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Darby is so amazingly great at coming up with new kinds of violence.

It was a bit since Cody, Aubrey, and Britt all did the "dress as Steve Jobs at an Apple presentation" thing. Also they brought in the producer of No Mercy to work on this and Kenny's been adamant that their goal for an AEW video game was very much "No Mercy, but on modern consoles". That's all I was hoping for and it looks like that's what we're getting.

WWE gets extra stupid for Survivor Series these days. You might as well not even bother trying to make sense of things.

WWE's idea for building up Survivor Series this year (and the last several as well) has been to just make everyone into completely unlikable assholes who suddenly care about BRAND SUPREMACY for about 3 weeks.

I saw a story on Twitter about a journalist who was trying to get to the bottom of how that happened. only to find out it's impossible to know for sure who's fault it was because everyone there is equally inept at their job.

Choking a motherfucker out with barbed wire's gotta be up there with the more brutal finishes I've seen.

Jesus Christ pouring rubbing alcohol on puncture wounds!

Mox and Kingston about to have a CZW hardcore match as a PPV main event.

I always pop for the crowd singing Judas being officially A Thing AEW fans do.

Shida the female ace trying to chop down the monster sounds like a fun time.

I'll say one thing, Cody's matches always feel important.

I love that Orange Cassidy's kicks are like an IRL version of Dan's taunts in Street Fighter. (In fighting games it's considered bad form to interrupt anyone doing Dan's harmless taunt moves util they finish).

Wow, I never realized how much I wanted Don Callis and Tony as an announce team until now.

ROSA~!

Serena/Allysin killing it to no surprise.

Nash's babyface turn with hardcore wrestling fans will never not amuse those of us around at the height of WCW.

Kingston wins, Kenny wins the #1 contender match, you have Kenny win against Kingston, and you can still build to Kenny-Mox II like they want to.

I would assume the Rhodes family to be very much the "Republicans who don't like Trump" variety. Also I bet Jericho the worker is psyched the election got called early in the day so the PPV buys don't get hit by everyone watching the news.

I think the Omega-Page build has been pretty good, it's just that Mox-Kingston are doing a master class in selling a PPV so it kind of gets forgotten in the mix. I liked the one on one interviews each guy did, with Kenny being the fake-humble heel in denial of his heeldom and Page as "young guy not sure he can get over the hump and win the big one and is sliding into alcoholism as a result" with JR having to take the Dad Tone with him. Which by the way is one aspect JR is still very good at. I wonder if the usual suspects will scream again because Serena Deeb/Allysin Kay for the NWA women's title is the Buy In match.

Carmella does have personality, the stuff with Truth was good (but then he's the best ever at making bad shit work), but wrestling wise....yeesh.

I mean, except for the dark days of New Japan most of the wrestling there is better than what goes on in the US. It doesn't mean something that took place in Japan is automatically better, but nine times out of ten their top matches are going to smoke the top matches from everywhere else. It's really funny to see Dave get memed for his supposed Japan fetish when those of us who cut our teeth on the mid 90s Internet Wrestling Community all looked up to people who worshiped at the altar of 90s All Japan. Anyone saying Misawa vs Kawada wasn't the greatest match to ever exist was looked at as a heretic.

I mean, it's legal for any worker to discuss unionization and in theory employers could (and should!) get in serious trouble for punishing them for it. However in practice it's never enforced and companies seldom face any actual fallout for it. Even if they get a slap on the wrist, the damage is done and it's considered the cost of doing business for the company. It's interesting though that even if it wasn't why he was fired, him basically admitting he was talking about it (and him assuming it's why he was fired means he believes the company knew he was doing it) is kind of remarkable. I don't recall hearing about anyone actively involved in the business talking positively about a union since probably Jesse Ventura in the 80s. I wonder if any seeds were planted in people's minds, and having the company blatantly grab at talent's Twitch money right after potentially hearing talk about unions could be an interesting situation.

Well if the COVID part was true there would be potential backlash, but in America firing someone because they were trying to unionize is more or less business as usual.

So Miro is claiming WWE let him go because he was trying to unionize the locker room and was demanding better COVID protection.

It's always weird to me when they put a belt on someone who already has one (Gresham was already a tag champ and won the tournament). Like if they were going to do an angle where it came down to him and Lethal and it ended up causing the team to break up, that's one thing. This was more like what was the point of bringing back the Pure title to put in on someone who is in theory going to be involved in tag matches instead?