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Watching NXT, I liked the story of the first match a lot. MSK as the up and comers not getting any respect even after they won the titles until they beat the Grizzled NXT Dads is good stuff.

Yeah, considering his wife passed away it probably is good that someone his age with the miles his body has live in an assisted living facility. I was wary of my mom living by herself at that age and she wasn't doing moonsaults off balconies in her 50s.

True, but you can't grift the marks if you say you got fired for being an obnoxious tool bag.

My biggest issue was how it was basically the wrestling equivalent of right wing idiots screaming about "fake news" every time there's a story being reported that doesn't put them in the best light. I hate when journalists get demonized for doing their jobs, and it annoys me even worse when wrestling/MMA/sports fans in general think the media exists to carry the big company's water and never be critical.

That's the weird part, of all the times he's said stuff that might have warranted the response, this was the one time he didn't say anything other than she was seen at the PC and expected to return to WWE at some point. When you're going to start throwing fire bombs, you better make sure your aim is correct.

I don't blame her for going back, but to go so far as to publicly suck up to management by bashing "dirt sheets" who IIRC never said any bad or untrue thing about her is a letdown. It poisons the well against anyone reporting on the company and just feeds the stan mentality among WWE diehards who think anyone who says it's not sunshine and daisies is a liar with a grudge.

It's one thing to have a stupid lapse in judgement, but at this point Jimmy seems to be in clear need of help. It's not like he's just barely hitting the limit, dude's been at the minimum double the limit if not higher every time. To me that takes it from "didn't time that after dinner beer right before heading home" to "trying to navigate a vehicle while being totally fucking hammered". Guess we'll see how WWE handles this one since he's technically the level of a guy who would normally get endeavored for the bad PR, but also has the family connections that would allow him to face no real consequences.

I don't have any direct evidence, but knowing everything I know about both WWE and how Florida's legal system works I'd be willing to bet cash changed hands to make the prior DUI go away. I think that was also the one Naomi claimed she was driving as well.

That Meltzer Botches account is one of the creepiest things around. Literally only exists to stir up shit and turn people against Dave.

I was able to watch Smackdown last night, since I was driving back from Orlando on Friday (no I wasn't training at the PC, lol). Not having Roman appear while leading the viewer to believe he was going to show up at the end to attack Edge was certainly a bold choice. Also Edge is looking so much like a caveman these days I half expect Cavernario from CMLL to sue him for gimmick infringement. Also, and I'm not saying he's on that level now or close to it, but I'm getting Vader vibes from Serious Bad Guy Otis. Not just because he did a Vader Bomb, but just the way he's working now reminds me so much of Vader and I think it's a much better fit for him than "wacky fat guy who does the worm". Zelina's return out of the blue was cool, but putting her right into MITB made no sense kayfabe wise and Liv is 100% right to say just automatically putting people in there with no qualifying is bullshit. Also while I don't blame Zelina for going back to WWE business wise, it was a little disheartening to see she went back and deleted her pro union tweets and went right into typical WWE hivemind by bashing the "dirt sheets" for making up lies about where she was going, despite the fact that Sean Ross Sapp pretty much nailed that she would be going back to WWE down to the day she would be showing up. I just hope she got a raise to come back to make looking like a complete corporate tool worth it. Big E/Shin vs Apollo/Corbin was a fun tag, but it's weird they are doing what should be a sympathetic "life spiraling out of control" angle with Baron Corbin who has been consistently portrayed as an unlikable dickhead his entire WWE run. Plus they made Rick Boogz look like a real asshole following him backstage making king jokes to rub salt in his wounds. Bianca/Bayley stuff was fine, and I'm sure the match would be great, but the women really suffer more in this "every show is a million rematches" era of WWE since it really exposes there's only a handful of women on each show. The Man can't come back soon enough to save us.

Apparently all these years where Brandi was telling promoters he bought the gimmick from Wilkes was bullshit, and he just straight up stole it.

The thing is even when there was a backlash from the fans against Cena, he was always going over strong and was the clear top guy. He wasn't booked to have multiple "coronations" as the top guy that would end up getting changed at the last minute. Roman was dangerously close to getting the Lex Luger treatment and getting stuck as the guy who gets a million chances to win the big one and always comes up short until the Head of the Table run started. Personally I think Roman is a better performer than Cena, but I get that Cena's whole deal was mostly aimed at kids so I wasn't the target audience for what he was going for.

Listening to last night's WO Radio show and of course Dave is defending JR by saying what he did was a mistake but not a big deal and people shouldn't be upset about it. In a vacuum this would be fine except the guy has a history of mistakes and people like Dave continuing to defend him just makes it clear it will keep happening.

I loved how RVD would sell how hard he hit his opponent with the frog splash by bouncing several feet in the air. Made it look devastating so that if it took him a couple seconds to make the pin it was still believable.

Matt Bloom's just doing what the company wants him to do. Blaming him would be like blaming Michael Cole for the announcing being terrible. It's what the company wants and they are good at teaching that style.

I don't think it's that he despises it, as much as NJPW and AEW are so different from what he's used to it's alien to him. As someone who learned under Bill Watts, I understand that 100%. The problem is that not only that is he making zero effort to learn (like Tony has), he goes out of his way to grump about how it's not the style he's used to. Thing is, I don't know if it would be any different if he did go back to WWE. Could you imagine him calling the Ricochet/John Morrison match from Raw on Monday? Maybe if he was on Smackdown it would go better for him, but he'd probably strangle Pat McAfee after like 2 weeks.

Honestly, the problem is there's too many people who still think he's the guy they grew up listening to on Raw in the 90s (or WCW depending on their age) who just keep ignoring the ever growing elephant in the room that is JR on commentary. Like I can see excusing it on the beginning, the guy worked for WWE forever and the brain is going to autocomplete that sometimes when you're starting somewhere else. It's been literally years now and the guy is still making these mistakes. It seems like JR's entire post WWE career has been one long train of people making excuses for some very obvious and blatant mistakes. From clearly not doing any prep work for his New Japan gigs, to the multiple times he's belittled the product on AEW. And it's going to keep on happening until someone in power does something about it.

Looks like Rebel (not Reba) dislocated her kneecap tonight.

Sadly, I'm not joking. A great episode of Dynamite ending with an emotional look back at the Pandemic Era of AEW and all anyone is talking about is how JR did a flub *again*. It's clear at this point the only thing that will cause things to change is if Tony Khan makes an executive decision, I get it, no one wants to be the one who has to tell a legend it's time, but at this point it would be a mercy killing.

LOL he's already done the first part. His social media game is as predictable as his commentary.

It's fine, I'm sure JR will make some self deprecating jokes on Twitter and tell everyone to "lighten up, Francis" before making another flub next week.

That really was an awesome video package though, I think they managed to get every moment of the last 15 months in it.

Gotta love JR ruining a great end to the show by calling it "WWE Dynamite"

I love neither Kenny (who looks like he woke up and decided to rib Triple H with the Lemmy beard) or the Dark Order mentioning Hangman by name so that the crowd would chant it. Make 'em want it, classic booking,

Jericho really is good at the "putting stuff over" part of commentating.