The Thread Killer

It’s also possible to be friends with a person who holds political beliefs you don’t agree with. Glenn Jacobs might have beliefs that Danielson strongly disagrees with, but I have heard Danielson talk about how much he respects him as a person. The Vince deal is different obviously. I myself have a couple of friends who have wildly divergent views from mine, but I still care about them and consider them very close friends. If I was to discover that one of them had done something unethical or illegal, that’s a different matter. For me to be friends with somebody, I have to have a basic level of respect for them. Based on some of the things that we have heard Vince has done, I don’t know how easy it would be to respect him as a human being. Then again, I guess loyalty goes a long way. I know a lot of people feel extreme loyalty towards Vince McMahon due to things he has done for them or opportunities he has given them. I guess everybody has their own different limit of how far that loyalty will stretch.

I don’t know how true it is, but I have seen rampant speculation that Dave Meltzer and AEW have begun to fall out of love with each other.

This week’s episode was about Foley’s match at Hostile City Showdown with Sabu. I found the episode to be pretty lacklustre and disappointing. I am a massive Sabu mark and was disappointed that there was very little discussion about him in the episode. I was hoping for some insight and didn’t get any. Foley seemed really lethargic this week and not into it, his memory was terrible. Conrad kept reading quotes from Foley’s book about the match and there were a couple of occasions where Foley said that he hadn’t remembered specific things that he himself had put in the book. He had a hard time remembering his actual reasons for quitting WCW in 1994, he actually ended up contradicting himself. Like I said, he seemed really off this week. Next week the topic is WWE Vengeance 2007. Not looking forward to that one at all, I didn’t even realize he had wrestled in the main event of that show.

If you believe Meltzer, Punk’s comments about Page were unplanned. I read elsewhere online today that my suspicions were correct, that interview Page gave last weekend was legit and he really doesn’t have much use for listening to advice or feedback from veterans. Apparently that rubs Punk the wrong way. Some are even reporting that there was legit tension between them leading up to their match when Punk won the title. Considering the way Page has been presented so far in AEW, walking around crying, carrying a glass of booze and hanging out with the Dark Order…maybe he ought to start listening to advice from veterans. Aside from that very brief period before his title win, he hasn’t exactly been setting the world on fire. And in that interview he gave at the convention, he kind of comes off like a bit of a jackass. I don’t think he’s had the kind of career so far where he can afford to be turning down advice from anybody, and if he does I don’t think it would kill him to be a little bit more respectful about it.

I hadn’t noticed that. I must have been too distracted by his copious bacne. I am sure I am probably in the minority with this opinion, but that Main Event did nothing for me. It came across like a choreographed tumbling routine. Not to mention, Kenny hadn’t even made it down the ramp before he was irritating me with his facial expressions and mannerisms. I didn’t miss him. There, I said it.

If they had to stick Wardlow and FTR in a six man match at the PPV, couldn’t they have picked one of the other million six man combinations or stables in AEW? Why does it have to be against these three guys? I don’t mind Lethal, but Dutt and Singh? Come on.

That bleached blonde security guy is getting more screen time on Dynamite than FTR ever does.

Memo to Jungle Boy: You have to hold the microphone in front of your face if you want people to hear you. OMG…AEW fans are doing the “What” chant?!

I was kind of hoping that the team that has been working on the independents lately, of Pillman Jr. & Brock Anderson, managed by Arn, might start happening in AEW?

Austin Gunn is SO strong that when he throws a punch, he doesn’t even need to connect…just the breeze is enough to knock somebody flat on their ass. Seriously though…WTF is this the night of the shitty looking strikes or something?! And while I’m bitching, FTR and Wardlow are both super hot right now, I can’t believe TK is putting them in a six man tag match with the geek squad at the pay-per-view.

No! No Hager! No Hager!

When I saw those punches, I could hear the voice of Stone Cold Steve Austin in my head: “Hell son, lay your shit in!”

That was my thought. AEW does have a history of using out of the ring stuff like that to build angles off TV, so maybe it was. It just struck me as too much of a coincidence that Punk would say those things about Page right after that interview got publicized.

