MoS

It's incredible to me that they push Goldberg more now than they did in 2003, when they should have pushed him to the moon but were suffering from MNW PTSD and instead booked him to be yet another guy who fell victim to the almighty sledgehammer and pedigree

MSG has much higher ticket prices, but high ticket prices have traditionally helped wrestling ticket sales, not hurt it. Plus MSG is at Penn Station in Manhattan, the heart of NYC, while Arthur Ashe is in Flushing in Queens, which is definitely not nearly as famous or accessible. It takes a lot more effort to reach and plan for Arthur Ashe than it does for MSG There are multiple things we can say to excuse WWE's weak MSG sales, but if Vince is anything like the Vince of old, none of that would matter and he would be absolutely furious.

The peak demo viewership was for the Elite-Hangman segment. That angle is definitely drumming interest

I hope to God that coffin was completely gimmicked

Incredible match. Incredible Dynamite. This really seems like a hot promotion right now

And the faces came out to save Hangman!

The local boys were massively over tonight. Both Sammy and Starks looked great

This is Britt's world

Nice, a bathroom break match right as NBA starts

Omega is a total dork but that deliberately terrible belt collector chant got a pop out of me

This angle is molten hot

Malakai Black is clearly a terrible promo. AEW has like a million managers, put him with one and get him to shut up

Cody getting booed a bit. The time is ripe for a heel turn

Starks getting the adopted hometown pop

Karl Anderson, otoh, sucks ass

THAT POP for Mox.I am so happy he is getting to do his thing. He is awesome

I am very very excited for the coffin drop match. Also, AEW needs to chill with giving a name to every Dynamite they do lol

Whom does WWE consider its first black champion? Do they count Rock?

I really don't get why they removed Scarlett from his act. She was basically the biggest reason he was over to whatever extent he is. It's like taking OH YOU DIDN'T KNOWWW away from the New Age Outlaws

I think those fans were probably leaving because they have zero interest in Kross, not cuz of the result. I get the point about overreaction, but there's imo a difference between saying fans are overreacting and saying fans are disrespectful. The latter strongly implies that if fans are not accepting a booking decision, then the fault lies with them, not with bad booking. If it is disrespectful to walk out when someone you don't like is pushed, but it's also disrespectful to not walk out but chant snarky shit in the arena, then what is the appropriate way to express dissatisfaction with booking choices?

Vince McMahon's greatest achievement as a promoter is to develop a creepy fanbase with unhealthy parasocial relationships to WWE, who happily blame themselves in case a wrestler or an angle doesn't get better. "We're so bad and shameless, we are not reacting like we should!! We are being disrespectful!!" Genuinely pathetic. No wonder WWE never improves. They don't need to. Not with fans willing and eager to take the blame for anything not working. Just a staggering tweet

Brock doesn't look nearly as purple and scary here as he was a few years back in his matches when he looked like the giant squid emerging from the ocean to eat human beings, only purple. He started looking better by the time he finally dropped the title to Reigns and then when he won again

The house that the Main Event drew in Toronto in 1986 might be even more impressive than WM 3 in Detroit. WM 3 was built for months and was genuinely a once-in-a-lifetime event. Hogan-Orndorff on the other hand was just a normal house show and they were hoping to sell some 15k-20k tickets, and ended up selling 55k cuz Hogan was arguably at his peak and Orndorff was the perfect opponent for him. A seriously underrated run. They destroyed box office records for every kind of house show run right there RIP to a legend. The fact that so many old wrestlers are suffering from and dying of dementia is terrifying and probably the scariest part of being a wrestling fan. I lost a close family friend to dementia after she suffered from it for 10 years. That shit is brutal to watch. It's like seeing someone die in front of you every single day. It shatters your heart

The man is somehow becoming better looking and more charismatic with age. It's a pity he only agrees to do like 5 dates a year

I get what you are trying to say. As someone who frequently indulges in such conversations in weekly threads, this is all I have to say on this matter. The site was named ProWrestlingOnly because when the old NMB and DVDVR posters started sharing their political beliefs, the situation became so volatile that wrestling discussion became untenable. When PWO was subsequently founded, the rule was intended to keep political discussions out of wrestling. It was never meant to end all off-topic banter, because that has never been the way forum boards operate. On this very board, I have read basketball treatises, extended soccer analogies, and exactly when and how Happy Days jumped the shark. This "it's ProWrestlingOnly, checkmate!!" is a completely fail attempt at a gotcha, cuz it ignores the history of this very board. I am sure the international posters here don't often understand all the American football analogies and posts. They don't start whining about it though. The point about nastiness is easily explained with the vile, staggeringly racist behaviour of England fans, and the simple concept of a heel getting their comeuppance, but that's another discussion. Regardless, if the community decides to ban the sports banter, then it's completely fine with me