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I have to admit Max Caster "Best Wrestler Alive" has gone from stupid to brilliant for me. Say what you will about it, he got that over with the force of sheer will.

AEW's upcoming 2300 residency always makes me think about how TK said he went to ECW shows with his dad. Shad in the bingo hall with the mutants watching like Sandman and Sabu type shit is endlessly funny to me.

I can buy that Cena doesn't smoke weed, but the idea that anyone who spent decades in the business doesn't know how a bong works is pushing the suspension of disbelief more than an Erik Watts match. Also what do you know, Kross and Scarlettt showed up in GCW.

Winning the world title, having her dad play her to the ring at Wrestlemania, and now this. Naomi's had a hell of a great year.

So Naomi confirmed Big Jim put one past the goalie, good for them.

So a couple of things, Alberto is a babyface in AAA (yeah, I know) and their fans see WWE putting the guy they want ahead of the guy *they* want. The last few Triplemanias were terrible both in terms of production and in the ring, so by comparison this show was miles better than any AAA show in a long time. However there were some clear WWE-ized moments. For one, AAA has long had intergender matches (they even have a mixed tag team title) but in the 6 person match it was clearly men vs men and women vs women only. That's a big change for AAA since every big show usually had the "Antonio Pena match" 8 person tag where each team was a man, woman, mini, and exotico. Clearly WWE frowns on men fighting women, and I expect AAA fans, or at least the hardcores, will resent that. Speaking of hardcore, that was probably the lamest Pagano match I've ever seen. His usual style is basically death matches with bumps that would make Darby Allin pause, so doing a (relatively) save WWE hardcore match style is going to be seen as painfully weak by AAA fans. AAA fans are totally in on the joke with El Grande Americano. Especially now that they have a German guy pretending to be an American guy pretending to be a Mexican guy. I think the only ones who were offended were the lucha equivalent of the terminally online fans who just get upset at everything. Also surprised @The Thread Killer didn't know who Faby Apache is (the pudgy lady with the headdress). She's a legend, and a daughter of a legend. Kind of like a lucha Charlotte Fiair without the rampant alcoholism in the family. What stood out to me is how the announcers botched the finish by not mentioning Faby had a long feud with heel ref Tirantes Jr which is why he ignored the foot on the ropes. Even Konnan, who booked that feud, didn't mention it. The highlight for me was Dr. Wagner Jr showing up pimped out as fuck in his silver fox era. I kind of feel bad for his kids, who are both actually really good, because their dad is just overflowing with swag no one could hope to match up to.

This is actually a pretty apt comparison. Two extremely charismatic guys who kinda sucked in the ring but were massive cultural stars.

As someone who was 6 years old when Hulk first won the belt, most of the first generation little Hulksters are in their mid to late 40s now. I was always under the spell of Macho Madness myself, but I still remember one of my classmates in grade school showing up one day with a HULKAMANIA shirt autographed by the man himself (there was a house show at the Igloo that weekend) and he was royalty for the day.

I suspect if TKO gets their boxing promotion off the ground, however that ends up looking, they will probably be streaming the big fights on Netflix.

The craziest part is that it wasn't even necessary to do that either. Her music, while it honestly wasn't terrible, was about a decade behind the times of what was popular so it was going to be a case of a problem solving itself sooner than later. It wasn't like he was snuffing out a potential Taylor Swift in the making.

He also more than once implied Kenny is a pedo due to his involvement with women's wrestling in Japan. Plus it's one thing for something to not be one's cup of tea, but his irrational hate boner towards all things AEW make me wonder if he tried hitting up TK for a job at one point and was shot down.

So Lash and Nia had a pretty entertaining big meaty women slapping meat match on NXT.

What's really funny is depending on what's up with Naomi, Stephanie might not even have a match on the show.

Well technically *pushes up glasses* Van Gogh painted that based on the view from the window of the asylum he was at in France, so there is somewhat of a connection.

I would expect Kross to show up in GCW since he's already done Bloodsport and appearing in TNA would be too much of a dead giveaway that its all storyline.

So the Karrion Kross stuff is weird. Apparently his (and Scarlett's) contract expired today and WWE moved them to the Alumni section of the website. Kross went on to post part two of his story on Youtube where he stated someone in WWE was telling him to ignore the crowd support he was getting, and whoever was discussing a new contract with him wasn't on the same page as him in terms of what the expectations are. Now WWE is in a "everything is a work except when it isn't a work, and even then it's still a work" phase after the R Truth and Rollins stuff, but what's odd to me is he's always been a Hunter Guy. When he was in the last round of cuts Vince was around for, Hunter made sure to bring him back despite there really being no demand for it, and continually featuring him to little to no reactions. Now suddenly he's got this online buzz and Hunter just lets his contract lapse? So either its a work and WWE is trying to gaslight everyone into thinking there's some great online groundswell for him, or its a shoot and Hunter suddenly lost faith in someone he went out of his way to go to bat for not that long ago.

Ishii is such a great choice for Kyle's first title defense. A banger of an opener for Collision. I'm shocked TK has resisted having Ultimo Dragon make a cameo when Mercedes is going around with all those belts.

They feel they should push him somewhat since he got some buzz online when he made some folks think he was going into business for himself during interviews on Mania weekend.

He used to be over 500 pounds, and he said his current weight of 299 is the lightest he's been since middle school. Also your first impression wasn't that far off, he was involved with drugs and did prison time when he was younger, something that the heels brought up in the buildup.

All things considered that was a great performance by Jelly Roll. Dude gets it.

Both these ended up being accurate, still surprised Charlotte managed to win over the fans.

Holy shit Roman nearly overshot everyone on that dive.

Looking forward to the Slamming of the Summer. Apparently Gunther has some kind of issue with his news, I wonder if that means we're getting at least a brief title run for Punk. Roman/Jey vs the Brons also should be excellent, as should the women's tag title match since the Charlotte/Alexa pairing seems to have unexpectedly struck gold. Feel bad that Tiffy Time probably is going to get ended, but I suppose WWE is in full sunk cost fallacy mode with Jade at this point.

Also having an AAA tag team title match on WWE TV is wild and not something I ever expected to see.

Guilia should be thankful Zelina is a tiny, tiny person because she hit Guilia right in the face with her knees on that moonsault.