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Thanks for WCW, Billionaire Ted.

This is straight mafia shit. The morale in the locker room must be really awesome right now... Well, I'm guessing the more it goes, the more the WWE people will only be totally brainwashed marks who are willing to be completely humiliated for their "childhood dream", so hey, maybe it is. But anyone with a functioning brain should tell them to fuck right off. The only goal of WWE is to drop salaries for their "superstars" and destroy bargaining power. But guess what, I'm sure in the long term, this kind of shit is gonna destroy the perception of WWE being a worthwhile destination for actual talent who are not completely stupid. (and Dwayne showed up at that ridiculous fashion gala with a 3 million dollars watch. Jeeez. Way to read the fucking room)

Booker is the worst. Not only his co-worker but a COUPLE co-workers. And yeah, I'll shitpost about it because I'm no one on a pro-wrestling forum. But your co-workers, wife and husband, get released and lose their income at the same time and you talk shit ? The day Booker gets cut, and unless he knows where bodies are buried (which I doubt, because he's an idiot) it's gonna happen, karma is gonna be such a bitch. He's also the worst color guy ever. I'd rather listen to Mark Madden. I have no idea how people even watch NXT.

Seeing Cesar Duran (TFAKA Dario Cueto) doing his heel promoter bit at Arena Mexico certainly is a fun side note for old LU fans. That MLW joint show really was like the crappiest Fantastica Mania you can think of. Main event was cool. Fun to see KUSHIDA finally change his look after all this years.

Enjoy your 50% paycut, bumping ass mark.

Honestly I have no idea. But he's very much linked with the NXT B&G era which was all about the indie darlings putting together bangers and all, and he really got his footing calling NJPW at first. He strikes me as a guy who really loves that kinda style. The only thing for sure is that he really loves hip-hop. I mean you never know. It's like all this dumb as fuck discourse about Meltzer ruining wrestling because he pushed evil workrate and shit (I swear I read the *stupidest* thing EVER a few month back and I'm not even gonna mention it because I feel truly embarrassed for the person) whereas if you pay actual attention to what he says, Meltzer's favorite wrestling is actually CMLL because the atmosphere reminds me of his youth and really solid and safe, matwork based matches like Tanahashi vs ZSJ which really was his favorite pairing for years.

Aww come one now ! 🤣 Considering his history, I would say a lot that you don't actually enjoy apparently. 😎 I saw what you did here. A deep cut too. (I mean, for how long was he even in TNA ?) But yeah. Plus it's a way to try and fuck over Kofi, as alone he would obviously have less value than as the act. So fucking petty. I very much doubt he would accept. He's got tons of gamer friends in AEW, Kenny Omega to begin with, so there's plenty of VG stuff he could do over there too eventually.

Yeah, I remember you said the same thing with R-Truth. I have no words 🤣. (well, I have but... well, nevermind, let's say it's just cheap trolling and let this die already) I know Mauro Ranallo would be ashamed though. 😎 Anywoo, that's neither here nor there anyway, nor will it ever. It's not known who is this "majorly pushed" talent who may have done it. He or she is a fucking idiot. Apparently WWE is trying to lure Austin Creed back for a 2K deal. What a joke. The fact Kofi did not do the "Thank you WWE" bit in his communication is quite telling too, as he's also encouraging people to not devalue themselves. Message is being sent.

With the absurd amount of money they're making, the monetization of about everything in sight apart from the referee's asses, selling a spot at the announcers table to random cryptoscam millionaire, WWE is asking talents, including major ones, to take pay cuts. This company is so utterly pathetic. Also, you may wonder if they heard something something about the Saudis losing interest in this particular brand of sports-washing. LIV Golf is out. Also, whoever took that supposed 50% pay cut is a fucking mark.

Don't give them bad ideas. With our luck they would give Dick Togo the book and EVERY match would be HoT shit. But yeah. Remember when Rossy left Stardom ? Some feared the company would crumble because he's the only one who knew how to book it. And there comes Taro Okada, some schmuck from Bushiroad, and see what happened. He's basically what Carlos Silva *thinks* he is.

