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You'll know Vince is back when Cole stops name dropping other promotions and wrestlers

It would have to be

Husky Harris is a deep part of the lore, bro

The first real bad Wyatt shit I recall was the cage match with Cena that had the kid in the spotlight singing or whatever bullshit

He's a decent wrestler and can have good matches with good opponents, but his matches since probably after WM30 have had a big focus on fuckery spooky shit or otherwise gimmicky bullshit. Once that took over and had to escalate, everything he's been involved with for many years has pretty much been the worst shit of the year every year since.

Lol at Caster's blood money crack when AEW currently has about 20 people working for them that worked Saudi Shows, plus another 15 that popped in for a shot or short run at some point.

All things considered, it wasn't too bad because she kind of landed and slid instead of her head banging off the floor. I'm sure it was not good for any other part of her body but at least her head didn't seem to crack off the floor.

Couple of things I've noticed in pro wrestling in the year of our lord 2023: No one throws good kicks to the gut. Even people usually very snug are leaving a whole lot of air in between those kicks these days. A lot more talents doing thigh slaps for chops.

Juice Robinson is really good, Rock Hard Juice Robinson is the absolute shits.

I'd feel like a real asshole if there had to be an all hands on deck meeting, helmed by my son-in-law, to make sure everyone knows I'm not going to be in charge to fuck everything up again.

Did "imminent sale to Saudi Arabia" help the stock price

"The name on the contract does say Khan..." etc etc

"In the pool of potential buyers" could mean literally anyone in the world. I'm sure they'll inquire about the asking price just like Vince did when WCW first went up for sale, because that's just what you do when your top competitor goes up for sale. However, it would be incredible for Black Monday when Tony Khan opens up Raw, simulcast on TNT, saying he now owns WCW WWE.

The victory roll reversal into wheelbarrow piledriver into deadlift German would have been an incredible sequence to have actually ended the match. Does anyone have a two set of more violent looking moves than Toni Storm's corner ass attack and her short piledriver?

Show was awesome, except for the absolutely by the numbers literally predict exactly what every punchline before he said it MJF promo, and the JAS bullshit. Women's match did fall apart, but what Britt Baker match doesn't? Ladder match had some fucking insane bumps. TK reading these threads of people bitching about Bryan's booking and deciding to book him as The World Warrior for the next 8 weeks. There's enough top level talent from all over the world that Bryan can go right up to the PPV without facing two people from the same country.

A take: Disco Inferno is buried way, way too much online by both fans and other wrestlers. Guy was a very over mid card guy who was very dependable to have a solid to sometimes very good much with just about anyone from any division or size on the roster. Particular after returning in 1997 after that 6 month break or whatever when he came back leaned out and much more aggressive in the ring. I'm talking just about him as a performer in WCW, not anywhere else, and not in regards to any stupid shit he says on podcasts or tweets.

Dude is rad. Very strong 70s Jumbo vibes to me.

The idea of Vince being in charge but it no longer being his company seems completely antithetical to Vince McMahon's personality and vision. What makes more sense to me is that he wants to cash out and doesn't want to leave it to his family, of which he has publicly said he is disappointed in in regards to the business, fired his son, demoted HHH, and removed Stephanie from any creative position.

Casino ladder match to be replaced with King of The Mountain in 2023

Luckily they aren't on television and are in absolutely no way required viewing of any kind to enjoy the promotion. AEW doesn't run house shows. The talent on Dark aren't going to get their reps, particularly when it comes to working within TV time limits and hard cams. And a lot of the talents that pop up on Dark have little to no actual television experience. Same goes for Level Up, but there's nothing forcing anyone to watch them. They're tertiary web shows. You can completely ignore their existence.

Being mad about the dark shows existing is weird as hell. Like being mad that Jakked and Metal that aired at 2 am on Sunday morning existed.

For Vince and a pop culture gimmick, he's 10 years ahead of the curve on Rad Radford.

By the time Raven debuted in January 1995, Kobain was dead, Pearl Jam was basically blacklisted in the US due to the war with Ticketmaster, Soundgarden was winding down, AIC was on hiatus, and pretty much all genres of rock had completely fallen off the charts. The time for a timely grunge gimmick was definitely not 1995.

Which was why the WCW reveal that he actually was a try-hard cosplay by a rich kid hilarious. I'm pretty sure that actually was part of the character initially in ECW but was dropped early on. But anyway, the content and delivery of Raven promos were garbage. Even the grunge deal had peaked and was on the way out when the Raven character debuted in ECW. I've seen most of his ECW/WCW/WWE/ROH/early TNA work and I can't think of a single stand out Raven promo or promo that sold me on needing to see a Raven match. Luckily with the right guys he could have pretty solid matches at least for a while, but his promos always sucked.

The delivery is what sucks so much, though.