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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.

What's odd is Dave has mentioned more than once that WWE highly encourages vaccination but isn't requiring it (and that while the vast majority of people have gotten it, a few haven't), so the idea they are requiring proof of vaccination to be allowed to work is suspicious. The idea that Vince (or Hunter for that matter) is part of some communist mob is hilarious though. Seems more likely they just got tired of his bullshit, and if he wants to go flip burgers for the Lord so be it. I wonder if he does he will claim BUT MUH FREEDUMBS if the fast food place makes him follow food safety guidelines. I can just see him screaming about Jesus protecting him from salmonella or whatnot.

Guess Vince liked what he saw in Bronson Reed, I would assume his dropping the title is for a callup.

Man, Mercedes Martinez got KTFO by Xia Li. I don't know if she was trying to kick out from instinct or of it was the Fencer's Motion knocked out people sometimes get but that was nasty.

LOL yeah I suppose it does. I was thinking UEFA must listen to Dave when he said AEW should book a surprise win no one sees coming. As for Raw, there really wasn't much to mention. It wasn't like anything was actively bad, in fact I thought the Kofi/MVP segment and the main event were outstanding, but it was just yet another show full of rematches as WWE continues to be stuck on Groundhog Day. Like, why is Xavier Woods getting a rematch against Lashley? Why is Drew winning a spot in MITB when he can't challenge for the title? Why is Rhea's gimmick seemingly "babyface who acts like an asshole"?

I read an interview by Shayna Bazler and her trying to square her training with Billy Robinson and Josh Barnett with the horseshit she's having to do now. She's clearly being a pro and gritting her teeth through it, and it really made me want to see her in literally any other promotion in the world.

Late start since I'm on vacation, but the France/Swiss match was booked better than anything that will take place on Raw tonight.

Hmm...I could have sworn WWF did them before that, but so much of the mid 90s is mashed together in my brain.

If my old man brain remembers correctly, WWF started doing them their way so as to not completely copy ECW. Of course WWF being WWF, they still did it in a way that made it completely transparent that they were copying them.

I have this image of Vince going to a comedy show and being like "Goddamn pal, where's all the poop jokes?"

WWF had A/B/C tours during that time. You would have Hogan headlining the A show in the big towns, the B shows would be in mid size towns headlined by either Savage or the tag champs, and then you'd have C shows running in high school gym type venues and headlined by midcarder/JTTS types Looking up the year by year listings on like Graham Cawthon's site had some real "who TF would have paid money to go see this show" entries.

I would think the 3 Way Dance was ECW's signature match since it really wasn't a thing before they did it and then everyone and their mom was doing them. It seems odd since WWF/WWE ran it so far into the ground it popped out the other side, but ECW was the pioneer there.

So I guess we can add Vince to the list after Ric Flair of the people who look like shit on WWE TV but not nearly as bad in person. I guess the WWE makeup team doesn't know how to properly prepare older folks for HD TV?