don't want to lease it.

If it ever does work out it might be long after interest in the character has died.

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Hey, that's Bayley's move!

Seems to be a mix of nobody trademarked the gimmick while it was happening in Impact and like BrotherVito said, Impact pulling a WWE by claiming any gimmick/character used on their shows belongs to them. According to the sheets, trademarks only started getting filed around March.

WWE had a similar problem with Ryback recently in regards to the character which is why they tried to have his trademark filing rejected after he left and Ryback legally changing his name to fight back.

And not even as good as that Japanese lady.

WWE acknowledging Asuka's streak.

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According to the Observer, WWE's Creative is currently out of ideas for why there have been a lot more multi-man matches than usual recently.

They don't want to start possible SummerSlam stuff early nor have any real idea on what to do in the meantime so they went the lazy route with meaningless stuff going on right now.

End result is the hits RAW and Smackdown in general have been taking with viewers and ratings these past few weeks.

Seems like there have been a lot of multi-man matches for years. This isn't a new thing.

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Yeah the trend itself is not new, just it being the usual sign of when the WWE gives up and rather just wait till they get closer to a big event/phase to start meaningful stuff. Seen bad when its not happening during their down period or with too many shows in a row.

PWI had an article recently about a similar issue when trying to explain WWE's recent struggles. One of the topics focused on WWE's booking and their bad habit of wasting a lot of time that could have been used for trying more new ideas or building up people better.

No, but they have a very disconcerting obsession with the number 5 lately. I think someone nerds to stage an intervention for Vince and convince him to start attending Fiveaholics Anonymous meetings. It's like other organizations that treat addiction but with less steps than you might think.

P.S. - If you think it's a 5-step program, it's not. It's actually a 3-step program, and you too, (poster name here) may need to check yourself in.

2 weeks from now, she will have matched you-know-who for number of days with a title at 434.