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I gotta say, finding out that Scott still has a following in 2021 is like finding out there is still a contingent of like....Color Me Badd fans out there or something.

This almost entirely being because CMLL is pissy that ROH guys are working Rush's show make this all the more hilarious. The Lutteroth family is like the McMahons only with less perversion and more ridiculous grudge holding.

He's always been like that though. I remember him trying to start fights with people back in the day and then acting all innocent when called out on it.

To be fair, that's still more than AAA itself pays attention to the title.

Scott rose to prominence because he was one of the first people on the pro wrestling interwebs doing in depth reviews that you didn't need to sub to a newsletter for. The nuts and bolts of his reviews were usually fine enough, but being the 90s there were always opinions/comments added that did not age well or were edgy for the sake of it. I don't think he's necessarily trying to gin up hits as much as he's still stuck in the 90s mindset that made him famous. In a way I can't blame him, but dude has to learn to read the room,

It seems Dave's biggest fault by far is that his meandering style of talking, while endearing to some, makes it extremely easy for bad faith actors and obsessives to take things out of context and/or cobble a narrative about him. Then that same meandering style makes it sound like he's hemming and hawing when he's trying to debunk what they say about him.

CMLL did a press release saying they were ending their partnership with ROH, which is probably not completely unrelated to the news that Matt Taven is being booked on the show Rush and family are running to kick off their new promotion.

I love how that teaser for Slammiversary showed people who have appeared in TNA/Impact before (see Chelsea Green in her "hot mess" makeup) and it made people think that it means those people might appear on this show too. Not announcing the date past "July 2021" does make it seem like they are doing the math on when non competes end, so I guess there's that.

Also this whole deal is still kinda stupid but Alexa has been good at the psycho character.

I saw someone describe Adnan as someone who watched wrestling growing up and is still a fan, but clearly hasn't watched WWE in a long time. He's been treading water since he's a professional broadcaster but Corey and Byron are so obviously holding his hand through this. Like I could believe he could end up good, or at least what WWE considers to be good, but it looks like they threw the guy out there with little to no prep.

I love that Lashley and MVP's promos are basically "this company's booking is repetitive and stupid", and somehow he's the heel in this.

Yeah, the concept of "intelligent Boston sports fan" seems to fly in the face of available evidence doesn't it?

It's science, you can't argue with that.

Kenny won, as expected, pretty solid show overall. Big Cass debuted as part of Eric Young's stable with the name W. Morrisey which I believe is his real name. He looked to be in pretty good shape even if the black pants he was wearing made him look like American Great Khali.

Gotta say, show has been pretty good so far. Impact is still doing no crowd shows, but they are piping in crowd noise which at least adds some atmosphere.

I suppose it's probably not a coincidence this happened right when there were rumors Charlotte might get some residual heat over whatever Andrade was able to do to get a full release with no 90 day clause.

I remember 12 year old me, having zero knowledge of non US wrestling at the time, being absolutely baffled that these two Japanese dudes I'd never seen before (Tenryu and Kitao) not only had a match at Wrestlemania 7 but actually got a win over Demolition. Also I just realized WM 7 was like a week before the famous incident with Earthquake and both of them were on this show too. I wonder if they had any kind of run in at this show that might have fed in to what happened later.

They seem to be planning to go back to live crowds n the second half of 2021, so I suppose the status of Summerslam depends on what they define as the second half.

Should be noted that Andrade deleted his tweet because one of the pics include was him grabbing a handful of Charlotte's ass. I would also suspect Charlotte isn't a regular listener to Wrestling Observer shows, and the tweet she replied to was from BluRayWrestling which is a known obsessive Dave troll who has repeatedly posted audio clips of shows out of context. Her advice goes both ways, she could have easily called Dave and been all "wtf man?" and let him explain what the context was. Instead, she amplifies a bad faith troll on Twitter which only verifies him to the blind WWE stans .

It's one thing for the usual rando WWE stans to do it, but when it's people who get paid by WWE like Rosenberg and Ryan Satin do it, it starts to get into dangerous territory where you basically have WWE sending their proxies to attack a reporter.

So while it's true Dave sometimes doesn't say what he means with the proper clarity at times, it's silly Charlotte and Andrade get so BIG MAD at him over saying that men can main event in their 40s and 50s but women can't and that it's an unfair double standard. It was in the context of explaining Charlotte's storyline suspension being a cover for her getting some dental work done and how women are expected to get more cosmetic things done than the men. That got twisted by the usual cut-n-paste sites and bad faith actors on Twitter into "Dave called Charlotte ugly and insecure". FFS, the guy's not infallible but the cottage industry of Dave Obsessives is starting to get scary.

I would think, especially if they want to put 100,000 people in Jerryworld, that Roman vs Rock is the money match. It just seems like the obvious end game for the Head of the Table character.

Meanwhile, Smackdown was really good this week. Solid matches, solid promos, and a great hook for next week

Honestly what I believe happened is Mark probably asked Johnny Ace what to do with the stuff the women left behind and was told to put it in a trash bag and send it to them. That way they can throw him under the bus since technically he would have been the one send it out. Shady, but honestly anyone with a shred of decency should have thought "this seems kinda fucked up to send someone who just got fired a trash bag full of their stuff when we don't seem to do this to the guys" so I'm kind of Team Screw All of Them here I guess.