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WWE needs to have Sonya, Rollins, and Omos do a swag-off.

TBF people were saying that when he was trying to work with the horrible verbiage he was being given as a babyface. No diss to his Dogness, I don't think anyone could have made that shit work. If anything, he's my exhibit #1 of how their terrible scripting can negatively impact someone's perception with the audience.

I always assumed the endgame for the Cody stip would be that a heel champion does something so dastardly the fans demand that it be lifted so the heel can get their comeuppance. Maybe that was the plan before the pandemic wiped everything out (can't really do that kind of story with no fans around to demand it after all), maybe the plan was do feud more with Brodie Lee, which obviously went out the window. Either way it's been puzzling to see a guy who's an EVP floating around with nothing much of importance to do as if he was a directionless midcarder.

To be fair, all pro wrestling is sports entertainment, it just happens that WWE was the one who said the quiet part out loud. It's also sports entertainment run by a guy in his mid 70s and his #1 yes man who's been at least 25 years out of touch with the business. I agree there has been a sharp drop-off in the quality of Cody's act since he left to do the Go Big show. It really seems like once he got a taste of the entertainment business a switch flipped and he didn't seem to care about his wrestling career. Ever since has been a series of baffling segments/promos/angles where it seems like he's been mind swapped with some sort of Bizarro Cody.

It would be hard to do a Yokozuna doc that didn't focus on his obesity when it was a lifelong battle, his wrestling gimmick, the reason the WWF had to let him go, and ultimately the reason he died. It would be like if the Freddie Mercury doc I watched tonight didn't focus in part on his AIDS battle when it became a big part of his story.

WWE: Blood and Guts set the business back 30 years. Also WWE: does a match with zombie lumberjacks. Gotta love it.

I'm loving Rey's Adam West Batman attire.

The problem is while every match looks good on paper (and probably will be good from a technical standard), most of them have an obvious winner so there's no intrigue or drama.

Charlotte's gear looks like she's wearing some kind of sexy 101 Dalmations cosplay.

Dave talked about it on the beginning of today's WO radio show, and while I get the sense he still thinks Bruce got a raw deal, he acknowledged the vast amount of feedback was negative. He also took full responsibility and more or less apologized to Bryan for putting him in a bad spot (and probably hitting his wallet since there were a lot of people screenshotting that they canceled their subs over it).

This is probably why she came back, looks like WWE shitcanned the "management team" that was gonna make sure everyone's side hustles went thru WWE first: (from the WO daily update) On LinkedIn, Amy Tunick wrote that WWE made the decision to disband their Talent Management Group team: “I was hired by WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) to build and lead a new talent management division focused on strategic brand-building and monetizing IP for 300+ WWE Superstars. Unexpectedly, the company made a decision to change course and disbanded the new team after just 5 weeks.” WWE had stated that the Talent Management Group would “deliver best-in-class 360-degree support of Talent across all internal lines of business and key external partners, amplifying Talent brand value and maximizing monetization opportunities for Talent and WWE.”

Cody comes off as the one friend in the group that always tries to one-up everyone no matter how ridiculous it makes him look. It can be funny or cute at first, but eventually everyone just starts rolling their eyes thinking "oh christ, not this asshole again".

I was seeing claims that folks were reaching out to NBC/Universal as well as WWE, so I'm thinking Sami might have taken them down to not cause any problems with the company. Also it was extra gross how those groups were going out of their way to refer to Sami by his shoot name to make him sound more Arabic.

AAA is in the middle of a lawsuit with their US promoter and while it's going on they aren't allowed to do anything on US TV. It's why they had to take down their English YouTube channel and stop broadcasting on Twitch (well they were going to stop doing Twitch anyway but this gave them cover). Impact probably doesn't want to risk getting looped in to the mess. I know the AAA belt has shown up on Dynamite, but they are less afraid of it.

Bryan, who should be noted didn't know about this before it was posted per several people who work for the site, posted on the Board to say the interview would be pulled and he understood anyone who canceled their subscription over it since he always tells people to vote with their wallets.

IMO no one ever said Roman can't cut a promo, just that the company was killing him with the "sufferin succotash " type shit. Could you even imagine your Tribal Chief saying that nonsense now?

Well Cody seemingly tried to big time him when it looked like Punk might have wanted to be a part of All In, so I didn't think it was any secret there.

This is one of those deaths that on one hand isn't surprising because of everything he put his body through, but on the other hand it's the most surprising since I had him in the Jake Roberts "if he survived all that shit, he's gonna live forever" category.

Also I gotta wonder how Dave's pal Tony feels about this interview.

Yeah I tend to be on the Dave Defender side of things, but fuck giving this guy any platform.

So Dave and Garrett did an interview with Bruce "AEW and his widow were lying about Brodie Lee having COVID" Mitchell, and it was basically Dave and Bruce saying Bruce was a victim of the mean old internet mob, which yeah he was after doubling/tripling/quadrupling down on his amazingly fucked up. To show how poorly this interview is being received, the WO board is 100% in the "this was a mistake, Dave should take this one down" camp.

Even better, he called Biden the "fake President " so on top of everything else he's one of those too.

Yeah but this was the kind of tone deafness you'd expect to hear from someone in WWE and he's very much been the "we do things better than WWE guy". since practically every promo he's done since AEW launched has at least one shot (veiled or otherwise) at how they do business.

It was interesting to hear the crowd want to cheer the guy carrying on the legacy of their beloved Dusty, but being uncomfortable with the rah rah aspect of his promo. I honestly think the worst part of it was it made Cody sound like a clueless corporate suit when his whole gimmick up until then had been the guy telling the corporate suits to fuck off.

Most of them are low information types who are easily swayed by right win media and their useful idiots like Joe Rogan. A recurring theme from them is "anything you don't hear from us is just going to make you a liberal pussy" and it ends up stoking their usually already fragile egos. That way any attempt to get them to listen to common sense is seen as an attack on their manhood.