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Nick Jackson out there with the Dancin' Stevie Richards booty shorts had me rolling.

Seems like perhaps he switched his "vitamins" at some point, since he went from bloated looking to leaner but still jacked at some point in the late 80s.

Part of me hopes the Malachi Black name is a rib on the Bucks' little brother.

HE'S HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEE

The crowd singing Jericho's theme has not only become an AEW staple, but it's one of those things that makes wrestling seem cool again, which is neat.

I dig both teams color coordinating in this six man match.

Hangman overcoming his insecurities with the help of the scrappy ragtag bunch of scamps who lost their leader is a great pro wrestling story.

Sean Ross Sapp is stating a lot of AEW talent seems to be under the impression Tommy End is going to be joining the company soon, maybe as soon as tonight.

England is that dude you went to school with who once scored the winning TD in the championship game and still goes on about it decades later because they haven't done anything else in their life since.

Show looks stacked indeed. I wish they wouldn't keep blueballing everyone and do a straight up FTR vs Santana/Ortiz match, but I suppose that's being saved for PPV. I really hope they pull the trigger with Penta/Kingston too. Eddie winning a title will blow the roof off the building.

Nothing is funnier (and more enraging to the Corny types I assume) than when someone takes a bump and then does the booty scooty move to get in position for a top rope move. Also the "always face the hard cam" is low key the most business exposing concept ever. Like, yes, you should *try* to make sure you're facing the hard cam so the folks can see what is going on, but if we're supposed to be pretending what is going in is real it doesn't always work that way. Plus that's what the dudes with hand cams are supposed to be for instead of headbanging when someone is doing punches and stomps to give everyone vertigo.

I thought the segment was great, if anything it made it so crystal clear they are in the wrong company. This act is so money and it's fate is in the hands of the one guy who won't "get it".

In my headcanon, Joe just wears progressively more wacky looking suits hoping someone will say something about it so he can choke them out.

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.