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Long before an incredible main event between Sasha Banks and Charlotte Flair, which ended with the WWE Raw womens championship changing hands for the fifth time in four months, Mondays episode simply felt different.There was an energy within each segment that was tangible, which is something that has been scarcely felt during the past fourth months, as Monday Night Raw routinely came in second to in-house rival SmackDown Live in the court of public opinion.Raw has always been able to handle the big, unpredictable moments with spectacular ease, but crafting a consistent storyline within each feud hasnt come as easily. All of that appeared to change Monday, as WWE presented three hours of pro wrestling that seemed to flow with ease, as the dialogue was crisp and the action intense.In fact, it felt like more things were accomplished in terms of story lines in the first 90 minutes alone than in many other weeks combined. Only time will tell, of course, whether this was a one-off in the grand scheme, or a calculated change to the way the shows creative is presented.But the by-product was a number of compelling angles competing for top billing, including the rocky friendship between Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho, Sami Zayns growing unhappiness on Raw and an incredible promo from Paul Heyman promising vicious comeuppance for Goldberg at the hands of Brock Lesnar.None of those developments would have mattered as much in the overall scheme, however, had it not been for the physicality and pay-per-view quality of Banks title victory over Charlotte, which ended with a creative submission move using the handrail in the crowd in their falls count anywhere match.Anyone willing to waste emotion on the idea that seeing the womens title on Raw switch hands so often has somehow devalued it, is missing out on the overall impact of this incredible rivalry between a pair of female superstars who may one day walk away as the best in WWE history.Banks and Charlotte put on another classic on Monday, filled with high spots and dangerous intensity. Each chapter of their rivalry has helped illuminate the idea that we are watching something memorable -- on the level of classic feuds like Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart and Lita-Trish Status -- that will be talked about for years to come.If anything, the amount of title changes in such a short time has solidified just how evenly matched the two competitors appear to be. And the added storyline wrinkle of Ric Flair, Charlottes estranged father whom she fired as manager in May, coming out to celebrate with Banks only adds more potential fuel to the fire.By allowing a red-hot personality like Jericho to dominate the majority of Mondays show, only to give way to the companys best rivalry for the finish, WWE proved it has its priorities in order when it comes to its flagship brand.For one night at least, everything seemed to make sense on Raw -- all of the dots connected. For that, we should savor the flavor.Or as Jericho likes to say: Drink it in, man.Hits and missesFrom the attention to detail of Jericho wearing the same scarf that Braun Strowman rejected as a gift one week earlier, to Roman Reigns appearing as smooth on the microphone as, well, just about ever, credit Raw for a strong opening segment that set the stage for a great night. It also properly planted the seeds for the rift between best friends Jericho and Owens that created a cliffhanger of sorts entering next week. And while Jericho had many offerings for line of the night on Monday, his suggestion that Sin Cara was wearing a Jericho mask the previous week (as opposed to the other way around) was made perfect with the punchline of, Thats right, he got the mask of Jericho ... and he put it on, maaannnn.The parking lot brawl between Jericho and Seth Rollins provided the perfect contrast of intensity to the comedic segments featuring Jericho moments earlier. Rollins not only upped the ante of physicality by throwing Jericho into a barrier on the concrete; his pedigree on top of a random car was outright vicious:Did @WWERollins just make THE LIST? Probably, once @IAmJericho wakes up from THIS... #RAW pic.twitter.com/j46B6eKleB- WWE (@WWE) November 29, 2016But the best part of all may have been how oblivious the two guys in the adjacent office were to the fight going on right outside their window.Raw general manager Mick Foley was tremendous in terms of his intensity when he rescued Zayn from another beatdown at the hands of Strowman, before saying, You cannot win. You will never win. It does not match up well. Hes not a competitor. Hes not an entertainer. Hes a monster! Zayns comeback was just as strong, as he called Foley a hypocrite and someone who is in my way. The segment appeared to further tease the idea that a trade is brewing between brands, especially after Baron Corbins similar issues with authority on SmackDown Live.Ive said it before and Ill say it once more here: Tony Nese has all the makings to be the face of the WWEs new cruiserweight division for years to come. Pairing him with the heel support of Drew Gulak was a nice touch.While the majority of the promo Enzo Amore cut on Rusev and his wife Lana -- referencing last weeks backstage segment where a naked Amore was locked out of the dressing room -- was hilarious, and a nod toward the increasing TV-14 dialogue he has teased in recent weeks, the punchline may have gone a bit too far. Amore was the babyface in this case, which made such a crass insult on another mans wife feel a bit out of place when its taken that far. In this case, the follow-up beating Amore endured -- complete with Rusev kicking him in the crotch to earn a