Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane.

Speaking about the current steroid allegations facing Roman Reigns, Russo says he doesn’t consider this to be a big deal at all. He actually has no issue with grown men choosing to use steroids, and he compares it to some people choosing to smoke cigarettes. If you’re an adult and you’re aware of what you’re doing, why is this a big deal? He points out that actors like Sylvester Stallone have used steroids to prepare for movie roles in the past, so he doesn’t see why professional wrestling is so against this.

Lane mentions that PWTorch’s Wade Keller spoke about Johnny Gargano this past week, saying he’s a star who could really help turn 205 Live’s dropping viewership numbers around. Along with other stars such as Finn Balor and Hideo Itami, Gargano could make 205 Live entertaining programming according to Keller. Russo doesn’t agree with that statement at all, but he does give Keller credit for finally realizing that Balor needs to be moved from RAW to 205 Live.

In another audio clip, Keller said that Elias is only going to rise up and meet his potential when he stops playing his guitar in the ring eery week. Russo points out that if Keller had his way, he’d strip every character of their gimmicks. In this case, RAW’s roster would consist of 100 identical wrestlers with no character development or interesting gimmicks, and that’s not good.

Continuing with his thoughts on Elias, Russo thinks WWE’s booking of him has been brutal as of late. He can’t understand why they’d book Elias to be the opening act for The Miztourage every week when there are millions of other creative things they could be doing with him.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane.

Russo opens today’s show speaking about the recent interaction between Chris Jericho and Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin. Satin made an issue of the fact that Jericho dedicated his Wrestle Kingdom 12 match to Chris Benoit and Jericho swiftly responded, ridiculing Satin and saying he had his reasons for dedicating the match to Benoit.

Russo wonders that out of all the people in the world, wouldn’t Jericho be at the bottom of the list of people you’d want to fight with? Jericho has millions of fans and he’s also very smart and funny, so he’ll make you look foolish in front of all those fans. That’s exactly what happened in this case according to Russo.

While speaking about this week’s episode of RAW, Wade Keller of PWTorch said that he thought there was much more attention to detail and better acting than on recent episodes of the show. Russo wants Keller to give some examples of this attention to detail and great acting, because he didn’t see anything close to that.

Keller went on to say that Renee Young is “pitch perfect”, and she might be best of all time at her job, even better than Lance Russell. Russo disagrees with this entirely and doesn’t feel that you can compare anyone from this era to Russell or Gene Okerlund. He says that these interviewers have to have a personality and punch their time in the business before anyone can make those comparisons.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Russo opens today’s show speaking about The Bullet Club’s Invasion of RAW this past Monday. He has no idea what these ‘marks’ were trying to accomplish by doing this but if they were looking for trouble, they’ve found it because WWE issued a cease and desist letter. He says that these guys should be happy with the good living that they’re making on the indie scene.

He also points out that no casual fan has a clue who these guys are. They’re followed by the hardcore indie marks but the mainstream audience has no idea who they are, so it was obvious to him that WWE wasn’t going to open their doors to them on Monday night to invite them on the show.

Lane plays a clip of Wade Keller who says that he didn’t like the ‘training bra’ line utilized by Mickie James in her promo with Alexa Bliss. Keller says that WWE’s male writers always have to bring things back to breasts. Russo says that he spoke to people within WWE, and he can confirm that a male writer did not write that line. He also says that this line got the biggest pop in the entire promo but Keller doesn’t care about what works with the audience, he just cares about what he likes.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane, and they will attempt to ‘castrate the marks and their dirt sheets’.

Russo points out that this is all in good fun for him, and he doesn’t hate any of these men. Unfortunately, there seems to be some real hatred on the other side of the fence from guys like Wade Keller, Ryan Satin and Mike Johnson. To show his respect to Dave Meltzer, whose father passed away this week, Russo will not be discussing Meltzer’s comments this week.

The first clip of the day presents Bryan Alvarez ranting about the fact that WWE broke up Enzo and Big Cass. Alvarez says that there’s no wonder WWE’s ratings are declining when they decided to break up one of the more popular acts on their roster due to their constant search for ‘heat’.

Russo says that there’s something political going on in the background. He’s heard rumblings of Amore’s backstage issues stemming back to his time in NXT and that probably carried over to the main roster. Quite frankly, Alvarez is right in this case because Enzo and Cass were over, and the fans loved them. However, Russo’s smart enough to understand that heat draws money, and since Cass turned on Enzo the fans have been chanting Enzo’s name with more passion than ever before.

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