Thank god. Kairi’s great, and I’ve loved Mercedes since I first saw her on SHIMMER Vol. 1: she was in the co-main on their first show, and worked a time-limit draw with current WWEPC head women’s trainer Sara Del Rey. Very talented and accomplished worker: there are only three major all-women’s promotions in North America, and Mercedes is the only woman that’s been the champion in all three of them. Really hoping that she goes deep in the tournament. And yeah, I could get my whole life to a Mercedes/Kairi final.
Shayna Bayzler? Yeah, she was part of Rousey’s MMA version of the Four Horsewomen, along with Jessamyn Duke and, uh… the other one, who switched from MMA to 'rasslin, after taking too many L’s. She’s been working in SHIMMER for the last few tapings.
Definitely her. RR came out with two other ladies and when the match was over Shayna went over to them and did the 4 on their fingers.
Things and information like that make me torn. Part of me thinks “I should have looked into it more” so that I don’t sound as ignorant/stupid as I probably usually do on here. But another part of me likes the ignorance because I feel like I’m not primed to like someone in advance like I am with Kairi, Crazy Mary and Johnny Garbonzo’s wife.
Sure, put it on an hour later because of 205 Live, and then have it too-frequently co-hosted by Shane McMahon, the least interesting man in the Universe.
I didn’t usually watch it live just because of audience fatigue (they’re really pushing things with 3 hours Monday and 3.5 on Tuesday), but I always watched it at some point.
There’s a lot of speculation as to why, and time will only tell, but I can think of two reasons:
It broke kayfabe too much.
DB is slllooowwwwlllyyy trying to get out of WWE and they know people would freak out if they suddenly pulled him from TV, so they’re killing the whole thing. Sinking the ship to drown a rat if you will
I don’t know that he would try to leave before his contract is up, which is next summer I believe, as he’s making over $1 million a year as I recall. But yeah, he’s in the catbird seat and can pretty much say whatever the fuck he wants and what are they going to do? Release him?
Oh he’s clearly said some things they don’t like. I recall one episode where I think he just straight out removed his ear piece saying someone was screaming in his ear. Smiling as he did so.
WWE abandoned kayfabe already with all the behind-the-scenes shows like Tough Enough, Travel Tales, Dinner For 3, and sowon.
Maybe the cast was sick of having to stick around for an extra hour after wrapping up SD. It used to air right after SD, before it got humped back by 205 Live.
I’m telling you, despite kayfabe being dead for years, and the product being more transparent than ever, Vince isn’t liking the shows on his network being so real.
He’s just taking after his orange-hued buddy. He doesn’t mind the shows being real as long as he controls the narrative. When they stray too far away from what Vince wants, Vince pulls the plug.
Well, the story/rumor is that Vince is so blind now (physical blindness) that he is no longer travelling with shows and overseeing them. But he’s increasingly micromanaging everything by telephone. :smack:
I swear, someday someone is going to find him in his office at Titan Towers, wearing a bathrobe and kleenex boxes on his feet.
So Kurt Angle’s dark secret, that Corey Graves was diligently investigating for months, that could cost him his family and force him to leave WWE… is that Jason Jordan is his son from a relationship he had before he met his first wife? On a scale where 1 equals “I forgot our anniversary” and 10 equals “I killed my father and married my mother”, that’s a 2.5 tops.
