C.S.

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

Glad he has a job on a "televised" wrestling program in 2021. Still, it doesn't sound like he fits at all with sex pest Tyrus. So random! You didn't mention Dave Marquez anywhere in your recap, so I did a little googling... David Marquez Reveals He Will Not Be Returning To Work On NWA Power Like Dave Lagana, Marquez seemed like a monstrously dumb person - I remember him defending the Cornette "starvation joke" on Twitter. Still, lack of brains and common sense aside, he was pretty good at his job. Apparently he was with the NWA for 24 years, so this has to sting. I wonder what happened.

Morrison and Monet does have a nice ring to it. Except, Sasha Banks definitely picked her own name. She gave them a long list of handpicked names. Sasha was the first name of one and Banks was the last name of another, and someone liked the idea of those two names together. Adam Rose also came up with his own list of names and gimmicks after the the brutally bad Leo Kruger name and gimmick failed.

How does SRS make up news? He seems like one of the more credible guys to me. Did I miss some bad reports or something? You're not confusing him with Ryan Satin, by any chance, are you?

For as much shit as the NXT random name generator gets, and rightfully so, are we really pretending Taya Valkyrie was an awesome name or something? To me, it's no better or worse than Franky Monet. Neither name is great shakes IMO.

Any idea what happened here? Good riddance though. Edit: He apparently posted this whopper before he deleted his account. What a delusional, infuriating, little piece of shit.

Oh yeah, fair enough. But isn't there a special that makes it $2 a month (or something like that) until the archive is complete? WrestleMania for the price of a couple of Whoppers seems like a fair deal - even if the show itself doesn't particularly interest you. BTW, if you're an Xfinity cable subscriber (not just internet), you can get Peacock for free.

These are the incompetent WWE docs we're talking about. One was already part of a massive lawsuit (CM Punk). Why would WWE want to cost Charlotte a Mania spot? Because they're mad at Andrade? Sure, they can probably be that petty, but it really feels like a stretch to me.

That only works when titles aren't as watered down and devalued as they've become.