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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

This is very fair and makes complete sense. Dynamite's booking has honestly gone down several notches in the last few months. Maybe Coach Tony K needs to realise that he cannot run an NFL team, an EPL team and a wrestling promotion at the same time.

I clearly started a trend

Everyone is calm, man. No one is taking it personally. I agree that a lot of things don't make sense, and that MJF and Darby have breakout potential

If all the examples this dude gave are "Russo-era crash TV" then basically every single wrestling show in the last 40 years is Russo-era crash TV. Just a meaningless comparison

Oh yeah Vince Russo, famously known for wanting women to do frogsplashes and treating them like legit athletes.

Being behind the times and being old often overlap, but it's the inflexibility that makes you behind the times, not the age.

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Calling Dynamite crash TV is certainly a take. We criticise Dynamite all the time but calling it this is nonsensical imo. I also have zero idea how anyone can look at the Dynamite roster and think Miro is the breakout star for any reason apart from "he has big muscles." I get a feature of getting old is thinking everyone is a bum and super-uncool, but it's probably also a sign that the times have passed you by.

This has been happening in wrestling forever. It's actually pretty standard

Do we have a lot of serious Heenan promos on tape? I know he was supposedly very sinister and serious in his earlier days, but I don't know if we have existing footage of it

Looked it up and yeah, quarter 3 was a Page/Sky video, a Red Velvelt interview leading to a beatdown by Jade, and a Mox promo and the jobber match. The match honestly went way longer than it needed to, including through a commercial break, so it makes sense that viewers would tune out by the droves. Not sure why none of them came back though.