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My issue is that I don’t think this is as one-sided as some people would like to believe. There is no doubt that “The Elite” have a shit-ton of friends in the AEW locker room who support them, and can’t stand Punk. Fair play, I have no doubt that is absolutely true. But I also think there is a sizeble contingent in that locker room that does NOT like The Elite, and even if they are not siding with Punk, they are certainly sympathetic to his position in all this. Some people on Twitter are trying to paint that as pretty much FTR and nobody else, but I don’t necessarily think that’s true. A lot of those guys are probably smart enough to realize that if they come out against the EVP’s, it could go very badly for them politically. I have seen it said, and I do believe it, that Punk is the first guy who actually has the juice to stand up publicly to The Elite, but there are plenty of others who would have liked to have done so before all this mess. Just guessing here, but I am sure there is probably a fairly large third group of guys who really don’t give a shit about any of this and just want the whole conflict to go away so they can work in peace. Those are probably the guys I feel the most sympathy for.

I don’t get how his beef was shot down. Everybody knows The Elite talks to Meltzer all the time. That’s a fact, not even Meltzer denies it. The Observer reported that Cabana was going to ROH basically at the behest of The Young Bucks and because of heat between Punk and Cabana. It’s literally right here for all to see. I don’t see where it takes a massive leap of reasoning to see where Punk is coming from.

Oh, well if Bix said it, then it must be right.

And Don Callis. And he was good buddies with Joey Ryan. It’s like the sex pest HOF.

You know Kenny really must have said it when even Meltzer is confirming he said it. He actually stood up in front of the entire roster and said that he wouldn’t have hired 80% of them. The current spin on the comment is that it was intended to be a joke (perhaps aimed at Will Osprey) but obviously a lot of people didn’t think it was funny, and it certainly didn’t go along with the overall intention of the meeting, which was to smooth out backstage tension and improve roster morale. Way to read the room, you dork.

Damn dude, that covers a lot of ground. I think The People’s Elbow, The Judas Effect and especially The Canadian Destroyer are worse.

Apparently the former Gran Metalik wrestled on Dark, under his old name of Mascara Dorada. I always thought that dude was awesome and criminally underused in WWE. Let’s hope this means we get to see him on Dynamite soon.

Just don’t let Bobby Fish know she’s doing that move. Apparently it’s a real issue for him when anybody but KENTA does it.

Yeah between the Jays playing Tampa Bay tonight and the premiere of MNF, that pretty much ends any chance of me watching Raw live as it happens.

I think the Nese tag team with Josh Woods has a ton of potential. Unfortunately they’ll probably never get used on TV.

If Triple H does put Gargano over Roman, that should be considered proof positive that he is essentially trying to murder his father-in-law from a distance, by intentionally giving him a brain aneurysm or stroke.

Good Lord. Since his contract expired, it looks like Bobby Fish has made it his mission in life to give an interview to literally anyone who wants it, in which he relentlessly buries CM Punk for an ever expanding variety of reasons, praises The Young Bucks, (and Triple H, of course) and takes a series of increasingly less subtle digs at AEW and Tony Khan for daring to decide Bobby Fish wasn’t worth re-signing. I have seen at least four different interviews he has given over the past few days with these themes, being reported all over. This dude is starting to come off as an unhinged jackass.

Apparently they just re-signed him. So Jericho claims, at least. *Insert double facepalm gif*

I’m all for Danielson/MJF at Full Gear. That would probably involve BCC mixing it up with Stokely’s new stable in the lead up as well. It could be a good program.

That was precisely my feeling. It was perfect, why change it? Just because they want to own the guy’s name, it’s so stupid.

I probably wouldn’t have a problem with them giving him a new name if the name they ended up giving him wasn’t so stupid. I am not one of those people that automatically hates the new names that they give people. I thought Aleister Black was a huge improvement over Tommy End. I think Damien Priest is better than Punishment Martinez. But “Bron Breakker?” C’mon.

