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And on the first day of Christmas, Braun Claus gave to me...
WWE Make A Good PPV Poster A genuinely cool poster for TLC.
After a bad 2018 for WWE’s marketing department - whose feats included this poster for October’s
Hell in a Cell, and the rather-too-real tagline ‘Respect Is Out The Window’ for the controversial
Crown Jewel event - they’ve finally put together an awesome Western staredown-inspired
poster for December 16th’s TLC pay-per-view, which will feature a triple threat TLC match
between Becky Lynch, Asuka and Charlotte for the SmackDown Women’s championship, posting
the image with the tagline “Full focus.
Full history-makers” ...whatever that means.
So close, marketing department.
A much better tagline, given the Sergio Leone-inspired design, would be The Good, The Bad, and Whatever
Confusing Babyface/Heel Character Charlotte Has.
The three-way is easily the hottest match in WWE, largely thanks to Lynch being the
most over star in the company.
Real Reason WWE Raw So Bad ...and also because Raw has had two of its
worst episodes ever since Survivor Series, with its main event storyline being a lacklustre
Baron Corbin and Braun Strowman feud, with the latter not even there, its most emotionally
engaging program, between Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, now mostly based on Ambrose
being the Lunatic Germaphobe who gets injections in his butt, much of the heat from Nia Jax
giving Lynch a concussion evaporated and literally piss-poor comedy from ...Drake Maverick urinating
on Bobby Roode’s robe.
Last Monday’s episode was so bad, in fact, that popular German newspaper Bild Zeitung
called it one of the worst WWE shows of all time and advised fans not to watch the Wednesday
broadcast in the country.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it appears we have Vince McMahon to blame
for the show’s lack of logic, heel dominance and juvenile toilet humour - as he “got
restless and wrote much of the show himself”.
Speaking of getting restless… because I’m really good at Segways.
...we’ve had our latest sign that Chris Jericho is on his way to IMPACT Wrestling.
Jericho has had a rather busy 2018 - showing up for three different promotions that we
know of, and potentially hundreds more dressed as Pentagon Jr.
He featured on Raw’s 25th Anniversary show and Greatest Royal Rumble for WWE, he won
New Japan’s IWGP Intercontinental title in June, which he’ll defend against Naito
at next month’s WrestleKingdom 13, and he attacked Kenny Omega at September’s All
In.
He even ran his own show in international waters, hosting wrestlers from ROH, New Japan,
IMPACT and more on his Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise.
But despite saying in interviews that he wouldn’t wrestle for any non-WWE promotions on US soil
out of respect for Vince McMahon, recent reports say that stance is softening - and now he’s
posted about meeting with IMPACT Wrestling officials over the weekend.
“Great time hanging and chatting with IMPACT Wrestling President Ed Nordholm and Co-Executive
Vice Presidents Don Callis and Scott D’Amore last night in Toronto”
While this could be just a meeting between real-life friends Jericho and Don Callis,
having IMPACT President Nordholm along implies this was a business meeting - and it builds
on Callis often name dropping Jericho on IMPACT Wrestling shows.
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