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Reminds me of Su Yung/Susie in terms of "how can those two gimmicks be the same person"

I don't believe so, but that doesn't make what WWE (allegedly) did any less illegal because it didn't work. Plus it still creates the impression to Vice that continuing to work with MLW will be a headache-by proxy if that's what they have to put up with which is bullshit. It's just WWE clumsily trying to do old school carny ass nonsense and the only reason they haven't been bopped for it is most of the companies they do it to are to afraid/can't file a lawsuit.

Also its alleged that WWE pressured Fox to cancel the deal that was made for MLW to stream on Tubi (which is owned by Fox) the day before it was scheduled to be announced. You would think if MLW has any semblance of proof here they'd have WWE dead to rights, but we all know Jerry Mac works best when it seems his client's a goner.

From what's claimed in the lawsuit, a (now former) WWE Executive went to one of the higher ups at Vice and told them Vince McMahon would be pissed if they kept airing MLW programming, and the Vice exec's reply was "why should I care if Vince McMahon gets pissed and also that's pretty illegal what you just did". This is not the first time WWE/Vince has been accused of doing this, just the first time the company that was targeted by it actually did something about it. Makes me wonder how much of the uphill battle other companies have to get TV clearance comes down to "the bosses at the station don't want to field psycho calls from WWE if we carry some other wrestling TV program".

I guess wrestling twitter owes Court an apology, everyone dunked on him for promising stuff that never pans out and now it looks like at least on two major occasions it was because WWE actively fucked with it.

MLW just filed suit against WWE for among other things, trying to get Vice to stop airing MLW programming. Apparently they've been messing with MLW's plans on several fronts including a streaming deal that supposedly was going to be "transformative" for them had it gone down.

NFTs are demonstrably worse, since it's the most obvious scam since the MLMs your former high school classmates push on Facebook. 90% of the people pushing them don't even understand what they are (you're literally just buying a receipt saying you spent money on something and nothing else) and the ones who do are just trying to get their cut before the masses get fleeced.

I will say at least the idea of "Commander Azeez" as a gimmick makes me realize I miss when managers would suddenly become military officers like General Skandor Akbar.

I also don't want to see anyone lose their jobs or anything, but I have no idea why Commander Azeez still exists. It's not even the usual "well duh, he's tall" when OMOS is on the same show as him

On one hand, this split personality gimmick for Damien Priest is kinda dumb.....yet anything is better than that Archer of Infamy nonsense and that silly entrance he had to do for it.

Missed opportunity there in Philly to not have Damien Priest be the dude with the deep voice from Boyz II Men

I love how MOMENTUM is somehow both the most powerful force in WWE and at the same time it doesn't mean jack shit.

This version of Brock is so great

After spending all this time in a place that pretty much let him do whatever, I wonder if he even wants to go back to WWE and their weird obsessive quirks. You have to think Vince is just itching to sign someone who is a star in AEW just to show they can't hang with the "real" stars of WWE like he did with all the former WCW guys

....and if we're being really fair, he keeps getting these comments because Cornette constantly implies he had a sexual relationship with Riho and therefore he's a pedo. Now any time Kenny mentions her he gets tons of Corny creeps in his mentions making the same implications.

I wonder what the plan would have been if Cody had not been protocol'd. Was he going to beat Sammy again? Lose the belt back to him after only a short reign and make beating him in the first place pointless? Seems neither option would have been optimal.

At first I was like "having someone land on a table your leg is pinned under must suck" but then I realized if it's Riho doing it then it's probably okay.

Dustin had only had maybe a week's notice (assuming he probably knew before the rest of the world), so I would assume he probably needs more time than that to get his cardio up to be able to keep pace with Sammy.

That was a really good match, all things considered.

That would be nice, but it seems like the goal was for it to be the successor to the US title as it was positioned in JCP where it was the #1 contender title/belt for main eventers not currently in the world title picture

Also that must have been a hell of a phone call to make "hey, look, sorry about sending you your shit back in trash bags but can you help us out here since we don't have enough women to fill up the Rumble?"

Hook has those "shoot fighter who doesn't want to fuck someone up for real so is noticeably pulling punches" strikes.

Also I'm always a little taken back by Hook's slim physique not in a "he needs to get on the gas" way, but a "I just assumed someone who's 50% Taz DNA would be stockier than that" way.

The show is tomorrow, right? Announcing it a day in advance is more than the WWE ever does for anything but COVID issues.

HOOK TIME