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Except early on he was billed from parts unknown. SF came later.

He's the guy who declared flat-out that Mercedes Mone was #AllElite, so I guess we'll get a hint tomorrow night one way or the other. I asked about him on another board discussing the Sasha situation, because I'd never heard of him. Bix replied to me: "Reporter for DAZN. Better known long term for MMA reporting but has a good track record with his AEW reporting. And DAZN is a distributor of AEW content in some countries, so there's also that wrinkle."

Unless the Saudis just decide to go full LIV/Ronaldo and offer hundreds of millions of dollars to guys to jump.

Ricky is correct. The Chili Peppers would also be in that group--and none of the bands he or I mentioned sounded like each other. The "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons aired in May 1996. It was more about "alternative" than "grunge" but it was still absolutely a thing. Grunge was a subculture of alternative just like NIN's industrial, the Pumpkins' psychedelia/dream-pop, Alanis' "adult alternative"/singer-songwriter/Lilith Fair scene, Green Day's punk, and the Chili Peppers' funk-rock. They were all different but still all under the same larger umbrella as Pearl Jam, and they were all huge in the mid-to-late '90s and some of them huge well into the 2000s. And then there's the alt-folkies, the alternative rap scene, the Neil Young/Tom Waits/Bob Dylan codgers/elder statesmen...my alt-rock radio station played all of those acts. I have to say, when I went through the '90s Yearbooks, my opinion of Raven ended up being more positive than negative. Sometimes his promos and matches were overlong and overbooked to shit but I generally found him to be at least interesting more often than not-interesting. Maybe all the negative comments I'd read from Loss and others in the reviews lowered my expectations, but he was a pleasant surprise in the end.

He was one of the Suit Brigade and would show up in the background for contract signings and whatnot, but Okerlund actually addressed him as "Mr. Dillon" which is one of the very rare instances of him being acknowledged by name. (Another was Pillman's contract signing.)

Superficial though it may be, I can't support ZSJ as a worker just because of his horrible "European Clutch," a bastardization of one of my favorite old-school spots that shows that while he knows the WOS notes, he still can't play the music.

I understand why he did it, but a.) vigilantism still needs to be enforced as a crime, because b.) he endangered possibly dozens of other people and shot the wrong guy.

Corgan was a control freak even before the Pumpkins really blew up. He played most of the guitar and bass parts on Siamese Dream (which was their breakthrough album), though he did at least have the humility to keep Jimmy Chamberlain on the drums.

Well then, what the fuck are we watching for? Isn't one of the criticisms we're levying Tony that he needs to be a boss and not a buddy? Of course I don't want a bunch of toxic miserable fucks back there because that can have an adverse affect on the shows, too, but seriously, there has to be a better way to boost locker room morale and maybe book an entertaining show at the same time. Like, Moxley's great post-All Out promo on Dynamite was a way to accomplish both things. Oh, and the match sucked, too.

Those injuries and departures would be more palatable if Tony wasn't so steadfast in his commitment to "long-term booking" and would fucking pivot once in awhile. Instead we have storylines put on hold forever because of Rey Fenix's elbow or--as it appears with Miro--Malakai Black's absence. Sometimes you have to chalk up the moment as being lost and move on to something else.

Probably trying to get an "in" to see if they can buy it out like they tried the first time they wanted to set up NXT Japan.

"Ask why you are being shown something, who is providing it and the possible agenda behind it. " You could say the same thing for pretty much every Rosa story to break in the past 6 months, too.

Hasn't she kind of already done that by bragging about how she showed up to work even when she was hurt, including with a concussion? "Hypocritical" probably isn't the exact right word considering it's Cole who's taking time off and not her, but she stuck her foot in her mouth regardless.

There's an artistic element to the WON HOF that goes beyond just hard numbers and Cornette comfortably passes that.

One complication from a negotiating standpoint that Dave reported is that Prichard and Brisco went over to Japan right after the Austin-Tyson story broke, so newspapers and magazines that normally wouldn't give the WWF the time of day outside of a token What's Happening Overseas column had footage of the confrontation plastered all over the covers like Austin was the biggest star in the country.

He and Tiger Mask were licensed, as far as I know.

If he'd gone into full-bore wrasslin' I'm 100% convinced he would have been a much better worker and star than Tony Halme, with a similar dynamic. His showmanship and cockiness made him stand out as a star in RINGS and his matches were usually worth watching for that reason alone. No chance at a top 100 because the total output just isn't there and as fun as he was it just wasn't a Volk Han-like peak. But if we did a top 200 or 250 I might use a personal pick on him for last place.

Hogan literally changed the first WW3 finish as the guys were lining up to go out for the match, so no, it doesn't seem like bullshit to me at all.

I don't get the in-ring reasons for the Lethal hate either. Maybe because I so rarely watched ROH that I didn't get a chance to get sick of him. That was the worst MJF promo since his horrid shoot promo (and boy has THAT aged horribly in hindsight now that it's been rendered completely irrelevant). Just LOUD NOISES in lieu of content for a character who's retrogressed. And I'm officially over Stokely Hathaway--he sucks, his promo sucked, his booking sucks, and the Firm sucks. The women's booking was just absolutely laughable, like a self-parody of bad TK booking. Danielson and Jericho basically saved this show. Tony has to look at every women's segment he books involving the Women's Champion and ask himself, before he inks it into the format sheet: "Would I do this to my men's World Champion?" If the answer is "no," then he needs to come up with something else.

Okay, then let's call out Regal for being arrogant, too. Can we at least be consistent with this?

He was/is probably less of an asshole about it, but Regal has tweeted publicly that some guys in AEW are too busy on their phones when they should be studying and seeking advice when in the locker room. Punk may be an asshole but he may not be wrong about this per se.

Okay, gotcha. "Other wrestlers" would include Rosa, so until we get some hard substantiation I'm writing that off.

"Been mentioned" where? Because it's been reported by Dave and Sapp that there was "no heat" on Storm for her comments, and AEW was still quite explicit that she was still an "Interim" champion last night.