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So some crypto-scam billionaire paid to be at the announcer's table for a match... With a headset on... And no mic... I mean, you can't even shitpost anymore. They are shitposting themselves at this point.

This is legit hilarious (and pathetic) 🙃 And no, the product turning into complete add-slop is not gonna get better, ever. As they say, it's not a bug, it's a feature. And next year this shit is happening you know where... I can't. 🤣

Made by a would-be rapist. The new stuff that came out in the Janel Grant case probably "helped" him getting the fuck out of the limelight. Fuck him and everyone who applauded him tonight. "Thank you Vince" "Thank you Brock" The WWE Universe. 🤮

Remind me the prices of those tickets again ? 😂

Oh, I did not even know Oba Femi was actually MAGA Femi. Maybe they can get Nicki MAGAJ for his entrance ? (I mean, the subtle wordplays are infinite now, it takes less effort than AI to shitpost). Does he even realize who Elon Musk is and where his family's fortune comes from ? 🤣 And since we're speaking of dumb fucking fucks, after last year hilarious Roast with Trump's favorite "comedian" that had Paul Heyman do a joke about deporting people, here's the teaser for this year's Mania comedy special : Glenn Jacobs, he's smart, he reads books...

I also watched MLP's show, which was a very easy two hours. Steven Borden looks eerily like his father without the paint, kinda circa 1987. I dunno what you do with this. He's gonna get opportunities other people don't get, but I think he's already past 30 and just starting. May turn allright. May turn annoying overpushed nepokid. Genes are creepy to me. Really enjoyed Ricochet & GOA vs Oku, Akeem & Swann, the main event of Mistico, Mascara Dorada & Amazing Red vs Rascalz and Hechicero vs Jonathan Gresham (in full sneaky heel bastard, which I love). Paul Walter Hauser vs QT was what you can expect from them. Houser sure loves this shit, and he's not doing it for the money or the clout, I mean, bumping on tacks on an MLP show. The 4 way women match was pretty decent too, I always enjoy Gisele, Killer Kelly made a surprise appearance and I thought Shotzi looked quite good. She's tagged as "MLW" but whenever she gets freelance I would not hate her showing up on AEW/ROH. Also, you had botH SoCalVal and D-Lo on announcing. No Mauro. MUCH better. The total absence of TNA talent on these shows is pretty noticeable (Swann technically is, but on a PPA contract I believe). I know the Hardies worked HOG, but I think that's about it. TNA really got themselves isolated from the entire landscape.

Might as well post this here then. The Sandman's retirement match at Janela's Sprink Break was the clusterfuck it needed to be. Although like everytime on Janela's shows, it went overboard. Cut the middle part of the match and only do the Invisible men bits (keep Missy Hyatt showing up because come one, although it looked awful it was cool to have her), the HILARIOUS hundred ref run ins and the awesome Mick Foley appearance (yes) and it would have been perfect. Then again, perfection for Sandman would have been wrong. Brodie Lee Jr. vs Joey Janela was as good as you'll see a 14 years old work an epic main event match. Give Janela tons of credit for this (he's still underrated), but Brodie looked great for what it was. Maybe if he's serious about it he can be the next Nick Wayne, teenage prodigy. Chris Bey showing up was cool, it's always cool to see Chris Bey walking around. Jack Perry teaming with Marko Stunt was tons of fun too. Masata Tanaka is 53. How the fuck does he looks and works so *great* still ? Show was overall way too long though and really it doesn't hit like it used too, as the context is very very different from 7-8 years ago. Effy vs Allie Katch was pretty horrendous, the Atticus Cogar vs Hayabusa match was kinda there, it was odd for me to see Hayabusa II as I was a huge FMW fan back then but he has the blessing of Ezaki's family and looks decent at it (but nothing special either, although I probably should not judge from an Atticus Cogar match). The one thing that is obvious watching these indy shows on Mania weeks is that really, unlike years ago, most of the best talent is already signed or featured one way of another in a major company. Josh Barnett basically saying it was the end of Bloodsport for now and making vague reference about keeping his integrity tells me some shady WWE business was going on. The latest shows, which I passed on, was tons of WWE people, which really negated this idea of cool super indy matches in a shoot-style environment. I always came off feeling the the Bloodsport shows were better on paper than execution anyway. There was usually 2-3 really cool matches, but also tons of tedious stuff on these. Oh well. Maybe he'll just do straight WWE Bloodsport next year for Mania week-end.... (see what I did there)

Fun fact : both Hyan & Maya World vs Divine Dominion and Marina Shafir vs Alex Windsor in the pre-show of Dynasty were longer matches than any women's match at Mania... Speaking of DiBiase, I got a kick of that one :

Oh I'm sure he was... US Justice system... BTW, John Cena looking like an AI version of Vince McMahon is certainly a thing now.

