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And their first event took place at a bar that also featured an Uncle Kracker cover band. Seriously.

The Regal TIJ episode dropped. If anything, the Observer understated the severity of his health issues. By all rights, he should be dead or in a wheelchair several times over. Suffering amnesia and permanent partial vision loss after falling on an escalator is among the very least of his issues.

For the record, WCW's gate record is held by the Fingerpoke of Doom Nitro, which drew $930,735. The 12/21/98 Nitro in St. Louis had a good shot at breaking the $1 million mark, but a snowstorm the day of the show killed the walk-up. But the bottom line is that WCW in the Nitro era was more concerned with TV ratings than paid attendance. After all, it ran multiple shows in Sturgis that drew a $0 gate.

He's just following in the footsteps of Sara Undertaker. As a side note, that means in WWE canon, Taker's first name is The.

That's par for the course in America. Major sporting events like the Super Bowl and music festivals like Coachella use volunteers as well. The real difference is that those other events usually provide decent perks in exchange. WWE doesn't even give you tickets to Raw, just the opportunity to win some in a raffle. And a hat. Fuck outta here.

I was under the impression she was brought in mainly to be a player-coach. Kenny Omega was the one mainly responsible for handling the women's division and the joshi women in particular, so his absence probably makes things rougher than they would be otherwise.

I had a dream last night that bubba @KawadaSmile died and it was revealed that he had previously worked as a heel manager whose gimmick was claiming to have the world's best hair. Do with that whatever you like.

Vince thinking Razor Ramon was a genius original creation because he had never heard of Scarface is one of my all-time favorite wrestling stories. And yes, I agree that Hall's career is another point in favor of the argument that pro wrestling charisma is a teachable skill and not necessarily something you either have or don't. By the way, the Kliq tag from Action Zone is still the best tag match in company history and a strong contender for best-ever US tag.

Still hanging in there after three heart attacks, especially with the life he's led, is like giving Death the "ooh, I'm so scared" fingers.

Darby Allin vs. Brian Cage from the 1/13/21 Dynamite is well worth going out of your way to see. Darby/PAC on 1/15/20 is dope as well.

I saw a few people on Twitter say that Ridge grabbed E too high, didn't pop his hips enough, and released him too early. You can't rely on brute force when you're suplexing someone the size of Big E. Your technique has to be flawless. Ridge dumped Johnny Gargano on his head in NXT as well.

He shouldn't be. No responsible company would have put him in that position in the first place. Really though, WWE and AEW both need to tone it down with the needlessly risky spots. The business is a work. On a lighter note, I don't know if this was intentional or not, but it made me laugh way more than it probably should have. I hope Big E sees it and gets as much a kick out of it as I did.

Who the fuck booked a guy who's basically a rookie to do an overhead suplex on the floor in a random-ass Smackdown match

Billy Gunn was never even remotely thought of as a giant in WWE, but he dwarfs almost everyone in AEW.

Eddie/Rey in 2005, even if it culminated in perhaps the most absurd stipulation in wrestling history.

According to the latest Observer, Regal's health issues are far worse than have been let on. He discussed them in an interview he recorded for Talk is Jericho that gets released next week.

Coming soon to Raw: Smilin' Bron!

The worst has to be YOSHI-HASHI busting himself open when he tripped and fell running in for the save after Gedo turned on Okada.

How about we just let it play out and see where it goes? I think AEW has more than earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to tying up loose ends. This is a company that booked Jay White solely because signing Keith Lee didn't meet the technical definition of Forbidden Door.

The secondary belt is a concept that has outlived its usefulness. They made sense in the territory era as a way for determining a promotion's number one contender for the NWA title and give the wrestlers something to feud over when the world champion wasn't around. They also arguably made sense in an earlier time of national promotions as a way of giving viewers title matches in the days when the world champ hardly ever wrestled on TV. Neither rationale is compelling today. An undercard feud doesn't need a belt to be meaningful, and there's no clear rationale for why someone would choose to go after the TNT or TBS title rather than the men's or women's world titles. They only really exist because that's just the way it's always been done.

Excalibur literally explained what Punk's entrance meant while he was walking down the ramp. If you're too busy tweeting to pay attention to the show you paid to watch, that's on you.

The closest analogy is probably Cena coming out as the Doctor of Thuganomics against Elias at Mania a few years ago.

Sting is already in the Observer Hall.

By all accounts, he cared a great deal. He was lobbying heavily both publicly and privately to be inducted while he was still alive. So his induction will be bittersweet for me even if is well-deserved and long overdue.