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I would expect he could keep his fucking yap shit at a wrestling convention while his son is still in developmental, but like I said, I know the Steiners are crazy and have terrible impulse control. If nothing else, this puts WWE in a position of having to not mention or promote Bron’s connection to his dad, Stephanie is certainly immersed enough in woke corporate social circles to think that much.

I know the Steiners are both batshit crazy, but you would think Rick cared enough about his son’s burgeoning career, his importance to it, and his newly renewed personal relevance as a result of it not to make a bigoted ass of himself in public. I guess reading Daily Wire and getting mad at phantoms is more important.

Cody was a weird egomaniac ending racism in America, putting himself through flaming tables, and getting Arn to tell him about shooting gang bangers with glocks in AEW. It does seem clear that he was the best backstage leader, but Tony wasn’t going to get anything salvageable out of him on-screen moving forward. He needs the strictures of a big company and careful handlers to get him to his current stratospheric level. I sincerely hope MJF jumps for the same reason. Haitch wouldn’t put him in a position to do weird promos about totaling a car while he was getting blown, or let him do that if he asked to.

Jesus, Mox ain’t gonna have a long career if he’s not smart enough to let doctors dictate his healthiness instead of shallow visual indicators like “is that guy walking funny”. Big E is fucking ready to go, by that logic!

Why would Dave not be at liberty to share something that was told to him anonymously? I get why Punk would have to take his post down if he was violating the talent handbook, but unless Dave really *is* on the AEW payroll like the Corny stand are always joking, why would he have to play footsy with that rule?

Also have we talked about how it’s extremely weird that TK would ask the person who is probably the highest paid guy in the company to wrestle when he wasn’t cleared? Like setting aside Meltzer’s deceptive reporting, why the fuck would you jeopardize a high ticket asset like that if you’re TK? Was he listening to the Jericho-Moxley brain trust telling him that it was fine since it wasn’t a “real” match?

Depends on if you think those people deserve to have problems taken with them or not!

WWE handing people canned scripts written by writers certainly doesn’t help.

Dom still needs to figure out how to infuse his promos with emotion. He’s got the body language down, but he still sounds like an Ed Wood protagonist delivering the scripted lines.

Punk being a shitposter with a short fuse is basically his gimmick at this point, I say go all in!

Because he’s eligible to come back soon, so (probably) Jericho is trying to poison the well for him coming back by telling the Sheetz that he lawyered up to avoid doing a job.

Edit: nvm, misread.

I’m super intrigued by the book, if only because of that fucking subtitle and the Rick Perlstein blurb.

LA Knight ain’t no goofball, it’s a crying shame that he’s been set up so thoroughly for failure with as much talent as he has. Don’t really understand how anybody is a Ricky Starks fan but thinks LA Knight sucks; extremely similar performers imo!

Yeah but that’s Baron Corbin. Rey vs Dom has some inherent pathos, and Dom went from “nepo baby welfare case” to “hmm, there’s something here, definitely better than Baron Corbin” pretty damn quickly!

Has there been any talk about Dom vis Rey being a retirement match for Rey? He’s not getting any younger, and it would set Dom up for a long time if he took Rey away from the fans. Would make sense if Rey was going in the HoF because he’s about to hang it up.

MJF doing an in-ring bar mitzvah feels like an audition for WWE.

I am absolutely happy that Hobbs is a champion, but an unmotivated falls count anywhere match and a bizarre interference by QT was not the way to do it.

He’s a gentlemen trying to bring black issues and perspectives to the very white world of Left-ish YouTube commentary, and he did a video about how many “cancellations” (sorry, lack of a better term) in that space are less about objective harm and creating accountability than about parasocial grudges and drama for drama’s sake.

This out a visual in my head of Dave doing a cross body off of a balcony, and it made me smile.

Yeah the drink thing, okay, I get why it upset people, but literally everything else in that post is just MJF being his edgelord, always-working self and pretty much exactly what most people *want* from an interaction with him. That post reminds me of the recent FD Signifier video about Breadtube drama, where he points out that any sufficiently popular online person has a litany of haters just waiting to use some kind of controversy as an opportunity to post long lists of every “problematic” thing they ever did to prove they were a shitty person all along. AEW has been prominently featuring MJF for four years; going to any event they host, and definitely going to any event *featuring* him, absolutely implies a Gallagher-type implied consent that he might fuck with you in a mildly offensive way. Whether that stuff is at all a *good* way to get heat is a separate question from the fraught, ever-metastasizing debate about consent.

“Fedora” reference in 2023, and to *that* post, just unbelievable. To use a more contemporary way-too-online reference, touch some grass, dude.

I have to imagine Bron is closer to being called up, but honestly, the main roster needs both of them, so idk. Should have put the title on Waller, let Bron and Melo debut after WM.

Very sad that Jimmy turned on Sami, unless it’s a double agent type of deal.

Dude, I phrased that shit as nicely and diplomatically as I possibly could. If you want less nice, I could say you’re acting like the crunchy parent version of Helen Lovejoy, and I’m very glad I was raised by parents who taught me to take things proportionately. *Nobody* here is saying that what MJF did was a good or smart thing to do, but I do not want to live in your version of society where “how dare he assault that child” is the general reaction. My dad would have been pissed if a wrestler did that to me, but if the wrestler and the company apologized and made it right, he would have encouraged me not to overreact or nurse a grudge *and would have been correct to do so*. I’m done indulging this, peace.