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...and your NEW WWE Women's champion!
…and your NEW WWE Women’s champion!

We are officially in a new era of WWE programming. Like it or not, the brand split is REAL and Monday / Tuesday nights will never be the same again. Until SmackDown inevitably gets canceled. Sorry, Daniel Bryan – but even your fantastic charisma can’t save that mess of a show.

That said, RAW was surprisingly amazing. Can it keep up the pace? Of course not. But they’ll have most of us tuning in again next week!

Hosted by: Joshua Schlag (@thesteelcage / @schlizzag

Featuring: ‘The Mayor of Reseda’ Derek (@cap_kaveman), Bryan ‘Pipe Bomb’ Gregston (@guitarsalad), ‘Hot Podcast Garbage’ Sprung (@jasprung), and ‘Dirty Jesus’ Billi Bhatti (@DirteeJesus).

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Joshua Schlag

For most of the last 30+ years of my life, I've been watching WWE. As a kid, Monday Night Raw hooked me from the start. From Bret Hart and Razor Ramon, to Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, to CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.. I've witnessed the ups and downs and I'm proud to have enjoyed pro wrestling through the years.

Though I now watch in a much different fashion than I did when I was a kid (finding out Vince McMahon was the owner and Jack Tunney no more than a figurehead was like finding out Santa Claus did not exist), I feel like I have a much greater appreciation for the hard work pro wrestlers do and the things they sacrifice to entertain us.

It's still real to me, dammit!