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They did a video to close the Impact special tonight announcing FinJuice are coming to Impact. So I guess Don was able to smooth over all the hurt feelings after all.

He always struck me as a guy who probably was better in the era before footage was available.

It should be noted, and I've seen it mentioned on social media which was a good sign, that while he may have waivered on his feelings towards the McMahons he never changed his story about what happened to him,

Honestly, Piper laughing because he knows exactly what that's a reference to comes off even grosser IMO.

The company was in the financial toilet at that time, so at least there were reasons for cutting his pay.

Roman is the only person in WWE who watches TV like a normal person.

Holy shit, Liv eating the boards looked BRUTAL

Seth as the annoying new dad is perfect for his gimmick.

Watching Smackdown, Paul Heyman s so great in his mob lawyer role.

Kinda......WWE usually takes care of their actual employees and usually only shits on their "independent contractors", so it's a little surprising they are pulling this. Plus, how much more poor mouthing are they going to do when every quarter they boast about how this is a record setting year in terms of profit. This is beyond cartoon levels of greedy behavior.

I think it's not unlike in real sports where the players today are better than the ones of yesteryear (with the Jordan/Gretzky/Aaron types being the anomaly) just due to better training practices and advancements in technology. Sure. some random football player from the 70s might be the GOAT today with access to modern tech, but they didn't have that access so unfortunately for them they aren't. In the same way, it's very possible a wrestler from the 70s could be the next Hogan/Austin type today if they had all the modern advantages, but they didn't. That's not to say current wrestlers will always be better than previous eras, but being in the modern era does have advantages in any field.

One of the things I enjoy most about pro wrestling is the variety of styles available to watch now more than ever. There's bound to be something you like out there if you look for it. If it's sports-entertainment, lucha, strong style, grapplefuckery, cinematic wrestling, comedy, junior heavyweight style, there's tons of options out there if you don't like something. To extend @The Thread Killer's analogy, it's not unlike music in that if you don't like one genre there's tons others out there that might appeal to you more. Maybe "pop wrestling" isn't your jam, but there's bound to be something out there that is more in tune to your tastes, and it's easier now than ever to find it.

I believe it was Bix who found an episode of Prime Time Wrestling on the network where Gorilla makes a Mel Phillips foot fetish joke.

It will never not boggle my mind that Jerry liking young girls was a frequent punchline on WWF/E TV.

I think the big difference is that outside of WWE, there's a lot less pieces of shit running wrestling companies. It's refreshing to see a lot of the more well known indy fed promoters taking a stand against working with known garbage humans.

You're not wrong, but is modern pro wrestling any better with the sex pests and Q anon dummies? I suppose it's better in the sense that there's more of a push to get that kind of garbage out of the business as opposed to back then, but when the biggest company around is still an alt-right beehive it's hard to argue things are all that different.

WWE's endless and sometimes embarrassing thirst for mainstream approval only further proves the point here IMO. 80s wrestling just assumed it was part of pop culture as opposed to constantly clout chasing.

The Shaq match seems so cursed at that point I'm expecting to hear one of the participants had a piano fall on them Looney Tunes style.

I remember back in her fighting days hearing people say Gina wasn't especially bright even by MMA fighter standards, and always thought it was just the bro culture of MMA upset that the wimminz were becoming stars, but now I'm looking at that real different.

Also I still can't believe KENTA is in the main event of Dynamite.

The Tony Khan Home for Wayward Children

Oh my god, they killed Darby! You bastards!

John Silver is so great

I've just accepted the invisible cameraman as a artistic tool to take the view inside these private conversations. It's like not thinking about the whole film crew on set when a sex scene in a movie.

I love MJF the shit stirrer trying to keep Jericho to himself.