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Yeah announcing Chicago is them saying Punk is going to be there. My question is if Punk is going to come back as a heel. I would assume he's going to be super over in Chicago of course, but he was public enemy #1 of AEW fans after all the shit went down.

Loved seeing Lady Frost on TV, she was a staple of the indies around here.

I popped for Buddy doing Rhea's reverse cloverleaf deal, and Brody King is such a beast.

to be fair, the finish was an audible due to injury.

Tiffamania running wild!

also hey @KawadaSmile, my boys made the big time https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2023/05/underdog-riverhounds-the-promise-of-tomorrow

It looks like Brutus is slowly turning into Paul Phoenix from Tekken.

Booker T and Vic sounding like my 80 year old grandparents bickering on commentary

I'm not doubting anything about Cornette here, but whoever does the thumbnails for his videos is absolutely not doing him any favors. He could be spitting the 100% God's honest truth and I would think he's a tryhard asshole just on those thumbnails.

I was thinking more in a kayfabe sense that the guy who got famous telling everyone to suck it and do blackface skits is now the voice of reason trying to get folks to not make poor decisions.

Its apples and oranges because media rights for sports (including WWE in this context) ballooned tremendously in the last decade or so since networks are desperate to overpay for the one thing that doesn't have declining viewership. If the exact same situation with WCW happens today, there would at least be some network willing to toss money at it. If Anthem/Fight Network bought Impact, someone would have taken the plunge with WCW.

It really seals the deal that we're in an alternate timeline when HHH and HBK (in NXT) are now the voices of reason cautioning against risky behavior.

Sure wasn't expecting Trish barking like a dog to be brought up in all this

What in the Kanye are those shades Becky is wearing?

Its weird to me that the guy who was defending the honor of WWE against Logan Paul is now being booked as one of the greats worthy of the new world championship. Like we're supposed to forget about months of cackling Joker Seth?

Cody should have said "MAKE IT GOOD" before Brock broke his arm.

Rhea and Dom look like different people out of character

It's such a pro wrestling thing to happen that Dakota blew out her knee trying to protect Liv's injury.

NJPW Strong just announced a women's title, and the champion will be decided in a mini tournament with WIllow Nightingale, Momo Kohgo, Stephanie Vaquer from CMLL, and Mercedes Mone. I wonder who's going to win......

Even Bruno thought it was crazy to take the belt off him when he was drawing huge houses all over the territory. My only guess is babyface Superstar would have been full bore sports entertainer and I don't think Sr knew what to do with that.

That's not really fair considering WCW had all their TV canceled and made them as coveted as a turd in a punch bowl. If that hadn't happened it would have been sold for way more. Not $9 billion of course, but significantly more than $4.2 mil.

This all smacks of Punk trying to get everything he wants because he knows AEW wants him back to help kick off the new show, and I don't blame him for that.....but why would anyone go to the mat for fucking Ace Steel? I know their history and all but potentially blowing some big paydays over him is some real "cutting off your nose to spite your face" energy. If this ends up keeping him from returning, he's either an idiot or he never really wanted to come back and is just making ridiculous requests until they tell him to fuck off Then he can make more whiny Instagram stories about how everyone is mean to him. This man is just so exhausting.

Doing a nice package honoring Superstar was a really nice gesture when you consider he's the one guy Vince would be justified being a grudge holding asshole towards.

I loved the interaction when he bumped into Solo. I've thought for a while the end game is Roman pushing his luck too far and getting murked by Solo, and it looks like that might be where we're heading. Solo has that "Taz in ECW" vibe (probably no accident considering who's got a hand in booking this), and him going on a murder spree is going to be awesome.

While the steroids certainly did their damage, the drinking might have been Graham's worst enemy. He drank himself into needing a liver transplant, and then promptly ended up with cirrhosis in that one too. It's most likely the cause of all his mood swings toward Vince/WWE and the reason he'd go back with his hand out when he needed money. I've always wondered if Vince had a soft spot for him even after all the bullshit since he's the type of guy who would have got a megapush under VKM but his dad insisted on sticking with Bob Backlund. I've often theorized that's why he became such a "body guy", there was clearly still some mileage in Graham as champ but Sr had to keep his word to Howdy Doody instead.