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So they had a Jeff Hardy vs Ricochet match on f'n MAIN EVENT of all things this week. Imagine having a current high flyer face off with a legendary high flyer and the best you can do is put it on the D show no one watches instead of doing a PPV build. WWE really sucks at wrestling.

People were trying to say that just because Papa John's business is down (largely because the founder was revealed to be a sweaty, drunken racist) it doesn't mean the pizza business in general is down. The argument people were making that because WWE is down from its popularity in the 90s, it means no one is interested in wrestling at all. Dave was pointing out that interest in non WWE wrestling was higher than it's been in ages before the pandemic hit. He mentioned several non WWE companies doing record business and indies in general running more shows than ever, which would fly in the face of the "no one cares about wrestling" argument. tl;dr, WWE centric people try to argue the declining interest in WWE means people no longer care about any kind of wrestling.

It's the Unbeatable Superhero gimmick. It absolutely worked for Hogan in the 80s, but after a while it ran its course and wasn't "cool" anymore. The backlash against Cena largely went away when he wasn't being pushed as the Unbeatable Superhero anymore, his kiddy humor and questionable offense wasn't as objectionable when he wasn't being pushed as the guy who always wins.

Funny thing, Lawler did run for mayor in Memphis, and I believe he only got like 11% of the vote.

They should have the title match at the top of the second hour just to create the idea it *could* go an hour and plant the seed in people's minds. Then have whoever is going to win do so as clean as future plans allow. It will give everyone what they want, which is kind of what AEW has been good at.

I would wager there's way more people in general with ballots than we're aware of. It also wouldn't surprise me if the amount of women with ballots are a smaller number than that should be just due to how the business works, but yeah 1% seems, as Gorilla would say, Highly Unlikely.

I think the whole deal with the Kenny stuff is that Jim apparently is completely incapable of believing anyone thinks he's not the worst thing ever to happen in wrestling so it must be due to Dave putting his thumb on the scales. The idea that people could like Kenny and think he's great seems to be a completely alien concept to him. It's seemed to completely break his brain that a company where 3 of the 4 VPs are people he hates has been successful after he was on the record stating it would fail. At this point even if AEW isn't your jam if you can't admit it's been a major success even having to deal with a global pandemic, you're just being willfully ignorant.

Boa and XIa bout to get murdered by the old dude from Kung Fu.

I made myself giddy at the thought of Jake and Eddie battling each other on promos. Glad to see Abadon recovered from having her throat caved in, I love her gimmick so much. Wrestling is best when you have those characters that make you stop what you're doing all "what the hell was THAT"

It's refreshing to see a major promotion feature young guys and put them in positions to make them look good instead of having them waste away for years doing football drills and learning how to lift weight properly (I'm watching on delay and the Top Flight match is up now). Like AEW has a bunch of guys who can potentially be huge stars in 5-6 years when the competition will still be going with guys who were on top decades ago.

I popped for WIll Hobbs looking like 1993 era Tazmaniac .

My favorite example was how the producers of the Mandolorian discovered Sasha Banks from her appearing on Hot Ones eating peppers rather than anything WWE related.

real recognize real

British tabloids are the biggest trash piles in the world, so I'd consider them hating as a badge of honor.

You can't really get too mad when you get beat by a GOAT.

I was under the impression it was a new Power-like show being taped where the UWN shows take place at.

You know, it's surprising no one has mentioned the (accidental?) synergy of the Q infested WWE making its COVID home in an arena named after an infamous MLM/Pyramid scheme company (Amway). Like feathered birds flocking together and whatnot.

That really is the worst part. He should be the best kind of redemption story, guy cleaned himself up and got a nice gig with the largest company in his profession where he doesn't have to do deathmatch shit anymore, yet somehow he's become worse because of it. He's like bizarro world Nick Gage.

Sami Zayn about to be repackaged as Bave Dixenspan,

On top of everything else, he's lying about his role in the company too. He's trying to portray himself as just a lowly developmental referee being picked on by meanies on the internet rather than a talent liaison who is in charge of booking folks for one off appearances. You'd think WWE would have shot his ass into the sun for giving Riddle's accuser gift wrapped proof of her legal claims, but instead they seem content to allow him to turn their farm system into Q pit.

So they just released DLC for Mortal Kombat 11 that added character models/voices for the actors who played Sonya, Johnny Cage, and Raiden from the iconic 1995 movie. Tons of people in the comments were stating how it's an instant buy for them because it will allow them to replace Ronda Rousey's original Sonya VO..

Well it's certainly possible, he just doesn't seem like the type of dude that knows much beyond how much he just benchpressed. Less "I'm an AEW fanboy" and more "I don't think my man here pays attention to anything that didn't happen in the gym"

Brian Cage in the comments giving support. I'd wager he doesn't know about all the Proud Boys/Perler/Q stuff and is all on the persecuted Christian stuff.

It looked like he kind of stumbled and fell, it didn't seem to go 100% as planned, but he is just that much of a physical freak that he managed to save it with a 350+ pound man on his shoulders.

This match is nuts in terms of two large dudes doing things large dudes shouldn't be able to do,