I thought the exact same thing. For a guy who is supposed to be one of the biggest brawlers in Pro Wrestling, his punches looked like shit. He’s been working in GCW too much. Those were Janela punches. Still in all, great segment though. It’s just that Punk is on a level above Moxley, and that segment illustrated it clear as day.

I have to give huge credit to CM Punk, he actually managed to make me interested in seeing a Moxley match…which is not some thing I thought would ever happen, ever.

I think it might have something to do with that interview Page gave last weekend where he basically admitted that he does not listen when veterans try to give him advice. I don’t know if it was a legit interview or not, if it was I imagine it probably angered Punk, who is a big fan of respecting veterans and the people that came before him. That sounded like what he was alluding to. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hangman-page-says-he-s-too-stubborn-take-advice-takes-pride-trial-and-error

I think at this point, if the Bucks have anyone other than Omega as their partner, you are going to see some very upset fans. Even if it’s Adam Page, who has done precisely squat since losing the title. Also…I really don’t get this Daniel Garcia push. I know he barely ever actually wins a match (the recent win over Danielson being the obvious exception) but it’s more that I can’t believe the amount of TV time Garcia gets. He’s on TV practically every week, or at least it feels that way to me. And skills wise, he’s okay I guess but I don’t think he warrants the amount of attention he gets, especially compared to some of the other younger guys in AEW. Maybe I am missing something, I don’t know. But to me, Daniel Garcia does not come across as a future face of the company or a guy you build around.

I’m siding with @C.S. on this one. In my opinion, Gilbert > Janela. Mind you, in fairness I believe… A Potted Plant > Janela.

I was thinking the exact same thing myself. It’s not his fault, but Dolph is pretty much ruined at this point, as far as I am concerned. I can’t take him seriously. I don’t even know how they could salvage his character now. I just can’t buy him as a top name, he’s been habitually devalued too long. And I am highly unconvinced that Theory has “it” as well.

I specifically remember that episode of 83 Weeks. Bischoff claimed he had no idea DX were outside the area until after they left, because if he’d known they were there, he’d have let them in. Bischoff claims he was in the ring, live on the air at the time it happened. Conrad claims Bischoff is lying, and that Bruce Prichard (who produced the segment and was there) claims they showed up at the area before the show had even started, while the fans were still outside waiting to be let in. Conrad and Prichard claim the segment was pre-taped and that is proven by the fact that it’s still daylight in the segment, which it wouldn’t have been if the segment was live.

That story was in Foley’s book, plus Foley and Austin rehashed it when Foley was on the Broken Skull Sessions as well. It’s one of Foley’s favourite stories. Foley even admitted during the Austin interview that the story doesn’t hold up particularly well in the current climate. It can come across as homophobic even though I don’t think it’s intended that way.

Okay so here's the deal... Early this morning, I made a post in which I meant to imply that Mandy Rose is so attractive, if I worked with her, I wouldn't be able to resist acting like a loser and whistling at her, or asking her out for a drink or whatever. I used the term "sexual harassment." A couple of people replied and said my joke was inappropriate. I became defensive and said I wouldn't delete the post, and if you didn't like it too bad. I admitted that my post was in poor taste but said I wasn't going to delete it. Since that time, it was brought to my attention that my post could conceivably be interpreted as condoning rape or sexual assault. I also realize (upon reflection) that there is a much finer line between sexual harassment and sexual assault than I'd probably like to admit. I would hope that it goes without saying that I would never actually sexually harass a woman, and I certainly do not condone rape or sexual assault. I have gotten involved in more than one argument around these parts over the past 15 plus years about how people should be able to say whatever the hell they want, and if that offends somebody...well that's just too bad. I know I didn't intend to imply that sexual assault is funny, but what I intended really doesn't matter. That's kind of like throwing a rock into a crowd and then claiming that you weren't aiming at anybody in particular. It was still stupid, you still hurt somebody, and that's not cool. If I wrote something that legitimately upset or offended somebody, then that is on me not you. I don't want to offend or hurt somebody. (Well, at least not the people I actually offended.) So I deleted the post. I am not saying that I am not going to continue to make unfunny comments and observations. I am not promising that if somebody takes offense, I might not tell them I don't care. But in this case, I do care. And in this case I was wrong...so I'm sorry.

I heard Punk is still in really bad shape and could barely walk at some convention he appeared at recently?