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Indeed, that was fantastic pro wrestling.

CMLL trainee Warrior Jr, also known as Black Warrior Jr was announced as having passed away at 24. No cause has been officially mentioned, but there were rumors that he suffered some sort of severe spinal injury back in August and since passed from that. What makes this notable is that his father Black Warrior is the nephew of Blue Panther and he was married to one of the daughters of Negro Casas, making him related to two great lucha families. He was only 24 years old, and had two children with Omii Casas.

DDT's twitter just posted a video from Christopher Daniels saying DDT wrestlers will be appearing in AEW.

Gable Steveson finished up his amateur career tonight by winning his second NCAA championship to go along with his gold medal from the 2020 Olympics. He did the whole "leave the shoes on the mat" deal so I would assume he will be showing up in WWE shortly.

Kane's kind of been a lesser Undertaker in more way than one, not the least of which was being put in positions for most of their careers where having a good match wasn't the priority (or in some cases even possible).. He's been shown to be a perfectly acceptable WWF/E Big Man Style wrestler who's main flaw has been having paired with a guy who does everything he did only better. He's the Kendall Windham to Taker's Barry.

While his demons are widely (and correctly) discussed when talking about Scott Hall, it's very seldom mentioned the incident before he got into wrestling where he had to kill a guy in self defense that seemed to be the trigger point for them. Makes me wonder how many other people who get written off as irredeemable addicts got that way due to mental health stigmas in society.

Always impressive how much of a natural Pat Mcafee is at this

Yeah I watched shows from AAA and GCW on FITE and it was pretty smooth, so I'll probably do that for this too.

lol wrestling journalism is funny sometimes, everyone fighting to be the first to report that Cody has signed with the only other company that could pay him what he was looking for. Like I get it, but mf'ers act like they just solved the JFK assassination.

IIRC it even made its way to the National Enquirer or some other supermarket tabloid.

Looks like the show is going to be on Honor Club too, so I guess Tony wants to keep that going as well.

While I agree Wardlow is not going to be putting on any five star matches or cutting world class promos, he's caught fire with the crowd and there's nothing more primal in pro wrestling than a big dude going out and killing other dudes. AEW should absolutely ride it while its hot, since not doing so is one of the things WWE does that pisses everyone off.

lol damn, I've driven two hours to watch a TNA house show in Bumfuck West Virginia, two hours to see a WWE show in a big ass stadium seems like a no brainer for me.

This reminds me of the old DVDVR thread that imagined HBK and HHH as a long term couple working out their differences and I love it.

Seems like a huge amount of fans make it to Mania every year from the UK, one would think this wouldn't be seen as too far a drive them.

We should all take a moment to recognize what an improvement the new women's title is over the original.

It 100% has to be. The part where he talks about knowing what people say about him online was a giveaway to me. Also when he began talking about Garcia's wreck and paused after saying the date (January 6th) was a big tell too. Dude's super online for someone his age and there's no way he's not working that to his advantage here.

Those rules would make for a 100% better show than what we're likely to get.

If Coach Tony wants to make the whole show just 2 hours of Regal slapping the shit out of some fools, I'd be okay with that.

IIRC Drake was hitting up co workers under the guise of "fighting child sex trafficking", and who''s going to say no to that? I think a lot of those donations came before he went full mask-off looney tunes.

I laughed at that and also Regal telling JR he was influential in his career and Ex "did nothing for me". It's been a while since Regal got to stretch his villainy muscles and it's great.

Aubrey's hardcore

Funny how if these two try to have a wrestling match it's kinda bleh, but when they fight it's fucking fantastic.

I think Britt has a secret Mick Foley fetish

I was literally just thinking this is a great AAA style bloodbath and then a ref bump