The Thread Killer

They lost to the lol Browns.

Tyrus being gone was an essential move to improve the NWA. Investing in more high tech TV production equipment is a smart decision. Going back to the original concept of the NWA and bringing various Indy promotions under the NWA umbrella is an excellent idea. And an actual TV deal? That’s pretty huge. Unfortunately, all of those factors are pretty much negated by the fact that despite changes and improvements, Billy Corgan is still in charge, and the man is clearly a massive dumbass.

Like him or not, you can’t deny that after his very public falling out with Billy Corgan, Nick Aldis managed to land quite squarely on his feet.

“Yeet?” ”I don’t like that.”

YES! LA Knight vs. The Tribal Chief! YEAH!

Yeah, today has not been a particularly good look for him. He has reverted to his DVDVR shit-poster gimmick. You would think a guy with five different jobs would have more important things to do with his time than troll WWE. Plus, you know people in WWE are noticing how he is reacting, and now they are just going to bait him all the more.

Dude, speaking as somebody who has been posting here at NMB/PWO for 18 years…please just take the damn L and move on, already. Nothing good can possibly come out of continuing this conversation.

To me, I never expected AEW to win in the ratings last night. You can’t expect a TV show to switch nights once, and for the entire audience to follow them. I would bet there was a pretty large chunk of casual fans who either forgot, or didn’t even know that Dynamite was on Tuesday not Wednesday this week. Sometimes I think Tony Khan assumes his entire audience is perpetually online and hanging on his every Tweet.

Dude WTF

Either that or people love seeing Jericho get squashed by Hobbs.

Exactly. Not to mention that Dax went on the record saying that as soon as Vince came back to active duty in WWE, that pretty much killed any chance of them ever going back there. I think sometimes people forget that these guys publicly asked for their release and turned down huge contracts offers to stay in WWE in order to get away from Vince McMahon. As long as he is around, I don’t see them going back. Punk or no Punk.

The guy who was the alleged victim didn’t report it to the cops until hours later…after he went to work and worked his full shift…which is weird to me. If somebody pointed a gun at me, you can bet your ass I’d be calling 911 the minute it happened. But hey, if Wheeler actually did it, and they can prove he did it, then I don’t care what happens to him. If you are dumb enough to carry a gun around and point it at people (who aren’t pointing a gun at you or threatening your life in some other way) then you deserve whatever happens to you. But I just don’t believe everything I read. If he gets convicted in court, then I will be more likely to believe it. I worked in the criminal justice system long enough to learn not to blindly believe someone is guilty just because they got charged. I would like to hear all the facts before I pass judgment, not just the allegations.

I heard the exact opposite, no footage and no witnesses, but I was planning on waiting to pass judgement until it goes to court and all the facts come out. But you do you, bubba.

That Tag Title match was pretty damn good.

Holy shit! I didn’t see that coming! I don’t hate it, though.

I thought this week’s Dynamite was just okay, at best. I found it way too talky, and there seemed to be a disproportionate amount of segments involving “character development.” Poor Tony K can’t seem to strike a balance between talk and action.

I agree that the Lesnar/Ambrose match sucked, but I find the story behind it especially hilarious. Moxley basically went to Lesnar and suggested doing a bunch of the ridiculous crap that he would later become famous for doing every single week on Dynamite…stupid Indy garbage, weapons, blood, and other typical Moxley crap. And Lesnar just shook his head and said “Nope. We’re not doing any of that.” Then Lesnar basically squashes him, and Moxley is so upset about it he goes and bitches about it on Austin’s podcast. And then gets a receipt from Heyman in that Inside the Ropes interview. All that was way more entertaining to me than the match ever could have been.

WWE didn’t want Nakamura and Styles at Wrestlemania, it was AJ’s idea and he had to talk them into it. And then it blew up in his face when Nakamura under-delivered and gave a forgettable performance on the big stage. Kind of like he has with every single other big match and angle ever since he showed up there.

I guess at this point, it looks like they are leading into MJF vs. Jay White for the World Title at Full Gear. I am sure that will be a perfectly serviceable match, but I don’t see White as much of a threat to actually win. Then again, if MJF’s contract really is up on December 31, Tony needs to get that belt off him ASAP. I’m not convinced he hasn’t already signed a new deal, but whatever.

There was a TV channel in Hamilton Ontario, which had a close relationship with the WWF. CHCH TV 11. They broadcast Maple Leaf Wrestling on Saturday afternoons and also at 7 PM on Saturday evenings for the longest time. The last 15 minutes of every Saturday evening episode always had an exclusive Maple Leaf Gardens feature bout as the Main Event of the TV show. The amusing thing was that the main event match on TV was invariably one of the prelim matches from the previous month’s MLG house show and more often than not featured Jose Luis Rivera, Tiger Chung Lee, SD Jones or at best, Hamilton’s own Iron Mike Sharpe. The play-by-play was always Gorilla but the colour man usually rotated. If you were lucky you got Jesse Ventura. If not, you got Jimmy Hart, Luscious Johnny V, or the truly dreadful Billy Red Lyons.

That was a lot of fun.

After that performance I really hope Tony Khan doesn’t let The Workhorsemen vanish back into the Rampage/ROH invisibility vortex. They looked good there, they deserve more. If we have to see the damn Best Friends and Dark Order on TV all the damn time, why not these guys?

I agree. I never would have thought that I would mark out over somebody carrying shoes around and throwing them at people, but here we are.

From what I remember, Hennig was pretty much used up by that point. I remember that he had a match with the Bulldog at Spring Stampede 98 that was particularly hard to watch. A good part of the blame for that lands on the Bulldog too, but I still remember they both looked awful and at one point they were using the ropes to hold themselves up. It was really sad, I have never forgotten it.

Is Moxley legitimately hurt? That finish looked messed up.