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Game Changer Wrestling just posted a hilariously carny tale of making a deal for the Great Muta to be at Spring Break 4 and be their guest at Wrestlecon, only for Sonny Oono to jump in and claim to be Muta's agent and basically try to work GCW into paying Muta to be at Wrestlecon as Sonny's guest so he could make money off it. They saw the con for what it was and called him on it, and now it's not clear if any of their messages ever got to Muta, and his announced appearances are now off. Sonny apparently went to the effort to make transparently obvious sock puppet accounts on Twitter about it, and GCW put him and all his carny nonsense on blast for the world to see. As Bix put it, the funniest part is finding out Sonny's WCW gimmick was apparently a shoot.

The Miz kids and the Bella kids will be that generation's Usos vs New Day and feud non stop.

It was right up there, IMO. You could make an argument for that or the tag match and I'd be fine with it.

It's amazing how much different a show feels when the stars are allowed to be stars and the focus isn't on the all important BRAND. Everything had meaning and the fans were invested rather than being punished for getting behind the wrong guys.

Excalibur getting in a Worker Ant reference made me chuckle.

Tony having the time of his life calling this match makes it 100x better.

This match is the ultimate fuck-you to all the old farts who hate things that weren't done in 1985 yet are over in 2020.

Now comes the match where people who only know Orange from AEW find out he's actually a good wrestler.

The way they were lingering on Arn, I thought for sure a turn was coming.

Arn! No!

I guess Marty must be making headway with that working relationship.

JR with the Wild Eyed Southern Boys reference getting a pop from me.

I hope the dummies who say there's no psychology in Bucks matches are watching this.

Time for some Cowboy Shit!

Darby has that special something, and kids seem to be into him too.

Dustin watching his Velveteen Dream tapes, out here trying to steal the heel's wife.

Good match to kick things off too.

I usually look forward to Mania just for the spectacle of it all, but this is definitely the first US PPV I've been hyped for based on the matches in a long time. It feels refreshing to have a card full of matches that all have a reason to exist other than "we have a PPV every month so we need to fill up space".

Xavier Woods posted pics of his cosplay of Powdered Toast Man for PAX East and it shows why he's a treasure in this world.

That and there's also been more than a handful of stories from folks who washed out in WWE saying they had run ins with Cena that derailed them politically. As a one off you might think it was sour grapes or someone looking for a reason they didn't make it, but after a while you tend to notice a pattern.

So WWE sent out a survey about Super Showdown, like they do for all their PPVs, and it was interesting when I said I didn't watch. They asked why and gave a whole laundry list of reasons (inconvenient time, matches too predictable, buying non WWE PPVs, etc) except for the obvious reason most people would give for not watching this particular show. There was a spot at the end where you could give your specific reasons for not watching, so you could still tell them why. I kind of feel bad for the web team people who have to deliver the results to management.

I get the impression that New Japan financed the latest Fire Pro game so I would assume there's contracts involved.

So Kenny was asked about an AEW video game and he replied the company gives the fans what they want, and they are asking for something in particular (referring to the AKI engine from N64 era WWF games like No Mercy) that is going to take time to get worked out. If they pull that off it'll get a bigger pop from me than anything that will happen at the PPV (and I'm really looking forward to the show).

Anyone else notice that WWE's social media accounts have their own version of weird WWEspeak? Every tweet has to have RANDOM CAPITALIZATION mid sentence like a text version of Vince yelling in an announcer's headset to make sure they really ram home the focal points. Once I saw it was in every tweet it quickly became one of those things I couldn't unsee.

Plus being the main figure of the first legit competition in 20 years and (so far) carrying the ball expertly would put him ahead of Goldberg in an importance sense without all the other stuff. Some people are stuck on his last WWE run not being all that great, but history has pretty much shown to be mostly on the company and not Jericho himself.