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Cyclone/Hurricane Smith might be one of the worst pro wrestlers I've ever seen. Just comically bad and phony.

Lacey's most memorable moment on the main roster was the camera man zooming in so tight on her asshole that Corey was audibly excited, and Renee was audibly disgusted.

So then...Meltzer is the holier than thou one?

I still fail to see how just not interacting with the guy is "holier than thou". If they were ignoring his attempts at contact, but going out on TV or social media or podcasts talking shit about him, that'd be a different case. But they aren't. They're just declining to interact with him at all.

Benoit did have a pretty great 1998, with the Raven/DDP feuds, the best of 7 with Booker, matches with Finlay, but missed like 4-5 months in the second half of the year.

Imagine a world where Backlund got to do the Backlund Lift to Andre. On the subject of Superstar, I highly recommend his matches against pre human hot dog Ivan Putski and Mil Mascaras. Both are on the Network/Peacock in Old School.

I've seen a few posts about The Elite (or at least the Bucks) acting "holier than thou" in this situation, and I am kind of confused where that comes from. They've ignored the situation in public and in private, are just declining to work with Punk, while Punk can not stop himself from NOTICE ME PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO ME YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UGLY ANYWAY type shit. Be it be shooting himself into a work, or working himself into a shoot.

How is the head of talent relations getting banned from the building? And why is he the head of talent relations at all at that point? Punk gonna get CD fired so he can take his spot and force the Bucks to interact with him.

Peak KENTA and peak NOAH is wrestling kino. Strangely, his 205 Live run had his best matches under the WWE banner.

Yeah well....I like Bret more so I don't care that he's a bitter fuck. He also has actual brain damage so

I think Bret has a number of more valid and serious reasons to be pissed at all those guys than Punk does for a guy saying something he didn't like in a promo.

If Naito doesn't win at WK with the stardust press, water we even dune here

AWA stuff got mentioned from time to time in general due to Bischoff's association with it. It certainly became less common over the Monday Night Wars, but still would get brought up for Norton/Hennig/Hall, even Enos/Bloom.

AWA and Bruno did get mentioned quite a bit in 1996-1998 stuff, though it was usually by Larry himself to put himself over.

Poor Tana gonna have to add a broken neck and brain to his broken knees. Natio absolutely murdered him with the tornado DDT good fuck.

Those aren't the kind of headbutts I'm talking about. I'm talking about the kind that end strike battles and are usually to the jaw/neck/collarbone area and get a double thigh slap that looks like garbage every time in every company. Although really, all headbutts should be illegal. I don't think there is a single combat sport where headbutts are legal.

A sidebar of the thigh slap debate: The super headbutt spot with obscene thigh slap should be banned from the entire industry. It looks atrocious even with camera cuts and angles to hide things, can't imagine how dogshit those look in person. It's far more egregious than any superkick. Examples: Toni Storm, Drew McIntyre, Yota Tsuji, Timothy Thatcher. All very different wrestlers in different promotions all doing the most dogshit spot. Ban it.

Lucha Bros vs BCC might be the sloppiest match by four top tier talents I've ever seen. Besides a single superkick from Fenix to Mox, these dudes whiffed on absolutely everything the entire match.

A big deep family rivalry really needs more violence than kendo sticks and clean table bumps. Never seen a family fight not be the most dirty shit. Not 40 minutes of open hand uppercuts.

Does AEW actually set the PPV price points, or does the provider

Feels like perhaps this angle has peaked and is time to think about wrapping it up.

A LOT of spots in this have had so much air in between competitors. Tighten it up, pals.

Shayna/Ronda might be the biggest disappointment of the year. The promo package was great, they knocked the fuck out of each other in the build up, and then put on such a dull sparring contest with terrible looking strikes and no intensity. All they had to do was come out and do 5 minutes of Frye/Takyama + a few heavy shots from Shayna, then the choke out.

Next 2 weeks of TV are probably going to be nuts. Hard to really predict what the All In card could look like, especially as All Out is a week or two later. Just some possibilities for either show based on what I've seen on TV recently: A Cole/MJF break up angle and match, or Cole/MJF tag match. Possibly for the titles against FTR or even if Big Bill/Cage beat them. Maybe even the break up angle after the match, leading to a title match at All Out. Punk vs Starks rematch for the "real" title. Punk vs White-O is also in the cards. A OC/PAC begrudging, enemy of my enemy style tag against Claudio and Mox, or a defense of the International against one of them. Perhaps OC/Ospreay 2? Joker Sting was super over in the UK so I'd imagine bringing him into the Darby/Wayne vs Swerve/Fox thing would make sense Andrade/Black singles match, or trios match with HOB vs Andrade/Rush/Dralistico or Preston Vance Kenny vs Takeshita, Don Callis on a pole match If Jericho pushing to work with Ospreay isn't accurate, Jericho vs Sammy vs Garcia The AEW roster is so wild that I have no idea what the Bucks, Hangman, any of the women's division, Miro, Lucha Bros, Joe, The Acclaimed, Keith Lee, not to mention any UK talent that presumably will be on the card could be doing. Plus I think Grand Slam is a few weeks after, too.

Cole/MJF has moved from bromance to just romance. Cole doesn't even look at Britt that way