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Granted, it's probably not that difficult to make tiny Zelina fly, but Liv fuckin LAUNCHED her with that corner dropkick, jesus.

Man it's really hard for Seth to pull off the "I will beat you in your house in front of your wife" promo when you know Beth Phoenix would wipe the floor with his bony ass.

Christian is one of those sneaky tall people you don't think is that tall. Cole is kind of the opposite, you know he's small but you see him with average (by wrestling standards) sized people and he's basically a dwarf.

Holy shit I never realized how much I want to see that team until right now.

I mean, WWE probably has ownership of that as part of buying WCW, right? It won't even cost you a damn penny Vince!

Behold the power of BOOGZ! I'm only half joking too, it seems Nak has really stepped it up since being paired with him and doing the whole King gimmick,

Justin Roberts doesn't bother me, he sometimes does what I guess is the ring announcer equivalent of "getting your shit in" but it's never been enough to actively distract me. Then again everyone pales in comparison to the Fink to me, dude was like a reverse Mike Tyson with the booming voice coming from that body. I know a lot of it is just natural talent, but it seems like no one really teaches ring announcers how to project like he did.

He doesn't give star ratings for MMA, no.

Yeah, like I can almost see "Curtis Axel" because he really didn't look or wrestle like his dad, but BRON BREKKER's whole deal seems to be designed to put it front and center who he's related to. Having him out there like a wellness-approved Rick Steiner while forbidding the announcers from saying it is just bonkers.

Dave went hard into MMA in the 00s, partly because UFC blew up big and partly because wrestling was kind of in the doldrums at the same time. There probably were way more five star indy matches at that time (in fact I'd be certain of that) but even today if it doesn't happen in PWG he doesn't tend to notice it.

Because there's a very good chance he would be a star anywhere he went and even though they aren't hoarding talent anymore they are loathe to release someone like that. Also saw an Adam Cole interview where he mentioned his main roster discussions involved him changing his name and look, and that made him even less interested in signing with WWE. Their obsession with everyone having to be something they created and control even if it means throwing away an established name/character is such an underrated aspect of WWE's difficultly in creating stars. It's really hard for a new talent to become successful when their whole presentation just screams "artificially created for maximum corporate control".

I know he's firmly in the "beloved legend" phase of his career but Arn being a babyface just feels so unnatural. I need my Andersons to be evil bastards who will stomp a mudhole in your face if you cross them,

The problem is it will be hard for them to not come off as as discount Miz and Maryse if they go that route, even if I agree it sounds promising.

It really is pretty remarkable how pro wrestling went from only seeing homosexuality as something to get heel heat with to have several groups running entire cards devoted to people of all sexualities being open and honest about who they are. It's not perfect of course, but seeing it become more accepted than it's ever been in really a relatively short period of time is one of the really cool things that have happened.

Flair and Cena really came off as assholes toeing the WWE line that he wasn't good enough. I tend to agree with Jericho, the whole Boy George thing was classic WWE bullying though. From the less-than-subtle symbolism of coming out of a box dressed like a gay stereotype, to Undertaker (the guy famously upset that he hurt Hulk Hogan until he checked the tape and realized he got worked) just killing him with chairshots including one to the head with the upper part of the chair.

Haven't watched yet, but saw a clip on Twitter where Jim Mitchell tells the tale of Kanyon calling him to take the heat for the giant box of gay porn that tumbled while people were helping him move. That was an impressive display of improv skills to find out your (best?) friend is gay and immediately go along with whatever story he came up with without missing a beat.

I'm sure that was the intent of the character, but I doubt they were expecting to see it on Fox News to be used as spank bank fodder. WWE is normally pretty good at avoiding that stuff as seen by them purposefully ignoring the former occupant of the White House despite being BFFs with the boss.

Fox News did an article about how the character was WWE trying to own the libs by making a "woke" character to make fun of.so I'm sure they didn't want that kind of attention out there.

Beat them by like .01 too, lol. But yeah, the goalposts are somewhere past Jupiter at this point for the "AEW is a failure" brigade.

The best part is you know Marko would be 100% down for this.

I mean for all the "Cody is the HHH of AEW" talk, at least he was self aware enough to not put himself over the guy who's getting much better reactions than he is. That's 100% the opposite of what Hunter would have done in that case. Hell, he probably would have hit the Pedigree and taken five minutes to cover him for the pin because the other guy's last name is Black.

Normally I'd think Metalik would get the "you can work anywhere but AEW" release and hope he goes back to Mexico, but he could just hop to AAA and face AEW guys there.

This has been a real fun show so far.

Sting clearly is having as much fun in there as everyone else is working with him.

I could see them being a really fun heel act again like when Cody was doing his post WWE indy tour.