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Jesus, what a bump to take for someone not even in the match.

Who's the female ring announcer? Did something happen to Justin Roberts?

More terrible news. Social media is cancer.

People were calling her CHHHarlotte as early as 2017, but it seemed to really pick up after she ended Asuka's undefeated streak.

Most of Edge's most notable matches were multi-man gimmick matches with a lot of moving parts. I'm sure it takes a certain kind of ring generalship to put those matches together and keep them from falling apart. Straight wrestling matches are another matter.

Cornette vs. Rollins is the biggest heel vs. heel program since the Klan took on the Westboro Baptist Church.

Is Ricky Steamboat really a Richard Blood?

Corbin is the heir to Kane, which is the problem. They're both usually slotted as upper-midcard heel gatekeepers, but just about everybody they feud with ends up less over than they were previously. However, I found it simultaneously amusing and baffling during the Team Hell No era when people who were smart enough to know better would insist that Kane had actually become actively good and wasn't just being hidden in tag matches. Then the team broke up and he went right back to sucking.

I think it's pretty clear that it's WWE that Martha hates rather than pro wrestling in general. She happily accepted on Owen's behalf when he was inducted into the Thesz/Tragos Hall of Fame. Also, my recollection is that the bulk of the vitriol directed at her was in the mid-late 00s. That was the period when WWE was releasing DVDs centered around classic matches, expanding their circulation beyond the hardcore tape trader community. At the same time, it was nothing like today where just about anything you'd want to see is available online at the drop of a hat. So if a match wasn't on an official WWE release, it was beyond the reach of most fans. And a lot of fans have been trained to see wrestlers as comic book or video game characters rather than human beings. To them, not being able to watch Owen's matches was akin to not being able to play as Mileena in Mortal Kombat 11. That doesn't justify the way those fans treated Martha by any means, but it makes it maybe 1% more understandable.

Awful news. All the focus right now is on his qualities as a human being, as it should be, but I also remember liking the strap match he had with JTG after Cryme Tyme broke up.

Ember Moon suffering a possible career-ending injury in a 24/7 backstage segment is peak WWE.

Both are better than 2020 WWE.

The Alexa push was awful. There's not much worse than a heel who verbally eviscerates her opponents before beating them clean. Especially when she's the smallest wrestler in the division and one of the worst workers. Anyway, I'm sure her depush was due to injuries catching up to her. It's hard to build around someone who's on the shelf for an extended period of time every few months.

Anyway, let's get real. Nothing is in the same galaxy as the early-mid 00s HHH reign of terror in terms of damage to the product from both a business and creative standpoint. Don't allow yourself to be gaslighted by WWE's revisionist history.

If you're talking about their match at Backlash, Carmella sandbagged herself by sucking.

Hopefully, they'll have someone from the Kansas City police department on to explain why they didn't immediately order the show to be shut down. By allowing it to continue, they were allowing a crime scene to be tampered with.

I was speaking about the Blue Lives Matter slogan in general since it had been brought up. If a conversation is about X and someone brings up Y in relation to X, it's not unheard of for people to discuss aspects of Y that have nothing to do with X. It happens quite frequently on message boards. This is all pretty far removed from Pro Wrestling Only, so I'll just leave it at that.

This is quite the non sequitur, but your opinion is noted.

"I Stand for Our National Anthem" isn't a generic patriotic slogan. It's a direct response to NFL players who kneel during the anthem to protest racism and police brutality. Whenever I see "Blue Lives Matter" and like slogans, I think about the time a few years ago I saw a car festooned with various political bumper stickers. One of them said "Police lives matter" and another said "If they come for your guns, give them your bullets first." So police lives matter...unless they come for your guns. I suspect that mindset is typical among the Back the Blue crowd.

Oh no no no...

Re: Becky Lynch, two things. 1. It's easy to dunk on a guy who criticizes someone for putting having a family ahead of the business, but I'm more troubled by the fact that family is considered the only legitimate excuse for not centering your life around your job. We hear all these horror stories about people hardly ever getting to see their spouses and children because of the work culture in WWE, but single people need time off the clock too. 2. Making as much as you can during your prime earning years and then walking away is a nice idea, but I don't know if it jibes with reality. Wrestling is littered with examples of guys who were seemingly set for life and ended up broke. Money comes and goes, but time is something you can never get back once it's gone.

I thought the Abrams episode was a bit of a whitewash. As has been noted, the notion that the UWF was even remotely a threat to the WWF is preposterous. And if they were going to spend so much time discussing his dalliances with hookers, it was probably worth mentioning that he was married. Speaking of which, does anybody know the real story behind this match? I've seen it alleged that Abrams paid Williams extra to rough Ray up because he mistakenly believed that Ray was fooling around with his wife. Or because Ray screwed him on a drug deal. Or both. I've also seen it suggested that it was simply a matter of Williams not liking how stiff Ray was working and stiffing him back as a receipt. Watching the match, the latter explanation seems more plausible to me. When Williams took Ray down a couple of times after Ray tagged him with some kicks to the head, it seemed like he was trying to warn Ray to loosen up. That evidently didn't work, so Doc started laying into him. That doesn't explain Ray taking a swing at Abrams when Abrams whispered something in his ear after the match, though.

That Kross entrance was some embarrassing tryhard edgelord shit. All the elaborate jerkoff entrances in NXT are as much of a turnoff to me as the heavy-handed melodrama in the matches.

There's a Slaughter/Wanz match on 7/9/83 that's been in circulation for a while. This match that just got uploaded is a different one. It looks to be about twice as long and is fought under the rounds system.