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Not to mention the Bucks basically blew up Corny's spot when they revealed he approached them to work a program during their "beef" saying it would be the only program people would believe. Ever since then I've viewed all of his rants against modern wrestlers through the prism of a guy trying to shoot his own angle.

Also Villano III being potentially on the chopping block is a god damned tragedy. The lucha logjam is one of the more ridiculous things about the WON HOF. Sometimes it seems like people such as cubsfan are just yelling into the wind trying to build cases why not only should the entire lucha category be in, but that they should have been in years ago already. Imagine having a pro wrestling HOF where say, Randy Savage and Jushin Liger continually get passed over year after year and no one other than a small handful of people even seem pressed by it. It's pretty much what we have here only with Villano III and Dr. Wagner Jr still waiting to get in.

While New Japan tends to wait to the last minute to announce cards even for Japanese shows, they're supposedly afraid of announcing US cards too far out in advance and having some bullshit happen that prevents everyone from being able to make it. It seems they are waiting until they are sure everyone they plan to book is cleared to be able to make the trip.

Does Vinny Ru warrant any more exposure at this point? All he does is spew the same discredited bullshit and whips up his army of toxic stans to attack anyone who calls him out as the lying carny he is.

Maybe it's just me, but Slater seems like the ideal "if he's better than this guy he should be in, if he wasn't he should be out" guy.

Omega's headlined shows and had good matches, Shane did all his bragging with nothing but Dean Douglas and the Dynamic Dudes on his resume. He was out there talking shit on the biggest star in the business while never getting above the level of lower mid card comedy guy. Kenny may come off as a dork at times but at least he's put in the work to be able to talk shit on people.

Two weeks of the show ending with him appearing to be peeing his pants in fear of the Fiend isn't helping him? How could have WWE predicted this?

Shane Douglas came off as desperate for attention from the big boys in 1996, no one thought him doing grandstand challenges to Ric Flair made him edgy at the time. ECW being gritty, violent, and something that looked like guerrilla TV made it the edgy alternative back then. Kenny's being honest in the context of a heel character. There's only a handful of people in NXT who would have even made it on any of the major cards he headlined and Donavan Dijak certainly wouldn't have been one of them. Now does make it kind of weird that we know that Kenny's a VP, so him being heelish in any context is going to be jarring. But the guy's not going to be happy smiling babyface forever.

Heel does heel stuff, the internet explodes. Film at 11. He got name dropped on yesterday's New Japan show, so he's not wrong. He's being the best kind of heel: he's saying things that are more or less true, but in a dickish way. We loved it when Tully would do it in 1985, but Kenny does it today and people think he's destroying his company.

TBF, there's been multiple times he's revealed himself to be kind of creepy on Twitter. Not the least of which being his constant retweets of the "WWEPORN" account, which while not actual porn from what i can tell, it's a weird look for him to be doing.

So they just did an angle where Liger upped his feud with Suzuki by bringing back the famous Kinshin Liger persona from the match where the Great Muta pulled off his mask to reveal face paint. They even did an homage to that when Liger tried to stab him with the spike they use to tighten the turnbuckles.

I wonder if after every joke that guy told, Mauro was like "JUST LIKE JOHN WAYNE GACY, THIS COMIC IS KILLING IT TONIGHT"

Not streaming live like a lot of shows, but CMLL will have it on their YouTube channel probably the next day. The card: Ultimo Guerrero, Negro Casas, Big Daddy, Cavenario, Voldador Jr, Gilbert el Bourica (aka Mil Muertes from LU), Ciber the Main Man (Cibernetico's extremely lame CMLL name) in a cage match where the last two left have a hair vs hair match. Cuatero, Forestero, Sanson vs Caristico, Mistico, Valiente for the National Trios titles Microman vs Chamuel mask vs mask with two minis Dalys vs Marcela for the CMLL Women's title Angel de Oro, Niebla Roja, Mephisto vs Euphoria, Gran Guerrero, Soberano Jr (replacing Dragon Lee) in a Relevos Incriebles match where both teams are a mix of rudos and technicos Diamante Azul, Dulce Gardenia, Titan vs Hechicero, Hijo del Villano III, Rey Bucanero Audaz, Rey Cometa, Stigma vs Misterioso Jr, Tiger, Virus Quite the mixed bag of a card. The main event will probably depend on who the last two are. Everyone's expecting Ciber to be doing the honors here, so good luck to whoever is left with him, as Ciber's been extremely not good in trios matches in CMLL. The six man for the titles will be the match of the night unless disaster hits,. NGD are really good, and the technico team can easily hang with them. The minis match won't be workrate classic, but they are really over and Microman in particular is great at what he does. He's also the son of Ke Monito, the famous blue monkey mascot of CMLL, so enjoy the visual that just put in your head. The women's match will probably be decent, but CMLL books their women's division even more spotty that ROH does, so they will probably end up being in the death spot. The rest of the card is basically just "get folks an Anniversary show payday" filler that will probably not be bad but not particularly any good either. To be fair to CMLL this was probably a tough show to put together considering Paco's death and not everyone really getting behind the idea of Sofia as the boss at first. It might be interesting to see if anything happens to kick off any storylines going forward. This would be a good opportunity for them to use what's been kind of a lame duck show to be the launching point for something new. That has never been CMLL's MO but it could be a way to show that there's new blood and new ideas in charge.

