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Wagner and Blue Demon out here having an old lucha man version of a Memphis brawl.

He also claimed to have survived a sucide attempt of taking a "bottle of Fentanyl" which would be something considering AFAIK it only comes in a patch or spray, not a pill.

Corey Graves is having another Twitter meltdown, ironically after just saying he was going to take a social media break the other day.

AAA is live on Twitch right now if anyone wants to catch it.

I started listening to Kenny's interview on the WO site and it's really interesting so far. Seems clear that WWE was the big money offer, AEW offered creative freedom (and working with his friends of course), and New Japan didn't seem all that excited to match either offer. Also another thing that's clear is regardless of how you feel about his matches, Kenny's a really smart guy who clearly has a passion for wrestling. He comes off as a little Pollyanna-ish in terms of hoping he can get promotions who historically don't like each other to suddenly get along for the love of wrestling, but having a promotion with an open door policy down to work with anyone would be a way to maybe get that to actually happen.

Hunter and Steph need to bring back J&J Security so Becky has some geeks to beat up every week without having to worry about needing to get anyone's heat back.

Maybe a run on Raw for a while, but I would wager they're going to front load SmackDown when it starts on Fox.

and they didn't even make a big deal of their sexuality either, just basically "here's a couple of dope ass wrestlers we signed" and left it at that. I'll cop not being too familar with either of their work (I peaced out on LU long before Sonny Kiss showed up) but what I managed to look up seemed pretty awesome.

That was the first thing I saw, but Nyla Rose's Twitter mentions quickly turned into a dumpster fire of "Well Actually"s stating on how being trans is a mental illness or what have you. Even that girl who got lambasted on Twitter had a legion of white knights leaping to defend her honor, which....she ain't going to have sex with you for defending her right to be trash so you're just making yourself look bad.

Also it seems to have upset certain people that AEW signed a couple of folks, one who is openly gay and another who is openly transgender. It's always been interesting to me how some fans are okay with gay characters/gimmicks when it's known the person portraying them is hetero, but an actual gay person doing a stereotypical gay gimmick is somehow unacceptable.

I think it's funny that from day one Kenny/Cody/The Bucks said all four would be taking the next step together, yet some people are surprised that's what ended up happening. I suppose the thinking was it was just a given that WWE would back the truck up for at least Kenny if for no other reason to put a crimp on AEW, but it started to sound like Laker or Yankee fans who just assume all the hot free agents want to come play for them.

That might be part of whatever deal they cut to get the Lucha Brothers.

I honestly think rovert doesn't realize everyone isn't as Extremely Online as he is. He seems to be active on social media almost 24/7 and I guess I can see how anything less can be baffling when that's your normal.

I'm willing to admit I'm missing something, but Jimmy Havoc seems like the typical "deathmatch guy trying to make his way in a world where deathmatch style is no longer en vogue".

That it came down to the AWA and Mid South to be on ESPN and they picked the AWA because they recognized Slaughter and no one in Mid South? I believe it. An exec from ESPN in the mid 80s would have certainly been familiar with Sarge from his WWF run, and would not have known anyone from Mid South unless they read the Apter mags or subbed to the Observer. Plus it's been almost entirely forgotten Sarge was popular from his run as a character on GI Joe at the time too.

I'd like to think Mene Gene is somewhere smiling proudly knowing the legacy of the WCW Hotline lives on.

Ryan Satin made some kind of offhand comment about how Randy to AEW would be their "Hall shows up on Nitro" moment and all the cut n' paste sites went all "ORTON TO AEW? IT COULD HAPPEN" when no one said any such thing.

Yeah I can see that, especially since on paper Stephanie was the babyface in the sense of protecting Becky from herself (since the story is she's more hurt than she's letting on) and got beat up in the process. However Charlotte is so over the top smarmy heel and Ronda is so naturally unlikeable, it almost doesn't even matter. *edit to add* They really should emphasize the point that Becky doesn't trust the WWE doctors to not bench her for poltical reasons, rather than her being the stereotypical alpha (fe)male who doesn't want medical help.

They seem to be telegraphing the women's tag title match pretty hard by having Sasha/Bayley, Nia/Tamina, and a bunch of jobber teams. It makes it seem like maybe they launched this division too soon if that was the best they could do in terms of who they could put in the match.

Kind of, in NXT they would say he comes from a wealthy family and most of their fanbase knew what it meant. Obviously that won't translate to the main roster so it's going to be interesting how they explain it now.

To be fair (kinda) to WWE, they've long viewed relationships based on each person's status on the card rather than attractiveness. Like, they probably didn't like a guy they saw as midcard at best was with someone they thought could be a star. The old "why would Baby Doll be with Sam Houston when she could get with a star like me" mentality.

Yeah basically the company viewed them getting married while split up on TV as them saying "fuck you" to the attempts to split them up (and to be fair it sure seemed like that was the intent in how they announced it via social media). Since the company is run by a 70+ year old stuck in a high school mentality, they've gone out of their way to make sure Rusev never gets above a certain level since.

Tamina out there looking like a disappointed auntie while Nia speaks.

Thank god Double J isn't in his 90s gear again.

Nikki and Alica as Team Crazy People works for me.