MoS

Fire every one of these jobbers

Darby Allin truly is a special wrestler

Worked MMA matches are never good, but this one was not as bad as it could have been. Wardlow is awesome

TWO more weeks of this weekend Dynamite nonsense

Congratulations to Renee and Mox and Brandi and Cody for the birth of their daughters! Cody named his kid Liberty because of course he did

I don't think the Chyna episode is a DSOTR production

Nice to see Coach Tony K do a podcast on this! Looking forward to listening to two old DVDVR boys shoot shit

This is going to lead to Rey & Dominik v. Roman handicap match inside a cell at the PPV and Roman is going to squash both of them and send Dominik flying through the cell

Most of their bios are cringe, but this one is actually funny

Absolutely fantastic post

I would be more hands off with those who have not spent most of their careers in WWE, and be very hands on with those who have. AEW's biggest challenge is and will be to make itself different from WWE in every possible way. You cannot break away from WWE tropes if you give free hand to those wrestlers who are not just wedded to WWE tropes, but also do not know anything different. As annoying as the Bucks are, their heel run has made me enjoy them more than I have enjoyed any of their other work in AEW. So I am okay with having a hands off approach to them, even though I would personally tell Nick Jackson to ask his brother to chill the fuck out. Omega is a different issue. I don't think it's unfair to say that he has shown over his career that he needs a good booker giving him focus and direction and supervising his run for him to achieve his potential. When Gedo had him booked in a long chase of Okada's title, then his incredible athletic gifts and his talent at thinking of good creative finishes were moulded and used to give him an excellent main event run. But when he is just fucking around with Don Callis, then he can be unbearable. It is even more jarring because the previous world champion was a kickass smash mouth babyface who, regardless of what you think of his in-ring work, was excellent at cutting promos and out-of-ring stuff. Perhaps more importantly, Mox's promos used to be short and to the point, while Omega and Callis sometimes talk for 15 minutes and you will have no ide what they are trying to say So it has to be looked at on a case to case basis. More free hand to people like Darby - seriously, his videos and montages are excellent, and very true to his character and personality, and it is not surprising to see how he has become perhaps AEW's biggest homegrown draw - and Taz and Tully, less of the free hand to Jericho and Big Show and even Miro, who hasn't shown himself to be a creative genius

The US hosts three ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournaments over the calendar year, which are below only grand slam events on the prestige scale on the men's tennis tour. They are held in Indian Wells, Miami, and Cincinnati. So those three places would have good quality tennis stadiums at least

They are not missing from the poster they released for the event on another social media post. I remember there being conversation a few years ago on this board about why WWE didn't run tennis stadiums. Dunno the logistics but as we have discussed about AEW's arenas, it's important to have a different look from the WWE. Excited about this show and hopefully I get to attend it!

The idea that Bryan wasn't over, it was the chant that was over was an excuse used by WWE in 2013 to justify why they were basically burying him and trying to kill his heat. Of course they tried to demonstrate that by giving Big Show the Yes chants, and it failed miserably

This is an excellent topic. I will give my idea later during the day (or maybe even, *shock of horrors!* later down the week), but this is an argument all who watch AEW even semi-regularly should weigh on and talk about the difference between the average WWE product and the average AEW product. As far as I am concerned, while there will obviously be better answers than mine on both sides of the spectrum, I think the biggest structural advantage for AEW is the level of their promos. The standard for their promos is excellent. I would argue that they are pound for pound the best promotion with promos since JCP 1985. This includes the entirety of the attitude era. This means that obviously Tony Khan is doing something correct. He has also turned wrestlers who would be complete randos on any WWE product to be genuine stars and draws. No one would ever expect WWE to think of Kingston and Darby as proven draws, but thanks to the internet, their drawing power has been proven consistently. For me, the biggest hindrance is tied to its biggest strength. How do you ensure that these new, exciting young wrestlers are actually getting over and pushed prominently at the expense of so many nostalgia talents that NXT can bring over? How do we make sure that these wrestlers remain patient to promoters who would screw them without a second thought if they had the opportunity, and can only make their names notorious if they go against the wishes of their bosses, because they have no "real stars" on their hands? There is so much to unpack here. However, hopefully no matter what, all youngsters will be given a chance to steal the entire spotlight from other seniors. Even more importantly, hopefully these young talents will have the platform to brag about their accomplishments, without jeopardising the chances these youngsters will have against the seniors in a direct one-on-one match, as an example. For one-on-one matches and examples along those lines, as an instance of the arbitrariness, Dana said only Jones knows what he wants, which is hopefully as big an admittance of a failure as we usually get. Hopefully, we get more clarity on the negotiations as well as the actual RULES soon (wtf Dana), cuz, regardless of my personal feelings, Ngannou v. Jones is the biggest possible fight for MMA, even including filthy hardcores, and I am sure they would love to be clear on the rules about what handsets you can avail while also being legally sanctioned to punch the face off everyone involed

The Sixers squandered a 13-point lead at halftime to lose against the Hawks. Never underestimate Hunter's ability to sink any brand he associates with

I keep seeing stats about Spain completing 300 passes the same way I keep reading stats about Triple H's 13 world title reigns. Okay great but in both cases, what do you actually do with them? What's the point if the end product is trash

As boring as Raw usually is, I bet Spain-Sweden was even more boring. Tiki taka the most overrated style of play ever

I am really fascinated by this Karrion Kross push. They clearly like him, and I don't see why. Previously, when WWE would push someone I didn't like, I could at least see why they liked that wrestler. I don't, at all with Kross. He has a cool entrance, thanks to Scarlett. That's it. He cannot talk. He is a shit wrestler. He is boring. He doesn't even have the size or the physique. Like, yeah he is muscular, but so is basically every wrestler WWE has.

I am not sure the Piper match can be put in that category. It was the first time WCW did an excellent buyrate for a PPV not headlined by Hogan-Flair, and it started a string of really strong PPV showings for them. Piper did lose something after the match, but I dunno how long he could have been that over in any case, with his age and all his injuries

This is arguably THE most significant versus poll and the most important one for 2026 GWE purposes. Right now, in my working list, I have Bryan number one and Flair number 5, so for me, right now, it is Bryan. But it can change any day and I really do want to explore this question in as much detail as I can. Again, as I said, it might be the most significant comparison for GWE 2026

I actually have not watched those Ambrose matches. I have actually seen very little of Moxley's FCW/NXT "Dean Ambrose" run. Would you recommend it? I don't know the storyline behind those Regal matches, but I have to imagine there was a hot story there for them to match Amborse with Regal.

So, futbol basically had its case of Jerry Lawler suffering a heart attack on live TV today

Ooh that's a really great match. Props to bringing it up, I had shamefully forgotten about it. I don't think the match is particularly good, but Arn's performance in the singles match against Flair, where he is trying to show Flair and the world that he is not a sidekick, and that the success of the Horsemen was as much down to him as it was to Flair, is a performance that I have always felt was memorable. I love Flair, but Arn overshadowed him in that match

Love Regal, but Arn wins this for me. Regal was great as a weekly TV wrestler, but while Arn never had a main event singles run, he still had moments of greatness, and I think his highs are better than Regal's highs. I am actually struggling to think of a signature Regal match outside his WCW Finlay series and his, I want to say, 2013 NXT match with Cesaro, which was an easy 4.5 stars for me