Great Cole interview with Ryder. Seriously, watch this:

Great Balls obit from PWI Insider: FORMER WWE AND ECW STAR BALLS MAHONEY PASSES AWAY by Mike Johnson @ 11:03 PM on 4/12/2016 WWE announced the passing of former WWE and ECW star Balls Mahoney, 44, passed away this evening. According to those we have spoken to, Mahoney had taken a ball fall several d...

Dr. Phil works so well in the WWE universe. Hope he comes back. Anybody else catch NJPW invasion attack? Loved Naito going over, hope he keeps the belt (not literally of course) until WK11. Kind of wish they would do this with Wyatt, the whole I won your title and I don't give no fucks about it appr...

Alright, let's have some fun,

Predict three matches for next year's Mania and two Hall of Fame inductions (one wrestler, one celebrity or non-wrestling on-screen character)

Cool, always wanted to see Jeru live.

Any idea if Solar is involved with this?

Brougham33 wrote:Mauro (play by play)
Cole (plug shit and say what Vince wants said)
Graves (Smark Ventura 2.0)

That would be a lineup that works imo.

Dude battlecat the commentary right now is indefensible. You can argue that they don't have shit to work with and are probably dealing with Vince in their ears constantly, but it still fucking sucks. The chemistry between JBL and Cole is awful. For the record, I'm not defending it. JBL-Cole-Byron, ...

What was up with Cole not really putting over Enzo and Cass? Regardless they really killed that segment. Raw announcer team is the worst it's ever been. And I mean that, no exceptions. I'd still say mid 2003-autumn 2004 was worse. JR and King were nowhere near the ring, and the distance from the ac...

Divas match was a flawless, perfect match. That, Ryder winning, and Erick Rowan getting a Mania match were the highlights for me.

I missed the pre-show though. Worth watching?

Takeover's rightfully awesome, but apparently ROH's Supercard of Honor X was incredible as well.

Look who's returned to Ring of Honor...

Brougham33 wrote:So amped for Nakamura to debut tonight. Wonder if they open the show with it.

This is Aries debut tonight too, right?

That Sting "into the light" documentary is awesome. Really makes you want to hang out with Sting.

How were the JBL Legends with Hayes or the Austin podcast with Foley?

I'm still in late 98 of watching Nitro from the beginning, but I'm planning on doing Raw once I'm done. That's a shame, I've been looking forward to all the Bret/Shawn stuff. The rest of it's good, is just this particular in-ring is an outlier. You can tell they tried to make all three (four if you...

So, I'm doing the Network free trial, and I've decided to binge watch the Raws between the Feb '96 in Your House and Mania 12 to watch Wrestlemania 12 on its 20th anniversary tomorrow. I started watching Raw weekly in April/May '96, so this is both entirely new and vaguely familiar to me. There's a ...

Is Usos-Dudleyz confirmed for the pre-show? Say what you will about the feud, but The Dudleyz have NEVER had a proper two-on-two match at Mania, and the Usos, despite lighting every pre-show on fire, have never had a proper Mania match. I was hoping for them to have something on the main card to rea...

Also, is anyone here actually going to Mania?

Wow, so over 24 hours since the Raw go-home show to Mania and not a single post. We all feeling kinda apathetic toward Mania this year?

Meltzer dropping some gems on his Twitter today, a week before Mania re: the original plans for Mania 32. Before I get to that, here's something I learned: The back-up plan for Wrestlemania 3 was Hulk Hogan vs. Orndorff. When the original plan for Wrestlemania 13 was Bret-Michaels, Austin was pencil...

Kevin Kelly's Podcast is my favorite analytical wrestling podcast right now, and the round-table Wrestlemania predictions episode was this week. Really a worthwhile listen (although I wouldn't suggest it for your first time if you've never heard KK before as he was in an uncharacteristically bad moo...

Amazon is having a sale on a bunch of WWE blurays. $9.99 each. Time to grab some catalog titles I missed over the years (Savage, Warrior, Goldberg, etc.)

Didn't want to clog the Phife threads with a discussion on Beats Rhymes Life and The Love Movement, so I thought now's as good of a time as any to discuss these two records.

How did you feel about them when they dropped? How do you feel about them now? Do you have a preference between the two?

Wow thats a terrible opinion. Watch the 2011 TLC US Title match against Dolph. Ryder pulls 4 star matches out of people like Heath Slater regularly. I wouldn't choose to use Heath in this example. Heath has an incredible ability to make anyone on the planet look good and pull more stars out of them...

Zach's probably the most improved wrestler of 2015. Hope this is the start of better things for him.

I also fully expect the Owens promos on him to be absurdly deliciously savage.

I'm baffled everytime I remember they're actually going through with Kalisto vs Ryback for Mania.

Wow, Hogan won the Gawker lawsuit.

Anyone follow this thing this week?

Haven't watched yet, but I take it it's a different documentary than the one WWE put out last summer under the same name?

Roadblock worth watching or nah? I liked it, but I probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to watch it if I was busy. Wyatt/Brock turned into Harper/Brock for some reason, but it was still enjoyable. Pretty good Zayn/Stardust match, and Ambrose/HHH was pretty great. I loved Charlotte-Natalya, bes...

Also, quick poll, who here does/doesn't have the network and why?

907 wrote:Jesus, I had no clue Jason Jordan had been there so long. When was this, like 2011-12?

Roughly then, right at the launch of NXT as a separate brand instead of the never-ending "Redemption" final season game show-turned-soap opera.

Can you find Dolph Ziggler's real life brother?

So, do y'all think Roadblock will change anything come Mania, or are we set in stone for Triple H-Reigns for the belt?