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FWIW, Konnan was hoping to get Kenny for TripleMania, but he was never officially booked because he was out with his injuries for so long. They've been doing an angle where multiple people are jockeying for the match (including Juvi hilariously shooting his shot on social media). Once they finally reached out, shit had already gone down and Kenny was on the naughty list.

Sanga/Von gonna slap some meat too

That must have been Bill Watts' #1 pet peeve, when JYD left for the WWF the year before he would go on rants for like two TV shows in a row about how despicable it was for no showing the last couple shows he was advertised for before leaving.

Hunter should make sure the entire crowd for Smackdown is made up of Bray Wyatt Lore Fetishists, they could legit blow the roof off the building.

Really is a testament to her as a performer to have a can't miss gimmick that they somehow miss on anyway and be like "well then I'll just come up with something BETTER then". That's crazy.

I love that the story here is that Rhea fucked the geek out of Dom.

Miz gets WWE stuff over better than anyone I've ever seen, legit GOAT level.

Hey, Dom's just trying to honor his father.

There was a QR code in the background when they showed Theory prepping for his match, which led to a page indicating whatever the White Rabbit deal is for will be revealed on Smackdown this week.

lol, kind of a low key diss by the Profits wearing Giants themed gear when 49ers star (and known pro wrestling superfan) George Kittle is in the front row

Bayley is amazing

Meanwhile, Bobby and Seth are having a good one out there.

It's not going to be the same without having Regal yelling WAAAAH GAAAHHHMES so what is even the point?

The thing with Bray, is even if Hunter can get him to focus, the issue is it will still fall apart once he has a match.

I wonder what the laws are, would they be able to fire him if they agreed to keep paying his medical bills? That would seem the best outcome for all sides. Punk gets covered for the injury he got in their ring, and AEW gets to rid themselves of a major source of drama.

Having said that, someone on the WON board jokingly suggested it could end up with Nattie doing a goth Queen of Hearts gimmick and I laughed mightily.

Yeah this one of the most interesting things they've done just for how un WWE it is. The company famous for beating you over the head with things doing an angle entirely via word of mouth on social media. Not gonna lie, if it is something Bray related I'm kind of interested in what his stuff will look like in this new world. Everything he did started off really interesting before petering out. Was it because Bray didn't really have any ideas other than how to kick off a new gimmick? Was it because Vince liked it and started fucking with it until it was trash? I wouldn't mind finding out.

If you're talking about "Jane", she wasn't part of Jefferson Starship by that point.

This was reported first as being done off-air during Raw, and now it seems WWE is doing this at the houseshows this weekend as well. The lights go dark, the song plays briefly, and then everything goes back to normal like nothing happened. Fans are doing the Bray Wyatt firefly deal when it happens, but Karrion Kross acknowledged a tweet pointing out that was his Lucha Underground gimmick,

WCW had a lot of great outdoor shows, plus the spring break Nitros were always fun.

One of the coolest shows I ever attended was a JCP house show here in like 1987 or so where they opened the roof of the Civic/Mellon Arena here which didn't happen very often.

Outdoor venues are great visually, but they can pose a challenge for the wrestlers. There's been more than one AAA show where the ropes got wet and caused chaos, like what happened when AEW was doing pandemic shows outside.

He definitely was a draw in the sense of "big star from another world enters MMA, how will he do", but I got the impression that was all gone after he got starched by ham n eggers.

I can't imagine all parties weren't given a million admonishments to STFU until the whole investigation/legal process works itself out. Still, if there's one person who would say something anyway....

The thing about going to streaming services is while you'll probably get a buttload of money for it, you're going to have a pretty big loss of viewability. Major League Soccer just signed an exclusive deal starting next year with Apple TV, which is going to make them a lot of money, but instead of having the reach of ESPN and Fox (their former partners) they will have the much smaller Apple TV audience.