He just came back at the least opportune time - it really wasn't anyone's fault. People were needling him for his stamina (which was never that great even in his prime) but after his first few weeks he picked it up and people turned around on him, because he's an entertaining guy.

That sort of commentary can work, they just have a dogshit announcer's table right now - King as the face color guy is kind of inert and JBL lays it on waaaay too thick all the time. Jesse Ventura and Bobby Heenan kind of set the standard for heel commentators. Like in Savage vs. Steamboat, Ventura's going on about…

If Lesnar doesn't reup on his contract that might happen, but it seems like a weird waste (which, you know, WWE: it's always a definite possibility) of a buildup to the coronation of their new Cena superface

It's Vince, Dunn, and Fabulous Moolah almost single-handedly dismantling women's wrestling in America for several decades. In the running for the most ruthless carny to ever grace the business, up there with Hogan.

Orton has never had a lot of leeway to cut loose with his characters (he definitely peaked with the Legend Killer gimmick, which legitimately ruled) but his in-ring work is underrated even if he's not exactly a ring general. When he's motivated and working with good guys, he can put on great matches. His whole series…

This has happened before, though - Hogan was more hated as an overpushed face in the 90's than Cena has arguably ever been, and when they finally turned him heel with the NWO it didn't take long for that to be squandered too. But that was all Hogan's master politicking.

Either the man himself or Vince or both are really really sensitive about Reigns' torso. The guy is a former football player and is obviously built but some guys just can't pull off the super-cut John Cena physique (which is most likely the result of HGH, to be honest). He's got a soft-looking torso even though he's…

A lot of that was admittedly the Big Swing, which is definitely a face maneuver. Kayfabe is a weird thing to navigate because to be an effective heel you have to deny fans things they would cheer for, and while doing so keep them invested in you as someone they want to see fail rather than someone they're just blase…

Cesaro is an incredible worker, but he suffers from both a lack of mic skill and a lack of I guess what you could call physical charisma (Brock can't talk for shit but he has the mannerisms of a monster heel down to a science). Even Heyman would have trouble putting him over and he wasn't even trying when they…

They have the shows on their site! Though honestly, it's been awhile since they've had a homegrown upper card that's really lit the product on fire. Ciampa and the fuckin' Briscoes ain't shit compared to Punk and Joe and Danielson. It's whatever.

If we're going to cast the decline of women's wrestling in the west at anyone's feet, Fabulous Moolah deserves it more than anyone else tbh

I feel like they had something great with Bray Wyatt… for awhile. His cult just kind of dissipated (remember when they beat Kane and people were wondering if he was gonna become a member the way Daniel Bryan briefly was??) and at this point his much-vaunted promo ability is starting to wear thin, either because he's…

For what it's worth, the gay panic exotico is a venerable part of classic lucha wrestling. There's been a lot written recently about its practice in the modern day, whether it's progressive or regressive, etc. Some exoticos are actually gay, some aren't.

Vince will run the WWE directly until he's dead. His desire to work is pathological, much like John Cena's! Though hopefully, Cena's backstory isn't as horrifying as Vince's. His childhood was seriously messed.

It's really a shame that USA Network is so dead-set on having 3 hour Raws, because even the best Raws tend to be 2 pretty good hours and 1 hour of dead weight. I don't even think the company really wants that extra hour.

The Authority angle really needs to end, it really clicked with Bryan's insurgency last year but there's just nothing more it can offer. It doesn't approach the dizzying awfulness of TNA's interminable heel stables but it's pretty bad.

The WWE's women's division is still hurting from John "Johnny Ace" Laurinitus' long tenure, wherein he'd find new talent by leafing through swimsuit catalogs and cold-calling the models.* Much of the small Divas roster (Cameron, the Bellas, Eva Marie) can barely go in the ring. But the problem is more that the WWE has…

I will die of laughter if the rumors of Konnan bringing Vince Russo in are true. Imagine LU's intergender matches with a booker who's gone on record saying his high school frustrations have left him with a lifelong hatred for women.*

He has world-class face charisma, on par with Rey Mysterio really. The problem is that the WWE doesn't really push anyone anymore.

Seemingly everything that Morton says is probing or meant to get under the skin. I think what he was trying to do was cast doubt on the spontaneous blindness that got him discharged, trying to see if maybe it was a smokescreen for violence that had occurred while he was in the service.