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Ridge Holland started a GoFundMe after getting released during an injury and then having his contract terminated early because he spoke out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-father-of-3-heal-without-losing-everything Top donors: Chelsea Green - $1000 per month Kyle Fletcher, Nick Massie (Young Bucks), and Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) - $1000 each

I'm curious about this, so I hope you can expand on it. As far as I know, Amazing Red was and is a cult favorite at best. I can buy isolated wrestlers aping his style. Beyond that, I don't know. Low Ki has never worked anywhere major (I don't consider the tape trading era of ROH to be major or his failed stint in WWE as Kaval), drawn any money, done anything of any significance (I don't consider collecting random indie titles to be significant), and most importantly, I've never heard of any wrestlers cite him as an influence, nor have I seen any evidence in anyone else's style that he was an influence (at least nothing that couldn't be explained in a million other ways). At best, he was an indie/IWC favorite for a spell who looked cool and did some cool shit, but none of it ever mattered long term because he couldn't get out of his own way. Granted, I bring my own biases to this assessment. I generally don't invest in egomaniacal headcases who never last anywhere. Life is too short to rally behind "here today, gone tomorrow" phantoms with a grossly inflated sense of self-importance. Another reason I could never get into Austin Aries either. These guys want to be Bruiser Brody, metaphorically speaking, without bringing any of the special qualities he had. As boring as WWE is and has been for years, it's a major platform with much wider visibility, so guys who made it there - like Bryan and Punk - are going to have a much larger sphere of influence by default. Ditto for AEW to a degree.

It's obviously not great, but she's unlikely to ever interact with him again. It's not like Trips is rushing to put this dude on Raw or Smackdown ever.

Since he isn't dead (yet), I'll just say it now: Fuck Abdullah the Butcher. Anyone who goes around knowingly giving people a deadly infectious disease like Hepatitis C and then "kayfabing, brother" about not being able to speak English when he was once a business owner in Atlanta can go get bent. As far as I'm concerned, he's an attempted murderer who should have done a long stretch of prison time. Sorry not sorry.

The early Shotgun Saturday Night shows are full of interesting venues.

Sad news. I always wondered why Mo never got another look by WWE. BTW, cool interview with Oscar: https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/oscar-men-on-a-mission/ (presumably conducted before Mo's death)

I definitely remember the Sleaze Thread and enjoyed lurking it, but I wasn't around for the slime green version of DVDVR, so I assume the thread I read was a later version started by someone else. It did have the infamous Macho-Steph crap though. I wonder if Shane brought that up when he met TK.

I agree. I would never want to hang out with Triple H, who seems like such an uptight pill, not to mention dumb AF. But Tony? Yeah, I think I'd have a blast chatting with him.

If he's Talla Tonga, then yeah.

WWE ID massacre tonight: The following NXT releases have occurred, as learned by Cory Hays of Bodyslam.net and confirmed by Fightful Select Wes Lee Stevie Turner Lance Anoa’i Jin Tala Drako Knox Haze Jameson Summer Sorrell Brayden "BJ" Ray Jamar Hampton Wes Lee is the big surprise, even though nothing has really been done with him in ages.

And she lost repeatedly to Wendy Choo (of all people), literally cried over a fucking doll, etc. I couldn't figure out WTH they were doing with her. I don't think they knew either.

The WWE version of EVOLVE was really cool the first few weeks, but it suffered from two major issues: 1. Everyone we'd all want to root for - Kylie Rae, Timothy Thatcher, etc. - kept fucking losing! 2. Released wrestlers were main eventing EVOLVE shows, which tells me TKO and WWE aren't organized, don't have a clue WTF they're doing at any level of talent relations or creative, and there was never any real plan beyond "put a show on Tubi and fill it with random ID greenhorns, NXT castoffs, and a few veterans to lead these kids through a match." So, yeah, this WWE ID program is probably another bust because TKO is too cheap and incompetent. Rinse and repeat.

Sami is Syrian, and while the flag designs are obviously different, the flag colors are the same. So all he has to do is say this, and the MAGA ghouls that run WWE can't say or do shit about it. Well, they could, I suppose, but they won't.

Andrade is back. Tony Khan must like flushing his money down the toilet for fun. Guy brings nothing to the table anymore.

The NXT/TNA Invasion name has been changed because - wait for it, wait for it - it supposedly offends Israelis. You can't make this shit up! https://www.f4wonline.com/news/nxt/wwe-showdown-invasion-upcoming-nxt-vs-tna/

So basically every Lesnar match? He has always looked like a boiled lobster after a couple of minutes.

It begins...

#LOLBROCKWINS WWE executives: Fuck the fans. Then. Now. Forever. Together. (For some reason, there are two threads for this worthless show on a worthless streaming service for a worthless company run by worthless bean counters like Mark Shapiro who have openly admitted that they consider the fans worthless.)

If only there was another wrestler in WWE Fenix could team with...

Yet, so much reckless speculation - not here, to be clear - about him being a drug user. I wonder if he ends up back in AEW, but if I'm TK, I steer clear. It's not like he's gotten over anywhere outside of Mexico, except for a few months in NXT, and that was 99% Zelina. They never should've been split up.

Andrade is gone. Good riddance, honestly.