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I guess he flew out and back just to do that promo so there's a pretty decent chance those were his actual feelings at the moment.

Apparently a lot of the teams split up in the draft didn't even find out about it until they saw it on social media. Another sign of a completely normal company that is a cool place to work for.

With AEW proving non WWE wrestling can be viable, this is probably the best time for Impact to land an actual decent US TV deal for the first time since the Spike days.

He looks like a guy who's completely run out of fucks to give. You want me to take a crazy ladder bump on a Raw everyone will forget ever existed the second it ends? Sure boss, whatever you want!

KO's just trying to get the rest of his contract to end as fast as possible.

I hope someone has an intervention for Graves to let him know the molester 'stache isn't working for him.

Yes, he was a huge fan and they even did the bit where he passed the Shotei on to him.

The Moose stuff is what it is, but the team fka as the IIconics winning the titles on their first night in is some classic TNA "former midrange WWE talent gets positioned ahead of everyone in the company" move. AEW has shown the way to take those folks and rehab them in a way it doesn't come off as looking like also rans in WWE can walk in and beat your existing folks.

I distinctly remember when Rob Black was threatening to kill a dog live on the internet, and at first everyone was like "yeah ok whatever dude" until it looked like he was actually going to do it and there was a mad scramble among the community of the time to find out where he was and contact authorities. IIRC cops were able to locate him and his response was basically "it's just a prank, bro" before that was a meme.

Funny, after learning about the history of all this I went to NJPW World and watched some matches there of WWF guys in Japan from like 83-85 and stumbled upon an Inoki/Sakaguchi vs The Machines match. It was hilarious to me how the announcers were like "Yeah that's Andre and the Masked Superstar there" when the whole angle in the WWF was supposed to be all wink-and-nod "who could this giant in a mask who's built and moves exactly like Andre be". I remember there being a WWF Machines match where either Gorilla or Bruno supposed it could be Giant Baba under the mask so maybe this was New Japan giving them a receipt.

Bryan vs Dustin is a match I would have assumed would have already taken place by now but somehow tonight was the first time. That kind of blew my mind.

Apparently this all started with Becky calling her "plastic" in a promo a few weeks back and Charlotte went all Michael Jordan over it (as in "....and I took that personally")

Who's enjoying life more at this point, Bryan or Mox?

I know how everyone here just loves themselves some Good Brothers, but it looks like the AEW/Impact agreement is up after Bound For Glory.

Pre 1985 WONs were an interesting process in Dave finding what style and frequency of publishing worked for him. Also apparently he's kind of sensitive about those years since that was one of the reasons Todd Martin fell out with the crew over there. Him and Alvarez were doing a bit where Todd would revisit 80s Observers and (allegedly) Dave put the kibosh on that.

Jesus, that sentence just kept getting worse the more I read it.

In discussing what happened yesterday, Dave noted that Fox had been lobbying to get Charlotte on SD for a while and kind of implied in the usual Dave way that would probably be a factor in her not facing any consequences for her actions. She really has Vince over a barrel it seems, which I'm normally all in favor of, but it's gonna be hilarious if she ends up going full 90s HBK.

Not to mention they don't hesitate to kick someone out if they suspect that person is there to report spoilers (no matter if the person in question was actually going to do that) but will let this go on for months.

The perfect capper to this would be if Charlotte pulls some shit with Sasha next and her crazy stan army goes on the attack.

Most of Nia's incidents have been accidents due to her being sloppy. I don't get the impression she goes out with the intention of hurting people, shit just happens. Not that it's good that it happens mind you, but intent matters. Charlotte seems to have purposely gone out there to sandbag her co workers in a major angle. I know there's different rules for the top level people, but even then there's got to be a line drawn before someone decides to take matters into their own hands (like Bret ended up doing with Shawn).

Just because the whole title swap thing is dumb doesn't make it right for her to be an unprofessional shithead. I just wonder how many of these incidents Vince is going to put up with. Clearly he doesn't want to give AEW another star, but this is starting to become a pattern.

To be fair, the whole belt swap thing *is* fucking dumb and makes the titles look worthless (not to mention it makes the company look stupid for booking themselves in a corner like that), but for her to make it about her looking bad is silly. Also looking back at the segment, Charlotte was being an unprofessional shit and it looked like Becky was using all the restraint she could muster to not beat her ass on live TV. Plus it looks like Andrade had a " fu wwe" tweet too, so yeah. I guess we were all wrong, Charlotte was never HHH, she was HBK the whole time. I expect her to suddenly lose her smile next.

Charlotte and Becky turning out to be the female HHH and Rock both in ring and out seems somehow appropriate.

I want Kofi to be my personal hype man.

Good lord, Brock F5'ed Pearce out of his goddamn slacks.