I have no idea what this AMC deal is supposed to accomplish. They certainly ain't signing any worthwile talent, for the most part. And the product, apart from a really good match here and there because of some talent, is now dangerously leaning into the straight dreadful zone. There is zero effort done. Daria Rae, I have no idea why she was brought in. She brings nothing to the table, at all. The women division is a complete wreck, mostly comprised of all the worst NXT reject you can think of (yeah sorry girls, really). The X-division is basically non existant. The tag titles are now back on the waist of a tag team that includes Bryan Myers, as they have been booking seemingly the same people in circles for three years now. The NXT hype has been gone for a long while. WWE doesn't even seem interested in astroturfing TNA anymore. Seems like the audience is only there to see 50 years old Hardies and chant "What !" during live promos. Oh, and the Home Town Man is probably the third most over act on the roster. At this point, I wonder if the NWA on Comet isn't more worth my morbid curiosity. I mean, probably not. But TNA right now is kinda how I imagine the NWA to be. On this week's show, Elijah (gawwwd) and Kazarian had the worst match I can remember in a long-ass time, a beyond boring "guitar strap" match. Worked under idiotic WWE rules of course. And the cherry on the cake is that just before the final spot, the strap broke. That was pure genius. I must say, the Elegance Brand right now seems like some sort of fever dream. It has way past the point of "so bad it's good" to some sort of space of its own. Ash in particular is in another galaxy in term of going 500% with the cringiest, stupidest shit. Bless her for that, really.

Yeah. Because Gedo is toasted as a booker.

Don Callis could do the funniest thing. I mean, he's a bit low on talent right now in the Don Callis Family with all the injuries...

Oh, great... They got Takeshita to work with Chase Owens and now SANADA. After he became an undercard joke last year. Wow. Yeah, I have zero faith in whatever Gedo's gonna do in the big picture next.

I mean, if you ask *me*, just do FTR vs YB vs MCMG. 😎 And single matches ? Gimme Shelley vs Hechicero. Shelley vs Kyle. Shelley vs Mox. Shelley vs Fletcher. Shelley vs Shibata. Shelley vs Omega. Shelley vs the world.

Dax fantasy booking...

https://www.postwrestling.com/2026/05/03/roman-reigns-no-longer-advertised-for-wwe-raw-appearances-in-june/ Restructuring deals, uh ?

Andrade winning the white belt and sending the US NJPW fans into disarray is kinda funny. Seriously, it was predictable. Plus, Yuta Tsuji has been overrated by both the fans and the company. He's not the guy. I mean, he's worlds better than the failures they have tried before these last few years (you know the ones, not talking about the great Goto/ZSJ wins, I mean the EVIL and SANADA's of the world), but he's not the next ace. I don't see it. Just switch toward Uemura already at G1. And then, you know the one eventually...

Yeah ! Anna Jay doing one tour with Stardom and for a (short) while she looked better than she did before. Even Ospreay acknowledged it, noticing her footing placement and confidence was better. But even 6 months, night in, night out ? It would be a game changer for these talents. Reps in front of different crowds. That's the thing Japanese and Mexican talents have over US talents, especially those who don't work indies.