disqualification loss -- felt justified. Yes, Enzo had that machka coming.While it was great to see a trusted veteran like Mark Henry land a role in an upcoming WWE film Incarnate, it was sad to see him once again jobbing in the brief clip that was played on Raw.The bar scene in which Cesaro and Sheamus stopped arguing with each other long enough to team up in a brawl against a group of unruly patrons felt so much like The Attitude Era that it made for a welcome addition to the show. Somewhere in the WWE universe, JBL and Ron Simmons had to be smiling.No one has mastered the art of spontaneous trash-talking in the midst of a match like Owens, who ripped Reigns for his greasy hair while holding him down with a chin lock on the mat before exclaiming, Go back to football or whatever you were doing.From his unshaven visage to his jittery demeanor, Heyman showcased once again why hes the best in the world at what he does with his promo on Goldberg. Not only did Heyman put over just how much Lesnar took him lightly at Survivor Series, he did well to explain the story line humiliation and embarrassment that The Beast now faces, while teasing what Goldberg can expect when they see each other again at Royal Rumble. This was about as good as it gets.Move of the nightCharlottes moonsault onto Sasha Banks from the elevated announce table to the floor below was incredible to behold and just another example of the two female superstars continuing to push the envelope.In a #FallsCountAnywhere battle for @MsCharlotteWWEs #RAW Womens Title, The Queen will do ANYTHING to defeat @SashaBanksWWE! pic.twitter.com/DPDqc5K8J3- WWE (@WWE) November 29, 2016Line of the nightWell Byron [Saxton], listen up. My moral compass was thrown on the ground and stomped on seven years ago for the mistakes I made -- for the mistakes I owned up to. My wife was starving while you were goofing around on Twitter and youre going to tell me how to live my life, Byron? 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(Autographs thought to be legitimate on 8-by-10s even before his death were hard to find under $150, with his autograph on a boxing glove in the $2,000 range.)There are thousands and thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of fake Ali signatures out there, some are fresh and some are from the [FBI bust] Operation Bullpen days in the late 90s, said Harlan Werner, who managed Alis marketing exclusively for 19 years, ending in 2006. You couldnt buy a real Ali signed glove for less than $1,000 over the past decade, and you certainly cant buy one for that now. Yet real fans are buying them every day for these insanely low prices.Werner, who had a huge stash of legitimate Ali signatures, said he began liquidating years ago when he realized the fake Ali market was compromising those who had real signatures.Scott Mahlum of Mill Creek Sports, who has an exclusive deal with Russell Wilson, among others, has been investing in pre-1990 signed Ali autographs for years.So many of these autographs we are seeing now are all great, in the perfect spot, and theyre on photos that no one had access to when Ali had a signature that even looked close to this, Mahlum said.Alis might be the most complex signature of all time. Each year, it seemed to decline in clarity, beginning in the mid-90s, when the effects of Parkinsons disease began to take hold. Because Ali signed many of his photos with a date, its possible to piece together what Alis autograph looked like over time.Thats exactly what Shawn Anderson did when he found out he was duped with a fake Ali signed photograph more than 10 years ago. He started buying up dated Ali signed items and strung them together on a website to show Alis autograph from the 1960 through 2003. Over time, he became an expert in Ali signatures.In the last 10 years of his life, Alis autograph was not good because of what he was going through, Anderson said. People today are looking for a good clean autograph. You can get one, but if its cheap, its more likely than not that its a fake.Anderson, Mahlum and Werner all say that, in their opinion, one of the companies that has been authenticating Ali signatures sold after his death has been authenticating fakes.That company is GFA. Stephen Rocchi, who founded and runs the company, says he stands by every signature that GFA authenticates, and if someone claims what they bought was fake, hell buy it back from them. Hes only had to do that once since 2011, he says, with a Mickey Mantle autograph that he still believes was authentic.Rocchi says his company gets bashed because, unlike the leaders in the industry, he said he doesnt let politics get in the way of authenticating pieces.We dont pay attention to how many autographs someone brings to us or who they are, Rocchi said. We make it only about the autograph. We have exemplars, we match the autograph in front of us to the exemplars and have 15 points of authentication and if it matches, we call it real. We dont have deals with auction companies like the other guys do, and we dont know dealers. Its better that way.When told that competitor JSA failed a GFA-certified Ali signature at a recent show, a signature that had been bought on eBay after Alis death, Rocchi said thats because our competition will fail anything with our sticker.Rocchis competition also includes industry leader PSA/DNA, a company Rocchi was the president of in 1999 when it essentially invented autograph certification for the industry. Rocchi asserts that its in PSAs and JSAs best interest to hold down populations of what they deem to be real Ali autographs so values stay up and their higher authentication fees can be justified.PSA, for example, says it authenticates more than 500,000 autographs a year. Rocchi says GFA does fewer