NintendoLogic

It was more than a pet peeve in Watts' case. He was genuinely worried JYD jumping to the WWF without notice would put him out of business. As it turns out, his business became stronger than ever due in no small part to a talent exchange with Memphis that brought in acts like the Rock & Roll Express who appealed to the young female audience.

I don't know where the idea that Omega is unwilling or unable to adapt to his opponent comes from. If anything, the closer to the opposite is the truth since he's borderline obsessed with proving he can have a five-star match in any style. If he can slow down for Christian, why wouldn't he do so for Punk?

Konnan said on his podcast that Omega was set to headline Triplemania but AEW wouldn't let him go due to the suspension. Speaking of Omega, here's a screenshot from a recent Capcom TV stream with a clearly visible bite mark on his arm.

Yeah, it's not even the worst Starship song. Sara and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now are both worse.

If Omega and the Bucks are EVPs, wouldn't that make them employees as well? At the very least, they're more than independent contractors. Really though, the days of the terms of wrestlers' contracts being closely guarded state secrets should have been over years ago. The only purpose it serves is to suppress salaries by reducing negotiating leverage. How do you know if you're getting a fair shake if you have no idea what everyone else is making?

The term "cheap shot" appears nowhere in the Observers covering the backstage fight. The term "sucker punch" does, but only as a description of what the other side labeled it as. He also gave Punk's side, which is that a fight was inevitable and he decided to beat Matt Jackson to the punch. There is universal agreement that Punk threw the first punch, so that's all you can do. Same with Omega 8 out of 10 comment. Meltzer said that one version of the story is that it was clearly intended as a joke, but he also said that others took it seriously and didn't like it. When reporting on an event he wasn't an eyewitness to, shouldn't he provide as many perspectives as possible? Is he bad because he's taking sides or because he's providing multiple viewpoints without taking a side as to which one is accurate? It can't be both. It's clearly an article of faith for some people that he's incapable of reporting objectively on the Elite and he must be covering for them if he isn't going out of their way to bury them.

If A&E Biography is to be believed, his treatment of Gorgeous George may have been even worse.

Mentioning Callis in the same breath as Rance/Scurll/Ryan seems like a stretch since the evidence of him being a sex pest is nowhere near as strong as for the other three. We do know (and the Observer did report) that Anthem brought in a third-party investigator in response to allegations of inappropriate behavior by an Impact executive, but I'm not aware of any reputable source specifically fingering Callis as the culprit. In fact, Bix explicitly said he had never accused Callis of anything.

Cody is too clean-shaven to be a HHH guy. At the very least, he needs to bring back the mustache.

Also on Arsenio, he dropped the elbow on toxic masculinity.

The spike in viewership was spurred entirely by an increase in 50+ viewers, which makes sense since it was an anniversary show and boomers love notalgia nostalgia. The show was down 6.3 percent from last week in the 18-49 category. Viewership in the demo is down 28.6 percent since the debut of the 2.0 format.

AEW booking has always centered around cycling guys in and out of the main event to prevent wrestlers and matchups from getting stale. And it was working quite well before the injuries started piling up. I'm not sure there's a better booking model for a national promotion.

To be honest, smoking blunts with Mike Tyson is probably one of the more responsible things he could do at this point.

All things except Roman losing, that is. I suppose they could do a rehash of the Eurocontinental triple threat at WM2000 where Kurt Angle lost both belts without being involved in either fall. It wouldn't be good, but it's a thing they could do.

I don't give a shit about Theory, but the Chosen One gimmick is a kiss of death. Look at Drew McIntyre. It took him years (and a stint in TNA/EVOLVE purgatory) to live it down.

I heard the perfect name for Punk's press conference rant: the Gripebomb.

That show featured CM Punk's return to the ring and the rumored debut of Bryan Danielson. That there wasn't an even bigger drop-off is a testament to how much good will the promotion had built up (and likely squandered now, sadly).

I don't know, the injury rates in WWE and AEW don't seem too far apart to me. You can't really get away with not bumping in either company, which is bad news when you have back issues like Castle does.

Based on what Regal has said on Twitter and in interviews, his advice would be stuff like "make every spot count" and "don't get dumped on your head." In other words, the same advice every single veteran wrestler gives and every single younger wrestler blows off.

I'm not saying no one should go to Regal for advice. Just that he wouldn't be at the top of the list when a guy who was far more successful working the same style is in the same locker room. In other news, the press conference for UFC 279 was cancelled after a fight broke out backstage. Talk about life imitating art.

With all due respect to Regal, why should anyone go to him for advice when Bryan Danielson, who actually drew money working a similar style with the handicap of being much smaller, is right there?

Again though, this is where professional courtesy and common sense come in. If you're going to take shots at someone in a promo, there's no good reason to not clear it with them beforehand. Especially if you know the target has a thin skin and a tendency to hold grudges. Then again, that only holds if the goal of the promo is to do business rather than settle petty political scores.

If the allegation is that the Elite were planting stories about Punk trying to get Cabana fired, that's plainly absurd when you look at the timeline. Punk shows up in AEW and the guy with whom he had a public bitter falling out and was barely being used to begin with starts being used even less and is eventually shunted off to the secondary brand. Who on Earth wouldn't put two and two together in that scenario? Hell, just about everybody was speculating that Cabana's days in the company were numbered when the Punk-to-AEW rumors started picking up steam.

Law enforcement is now involved per Alvarez, so we can say with absolutely certainty that this is not an elaborate work.