"The first thing he does when he enters the gym is check the safety of the ring."

I keep coming back to "Lucas With The Lid Off."

Disagree. And I don't think it's "eye-rolling heat" save for a certain segment of the audience.

Charlotte is the one who needs it the least, I'd argue, so yeah.

"So treating women like athletes and not sex dolls is a "progressive" ideal?"

"I hope they have her win the rematch anyways."

It was the worst PPV of the year because the womens MITB had a fucked finish. That's pretty much it, from what I can tell.

Nah man, pro wrestling (much like the recent Ghostbusters reboot) isn't about entertainment, it's about profound social victories or somesuch.

Loved it.

You are correct. And, frankly, the nature of the bitching indicates to me that some folks aren't aware of how this shit works.

"On the other hand, this isn’t about kayfabe stories."

"Coming off of arguably the worst WWE PPV of the year"

Well thank God. Hopefully someone apologized.

Eh, I loved it. I want my heels to be heels, and that was a hell of a way to do it. Here's hoping it works out.

The Carmellsworth finish was absolute fucking gold. I think that the author is mistaking crowd deflation with smoldering heat, which is exactly what the finish brought, IMO. Awesome.

The transcripts were fucking sickening.

"One way to make sure your crowd is dead after a hot Lesnar-Joe segment is to throw Dean Ambrose and Elias Samson into a match."

Do the animals really move like that?

"At what point does the Elias Samson shtick get old?"

"if a bunch of people don't want radiohead to play a show in israel,
fine. express that opinion. tell thom and co. how you feel about it. but
to gang up and brand him as an enemy or a bad person is fucking
preposterous."