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I don't mind Jack Perry, but yeah I would have loved Brody, Bandido or Ace Austin.

Oh gawwwd I forgot about that shit. Funny, maybe I just blocked it out of my mind when I watch TNA, but that's really not what strikes me about the announcing. I dunno, I don't feel they yell all the time. I actually kinda enjoyed the Hannifan/Rehwoldt duo, although Hannifan was taught all the wrong things about announcing by his years in WWE, the worst one probably being the infamous "for the win ! /for the title !" that ruins every nearfalls (and that crept its way into NJPW announcing from time to time too last time I checked). Matt Hardy whining about how TNA is not about putting good match because they are focused on storylines is the most unintentional hilarious thing coming from him, considering the Hardys in-ring outings this last year in that promotion booked like complete shit by Delirious (who has managed to find his way into my "worst bookers ever" list on the strenght of this last two and a half years of TNA).

I barely hear about what happens over there anymore, but I got a good laugh out of Matt Cardona, after spending years doing a great job establishing his name and saying he would come back to WWE as Matt Cardona only, being brought back for the Cena dumpster fire retirement as Zach Ryder to do a sub-ten minute job. Classic shit there.

And so at Final Resolution, The Righteous debuted (well, Vincent was part of Honor No More a few years back).... to the sound of crickets and "Who are you ?" chants. The TNA audience is basically NXT audience dumbfucks now. TNA should be a good fit for guys like The Righteous under other circumstances, but in 2026 ? Who the hell knows. I wish they were used better in AEW/ROH, as I really enjoyed them, but their biggest appearance was doing a 2 on 1 job to MJF at the first All In. Which is good for them, they will handle the pressure of a huge ass crowd better now that they are in the #2 promotion selling out these huge-ass buildings....

Yup. That's also what happens when a rookie is pushed as a bad ass who doesn't have to sell much and beats everyone with a few moves. No one becomes a good worker doing this. See also : Cargill, Jade. The difference being Jade actually had a look and was fun doing squashes for a while (before it got boring and redondant). Slowly catching up. That first CC Dynamite demonstrated how in three years, the CC has been established as the most exciting period for AEW TV already. Swerve and Hangman finally together will probably clash into at some time, a final match between the two as babyfaces. That's the end game. Maybe All In next year ? Joe is a fantastic antagonists for them. And whatever people say about Mox. He's having a career year. He worked so well with Mascara Dorada. The clash of the Deathriders next week I can't wait for.

Totally forgot about that. My bad. Yeah. They don't take advantage of their relationships with other companies as much as they should in term of using it as excursions. Although really, one tour will not do wonders either. Anna Jay looked a bit better for a second or two after her Stardom tour, but in the grand scheme of things, hasn't changed that much. Reps reps reps it was is needed, and the current form of US wrestling doesn't allows that, sadly. Skye Blu with reps would be really fucking good really quick I think.

The Callis/D'Amore years between 2019 and 2022 is the only time TNA did not TNAed itself. And well, it was not named TNA anymore. It will never not be hilarious to me that coming back to the TNA name actively lead to more of the old LOLTNA booking. Their next special event looks awesome too... Kaz vs JDC as the main event. JDC. And Leon Slater is defending the X-division title against AJ Francis. Jeeez. Mance Warner vs Matt Cardona (aka Zach Ryder from John Cena's retirement tournament jobber fame). And a bunch of NXT undercarders on the card. The reality is that their roster is completely depleted. The worse being the women. Lei Yin Lee is their new champ, despite never having been any good nor over nor interesting in any way shape or form. They are still pushing Indi Hartwell, who is, sorry to say, awful. The IInspiration are the tag champs and apart from doing their pose, they do *nothing* that would make their dismal actual wrestling ability even worth watching. Victoria Crawford is still around. So yeah, Santana is gonna win the title *again* with the debut of their new TV deal. And then what ? More shitty NXT featuring ? More old ex-WWE guys coming up and taking the space ? Fuck, I almost expect Killer Kross & Scarlett debuting as the big surprise early next year.

The Bucks hurting the company by having all those awesome matches all the time and hilarious skits and entrance and now reuniting with Omega. 🙃 Come on now. Julia Hart and Harley showed they can get over. They just need more rep. Like... a lot of people. House shows being badly missed in the current state of US wrestling in term of training people. HOOK I don't care one bit about. He's another guy I wouldn't mind if he left, honestly, he hasn't improved a lot, he's not progressing on the mic at all and his character is meh. He's an overpushed nepokid at this point. Maybe the heel turn will do him good. I'l glad Eddie is not stuck with him anymore. Please no. They did the match. It was nothing. The entire thing reeked of WWE style angle/booking. A Cope/Christian nostalgia tag team run needs to NOT HAPPEN. This is not TNA. Also, where is the Christian vs Nick Wayne feud ? Nick Wayne was doing so great and now he has vanished because the nostalgia took over.

