I once worked for a company where the boss would trap you in these lengthy one-sided conversations where you hoped for a pause or a distraction so you could get outta there. We all called it the Vortex. The last thing anyone wanted at the office was to get stuck in the Vortex.

Professional wrestling is not a sport in the traditional sense, it is predetermined entertainment, and so this is dumb. The athletic commissions that still oversee it in certain U.S. states need to get a clue.

If someone ever asked me to guess what Vince McMahon brought back from Turks and Caicos on a private plane to give to his friends - seven kittens and a puppy would not have been my answer.

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I honestly thought that this was an old school Family Feud pose at first.

The Rock beat AEW in the cable ratings on Saturday (sort of). The UFL game between DC and Arlington did 534,000 viewers and a 0.15 key demo rating for 8th on the day. AEW Collision did 468,000 viewers and a 0.13 key demo rating for 15th.

UFC prelims were stiff competition.

I would be all for Chad Gable leading a heel faction that included the Creed Brothers.

I think that Ronda Rousey had an overall really good run in WWE and proved to be a natural in the ring. It's unfortunate that she's showing so much bitterness now on the media circuit.

My 9-year-old daughter likes to chill with me in the evening by watching random YouTube shorts. I enjoy the time with her, but I don't enjoy the end result - I just ordered marshmallows from Australia, and I think next I might be ordering various containers of slime.

Join us for the second episode of Beyond the Bell on Fightful Wrestling today at 10:30am ET

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In case you don’t follow hockey, there are four teams battling for the final wild card spot in the Eastern conference. It comes down to the last game of the season for them all. Crazy.

My goodness the production work. The camera follows Jey Uso all the way out of the arena, he runs into Sami Zayn, and then the camera follows Sami in. And to top it off, Sami enters through an electric crowd in Montreal. That was excellent. #WWERaw

I see a lot of chatter about WWE being interested in collaborating with other companies. Let's be realistic; they're not going to work with any company that they don't want to benefit, since every company would benefit from working with them. No chance AEW is on their list.

I'm looking forward to potentially see Chad Gable go heel and annihilate Sami Zayn on Raw tonight. Gable's evolution from the Vince McMahon 'Shorty G' era has been fun to watch.

Kenny Omega is the epitome of professionalism. His peers could learn from him.

The things you find when you're packing.

I just saw the clip of the guy crapping on Denise Salcedo. Two thoughts:

1) What Denise does is a grind. She’s earned the opportunities she’s gotten because she worked for them.

2) Hate stems from jealousy.

For those who say that pro wrestling is fake - watch this Damian Priest WrestleMania vlog. Or watch the clip of Samantha Irvin announcing Cody Rhodes as the new WWE Champion. Predetermined, yes. Fake? Not a chance.

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Q3 of Dynamite with the All In footage did 880k viewers and a 0.34 key demo rating. Q4 with the FTR promo dropped to 822k viewers and a 0.32 key demo rating. The most viewed quarter as always was Q1 (981k viewers) but Q3 slightly topped it in 18-49 (credit Wrestlenomics)

There will be a lot of discourse around this I'm sure, but those thinking they'd hit a million viewers just weren't being realistic. Still, their best viewership since February 28, and best key demo rating since February 14. But probably lower than anticipated.

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