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Nah, Lawler has been terrible lately. It made my blood boil last night when he mocked Mauro for properly calling a la magistral cradle. His heel gimmick is so far beyond tired that someone needs to put a mirror under its nose to make sure its still breathing. (It's not.)

Stephanie has been so fucking annoying this week. If she's ever on TV again it'll be too soon.

The only problem with the upper card is that Cena is on his way out and Orton is guaranteed to miss at least a few months a year with injury. I am totally down with Ambrose and AJ on top, but they really need a couple guys from the midcard to step up, or otherwise bring up Joe and Nakamura toot suite.

Probably yes, but it'd make your titles mean a hell of a lot more if you let the main champions – world, tag and women's – float from show to show and just make the secondary titles show-exclusive.

I've heard that Vince finds their relationship somewhat unsavory because of the age difference. Meanwhile, Jerry Lawler has been on WWE TV almost non-stop for over 20 years.

Cena looks really silly these days. He looks like a 40-year-old man who's wearing his teenage son's clothes.

They should have made smackdown a 3 hour shoe and split the roster 50/50.

They needed to do that beforehand, so they could explain why anyone would draft fucking Mojo Rawley instead of fucking Shinsuke Nakamura. It would have taken about five seconds to say that Regal was able to protect four people, but they're clearly not at all concerned about making their authority figures look stupid.

They're not bringing Bayley and Asuka up yet, apparently. It made the GMs look like a bunch of God damn idiots to be drafting people like Carmella and fucking Mojo Rawley while Joe, Nakamura, Bayley and Asuka were still presumably on the board.

Yes, and it was 20 years ago, which is an indication of how actually edgy this is. I'm sure a hundred metal bands have called their tour this too.

They're not going to start the cruiserweights on Raw until after the CWC is finished, so this has plenty of time to shake out.

It'll never see a courtroom. Apparently the lawyer bringing the suit has a history of filing class-action lawsuits against WWE, and they've all been tossed. I'm not saying WWE doesn't have some complicity here, but the class will never be able to prove it.

It was awesome until Vince decided Smackdown was too good and fired Heyman.

The Shane/Stephanie bits are abominable because a) Shane keeps forgetting his lines, and b) Stephanie keeps stepping on everyone's lines with her wacky improv bits trying to get herself over. It's like nails on a chalkboard. I can't change the channel fast enough when these two geeks are onscreen.

A brief one. Alpha is coming up to the main roster, and they're engaging in the age-old tradition of putting someone over on their way out. Simple as that.

Meanwhile, Reigns gets to main-event a PPV mere days after serving out his suspension, and Orton never really suffered a de-push after his violations. (In fact, the WWE altered the policy recently to allow a "strike" to come off a guy's record if he completes a course or something, almost certainly so that they don't

I mean, that's really true about about any drug testing program, since testing is intrinsically always going to be chasing innovation. If you're subject to testing and you're not using absolutely cutting-edge PEDs, you're probably better off not using at all.

It's a drug-testing policy that's capricious at best and a total joke at worst. It was instituted after Eddie Guerrero died, and for the first year or so, it was completely ludicrous – failures weren't made public, and when top guys got caught, they were said to have "elevated liver enzymes" and given a couple weeks

He was likely going to get a heel run in NXT if Itami's shoulder had healed normally. There's a reason why Hideo was shown glaring at Finn after Finn beat Owens for the title in Japan – it was going to be revealed that Finn was the one who jacked him in the parking lot the night he won the #1 contender match.

It gets finished on this week's episode.