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I would keep Leva Bates as a valet & Angelico. I don't think Uno/Grayson are bad, their gimmick is just the shits.

I found out that Velvet Sky has me blocked on Twitter. I don't know if that happened a long time ago or just recently but I stand by my comments that she's terrible on commentary. I would be on board with this. Especially if he was doing The Natural gimmick again. I'm not as down on Nick Aldis as others on PWO but it does feel like between him being the champion, Tim Storm doing commentary & Strictly Business being the main stable & storyline, that right now NWA is all-in on Aldis. More focus on tag team wrestling this week as they're trying to build up a team to face Aron Stevens & whomever that jobber is that is his partner. Kratos? Kronos? Fuck if I remember. I have no idea who that dude is. The opening tag match, between Strictly Business against Parrow/Odinson was fine. Odinson was impressive. Parrow was not. The War Boys from Fury Road gimmick came off as kind of lame to me but I liked Odinson's energy & athleticism although his apron bump was unneeded & stupid. Otherwise forgettable show with not a lot going on.

It worked for ECW in 1999 when there was both WWF & WCW running 12 a year. Would make sense to me. But I don't know if I agree with the $50 price tag. Felt really burned after that last PPV. ECW PPVs were $20. Although of course that was over twenty years ago.

Yeah, it's perplexing. I know @El-P been a fan since Impact days too & has mentioned it before about how they're doing nothing in NXT. Even if you factor in the injury. I just see nothing in Kross.

They should honestly give Scarlett back her red hair & get her away from him now. Same way I feel about Penelope Ford in AEW.

The question I have moving forward is will both shows go up when on different nights, or will they stay the same?

The mentality that WWE seemingly still has as it pertains to the women is an issue. They might use the women more but they still treat them like they're minis, or the cruiserweight division. Like they're afraid to have "too many" on a card or something. What's wrong with having another segment or match with the women if those women are over & doing good stuff? For that matter, what's wrong with cutting a shitty segment with the men for an additional segment with the women? You have Sasha, Bianca, Asuka, Bayley, Rhea, Charlotte... It's OK if that's not all confined into just one RAW segment & one Smackdown segment. Especially if they're getting back both Becky & Ronda too. Just point the fucking camera at people that shine, goddamn.

Agreed. In professional wrestling, he was tremendous. I loved his ROH world title run era in particular. I don't know when it all started going downhill for him, truthfully. I feel like the initial catalyst might have been the Christy Hemme thing in TNA? That's the first thing I can recall but honestly, I think it might just be more that once he had a platform in Twitter, to spread nonsense, he showed his true colors. It's not "getting heat" when you're saying & doing the shit that he has said & done. It just makes you look exceptionally unprofessional & honestly, a liability to hire. Which is now where he's at.

I don't think they'll talk about AEW hardly if at all. I certainly don't think Jericho is going to get in a plug. If anything, I expect to hear more about Fozzy than AEW. Jericho will probably talk about WCW, ECW, Japan, coming to WWE, his world title reigns, his band & maybe his cruise. I don't think they'll be chatting about The Inner Circle, Le Champion & poppin' the bubbly Wednesday nights on Dynamite on TNT. "Tell my about debuting in WWE with The Rock, what was that like?" "Tell me about WCW not wanting to use you when you were trying to do the Goldberg thing." Same stories we've heard. But would love to be wrong.

Didn't they bring back Johnny Ace? I feel like it's going to continue to get worse for the women in WWE again. Ace doesn't exactly have a great track record with the women from his first go around.

I also think Miro, since ditching the best man streamer video game player gimmick & doing the "it's my destiny to be champion" gimmick is pretty much the most legit thing they have going. More so than whatever Omega is doing. Although I don't dislike Omega, I just think the teaming with the Good Brothers & working with Impact makes him look worse by association. I think if it were just him & Don he would be better off.

Just more WWE bullshit. Reward people that weren't around for the year over the people that carried it for the year.

I seem to recall this. It was like, Banks came from Azealia Banks but I don't remember what Sasha was from. Sasha Fierce, from Beyonce? Like Dolph Ziggler was Dolph Lundgren & Dirk Diggler, right?

Need more nicknames from yesteryear. Can always use a Moose, Ox or Bear - Russian or otherwise. I was just watching some Moose Cholak on YouTube about a week ago.

This is such a good point. Even Darby Allin, whom seems to be really popular right now, just feels like the host body for the parasitic vampire Sting to suck the sustenance from. I say fuck it, turn Sting heel & have Darby topple him. You have to pull the trigger. You can't just always dangle the carrot. AEW does have some pretty cool moments, even the bathroom brawl from this last AEW Dynamite was good. The popcorn & dipping dot brawl from like a year ago was great, too. There's a lot of good stuff but none of it really feels like it's sticking & a lot of the time, the good shit is bookended with two different goofy segments like the fucking Best Friends getting dropped off by their mom in a minivan or whatever-the-fuck.

