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Twitter Request Line, Vol. Triple-Deuces

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THINKING THIS: EAGLEA It's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past and present, and answer them on here because 140 characters can't restrain me, fool! If you don't know already, follow me @tholzerman , and wait for the call on Wednesday to ask your questions. Hash-tag your questions #TweetBag , and look for the bag to drop Thursday afternoon (most of the time). Without further ado, here are your questions and my answers: E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! That is all. #TweetBag � Vlad Radinov (@thepartytsar) January 31, 2018 I'm ready to run through a brick wall, Vlad. I swear to God. Tom I've now missed two radical eclipses in the last six months due to the peculiarities of weather and geography. How do I find the will to go on? #TweetBag � Brock Obama (@NotBrockJahnke) January 31, 2018 Well, it's not much, but Nick Gage is defending Absolute Intense Wrestling's Absolute Championship against "Hot Sauce...

Stephanie McMahon and the Point of a Heel Promo

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McMahon should probably not talk on RAW anymore until she's ready to bump Photo Credit: WWE.com Wrestling is storytelling; I'm pretty sure even the most intensely antagonistic groups towards each other in this culture war can agree on that. In any story, every beat, every plot point, everything a character says has to have a point, a purpose, or else it can and should be edited out. Whether it be foreshadowing, catalyst for action, comic relief, exposition, or some other reason that can be justifiably defended, each element has to serve some kind of end. So it's not only fair to ask why certain people do certain things during a three hour telecast of Monday Night RAW, it's pretty much essential. In that effect, what is the point of Stephanie McMahon coming out and degrading various people on the RAW roster whenever she appears? The knee-jerk answer is that "she's a heel, duh," which, I get it to an extent. McMahon gets heat, so of course, that might seem  ...