The Thread Killer

See, now THAT would work!

Point well taken, some of her bizarre facial expressions are worthy of, well… Kenny Omega.

Rancid now?! Back in my day, we had country music at the Great American Bash, and up north we had Rick Derringer.

I don’t know who that unkempt youngster with the long hair and loud guitar is but he needs to stop with all that racket. Some of us are trying to watch rasslin here.

I really hope Ruby wins this. I don’t understand the hate she seems to get around here, and Britt’s act is getting quite stale IMO. She is the overrated one, you ask me.

I liked the match, but I think the outside interference was unnecessary, and I would’ve much preferred to see Joe win.

Damn…this match is excellent.

I don’t mind him, although I have found him pretty underwhelming since he jumped to AEW. Also, I swear his arms are getting skinnier. Who knew that the version of Adam Cole we got in NXT was the jacked up version.

Somebody forgot to give Samoa Joe the memo stating that he is supposedly old, washed up, and no good anymore.

LOL that’s awesome. And then he gives a giant cheesy grin and a thumbs up lol

Can you imagine the fired up promo we are going to get from Brian Pilman Jr. in response to this?!

Well, I for one did not see that coming

The only criticism I have (and I know it’s kind of goofy) is with the HOB. They have scary, intimidating music. They have scary, intimidating costumes. Two of their members have scary, intimidating names. The other one is named…”Buddy.”

Man, when PAC is on, he is ON.

Let’s hope Athena gets the respect she deserves, finally.

Why did Jade deliberately sit-out into a choke?!

That’s a good point, and I guess it applies to both of them. They need to stop trying to wrestle like it’s 1998. They are older, have injuries and need to adjust, and they could still be interesting. They could even lean into all that Broken Universe stuff as part of the process. More brawling, less high flying.

It started off pretty rough, but to their credit they managed to pick it up. Considering the fact that Jeff lost his boot, and both of the Hardys have lost a step, that was probably better than it had any right to be.

Matt seems to be starting to get a bald spot which is not a good look when you have your hair like that. I was not expecting that finish.

Exactly my thought. If this is a work, it’s the dumbest work ever. I’m no professional, but it is my understanding the whole point of angles is to make people people buy tickets or order a PPV, not to discourage them from doing so.

Same. I was going to order this show for sure, now I am on the fence. $50 is a lot of money, and the only two matches I really wanted to see badly are MJF/Wardlow and Punk/Page. All this uncertainty about MJF showing up combined with no FTR might make this show a pass for me.

Did a bit of digging, turns out the Regal pod will be permanently cohosted by Matt Koon. Conrad is cohosting the first Foley pod for sure. Jon Alba is now cohosting DDP Snakepit.

It looks like Conrad is starting to hand off some of his hosting duties. He still technically cohosts the Prichard podcast, but I heard they just taped a ton of those in advance because Brucie is very rarely available. But I would imagine Conrad will continue to host that show if at all possible, considering it is pretty much his flagship podcast. Conrad still does the weekly watch along podcast with Tony Schiavone, as far as I can tell. Ditto 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff. I think he continues to do those shows because 83 Weeks has also pretty much moved to an all watch along format. I would imagine Conrad does not need to do much preparation or research to simply sit there and comment during a watch along. Paul Bromwell is a friend of Conrad’s who did business with him, and when Ad Free Shows got off the ground Conrad hired him to help run it. He has slowly started filling in for Conrad when needed, but to be honest it seems like he has pretty much taken over as the permanent cohost of JR, Kurt Angle and Arn’s shows. A lot of fans seem to hate this guy. He does have a voice like a bad FM radio DJ…he sounds kind of smarmy and disingenuous, so I can see why people don’t like him, and prefer Conrad. I don’t know if it is true, but I get the impression he doesn’t know anything about pro wrestling. JR and Arn’s shows have gotten beyond stale anyhow. Neither of them sound like they even want to be there, at least they haven’t the last few times I have checked in and tried to listen. And Bromwell being the cohost sure ain’t helping things. Conrad seems to be sticking to co-hosting Jeff Jarrett’s shows and the DDP/Jake Roberts show as well. And of course, Conrad is doing the Ric Flair podcast as well. He can’t pawn his Father-in-Law off on Paul Bromwell. Even though I bet he would like to. Conrad has hired an indie announcer named Jon Alba to co-host Matt Hardy’s podcast. Alba is pretty good. He at least sounds like a professional. Conrad has hired him to do a couple of other exclusive interviews and one shot podcasts for AFS. Road Dogg now has a podcast and it is co-hosted by some guy named Ryan Katz or something like that. That dude is awful. I guess he used to wrestle in XPW and worked behind the scenes in NXT later. I don’t really have any desire to listen to a Brian James podcast, but even if I did I could never listen to it with this guy as the cohost. I assumed that Conrad would be cohosting the two new shows but I don’t think he will be. It sounds like Matt Koon is going to be co-hosting the Regal pod. So I guess he and Conrad are working together again. I know he used to work for him back in the very early days of STW, but then he left. Koon isn’t bad as a cohost. I think his background is in advertising and music but he seems to know a bit about broadcasting. I don’t know who will be cohosting the Foley pod, but I sure hope it’s somebody good and not Bromwell or Katz. Bottom line is, the AFS lineup is now: Something To Wrestle 83 Weeks Grilling JR My World with Jeff Jarrett What Happened When ARN The Kurt Angle Show DDP Snake Pit To Be The Man Oh...You Didn't Know The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy The Gentleman Villain Foley is Pod Kliq This with Kevin Nash

I remember back then, they announced that Superfly Snuka’s cousin was coming in, and I was super excited because I had been a huge Superfly mark (in my defence I was just a kid and didn’t know Snuka was a coked up murderer at the time.) Then “Superfly Afi” made his debut and after seeing him wrestle I was decidedly less excited. Then they changed Sivi Afi’s gimmick to “High Chief Afi” and put him with The Islanders and I still wasn’t excited. Then Tama left and they decided Haku was King Haku and put a crown on him, and I was confused more than anything. EDIT: Here is Afi’s debut with Haku and Tama against Brady Boone, Outback Jack and…Steve Blackman?!

It’s official… The new Conrad/Regal podcast debuts next Thursday, and the new Conrad/Foley podcast debuts next Friday.