Embrodak

Bland I just completely disagree with, he’s given me tons of entertainment over the years. Bland to me is Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, the Street Profits, Jay Lethal is perfectly acceptable as a performer. Sex pest I get, though I don’t think the claims against him were nearly as damning as most of the #SpeakingOut stuff if I’m remembering them correctly, but that’s not an indictment of him as a performer.

I have zero clue why Lethal, who is good to great at every aspect of wrestling, has such dedicated haters. Jarrett I at least get, though I truly think he’s the kind of guy who would have been a star if he’d come up ten or twenty years earlier, but Lethal? TNA must truly have an infinite stink for some people.

I don’t actually have an issue with the ending being messy like that, it was better-done than most AEW clusterfucks.

Lethal and Jarrett are both excellent, I have no issue with it.

I don’t think AEW has much of a wellness policy. Maybe a well drink policy based on Jericho’s physique.

The Acclaimed are working too much like heels so far.

Moxley has so much more charisma than Page it’s crazy. And I don’t even like Moxley.

Did Moxley drop multiple F bombs there? My stream juddered like crazy.

I think we’re fooling ourselves if we think charity is anything other than propaganda for the bourgeoisie *as a class, on the whole*, but I also think you drive yourself crazy trying to map group incentives onto individual motivations because they just don’t line up properly.

Charity is bullshit altogether, but it’s what we have to address social problems, unfortunately. I don’t think Jericho is especially cynical, but I do think that it behooves us to understand that it’s not an accident that charitable donations are made by policy to align with the material self-interest of the wealthy. Jericho is not mega-rich nor a corporation, though. He’s making those donations on his phone, possibly drunk (Chrus Jericho is certainly a drunk dialing-type mistake). There’s no need to overthink it.

*Hulk Hogan Chronology Intensifies*

See I think Theory is fantastically talented, good to great at basically every aspect of pro wrestling at a very young age. There are tons of Trips guys that I don’t get, but Theory has basically everything you could want.

I have a feeling I know which people in the locker room you have some contact with, if you do indeed have contact.

What if it’s Tyrus

I’d really like to see Bryan vs Jarrett, but Jarrett unfortunately had instant go-away heat with the AEW crowd.

I like Solo, but I’d prefer Jacob Fatu in the role. Solo is just such a smol bean.

The fact that the new Vince book has a positive plug from Rick Perlstein has my antennae up.

Bryan has earned my faith that he can wrestle a “good match”, but I think he’s stuck in an early 2000s mindset where he’s just interested in how far he can push that, conceptually. The market is glutted with “good matches”, what’s at a premium these days are matches that either have real stakes or that are between genuine stars. Not everyone can successfully do the latter two, but Danielson can.

Yeah that’s really my thing, BD is the best wrestler in the world and I’m less invested in him than when his storyline was that the Bella twins were idiots and thought vegan and virgin were the same thing. And he was the best he’s ever been just a year ago!

I think there’s just a lot of overall frustration with Danielson and with TK’s presentation of Danielson. Him against MJF is a chance to rehab him after getting marooned on Blackpool Island in the Sea of Jericho for so long, yet here he is in the middle of that, in his hometown that he was kept out of Japan’s biggest event of the year to appear in, wrestling a preliminary guy he has no real heat with and who has a minimal fan following.

Acknowledging geopolitical reality and not pissing off a big market ain’t simping.

Charlotte is over-pushed, but she’s objectively better than Ronda, and since got the weird Liv Morgan stanning out of our systems, they can focus on building a legit opponent for Charlotte.

LA Knight rocks, the fuck is your problem

Let’s be real, Tony Khan could do this for 30 years and prob still be basically an e-fed guy at heart.

Middling ratings again this week, 876,000. I’m interested to see how they redo the look, but it definitely seems like the dedicated audience has shrunk.