I really hope that now that Vince is gone, Bron can go back to being Rex Steiner. I know it seems like a stupid detail, but that name Bron Breakker really doesn’t work for me as a top guy, it’s so stupid.

I don’t get it either. Aside from his size (which might be a problem for some, but it isn’t for me, and it definitely isn’t for the AEW audience) I don’t see any argument against pulling the trigger on Darby Allin and making him one of your top guys and a solidified Main Eventer. I guess if you want to levy one other possible criticism against him, it could be that his high risk style is going to make him prone to injuries or he’s risky to make that kind of investment in? But the thing is…AEW’s highest paid, top guy right now can’t seem to sneeze without injuring himself and ending up on the shelf for an extended period of time…so that doesn’t really hold water either. The whole working with/teaming up with Darby and Sting has been fun and everything, and has created some great moments for sure…but let’s be honest. In the larger scheme of things, they haven’t really done anything “big” with Darby recently. He’s just kind of treading water. The occasional feud or big tag match, and then back to the same old stuff. He’s had some big matches against guys like Punk and MJF but he usually loses those. I’m not convinced he would have scored the pin on Black at the PPV if Malakai wasn’t on his way out the door. I know there are guys who can get over and stay over without winning a lot of matches, but that can also be overdone. Eventually there are some guys who I think if they lose enough big matches, the fans just end up assuming they are not a top guy after all. I would hate to see that tag get hung on Darby Allin. He is one of the guys who you can honestly point at and say he is an AEW original, not just another WWE release they picked up. He’s obviously extremely popular, especially with kids, which is huge and I don’t think AEW has done anything near as much as they could have to exploit that. He’s got personality and charisma. He’s not a great promo, but he’s passable and those little vignettes he films are a great way of communicating without the standard point n’ shout Pro Wrestling promo. He’s pretty much unique, to me that should be promoted not ignored. So in short, yeah. Pull the trigger, already. Tony Khan, put down the yayo and push Darby Allin, dammit.

I’m good with a Danielson/Guevara final, with Danielson winning the World Title. I have no interest in seeing Jericho/Moxley again and I live in fear of the possibility that is the direction they are going.

So it looks like that massive doofus Devon “Hannibal” Nicholson was arrested and just got out on bail today. That guy is one of Pro Wrestling’s biggest scumbags, I almost considered devoting a thread to him, but it feels too much like giving him attention he does not deserve.

Yeah that whole story that came out about him filming people peeing was like…yeesh. Just when you think the stories about him couldn’t get any creepier…somehow they do. This dude is a train wreck.

As Meltzer reported, the rumour going around now is that Punk was seriously injured during the match with Moxley, not the fight…and that the injury is serious enough that he would have had to vacate the title again regardless. They’re saying torn pec muscle, maybe? Easiest fix for that is just have Moxley as the former champ fight MJF who is now the #1 contender. Do it at that big show in New York, and there you go. New champ, move on. Supposedly TK will be addressing the fight and the suspensions on the show tonight and I am morbidly curious about how that is going to go.

That seems to be pretty much common sense, that none of those guys would be at TV tomorrow.

I don’t trust Meltzer on this one. He’s friends with TK, Omega and The Bucks. I have no doubt that he would hold stuff back if they wanted him to, or even worse release information that has the spin they want on it. I am not one of those blind Meltzer haters, but I don’t think he can be totally objective on this story.

You're right. That's the funniest part of the whole Colt Cabana drama...long before Punk showed up, it's not like AEW was doing jack shit with the guy anyhow. He was basically a minor player in Billy Corgan's NWA of all damn places, before he showed up in AEW, did a forgettable angle with The Dark Order, joined them and then was basically reduced to standing around in backstage skits grinning like a doofus for the rest of his run. From what TK has said, Cabana is supposed to be wrestling and producing in ROH, it's probably a much better gig for him anyhow. Even if Punk did get him fired (which he didn't) it's not like he was a featured player, he was doing nothing. It's pretty damn obvious he was hired because of his friends and is basically on par with Michael Nakazawa and Brandon Cutler. But even they got more TV time than he did.