Hollinger.

Yeah, you originally freaked me out when you said that weight, because I couldn't picture Iceberg being that much bigger than the last time I watched him.

Giggity.

Kozina was really pretty good back in the day, but the early 2000 indy explosion kind of left him behind. We spent a good 15 minutes talking about guys from the NW scene on Friday night and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy who loved what he did and enjoyed talking about it with people who cared. It's difficult to reconcile that with what happened over the rest of the weekend. Shit, every one of them were fantastic to have in the locker room on Friday, even Davey, other than spending a lot of time bragging about his... conquests.

The situation has been resolved. Not sure how, but that's what Jeremy says. And I'd love for us to bring Eddie in, but I'm guessing trans from the NE is probably too heavy for a guy at that level.

Of course it's "about money". Nearly everything comes down to money. What he's saying is ultimately he doesn't care about the money because he can afford it and life goes on. He's saying the reason he's getting word out now is he wants everyone to know these dudes are scam artists.

No, it's about four professionals taking advantage of a promoter that never had to deal with this before. There's a big difference between compensating someone you told didn't have to show up and having those people show up, tell you they're going to work and run off with the money. If you can't tell the difference, I don't know what to tell you. It's about respect and professionalism.

So you're just arguing semantics and don't have a real point.

I can tell you he had every intention of compensating them for travel had they not shown up. There were a lot of hot heads yesterday, though, so who knows what was communicated. From what I was privy to of the text conversations through the day, both sides probably could have handled everything better.

Pearce is a great dude. One of the most professional guys I've ever encountered in a locker room.

From the promoter on FB

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From what he was saying the other night, he's finishing paramedic school soon. Don't know anything about the PT gig.

As far as I know, O'Reilly is the only one who has stayed quiet about the whole thing. He seemed like a good kid. Richards & Kozina are making the biggest asses of themselves. Not that KOR wasn't involved in the bullshit.

Last I heard, him and Kozina are both booked next weekend. I think Richards being done is totally separate thing. He was shit talking them Friday night, and that shoot interview clip that was floating around this weekend makes it seem like something else was up.

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Meanwhile nearly every reference to it on Facebook from someone involved gets a bunch of responses from the four of them tagged #TeamBandit and other shit, basically bragging about getting away with it. Calls have been made to ROH and Sinclair, but apparently Richards has been done with ROH for a few weeks now and is not being brought back.

I can shed some light... The company I work for (3XW) helped a couple smaller local groups book Richards, Kozina, O'Reilly and one of their flunkies for a triple shot this weekend. They worked for us Friday night. Everything went perfectly smooth. They were totally professional and already asking about coming back to work for us again. Saturday night, I wasn't at the show. They set up camp outside the locker room, talking shit about everyone and everything involved with the show. Kozina went out for his match with Ryan, who is 16/17 years old, and told him he was changing the plan, and was going to teach him about respect. I haven't watched the video yet, but everyone I've talked to said he roughed the kid up, and legitimately choked him out in the finish. Sunday afternoon, we show up at the venue and find the promoter, a friend of mine, pissed off. The show starts in 20 minutes and none of them have arrived. Davey has been texting him all day and is now demanding to change the card and put the four of them in an 8 man tag. Jeremy has already changed up the card for them multiple times through the day, but will not take them all out of separate matches, because of promises made to other workers, to the fans, and the price that had been negotiated for 4 separate matches. Show starts, Jeremy goes out and breaks the news to the crowd that they won't be on the show, and life goes on. They finally do show up at the building before the main event goes on and demand to speak to Jeremy. He takes the issue out of the locker room and goes outside to meet them. They threaten to kick Jeremy's ass (and he's all of 140 pounds soaking wet) if he doesn't give them their money. He finally works out a deal that KOR and DR will work for a slightly reduced fee in the main event. He pays them upfront as a gesture of good faith (trying not to piss them off further, or get his ass kicked). They change into their gear and work out the plan for the match. As they're doing that, their stooge trainee is quietly running their bags back out to their truck. "Where's the wrist tape?" "Oh, I left it in the truck. Be right back." They run out the back door, into a waiting car with Kozina behind the wheel, the promoter out $350 mostly from his own pocket.

The year Ross wasn't a grumpy hateful piece of shit at the Hall of Fame tryouts session. He even had a lot of good things to say about some of the guys. And I stole an empty bag of Senor J.R.'s Mexicana Style Beef Jerky that he walked away from. Gonna try to clone him.

Last night's PPV was a lot of fun.

I am pretty sure that as an Al Isaacs headline.

I'm not talking about putting him over, I mean literally taking the beating that Brock was giving Cena.