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It's a tale of two promoters then...Gagne in the 60s and 70s and Gagne in the 80s. Say what you will about Michaels and Hall, they got a start in the AWA but it was years later and a lot more seasoning that saw them approach their potential. I think Hennig is the best case for Gagne during this...

Look back at the title history of the AWA title in the early 80s and it proves my point. 1980 - 46 year old Nick Bockwinkel held the title for 5 years before dropping it to the owner, Verne Gagne, who was 54 years old. 1982 - 39 year old Otto Wanz, also a promoter of a European wrestling...

Who cares? Really. Since when have the direction of Women's wrestling in the WWE ever mattered in the big scheme of the business? 1985? Maybe? The recent rumor that I read was that the booking of the Divas doesn't mention faces or heels but varying degrees of bitchiness akin to Total...

The IC title isn't being defended? Oh noes! I didn't notice what with Cena defending the US Title every week. The WWE just needs to wait and hear what the prognosis is for Bryan and go from there. My guess is they want him to come back even for a brief match to drop the title to someone like...

It will receive a mention, some individual comments from wrestlers and announcers, but I'll be surprised if it gets 10 seconds of airtime on Raw or Smackdown. Gagne was a legendary wrestler and promoter from the 40s onward, but he also became the poster child of out of touch, intransigent...

Is there a real debate here or is everyone just playing "feed the troll" at this point?

British money spends for the WWE just as well as American money. I'm not sure what "heavy lifting" has to do with anything either. This isn't a mutual admiration society: it's a business and if the WWE thinks they can get a lot of money from Europe, and boost receipts there, they'd do so. I...

I'd like to see Ambrose take Cena's title, perhaps with an angle that sees him consistently taking on Cena's open challenge (say once a month). Each time Ambrose gets closer and closer but can never beat Cena. Finally, at Summer Slam, he either goes over clean on his last shot at the belt or he...

Just another page in the "Vince McMahon Tries to Control the Circus Carny Aspects of his Industry" saga. Ultimately, he can't have it both ways. You can't pretend that podcasts will be hard hitting and no topic is forbidden, and then get pissy when the topic goes to something uncomfortable.

At the time, I had been thinking to myself "I'm sure this was all spur of the moment but this guy REALLY sucks!" Even if he wasn't prepared, he sounded as if he had no enthusiasm at all. I figured it must've sent McMahon through the roof.

You have a willing party in Rousey, and the biggest female heel in the company in McMahon, so this is probably the right match. Even if the WWE build some other diva up to be Steph's muscle, the story is still about Rousey vs. Steph. Is that a bad thing? I can complain about all the times a...

I would if this was the first time this has happened, but sudden retirements amongst Divas isn't uncommon. Go back and look at where Trish, Lita, Beth Phoenix, Maryse, Michelle McCool and others were at when they suddenly decided to hang it up. Not much different from AJ.

It's not stupid at all. You have to be willfully blind not to see WWE as an old boys network where women are second class citizens at best. Again, look at the average career lifespan for male wrestlers in the WWE and then compare that to the women. There's clearly a limit, and AJ hit that...

Rollins was good, but Edge's is still the best because at that time, you didn't know what to expect. Now I feel like I know what's going to come with the winner of the suitcase each time. Even with Rollins, the time was ticking down on when he could use that case, so Wrestlemania wasn't really a...

I gotta admit: I was waiting for you to suggest she get with a real man like yourself. All of this is supposition at this point, not to mention Punk hasn't said a word about this and he's not particularly known for staying silent.

While I think his criticisms are 100% spot on, I also think we're all the "heroes" of our own story, and Roberts is no different. I wonder what someone else would think who was there for all these events if they saw this? The WWE is no different than any other corporation in that it pursues...

While I'm sure there's a story behind this, the average career for a Diva in the WWE is only about four or five years. It's a tough business for a woman to be in. There's no John Cena or Triple H treatment: there's always a next big thing in the Divas division.

I think Reigns showed that his in-ring charisma...his look, the way he moves, the way he sells...it's there and it's real. He didn't look out of place in that match. Lesnar was in typical beast mode. The guy is just operating at another level right now and proving that his once in awhile matches...

There's no "believable" way he could've beaten Triple H last year. But then there's no believable way that a guy would take their sweet time to climb a ladder to grab a belt, and there's no believable way a guy would rest on another's shoulders waiting to get flipped around and smashed with an...

Scotty needs to realize Rikishi isn't there because of Too Cool; he's there because he's family to current WWE stars, as well as The Rock. If this were based on what Rikishi actually did in the ring, including his time with Too Cool, he'd never be there.