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Between the Kimber Lee/Carter Nash debacle (the more you know about it, the more it reeks of "everyone involves sucks" indeed) and the Sunny tragedy (mental health and justice system issues notwithstanding, she just seems like someone who doesn't care about other people at all), tons of stuff that has hit a bit too close to home lately. Meanwhile, Micheal Elgin is booked back in NOAH. Meanwhile, the Park family have been fired from MLW for taking liberties with Jacob Fatu and Alexander Hammerstone and injuring them.

Yep. AEW on NJPW World.

Doesn't matter if he sucks, he can always have a big match at Mania 50 if he wants to. Doesn't matter if he sucks at that either.

What a sad life. 3 years of fame and 23 years and counting of spiraling down. Is there a Dark Side of the Ring S4 coming up ?

Ishii vs Edwards, Bailey vs Shelley and White vs Sabin were excellent matches. Not bad for a late show at Wrestlecon, with some of these guys who already went through wars. Funny how context matters so much. Aldis may look like a "big" deal in the NWA studio, but coming alongside his wife in IMPACT to face Matt Cardona & Chelsea Green, it really came off like "Who's that NPC behind Mickie James ?".

Well, I won't argue against that, especially the bolded part.

It's not like being "entitled to opportunities" has anything to do with morals or merits anyway. It's basically luck and social spot. Plenty of truly awful people who do awful things are getting great opportunities every day. But the idea that no one can change and you are for life reduced to one thing you *said*, no matter how bad it is, years ago, just doesn't seem the sign of a very healthy society. Who hasn't said some really stupid, including hateful, shit in their lives ? Who hasn't done any bad stuff ? Let's be fucking real now. People who say they never have are liars, plain and simple. People evolve. Well, some don't, but hopefully people can evolve. If not, there's no hope whatsoever. It could also be a learning story to tell to those who still have hateful beliefs. Anyways. PWO.

Agree 100%.

I mean, the picture where Carter seems to do a nazi salute (I mean, he actually does it while cosplaying Uncle Adolf's hairstyle, so even if in jest, that... well... hum...) is probably enough from their point of view, I guess.

And let's be real now. What I would REALLY love but won't happen, is the Briscoes showing up at Dynamite "uninvited" and cost the Bucks the match, or attack them afterward.

The idea that FTR were buried is completely ridiculous (I can only imagine from what corner of the Internet those rumors came from). AEW has done those one-big-match feuds forever, and rematches have been the exception more than the norm. They actually have done it to a fault, since in some cases it was indeed a bit frustrating to not have some rematches (like for instance the Mox vs Kingston match), but that's also one thing that made them very different from WWE. We did not get the second Bucks vs Lucha Brothers match forever either. That's how AEW operates, since day one.

Yeah, thanks for reminding me I'm a boomer. I mean ok Tier

Totally disagree. Sure, of course he's still a terrific worker, but he also comes off like "some guy who's a terrific worker" as opposed to WALTER. He has lost shitloads of aura to me. And he has *no shot* in the main roster. None.

...against Max Caster, as to ensure he won't look as good as he could. Seriously Coach TK, this Max Caster nonsense has jumped the shark some time ago already. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see Joe, but he's at this point of his career where he needs the right opponents so he can shine the most. Caster is clearly in the S Tier (boomer not knowing how to talk like those pesky youngins) lower half of the AEW roster. But anyway, it's pretty irrelevant. This week is entirely about FTR vs Young Bucks, which will most probably be terrific.

Well the good thing is that when he eventually leaves, he can gain weight again and be called WALTER and pretend it wasn't him.

So basically for months Bron Breakker's family connection was forbidden. Now that it's been cleared through the HOF, the very first thing they do on TV is a fucking abduction angle, straight out of TNA 2012's Aces & Eights abducting Joseph Parks (and I use this one on purpose, because I actually went through that shit not too long ago and it's the same guy who's in charge of creative).

Me too. I was shocked at how much more impressive he looked in that setting. And you know, some people just benefit of the big fish in a small pond environment. They also got much more time and were on a much even playing field with Lethal, which probably helped make it better. The same. Although honestly my weekly schedule is pretty much full already and I did not need another interesting promotion to watch (considering I haven't watched any Dark shows in forever). And oh yeah, FTR vs Briscoes was legit MOTYC to me and maybe the best FTR match ever.

So we should believe this person, whoever she is, but not Kimber Lee when she talks about abuse ? Why ? Like I said, I don't know, nor do you, nor do 99% of people talking about it on social medias what really is happening here. And it's not a matter of "taking sides" either. I'm just not comfortable with the "Oh she accused him and then she was cool and now she's accusing him again, it's fishy" stuff because it's *always* used against victims of abuse. What actually is happening, I have no idea. Whatever it is, it's bad. That's all I have to say about this.

That's called victim blaming and it's at best very ignorant of the process of abusive relationship. At worst it's an extremely shitty thing to say, honestly, and it's why victim of abuse are afraid to speak up. That's how it goes, without even going into genders : Person A & B are in a toxic relationship. Person A abuses (mentally, physically and/or sexually) Person B. Person B cries, is in pain, wants it to stop, threatens to leave. Person A apologizes, cries, say it won't ever happen again and how much he loves Person B. Person B believes Person A because Person B is in love and always tries to find even the worst reasons to believe it can get better, even after Person A lied many times before Person A & B are happy again for a while. Person A abuses Person B again. Rince, repeat X times (1, 10, 100) until either something really bad happen (accident, suicide, homicide) or Person B is able to leave, which is NEVER easy. As far as Kimber Lee & Nash Carter go, I won't say anything because I don't know what happened. But assuming someone talking about abuse is the one with issue is part of the problem. The one thing that is obvious is that there are bad stuff happening there.

Admittedly, that one made me laugh though.

I mean, that's obviously the stupidest of the stupids. These people do exist... Can the believe the negative IQ (I mean, the entire post is mind-blowingly stupid on so many levels)? As far as Cody's emotional promo goes, he was already overdoing it in AEW. Sure, he's in a fresh environment now, but like the reaction at Mania showed, it's not like people don't watch both shows and aren't just "wrestling fans" too. As long as it's working for him, good for him I guess. That being said, after all the years of speaking 'bout Revolution and changing the business and shit and crying about it, crying *again* because of the WWE title (which isn't linked to his father's legacy in anyway shape of form) really makes his promos sound shallow as hell and over-performative.

"Bouhou it's not fair, they are using Hardy's WWE theme that's why they get great reaction, they can't do anything of their own, it's like CM Punk, they are just stealing WWE's former stars and even use their music." Yeah. It was real.

They always had that petty mentality. Nobody would know who Cactus Jack was. Nobody would know who AJ Styles was. With Cody, the irony is even greater since he's coming straight from the pissant company which is not competition (unless we're talking about the MLW lawsuit, in which case they are), where no one is a star because only WWE guys can be star. Of course he gets a huge reaction using the entire AEW presentation (which makes the whole drama about the Hardy's theme even funnier) and now WWE stans are stuck in a double bind contradiction.

Maybe he can tag with Matt Riddle *wink wink nudge nudge*.

The WWE CodyUniverse.