MoS

Many thanks! Also, not to be too much of a nerd but... The answer is clearly De Niro, right? GOAT peak work, the peak period lasted for a respectable while, embarrassing post-prime with a few decent performances sprinkled here and there

I don't remember this breakdown and I feel so stupid for missing something as good as this. Can a kind soul link this to me? I love Loss breakdowns

I would like to question the wisdom that Brody was this huge money-drawing star. We all know he thought his unprofessionalism made him a bigger draw, but is there any proof of this? Is there proof that he, for instance, drew more money than other gaijins like the Funks, Hansen, Andre, Hogan, etc? I also seem to remember that a lot of dying territories brought him in, hoping his "aura" would lead to them turning around their business and drawing money, but, at least in World Class, that never happened, and he left the territory in worse shape than when he first came in. His smartest move might very well have been to befriend the only historian and custodian of chronicles in wrestling of that time, and therefore get a rep of being this legendary big-draw outlaw, even though actual figures show he doesn't really deserve that rep.

Coach Tony K brings back MIKE TYSON to arrest the ratings slide!!! Will he be able to tear off his t-shirt this time without making all of us laugh at his attempts at doing so?!?!

I mean, the award was named after him cuz he died. Otherwise, I refuse to believe anyone can look at their tag matches and think Brody was a better brawler than Hansen. Like, all the proof is RIGHT there.

I am right now legit debating who the more overrated gaijin is, Brody or Dibiase and Williams

But let us ask the real question, guys: who is better: Ric Flair or Bret Hart? (Please don't ban me)

For me, the thing with Flair always is, no one was as good, as frequently, for as long in as every single aspect of wrestling, despite terrible and consistently counter-productive booking, than Flair was. It's why I think there's a spiritual connection between Flair and Bryan. The ability to be transcendentally great for as long as these two despite dealing with booking that (often intentionally) crippled them, has to count for a lot. Just shows how preternaturally good at wrestling they both are, in my opinion

I mean, JvK spent the entire 2016 ballot being rude, insulting and condescending to anyone and everyone who didn't have Flair in their top 5, so what were we even expecting? (This is coming from someone who definitely as of now has Flair in their top 5.) He is all about healthy debates and discussions...right until someone challenges his core beliefs, at which point they are just stupid rubes who need re-education. Like, just imagine thinking Rick Martel is not a GOAT. Even worse, imagine holding the blasphemous belief that counting the number of and different kinds of suplexes some wrestler does is not a metric by itself for judging how great they were in-ring. However, I have to say that the idea that Daniel Bryan's case will be uplifted due to a bunch of casual rubes in 2026 is so hilariously uninformed, it makes all the bad takes worth it. Yeah, voting for the tiny vegan guy the billion-dollar promotion has tried to bury for the last 10 years, only to fail again and again just cuz he is so amazing at wrestling, to the point he has become their most consistent main-eventer despite standing for everything Vince hates, is just uninformed hipsterism. Hell, Daniel Bryan is literally the spiritual successor to Ric Flair. But fuck all "modern computer-generated video game workers" I guess.

If you had told me a year back that the first wrestling show to have fans back in more than a year would be Wrestlemania this year, that UFC would shortly also bring back the fans for their live events at roughly the same time, and that the first two UFC shows would sell out immediately in 2 minutes while the two-night WM event wouldn't in two weeks, I would have genuinely called you deluded

Some good points raised by Meltzer about how they often do teases and then not follow up on them at all

what utter shit is this

This is funny cuz my reaction to this is both "Loss is correct and I had not considered this before, good chance to learn" AND "Hahahaha he basically called the Midnights and Corny the 80s JCP equivalent of Triple H, wonder how much that would piss off Cornette" and both reactions are happening at the exact same time

We are going to bond so much about how all these new GWE voters don't get it like we do like the geniuses we are!!!!

Imagine having such terrible taste in life, you would voluntarily choose to skip watching footage of Dusty dancing and basically jiving!!

This is legitimately embarrassing

Thank you so much for this. If I am being honest, there wasn't really anything in this video which I didn't already know, especially about Vince Sr's booking formula and the modus operandi, but it was so useful and helpful to have a podcast summarising the history of the biggest territory of all time. I loved this video, even though I have minor disagreements about WWWF champions' drawing power outside the Northeast, especially Bruno. But that doesn't really matter, and anyone in this world who claims to have any interest in the history of pro wrestling should watch this. Thanks for linking this!

Didn't Kevin Dunn hate the idea of legends reunions cuz he thought no one would recognise them? It's amazing how far WWE's philosophy has evolved in respect of using old legends.

Harsh but fair

Eh, not having focused storylines or having too much talent on-screen is a general externality and I don't think it has anything to do with factions at all. In fact, factions actually help with it, cuz it gives most people in them a sense of purpose or direction. The lack of focus isn't really affected by having factions with too many people being featured. That is a function of booking and would happen regardless if there is one faction or one hundred

Hopefully he powerbombed the kid right through the cashier's table

So we have been very critical of AEW in the last few months, but browsing Twitter in general always makes me feel really grateful for our little community, cuz the criticisms and arguments made on Wrestling Twitter are spectacularly stupid. Like, there are people who are complaining that AEW has TOO MANY FACTIONS. Like, what? These people would have despised 80s JCP

From everything we know, Arn felt constantly insulted and humiliated throughout his tenure, to the point that he stopped going to bat for the guys he liked cuz him supporting someone was usually a sureshot sign that the person was going to get de-pushed. I don't blame him at all for handwaving future WWE commitments away. If someone keeps treating you like shit, ultimately you need to get up and tell them to fuck off, no matter how bitter you might sound to others. I also just find hilarious that 20 years after his era ended, Steve Austin still remains WWE's biggest draw and they use him whenever they need to pop a number when entering a new territory. Time is truly a flat circle

I feel they're really going down the road of bad American wrestling tropes by introducing too many titles to heat their business. They have enough titles. Most of them aren't even really pushed or focused on. They don't need yet another title

How in the name of fuck is Bayley not on Wrestlemania? She basically carried the promotion last year during those absolutely brutal empty arena Performance Center shows