MoS

Of course he isn't. Last time he had a proper match was 11 years ago and he ended up tearing half the muscles in his body. Now he is a couple months shy of turning 52, hasn't been a full-time wrestler since 2002, and also has an obscene amount of roided muscle mass on his body, which won't help with either protecting his muscles, tendons and ligaments during a match, or his conditioning. Punk needed several matches on a weekly basis on his return in 2021 to get into a good enough ring shape to do high-end main event matches, and even he cannot seem to go 2 months without injuring himself anyway

It is very clearly a pivot from the original plan. Meltz won't report it like that because both Rock and Cody are his sources so he reports whatever bullshit they feed him, and it is certainly in Rock's interest at least to act like this was not a pivot but part of a grand plan all along, because saying otherwise would mean yet another failure for him in the last few years, after spending a full decade experiencing only mega-success and no failure.

This Swerve-Hangman angle has become unexpectedly awesome. Also allows Joe to hold on to the belt longer

Vince is under federal investigation

It's a civil lawsuit, so any repercussions would be from TKO trying to cover its own ass. Certainly not repercussions that this case deserves. Anyone who thinks things changed for powerful men after the #MeToo movement (especially for white boomers like Vince) is sadly and unfortunately mistaken.

It's not just Vince though, is it. As multiple people have pointed out, this is a systemic rot going to the very top of an evil company. Can't just stop at Vince.

Jesus this is horrible

Joe will get weekly attendances up if we give him a few weeks to cook

Who would have thought in 1997-99, when Shawn and Hunter were actively trying to bury Rock, or in 2002, when HHH seemed to have the keys of the kingdom, that Rock would end up as their boss, almost 3 decades later

Fingers crossed, AEW's 2024 has been really good so far. Copeland v. Suzuki is the kind of match that makes me thankful AEW exists.

Joe had a throwaway feud with Brock where he was so great and menacing and cut such great promos that not only did he feel believable as someone who could beat Lesnar, there were people wanting him to beat Brock and be champ for a short while before Brock won it back. Concur that HOOK is great.

I personally could happily and contentedly could spend the rest of my live in peace, and happiness never hearing a single thing Chico Alvarerz has to say and his opinion on anything and everything under the sun, wrestling-related or not

https://bloodyelbow.com/2024/01/09/goodbye-derek-schott-punisher-bass-well-miss-you/ I lost a colleague and friend unexpectedly a couple of days ago. Let's all be kinder to each other generally

Collision was a good watch, again. Claudio is an absolute freak when it comes to strength. This man would have been over like a God in every wrestling territory in the 60s.

Show should start with Samoa Joe anointing himself as the King of AEW on a liv mic while cutting a promo in the centre of the ring

And now a bad nod to Edge's first MitB cash-in on Cena

That was such a bad rip-off of/"tribute" to the Foley-Edge spot from WM 22

Julia Hart is my guilty pleasure, I love her shtick

oh fuck this shit

Dying at the fane loving Big Bill destroy Sammy the returning babyface hero and new father

He nearly broke a beloved legend's leg, and 10,000 people are delightedly chanting "Swerve's house". That world title belt needs to go to Swerve as soon as possible

It's really Swerve's house

The crowd is dead for this

Claudio just blows me away with how ridiculously strong he is. He is ten times stronger than he looks, and he looks extremely strong

FWIW, this is not a new allegation. Plus rumours about Jericho's casting couch go back at least a decade, far far before AEW existed. Hell the original DVDVR sleaze thread had some Jericho stories