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GOONTA and Jinny (last seen on NXT UK) having a celebratory dinner with Ludwig Kaiser and Tiffany Stratton.

I tried looking, but it said there was no content to approve so it might be an admin only thing.

I get your point but I don't think many people actually watch Level Up so it's not the worst place for folks to learn.

I feel it should be mentioned more that while Tony has done better than anyone who's tried to run against Vince/WWE in decades, he's still a newcomer to the business. Yeah he's been reading Observers/posting on DVDVR/fantasy booking forever, but he'd never had to deal with the realities of injuries or egos before starting AEW. Sure he has business experience running football teams on both sides of the pond, but we all know the wrestling biz is it's own animal. It's one thing to come up with storylines and feuds, but it's another having to deal with guys you booked months of plans around blowing out a knee. I think it's probably clear he most likely underestimated having to deal with egos and people "that doesn't work for me brother"'ing his ideas. The key is going to be how he learns from these bumps in the road going forward.

They're still basically brand new at this, Level Up is like AA level baseball. It's going to be a lot of rehearsed spots since they are so green.

my goodness, peak babyface idol Konnan vs heel Terry Funk tormenting the crowd would have been AMAZING

She's been improving a lot in a short period, I just hope they don't try to push her too quickly because her move went viral.

I would expect it's probably a reference to the weirdos who were obsessed with the bathing suit style gear from 80s All Japan Women. It's not like there being a creepy subculture of women's wrestling fans who are WAY into it and give off "this guy is probably on a list somewhere" vibes is somehow a new idea. Hell, I'd argue a lot of it probably came from wrestling mags in the 80s having apartment catfighting ads that were barely disguised pornos.

The benchmark in wrestling is "does it get over with the crowd", and for as much as you may or may not like it he's over with the NXT crowd. Unless you want to become one of those old cranks who shit on everything because it's not their cup of tea, sometimes it pays to step back and look at the bigger picture. Wrestling is meant to entertain the crowd, and sometimes the things that entertain them are things you won't like and/or "get".

I suppose nothing says "pro wrestling is a legit endeavour" like getting a foodborne illness.

Keith and Schiavone trading "oh shit" faces afterwards cracked me up.

God damn.

Edris Enofe got a WWE logo chest tattoo, which I'm sure won't be something he regrets later.

You know it won't be too long before NXT 2.0 fucks around and ends up as good or better than the old (new?) NXT. There's enough people who've flipped the switch and the Bron and Roxy types who are just born to do this shit.

You just have to watch it like a B level movie, which it kind of is.

TIL: Elektra Lopez is a second generation wrestler, her Dad was early 80s WWF jobber Steve King.

lol Woods getting in that Tyler Breeze name drop, good on him

Booker T: Motivational Dad is a million times better than pseudo heel commentator Booker T.

Zoey Stark has that Arn Anderson disease where she looks permanently 45 years old and I don't see that doing her any favors in WWE.

Man, just give Melo a mic and put him on Raw or SD and you'll have a big star all ready to go.

So apparently Mandy made like $500k *since* she got fired from WWE on her subscription site. Yeah, she ain't doing any bullshit pro wrestling anytime soon.

I think it helps that most of us are older and/or are veterans of message boards of yore and have kind of "been there, done that" when it comes to getting upset at differing prowres opinions. Like, the worst I would react to anyone's takes here would probably going "wow, ok" while re-enacting the Blinking White Guy gif before moving on. Ain't nobody got time for tracking someone down about their OPINIONZ 4 U about WWE

Well not death threats, but more like "I'm going to find you IRL and beat your ass" kind of stuff.

Lacey ended up deleting the tweets, and SRS is getting people in his DMs threatening violence against him for calling her out on spreading misinformation. He's spoken of his sister being nonverbally autistic and how he himself has ADHD, but I suppose that means less to some folks than a dumb fuck wrestler who gets her information from grifters (the person she is "learning" from just happens to have supplements you can buy that solve all your issues).

I have no issue with bringing in more meaty men to slap meat with.