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Hum... the only match that was infamously heavily edited was the Penta vs Vampiro finale. Other stuff was probably edited too as far as cutting out some of bad looking spots (like they always used to do back in the days) but it's not exactly the same thing as shooting the match the same way you would a movie, like Edge vs Orton apparently was.

More on that soon, probably... I'd love for the Bucks or Omega to google PWO, find this board and make a fucking reference on BTE. Probably won't happen. Still.

Yeah, the election was rigged or something. Wait... Hum... Yeah, Corny is so far gone at this point. I was a huge Corny fan for so long. At first I found it sad and too bad, now it's just plain pathetic and I don't give a flying fuck anymore.

Hi ! Omega is easily one of the GOAT and the Young Bucks are easily one of the GOAT tag team. That's after 30 years of watching pro-wrestling too.

I have honestly no idea how you can put on a 1 hour show with basically so few actual content, this has been a complete chore to watch to me. About 25 minutes (at best) of actual pro-wrestling on a one hour show, the rest being a bunch of recaps, hype videos and commercials. No real vignettes that has any actual *content* or angle to it. Pillman vs Reed wasn't very good at all, Pillman was clearly working at half speed and looked like he wanted to be far away. DBS vs Fatu was a decent little match, did not came off as a main event or a world title match at all, I see much better stuff on IMPACT undercard or even Dark every week. DBS also did the straight job, so there, the guy wants to go back in WWE anyway. So yeah, hard pass on this MLW restart. I would not call it a disappointment because it absolutely picks up where it stopped, so maybe those who enjoyed it then will enjoy it now. I did not then, it's the exact same stuff, so there... I still wish Salina would get picked up by IMPACT or AEW, she'd be so great in an actually fun company.

Well, MLW is exactly the same as it as before. 15 minutes in and *nothing has happened*, between never ending recaps for stuff that happened 7 months ago, a three seconds squash, same old lame Contra glitches, a lame fake start for Pillman vs Reed (who is *still* wearing the stupid chest protector) for no reason, a "coming soon" vignette (really ? First show in eons, they taped like 16 weeks and we get a "coming soon" vignette ?), commercials for fucking podcasts. Having Mr. St Laurent at the announcing both only makes things worse. Yuck. I had gave up on MLW and was thinking about giving them a chance for this restart, expecting maybe something a bit different, but nope.

On the Dark front, some interesting stuff like a new segment for Britt Baker, the Waiting Room. Nowhere as good as Locker Room Talk in IMPACT, but it has potential thanks to Baker's character. Talk-show format with fake crowd reactions and Reba doing the worst fake laughs ever. Interestingly enough, Baker made jokes about the Young Bucks, Cody and... Eddie Kingston, so yeah, the babyface turn is incoming... Also, TNT have been there these last few weeks and they are D-Von's boys. Damn, I feel old. They really remind me of their father too. More potential than the Gunn Club, I'm honestly kinda baffled the whole Billy Gunn family got contracts, I mean they seem ok but nothing special at all and don't scream "potential great workers or star" to me. On the women side, Leila Hirsh getting a win, so they got this going, and the debut of Lindsay Snow, now here's one girl I'd like to see more off, always enjoyed her on Bloodsports. Also, Ivelisse vs Alex Gracia was one of the better women's match in a while, with Gracia looking really good. Granted Ivelisse's intensity is gonna make the match look better anyway, but still, she impressed (lot of style too).

Let's be honest, the anti-Meltz obsessives are a special breed of creeps.

That's some deadpan humour.

I can't think of a more 2020 bit than the AEW people playing real life Among Us on BTE.

That was exactly the intent. https://www.lepoint.fr/sante/la-france-championne-des-anti-vaccins-19-06-2019-2319729_40.php Basically 1/3 French people don't believe vaccines are totally safe and 1/10 don't believe vaccine for children are useful. From the American study based on 144 countries that is quoted in the article, France is apparently where you find the most doubtful people. That being said, our vaccination rate is actually going up, so there, everything is not that dark...

Well this thread turned into an even more depressive one than the usual weekly WWE stuff... Plus guess what, France is the country with the most anti-vax in the world apparently. Yeah. Super. Let me fucking leave already !

I know it's stupid and petty, because the two have pretty much nothing to do with one another, but still, I kinda do get a kick out of learning that someone I consider a terrible all around performer is also part of the dumb-as-fuck clan. At this point, the idea that you are gonna work with these people if you sign with the company has to get in line in your thought process.

The many, many jokes writes themselves so quickly you don't even have the time to register them. I wouldn't even know where to begin here...

They also had the "Bring up some new cool midcard characters in the first movie, then by the third movie they end up being complete afterthought instead of stars" syndrome BTW. That and a bunch of nostalgia pops and humiliation of older stars (poor Harrison Ford, between this and Indy 4 which has never actually been made in this universe... at least I loved him in Blade Runner 2049), actually, yeah, Disney should buy WWE, wouldn't change jackshit most probably !

Sounds about as exciting as their matches were...

You mean like those last Star Wars movies ? "Fuck, we've wasted our crappy heel boss on the second movie in the worst major confrontation ever, what do we do now ? " "Bring back the big heel star from 40 years ago !"

I did not even realize that Drake Wuertz was that jacked up orange referee. I kinda looks like min-Taker facially to me. Coincidence ? I think not.

"Trump supporters, conservatives, and Saudi nationalists." Sounds like WWE's policy actually. Can't do much more current WWE than this. Zelina making *more money* outside WWE also is quite interesting, considering the company's stance of saying you basically can't survive without them.

Great shitposting !

Big Cass has the distinction of being the only person whose "feel good story" on the DDP Yoga App has been deleted not too shortly (don't remember but it didn't stay up for more than a few weeks at best) after it got published...

I would get a huge kick out of the *women* workers in WWE ending up being the ones who take a stand and say enough with this shit. Then, it would indeed be a Women's Revolution, but not the kind of which Stephy could hitchjack...

Holy shit. I hope she LexLugers her way into Dynamite, first-Nitro style, she could be such an asset as a manager/personality. That promotion is batshit insane. I wonder if someone just lost their nerves because of some guy named Joe...

Especially now when it's obvious a post-40 years old career can still be stellar and actually add to someone's body of work, which may not have been the case 20/30 years ago (for various reasons).