My comment didn't have anything to do with ratings. I didn't know anything about ratings was even posted or out. I don't follow that shit because it doesn't matter to me. My issue is with giving ex-WWE wrestler Christian at 47-years-old 20-minute matches on your new, upstart, alternative wrestling program that you want to differentiate itself from WWE. Christian is a fine worker. He's also boring as fuck.

AEW Dynamite doesn't need 20 minute Christian matches though. That's my biggest concern going forward.

NWA POWERRR EPISODE 23 This is my first NWA show since they left YouTube. I didn't get to see the Pay-Per-View nor the last episode of Powerrr that I also apparently missed (that I didn't know happened). Love that they are back to Dokken Into the Fire for the opening theme. Just gives the overall show a different feel & vibe. I really like the NWA Championship title. The actual belt itself. It still looks great & I love how they put it on display during a Nick Aldis promo. The Aldis promo, by the way, was pretty good. Felt like he may have gotten a bit lost toward the end or Adonis missed his cue & was late but they definitely had to stall a bit. Trevor Murdoch Vs. Adonis appeals to me. I like Aron Stevens more when he's not always doing comedy. Velvet Sky was on the commentary team but wasn't there long. Felt like she didn't want to be there, to be honest. Tim Storm wasn't bad. Joe Galli was fine. Tim Storm when he retires from in-ring wouldn't be a bad color man. Was impressed by Slice Boogey but his ring gear & name need work. Mets fan or not. Jeremiah Plunkett I don't feel is too terrible of a name & him being announced as from Tatersville popped me. I don't know who Skye Blue is but she is super cute. Gave off that A.J. Lee vibe. Yeah, I dig her, I want to see more of her. She made a big impression on me. Jennacide was out there working like Big John Studd. Big Jenna Studd lmao. Not sure why she was dressed up like Ace Frehley from KISS. Poor Alex Gracia, only thing I could notice was all of her fake pink hair falling out all over the place. NWA still being able to build to Thunder Rosa Vs. Kamille is nice. That's one of their better matches available. Tyrus looked old, fat, tired, & we know he's a piece of shit behind the scenes. Austin Idol being with him doesn't change any of that. Get 'em outta there. I know NWA, especially now, needs talent but guys like him aren't it. I don't mind the former Darren Young pick up. Pope's promo felt like he was trying to channel The Doctor of Style, Slick. I don't mind May Valentine as the backstage interviewer. Chris Adonis, formerly Chris Masters, looks a lot smaller but I remember him not being a bad worker toward the end of his WWE stint. Same with Trevor Murdoch, not a bad worker. I liked the injured neck angle they played up, not only to make Murdoch look tough (or dumb depending on how you look at it) for continuing with the match but it also gives him an excuse for losing & Adonis' Masterlock focuses on the neck. PSYCHOLOGY~! I was happy with this show. If it's like this every week, I'll be good. More serious feel, decent wrestling, good promos. Got to see new faces. Advanced some angles. All in under an hour. Look forward to seeing the Thunder Rosa Vs. Kamille match when it happens. I'm sure something is going to happen with Adonis to make him not join the Strictly Business stable. They set-up a tag title match for next week. I want to see more from Skye Blue, I think she can be a star.

Yeah, they're all on YouTube now. I might give them a re-watch. Could be cool with modern eyes. I like shit like that. I even watched a lot of Tough Enough back in the day, especially the early ones with Maven & whatnot.

He's also very obviously got a Napoleon complex going on. Tiny lil' sumbitch.

I'm glad to see that she made it to WWE, if that was her goal all along. Although I guess she's still "just" on NXT. I've seen her do good things elsewhere. First time I ever saw her was actually on Lance Storm's wrestling training reality show World of Hurt.

The IWGP Heavyweight Title was the best looking belt in all of wrestling.

Same. Charlotte is great. I really like Lesnar too. I feel like Brock, Roman & Cena are the only guys they could still sell a show with. I just don't think there's big mass appeal for the likes of Edge, Drew McIntyre or Bobby Lashley. On the women side, Becky, Ronda & maybe Charlotte? I don't actually know how well received Charlotte is.

So me, then, without saying my name? All I know is that, at least as it pertains to WWF, shit like Savage & Liz reuniting is a more memorable thing than the (good) match that Warrior & Savage had right before hand. People bought tickets to see Hogan Vs. Andre at Wrestlemania 3 for the story of can the Giant be beaten, not for Savage Vs. Steamboat wrestling a clinic. No one cared that studio shows were full of jobber squash matches. People were buying tickets to see the stars & see what the stars did. WWE currently has no stars & the ratings are terrible, regardless of if the matches are better. The "romanticizing" that goes on pertains to workrate, Meltzer's opinion & his sycophants. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