MoS

Wasn't Flair complaining about something LeBron did on Twitter a few days ago too.

Also dunking on the dirtsheets and the internet marks while also relying on them to spread buzz on him

So Okada totally buried the double title concept in an interview, calling it the 2nd biggest mistake in NJPW's entire history. I think it was a cool idea when conceptualised, and gave Naito a great moment, but in hindsight, it was a failure in practice. The pandemic certainly didn't help, but it has led to their world title being erased and now there's a new world title with zero lineage. One of the cool things about watching IWGP world title matches was the montage with all previous champions before the entrances. Now they cannot do that without looking stupid

Got the Kindle version and I am loving this so far. That French newspaper except about the Nazi gimmick is hilarious

Omega-JB has been pushed back to the end of the month actually. Apart from bullshit interferences, there are also way too many WWE Raw Sports Entertainment segments on Dynamite these days. The Britt segment had Jericho's fingerprints all over it. AEW really needs a proper booker now with a clear mandate to be different from WWE. Tony Khan has way too many things on his plate and he cannot be in charge of everything and still ensure quality control

I guess the Sixers need to hire Nick Khan now

Okay the interferences are really getting out of hand now. Every match has some bullshit shenanigans. And why on Earth are they pushing Christian v. Matt Hardy. Is this Monday Night Raw

Wow, did they really pair Andrade immediately with Vickie? Talk about a great way to kill your heat. Vickie was a hiring made when AEW were in full "Look, we treat our employees nicely, we are different!!" mode, and I really don't know what she brings to the table. She should get phased out. Also, apparently there were Inner Circle and Britt segments that were corny and did not land. AEW ASAP needs to stop catering to Jericho's brand of comedy., cuz it sucks

I won't be watching live, but hoping we get some strong new stories starting tonight!

Vince put the belt on Hogan at WM 9 in a state of panic, cuz the steroid scandal had done a number on pro wrestling and business was in the toilet. It really went to shit immediately after WM 8, and remained that way even after Bret got the title. Vince panicked, and per his MO, whenever he panics, he turns to the big guys, and Hogan was the ultimate successful big guy. But business kept going down even with Hogan as champ, which is where Vince and Hogan had a fight I guess. Apparently, Vince wanted Hogan to put over Bret at Summerslam, and Hogan refused, cuz Bret was too small and he didn't want to job to the new, small, clean babyface

If Tony Khan's roster is pissed at him due to comments he made when AEW wrestlers started GoFundMes, then Tony Khan will absolutely give a shit about that, and that's just obvious fact. There's a reason Ivelisse is one of two wrestlers AEW released during the pandemic. What your peers think of you in a major league locker room absolutely matters. Sure, for indie promotions it is irrelevant cuz the upside is too much, but for AEW, unless it's a Cena-level star, what the locker room thinks about you is absolutely relevant. PWG and GCW promoters might not give a shit about what their wrestlers think of him, but Tony Khan absolutely will care about how his wrestlers feel about him. To say otherwise is to just ignore how AEW has worked so far. That is, if he even wants to go to AEW. Nothing I have seen from him gives me any indication that he cares one bit about wrestling for any promotion that is not WWE, so really, this mutual disdain certainly goes both ways. He probably does not even try getting a job with the outlaw mudshow pissant promotion that AEW is, cuz it's beneath him. Which is fair enough, and it is his prerogative, his decision. So really, both parties are probably on the same page here.

Miro rules so hard lmao

I imagine Braun burned some bridges with his comments about wrestlers starting GoFundMe's during the pandemic

I don't think anyone has an issue with fired wrestlers thanking WWE or being grateful to WWE. Hell, Mox did that too, right before he launched into all his complaints. I find it laughable though that this thought is usually followed by ranting about WWE writers or Johny Ace or Paul Heyman or whoever, about how the dirtsheets are terrible and actually Vince loved them, it was the damn subordinates that caused all the issues. It's not exactly professional to kiss the boss's ass and throw everybody else under the bus. You don't see NBA players getting traded and talking about how the GM and the head coach actually loved them, it was the damn assistants and the terrible tabloids that resulted in them getting traded/cut. Apart from the unprofessional part, I cannot imagine showing that level of gullibility would be beneficial in the long run.

