The Thread Killer

You must be a barrel of laughs when you go to parties.

I was going to say…not hard to figure out the colour scheme if you know anything American football. The minute I saw the colours I thought “Okay, they’re playing in the Eagles stadium so they’re using their colours. Makes sense.”

Not surprised about Drew Gulak. His brother Rory was a notorious sex pest who got blackballed from the industry. I guess it runs in the family.

Especially when your hiring strategy seems to be signing every wrestler who ever lived.

Hey @KawadaSmile did you (or anybody else I guess) see the A&E Biography Special on Roman Reigns that aired tonight? I thought it was pretty good. It was produced and directed by Paul Heyman, and I found it a bit weird that part of the show was pretty much sticking to “Kayfabe” if such a thing is even possible anymore. Parts of it were definitely done in character. But it was still really good, especially if you are a Roman Reigns fan, which is why I couldn’t help but think of Good Bubba KawadaSmile while I watched it.

I agree. A lot of the territories were consistently drawing big houses every single week. I really believe the whole myth that wrestling didn’t consistently draw big crowds or TV ratings until the 80’s was just rewritten history from Vince and the WWF.

As a Torontonian, I am glad Copeland and Christian got to do this match in Toronto. I bet it means a lot to them.

And to the surprise of no one, Booker admitted today that he made the whole thing up for fun, and to “entertain” people. He then chastised people for falling for clickbait. Yeeeaaahhh.

Especially since by all accounts, Punk has been pretty much drama free and hanging out in NXT trying to help out while he’s rehabbing his injury. The last thing anybody needs is Booker starting shit with another one of his pointless worked shoot works.

Not to mention, remember that whole stupid worked angle between Booker and Corey Graves which turned out to be totally fake and entirely pointless. Booker is King of Clickbait.

I want to scrub the ball shaving story off my brain with steel wool.

I think that was Daniel Puder, not Rodimer.

I thought the main reason for the new set is because they are planning on running smaller arenas due to their terrible ticket sales. Apparently the old set (especially the lighting rig) was too big to fit into most of the smaller places they are now planning on running. That’s also why they got rid of Raffael Morbi and brought in Kosha Irby. Rumor has it TK finally clued into the fact that blocking off half the arena and averaging 2-3000 fans in a 15-18,000 seat area was making AEW look more like WCW. I hope it works for them. I am all for AEW running smaller “ECW sized” arenas. It really adds to the atmosphere to have a packed house in a smaller arena as opposed to a 3/4 empty house in a big arena. They are back in Toronto soon, and they are running the Coca-Cola Coliseum (7000 seats) rather than the Scotiabank Arena (18,000 seats) which is a very smart call.

Unless you beat up Jungle Boy. Then you gots to go.

You hit it on the head, that’s pretty much the main issue right there. I don’t even hate Kelly as much as some people, but he stunk on Collision and seemed uninterested, unmotivated and ill informed. Tony Khan probably should have just fired him when Schiavone took over, but of course TK doesn’t fire anybody.

That’s hilarious. Billy’s probably cussing up a storm. “Why couldn’t WWE try and sandbag OUR TV deal? Oh yeah…because we couldn’t get one.”

I can’t see how, honestly. Their promos are just SO bad. I can’t figure out if they’re deliberately doing cheesy, unbelievable, goofy, scripted and contrived promos as a way to try and make some sort of meta-statement about Sports Entertainment…or if they just suck. Either way, this shit is horrible.

Serious question…is there anybody who is actually enjoying this poor man’s WWE heel act that the Young Bucks are currently doing?

I would have stripped down until I was wearing nothing but cowboy boots, covered myself in baby oil, done a huge pile of coke with a bunch of hookers, and then started smashing shit with a baseball bat until my heart blew up.

That was actually a decent promo from Rollins for once, if not a little (or a lot) long winded.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact the 49ers players weren’t aware of the new NFL overtime rules. Like, nobody in the organization thought that maybe that might be an important thing for them to know, going into the biggest game ever.

I am pretty sure I discussed this either in this thread or the other one about TNA being the worst company in wrestling history. Anthem are a Toronto company, and trust me, they suck. They aren’t interested in being number one, and I don’t even think they are interested in presenting a particularly good product. They are interested in “content.” They just want stuff to fill airtime. Anthem own The Fight Network and they used to have contracts to show all sorts of interesting stuff, NOAH, New Japan, ROH, Pancrase and most notably they even used to be the exclusive home of the UFC in Canada at one point. Then they started losing money. So they started cancelling the agreements to show all that different stuff and started showing crappy martial arts movies and infomercials. At some point, they realized that it would be cheaper for them if they just bought TNA from Panda Energy and made The Fight Network the home of TNA. Once they did that, they started flooding the channel with TNA content, because the library is so huge. But they aren’t interested in competing with WWE, AEW, or anybody else. They just need content, cheap content for their crappy channel. They also own AXS in the United States and I’m sure it’s the same there. They buy shitty little TV channels, and they want content to fill the hours. I honestly don’t think they are interested in being a major player in any way, shape or form. That would involve spending money and they aren’t interested in that. At one point The Fight Network used to be good until they bought it. Then they ruined it with their cheapness.

They’re going to find him in the trunk of a car in Stanford Connecticut, with a “WWE Attitude” shirt draped over his face.

Is the big announcement tonight Mercedes Mone? Or will Tony shock us all and announce a tournament for a brand new title? Oh yeah, and for those of you who saw this thread title, and now have the song “Mony Mony” stuck in your heads…you’re welcome.