They addressed the Rebel situation in Collision. That was nice. But damn, this is sad. With Collision becoming such a consistant show in term of throwing really coo, excellent matches together, it's almost surreal to think back when it began as CM Punk Isolation show announced by Kevin Kelly. Time flies. With Colten Gunn returning (and it's eerie now how much he looks and sounds like his father), and the Gun Club having a beef with the Deathriders, and the Dogs being sorta allied with Mox's crew, how long before Jay White returns and we get the inevitable White / Finlay confrontation ? That has to happen. Anna Jay, well, I dunno if that is the end of the road for her but she looked like her old self... I'll always have a soft spot for her either way, mostly thanks to the Dark Order days and those hilarious vignette backstage with Brodie Lee, John Silver, the bullying of Alan Angels and basically Anna trying her best not to corpse. Jack Perry vs Mascara Dorada was great. Dorada is quickly getting used to the US TV kind match and adapting his game too. Perry has just been killing it since his return as a babyface. This post CM Punk drama stint as a heel certainly was a learning experience for him, and I did enjoy the Raven-like work, but he's 200% better as this babyface. On the other hand, Hook is most certainly better as a heel.... but yeah, still looks rough in spots. He's a guy who would benefit so much from spending 6 months to a year in Japan. Train at the dojo, do all the tours and come back a a much better worker and a big star. I know this really doesn't fit AEW business model right now, but since they are overflowing with talent, they really should install this expedition system with their partners. Send people in NJPW, CMLL, RevPro. Have them learn. Come back as bigger stars and better workers. This would be 100% much better than a Performance Center bullshit too. The fact they did a recap of the Mox/Ospreay angle on Collision almost feels like some well deserved Brian Alvarez trolling. Got a kick out of that one. ALSO : Wheeler hitting a Muta scale bladejob on Collision for, reasons, is awesome. ALSO : Hikaru Shida, toxic friend, is her best character version yet.

Yeah, this. This is why they are such a cult, because that's what they are selling, both to their audience and to their workers. The idea that you'll get your Mania Moment and such, which really doesn't actually exist nor means anything in real life. The worst thing that can happen to WWE is being seen as "one pro-wrestling promotion among others". For fans, it may take a while, if ever, because they won the branding war a lot time ago, because they had every advantages doing it (NY territory, money to buy all the stars from everywhere). But for wrestlers... TNA was never strong enough, but a guy like Ospreay had said it before, he was a TNA kid. Thekla coming back from Japan wanted to be in AEW, that was her shit. With more time passing by and AEW being a strong alternative (and alternative is the key word, and that means stylistically also, hence the emphasis on yes, *good workers* and hell, actually *great workers*, and not understanding this is not understanding what AEW is nor what his audience wants), it weakens the perception of WWE being the only place to be. And it's not just a matter of "where to work", but also what value you put on yourself as a talent. Vaquer, Monroe, Keys, all taking *less money* just because they want to work for a THE logo ? Not smart. Especially when the "dream" is just a corporate myth that can be cut off at any moment, and more than ever before, and getting worse. (not to mention the smell of the "dream", ethically speaking, but that's another matter)

The past regime released shitload of people during the pandemic, so it's not like WWE worried about optics before. But yeah, it's only gonna get worse. They released *two* injured wrestlers too btw (Zoe & Escobar, I believe).

Pretty funny...

But are there, really ? What I've seen of Kofi Kingston years ago, that is when he wasn't 44 years old, is that he was a "very good 2010's WWE worker". See also, Matt Cardona or Nic Nemeth. And by that I mean : he was never that great of a worker and was wildly overrated in the grand scheme of things. Austin Creed ? Who knows. I've mostly seen his rookie years in TNA. It's not like he has this awesome in-ring rep either, he's not like say, Ciampa.. And yeah, this : So yeah. Not convinced. In 2021 ? Hell yes, for many reasons. Today, not so much. Well, everybody in AEW wants them it seems, so that's telling of something, at least. Doesn't mean I have to love it as a viewer. I guess they'll have to prove me wrong. Or not. Also, the main thing that it is telling about WWE : WWE is gonna lowball anyone. And new talent like Vaquer, Monroe or Royce took lower offer than what they could have made in AEW. And that will only fly for so long and only for a certain kind of people. Obviously did not fly for perceived lifers like the New Day. It has to be said, with ALL the reactions around, that this is the most shocking WWE departure in eons. Probably since Mercedes (who also posted about them. Yeah. EVERYONE wants them in AEW. These guys are absolutely beloved by their co-workers).

Fun fact, last match of Austin Creed in TNA in 2010 was tagging with Jay Lethal against the Young Bucks.