than 20,000.Rocchi also says he will put his lead authenticator, John Gorajcyzk, who worked for nearly two decades as a forensic scientist for the Phoenix Police Department, up against those at JSA and PSA.When told of Rocchis comments, PSAs lead authenticator, Steve Grad, dismissed claims that competition and clientele lead to authentication bias.GFAs Ali signatures, which weve a lot of recently, are failed by us for one simple reason -- they dont match any exemplars of any previous Ali signature, Grad said. They are a created hybrid of many things Ali did, but the flow and the pressure in them is all wrong.Grad said, in his opinion, it looks like the GFA-certified Ali autographs were signed by a woman.I watched more of Ali sign over the last decade than any authenticator, Grad said. These are juust not close.ddddddddddddThe battle between the authenticators over Ali got even nastier when Authentic Brands Group, which bought Alis licensing rights in 2013, entered the fray.ABG has formally objected to hundreds of postings on eBays auction pages since Alis death asking that they be pulled, ABG attorney Bridgette Fitzpatrick confirmed.She said that the company, with the help of an unnamed reputable authenticator, goes through the postings every day and alerts eBay to stop auctions with Ali signatures that they believe are frauds.Outside the Lines found that at least 200 of those pulled included GFA-certified Ali signatures.EBay does not pull auctions itself, as certain legal rulings have established that the marketplace does not have any legal liability if a person buys a fake on the site. The site does however have a program called the Verified Rights Owner program VeRO, where established rights holders can apply to have the authority to, with cause, work with eBay to pull infringing items.Julien Dudouit, eBays global intellectual property manager, confirmed to Outside the Lines that the site was working with ABG on Ali and that items are being taken down quickly.EBay maintains that less than .025 percent of its listings in 2014 were identified as being potentially counterfeit, but in the case a counterfeit claim is justified, Dudouit said the site offers a money back guarantee.Outside the Lines traced the movement of some of the Ali-signed photographs that were posted on eBay.Many of the Ali autographs, which were then authenticated by eBay sellers by GFA, come from South Florida dealer Tony Podsada, who runs a company called SCM.At one point, I had about 18,000 Ali autographs, Podsada said. I have about 3,000 left, mostly on 4-by-6 and 5-by-7 photos.Podsada said he obtained the Ali signatures from 1988 to 1993, when his business, My Favorite Players, was one of the heavyweights in the industry.Podsadas items do not come with a certificate of authenticity. Disenchanted with the authentication business, Podsada said he merely offers buyers the assurance that its a decorative item only.I believe what I have is real, but I dont guarantee anything because I know too much, Podsada said.Podsada will sell a 5-by-7 plaque with an Ali signature for $19.99 because he says that the leading authenticators, PSA/DNA and JSA, will fail his items simply because of the quantity he has. That makes it harder, he says, to make a greater margin.Technically, Podsada is losing money on the deal. He said most of the signatures he obtained came when Ali was charging $7 each. Factor in inflation and the cost to store them in what he says were vacuum-sealed bags in a dark storage facility and its almost a wash.I sell it cheap because I have to eat like everybody else, Podsada said.What Podsada said he can guarantee is that PSA and JSA have failed some of his Ali autographs which he says he personally witnessed. He also said that he talked with ABG when they first bought the business and they told him that the d was off in Muhammad in the Ali signatures he had.They might have known only one type of d, Podsada said, there were six to eight different ds that he made.One of the buyers of Podsadas Ali signatures has been Rod Iman of RBI Sports Inc. in North Carolina. He has sold more than 9,800 items on eBay and estimates that 2,500 a year are autographs which he then gets authenticated by GFA, by far the largest seller of GFA certified items on the site.Iman had some of his best days in business on eBay in the days following Alis death. But it came to a halt on June 10, the day of Alis funeral. Thats when Iman said his eBay account was frozen and he wasnt allowed to post new Ali items for a week, after eBay informed him that ABG had asserted its rights as a rights holder and alleged trademark infringement.All 21 of Imans active listings were taken down, and he hasnt sold an Ali item since.I called eBay and asked them, What case did the Ali people make? Iman said. They couldnt give me good answers.Iman says he believes all the Ali items he has sold are authentic. If you were going to forge Ali, why would you forge when he had a good signature? Iman asks. Wouldnt it make more sense to forge the scribble?Even so, Iman, like Rocchi and Podsada, said he will give back money to someone who contests the signature, which he has done in recent weeks.Those who claim that certain Ali signatures are fake often bring up the prices that these autographs have sold for after his death, a time where the value should jump.In the past month, 55 GFA-certified items have sold on eBay. Those items have sold for an average of $106.41 Include the GFA price of $25 for authentication, $20 to Podsada and eBays 10 percent take and a sellers margin on Ali items, before shipping, is less than $46 per autograph.Rocchi said hes proud of the low cost that is being delivered to the consumer, saying this is the way its supposed to be. ' ' '