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It was pretty much just A Show. I'm getting caught up with everything this weekend, and the Heyman/Theory interaction made me think Paul E probably gave that same speech to about a dozen people in ECW back in the day.

Apparently Two Dimes survived his attempted whacking and showed up on a Dark taping.

For some reason it's never mentioned that the WON/F4W site is part of the Sports Illustrated family, with all the horrible design that entails.

It's kind of weird TK hasn't started some kind of ROH show yet. I know TV deals can be messy and take a while to iron out, but he can either put another show on YouTube for the time being (or rename one of the Dark shows to ROH) so they can have their own space to work.

Now the TV-14 era is being pushed back, seems like there's a tug of war going on. I would imagine USA is pushing for it for the reasons I stated above, and WWE probably doesn't really want to blow up all the work they've done getting respectable sponsors who were thinking they are still doing Attitude Era stuff in 2022.

You're right, but a lot of the time people take the "well if I'm not going over, this match is going to be shit so I'm going to dog it" point of view.

I would imagine it's probably harder to be super professional and sell your heart out when you're losing, especially if you might be thinking the reasons you are losing are bullshit, but the audience shouldn't be able to see a marked difference in effort one way or another because of it.

Apparently this is in part due to USA feeling the pressure of the Turner/Discovery networks coming at the "#1 in cable" title that the USA Network had so much pride in.

All I know is if Alexa's get any smaller she's going to end up with a UTI.

I mean.... it did work pretty well the last time they did it after a generation of being family friendly (by WWE standards).

I guess they noticed that the blood matches in AEW pop numbers.

AEW as the territory for scary dudes who are also in touch with their emotions is amazing.

Also I just realized the Christian/Griff deal was a callback to the famous "WHO THE FUCK IS GRIFF GARRISON?" skit from BTE where the Dark Order thought he was Jungle Boy and Mr. Brodie Lee had to set them straight.

Oh no, the bots have got Tony!

Now would be a good time to point out that the Bucks are some of the all time greats in terms of match layout.

Holy shit that main event was BANANA

TK turning Dark into Pro Wrestling This Week and I'm here for it.

LOL at Regal basically saying BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT only William Regal-style.

THE WORLDWIDE LEADERS IN SPORTS...........ENNERTAINMENT

Huh, so they actually ended up doing the "have a fun competitive match" with Wardlow and OC........and it worked out pretty well.

PWO 2.0 BABY!

https://www.oncinematimeline.com/people/axiom-serradimigni Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric fame) about to become interested in NXT.

As much as I hate to say it, I think we might owe Vince Russo an apology. Everyone blames him for that but it's been going strong in WWE for like nearly 30 years after he left.

When they showed the Axiom mask my first thought was "did Serpentico jump from AEW?"

Konnan mentioned on his podcast that Santana and Ortiz are not on good terms at the moment. That probably explains why (before the injury at Blood and Guts) they weren't around as much and hardly ever in a tag team match. (also I know Konnan has been a known bullshitter at times but IIRC he's close with both guys and wouldn't have any reason to make something like this up)