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Didn't LU just name Dorian Roldan as the new person in charge of the wrestling side of things since everyone else involved were TV people?

Apparently AAA is taking a huge percentage of the booking fee when one of their guys works an indy show, and the guys weren't always aware of that until after the fact. Pretty funny to see them using the "guys who want to be here will be here" talking point at the press conference today when they don't seem to want to pay anyone.

Baby Doll and her new biker boyfriend are diehard Trump supporters, been posting a lot of "deal with it" type memes on Facebook this week.

Part of the problem is that they sold it as like some game changing service with tons of promotions signing on, and they really haven't delivered anything past the WWN stuff.

Steamboat-Savage from WM3 had about a million two counts in 1987 and is still considered a classic.

HHH was on Observer Live to do a PR fluff interview on the new WWE animated movie and wrestling Twitter demanded a hard hitting takedown apparently.

Basically they didn't want to wast the time/resources on a 30+ year old case that would have been hard to win based on the passage of time and a defendant who most likely would not have lived through a trial anyway (and he wouldn't have as it turned out). For anyone to use that as some kind starting off point for a "he was never convicted" argument is baffling. It's like when the Enron guy had his conviction thrown out when he died. It didn't suddenly mean he didn't rob the fuck out of those people.

To be fair, I think the argument is more that we all know wrestling is full of and run by sleazy people so anyone appalled at sleazy behavior must be white knighting or some such thing. To use the parlance of his people, Parv is just being a bell-end at this point just for the sake of doing it.

So now that Parv has been thoroughly proven wrong, time to turn the smarm and assholishness up to 11 I suppose.

A win over Taker would probably garner the exact same reaction regardless if the intention would be a heel turn or not. And I would love for that to happen either way.

Mentioning that he was brought back years ago with no fuss outside the hardcore bubble ignores the fact that the retrial attempts got a lot of attention the last year or so. More people are aware of it now than back then, and it was noticeable when they cut back to the crowd after showing the video and there was a palpable sense of uneasiness. Half the crowd was standing and cheering and half had a look of "uhhh, did they really just do that". On top of all the did--he-or-didn't-he stuff, the final photo from Tamina's Twitter of her holding her presumably deceased father's hand struck me as something entirely too personal to be something added to a video meant for public consumption.

Dave said on last night's show that it looks like they're going to be on the network, At least now the reported lowball contracts offered to guys in the UK tournament kind of make sense if they can still work in ICW.

The opening RIP screen was fine since it had to be acknowledged, but man was that extended tribute video to Snuka was uncomfortable.

Jesus. I never expected to live in a time where Big Show was rocking a six pack. Unless it was like, a literal six pack.

Watching matches for the sole purpose of assigning the proper fractional amount of flakes never made much sense IMO.

Randos on Twitter seem so confident they know more about the wrestling business than the guy who's spent decades talking to people inside the company.

Is Thunderkitty that bad normally or was she deliberately playing the role of uncoordinated JCP jobber?

Suda51 is a guy, he mentioned there's going to be a new No More Heroes game (or at least a game with the main character from it) on the Switch.

I don't doubt there's a lot of wrestlers who would have *tried* MMA had it been an option for them, but I would expect the vast majority still would have ended up in pro wrestling anyway. I don't think anyone other than a Kurt Angle type would have had much success at it.

Yeah in a world where Bruno and Warrior mended fences to the point of a HOF induction, it seems silly to suggest Punk will never ever be back. However it does need pointed out that the first two were Hunter smoothing things out with guys who had issues with Vince, and in Punk's case Hunter seems to be the guy he hates.

Did they ever appear on any show besides Shotgun? I seem to remember them being only on that show and it coming off as a tryhard attempt of being edgy.

I never really understood the appeal of Tommy Rich in the early 80s since it was just before my time as a fan, but it makes sense now after watching GCW tv from 1982. His babyface promos were perfect, apologizing to the fans for losing the National title and thanking Gordon Solie for his time after the interview. Also this is probably peak coked-out Roddy Piper as he is basically Tazmanian Devil in a suit any time he gets worked up.

The bubble is strong ITT

Yeah, I'd wager WWE was far more concerned with them getting major TV clearance than the actual wrestling content. Same as when they decided to go after ROH when they got on Destination America. If a backyard wrestling fed somehow got a TV deal, we'd probably see the First Annual Backyard Classic Special on the network .

He's deserving by WWE HOF standards, but considering their insistence on using WWF names it's going to be weird seeing the video package on the former NWA Florida champ Irwin R. Schyster.