C.S.

Anyone else's sound cutting out on the Peacock feed?

I wouldn't go that far. She was never that over, and still isn't. But focusing the show on the perpetually ice cold Charlotte surely wasn't the solution either. I get the idea behind it - infuse NXT some much-needed star-power and something something "fresh" - but Charlotte was never going to excite anyone. She's a tremendous wrestler, but she's not someone people have ever clamored to see.

Holy fucking shit... This fucking company! Did they really end Franky Monet (Taya Valkyrie)'s vignette with "See You Next Tuesday"? Don't they realize what that's a euphemism for?

My thought exactly, but that already hasn't happened.

I'd love a genuine surprise for once, like Brock Lesnar coming out after the match to attack Walter. Will never happen, for all the obvious reasons, but I miss when TakeOver had such stunning developments.

Imagine if Ciampa is the one chosen to end this 2-year reign.

Did L.A. Knight *groan* ever used to beg off and backpedal before?

Again, I don't mean PWO. (Well, maybe you, because you're butthurt for no reason.) Do me a favor: Go to any wrestling site - heck, go to your favorite one - and look at the comments section for a few articles. I rest my case!

Rasslin' fans are, by and large, uneducated and embarrassing. News at 11.

Well, bottom line: WWE management doesn't consider Hulk Hogan a racist, period. They consider it a "slip of the tongue" in "the heat of the moment." So, for them, there's no hypocrisy in their minds whatsoever. Firmly ensconced in the rasslin' bubble, they can convince themselves they're having a Florida sports legend (Hogan) host WM in Tampa with a pillar of the local community (Titus). Cognitive dissonance...brother.

Did you enjoy the 2-20 Hall of Fame, brothers?

Titus O'Neil's speech was great.

Anyone watching the HOF? Harry looks so much like Davey Boy Smith now and sounds so much like Bret Hart.

Ric Flair?

I will say that I've never seen the Aries you guys have seen - a mediocre face, a heel who doesn't come across as a threat, and a perfectly competent indie-style worker who doesn't even touch a hair on the asshole of Bryan Danielson, AJ Styles, or even most of the kids in NXT and AEW now. If there was a magically better Aries during his ROH World Title reign, I'd say that means jack shit zilch to me now, because he's no longer that guy and hasn't been for years. I'm talking about present-day Aries (well, the past 3-4 years or so). That was definitely the first time I recall hearing something really negative about Aries that didn't have anything to do with his in-ring work, character, or the usual things people nitpick about a wrestler. It was probably the beginning of a long, slow, downward spiral for him. I saw someone on Twitter speculate that concussion issues could be to blame for Austin Aries apparently losing his mind. It wouldn't surprise me.

Assuming this is long gone, where else can this book be purchased? Google is failing me.

A perfect post on April Fool's Day from an absolute fool and tool every month of the year. The reason he's wrestled only once in 18 months is because no major (or apparently minor) organization will touch him anymore. His drawing power is nonexistent, and anything he does in-ring is being done better by dozens of others with less baggage.

I think a worldwide pandemic warrants an exception though. Calling it the 2020-2021 Hall of Fame and inducting the same people + a new headliner to replace Batista would've been fine.

The way @SteveJRogers is carrying on, he acts like he gave Arn his shield, and Arn gave it up and allowed some big-eared rando to take up the mantle.

Even his book was kayfabe. As for why now, the answer is obvious: $$$ AEW is still an unproven startup company (albeit a very successful one that is likely to be around for years to come), so Arn probably realizes has to make money in as many different ways as possible to secure a nest egg for himself and his family. If he was anything like Flair, he spent every dime he ever made living in the Horsemen lifestyle in the '80s.

No clue why such a big deal is being made of Arn not popping up as a talking head on future Network specials when he rarely did that while he was in the company.

The Bellas were forced to cut their speech to 3-5 minutes. #GiveBellasAChance No inductors or induction speeches either. Instead of a pointlessly bloated 2020-21 HOF with double the honorees for no reason whatsoever, they should've just kept last year's class and been done with it. Not like it has to be annual anyway - there was no one for years after Andre. This kind of sucks.

Good idea, WWE... Let's spoil who's winning the Smackdown Title Match! Careful, any shitty name used in ROH is automatically sacrosanct to some folks here. Don't mention how awful he looks in basketball shorts either, because that's "fat-shaming" (even though it isn't).

I'm looking forward to finally checking out Christian's big debut match this weekend. To no one's surprise, it scored huge ratings. What's up with Pac? Who knows. This has to be one of the "big signings" Tony Khan regrets the most - unless Khan got Pac for a bargain price, like one of those memes with pictures of wrestlers where you have $15 to spend and can blow $7 apiece on two main eventers and get Pac for the remaining $1.

#ForbiddenDoor