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Talk about a showcase, Hechicero did 95% of that match and took full advantage of it. Made Danielson look like an amateur.

Rock working heel because the crowd turned on him taking Cody's spot would be great though, he might actually cut a real promo in buildup!

Pandora's box is about to open.

Hechicero vs Danielson at Collision. Let's buy that plane ticket for Panther next, Tony!

Bryan's "statement" is probably using the YES taunt all the time now. When got to AEW he said he didn't want to use it out of respect to WWE and Vince or some shit I think people mix up Bryan being honest and willing to answer any question in interviews -specially when he was in WWE, were that kind of stuff wasn't the norm- to him being any sort of moral compass. I would be interested in someone once again asking him about Vince to see if he has an honest answer or if he just asks the interviewer to not talk about the subject. The Bellas statement is weird as fuck because Laurinaitis is their step dad and he's mentioned as an active participant in A LOT of Vince's abusive behavior.

I mean, keeping Brody King and Julia Hart is the only thing that really matters for AEW. Losing Black and Buddy doesn't hurt them at all considering they need to liberate some spots on that roster and giving their problems booking them, nothing of real value is lost.

The final sequence of Nagata blocking one of Danielson's kicks, leading to Dragon having to use some faints to knock Yuji down and then hit his finisher was fucking dope. Damn good match as expected.

To be fair, he once again had an interview were he said he's more interested in something "long term" (can't remember the exact wording) rather than just doing 1 match. If the Roman feud is a long one, it's probably for the best it doesn't involve the WWE Title.

I thought Punk looked awful tonight. Though that's probably because a battle royal is probably the least fitting match for him. He looked gassed, weak and as uncoordinated as ever. The Mania match against Seth is the one were he'll probably cook though.

Sports Illustrated fired everyone on staff like 2 days before that rumor hit Twitter. "Multiple sources close to HHH" ain't telling the Mania plans to anyone in S.I, come on now man

That was not a good Rumble match, oh well.

All those big elimination while JD McDonagh music hit was utterly bizarre. I guess McAfee took too damn long on his spot?

The wording in the document is that the WWE employee was in the board of directors, which neither Bruce or Dunn were at the time, I think. I saw a clip from Thursrton were he said that only 4 people could be Steph, HHH, Nick Khan or Frank Riddick

Yeah, which is why is later said that if WWE is directly involved in Vince's abuses it will probably be a cases with more victims and even more damning evidence.

I think you are making this case something it's not. I didn't read the whole thing, but from what I understand, Grant doesn't want to uncover all the fucked up shit that happened (happens?) in WWE under Vince. She wants reparations over that senile fucker not paying her what he signed for in the NDA after all the fucked up shit he did to her. She's not trying to prove other people knew exactly what McMahon was doing. WWE is not going to trial and doesn't have to prove anything in this case. If WWE is ever involved in a case regarding these abuses, it more than likely will have more than 1 victim that takes them to court and it's gonna be a slew of more evidence, so who knows how viable a defense they could mount. All I know is that Vince has a history of fucked up behavior, and the amount of NDA's he made women sign just in the last few years tells you he was unhinged, and who knows for how long. At least from my experience investigating this type of stuff (albeit from a different country), the tight knit circle of the abuser always knows. At best they know very little because they don't wanna know the details and convince themselves "that's just who (the abuser) is, it can't be THAT bad", but they know.

Oh, I know. Just wondering if shareholders could hold them accountable for running a fake investigation if they wanted to and if anything could come out from that. Or if it's just one of those cases were there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Is there any posible repercussion from that investigation being a sham, as Grant claims it was?

Vince finally resigning just because Slim Jim put their sponsorship in pause (and according to Fightful, there was a potential sponsor that decide to drop off negotiations today) is the corporate world in a nutshell. Only way something happens is if the people charge's money is in danger.

I'll be shocked if Danielson doesn't get his match with Blue Panther before All In. TK gave him ZSJ in Seattle, a G-1 tournament, high profile Toky Dome match, a Nagata match...

Yeah, this deviant and abusive behavior is not something that "shocks" me, I truly expect the absolute worst out of people like Vince, but it's still fucked up to read. This senile motherfucker was showing off his abuse like he's a little kid showing baseball cards. And of course everyone else was probably like "oh, this fucked up old man, he never changes, so amusing".

From WrestleTix, all of these numbers are from 10-5 days ago: AEW Collision Sat • May 11, 2024 • 5:00 PM Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC Available Tickets: 808 Current Setup: 6,184 Tickets Distributed: 5,376 AEW Collision Sat Mar 30 2024 Budweiser Gardens, London, ON Available Tickets: 989 Current Setup: 3,983 Tickets Distributed: 2,994 AEW Dynamite Wed • Apr 10, 2024 • 6:30 PM Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg, MB Available Tickets: 1,372 Current Setup: 3,838 Tickets Distributed: 2,466 AEW Collision Sat • Mar 16, 2024 • 7:00 PM Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, ON Available Tickets: 1,343 Current Setup: 3,144 Tickets Distributed: 1,801

Yeah, re-educating their audience is gonna take time and some hard pills to swallow. I know there's at least a couple of Canada shows that have had very promising advances (3-5k already sold) but others are looking just as grim as the rest of the U.S shows. They probably need Revolution to be an incredible PPV with new big signings showing up and building some buzz once again. They are gonna have Ospreay and for their business sake, they gotta get at least Mercedes. Not sure Okada would make much of a difference, though I've heard Meltzer say he's sold some late tickets when announced for AEW TV.

It seems AEW decided to stop the Buy 1 Get 1 free ticket deals and heavy discounts in the week leading up to shows, so TV tapings are struggling like a motherfucker to sell. Tonight's Dynamite is at 1,8k tickets. They are truly becoming a PPV-only promotion (Revolution sold out (15k tickets) 3 months in advance and they could probably get 20k sold if they decided to run a small stage/entrance). Also, TK is making Copeland vs Suzuki commercial free.

No doubt. It's a smart choice because by 2030 the media landscape will probably be changing again. We've been saying media rights can't keep going up for the past 7 years I feel like so who knows if by 2030 the bubble has finally burst or if Netflix gets a "cheap" deal out of opting in for another 5 years. And if streaming goes to shit, then dropping WWE wont hurt them as much.

Would be kinda crazy if in 10 years WWE has hit a new peak and could get more money elsewhere and then Netflix just reups for another decade, lol.