Are the SNMEs uploaded yet? I let my subscription run out last month, and last I had it, they had not uploaded the SNMEs. Really weird to me that they would start uploading Clash of Champions before SNME, particularly given the fact that Peacock is NBC property and SNME was also an NBCU show

I am guessing all the anonymous writers are the fall guys now for Vince and Bruce. It's not as if they kept trying with him. Weirdly, one of the times they did try with him was like a couple of weeks back, right? This particular round of cuts came out of nowhere

Agreed that cutting anyone during the pandemic would have been terrible optics to say the least. And yeah, now that the US at least seems to be well on its way to put the pandemic behind, they should definitely release some talent on their hugely bloated roster. There were many wrestlers who were needed as warm bodies when AEW was just starting, but they are reasonably established now and have outgrown the need for many names on their roster

Bucks v. Mox/King was like the main event of the night for the fans. The issue was them being booked second match on the card. Which leads me to another pet peeve.... Bad card structure of big shows. I don't know when exactly this started, maybe one of last decade's WrestleMania, where basically the second half of entire big shows became a chore to sit through. There will be excellent opening matches, and then the show grinds to a halt. One reason this happens obviously is because shows' running times have increased tremendously, which is partly due to so many matches going long. Another issue is the mentality in the modern era to open hot and then give fans time in the middle to recover so they can get hot for the main event again, but in practice, it has just led to fans losing their enthusiasm midway and the card getting all its heat sucked out. Like what happened with Double or Nothing this Sunday - a tremendously hot first hour, a middling 2nd, and YMMV 3rd and 4th. Does anyone honestly think that fans wouldn't have gone apeshit for Mox and King if they made their entrance a couple of hours later?

I cannot possibly imagine this was a Nick Khan signing, the guy seems too smart to do this. Could this possibly be someone else getting in Vince's ear and having someone else get a prominent position, to prevent Khan from consolidating power backstage?

Per Meltzer, the show beat last year's numbers and is the 2nd most successful show they have ever done, after this year's Revolution. I hope this doesn't mean that they try Stadium Stampede against next year. I never want to see another cinematic match in my life. No amount of creativity can ever take the place of a real crowd going nuts watching two wrestlers beat the shit out of each other

Serena Deeb just gets wrestling. I was there in that pre-show crowd and the match was going fine and would have been fine, but not particularly great, had they stuck to doing what they were doing in the beginning of the match, with both wrestlers being faces. But Deeb gets wrestling, gets psychology, and made it a more traditional dynamic when she slapped Riho instead of shaking her hand. As soon as she did that, she immediately got the crowd ten times more invested in the match. It was a genuine "oh shit" moment. She then flipped another switch near the end when she went crazy on working Riho's legs right before the finish. Tremendous stuff, tremendous worker, she is the closest thing to an old-school world champion that North American wrestling has in 2021.

What has Sasha been doing since she lost her title? I haven't read much about her after WM

For someone with a comedy gimmick, he is one of the best at showing fire as a face that I have seen in modern wrestling. At his best, he makes fans bite every single nearfall, and if he does get the win, the crowd goes crazy. The triple threat from Double or Nothing yesterday was whatever, but Cassidy was the biggest reason for the best parts of the match, and the fact that he got the fans thinking he might win a match where no one believed going in he had a chance is a testament to how good he is.

This was actually the first time Jungle Boy got over in this spot, which is why it felt so satisfying to everyone there and why he was so gigantic. Prior to this, he basically would always lose the number one contender match. This is the first time he got over that hump, and I liked that bit of storytelling. Of course he will lose to Omega, and he should. Hopefully if things go well, one day he gets over that hump too