C.S.

IF that's going to happen tonight, I'd sooner expect a Kofi upset over Lashley (or a babyface cash-in) than Edge unseating the Head of the Table.

Marcia Gay Harden is a national treasure.

I know everyone wants Ricochet to win and thinks he should, but that would be another Otis situation IMO, because WWE will never truly get behind him. I hope Miz has enough political pull to lobby for a Morrison win. He's the guy who should get it. Agreed. I don't give a shit about sports and even I love the clever thread titles every week.

Probably several Bret matches that could fall into this category (including the aforementioned vs. 1-2-3 Kid on Raw), but I always loved the first Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund match on Superstars, where Backlund lost cleanly, snapped, and slapped the living daylights out of Bret afterward.

Bump: A Wrestling Novel - Free on Kindle https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07WQMP41C/ Never heard of it and no idea how good it is, but free is free. The author also has a couple of non-wrestling freebies that I grabbed too, because why not.

This is some scary shit.

#GoSwoleGo

I'm aware, but he said he'd either become the AG or know the AG. All hot air. Nothing happened.

Well, let's not pretend Dave doesn't have a very long history of questionable comments against women and in general. (Inviting Bruce Mitchell onto your podcast and not challenging a fucking thing he says, anyone?) No, Zelina shouldn't be getting her news from those weird anti-Dave troll accounts, but Dave has long lost the right to get the benefit of the doubt on this issue.

Jimmy Uso deserves to spend a significant amount of time behind bars, period, because he's a selfish prick who has repeatedly endangered not only himself but anyone else who has had the misfortune of sharing the road with him. Fuck him. As for Zelina, I'm more sympathetic. Fuck everyone else. No one else in "DA BIDNESS" stood up for her, so why should she sacrifice her career? Answer: She shouldn't and didn't, and I don't blame her one bit! Fuck Andrew Yang for being the fakest, most useless, do-nothing politician ever. Fuck Gabrielle Carteris too (Andrea on 90210, but now the President of SAG and hasn't done shit either despite saying she would).

When I saw this thread bumped, I thought for sure it would be about this:

Pat Laprade's Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is $2.99 on Kindle. I got it when it was free too, but holy shit, you weren't kidding about the poor structure. It reads like an ADHD fever dream. I had to eventually give up on it.

Corbin qualifying, winning, and having to sell his briefcase and title shot for money would be a great addition to this storyline.

The Bertrand Hébert-Pat Laprade book about Andre, The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant, is back down to $4.99 on Kindle.

One of the staples of my childhood. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/patriot-del-wilkes-passes-away-age-59

Drake Wuertz is at it again...

You mean Kane isn't smart just because he was seen with a book once?

Not that I'm here to defend Sasha's intelligence, but didn't she do that to take care of her disabled brother?

The booking is a confusing mess, because Charlotte certainly isn't a face herself. I'm cool with heel vs. heel, if that's what it is, but the direction is far from clear. Not sure why Rhea isn't just a face, as that seemed to be working well enough for her before. Come to think of it, it might be mine too. Certainly the best ladder match in years.

The fact that some of you are actively wanting more Bobby vs. Drew means this must've been a success somewhere to someone. It was good while it lasted, but I'm personally sick of the pairing and more than ready to move on. I know it's fashionable to blame Charlotte, and I'm not discounting how stale and overexposed she is (I'm sick of her too), but when fans come back, I think it's going to be exposed very quickly that Rhea isn't over at all. Completely ice cold, has no discernible character to speak of ("punk girl" or whatever the fuck her look is supposed to be isn't a character), and they've either fired (Ruby Riott) or under-utilize (Nikki Cross) people who have similar personality traits but do it much better. I think Rhea does have potential and upside - she'll probably be fine in the long run - but for everyone who ever bitched about Roman Reigns' early face push, well, Rhea's feels even more inorganic (on a smaller scale). After losing to Charlotte at WrestleMania, Rhea spent the rest of the year treading water in NXT. Then she lost the Royal Rumble (which was the right call) and was subsequently rushed into a push and title that felt forced the entire time. Yeah, a lot of that is WWE's incompetence sabotaging her (being cast aside in NXT) and bad luck ruining a great arc with Charlotte from one WrestleMania to the next (because of Charlotte's Covid - or whatever it was that took her out of the match), but she has hardly hit a home run the way Bianca has with similarly middling material to work with.

Alex Riley goes after Cena and Rock about unionization https://411mania.com/wrestling/alex-riley-shots-john-cena-rock-wwe-sports-entertainment-union-match/ He's the worst kind of advocate. Someone who may have a valid point or two but expresses it in the most counterproductive, ass-backward, damaging way possible and comes across sounding like an unhinged idiot.

Was hoping Jinder or someone else would cost Drew the match.

The matches that should have had the Cell - Seth vs. Cesaro and KO vs. Sami - didn't. Boggles my mind. I'm sure the actual wrestling is fun, but I'm officially checked out. It's on mute and subtitles are on. There are no stakes here. Absolutely nothing matters. They could've rolled dice to book the winners and it wouldn't make a difference. Feels like such a holding pattern show before crowds come back.

For a show with a later start time, the last thing we need is seemingly 20 minutes of video packages.

The first 10 minutes of the preshow on Peacock had a CDN error with a cute cat. Fortunately (or unfortunately?), it's working now. I am honestly not very hyped for Hell in a Cell. Not a single match on it has earned the Cell stipulation, but that's far from a new issue with this show. Giving away Roman vs. Rey on Smackdown was a real-scratcher - foregone conclusion or not. In the old days, they would've given Rey the feel-good win on SD and had Roman regain it two days later at HIAC. While I'm generally not a fan of such hotshot title changes, WWE really could do with something unpredictable right about now.