C.S.

Great tribute by Les Thatcher: https://www.mandatory.com/wrestlezone/news/1235695-les-thatcher-don-kernodle

I sincerely hope Drake gets the help he needs, but with enablers like Road Dogg (who should also be canned IMO, which I hate to say because I like him) and his wife, I fear he's just going to keep going down this road and consider himself a martyr because he was released "for his beliefs." Jake Clemons (another ref) was reportedly also released. Edit: Also Alexander Wolfe, Skyler Story (Ava Storie), and Ezra Judge.

Thanks. Since there's no difference, I went ahead and got it on Kindle. I have no idea who the hell Michel Chaisne or Adolf Kaiser are, but that chapter from the sample hooked me anyway. I really like your writing style, and the art is awesome. Looking ahead, I was surprised to see Lightning Kid vs. Jerry Lynn on the list. I didn't remember that having blood. Such a cool idea for a book. I hope you do very well with it.

Best WWE match Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode have ever been in? It has my vote.

This looks amazing. One question: The art in the Kindle version is B&W. Is it also B&W for the paper version, or is it in color there? Just to be clear, I love B&W art - I'm just wondering if it's the same in both. Thanks!

I'm calling it now: Jimmy will become Bitch #2 to Roman and cost Cesaro the match.

My heart wants Cesaro to win but my head realizes it's way too soon to take the title off of Roman.

Thank God that's over. Typical heatless WWE "hardcore" garbage-style match. Seen one, seen them all.

I do not care at all about this match. Braun is a yawn, and I've gotten my fill of pointless rematches with zero drama or doubt.

Botched finish? Bayley looked like she kicked out.

Dome

That was awful. Did WWE purposely sabotage Batista's movie with that rotten dogshit?

This is Robocop in WCW levels of bad.

Actually a really fun match, and a nice tribute to Dom's true papi at the end.

It feels weird seeing someone as young as Dominik on a WWE show. Everyone else his age wastes away in the Performance Center until they're 35 and balding.

I wish they'd do something interesting like have Buddy Murphy declare himself the new partner (against Rey's will), they win, and the telenovela with Aalyah Mysterio resumes in full force.

Two people I routinely forget are still in the company somehow hold major titles...amazing.

If it were me, I'd have Asuka eat a fluky pin and then bludgeon both Charlotte and Rhea into bloody messes.

This card is as ice cold as it gets. I almost forgot the show was tonight.

I totally forgot about the pre-show and missed most of Sheamus vs. Ricochet. Glad to see Ricochet on PPV, especially in a title situation, but matches with such a foregone conclusion do little for me. Hopefully this is building toward a rematch though.

Have you guys heard about pro-Israel groups trying to get Sami Zayn fired from WWE and cancelled for defending Palestine against empty suit Andrew Yang (what a nothing happening, all talk, no action waste of time he ended up being) and other politicians? That was a thing on Twitter yesterday, with #WeSupportSamiZayn trending all day. I won't touch Israel-Palestine with a ten-foot pole on this board (we're Pro Wrestling Only and all that), but I will say if Sami suffers any serious career repercussions over this while Drake Wuertz continues to embarrass both the company and himself...oof. Edit: Sami already erased the tweets - did WWE say something to him? - but you can see them here: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/05/sami-zayn-wwe-fox-nbcu-reportedly-not-responding-to-questions-on-anti-israel-comments/

What a shock. I was in attendance for ECW Living Dangerously (2000) and had the best seat in the house - otherwise the worst nosebleed seats in the back - for the insane scaffold match between New Jack and Vic Grimes. A work of art it obviously wasn't, but a memorable and shocking "car crash" scene it was definitely was. I witnessed Tommy Dreamer come running out of a door to check on both of them, which seemed completely out of place to me at the time, but it made sense later on when we learned that Dreamer also had backstage office duties.

