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Anvil was a good counterbalance to Bret, I always enjoyed tag teams that were a power guy and a smaller wrestler or flyer.

Maybe I got worked by her selling, but it sure looked like Britt got flash KO'd in that match. It seemed like there were spots where Nyla was doing the "pretend to do stuff while trying to see if the opponent is KTFO" deal.

Dutch Mantell followed up by saying it's believed he had a stroke/aneurysm of some sort.

Per Billy Corgan: It’s with a heavy heart that I share that my friend and brother in wrestling, Joseph Hudson, has passed away suddenly from an as-yet undiagnosed medical issue. NWA fans would know him as Jocephus as well as The Question Mark; where thanks to the great fans at GPB Studios in Atlanta, Joseph was able to receive the kind of support in the ring he’d always dreamt of. He is survived by a young son whom he loved dearly, and if anything would pain him about leaving this Earth it would be not being able to be there for his boy. RIP Joseph, love to you and Godspeed.

I would doubt most NXT signees ever meet Vince until they land on the main roster. Maybe the big name signees do, but I would suspect most only deal with the NXT office.

Nyla/Britt was a pretty decent match, the tournament has been good so far.

Jericho and MJF murdering Papa Buck was some pretty sweet heelin' too.

Speaking of people who look like others, here's Jake Hager with his "Giant Baba if he worked out a little" body frame.

Yeah I know that, but it seems like a signing like this should be for something more than a Youtube show.

I'm wondering of this signing means we're getting closer to the second AEW TV show getting announced.

It always seemed like you could tell who Jesse didn't like IRL since he would randomly go hard on certain people. Hogan would be the most obvious example of that.

I just got a little sad thinking of all the things they can do with him and then realizing they're just going to name him Slappy McSlapperton and only make vague references to him having family in the business.

Always have love for Big Poppa, but Rick Steiner suplexing fools is one of my favorite things in wrestling.

Also if this leads to Rick making an appearance in NXT to toss fools around it'll be worth it IMO.

Considering the environment and culture of WWE, it's always kind of creepy that they have to show all their new signees off in PROPERTY OF WWE PERFORMANCE CENTER gear. It's like they are low key bragging "these are our new playthings".

Any promotion with Bob Armstrong in a featured role is automatically good TV in my book.

Makes me wonder how much of SMW's successes were not so much in spite of Jim, but because of the talent they had there.

Heenan was great at being entertaining on commentary during squashes that would normally have been boring to watch otherwise. Jesse was the man for important matches, he made everything feel like it was the most important thing going on.

Not gonna lie, when I first saw this on Twitter I thought someone was using one of those "_____ is ALL ELITE" meme generator things until I saw it was the official AEW on TNT account.

Yup, that's why I've barely left the house much in the last year.

My brain completed erased any memory of a Taker-Mark Henry match happening at Mania, and looking at the recap now I remember why.

Sometimes I think we lose track of how Flair/Steamboat/Midnight Express matches must have looked to fans who grew up watching hour long Dory Jr matches. There was a monumental leap from the 70s to the 80s that isn't that dissimilar to the changes from the 80s to the 90s/2000s.

I seem to vaguely recall that the story was they brought Shawn in to do something, and he showed up completely trashed. He was sent home and that was then end of Shawn until he found Jesus.

I never knew he was a non drinker, that does certainly explain a lot. Even then, being the only sober guy in the room gets old quickly so it is a testament to his patience. I know he had a falling out with Shawn for a while when he was really bad, but even that seemed like it was more Hunter calling him out on being a mess and Shawn being resistant to getting help.

I remember there being jokes at the time when they divorced about "who's going to get custody of Arn". Also I suppose it must be a credit to Hunter that he's been friends with Ric for a long time, has probably bailed his ass out financially more than once, and doesn't seem to have got worn out by him yet.