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Too bad he's not in WWE developmental, where he'd be doing a million hindu squats in the PC and years away from TV - on NXT EVOLVE. (In case my intention is not clear: Thank God for AEW finding and showcasing actual young talent instead of the 37-year-old "developmental rookies" we see in WWE/NXT/UK/EVOLVE/205.)

Nah. I have nothing against people who do that - we're in a pandemic year and times are tough - but I'd rather not take the risk of going on sketchy sites. I don't even know where or how to find this show through *ahem* alternate means anyway.

I will probably regret passing on this, but $50, no PayPal option, and a shitty service like B/R Live (which even Tony Khan is publicly burying at this point) are constant turn-offs. I know some have reported being able to use a VPN to get it cheaper on FiteTV - BTW, international users getting AEW PPVs so much cheaper is another constant turn-off - but I like to watch things on my Roku, so that's out. I'd love for AEW PPVs to air on HBO Max instead, but that seems like a pipe dream. If Coach Tony K is reading this (another pipe dream among some PWO members), make a deal and make it happen! Still, hat's off to AEW for nailing the hype on this one. Everyone is talking about this show, and I'm definitely excited to find out who the mystery wrestlers are and how the main event turns out.

Which is fair enough and more than valid, but cosplaying an old, out of touch, racist embarrassment like Cornette in your posts is not the best way to get the message across IMO.

Jim Cornette, is that you? Have we found your PWO account?

Speaking of DVDVR, remember when Lance Storm had a shit fit about the inconsequential, only nerds care about it, DVDVR 500? That would be like Seth Rollins pitching a shit fit over PWO GWE.

Assuming you mean the sequel, if Vince did watch that dire pile of shit, Crews would never leave catering again. (The original is an all-time classic though!)

I'll look at the Apollo Crews video later, but an actual person of Nigerian descent speaking with a Nigerian accent (which I'm sure he can do fluently and probably does regularly around his parents and family members) isn't even close to being one of the more problematic things in wrestling. Unless the accent is really bad, this feels like a major overreaction by everyone in this thread. His previous act was not working at all - smiling babyface with no character who is good at the rasslin' - might get multiple underwear tugs from the ROH/indie fanbase, but there's no way to achieve long-term success in WWE (or even AEW) doing that.

I mean, okay, this is Wrestling Inc., not Meltzer, but he seems certain it's not Christian.

THIS FUCKING COMPANY Wrestling Inc.: WWE Reportedly Fining Wrestlers For “Thigh Slaps”

I don't know if they had a spam member problem (common with message boards at the time, and maybe still?) and I just fell through the cracks? I couldn't possibly say.

This rumor is about as credible as the Sleaze Thread he allegedly started. If Tony ever did try to join PWO, his membership - like my original attempt - probably went unapproved for years. Not sure what was going on back then, but I eventually tried again and got approved quickly the second time around.

Glenn Gilbertti is someone so stupid, so obnoxious, with such a punchable face, that I wonder how I or anyone else ever liked Disco Inferno. Meanwhile, Jericho is continuing to erode his reputation. And Madusa, well, no one ever thought she was a member of MENSA.

I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but this line seems really shortsighted to me: Matt Jackson: “Chris, let’s be honest man. What would you be doing if there was no AEW? Oh, I know. You’d probably be jerking the curtain tonight at the Performance Center.” Yeah, their fanbase will take it as the meta "WWE wouldn't be using you properly" reference Matt Jackson intended, but he's also basically saying, "You're one of our top guys, but if you were still over there, you'd be losing on their third-rate, cold-as-ice, developmental territory." How does that make AEW look good? This is one of of those kind of things that really could use tightening up (to borrow from Loss's post).

Hall of Fame "worthy" - so if that's accurate, it takes Kurt Angle, Mick Foley, Mark Henry, and Dave Bautista out of the running. Possibilities (but unlikely): Brock Lesnar, CM Punk. Edit: Or *shudder* that big meathead Ryback. Could it be a woman? AJ Lee would be a fun signing, but it's unlikely to be her. This would be a very loose and disappointing way to describe Tommy End and Thea Trinidad (AKA Aleister Black and Zelina Vega), assuming End isn't still stuck in WWE Contract Hell, which he probably is.

What is the add-on? It sounds very handy.

I just tried https://therokuchannel.roku.com/ on a Chromebook and it definitely works. Looks clear and beautiful. You might want to see if any of your extensions are fucking with it or if you have "Protected Content" disabled for the Roku Channel site. (Protected Content is that stupid DRM crap some websites insist on.) Edit: Or do you mean NJPW World? Yeah, I remember not being able to get that to work on a Chromebook either. I think I ended up having to use a phone or tablet to cancel it. What a joke!

As I said before: Yeah, still not seeing the wisdom in this. Unless Fite threw stupid money at the NWA to delete everything from YouTube and switch over, it makes zero sense to me. Going from a popular worldwide platform like YouTube to the semi-obscure Fite, which only attracts sweaty neckbeards, is as ass-backward as you can get.

Wait, the same Joyce Meyer who is an evangelist? Damn, I thought she was one of the good ones. (I realize how naive that sounds right now...)

A channel no one gets vs. a platform that's widely available for free in the U.S., Canada, and UK... Gee, I wonder which one would be better. For all of NJPW's monumental missteps in any market outside of Japan (such as NJPW World still being limited to the web and Fire/Android devices), this isn't one of them.

Pretty sure that's a WWE mandate. Wrestlers are always positioned awkwardly in those segments where they're backstage watching the monitor.

Let's add Miz to the list. Someone (or someones) will say "not a top guy" and that someone (or someones) will be wrong.

Sorry to be "that guy" but these typos are driving me nuts. Anyway, I'm going to use Loss's post to dive into this question... Can we really credit Sr. with Andre though? I feel like Andre was such a star, such a massive attraction, that only an idiot could screw it up. Just book Andre and let him do what he does best. With that said, let's compare Sr.'s booking of Andre to how Jr. has booked every giant post-Andre - mainly The Big Show. Sr. wins handily. Of course, Jr. had his hands on Andre too, but after WrestleMania 3 and 4, what happened? Jr. had Andre doing one-minute jobs to Ultimate Warrior around the horn. I realize Andre was breaking down at this point and you want to use him to "make" people. We can argue that Andre - if not "made" Hogan - certainly helped Hogan ascend to an even higher level than before. But the Warrior matches did nothing for anyone, and it was a law of diminishing returns after that. Every giant after Andre has been booked like shit. Sure, you can argue that none of them were as special as Andre. While that may be true, Big Show was a better wrestler and more versatile in every way - and yet he was "just another guy" for most of his run. Yeah, different time and all that, but still. That's just one direct comparison of many between Sr. and Jr., but I think it illustrates the point well.

So, what the hell happens at Fast Lane now? Really baffling that Bad Bunny and Damien Priest weren't the ones to cost Miz the title.

The Lumberjack stip seems like a relic from the '70s.