The most insidious part of Drake's lunacy is that these seem like more or less "reasonable" concerns outside the Q-bubble. That, I guess, is how they snare people in. "Human trafficking is bad": Sure. Everyone thinks so. "Abortion is murder": This one is wildly divisive, but it's certainly not a viewpoint limited to brainwashed Q radicals by any means. Children being "forced by the government" to do XYZ: Concerns about government overreach are nothing new or exclusive to the Q - except, in this case, he's babbling about mask mandates, which are for the kids' protection, his, and ours. (Funny how his "protect the kids" beliefs fall apart when they clash with his own erroneous beliefs.) "We're called to serve God": Go for it! But don't become Carrie's mother along the way. Drake is way past that point. I have no idea why the hell he wasn't kicked out of the school board meeting - or WWE, for that matter. BTW, look at that Bix tweet video without sound. Drake is shaking erratically, gesticulating wildly, making goofy facial expressions - and that's all in the first 12-15 seconds. Something is very clearly very deeply wrong with him. We are seeing a severely, profoundly mentally ill, brainwashed man (possibly caused by CTE issues) coming apart at the seams. Get him some fucking help! It's especially sad that his wife and Road Dogg are seemingly (at best) ignoring or (at worst) enabling his unraveling. Matt Riddle's lawyer is a fucking imbecile and one of the dumbest people on the face of earth. Just look at that tweet where he photographed legal documents printed on label paper. Don't be surprised if Riddle ends up in the electric chair because his lawyer smokes it up even more than he does.

The second half of the book is much better... All he has to say about Pat Patterson is that he's a great guy, etc. It's a very brief mention. Nothing about Pat being the homophobic f-word, a "closet queer," etc. I guess Harvey knew whose asses he still had to kiss. (This was written in 2002 or thereabouts.) The chapter about Joey Marella is a very tough read. For those of you don't know, they were in a car accident together and Joey didn't make it. With that said, he pulls no punches on his opinion of Joey. Ouch! He also goes into the Montreal Screwjob, Benoit, and 9/11 a little bit. Bruce Prichard comes across as a severe headcase so stuck in the rasslin' bubble (and probably so stuck up Vince's ass) that stupid and cruel pranks are funny to him. Bruno has nothing but good things to say about the McMahons, Triple H, Undertaker, and Shawn Michaels but very little good to say about most of the people he managed. Overall, it's an interesting read for the wrestling portions. Just be warned that Bruno/Harvey's homophobic, judgmental, toxic personality gets very grating very quickly.

I am reading Bruno Laurer (Harvey Wippleman)'s book Wrestling with the Truth right now. The rasslin' aspect of it is fine and interesting, but holy shit, what a judgmental, homophobic prick he comes across as. He somehow conned Rock into writing the forward, only to call Rock's grandmother a total bitch in the book. I guess Rock never actually read the thing he wrote the foreword for. Great sign for Rock's upcoming Presidential campaign, and something Baron Trump will definitely nail him on during the debate. Downtown Bruno/Harvey Wippleman is so blatantly, embarrassingly, uncomfortably homophobic to the point where you're cringing while reading this. He drops the homophobic f-slur casually, seems obsessed with who is and isn't gay, who is and isn't a "closet queer," and he apparently laments that none of the gay wrestlers he ran into ever showed any interest in him - even though he is 100%, he promises, he swears, he insists, really, completely straight. I just got to the WWF portion, so we'll see what he says, if anything, about Pat Patterson. Another "gem": Bruno is Catholic - great, no problem - but then he says he knows Johnathan Boyd (one of the Sheepherders and one of his mentors) is in Hell because he never found Jesus. Really, Bruno?! Like I said, the rasslin' portion is great - especially the chapter about what an abuse psychopath asshole Sid is - but everything else about this guy's personality makes me regret spending $10. I get the sense he's probably funny in real life, or at least funny to a wrestling locker room - where you're considered a genius if someone saw you with a book in your hand once - but his "humor" (if you can call it that) definitely doesn't work on the page. At some points, his ranting style comes across as a bootleg of Jim Cornette. Must be something they both picked up in Memphis.