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There are already reports of AAA talent being told to learn English and work more American style, and Jeremy Borash is going to be co-booking with Konnan. It's a wrap.

Edward Carpentier getting a name drop during the NBA Playoffs in 2025 was wild

Shit I'd hope a TLC was better than most of WM because all but 3 matches across 2 nights of WM were dogshit

Bucks looking in the best condition of their careers. The luxury of working 3 times in 6 months. I'm all in on Kevin Knight. He could easily be the 2A Ospreay in AEW. Speedball also a delight. Great pick ups for AEW. As far as Josh Alexander, sure he's technically good at everything in the ring but he reminds me of John Walters as a copy of a copy. Does not stand out at all in any way.

Cage matches including War Games were set up from the floor for ages until probably like 2000ish

Even TNA won't bring him in for a full time run

Well it takes a different light when that forced curve ball came from the head of TKO asking him to do it. Last year definitely felt like Rock was dick swinging and taking over, this year TKO wanted him to do it again, he did, and HHH didn't swing on the pitch.

Makes you wonder what the original plan for WM was. It seemed the story was the weight of being the champ was getting to Cody and making him more and more aggressive and maybe even desperate to keep the title, perhaps snapping after losing the title to Cena in a face/face match. Within the context of what had gone on months before, Cody selling his soul to The Rock actually does make some sense, whether it be leaving it hanging at EC and doing it at WM itself in an Austin WM17 style turn. Instead all that stuff was pretty much dropped for 6 weeks and when given the chance to show something of what he did to KO, he pulls a Sting trusting Flair boner move in the main event of WM. Extra funny HHH telling the fans as critics to fuck off because he's the one leading the story, not us, now knowing there wasn't a story and Rock just let him flounder and then aired it out on TV 2 days after lmao

Rock goes on Pat Mac show 2 days after WM and basically confirms what everyone thought all along: There was no big long plan. Rock's involvement at EC was a request from Ari Emmanuel to juice EC tickets that were slower than expected. Rock came up with the idea for Cody's soul, HHH pitched Cena instead, they went with HHH's call and Rock said his job was done. Said he was leaving 6 weeks up to them to get cooking and building and his involvement would have taken away from Cena's win. He COULD have been at WM, but watched it at home on the couch. He also had effusive praise for Punk/Roman/Seth, but said he would have finessed a few things a bit better in Cody/Cena. RUTHLESS (passive) AGGRESSION.

The Cena we saw at WM vs the juiced to the tits Orton who avoids bumps that aren't the RKO is going to be absolute dogshit, regardless of the nostalgia or flip of alignments. Not literally as bad as Warrior/Hogan at Havoc, but that for this era.

I don't trust anything. Bron is about to get Ryback'd and be the one getting all the pins and gooned in this feud.

Even that is not necessarily the case. They've been low balling people and people have taken lower offers to go to WWE than stay with or go to TNA/AEW. WWE really made a lower offer for Jordyn Grace than TNA. They also made such a lower offer to Stephanie Vaquer compared to the AEW offer that they told her to take the AEW offer initially.

Sure. I don't disagree at all. I was just saying the difference in the top storylines when Paul Heyman is involved vs the one that don't involve him and are all HHH is significant.

That's how everyone has ever talked about him until like the CM Punk era of Paul Heyman Guy. Most who worked with him prior to 2015 still speak about him like that.

What. Those things come up about him literally anytime he's mentioned even on screen.

It seems both obviously and very clear that Paul Heyman has been the driving force of all this shit the last couple of years, because the rest of the show that he doesn't have his hands in in some way is unsatisfying mid stories and matches. Compare Cody vs Roman to Cody vs Cena. Punk/Seth/Roman to Seth against anyone the past 5 years. How completely rudderless all the Bloodline guys except Jacob Fatu are now that the angle is done and Heyman isn't with them.

I dunno, figure four and scorpion deathlocks popped up in original UWF. I'm pretty sure I've seen examples of wrestling fans in MMA do one or both. Def seen a shoot Boston crab before.

It's very funny he inserted himself into the storyline on like a week's notice, changed plans, and then just bailed completely and didn't even promote WM

All time fumble of an amazing angle. The match was literally just a normal Cena match but slower and him looking bored, no Rock involvement the entire storyline, the big fuckery is Travis Scott and a ref bump, and it is already built in that Cena will not be on TV for weeks/months.

Absolute inverse of night one where everything but the main event was good or really good and the main event sucked. 3 years of WM main event fuckery and that's the best they could come up? After a very dull match before hand? Side note: the total adverts for the show not counting in arena/ring/ringside and even the Peacock tiered ads: 70

Fucking lmao Iron Man skull mask

Hope whoever in the front row is okay because that was fucking hilarious

Disagree. It was supposed to be Raw, and the TNA having a feud on Raw for a few weeks with Miz, and maybe even dropping the title and then winning it back at a TNA PPV promoted by WWE seems way better deal than memeing your already meme world champ with a squash at WM and then having Orton meme his pose after the match, too.

Dying that TNA refused a Hendry/Miz feud but were okay with Orton squashing him with the Hendry meme into RKO, a second RKO after the match, and then Orton doing the Hendry meme into the Orton Pose. Absolutely hilarious.

The idea of the TNA Champ wrestling a WM match is pretty wild too. NXT is one thing, but it sure ain't WM.