Ye he had a weight problem but what was the ***** gonna do? He was Samoan

So is the guy standing next to him in that picture.

He was quoting Pulp Fiction.

Found this little paragraph from this week's WON I found on the reddit SquaredCircle. Usually, I found myself not agreeing with Meltzer 100% for whatever reasons, but this paragraph I found myself saying "Yes! He's on the money with everything here, imo."

And that's exactly what Vince has wanted since at least 1996, when you can hear him saying things along those lines during the Wrestlemania 12 Bret-Shawn Ironman match. (It's pretty early, and Lawler actually calls what Vince is saying "stupid.")

The whole Network concept was designed to lead to this point. I'm sure a ton of the complainers are Network subscribers, if only to access the tape library. They have no power at all as long as they continue to want (and pay for) that access.

This was probably the first time I'd listened to anything Dave has said in 3+ months but he's pretty on the money here as well wrt Jinder's push:

He basically says that the booking sucks and is akin to JBL's ascent and R-Truth's Capital Punishment main event. He says the booking doesn't matter since the ppv's in Chicago and it's probably already close to sold out and was prior to any matches being announced so they're risking absolutely nothing by having Jinder go after the belt.

Jinders only getting pushed because of WWEs recebt expansion in India, and they need a face to put with it.

Also though, why not?

I get that he's been a hapless jobber but that dude has worked his ass off to get that physique. I'm sure he's taking some form of illegal substance, but he cant be doing too much because there is no way they're busting Roman Reigns in the middle of a major storyline and protecting JINDER MAHAL.

He can cut a pretty decent promo and can put on a solid hard hitting match with the right guy, so why not. The only problem with it really is they didnt have any transition period where he actually shows he can win matches before this hot shot, but it sends a pretty good message IMO.

Hearing around that Katsuyori Shibata's career is over. FACK.

If that's true, wouldn't at all be surprised if NJPW actually does ban headbutts. Which they should.

jinder mahal will get massive heat pretty much automatically by being arab-ish. i know hes from india but thats the truth

He's not actually from India.

My first thought was, "Hulk Hogan?"

Damn, I had no idea he was from Calgary.

Man, that sucks. The dude was really starting to shine as a main event-like player/star to NJPW. Great matches. Great intensity. Internet crowd loves him, live crowds got behind him. Finally got an IWGP heavyweight title shot for the first time since his return in 2012. Heck, his match with Okada main-evented a sold-out Sumo Hall show (10,200-ish people), with a not-too stellar undercard, making it the largest non-G1 Climax finals crowd that NJPW had in 15 years and that particular crowd really wanted him to win that title.

My first impression of the guy was that he reminded me of Benoit and I was hoping that he would not end up like Benoit or Bryan or develop any negative traits of those guys. I guess I was wrong.

Read somewhere last night that Vince hates the Broken Matt gimmick, had no intention of using it, actually the writers who are trying to convince him and he may be coming around due to all the DELETE chants. Still thinks Jeff Hardy = Top Guy.

Seems like an odd conclusion to reach when you notice that Matt has been dropping hints of the broken character since he started. In addition the second sentence Michael Cole used when announcing the return of the Hardys at WM contained the word "broken"

I'd be shocked if Brock holds to WM. Absolutely shocked. He's going to have to defend it, let's say at the absolute minimum 5-7 times between now and then. Do they even have that many viable baby face contenders (that they are willing to feed to Lesnar)?

I don't mind Lesnar as champ because over the last few years, aside from HHH, he's the only heel champion booked as a non-coward I can remember. I think he makes the title feel important.

I'd be shocked if he defended it/wrestled anywhere on TV but Summerslam, Survivor Series and Wrestlemania

Add in Clash of Champions and Royal Rumble and I think it's spot on

There was a fake story going around that Sunny claimed Seth Rollins gave her an STD, which would have brought up a number of fake questions I'm glad don't need to be answered now. It was pretty doubtful that 2017 Rollins would have had anything to do with 2017 Sunny in the first place.

If this is true then the original plan sounds so much better than what we got.

Kevin Dunn is an idiot, but we already knew that.

All I ever know about Kevin Dunn is how much Cornette hates him. But since Russo is the other primary Cornette target, I've always just taken his word for it on Dunn.