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He's the one running the game expo the show is at.

Who would have figured the way to make Leva Bates interesting is to have Big Cass singing the Price is Right theme.

It's probably not intentional, but having these segments between matches probably helps so the women don't have to directly follow such a hot opener.

To be fair, no one will see them doing it though.

I can't recall a promotion that seems so hellbent on making people not care as much as ROH is right now. Like, even WWE is trying shit no matter if you like it or not, ROH seems steadfast in its attempts to remain as pedestrian as possible.

It's on Bleacher Report's streaming service, you just have to make a free account to watch. They list the start time as 7:30 eastern, which will probably be for the Buy In matches.

Eli Drake was announced as Nick Aldis's tag team partner at Best in the World and it was announced he signed a deal with the NWA (whatever that means in 2019). I suppose he'll be part of the NWA vs ROH feud they have been building, and at least he's someone I'd look forward to seeing.

Another log on the pile, Hunter had to team up with the Club on the Tokyo house show because god forbid he doesn't attach himself to something that got over in another company and try to make it his own.

Heyman maybe, but people forget (understandably, considering how it ended) just how big WCW was at its peak. NWO shirts were just as ubiquitous as Austin 3:16 ones, and they were legit filling domes for Nitro.

Lyger will be having his farewell match in Mexico on July 19 against Negro Casas, Ultimo Guerrero, and Caristo in a 4 way match.

The point isn't the size of the venue (other than pointing out that AEW probably should have tried for a bigger building), but that they had something like 300K requests for tickets on day one, something that WWE has apparently never done no matter the size of the building they are trying to fill. Yes WWE eventually fills up places like Jerryworld in Dallas, but WM usually has tickets available for months.

The same scalper bots are there for WWE events of recent times too though. A lot of WWE fanboys lost their minds over the fact AEW had such a high demand for their shows that it has to be scalpers/fake numbers/Dave's on the payroll.

More people requested tickets on day one than any Wrestlemania, he went over the numbers on one of the daily shows. If you have an issue with it, blame the ticket vendors rather than Dave.

Nope. Also the other co-owner besides this Glenn guy is Ian Rotten's son, which should tell you all you need to know.

That's actually a pretty smart move, I would much rather have Eric being the guy to schmooze with network executives than Vince.

As long as Vince is alive, I feel it doesn't matter if they have a council of Eric/Paul/Bill Watts/the ghost of Paul Boesch, the final say will always be with Vince and that means nothing of significance will change. Based on history it seems the best thing we can hope for is a few months of good wrestling before either Eric or Paul (or both) get fed up with the constant micromanaging and tell Vince to shove it.

I think the Fox move is the reason they are doing it, as Fox is looking to have more of a real sports feel for Smackdown.

Becky's way better, she's just stuck in a shit feud right now. She's actually got me interested in a match she's done before, can't say Seth's ever done that.

Man, you know Otis is a big guy but it was kind of jarring to see him make Big E of all people look small by comparison. I need more of them interacting, btw.

That would be the worst feud, since it's two guys who shouldn't be losing right out of the gate. So it makes perfect WWE sense that they'd 50/50 both guys immediately.

Huskus the Pig made a cameo on SD, so I guess they're doing a slow burn where the FireFly Funhouse bleeds into Raw and Smackdown.

I said it before but CMLL's gonna claim gimmick infringement for having 2/3 falls matches with meaningless quick first falls.

That's an odd take. It seemed to me it ramped up more when he started becoming a douche on Twitter to everyone.

Yeah, in the "everything has a plus side" department, Vince's paranoia is getting guys paid who AEW probably wouldn't take a second glance at. Rusev's deal is apparently coming up soon, so I can't wait for the hilarity that is going to bring, since he's bent on seemingly burning every bridge he can on the way out.

If he's truly a disciple of HHH, then maybe Uncle Kev could get through to him.