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Charlotte, Andrade, and Rush living the Tranquilo life.

Reminds me of one of my earliest fan memories. I went to an NWA house show in 1987 (I was nine), and joined in with an older kid in front who was yelling "Dick Murdoch is playing with himself!" during the "heel fishes in his trunks to pull out a foreign object behind the ref's back" routine. My parents were mortified.

Isn't it so weird he would say that, yet it's not like Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey were sporting Lex Luger bodies in an era where that was far more important? Not to mention he made most of his money feuding with Ricky and Robert, who had bodies like most of the fans in the front row.

Funny considering Vince can't seem to quit Brock, and keeps throwing cash at him every time his deal is up. I mean, Brock's got no problem with jobbing clearly, but I can't imagine he's a joy to deal with.

Even better, IIRC it wasn't a broken hand it was one of the first times he popped his shoulder out. I think it happened again later on when was taking out the trash.

I think Orton's pretty good when motivated, hell he might even be better than Piper if he didn't quarter-ass 3/4ths of his career. To claim he's all around better makes me worry all the issues going on in Brazil have broken poor brother KawadaSmile's brain once and for all.

It's a weird reaction since you would expect the first thing you'd do if you were involved in shady dealings is to have enough dirt on everyone else in case shit goes down (or maybe I've just been following the wrestling business too long).

He is fantastic, but the video Roman showed was so grainy it could have been that dude who looked like Rowan from last week for all we know.

Ricochet comes off as a guy who's good on promos, but bad at reading WWE scripts and sounding human. Cedric was pretty good doing it on 205, not sure why they don't let him speak much on the main roster.

TV commentators will be JR, Excalibur, and that Goodboy guy who did Fyter Fest. Everyone seemed to enjoy their work. Tony will basically be a utility guy and do what he can between Georgia sports and MLW commitments. I would love to see him do segments like the "WWF Magazine" ones Mean Gene used to do where he would recap feuds/angles.

Braun already has 2 matches at NOC.

If those Street Profits promos were any more ECW, they'd be taped in Paul's basement.

90s alternative sek69 has issues with Nine Inch Nails being used for the Gears of War 5 commercials.

Cedric vs Cesaro should be pretty good.

LOLWWE

Also the Viking Raiders should be killing fools in New Japan, or AEW, or anywhere else instead of doing this silly nonsense.

It's just so weird how they have her be crazy Sanity Nikki when she's by herself but a puppy dog happy to have a friend when Alexa is around.

Corbin's underrated? Dude's been a black hole of suck for a while now. He has decent heel charisma but his matches are god-awful.

They were promised a long run to give the title credibility, then it was decided they would drop them to a comedy team at Mania. Sasha being upset at being lied to got turned into her having a fit because of that silly Ryan Satin tweet (that was obviously fed by someone pissed at her in the company) saying her and Bayley were having full on toddler tantrums over it.

Yeah I think it still counts, and I'd agree he probably doesn't mind.

Boxers taking dives are (in theory) the exception rather than the rule. Calling wrestling a sport implies it's a legit contest, I'd say it's more like a Harlem Globetrotters game where the folks involved undoubtedly have athletic abilities but it's not an actual competition. Apologies if that breaks some kind of basketball kayfabe, btw. IMO it's just a matter of the current generation seeing pro wrestling for what it is, and the older generation (and their fanboys) are still clinging to some kind of IT'S STILL REAL TO ME nonsense and get mad when someone says differently.

I think a lot of the goodwill was because people were mad that WWE was going to turn around and make Enzo the face of 205 after the "Neville: King of the Cruiserweights" run that a lot of folks liked. Didn't matter that Enzo actually popped ratings (and I say that as someone who can't stand the guy but facts is facts). I think he lost his luster with the whole kerfluffle over coming in to AEW hot then disappearing due to visa/not wanting to job while DG champ drama. I get the dude was probably just enjoying his job for the first time in forever, but he came off as kind of a dick over it. I do appreciate the symmetry of him being the one to step in to fill in on this show after them having to rebook DON because of him.

Somehow Dave mentioning that Roman's cameo in the Hobbs and Shaw movie got no recognizable reaction ended up with UK people trying to educate him on the proper etiquette of British Cinema. *shrugs* Twitter, man.

So looking at the available tickets on Ticketmaster, looks like the only seats left for the Pittsburgh show are mainly one corner of the upper deck. I would expect it to be a sellout probably in a day or two.

The Attitude Era had JR and Lawler were a combined 90 or so and DX was cutting edge for the time. It's what's presented in the ring that attracts the fresh alternative. Plus having an older voice to call the action is a staple of the type of wrestling AEW is going for. You had Gordon Solie, Bob Caudle, Lance Russell, and so forth being the ones telling the audience what was going on in a manner that wasn't dumbed down or presented in a way that presumed the viewers were all victims of a traumatic brain injury. Besides, so far we've had far more of the Mid South/JCP/WCW era Jim Ross rather than the WWE "BAH GAWD" style.