Also someone needs to teach the people in charge of Anthem about the Sunk Cost Fallacy. They buy TNA to get more content for the Fight Network, end up gutting the Fight Network due to all the costs TNA brought on. They can't get any real network to give Impact a slot due to the Dixie LOLTNA era, so they smush it on the hunting channel they own a part of. They buy AXS so they have a place to put Impact, end up gutting AXS because reasons. All that just to make sure the wrestling promotion that can't stop stepping on its own dick can get on TV.

The best part is the column that got Moose and the Impact Stans (hey that would be a great band name) so riled up was just an recap of all the hilarious self-owns the company has done over the years and the only wrestler mentioned was Killer Kross in a discussion of his beef with the company. I get fandom is a hell of a drug, but anyone still ride-or-die for Impact* at this point is legit scary. *to be fair it's actually Anthem that has been doing all the dumb things, but since they all seem to be at the behest of Impact it's basically a "six of one, half dozen of another" deal.

Speaking of announcers, it seems like post Fox there will be completely separate announce teams for Raw and SD. Dave said it looks like Cole will be on SD, so I wonder how things will shake out. I really like the dynamic Corey and Byron have. Byron plays his role as straight man/comic foil great doesn't have to always have the last word like Renee does which causes the Raw team to sound like bickering children.

I would take Kevin Kelly, Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni, Nigel McGuiness, Vic Joseph, 50% of Jr's calls in AEW, and five squirrels in an overcoat over Mauro at this point.

As Dave pointed out, the match he's referring to took place on a broken ring and was a minor miracle they were even able to do anything on it.

I will say there probably is something to that, being bipolar is a bitch and I don't doubt he was a bear to work with especially before he got his meds situated. Having said that, it would be kind of weaksauce to blame mental illness for asshole behavior. I can understand giving someone a little wider berth in that situation but at the end of the day a jerk is a jerk.

I started following IMPACT more closely since I realized you can watch the most recent episode of their TV without having to sign up for their streaming service, and it really is amazing how much better Matthews is now. He still comes off kind of like a douche at times, but Callis out there to needle him tends to keep his worse tendencies in check. It helps that Callis is my favorite kind of announcer, the ex wrestler who's kinda heelish but also calls things more or less down the middle. It's like the wrestling equivalent to having someone like Tony Romo calling an NFL game.

I love how that person in the tweet was all "one show in and they're turning on Mauro" when people have been down on him for a while. Or is PWO just ahead of the curve? Nice to see that he's taking a page from Seth's playbook and play the "check the bank account" card though.

Early Scott Steiner should be fun to see.

I'm spitballing here, but I would assume an insurance company would feel more comfortable with their guy doing a match with the billion dollar industry leader than an indy they probably haven't heard of. Also I'm not sure that Big Dave would want to risk messing up that Marvel money at this point. He ended his wrestling career on the biggest stage, it wouldn't make sense for him to do a Bloodsport type show no matter how cool it would be.

I just want Brock and Big E to do the ultimate hoss match, just one time.

He was good doing the Beast in the East show and on the Mae Young Classic, practically everything he does that annoys people is by design since it's what Vince wants. Just go back to the 80s and 90s when Vince was lead announcer, that's what he wants everyone to sound like but the problem is no one can do Vince like Vince does.