And then of course, the tweet response in there, in Arabic, about how their religion is becoming all about appeasing the west and how their women are spoiling things with driving and wanting rights.
:smack:
Tickets for All In went on sale today and sold out in just under an hour, which I think means the Meltz owes Cody a Coke. 
Meltzer’s accuracy has even missed the toilet lately.
Good: It sold out
Bad: It sold out to scalpers and StubHub is now the unofficial source for tickets
I was browsing YouTubes of wrestling podcasts and came across some interesting shows. Chris Van Vliet is a sports radio guy who interviewed Johnny Gargano outside his house in Orlando. Most of the NXT stars live in communities and hang with each other. Toward the end of the interview, he said “Let’s break kayfabe for a moment and go inside.” Gargano’s living room was occupied by his wife, their dog, Tomaso Ciampa, his wife, and Matt Cross (Son of Havoc from LU). I think they probably plotted and planned their feud in the same living room. “Hmmm, how can I be an insufferable prick? I know, I can whack you with my crutch and push Candace down. Let’s try it out!”
Next, I latched on to Sam Roberts “Not Sam” show. I’d seen him on the WWE PPV pre-show panels and thought he was some random mark they brought in to upsell the PPV, but he’s actually pretty insightful and had some good pre-WM interviews with Luke Harper, AJ Styles, Braun Stroman, and Paul Heyman. Heyman was fucking hilarious and a thoroughly evil cunt. When Roberts was interviewing Aleister Black, Heyman was nearby on another show and got so loud, Roberts and Black had to wait till he got off his rant before continuing. He also had a good interview with RoH’s “The Villain,” Marty Scurrl. Scurrl said when he was a kid, the local wrestling promotion had their guys dress up like WWE stars and pretend to be them in matches. To get around copyrights and such, they’d announce them as “So-and-so as WWE’s The Undertaker.” Wonder if they were KOW (Knock-Off Wrestling)?
6:28 - is that KO who comes off the escalator last on the right in the background?
Oh wait, that wasn’t the one outside his house.
STC lives in Orlando, not I.
12 hours later, I realize he meant Kevin Owens.
I’ll have to find this video and see if I recognize any locations…
Oooooh I wonder how borderline racially insensitive they’ll get when they bring Bobby Lashley’s “sisters” to Sami Zayn’s segment on RAM. Are they going to be ugly prison bitches? Are they going to be sassy fat hairdressers? (Mmmmm Hm!) Or are they going to be KO and a couple of other heels wearing blackface and Whoopi Goldberg wigs? There’s no way Vince is going to let this be anything less than tasteless. Mmmmm Hm!
I don’t see Vince allowing blackface, for one reason; somebody will find a way to take it out on Linda, and Trump could think that he could earn points with blacks by firing her from the Small Business Administration as a result.
I think some of his ‘independent contractors’ might walk if he tried that too.
Though I could honestly see Michael Hayes suggesting it. 
Well, I skipped RAW and Smackdown this week, but I’m watching NXT right now.
That 6 man match was pretty good.
Word is that NBC is going to pay a shitload for RAW (3x last year’s contract) but allow Smackdown to go to the open market. I can’t imagine a competitor will bid for the WWE B-show, so it probably stays somewhere in the NBC/Universal family, right?
SD was on USA, Spike, Syfy, and back to USA. AFAIK, SD ratings were always slightly lower than RAW’s, but I think they topped RAW a few times while DB was GM.
I’d think DV, AJ Styles, Nakamura, Charlotte and Asuka would be top draws enough for NBC/Universal to keep it. Maybe NBCU is thinking Vince will let them have SD for a song.
My question in all of that is control of the roster. If someone is paying several times more for RAW than for Smackdown, this is going to lead to them having the leverage to demand that the biggest stars be on their show.
It will literally mark a huge gulf between the ‘A’ show and the ‘B’ show.
Mustafa Ali has been growing on me, and his cool meter gained about a zillion points. After losing at WM, he took on Buddy Murphy and made him look like a god. He recently took such a hard bump, he required 10 staples to keep his head from splitting open like a melon. Here he is with Ruby Riott, who would kill him to keep him from killing himself.
FOX is buying Smackdown for a gazillion dollars.
It might also change to Friday nights. That’s a death time, usually. At least they won’t cancel it if the ratings tank, for 5 years at least.