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David Bixenspan
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Well, it's both. She IS unqualified for this position, but it's the least of the problems. Read more

Pro wrestling has always been covered by the sports section. Always. Why that never changed, I have no idea. Read more

Please refresh my memory on this one, because it sounds familiar but I can’t remember it exactly Read more

Crockett Promotions had started running credits before that, so I'm guessing it was just a holdover. David or Jackie Crockett, having worked on the production side of both companies, would probably be able to explain why. Read more

It has, but you also can't really blame people like the heels who were getting jumped by fans every night for thinking that more fans were completely convinced than actually were. Read more

I don’t believe they listed writers, but they did list the real names of wrestlers who worked in creative roles as producers. That became a problem with guys like Dusty Rhodes, whose real name, Virgil Runnels, was well-known by fans because he and rivals would mention it on TV for years. Read more

The surveys I’ve heard of from the territorial era, even in strong wrestling markets, suggested that most fans knew. But they didn’t necessarily know how or how often, which probably made it easier to suspend disbelief to the point that a surprising number of fans would attack the heels. Plus there were beliefs among Read more

How is it shitting on him? He was just too green to be in that situation and I explicitly said that he and Foley smoothed over the issue months later. Read more

My draft was in before he tweeted that and now I'm very sad that we couldn't include it. Read more

They’re very, very bad about consciously appealing to young girls. Better than they used to be, but it's long been an area where they clearly had no clue that the audience was there and who was appealing to them. Read more

The median viewer of WWE programming is over 50. Make whatever you'd like of that fact. Read more

Well, it’s not exactly a secret that Tony Khan is a giant geek for older wrestling, including the promotions Cornette was in and inspired by. So...who knows? Read more

This is all I took away from it:

Right, the only reason it looks even remotely suspicious now on WWE’s part is the general Trump Foundation grift and WWE’s changing stories about it. But if WWE donated to the Foundation in lieu of appearance fees for Trump (or in lieu of most of the fee), it’s not something that should be considered controversial in Read more

For WWE to not have put it in the SEC filings if it was from the company, you mean? Read more