C.S.

I'd be okay with Big John Studd squashing the fuck out of Brock... ...with Mauro on commentary, of course. (Obviously, this could only take place in a video game or bizarro timeline.)

A worse take than my joke post about Mauro commentating a Big John Studd DVD that has a snowball's chance in hell of actually getting produced. I do think Corbin has potential though, and could eventually become a late- bloomer Mark Henry-type good worker. Time will tell. People forget how "young" he still is, experience-wise.

If WWE ever puts out a "Best of Big John Studd" DVD, wouldn't it be super if Mauro could do voiceover commentary for the matches?

I feel like I'm missing some context here. At first I assumed he was responding to my Mauro posts, but maybe not? Big John Studd?

My opinion: Mauro is the best commentator working today and this generation's J.R. or Gordon Solie (not in style, which is wildly different across all three of those examples, but in quality). I could scour Twitter, other boards, etc. looking for positive Mauro comments. But like you said, that would be a colossal waste of time. Agreed about popularity not being an indicator of quality, but it really feels like PWO and a couple of other remote corners of the wrestling web go out of their way to be contrarian at times. (Yes, I realize this is rich coming from the anti-Asuka guy.) I have no idea what MMA fans think of him, but isn't he employed by multiple other companies to commentate multiple other sports? Dude must doing something right. I do think Mauro would enhance this Brock-Fake Festus feud considerably because of his sports background - certainly more than Cole and Graves can. Then again, if it's just a thing for the next Bloody Money show, as rumored, it doesn't matter who's commentating it. If that is in fact the case, it makes Kofi's pointless squash loss even more infuriating. Speaking of Avatar, has a movie that popular ever been forgotten as quickly as that one has? It was basically erased from everyone's collective consciousness after about a year, despite breaking box office records and even being nominated for Best Picture. There are a boatload of sequels on the way, but zero buzz or anticipation. It's the weirdest thing. I thought the movie was...okay. Really cool experience in 3D (much like going to a live Raw even in this era is probably still fun for the experience) but pretty pedestrian otherwise. I will never not cringe at "unobtainium" somehow making it into the final script.

Haha. It's also a play on Cain/Kane (Festus was the Fake Kane, as you know), so it works on multiple levels.

Not to mention, we got the same blatant bait-and-switch false advertising bullshit with Seth vs. Rey on Raw (match never happened) and I'd argue with Brock vs. Kofi too (that was a fucking joke, and I don't care if Fake Festus debuted afterward because I've never given a single solitary flying fuck about MMA and never will). At least AEW delivers the shit it advertises, or announces changes ahead of time if there's an injury or some other situation.

If Danny Cage’s wife believes it, that settles it! Seriously though, if you step out of the self-masturbatory (at times) PWO GWE bubble, you’ll find that there are a lot more Mamma Mia-niacs than not. His Twitter profile mentions that, so you’re right.

This popped up randomly on my Twitter (no joke). I'm not following him and don't know who he is, but I guess because other people I follow are following him, it appeared on my timeline. Agreed 100%, of course. Eventually, FOX is going to want Mauro to give Smackdown even more of a sports feel.

Awesome set. Awesome presentation. Same old boring shit in the ring.

Would it have killed them to give Kofi a nice little 10-15 minute match? As cool as this Brock-Cain setup is, I honestly don't care about either of them and never will.

Well, that was a giant fucking waste.

Is Tyson Fury actually famous? Maybe I'm in the bubble a bit, but I have no idea who this guy is.

I'd love to see Shane show up in NXT and try to undermine Uncle Paul at every turn. Would the NXT smark fans like it? No. But it would be an interesting storyline.

Me too.

Seth looks like a complete and utter dimwitted rube falling for the same Fiend trick twice a week for weeks on end.

Jeff Hardy was arrested for DWI...again. *Sigh*

There are always exceptions though. I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Keith Lee.

Well, was Edge ever a draw? Asking sincerely. I'd be most interested in another E&C run, but that won't happen for many reasons - not including the big one, that Christian was forced onto the shelf by WWE against his will (IMO).

The new Smackdown set is really nice, unlike Raw.

Agreed about them being terrific workers (I've been a fan of Daniels since he had hair), but the AEW segment was weird.

Agreed. He looks like Justin Bieber with black hair. (Edit: What Bieber looked like when he first became famous, not Bieber now.) With that said, I think the match "made" him. Yeah, that was downright bizarre. What is their gimmick exactly? That So Cal is the best place to live? So, basically, they're the American version of the Shining Stars? Agreed. I had no idea who they were. AEW needs to realize that most of these people are not stars outside of the indie rasslin' bubble and need to be introduced properly.

So, Randy Orton apparently got drunk on Twitch and praised AEW and Sammy Guevara. He also supposedly used the n-word?!?! Summary:

Agreed, and the irony is, I forgot J-Lo was even in the movie. Either her scenes were severely cut because of the backlash at the time or it was always intended to be the twist that she wasn't in the movie for long. Anyway, AEW... I caught some of NXT - Adam Cole vs. Riddle (which was good), the Finn return, and the Ciampa comeback - and AEW felt like the fresher, hipper, more interesting show to me. Not necessarily fair to compare, of course, when I didn't watch the entirety of the NXT show. But still... Either way, this is a great time to be a wrestling fan.

And when there were hot women in the crowd during the Monday Night Wars, absolutely none of them were there for the goofy Disco Inferno, whose real life face somehow looked like a caricature drawn by a street artist.