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Pretty much creating this thread to say Fujinami entered the Ranbo and did a Dragon screw on Bad Luck Fale.

Also Brock and Lashley having the meatiest of BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT matches sells me on the Rumble right there, they don't even have to fill up the Rumble for all I care. Let those two hoss all over the place.

Heyman made Big E a stronger champ in one promo than WWE did in his whole time with the belt.

Yes, and more importantly Big E was protected too. Everyone bumping like crazy in a row for Lashley's spears reminded me of when everyone used to do that for Goldberg in his heyday.

Beyond all the problematic things about Theory himself, this deal with Vince is just weird. You know they think this is getting him over by giving him the Vince Rub but he just looks like a doofus cowering to a senile old man

Per Dave, the idea is it makes TV viewers stick around to see the match if they do it that way. No idea if there's any data that shows it works, but that's the idea.

I was just about to hop in to point out I saw him use it there, but I remembered it was as clip from Dark that they showed on Dynamite. Wow....I mean I didn't think that deal was going to change the world or anything but they sure snuffed it out before it got out of the gates.

Welp, looks like Odyssey Jones decided to start 2022 off with a bang by being transphobic online.

Does she have anything to do with the day to day operations though? I was under the impression she is in charge of the legal stuff for the Khan family empire.

Shawn Dean has a role as an extras coordinator, and Sonjay Dutt is an agent, that's about all I can think of that would even remotely count.

Lots of talk about quotas and "what do you want, make a black person a champ just because" and not much talk about how people who they are building the future around and investing time into are largely white while any POC wrestlers at the same experience level are stuck toiling on Dark/After Dark or being wasted in factions like Private Party being put in HFO after they were one of the high points of a lot of the early Dynamites. Like, I don't think anyone believes TK is making a conscious effort to only push white folks, but it seems more of a case of not really paying attention. Like Lee Moriarty has been signed do a deal so there's no reason he should still be doing jobs, he should be in the TNT title mix already.

To be fair, Swole isn't the first person to point out diversity as an issue in AEW yet everyone seems to be acting like she said some kind of unspeakable horror. Perhaps she isn't the best one to be saying these things given her own abilities and apparent behind the scenes issues but it's not like she was alone in her views here.

Looks like that angle with Corbin and Moss pillmanizing Drew's neck was done to give Drew time to heal up a nagging neck injury.

WWE only brings sadness, never joy.

There may not be anyone alive who can take an RKO like Montez.

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.