wwe 2021: BURNED TO A CRISP

Woof, some interesting developments on RAW last night. More of the road to Wrestlemania is beginning to coalesce. I'm just a little bit more excited about it now.

Well, Fastlane sure was, uhm, interesting.

andrade/la sombra is free

^ the extent in which i engage with this company in 2021

I am DYING for him to be ingobernable once again.

thraed tilte delivers

You right, you right.

In other news, Rhea Ripley has called her shot of fighting Asuka for Wrestlemania. Glad that I won't have to watch Asuka lose to Charlotte again. Sad that I will now likely have to watch her lose to Rhea Ripley, instead.

Hoooooooo boy, did night 1 of NXT Takeover hit me about 75% as hard as Sakura Genesis. Good tag finish, painful main event finish. Some pretty good matches, though, with the gauntlet, as well as Ciampa vs. WALTER, and KUSHIDA vs. Dunne.

Does anyone else think that Io shows up at Mania, then?

I have genuinely not paid attention to WWE in years at this point but I heard the Walter match is a must see?

Bad bunny is in WWE now. Is he bad WWE fans?

a hoy hoy: I liked the match, but then again, I really like WALTER, and I LOVE Ciampa, so I will acknowledge my biases.

Bad Bunny is okay; he's not doing any crazy spots in the ring, but you can tell that he has a love and appreciation for wrestling, and that he's enjoying participating. He also got my man Damien Priest into his WM match and turned it into a tag, so I'm glad for that push.

What the fuck happened to Vince’s voice? He can’t say WWE anymore.

This is gonna take me about three weeks to watch. Lol at this boobie woman geetar America the beautiful

If no one jumps off the boat over the two days, I’m never watching again

Most WWE start possible with the first shot of the crowd having a guy wear his face mask pulled down to his chin, mouth and nose exposed

Skipped all the rained off promos. About to start Lashers-Drew. Why don’t they do fancy entrances anymore? Rusev had a tank and Triple H had terminators at wm31. The best the world title has is a sword

gotta save that money for drones

and i don’t mean wwe diehards ayooo

The promos were great, man. Some of them were really worthwhile.

I'm convinced Kevin Owens jumps off the pirate ship.

Aw man.

Holy fuck what is John Morrison’s mullet

Awww yeah good stuff on this week's NXT on Tuesday!

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Am I the only person who thinks that this will mean that Daniel Bryan will go to RAW? Everyone's saying that he'll get an indie run, and...I just don't think that's going to happen unless he leaves the company for real. I would not mind being proven wrong, though.

i think he’ll go to nxt

Definitely would be cool for him to go to NXT, especially if NXT call-ups happen. NXT is starting to feel a little crowded, but definitely full of dream matches that I would be grateful to get...but I am hesitant to hope too much.

raw is so bad

Man, I know it isn't going to happen, but I really want Mercedes Martinez to get that gold. I just love her so much.

So, uh, I guess The Miz got eaten by zombies and technically Roman "retired" Daniel Bryan (I think I remember hearing commentary say something likt that last night)?

Triple H has been rushed to the hospital with a possible heart attack. I know I can slag him and his family off but he’s been pretty much the only thing backstage keeping WWE going for the past ten years for most fans. Then having been demoted from his own show and this, you have to feel for him.

Oh wait, I read some misreported story. He had it last week and had successful surgery.

i still don't watch wwe but i'm so thrilled that big e won the belt

Yeah I love him and glad he won! Still never gonna watch again

So the Plane Ride From Hell seems to finally making the sleaze thread and some chickens come home to roast. Should we have a new thread or is here fine?

Fuck them all.

I think there needs to be a whole episode on JBL’s bullying too.

This company has a history of toxic, disturbing and downright illegal behaiviour and if it takes a Vice documentary to really push people to talk about it, I’m all for it. I wonder what it does to Brock’s future career, most probably nothing but some slight malaise with fans but still big bookings.

WWE has a really weird history in trying to forget and edit out Benoit’s career but even with his history of locker room bullying, no one expected murder. Flair is basically the history of televised wrestling… I presume they just ignore this like they have made light of it for the past 20 years. But fans are flocking away to competition for the first time in a real way? Who knows?

Doubt it affects most of them, unfortunately. I think a lot of the general details have been known for some time, haven’t they?

WWE certainly won’t do anything differently, because of course they won’t. Looking the other way on everything from murder, rape, sexually grooming young ringboys, the pimping out of young female wrestlers, overt racism, right down to the hazing and workplace bullying, that’s always been their approach. Which is why fuck WWE and the McMahon family forever, irrespective of whatever they’re doing on their tv shows.

Flair will be the interesting one - he’d been drifting pretty steadily towards AEW but I would imagine TK will be rethinking that in a hurry. I hope so, anyway.

Yeah Andrade gonna have to find a different new manager

I wonder if they'll do anything to start distancing Charlotte from her father's name.

Another culling of talent just cut Keith Lee, B-Fab (who JUST debuted on Smackdown with Hit Row), and DBS Jr. who JUST returned earlier this year, I believe.

LIST: 2020 + 2021 WWE Releases.

Again sorry in advance if I forgot anyone. pic.twitter.com/pwaROuhKkj

— Denise Salcedo (@_denisesalcedo) November 5, 2021

If I were an NXT performer I would be petrified at getting a call-up.

Well, Survivor Series was weird. So weird that I didn't think to talk about it until now...a week later.