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BULLET CLUB INVASION!

Man, who knew what I needed after the hellscape that was today is seeing Snoop hit a splash on Serpentico

Funny you should mention the Fat Chick Thriller, just saw where Arn mentioned on his podcast that the usual suspects felt threatened by Mike Awesome joining WCW that they immediately began working on giving him dumb gimmicks to undermine him. Plus I guess we should hand it to him for being the first person to publicly call Hogan out on his bullshit. Of course he did it in the most Russo way possible, but still.

Russo was good at coming up with ideas for folks up and down the card. Not saying they were all great or anything, but the effort was made. You have large chunks of the roster that go unused because the guy everyone's trying to please doesn't give a shit about anyone other than the main event guys so the writers stopped caring about anyone not on that level. Seems like there's about a million different interviews with ex WWE creative team members where they all have some variation of "I kept pitching ideas for *mid or low card guy* because I thought they were talented, but after being shot down so many times I stopped"

So it looks like in their neverending thirst to be culturally relevant, WWE had Lacey Evans tweet at Cardi B (who was confused why WWE stans were in her mentions after Torrie wilson name dropped her on Raw) as if they were working a program, which caused Cardi to go off on her. Peak 2021 WWE to have the white woman doing the Southern Belle gimmick calling Cardi B a "nasty" without realizing she wouldn't know it's part of her rasslin' gimmick.

Russo is the very embodiment of "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole". Dude's such a toxic shitheap I don't blame anyone for not taking the time to parse through it all to find the stuff that makes sense.

Drew's done so well he deserves better than to have to put over Grampberg in 2021. It's one thing to have him do matches against other old timers or gimmicks like the Fiend, but he shouldn't be facing top guys and winning at this stage.

Teams and stables only exist in WWE to break up it seems. The Hurt Business should be running things for years but WWE can't resist it.

Chase Owens is just a guy to work six mans with Young Lions and to take the pinfall in any even somewhat meaningful match. iMO Fale's peak was as the guy who's shoulders Prince Devitt would ride on to the ring.

New Japan hasn't really had a great track record with gimmicks as of late, Jay White seems to be the only one who's been able to make it work as of late. Master Wato isn't exactly setting the world on fire and the last couple of posts were spot on about O'Khan.

lol at the payoff being Goldberg coming back and challenging for the title because reasons.

I wonder why WWE thinks the people who do turn in to see legends want to see them be portrayed as sad, doddering old people who only exist to get heat off of.

They're video screens, the fans are all on like a Zoom call type deal.

So if you're WWE and you honestly believe the legends stuff is a draw, why would you have a segment like this opening it up to kill off any interest someone checking it out would have.

We're getting Desperado/Kanemaru vs Taguchi/Master Wato for the Jr tag team titles too. Should be a decent enough match that won't set the world on fire or anything. The top two matches are def. carrying day two for sure, I wish that the Stardom matches would air but I suppose that won't happen because of different TV deals made before both promotions were under the same umbrella.

The Warriors might be poop again this season but anyone thinking Steph fell off is crazy.

The idea that WWE is apparently lowballing people on the heels of record profits while also dipping into people's pockets to take any money made on the side is just crazy to me. It speaks a lot of the arrogance they have to think they can keep fucking with people's money with it not having any repercussions.

Okada once again proving he's the best both in kayfabe and for realsies.

This reminds me of the Japanese version of Cena vs Elias

Gotta admit I didn't expect much from KENTA/Kojima since it was a last minute injury replacement but it was pretty good. Looks like they are going to have KENTA go to the US and face Mox at the LA Dojo. I guess as long as it's on NJPW World and not on US TV it won't run afoul of AEW's contracts.

Riki Choshu in the house

I know he's not everyone's cup of tea but Yano always cracks me up.

I love how offended Ishii's face gets when someone thinks their moves will faze him.

It started at 2 am EST, which as a night owl is right in the sweet spot of my evening.

Toa Henare getting the "young guy eliminates legends" spot this year.