C.S.

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.

Yep, but I fully expected a fuck finish, so maybe I'm the asshole for watching this shit.

Typical WWE bait-and-switch.

Remember when Braun seemed like the next can't-miss main-eventer? Those days are long gone.

I assume this isn't a direct quote?

Someone on Facebook noticed that all of the NWA content has been moved over to FiteTV. Very odd decision, assuming it wasn't already on Fite before. You'd think YouTube would be the better destination of the two since it's far more easily accessible and widely used than the semi-obscure Fite.

Update: NWA Reportedly Going To Make A “Good Announcement” Soon Following YouTube Videos Removed (Wrestling Inc. via Meltzer)

This sucks, because the NWA is the centerpiece of a new video game, RetroMania Wrestling, which is the official sequel to the old WWF WrestleFest arcade game. (Remember that?)

It's over... NWA Removes All Videos From YouTube Channel (Wrestling Inc.)