Yeah, pretty much. By drinking a glass of orange juice you're essentially eating four oranges (with all the sugar that entails) except you are getting zero fiber (four oranges contain about 10 grams of it, which is pretty good!)

Orange juice: all the sugar of four oranges, with none of the fiber!

I mean Goldberg wasn't even really a wrestler. He first set foot in a ring to begin training in late 1996 after his football career ended and 18 months later he was the WCW world champion. The guy was green as grass but got pushed to the moon.

Even going back and watching his matches during WCW's peak, it's astonishing just how shit Hogan was in the ring compared to most other wrestlers in the industry at the time. Virtually every other guy on the WCW roster could wrestle circles around Hogan by that point. He was just so stiff, limited and nonathletic.…

There's a difference between "going over" and "being put over". Cena's US Open challenge was a big boost to all the young guys he faced in it because despite beating them, he made them look strong in the process. In that sense he actually had to win those matches because losing one meant he lost the belt which…

God, it's amazing how WCW's own hubris and blindness to the depth of their own talent just destroyed them from the inside. "Welcome to Monday Nitro! First up, the Cruiserweight division is gonna do some flippy shit….. once that's out of the way stay tuned for another 45-minute nWo segment with Hogan and Nash!"

I'm wondering if the Raw writers are being hamstrung by certain Vince demands, while SD writers are given full creative freedom. Everything on SD just flows well and Raw has the definite feel of inconsistency that comes with vague top-down management decrees.

Her mic work is shit and her selling needs work, but Nikki is overall a good ring worker. She's strong, agile, and athletic, and executes moves consistently well. She gets a lot more hate than she deserves.

Agree to disagree. I think Corbin is good and getting better every week.

They're only booking him in dark matches right now because he's gonna be taking a bit of time off to film a TV show soon. They still want his live gate draw in the meantime, but putting him on SD means putting him into storylines that will eventually have to be aborted when he leaves. They are trying to avoid writing…

Cena spent basically all of 2015 and 2016 putting younger guys over. Same with Jericho. The company is getting better about this.

I agree but it's a nonstarter because they have a multi-year broadcast deal with USA. USA is paying them for 3 hours of airtime (and ad time) so they will get 3 hours. WWE can't just cut a third of that unilaterally. They would have to renegotiate the entire deal.

I expected Heath's kayfabe home to be much more rural than that.

Her role in that bit was supposed to be the "Jesus look at these weird rednecks" observer, which is where the refusal to eat comes in. It just wasn't a very good segment.

Ambrose's character works much better as a face chasing the belt than holding it. His whole thing is that he's so crazy he can get his ass kicked repeatedly and come back for more punishment. It's an inherently underdog gimmick that doesn't translate very well as champion.

Aborting Ryder's IC push was a crime. He should have had a long feud with Miz, trading that belt back and forth. How awesome would that have been?

Seriously. When I first learned about Enzo and Cass (I don't watch NXT) and that their gimmick was basically being Jersey Shore guidos, my first thought was "has anyone explained to Vince that show was a fad that passed like 5 years ago?". It's an awful gimmick that Enzo and Cass only make work because they are just…

She just has that stereotypical "hot chick with flat personality" thing. Acting coaches can only do so much to fix that.

Seriously. It's great. Everyone has something to do, the feuds are all logical and consistent, the matches are good, the promos are entertaining, it doesn't drag, everything on SD Live is just ……. fun. In short order they managed to make Rhyno and Heath Slater one of the most over tag teams in the company, establish…

The Miz-bomb was great but also but them in a tough spot creatively. It instantly made him a smark face but his character is supposed to be a chickenshit heel (and he's great at it). He was trying so hard to get the crowd to boo him but they were just showering him with cheers because of last week.