Maybe. My guess is there a lot of factors to ratings. The company is likely must concerned with network subs. They only get released quarterly. The house show business is more immediate and good indicator of the brand not so much Rollins himself.

You also have to invest time into guys to make them stars. It doesn't always happen overnight. It might be time to move on from Rollins, or it could be a waste of 6 months to move on, and he's on the brink of being a hot babyface coming out of a program with HHH.

Let me dust off my patented "Late To The Party" RAW examination.

Firstly, Paige. The thing is, she isn't *that* poor of a promo. She has done better. Only problem I saw here was the lack of vitriol... she was essentially cutting a heel promo with a face delivery. It wasn't unlike AJ when she went full out Shawn Michaels (and Tamina was her Diesel) when that run started, she didn't seem like she believed her words. In a few weeks, she oozed about as much douchebag as her husband could. Yes, she should have knocked that promo out of the park, but let's not pretend she's horrible.

MEANWHILE, Big Show's promo is how she should have handled that. Top Man jokes and seesawing relevance aside, he came off like he really *believed* what he said about Brock.

New Day featuring Xavier Woods' trombone: I love the snowballing of the whole gimmick. Big E has refined his Southern Baptist Preacher voice to where it is over the top in a good way as opposed to sounding forced, Kofi making the clap-skip a constant thing, and then we have Consequences Creed himself doing a lot of emoting, talking crowd audible smack (which I am a fan of), and taking a seemingly random skill of playing a goddamn trombone into an entertaining embellishment. Especially the corner stomps/irish whip bit that seems to be now a regular thing.

One question: does Kane now work for The Law Offices of Park, Park, & Park? Maybe they'll finally find Abyss chilling with Malibu Kane.

Brown Strawman looks like what would happen if Earthquake were in more of a bodybuilding mold and wore WWI biplane attire to the ring.

Hey! Lillian put a "p" at the end of " CHAMPIONCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAA..... puh" tonight for the Cena/Rollins match.

I wonders omething about Rollins' legit. Between busting Cena's nose and giving Sting an ouchie, he seems like he gets a little hesitant at times with some of his moves and mannerisms. Almost like he's overcompensating making way less fluid movements than he is capable of. Like he is constantly second guessing himself.

My problem with Paige was she rushed everything and stepped all over Charlotte. I liked the idea of the promo, thought it was well scripted, just thought she fell on her face with the delivery.

I also felt like her look coming down the ramp gave away the angle. Which she may have been told to do, so don't know if that's her fault or creative.

I FEEL like you're just fucking around at this point but I'm not positive...

So I just bought a crap load of WWE tees since they were having the 30% off sale... Really having buyers remorse now :-\

Send them to me. It'll make you feel good about yourself.

Yeah, i wouldn't mind some as well!

Which shirts did you get?

I feel like NWA should really try to rebuild their brand and, maybe not compete with WWE but become a viable second option. They've got the history that other companies suffer from when they try to claim prestige for their titles. Hell, WWE even has to acknowledge them and give them free promotion when talking about their own history a lot. I feel like there's some way where their territory system could actually work to build a national product even in this day and age. I'm just not sure how. Also, they'd probably have to ignore the last few decades completely...

Totally agree. Wish Dixie would sell TNA to the NWA and rebrand it Nonstop Wrestling Action and be their top promotion. They could use the rest as a huge developmental system. Their titles are still pretty prominent, they show up in NJPW and ROH every now and again but they need their own show to really showcase all their talent.

smart wrestling-related decisions and Dixie Carter seem to be allergic to each other.....

Grabbed the two new Undertaker ones, a Sheamus, the Dean Ambrose one with the DA symbol on the front, the black Dolph Ziggler one with pink lettering, the Bray Wyatt with the lamb, and a Bayley because fuck da police... I mean I saved like 60 bucks on the order but it was still like $150 for t-shirts hence the remorse after the fact lol.

Christ that's a big haul. I've always wanted to walk into a buffet with a Ryback "HUNGRY" shirt.

