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As soon as I saw that exchange my thought was "well I suppose this might show how beholden he is to WWE" since the normal grump Twitter Punk would just steamroll her.

Big Dave can get anything he wants: a Mania match with Hunter, Disney to bring back the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, Dana Brooke's DMs on Twitter. I'm sure he can get who he wants to induct him. Also there's the matter of Fit being an employee of the company whereas I'm certain Vince saw Lance Russell as just some old southern rasslin' guy.

Agreed, this is a much better use of Seth, I'm just not looking forward to the inevitable claim that his Twitter antics were just him working us dumb mizzarks the whole time.

This is like "Bret screwed Bret" but the whiny social media version. Also they just made Seth a taller Drake Maverick by putting him with AOP.

It would be funny if they did another Emma/Emmalina deal where they hype up a makeover and the payoff is her coming out exactly like before.

I don't see how this can't be a better balanced version of those weekends you have a really good NXT Takeover on a Saturday and a good WWE PPV on Sunday. At least you know New Japan shows won't be poorly paced slog fests.

It will be amusing to read Dave's HOF bio for the guy he spent years calling "The Junkfood Dog" if he in fact did get in. Also the dwindling amount of newer candidates emerging should hopefully allow there to be a few years (like this one seems to be) where the backlog of older names gets whittled down to manageable levels. Maybe after a couple of years like that wrestling will be back in a position of having multiple promotions offering up HOF worthy names. The Orton and Edge stuff is interesting. With Edge, there's always the thing with anyone who had to retire suddenly due to injury of "what if" that causes people to sell short what they actually did. You'd think he'd be a lock for being part of a defining era of tag team wrestling and for being a strong heel as a singles star. Orton on the other had always strikes me as the wrestling equivalent of the guy in real sports who racked up a ton of impressive stats because they played for a long time, rather than someone who was actually one of the greatest.

I get the feeling the only thing people will be talking about after Raw will be how Wrestlecrap this "Rusev and Lana finalize their divorce" segment ends up.

Does he suck that much to demand such a forceful response that he gets? He's not like a jobber you'd see on the old 6:05 show that didn't even know how to take the most basic of moves properly, his shtick doesn't click with some folks. The fact that he manages to get such a response from folks, even a negative one, seems to put him above the sea of people in wrestling I could give two shits about.

The only thing that qualifies someone to be pro wrestler is being paid by a promotion to get in their ring, that's really it. Now you probably should get some training and put in some work to not look like a complete schlub in there, but this is a genre of entertainment that was created by carnies to part people from their money. The only real qualifications for about 70 or so years was "I want to make money and in most cases be a complete shithead". Plus the matter of most training for pro wrestling for a long time was just beating people up and whoever kept coming back got to be a wrestler. As far as Joey goes, I think he'd be better suited in a creative role than an in ring one. If for no other reason he seems like a dude that's going to kill himself one day doing crazy stuff. But as stated, he's been a JTTS so far in AEW and I don't see a problem with him being used that way. I also don't get the level of hate the guy gets. It's like having massive levels of hate for someone like EY when he was part of Sanity. He's clearly going to be slotted at a certain level so there's no reason to get BIG MAD about it when he's on TV.

WWE released Luke Harper, and Sin Cara tweeted he got his release too. I suppose they have some kind of "you can go anywhere but AEW" provision attached, but it's interesting to see them letting folks go again. Maybe they realized keeping unhappy folks held hostage isn't good for morale.

The funny thing is Billy walked away from ECW because he (probably rightly) felt Heyman saw him as just some dumb money mark to fleece, and then years later people called him the mark for buying the NWA trademarks. People were also mad at him because it ended the short lived NWA On Demand service that was opening up the Houston vault. He has ended up doing more for the NWA name than anyone since Crockett, considering it ended up getting any level of recognition in 2019. His Achilles Heel so far seems to be not handling it well when old school wrestling people start acting like....well, old school wrestling people.

WWE's talent relations group is really an amazing collection of fuckery. There seems to be a million stories of "I was promised/told X, but it never happened and when I asked about it no one knew what I was talking about" floating around. And it's like not even evil empire fuckery, it's usually more like the "clown ass incompetence" kind.

How many old dudes to they have in AEW? Obviously Jericho, but he's the biggest star in the promotion and his faction is building up young guys. Dustin and Daniels have been in player/coach roles to advance angles and put folks over. 3 older dudes and 1 only being pushed as a main eventer doesn't seem very WCW to me.

If Arn & Tully get in then IMO all the Horsemen that are HOF worthy would be in. The fourth spot was always more based on angles anyway. I hope we get some Mexico folks in, Villano III being on the "needs 50% or he's off the ballot" is goddamned ridiculous.

Well it's kind of a shocker in the sense he didn't actually do anything directly to MLW, just that everyone's clearly cutting ties with him since it's becoming clear he's lying about his missing girlfriend and no one wants to be attached to him if/when the shit hits the fan.

She was still in charge of creative, if someone suggests a shit idea it's on her to veto it. I do think she did get way more hate than warranted, half from neckbeards mad that a wimminfolk was in charge of their rasslin and half from people mad at anyone named McMahon. Kind of like how every time WWE has a good show now it's because of Hunter and when it sucks its because of Vince.

Google got busted ignoring laws against advertising to children, so the overreacted as usual and made it hard for anything with violent content to get any ad revenue. They just announced not to long ago that they will loosen up on simulated violence like video games as opposed to actual war type violence, so perhaps that will make it easier for wrestling companies. Of course this will probably be one of those times where the same crowd that always has to tell you wrestling is fake will tell you it has to be lumped in with the real violence.

So after everyone on social media dogpiled on Dave for suggesting AEW's drop was due to it being a night most of their target audience being away from home, it seems he was right since the number bounced back the next week.

I didn't hate it, but I was surprised to see people comparing it to the Dark Order when it was like the Straight Edge Society with Brandi and Kong as Punk and Gallows.

I dunno, Kairi still looks like the little sister that mom made the big sister take along with her when she goes out. Io on the other hand is amazing in her role so props to them for figuring out that she's awesome and letting her be awesome.

I guess one good thing to come out of the whole mess was that it exposed how clown shoes the whole thing was run, so there's that.

I dunno, I was on the fence about giving up on the NWA but the Cornette tribute sealed the deal for me. Not so much for the tribute itself, but for how the company very clearly feels nothing wrong happened and only cut bait with him because he was getting too much negative pub for them. Then you had Marquez white knighting for him on Twitter (when your defense is "it's not racism, just a joke about starvation" you really should rethink saying anything) which just made it clear they are just like Corny's other cultists who will excuse anything that shits out of his mouth because they watched him om TBS as a kid. There's too much better wrestling out there to waste time on them to be honest.

Good lord, Brandi.

LOL at "Moxley" being the new "ARM-bar"