Dav'oh

Roman (god bless him) really isn't on the level of the Fed's previous figureheads.

In more bad news for Hunter, he disappointed Ryback. “You ended up being the biggest disappointment for me personally from loving you growing up, but I wish you well in retirement and future good health” he twitted. Pretty tame stuff, but it "outraged" some fans so Ryback went full Ryback on them. "Negative wrestling marks are poison to the planet. We must create a Markicide to control their spread. Completely out of control and have never seen a more hateful cunty bunch.” "They come from damaged parents". "“I truly wish him well. He went out of his way to prevent multiple opportunities for me, lied, and is part of a company I have a legal battle with and have won everything."

Wendy Choo always reminds me of Swan from MAD TV.

Is WALTER becoming a body guy? He looks to have trimmed down and toned up.

Inverse (?) tope suicida into a stunner...fuck me dead. You don't have to Triple Lindy EVERYTHING!

There must be a store that only sells clothes for cockheads. I've never seen Seth's suits or Becky's sunglasses (?) at Target.

So they agree with me. Case closed

Shawn first, Flair the afterthought. Just the way Shawn wanted it. I know, you could just have easily put it the other way around, but you didn't, because Shawn is the one we think about when recalling the match. Relevance to Shawn making Flair's retirement all about Shawn, Your Honour? Were Jericho and Batista pissed that Shawn stole the spotlight from Flair?

I'm sorry, I love you. And with those words, Ric Flair's retirement becomes all about Shawn. It's what everyone remembers, and it's a travesty. The (purported) final moments of Ric fucking Flair's career and the focus is on Shawn, not Ric. So fuck Shawn. He'll make my list but he's an unadulterated shitcunt.

...so he's only really good when there's a caveat. Watch him tip-toe into the sixonenine, you can almost see his lips move as he counts his steps. He's got the body of a McDonalds employee. Easily makes a Worst Dressed List (with his dad). He's a used matchstick, personality wise .When he does his frog-splash, the crowd are popping for Eddy, not for him. If he was Dominik Kafoops, he wouldn't be over, or pushed.

It's also how he follows his scripts wrestles. He's certainly no Hook; he's not even Brock Anderson. I think he's like the Davids in that he's the worst high-profile second-generation wrestler of his era (yes, I'm including Pillman Jr (and Nicholas Cone)).

Dominik is sooooooo fucked once Rey retires/leaves. He'll be the David Sammartino / David Flair of his generation.

Its Randy the Ram Robinson! No, it's just Jericho....

Statistically, someone here should be saying "Step on my neck, Jungle Boy. Respectfully."

Slow march to a sell-out, too. Meltzer says 20,000 tickets remain unsold for each night, hence Vince and Austin "wrestling".

Can someone please give Montez and Angelo the smoke? It's been on their wish-list for ages. I'd give it to them but I don't know what the smoke is. Reggie's a good gymnast but I doubt i could stomach him in a proper match. The women are largely terrible. Dominik is largely terrible. I hate it when celebrities are just there for a laugh. Logan Paul is just there for a laugh. Hopefully he beats the piss out of Dominik during the fip section of their 'Mania match.

This show feels like 80% entrances and videos.

I guess the Saudis chanting for a Semite is progress. WWE 1, Cynics 0. Unless it was piped in... 1-1!

Aaaah, crap. It's only the kickoff show. Three a.m here, luckily Liverpool's playing to keep me interested.

I've got a jerry-can full of petrol in honour of our Saudi hosts. I'm either going to sniff it to make the show bearable, or douse myself with it and light a ciggy at the horror, the horror. Men's Chamber might be fun, with or without fumes.

Well, we know where Vince's talent scouts will be on May 7th, then. "Ability to walk unaided preferred but not essential."

Cent One: Cody was always an "outsider" in the Bucks/Omega/Cole/Page etc clique. He rode their coattails, is all. More like a distant cousin than a brother. Not surprised there's no love lost there. Cent Two: This all presupposes the WWE Universe won't shit on him. He was a tepid lower-to-mid carder in his previous run, he's engendered indifference at best and hostility at worst since then, and he deserted the WWE Family for the pissants. I'm sure he wants to come back as the Prodigal Son who's returned to the fold, but I can't imagine him being received that way. Of course, he could be being sent there as a "mole"...

The Australian High Court (Australia's, erm, highest court) ruled just this week on the status of independent contractors. "The High Court’s ruling on the status of a pair of truck drivers who were attached to the same company for 40 years has the potential to shift power back to organisations in the battle over how participants in the gig economy should be protected by the law...The decision, experts say, gives credence to claims by gig platforms like Uber and Deliveroo that their workers are not employees... On Wednesday, Australia’s High Court ruled that two truck drivers who worked for a lighting company, which required the workers to emblazon its logo on their vehicles and work clothes, were not employees... In taking this stance, the ruling returns power to businesses following several Federal Court decisions, along with decisions from the Fair Work Commission (FWC), that have backed the rights of workers." More fool me for expecting better from America's 51st state.

NXT audience chanting "WALTER" as the Wehrmacht come down to the ring was inevitable. Wonder how long they'll keep the asinine name-change? Whoops. Wrong thread....

I hope his veneration and imitation of Billington and Redacted doesn't extend to their treatment of women...