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The most frustrating aspect for me is Glasgow, and potentially Scotland, will now be tarred as a “poor seller” because we probably have more people that just refuse or simply can’t afford to pay these prices than say a London or Manchester would so it’s doubtful I’ll see a big event on my doorstep again for a long long time.

Right now a seat 11 rows from the back of the building (furthest away available) is £303.50 just for the Clash event and a seat 9 rows (furthest away available) from the back for the Smackdown event is £191.25. The cheapest duo ticket as a resale for 2nd row from the back is £400 meaning the original buyer paid around that.

Looks like BBC have taken the ticket price story on, my mate is one of the quotes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg39e53jvdpo

Individual tickets on sale now. Not that I’ll be buying them, cheapest I could see 2 seats together was £470 each.

They hyped Ricochet as inaugural Speed champion and showed the pic of him with his belt then rendered it so meaningless as he’s not arsed about carrying it about with him. Why should I care if he doesn’t?

I much prefer the current system of not everyone has to wrestle or appear every show. It makes the matches and appearances that little bit more special and stops characters getting oversaturated. Gunther v Sheamus, while granted is a good idea at any time, only sounds better in France now with hindsight of the crowd.

I think The Rock lingering is really going to affect Cody’s reign. What reason is there to have an interest in him or his feuds the next few months knowing that it’s all just filler until The Rock or Roman returns? I mean it’s fair enough at Backlash because this event is always the same for knowing the outcome and you can’t do much to change that but where does he go after AJ as far as a credible threat goes as you say? I reckon it will have to be an Orton turn which is a real shame as I’m loving this version of him. Long term storytelling is great and something we should definitely have for the big names but sometimes things just need to pop off unexpectedly too and you need to find another way to get there. Wouldn’t be against Cody losing the title to someone around SummerSlam and chasing until the Rumble to keep things interesting. I’m not really in for a year long Cody reign - he had his moment but ultimately suits better as a chaser.

A hot crowd can make a show where nothing is really happening so much better. They were excellent. And I want to know that phenomenal song asap.

Apologies for the double post but there’s been a small twist here. Johnny has decided he wasn’t actually a victim and is on Vince’s side again.

My main takeaway was that Logan Paul had a titantron video and I hope that’s the start of their comeback.

Believe most of them are about merchandise rights etc. that save WWE money rather than about paying a wrestler regularly for being a legend. They have dead people on legends contracts through their family so it’s definitely something that’s a money saver for them rather than “job for the boys” stuff.

According to Sportico, Nick Khan has filed to sell all of his TKO shares. I wonder if he’s jumping before he’s pushed here. Not sure why he would get rid of his interests in the company.

We’ll boo any politician here, we even hate the ones we vote for.

Due to the Euros game, I wouldn’t have went to the SmackDown show so far too obscenely prices for me to justify the combo ticket cost just for the big event. In fact to be honest, even with no Euros game I’d probably have refused to pay the prices on offer. Cost me less for a flight, hotel and ticket in Cardiff than the prices that were coming up for me for the back row when I live 20 minutes away from this one.

Not sure how it applies to sub-contractors but the FTC today voted to ban non-compete clauses and make existing ones null and void except for senior executives which may be of interest when discussing releases. I know a lot of wrestlers have actually said they like the non-compete as they can regroup a bit while getting paid.