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The hilarious thing is they were pulling people off the house shows to preserve the show (since they want Day 1 to be an annual thing), and especially wanted to make sure Roman/Brock/Heyman were there since it was essential for the Mania build....and this still happened.

Protocols could just mean he was around someone who tested positive, which god knows is an almost certainty in WWE. Hopefully it's just a precaution and he's not actually sick.

So Lio Rush posted that he spoke with TK and from the sounds of it, looks like they hashed it out and have a better understanding of each other's point of view so that's a surprisingly positive outcome from a social media firestorm.

Thing is, even if you think Swole is full of it and even if she was a pain in the ass to work with....TK has shown multiple times he has a quick temper and doesn't respond well to criticism. It's just usually it's been reserved for Fullham fans and AEW fans by and large never saw it before. It's actually shocking to me he didn't have one of these moments over the Jaguars after the dumpster fire their season turned into.

Welcome back from your adventures in Hyrule, bubba!

Speaking of Tay on Twitter, the photos Sammy posted of their New Year's celebrations seem to confirm that they're an item now which I'm sure won't cause any problems with the mental cases who blamed her for Sammy and his ex fiancée breaking up a while back.

TK is adamant AEW will never run against the NFL so I don't think they will ever run against Raw unless Vince decides to run on a Wednesday one week just to fuck with them. Which I can totally see happening since I'm thinking the TBS move (and not having the west coast viewers watching out of prime time) will give them a bump to the point they will probably be at least neck and neck with Raw in the demo if not beating them.

Yeah he pretty much did the same thing to Fulham fans who were mad that they didnt feel enough effort was put in to signing players last year, so he did a similarly pissy tweet about all the players they were talking with but didn't land a deal, which wasn't the solid comeback he thought it was.

It is very much a bad fuck up for him to tweet that even if you agree with what he said. Not to mention a lot of black indy wrestlers on twitter are not happy to see Tony tweeting like that. Swole was hardly the only person to point out AEW's diversity issues and for the boss to just dismiss them with a "well you suck" is terribly unprofessional.

That match was way better than I was expecting for sure.

The merits of Swole's work aside, it's pretty messed up for the boss to tweet like he's still shitposting on DVDVR. It costs nothing to just either say nothing or if you have to say something just keep it to "it just didn't work out" platitudes.

Wow, TK really responded to Swole saying she left AEW partially because of their lack of diversity by drunk rage tweeting that he didn't renew her contract because her wrestling wasn't any good. Which.....is not really the way you should respond to an ex employee saying they thought your diversity was lacking.

Yeah even if there was a plan to do that, there's no reason to have any confidence it would have made it to Mania.

TNT/TBS obviously loves Cody, not only is he on that Go Big Show, they also did that reality show as well. Dave hasn't said anything about there being any pressure on TK to keep Cody a face, but you'd think that keeping his TV partner happy has to be in his mind on some level.

I would wager the legal team (and maybe Big Dad Shad) nixed mentioning Urban, since he was fired for cause and there will almost certainty be a legal case about him trying to claw some of that money back (if he wasn't fired for cause Urb could collect the rest of the years on his deal).

I'm not one to push for more titles, but goddamn if any promotion ever was begging for six man titles, it's this one. They could have the most balls out trios division in history with this roster + guys visiting from AAA.

Dave mentioning the plan seems to be for the big feud to be the Bucks/Kenny vs Legally Distinct Undisputed Era once Omega is back (said to be in February).

Fightful dropping news that Miro was taking time off to rest a hamstring injury and that's why the only matches he's done since dropping the TNT titles were the ones he was filling in for Mox. I suppose that's why he dropped the belt and that explains why Sammy's reign seemed like it had no direction.

Toni was left weeping in the corner like she was Seth Rollins seeing the Fiend, making it clear she was the biggest geek in the (WWE) universe.

Funny thing is I doubt any of these NIL signings will ever actually set foot in the PC, at least not the ones they are hyping. Like there's no fucking way the Cavinder Twins are going to put up with WWE and Vince's bullshit when they have that kind of social media following. Most college athletes are signing tons of these NIL deals too so if WWE thinks they are anything more than a side hustle for these kids they are going to be in for a rude awakening. Plus judging by what we're seeing in NXT 2.0 it's going to be a long while before any of the women there are anywhere close to ready. They got lucky with Bianca being a freak athlete who seems to be a natural at everything she tries, because they've been shit at making any women stars since the Horsewomen era. Making their own product certainly makes sense in a cost-benefit scenario, but it hardly makes good business sense when you've managed to let an upstart company get closer than anyone has in decades by telling logical stories and having great matches and your idea to counter that is green rookies and booking that gets thrown in the trash every Monday afternoon.

Word now is she worked her match, bought herself a ticket home and peace'd out without really saying anything to anyone. I love it, after all the stories of Stockholm syndrome-brained WWE people who stick with a company that is obviously not a good place for them, she just straight up pulls an Office Space and decides she's not going to go to work at a shit job anymore.

Maybe I have low expectations, but after two decades of having a monopoly a fun but average show doesn't sound too bad to me. Like if this is what passes for bad then sign me up/

I love how Kyle's official AEW shirt has the black and yellow color scheme.

If Cody ends up turning Dan Lambert babyface after all this I will laugh so hard

You had to have a Judas sing a long on the last TNT show