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Nattie has absolutely zero charisma or presence whatsoever. She's been around for what feels like 15 years and I can think of maybe 5 matches that stand out for good or bad over her entire run.

That's the thing: Cage isn't a superheavyweight. He's probably the same size as Jim Powers.

I don't think WWE was hitting 200k outside of the Big Four since like 2003-2005. And even then, some of the big four weren't hitting 200k buys in the last couple of years before the Network.

Larry Zbyzsko in the Nitro era has to be the most unlikable commentator that wasn't an explicitly heel commentator meant to intentionally annoy the shit out of you (like 2011 Cole, later stage JBL, Corey Graves at various times, Mark Madden). It's not even that he's constantly putting himself over and very often outright burying talent for no apparent reason, but he's just such an asshole all the time. There's the questionable commentary that frequently had racist, sexist, homophobic, or once in a while even transphobic statements even nominally being a face or at least neutral commentator. I'm not even talking about that stuff. I'm talking about the constant talk of the virtue of MANLINESS and being a real tough guy, yet when The Outsiders come to the booth to fuck with him and Tony, he never defends Tony, even when Nash more or less threatens to break Tony's neck just so his kids won't have their dad be able to pick them up the rest of their lives. And when Tony says fuck this shit and leaves the set, Larry spends the rest of the hour calling Tony unprofessional and unmanly for leaving. Now, Larry was a former world champion wrestler, a multiple times black belt in various martial arts. Tony is just an announcer, never been a wrestler or combat athlete. Larry just stands by and lets them threaten his partner like that and then calls the guy a pussy for not wanting to be out there anymore. And then like a week later, Lee Marshall actually does get attacked by wrestlers at WW3, and Larry just stands by and lets it happen, then talks shit about him shortly after. I have no idea how this guy, at that stage in his career as an announcer, got so over with the crowds. Because he said New World ODOR and ED WOOD Hogan 85 times an hour? Dude is significantly more unlikable as a neutral to face announcer than he was as the ultimate chickenshit stooge heel wrestler.

They didn't do a very good job of following when Dynamite has been preempted despite telling the audience all show what time and day the next show is on

About the only bit of good fortune for NJPW in the past year and a half

I think it's likely that Dynamite will overtake Raw for the first time in the next 3-6 months based on their momentum and Raw's viewership declining. They're going to intersect before too long, imo. I don't think that Dynamite will have an 83 week or whatever win streak, but the time is coming that another show is going to be outdoing Raw in the ratings from time to time again. Hope the move to TBS doesn't fuck their momentum.

I just want to lol that Adam Cole kept putting over himself, Kenny, and the Bucks repeatedly in that promo and didn't once mention Gallows and Anderson even being part of the group

Those fucks could never compare to the entertainment value of Stevie Ray and Virgil fighting over leadership of something no one in the main group gives even the slightest shits about. Let alone dudes like Norton.

Would 100% watch 67 year old Tully vs 62 year old Sting live on TNT in 2021

Hayter seems like she thinks she's stronger than she actually is.

Cincinnati (outside of about 3 blocks down town) and Ohio in general are absolutely dogshit. Skyline is heavy dogshit. River Front and Great American Ball Park are/were great places, though.

His act doesn't make much sense since he keeps showing up to AEW shows and is given a mic and time on shows so

Arn turning on Dustin got a huge pop, and so did Flair turning on Sting in 1995.

Cody hasn't been associated with any of The Elite since like...the very first episode of the pandemic era. Since then he's formed his own stable independent of them, which itself had a spin off of, and now apparently retired.

Man had a heart attack because Vince killed his baby

Pretty Wonderful was a great team, Roma was very miscast as a Horseman but really thrived as a dickhead pretty boy heel mid card tag guy.

1. Sting has always been cool because he's always seemed authentic to himself, be it as a super amped up super hero face, or mopey Crow dude, or Joker Sting, or even main event mafia Steve Borden. He also just seems like a legit cool ass dude that everyone has always enjoyed working with besides maybe Vampiro but fuck Vampiro he sucked anyway and I have to think he had to be a real shithead for Sting to go out of his way to make him look bad. 2. I can imagine WWE doesn't think Adam Cole is a big loss, actually, but Bryan lol. Of course he's a big loss. They've done everything to keep him on TV and in top roles since his return even throwing him into the WM main event this year knowing his contract was ending and were actually going to let him do some outside work to keep him. But it's SOP for WWE to be as petty as possible beyond a "best of luck in their future endevours" tweet, which I don't think any of the contract expiring guys ever get anyway. They're definitely not going to go out and say losing DB is a big loss under any circumstances other than permanent retirement or sudden death.

Just get Jimmy Hart in to do knock off versions for a ham and cheese sandwich, Tony.

Literally everyone else that's ever been in the top position in the past 20 years has been blamed for killing the ratings so of course it doesn't hold up. The ratings have been on a pretty much straight decline since the night after WM 17 and no one has made any significant impact for any sustained period since. But Seth Rollins really killed ratings.

I don't believe it is. He said this is something he didn't just decide over night, it's something he's been mulling and working towards for a long time. He came in not even in as good of shape as he did for his UFC fights, and he's come back around the same time that other guys older than him have come back with the same time off or longer and looked to be in way way better shape and performing as good or better than they did the last time they were in the ring. Christian is as good as ever, in phenomenal shape, he's older, had more mileage on him to begin with. Edge came back in literally the best shape of his career, and while I don't like those Orton matches, his work this year with Roman and Bryan has been some of the best work he's ever done in the ring, imo. Sting is 62 and while I will grant you he's been protected and in tags, dude was moving better than he was the past few years of his TNA run. It's not JUST how he looked in the ring. Everything about him felt like an entire generation behind and it was weird.

I think there's a ton of revisionist history for both his in ring work and character/promo work. Love his 1998 WCW run, but god damn his first WWE is just unbearably annoying promos as a heel or face. His in ring work is never, ever at the level of the Radicalz or Rey or even RVD or Christian from the same period and beyond. As soon as Jericho turns heel in 2001, dude is instantly so stale and dull and stays that way all the way up to his suit days and feud with HBK and then that also got super stale again the rest of that run, and then god every time he's come back since has been basically just old Dolph Ziggler.

Bryan only did the vegan thing for a couple of months like a decade ago now and people still think he is because Vince had Michael Cole make fun of him for it on TV all summer

So after months of a blood feud, Jericho putting his whole career (in AEW) on the line so he could get his hands on MJF, who had been ducking him and refusing a match with him without a bunch of bullshit, is no longer a blood feud? I don't really understand the logic here. The feud didn't deescalate. Jericho put his career on the line. That only happens in blood feuds in American wrestling. I guess because it wasn't some bloody gimmick match or something maybe?

It's literally a blood feud, bro. It was just like 2 months ago that both of them were covered in blood atop a War Games cage and MJF tried to murder Jericho. Jericho has repeatedly try to smash MJF's head in with a baseball bat. The Inner Circle vs Pinnacle has been on sight blood feud all year, with MJF/Jericho being the core and most heated part of it. I don't really have a problem with them doing chain wrestling and cute spots and shit because both suck for different reasons, but it's most definitely been a blood feud.