Dixie Carter should be made to wear a championship belt with the word "dunce" written on it at all times until she gets her ass out of the business.

Yeah, I just recently got a nice little gift of money so I was like "hmm, what should I buy?". Was gonna go with a few games, but I was like "nah, got Fallout 4 preordered and there's nothing else I want". Decided to check out WWE's shop and saw the sale and decided to buy a few. Ended up with a full cart and at the last second decided to just buy them all. Well, all but 2 since I would have gone over my limit. Surprisingly enough a Ryback tee was one of the ones I threw back. XD

There was a Lesnar shirt or two I wanted a while back. Have the one he originally wore upon his return. I've noticed their sizing isn't consistent though. Have 3different CM Punk shirts, all xl, and all varying in fit.

Haven't had an official WWE shirt since the first John Cena "Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect" one came out around WM 22. Still had that shirt until last year when it finally crapped out and the sleeve completely came off.

That shirt never gave up broh.

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While I enjoyed the ending of Wrestlemania XX, I didn't digest the "Benoit's 15-year odyssey" line by Ross since he had already won the same belt in its previous incarnation.

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I was such a mark back then, I remember thinking Benoit left WCW because he was scared of Nash and the nWo 2000.

Kinda funny watching it though, seeing the "emotion" in Benoit when he wins the title, when even he is thinking "fuck this I'm out of here".

Think I'll be asked to change my shirt if I wear my Hulkamania one to Raw in a few weeks?

Maybe if your in front row or are visible enough on tv. Same if you were to bring a pro-Hogan sign.

"Hogan's got black friends"

"I pity the fool that thinks Hogan's racist"

Wow.

I've wanted to see the NWA do this for ages. There actually seems to be somewhat of a stir around alternative products (although they do seem to have trouble finding homes), and the NWA could easily be at the forefront of that.

I often wonder as to who they could make their "travelling champion." Matt Morgan would have been good when he first left TNA. Shelton Benjamin often pops into my mind. I think they need someone with a little bit of name recognition that could hold the belt for a while and not get stale.

Dirtsheets sponsored by WWE - Then, Now, New Day:
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This week's RAW episode not getting the usual post-ppv bump and hitting a new low ended up being the WWE's breaking point for the problem.

Basically while TNA got a bit of a break from Destination America, they actually have nothing planned post-September for Impact/booking.

Part of a longer interview Okada had with the Rolling Stones. http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/f...-next-20150923


Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent survey sent by the WWE involved a question gauging fan interest for wrestling news which some dirtsheet sites (ex. Wrestle Inc) and sites that cover wrestling (ex. Bleacher Report) listed. Paid dirtsheet websites (ex. Observer) were not included in the list. http://boards.420chan.org/wooo/src/1443070786197.png
• This week's TPWW TLP podcast episode was released yesterday: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-122-230915/
• Older brother of Kurt Angle was recently arrested for murdering his wife.

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Team NBC?

Something inside me wouldn't mind Carlito re-igniting his feud with Cena

Cena Undertaker at Wrestlemania is money waiting for print. Especially if it ends up being a retirement angle.

Oh, and though now unlikely, Wyatt going over Sting at Mania would've been nice. Oh well.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla had a clip on ESPNs Highly Questionable today. Joey Ryan was one of the wrestlers I think but instead of dumping tacs out of a bag it was hard candy and legos that they took bumps on.

At the local Fed which we have covered there was one rassler who did that... Only instead of tacs, candy, or Lego, it was just a bag of glitter.

"The Juice" is on a show at a shithole working men's club down the road from me at some point this month.

I used to love the idea of Carlito being a constant thorn in Cena's side. Not his main event rival or anything (although he could eventually get there), but as someone just waiting for Cena to slip on a banana peel. Loved it when he crashed that Cena promo heading into TLC 2009.

Hearing that the NWA was trying to get on Spike is interesting. I'd love to Spike get back into the wrestling game. TNA had a good platform there that they squandered. Personally, I think the WWN would be the best bet to put on there -- maybe do an hour of Dragon Gate USA and then an hour of EVOLVE.