C.S.

I couldn't miss this show. Hoping B/R has no issues. I was able to order the show through Roku and pay with PayPal that way, and it shows up on both the Roku app and B/R site and app. Handy if you prefer PayPal, like I do. I know you can do some fuckery with VPNs and Fite to get it that way in the U.S. cheaper, but nah, too much work for me and I'm fine properly supporting a show this stacked. AEW has earned my money.

There are shirts of Britt Baker bleeding like a faucet. Not my thing, but people buy them and wear them. There are Bullet Club shirts, which I've always thought must come across very badly to anyone who isn't familiar with wrestling.

These are the best kinds of feuds, TBH. #ShampooCommercial

Have you seen Peacemaker? Cena has serious acting chops!

Cena has shocked the hell out of me recently. "Peacemaker" is great, and Cena has proven himself to be a genuinely good actor. "Money Plane" was one of my favorites last year - maybe for all the wrong reasons, but still. Yeah, Edge's facials are the goofiest shit ever - always have been - and this movie does nothing to convince me that he is any kind of actor.

Not that I'm in a rush to defend as a company as unprofessional PWTees after they failed to disclose a website breach to their customers for many months, but I highly doubt they got that design idea from a random fan - it kind of created itself after MJF showed up on TV with the bloody hand print on the t-shirt.

I'm guessing Vince was always the plan, but it wouldn't surprise me if Kane was originally slated to do it and got replaced because of his recent Mayor Jacobs buffoonery on Twitter.

I've never been a huge fan of Adam Cole, but he has presence, carries himself well, and sounds believable on the mic. The NXT feud with Kyle O'Reilly really highlighted Cole's strengths in those departments and O'Reilly's weaknesses. Their joint dueling promos were like Robert De Niro sharing a scene with Carrot Top.

I've been reading Sabu's book. I'm about halfway through, maybe a bit more. One of the pleasant surprises is that it also functions as a mini-biography of The Sheik. Another pleasant surprise: My BS Meter hasn't really gone off while reading this. Sabu seems very honest and forthcoming. He even admitted to being a drug addict, for example. While this autobiography is obviously designed to paint him in the best light, as most are, it really is a shame that he doesn't get the credit he deserves for how innovative and influential he was in his career - and never really got the big money contract he should have, because of Heyman and his fuckery. This has served as a reminder to me of why everyone loved Sabu in the first place. It sucks that he's presumably too old and broke down now to benefit from a run in AEW, ROH, or even something like Impact or the NWA.

Not so rare. He apologized to China last year. He moronically criticized Rock for "selling out" to Hollywood. He agreed to look like a total knob on Total Divas/Bellas for six years. Cena wants his game to be as professional and polished as Rock's, but he has never come close. Ironically, Cena might be a better actor than Rock now after seeing what he can really do in Peacemaker.

Not nearly as controversial as Kane's profound, monumental stupidity, but John Cena is getting some backlash for hashtagging his show in a tweet about the Ukraine.

Jeff Hardy said "fuck that guy" about the YouTuber uploading the interview he conducted with Jeff, where Jeff himself revealed he was going to AEW. The poor YouTuber feels bad. Real swell of "nice guy" Jeff Hardy to after someone who appears to be a teenager (or maybe a little older) when Jeff is clearly the one at fault. Original interview:

Take with a huge grain of salt, but...

Former WWE writer fires back at Dax Harwood:

Agreed. I have no problem with celebrities being used - they always have been at WrestleMania - but they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with Logan Paul.

I'm sure it was BS, but still, if you look at both Logan and Jake, Jake seems like the bigger, tougher, more wrestler-y dude. I personally wouldn't bring either of them in, but if forced to pick one, I'd go with Jake.

Here's the transcript for anyone who would rather read than listen: https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2022/2/22/22945808/dax-harwood-shawn-michaels-bonding-moment-made-fun-hbk-wwe-raw-25 With Billy Gunn indirectly mentioned, hopefully he'll reach out to Dax now that they're in the same company and make amends.

That was priceless - describing Cody only to give us fucking Logan Paul! I wonder why they always go with Logan Paul though over the bigger, tougher Jake Paul who actually has fight experience. I think his boss in this case is Michael Cole. Didn't Cole reference it at the Saudi EC show or somewhere else? Or he's just a nice guy who isn't too proud to take jobs whenever they come his way - a jobber in the truest sense of the word.

Hope he's okay...

Cody was way more overt, but you could create a drinking game with the amount of times Omega referred to "that place" with a perpetual sneer.

Big Swole on Tony Khan's recent criticism: "Dude, you weren’t saying all that when you was smoking my weed... It’s heartbreaking. Really it is because I thought we were friends. But damn." https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/02/big-swole-says-tony-khan-used-to-smoke-her-weed/ Not sure how this helps Swole end up in WWE, back in AEW, or wherever she wants to go next.

Black's presentation has been Bray Lite for months, so I wouldn't take this latest development as any kind of hint for or against.

NXT is so ice cold that even I, who usually watches the specials (and creates threads for them), couldn't be bothered.

He's not hurting himself either. He has zero to lose at this point.