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All of this is amazing.

This show is reminding me of how Takeovers were in NXT's boom period where even if they didn't have the most exciting build, the matches would all knock it out of the park.

So it looks like the building on the side plates of the TNT belt is the old Techwood Drive studio, so that was a great call.

Shida is great, good to see her get the belt.

My first thought when I saw the belt.

Things like this really show how many people lack basic empathy and human decency. There's tons of people I disagree with, some vehemently, but I would never even think to tell anyone to "go kill yourself" which seems to be a not uncommon thing on social media now. Like....what the FUCK is wrong with some people?

Earlier today she posted what appeared to be a suicide note and pics of horribly gashed arms on Twitter, the posts got pulled and people immediately tried to reach out to her. There were friends who posted they had talked to her and she was doing as good as could be expected, but Stardom tweeted out that she passed away today at age 22. She was on a reality show in Japan, and apparently there was some things that went on there that caused fans of the show to attack her and bombard her with horrible hate filled messages on social media.

She wins all three and it brings Nikki Bella out of retirement to determine the true owner of Misawa's legacy.

Guess it's true that Vince doesn't see Shayna as main event material. Perhaps Charlotte can win all three belts and create a women's triple crown title.

She's reportedly not afraid to flex her political muscles, so she probably has the ability to suggest things should be done differently.

Alright, everyone calm down and go back to their respective corners, lol. I think the quarantine is starting to get to us here.

I was always hoping they'd lean into it more and say/imply Auska was the heir to the Great Kabuki legacy when she started using the mist.

Other than the name, I don't really see what's inherently racist about the Kabuki Warriors gimmick, and even the name I would consider more lazy than anything.

I agree with everything but I must point out they are failing hard at the last part. Everyone she's programmed with comes out looking lesser at the end. At his point she's basically Hunter with better matches and without the racial overtones. "Overexposed" is probably the better term than "overpushed", I'd say that much.

Normally I'd agree that the timing would be suspicious, but Seth is notoriously thinned skinned and Jim is Jim so this was a clash that was surely going to happen at some point.

True, but she's towering over the rest of the roster and making them look like inferior children on TV, and that's before they have the match and end up losing to her. It's on the company that is constantly aware that they are in a visual business to address that. They have Alexa wearing platform type boots/shoes constantly so she doesn't look quite as smurflike so they clearly know it's something that can be done. It comes off as the company purposely making her literally stand head and shoulders above the rest of the roster.

She's proven to be completely unlikable as a babyface, like a female Randy Orton, and Ronda would have to murder puppies in the middle of the ring to be a heel in that feud.

Plus it seems like everyone who ever met him has tons of cool stories about what an awesome guy he was, seemed like one of the rare folks in the biz no one had a bad word to say about.

It would make sense that Bret would probably have knowledge that she didn't, and vice versa. There's always some things only a sibling would know and some things only a spouse would. I could see how some of the family, being that wrestling is the only thing most of them know, were concerned Martha might possibly fuck up their careers (especially considering how vindictive Vince can be) with the lawsuit. At the same time, I don't see how they seemingly couldn't understand why his widow might not give a shit about their career options if she felt WWF was responsible for killing her husband. I get how these situations can be. My wife's uncle was in a serious accident (got t-boned by an 18 wheeler) and was never the same, eventually passing away. His wife stopped talking to the family at that point and some folks got really upset about that. It was kind of abrupt, and she didn't blame anyone in the family about it, but I understood that losing a spouse way before you expected kind of fucks you up. People handle it in different ways and sometimes other people aren't going to understand it. I hope that Martha and Bret can mend fences though. It always seemed like they got along before hand, probably since Bret clearly had a soft spot for his baby bro. I would hope as well that with all the health issues Bret has dealt with he's in the frame of mind where you can go "fuck the petty bullshit" and reconnect. However I do fear that Bret is on good terms again with WWE there might be pressure on him to come out against what she's saying, especially after Jerry McDevitt's awful attempt at a preemptive strike went about as well as the Hindenburg.

All the talent in the world won't matter when you're the focus on three separate (until this week) shows. She absolutely should be at the top level based on her ability, but after a while it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that none of her peers can match up when they all get groomed to lose to her. Just because she gives her opponents more before beating them doesn't mean it won't have the same effect of Hunter's Reign of Terror in hampering the company from creating new stars.

What I don't get is why do they do things like always have her come out in the tallest heeled shoes they can possibly find when she towers over most of the roster already. Any time she does a promo with anyone else nearby she looks like a kindergarten teacher towering over the class.

Jim spending all his time getting worked up over modern wrestling is very similar to Dave spending too much time giving attention to trolls on Twitter. Both say it's good for business but you have to wonder at what cost? We're going to have a whole generation of people who only see Cornette as "guy who hates AEW and is prone to saying problematic stuff" and Dave as "guy who can't help but try to correct everyone with an egg icon obviously having a go at him" instead of both being absurdly vast resources of wrestling history.

Loved the last segment, Kenny should have told them to "make it good" before they hit him with the bat.

To be fair, you'd see the same thing happen in every Lucha show for the last 20+ years.

Goddamn, Arn spitting FIRE tonight.