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For fuck's sake, Ishii is injured and off the show

I tried this out because I've been doing house remodeling and ran out of podcasts and just kind of got tired of my normal rotation of shows. I don't listen to wrestling podcasts, never liked Conrad, always thought Double J was trash outside of MMA Double J and that stretch of aging Southern babyface guy towards the end (?) of his TNA run. Can not believe I'm enjoying a Double J podcast.

Mox as the tough guy shooter dude started with his first NJ run and it was weird then, and has stayed weird. It got further played into with Bloodsport stuff, but there might not be another guy at his level with more open space and garbage looking strikes other than The Miz. Crazy tough guy deathmatch dude who will fight to the death, sure, but it has been portrayed like he's a top tier shooter type. Being part of something called a combat club that started on mutual respect of pro wrestling violence makes sense to me, as Moxley's presentation in AEW is less shooter guy and more crazy bar brawler guy. Also yes, bored Moxley/Ambrose is terrible and it's hard to think of a guy so clearly phoning it in so often as there's been multiple year stretches in WWE and a year or so in AEW as well.

Brother Love is the guy to dethrone Roman

You're all wrong. Goldy is for Goldust, not Goldberg.

Stand Up For WWE, Again!

lmao the fuck

Trying to pop a rating out of this by having Vince announced for TV the same day as announcing he's stepping down while the investigation goes on is perhaps the most carny shit Vince has pulled since the Melanie Pillman interview

Ortiz was completely bald when he came back out later in the show though

Jungle Boy should graduate to long tights

How much bigger than Shingo is Miro, because that sounds like an incredible match on paper to me. Thinking about what NJ talent is still open: All of LIJ Goto KENTA Ishimori EVIL

I think it implies some people in the company thinks some shit is about to go down and sold off stock, which I guess is possibly insider trading

I was sports entertained, although the bloom is off the rose with Wardlow. You've got to start putting him in real matches where he's doing surprising cool shit instead of just powerbombs. Ladder match had some real crazy stuff. Nick Jackson really carries the Bucks. Ospreay vs Dax was awesome. Forbidden Door seems weird but I think it was always going to end up being a weird show based on the depth imbalance between the companies. It will be some real shit if Okada and Bryan aren't on the show. Bryan is injured but ZSJ did challenge him for the show so I have to think that wouldn't have happened if Bryan wasn't going to be ready by then. Okada skipping seems much weirder. There's still a week and a half to fill out the card and presumably half the show won't have any angles or storylines heading into it, so just putting cool matches together with what remains of each roster shouldn't be that hard. On the other hand, consider how NJ usually handles joint shows in Japan. Forbidden Door could be eight six/eight man tags.

It'd be truly incredible if Steph left because of this and HHH leaked the story. However, something like this has come up about Vince every few years for like 40 years now, and while the culture and atmosphere is different now, I'm pretty confident nothing will come out of it for Vince.

I've never seen a Shafir match in NXT or AEW that hasn't had a few weird, ugly spots

NJPW Strong doesn't count come on man

On AEW TV?

Putting Ishii in a 4 way instead of running Ishii vs Eddie or Miro is some real shit

Okada is going to be in a CHAOS/Best Friends tag against Andrade Family Office leftovers

Okada towering over Cole like he's facing Marko Stunt

I'd like to see someone bring back Verne Gagne's running shoulder block back body drop. It kind of evolved into the front chopblock sold by the guy doing a flipping bump, but Verne's version was way cool and would get a big reaction.

I had a torn labrum. Took about a year before I could even fully lift my arm above my head without feeling like something was going to burst.

I think the main complaint about the booking is that there have only been a handful of actual storylines going on, one of them is bad and no one likes it, and an overreliance on tournaments and gimmick matches. Most shows in the past month or two straight up feel like EWR auto generated card. TK is clearly spread too thin and needs some help with booking and creative. You can only do the lights out ECW surprise debut and random international stars with no angles or storylines like 1997 Nitro so many times. I don't think it has anything to do with Dynamite not overtaking Raw in TV ratings.

I think if we're being fair, that applies to all but like maybe 5 people on TV in American pro wrestling in 2022.

The last month or so has been pure EWR booking