sek69

It seems clear the Bucks think the way to get AEW fans to boo them is to lean into the "annoy the smart fans" aspect of it. YMMV if it works, but it seems that's the idea.

Gain 150 pounds and start affecting a black accent maybe?

I get what he's trying to do, but not only is AMERICA, FUCK YEAH a tone deaf babyface promo in 2021, Agogo is a million times cooler than neck tattoo geek Cody.

I didn't watch either, but from what I read they either implied and/or flat out said Savage only started having drug issues once he went to WCW, which is so laughable on it's face it's almost impressive.

There's some Alanis Morrissette level irony in the NWA finally getting a distribution source that they would in theory get money for at a time when they lost pretty much everything that people liked when it was free on YouTube.

Absolutely loaded show tonight, capped off with your captain and mine Yuji Nagata challenging for the IWGP US title on American TV. 2021 is wild, bubbas.

Indi is one of the best things in NXT right now. Her "lovestruck teen and mom keeping her away from a boy she doesn't approve of" dynamic with Candice is always great stuff.

I wonder what it will take for him to get to "we need to release Kurt so we don't have an Olympian OD on our watch" levels with this company. As much the people in charge may agree with him, dude is a walking PR embarrassment for them at this point.

Yeah, Lio seems like a dude better off not being anywhere near WWE for his own mental health if nothing else.

I found this interview fascinating. Not only is it slightly jarring to see Danhausen out of character, him talking about his journey from a go-nowhere generic indy guy to someone who managed to get a following is a great story. What he does may not be your cup of tea, but he's definitely a guy you want to root for and hope to succeed.

NXT was really good again, Swerve's crew looked good, and the continuing adventures of Ted DiBiase tormenting Cameron Grimes always cracks me up.

Has there been anyone with a more bizarre career path than Marco Corleone? Home grown WCW guy probably going to be steadily pushed before that company went down the drain, squandered by WWE after the buyout because "WCW guy", goes to Mexico and becomes a big star in CMLL nearly approaching "Konnan guesting in telenovelas" levels, then just kind of falls off the face of the planet.

That had to be Strangler Corleone himself that started the thread, wasn't it? I can't possibly believe anyone else on the planet would start a thread like this lol.

Being the booker/owner's son is usually the kiss of death, but it seemed Memphis is where he was used the best, Which is kind of funny since it's not like he was doing anything cutting edge there, but for some reason nowhere else wanted to book him as a s white meat babyface.

Jeff Jarrett was always an interesting case to me. It's not like he was particularly bad at any aspect of wrestling, but it seemed like he never was able to put it all together into something that clicked. I suppose his WCW run wasn't helped by him being one of Russo's favorites which resulted in the feeling like he was being shoehorned in position because the booker wanted him there instead of being there on merit.

This. It's been hard to believe this show and Smackdown are being made by the same company most weeks. One show has Roman doing some of the best work the company has seen in years (decades?) and the other has rehashed Papa Shango shit that somehow has people stanning for it because it's a cute blonde doing it.

Hope Humberto didn't get too badly hurt, if you weren't watching he did a sunset flip powerbomb on the floor and Sheamus appeared to land directly on his legs.

Yeah that's the one stickler in "Brian would have been top 5 in the biz if not for the accident" argument. Talent wise, no doubt, but as loyal as he seemed to be to those who were loyal to him,I don't think Montreal would have set well with him at all. Maybe Bret would have been able to talk him into staying like he talked Foley out of walking out, but it very much seems like he would have been pissed at the company and they would probably would not let him leave either.

When Ice T was on Austin's show it was amusing how similar their speech was, if you didn't know you'd think they grew up in the same area. Yeah, one of my big takeaways was wanting to give Brian Jr a hug. Lost his dad, Melanie was in no state to be a parent, and his stepdad being a giant piece of shit. At least Melanie seems to realize she was a horrible person and looks like she's wanting to make amends.

The whole point of Vince interviewing Melanie was to make it clear Brian was doing drugs so the company could claim it wasn't their fault. Probably the most disgusting thing he's ever done.

Yeah Kim was known to be Brian's #1 advisor/confidant, and as the episode showed him and Dave were the only two people Brian wouldn't ever try to work (mostly because he knew both would call him on his bullshit). Eric was basically the human version of dril's "I'm not owned" tweet in this episode, and JR just crushed me when he was talking about Brian Jr saying he has a lot of his dad's good qualities and hopes he doesn't get his dad's bad ones.

Woof. It's not like there wasn't AEW footage of Brian Jr. on that very same documentary. Plus Maffew (the Botchmania guy) has said his issue was with YouTube's content system and that AEW has been helping him out with it.

Also there's a difference between a 2002-2004 Raw promo where the champ says the challenger is a nobody and then completely flattens them in the match to prove to the fans they were a nobody, and one where the champ says the challenger is a nobody then in the match the challenger takes it to him and beats his ass until the champ has to cheat to hang on. One completely reinforces to your fanbase that the challenger is a chump and the other reinforces that the champ took this guy lightly and had to resort to cheating like a little bitch to win.

I just saw it as Kenny being a douchebag heel who thinks he's 1986 Ric Flair. To me it seems like he's trying too hard to be unlikable and he's coming off like a geek at times.

Maybe I'm old school but I always prefer regular teams to have names instead of just "Wrestler X and Wrestler Y". Yeah Dirty Dawgs is kind of a dumb name, but then again so is Dolph Ziggler.