So, looking at the results and reactions, it was quite a disaster. Less than 90 minutes of actual wrestling on a four hour show. Wow. People who paid ridiculous sums of money to attend this, congrats, you're officially the dumbest pro-wrestling fans ever. The biggest marks in the history of marks. Cody Rhodes is now involved in the two most universally panned Mania main events, back to back. I guess the "finishing the story" angle was also in the literal sense. That's another interesting stats. Also, how ironic that is that the year they put Stephy in their shit Hall of Fame, the women matches at Mania went back to sub 7 minutes nothing affair. Most of them involving, well, Divas era personality. On that subject, how much gaslighting is going on there ? The amount of disrespect is amazing. 😂 Oh yeah, Paige. Her being AEW woman's champ feels like a fever dream at this point. Stephanie Vaquer sure made the right choice. She took less money to "live her dream" to have a sub seven minutes match at Mania. But gooners are big fan of her move (which BTW was made "famous" by Madison Rayne years before in TNA), so that's a thing I guess. Thankfully Day 2 will have a banger with, let me check.... oh. A Jade Cargill match. Yup, sorry. Ain't happening. Also, was Ted DiBiase Jr. in attendance and showed on cam ? Isn't he supposed to be in prison or something for scamming old people with his scammy religious zealot father ? The main event sounds straight out of the worst Russo playbook in term of making no fucking sens whatsoever. And apparently, grand Mania intros be like.... Night 2 should be much better, with Oba Femi getting the rub from Sex Trafficker Shithead, a Trick Williams match (bwahahahaahah hey I saw him in TNA ok, I know what he's all about people, no one is gonna fool me)... Main event sounds like hell on paper too, between old-ass gassed out Pepsi Phil vs dullard Tribal Chief probably going full "Absolute Cinema" mode with Moments tm and DIALOGUES for 45 minutes. The one good news is that this year TKO did not buy NOAH or something. That is a positive.

The gift that keeps on giving. As last year's Mania PR disaster was the outpouring coming out of MAGA fuckhead (hi Roman) and racists shits (hi Heyman), this year's theme seems to be that they are insecure little bitches totally panicking on the verge of their product not being nearly as hot as it used to be. Next year Saudi ? Holy shit. That ESPN partnership certainly has been one of a kind...

Meanwhile, at the Stardom show in Vegas... This shit is just gold.

And that's exactly what happened. Imagine you're Janel Grant, and any other woman this guy assaulted and raped. These people deserve the worst, and yeah, I also mean the audience. The same audience that will go crazy for Brock Lesnar btw.

https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/stephanie-mcmahon-thanks-vince-mcmahon-in-wwe-hall-of-fame-speech-crowd-chants-thank-you-vince/ Trash people. Trash company. Trash audience.

I mean. For about half the price you can get A seats for All In. Which I already find outrageously expensive BTW (I was gonna go the second year and then I saw the prices and nope. I *can* do it, but I won't). This is just indecent.

Despy's invitationnal show was quite something. Hearing the NJPW's ring announcer go "NICK FUCKING GAGE" was not on anyone's bingo card. And Gage looked the best basically I've ever seen (not that hard considering how bad I thought he was). Main event was crazy. Mixed tag with ELP & Maika vs Dragon Kid & SLK was tons of un too. And Abe vs ZSJ was terrific scientific wrestling. Gotta see Gedo play with a fork and take two brutal bumps (maybe paying for his sin as a booker).

Whoever pays for this is a fucking idiot. And a rich fucking idiot at that. Seriously now. Who the fuck ?

And now, Forbidden Door happens on the same day as Slammiversary. The discourse is gonna be hilarious. Also, as expected, the before the main event of the Mark Hitchcock show a "Fuck TNA !" chant happened. 🤣

"Will Ospreay is more than amazing moves. Much more" Tony Schiavone. 2026

I wasn't sure it was gonna happen at first. But when Sting showed up backstage, it was like, yep, this is Lex Luger winning against Hogan at Nitro. And although it wasn't exactly that, because context are very different, it pretty much was. So, enjoy it while you can Darby, you're losing it at Double or Nothing in NY. Difference is, now you're made. Gotta love how they really are pushing the idea now that when you're getting close to the top, you are going for the big one, whether you're a heel or a face. (BTW, Kevin Knight is absolutely turning heel on Speedball when joining Swerve, right ?) And yeah, whatever is happening with Mox and Ospreay, William is winning at Wembley. And then... Ospreay vs Omega ? Thekla is so fucking awesome. It's crazy, when you think back like 4 years ago in Stardom, looking at Giulia, Mariah May and Thekla and thought, well, these three are gonna be in the US, who do you think is gonna be the biggest star. And Mariah *could* have (although it has to be said she really never got that over when she was away from Toni, and I say that despite really loving her work). Giulia, well, it was obvious to anyone paying attention to what she was about WWE was gonna ruin her. And yet, it's not like Thekla became the one by default, as she basically is the best women's champ they had apart from Toni. Gotta love her throwing "dumb bitches" and shit in front of those kids too 😅.

I feel that there's an entire generation now who has been totally gaslit into thinking Triple H was this awesome worker and huge star and miracle booker when infact he always was a tool who got where he got thanks to politics. He took forever before eventually getting over after everyone and their brothers put him over, he never was close to the most over guy in the company when the company was hot, his reign of terror was unbearable, his wife was unbearable, he stayed overpushed for years because he was the son-in-law of the rapist fuck, he always was an insecure little bitch whom you could not have in a position of weakness in *video games commercials*, booking NXT black & gold was the easiest shit ever since they basically were rampaging indie darlings and putting them in big matches with no pressure of ratings or whatnot while the main roster product was fucking atrocious. He's been exposed over and over again, yet people still thought he was this "savior of wrestling" for WWE. I mean, they got what they deserve.

Yeah, that's awful.

The story is even more crazy. The promoter learned from THE INTERNET. Silva did not even informed him directly, sent him a text before the TNA PPV about "talking later" and never contacted him again. Beautiful, Carlos.

The story of Krule lying about being stabbed to justify beating up a fan is something right out of the sleaze thread. And yet it happened in 2026. Beautiful, beautiful pro-wrestling. (hopefully no one books this guy anymore, no idea why he was ever booked anyway considering how much he sucks)

Way to put over your roster and admit you're complete shit at making new stars in one swoop. This guy is *really* dumb as bricks. 😂