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Excalibur is not a known commodity with me in the slightest, and I'm with CS here. The name is dumb for an announcer. AEW should be striving to be above doing stupid shit we saw on Raw and on indy shows.

Meltzer flat-out said on the front page of f4wonline that this was the plan all along and it's not because of Braun not being cleared.

Don't know how Jericho keeps doing it. That's match of the night so far.

I'm not sure who was arguing this, in a general sense. Or as a wise man once said, just because we don't care doesn't mean we don't understand.

Some of us are the farthest thing from indie fans, "extremely" or otherwise, but still have some vague interest in AEW, as I think my posts here will flesh out pretty conclusively. Are we allowed to be that?

Second question dodged. That'll do it for me, and I suspect anyone unfortunate enough to read this exchange.

How do you know that's what happened? Or should I say, that's *all* that happened? Do we know that Meltzer posted this blindly without shooting a text to Cody or a Young Buck, who we know he's close with?

You're the one who said Meltzer "fucked this up," so I figured I'd ask you instead. But you don't want to actually answer questions or elaborate, which seems to be your usual act after you say something provocative. News is not subject to copyright and nobody "owns" it. Meltzer could do a better job of naming sources or even saying, "according to a source close to the situation," that's been discussed, but he's not under any obligation to do so.

So did she sign or didn't she?

Fucked up how? She didn't sign?

Mrs. Adam Cole (or Adam's girlfriend/partner). Significant inasmuch as it signifies AEW is committed to having a women's division.

What Les did was arguably even worse than what sek is describing, which is that he Tweeted that, and then painted himself as the wronged virgin in white when responders asked him to name names or shut up, all while never actually naming any names. I say this as someone who neither knows nor cares who the fuck "Les Moore" is. But he wants to eat his cake and have it, too with regard to calling people out for being on the imaginary AEW consulting payroll.

This is the worst news since I found out my mother-in-law was moving in 6 months ago. "The actions of this Clown are deplorable." Only Gene could sell a line like that. RIP.

Stu was also credited with helping to lay out Bret and Owen's WM10 match.

Looks like the Nick release was asked for or at least mutual, as he has a child now living in Australia and wanted to stay closer to home. I'm sure when or if NXT Australia launches he'll be a focal point.

Doesn't appear to be anything there that wasn't in the AJPW Archive, no.

No, not going for a joke--whether I amuse you on a given day is so far down on the list of things I give a fuck about doing that it can't even be charted. No, that the WWF considers itself "sports programming" when it's convenient for them, despite blasting the term "Entertainment" in our faces at all other hours of the day, is a fact. Probably if they're too shitty to get any actual work elsewhere, which explains a lot about how WWE creative has operated for the past 15 years.

Except when there's a potential writer's strike, then magically they work for "sports programming" instead of entertainment and are exempt from being able to form/join a union. So in that sense, even if it's the "independent contractor" sense, they are ex TV writers. I just can't believe Rollins is Tweeting this stuff just a day or two after ripping Raw's content on television. I'm not going all BUT MUH KAYFABE here, but come on, can we at least try for a little consistency when most of the roster is trying to use Twitter to push storylines?

Another howler this afternoon: someone wrote in asking Keith about the rumored story of Verne Gagne paying Iron Sheik to break Hogan's leg. Keith rightfully dismissed it, but then acted all incredulous that anyone could possibly believe that IRON SHEIK, of all people, was some shooter. Of course Sheiky's grandiose amateur claims are somewhat dubious, but it's a known fact that he both wrestled and coached in the Pan American Games and went through Verne Gagne's boot camp. He wasn't an Olympian, but in an all-time free-for-all of former WWF/E Champions, I'll take prime Sheik against anybody outside of the Angle/Lesnar upper tier.

AJ's probably kind of a piece of shit too, but he and Lars aren't even in the same bigotry ZIP code.

Being in a multicultural environment didn't stop John Rocker from being a bigoted piece of shit, nor did getting older. I can only go by the facts, not speculation--and not empty "that wasn't who I am" boilerplate apologies, either.

He pledged support for a white-power band that sang about bringing about a second Holocaust and a member of which shot up that Sikh temple in Wisconsin. What more could you possibly need to see?

Yeah, no, not me either. I admit to laughing at some of what he said, but a majority of it was just the lamest hackiest shit imaginable. Ooh, Buddy Landel had a coke habit--what a refreshing take. Maybe that was edgy to say among sheet-readers in 1992 but here it came off about as sharp as a wet bowling ball. I dug in my heels and finished the show, but I'm with BigBadMick...maybe a quarter of a segment. Usually BTS is good at dialing back that stuff the following week, but Bix following that up this week with a minutes-long digression about a proper substitute word for "castration" wasn't one of the show's high points, either. Thank God for PocketCast's 30-second skip button. I know I'm a stick-in-the-mud on the subject because a little bit of Tom Green goes a long way with me too, and I know I'm in the decided minority on that.

I actually think it was somebody else--either Crow, Wolf, or Riggs of the tag team the Terminators, who were Eddie Sharkey guys who worked Windy City and a bit in Memphis.

Daddy is nowhere near Hogan's league as a worker. It's as big of a gap between Bret Hart and Mantaur, strictly in terms of between-the-bells work.