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Probably best to downplay that aspect of him after Moxley had to go to rehab.

I doubt the trios match will be a cooldown. At the very least, there should be some kind of reasonably hot angle to set the table for the dissolution of the AHFO and an eventual Hardys/Private Party feud. I don't think AEW believes in cooling the audience off before the main event anyway. Looking at their previous PPVs, the only semi-main I think could reasonably be called a cooldown match was Wight/Marshall at All Out 2021. I really want to order this, but work has me wiped out lately and there's a good chance I'll be in bed well before the show goes off the air. I think I'll most likely end up ordering it after the fact. Enjoy the show, everyone.

The apparent conclusion is that Vince doesn't care about changing the perception that AEW is the place talent wants to be. Look at it from his perspective. The money from the TV networks and the Saudis is still pouring in, and he's surrounded by yes men who tell him everything's great and get fired if they question him. Most people in that position wouldn't care about optics either. And if you take that away, Cody had zero leverage once his AEW deal expired.

That's Happy Corbin and Madcap Moss (the repackaged versions of Baron Corbin and Riddick Moss, respectively). The idea is that they're heels because they tell shitty jokes and then laugh hysterically. The feud with Drew started in December after they stole his sword. I'm serious.

I decided this was worth a bump after the latest Observer praised Edge's acting in the segment on Raw where he turned heel. And I quote: "The way this segment was laid out and Edge’s performance were tremendous. His acting ability and timing are incredible" In fairness, he was fine before he started with the ridiculous Why Am I So Violent faces. Also, being back on the road has totally owned him. He looks like he's aged about 20 years since returning.

Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.

What a tragedy for the Russian people that they're going to miss out on this. If they only knew what they were missing, there'd probably be enough popular outrage to topple Putin.

It's basically impossible to do business with Russia right now because of sanctions, so it's more likely they cut Russia off because they weren't getting paid and are trying to pass it off as a decision based on morality.

I am concerned that the ROH purchase is going to accelerate the timetable for burnout on Tony's part. It doesn't seem likely that he'll be doing much delegating if he personally owns the company, and when you add that to his responsibilities with the Jaguars/Fulham/AEW, that probably isn't sustainable for very long.

That does seem like the inevitable endgame.

It's believed that the announcement is going to be a business deal rather than a talent acquisition. I've seen speculation that they've acquired ROH or made a deal with a streaming service like HBO Max. It's also been confirmed that Hangman/Cole will go on last at Revolution. Tony said that no one has had better matches than Hangman since winning the title, so he clearly has faith in the champ's ability to follow the rest of the card.

This just keeps getting better and better.

Welp.

Is that about why she wasn't on Raw? If I had to guess, I'd say it was because it was in Columbus and they didn't want her to get a hometown pop.

What was he even trying to do? It looks like he dove through a pane of glass just for the hell of it.

The only question that matters.

Can he really be considered overrated if no one thinks he's any good? Great character, sure, but never highly regarded from an in-ring standpoint. The only time I would say he was overrated in that respect was when he was in Team Hell No and people who should have known better would insist he had genuinely improved as a worker and wasn't simply being protected and hidden by the tag team format. Then the team broke up and lo and behold, he went right back to sucking. Speaking of former Kane tag teams, Waltman once again demonstrates that he's by far the coolest member of DX.

The smartest man in wrestling has once again graced us with his wisdom.

Maybe some GWF alumni could fit the bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Global_Wrestling_Federation_personnel Skandor Akbar would be a good pick for the legacy wing, but I don't know beyond that. The main guys I associate with the GWF are Jerry Lynn and Sean Waltman, but Lynn works for AEW and inducting Waltman for the third time seems like overkill.

Big Boss Man was legitimately a former corrections officer in Cobb County, Georgia.

The real difference between conviction and acquittal was Linda McMahon being tipped off that Dr. Zahorian was under federal investigation. Recall that he was originally the ringside physician appointed by the Pennsylvania state athletic commission. In 1989, the law changed so that the ring doctor was to be hired by the promotion rather than appointed by the commission. The WWF had planned to continue using him in that role, but they cut ties with him after they got the tip that he was hot. Even with the prosecution's incompetence and the defense's witness tampering, conspiracy to distribute likely would have been an open-and-shut case if there had been a known steroid dealer on the WWF payroll

I was hoping NXT 2.0 would mean the end of all that combine shit.

They wanted to keep him from controlling his narrative.

The world title match doesn't need to be the most heated on the card to main event. In fact, it could be argued that the opposite should be the case. When promoters booked Funk/Brisco title matches, they would generally load the card up with wild angles and bloody brawls so that a serious athletic struggle in the main event would put the world title above all the nonsense.

Negotiations with Newsmax and OAN must have fallen through.