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WWE doing the reverse Rome - exit Dominus, enter Princeps.

Why the fuck was Tony Khan wearing a weird Afro wig and Elton John sunglasses glasses at a press scrum on a day where one of his biggest stars had just been accused of sex pestery? It’s like a gag from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

This is not the worst sexual excess in wrestling history by a long shot, but Chris Jericho, a multi-decade veteran and genuine star who clearly has pull with Tony Khan and has at times seemed like effectively an EVP in all but name, should not be tricking young women much lower on the company totem pole into private meetings so he can try to fuck them.

Honestly, I think Lee needs to consider retiring. Since his Covid diagnosis, he has only intermittently had “it” in the ring (and only really in shorter matches where he doesn’t have to bump much), and he seems to be having a ton of trouble staying in shape and keeping healthy.

People are saying rumors about Jericho being a sex pest have been around since the early 2000s, but idk how credible that is.

And all this because he got mad at Corny and Punk’s lawyer at 4 in the morning on Christmas.

Eddie vs Dragon and the post-match promo were a little bit masturbatory but still slapped, Statlander vs Skye Blue was fine, everything else was mediocre to bad. They need to end this Devil shit on Saturday before it does any more damage and get the belt off MJF ASAP. I don’t really see what others see in Swerve, but the dude clearly has the hot hand right now. This tournament being the Eddie Kingston Weeaboo Jamboree instead of Swerve’s Coming Out Party seems like a spectacular misuse of television time, but maybe I’m crazy.

That was a good promo battle between Eddie and Mox, but the whole thing is a silly arc for the tournament to take imo.

Absolutely abysmal bat swings by Jericho following a silly sports entertainment segment with Don Callis.

If there’s one thing Jon Moxley needs, it’s legitimation in the eyes of the fans. He’ll certainly benefit from a match against Eddie Kingston or Bryan Danielson, it won’t at all be an example of a top guy engaging in masturbatory spot preservation.

Alexander Hammerstone finished up with MLW. Idk if WWE are interested in indie wrestlers right now, but he’d be a good addition for either AEW or WWE.

Lol Jericho up drunk at 4:30 in the morning on Christmas yelling at Punk and Steel’s lawyer on Twitter. Merry Christmas!

Page had one absolutely fantastic babyface promo before he won the world title. Dude has it in him in spurts, but he can’t keep it up consistently. My prediction would be that Swerve beats MJF, then feuds with Will Ospreay.

The ratings are not doing very well, there’s a YOY decline in 20 of the last 22 weeks. They need to get the title off MJF if he’s just gonna fuck around hurt with dudes in devil masks, and as much as some people might like the tournament, it appears to be doing more harm than good in terms of retaining the audience. Get the title on Swerve and figure out a hot feud for him ASAP.

Well I’m not as into the AEW house style as some, so I’m probably an unrepresentative person to include in the sample. I will say, my dad is pushing 70 and when I complained about too many near falls in the Mox/White match, he said, “Oh, that’s all they do on AEW!” Mox and White at least had some energy and no gratuitous bleeding from Mox, I enjoyed that match somewhat, and I would have enjoyed Briscoe/Lethal more if there hadn’t been the trapping of “Who’s going to have more than zero points in the tournament” weighing it down.

Hey why do NXT backstage angles have this weird juddering quality like they’re being filmed on a camera with a low frame rate? Is it just something weird with the lighting?

That was not a good episode of Dynamite, but Moxley vs White was aight, albeit way overreliant on near falls as usual for AEW. Komander is startlingly incompetent. I do not get Toni Storm doing a bad Norma Desmond impersonation, and I cannot imagine wanting to see Riho ever. Briscoe vs Lethal was fine, they’re both extremely competent workers, but kinda weird to be told from the outset that a match is basically meaningless. Rush vs Swerve was mediocre. MJF as a weird tweener babyface in an incomprehensible Black Scorpion-type storyline has completely ruined him. Hope a few weeks of pops for childish comedy segments with Adam Cole was worth it! I’m sure glad MJF will be here for three more years!

I wouldn’t mind it if it was Ridge building himself up as a heel and being like, “Yeah, I broke his neck, and I’ll break yours, too!” Doing it with him being weepy and sullen in the corner and the announcers not saying anything is just cheesy and melodramatic.

“Tavion Heights” is as WWE a name as I’ve ever heard, but he seems reasonably talented.

I more just meant the basics. They’ve got some good double teams, power moves, but things like strikes, selling, etc they still have a fair bit of learning to do.

Creed brothers have potential, but they still come across as pretty green to me. Hope they work a bunch of house shows and get their reps in.

I like Kaiser and Vinci, I hope they get built up as non-goons.

Guys with a ton of muscles look really cool, man.

Apparently PWInsider reported that WBD did in fact request a meeting with WWE to discuss buying Raw broadcast rights, so we may in fact be in the funny timeline where CM Punk believing, justly or falsely, that the Bucks started or enabled a rumor about him retaliating against Colt Cabana’s TV presence led to AEW losing their major network partner.

I forgot the circumstances, please forgive me wrassle gods.