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Every time they pull that angle, I fast-forward (or in this case, just turned the show off). You can't waste my time and then give me something lesser to make up for it.

Vince sucks and I hate him

This is going to be an interesting little chunk of time. Smackdown moves to Fox innnnn October I think? It's going to be the A show because it has the biggest potential audience and probably should get the highest rating just for the channel it's on. They moved most of the people they consider their big stars (and opponents for them to beat) to SDL to load it up for that. But in the interim, Raw is still the A show with the longterm audience that expects it to be the A show, but with a B roster, so we're gonna see how that affects ratings for both shows (and also it's a referendum on TNA because the male side of the roster is sure... IMPACTFUL).

My body is fucking ready The thing I'm 100% the most curious on: How is Heyman going to handle the Raw third hour.

Sasha worries me whenever she's in big gimmick matches. She's a) willing to take horrific bumps and b) so good at selling bumps anyways that everything in those matches looks like it kills her. That one bump on the stairs nearly had Cole say "Holy shit" on air but he just managed to catch himself.

Gentleman Jack vs Chad Gable on 205 was awesome

I admit, I did watch Goldberg/Taker

Wuh oh, a developmental talent (possibly someone in their stand-in crowds) tested positive for Corona. WWE has only been temperature-testing people and not wearing masks.

The thing I don't really get: Vince McMahon isn't racist in the sense that he hates PoCs, but Vince is racist in the sense that if he thinks it will make him money, he'll do it regardless of any insensitivity unless it'll hurt business somehow, and even then, there is a certain amount of money or value where he'll stop giving a fuck even with the bad publicity. That filters down through his company, which means that for the most part, race isn't going to be an issue that's taken seriously in the backstage either way, it's just something to work the crowd with to make money. This has been true for decades. I don't know why people think Vince is the kindly Walt Disney grandfather of pro wrestling and then show up and somehow act shocked or surprised when things like this happen. It's par for the course when it comes to WWE, even down to ignoring the Gucci incident in pop culture and using that as internal lesson to avoid something like this, because upper management are old and rich and therefore don't pay attention to pop culture (or maybe in WWE's case, they think they ARE pop culture rather than just a reflection of it)

>Firefly Funhouse What the FUCK, man?

Drake's the most unexpected one to me. A deathmatch wrestler who went through plate glass windows and light tubes is heavily religious? Never would've placed it.

That era of TNA won an Observer Award for best weekly show, so you weren't the only one

"It'll be a cold day on the wrong side of the afterlife" Samoa Joe, making PG sound cool

Crying laughing

Kind of wish that was an hour or two longer. Attitude Era stuff gets a bit boring because there's only so many times you can hear the same stories over and over, but Hunter having more personal insight into Vince as a family member makes him looking back on shit like that really interesting

Focus tests on some of the WWE guys and girls

Yeah, because if Vince got mad at them, he could restrict them access to their podcasts, just like he's done with Jericho now ? Also like... the line from EVERYONE in the know, disgruntled or otherwise, is that Vince is 100% in charge, and there's so many stupid things that happen on the show and so many of the same mistakes repeated endlessly (the non-Hollywood looks guy or girl gets over instead of the hand-picked chosen one, steroid muscle-heads getting pushed for their looks alone, blonde women with fake tits getting pushed over other women, black people being used mostly as job guys, Mexican guys being mostly used for racist or racial stuff, [nationality] just playing to their stereotypes, people who don't speak fluent and easily-understood accents to American ears not getting pushed) that I'm not sure how people don't automatically put that at Vince's feet.

I think someone posted on reddit that one superplex spot had like 26 different cuts

Pirate or watch on DVR/PVR, then you can still watch their shit but not actually support them (I'm definitely down for Bray vs Braun)

Someone on reddit said that WWE has released more wrestlers this year than Impact has on their entire roster

ACH/Jordan Myles testing if WWE actually will fire anyone or not. Also apparently the NXT roster hasn't gotten their pay upgraded and some of them aren't seeing the progression they want (probably to the main roster). Oh boy

It's so weird, WWE pretends the time between Mania and Raw is a 4 month offseason like real sports and that they're just starting from the beginning again instead of recognizing they can keep the hype train going off of Mania. Or maybe they've just gotten lazy and assume "the crowd after" will carry things with wacky chants either way, so they don't have to try all that hard to do anything

Apparently they're going edgier now to make sure teens don't get into AEW.

Seth's a pretty far-end WWE fanboy anyways. Those people have blinders on to the world outside of WWE. It probably doesn't compute to him why everyone wouldn't want to be in WWE. Also the WWE itself as an entity and Vince in particular aren't known for looking at their flaws and figuring out how to correct them, they engage more in finding excuses and reasons outside of their control to explain things away. That likely filters down to their top guys too, and a fanboy like Seth is more likely to accept it because he already believes in them anyways.

RIP NXT