Finally got to watch Full Gear and holy hell again. The crowd was drained after the peak of Fletcher vs Briscoe and again with Omega and Young Bucks hugging it out, but still, Mercedes I thought was awesome and the main event surely delivered in its own way, the shock win and the post match making up for what could possibly be seen as missing from the match itself (although really, to me it was pretty much exactly what it should have been considering the entire picture). Mox vs O'Reilly was yet another Mox 2025 highlight. Gotta love every bit of little details, like Marina basically looking *sad* as opposed to angry. FTR vs Brodido, I have no word. I can't wait for that FTR heel run with Big Stoke. Casino Gauntlet was quite fine for what it was, Ricochet was hilarious (HS spending most time doing nothing because they were "out" is basically a a joke that tells itself) but I really don't care about yet a new title. The CC is looking absolutely awesome. Coach TK did not fuck around this year (I would have loved Josh Alexander in it, but he's going after Omega I guess so it's fine). The Okada vs Takeshita storyline is some classic stuff already. Probably the first japanese vs japanese major program in the US too. Takeshita will be the breakout babyface star of next year, without a doubt. Fun times ahead. (I am the only one who doesn't care one bit if Copeland never shows up again ? It seems like after the *okay* nostalgia Toronto match, he's been all but forgotten and hasn't been missed for a second.)

Too bad the product has been complete shit for the last two years, and only getting worse (N°1 guy Mike Santana feuding with NXT undercarders, yeah, sink a bit even lower please). So yeah, they'll be getting more eyeballs (and again, how much really, until now the whole "TNA is hot again" is mostly astro-turfing based on WWE guys showing up and plenty of comps for the two biggest shows of the year) on a really shit product. Well done. In the end, TNA is still a little cuck promotion as anyone actually paying attention and watching the show (raises hand) knows it. It's really almost like a AAA case at this point, the difference is WWE doesn't technically owns them (but they kinda do, ya know). TNA's story never ceases to be fascinating though.

I figured it would be the case when I realized they were doing their shitty "wargames" matches two weeks after Blood & Guts. I have no idea what happened though, I'm sooo behind on things (not even watched Full Gear yet) and don't wanna get spoiled so I'm so out of the loop Vince McMahon could have died and I would not have known.

I was there for both, I don't really remember when SC went down exactly but since I joined PWO in 2008, well. I do remember that the last GWE ended up being a toxic debacle, whereas the SC one was mostly great fun (at least that's how I remember it). (I have nothing to say about the current GWE, for which I have zero interest, and it doesn't even have anything to do with that particular *incident* that happened and was handled very poorly (someone should have been banned from both PWO *and* the Discord, he hasn't been and was still talking shit after his fake-ass "apology". Duly noted). I still have a specific screen cap though, you never know when I might post it, probably at the worst timing imaginable too 😎. But really, ranking wrestlers in 2025 is something I have no interest in whatsoever) Forums have been dead for a while now. PWO peaked in early 2010. We're in 2025. The fact there are still a few people posting on this one is more of an oddity than anything else. It had its run.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. That was, weird. 😄

I mean, good for him in this case, and if the title is indeed made to be defended in funky outside places, that can make for some fun stuff. Although that was supposed to be the International title too or whatever its name was. There was really no need at all for yet another title. There's talk about Anna Jay's contract coming to end soon. I dunno. She's an original, and I'll always have a soft spot for that pandemic era and the amazing Dark Order vignettes from BTE back then, when she would do her best not to burst out laughing at the silly stuff around her. She hasn't improved that much overall inside the ring, apart from when she came back from that Stardom tour, but they really did not build on it. Lack of reps hurt people like her. I'd like her to stay, honestly, alongside Tay.

They completely ruined the tag team scene for months. They always have the worst match on every big show. Jetspeed were on fire when they debuted and then they got made into complete geeks. They only recovered once working with FTR. Ricochet, who was working alongside Swerve as a main event level player, has been reduced to some trios geek (and BTW, how can anyone forgive Swerve being squashed by Lashley with NO FOLLOW-UP whatsoever ?). MVP is burying everyone he's working with in promos (hating on Triple H is great, trying to emulate him, not so much). The MJF feud has been going nowhere for obvious reasons. They did not put over anyone as they refused to drop the tag titles by themselves. Apart from me kinda warming up to Shelton as he's been quite good in ring, they're easily one of the worst signing in AEW ever. They did nothing to beat the allegations of not wanting to put anyone over either (don't give me that crap about putting Ricochet and GOA over, as MVP did the job). And they are 150 years old combined. Hopefully none of them is in the CC this year. They are taking up TV time younger and better talents should get. (EDIT : if either of them wins that useless new title, then we know what's what)

I mean, I agree with this of course. There's plenty wrong about refs holding their count or counting when shoulders aren't at all on the mat, which also happens all the time. But the mere fact Shelton Benjamin beat Speedball is awful. Especially after Lashley basically squashed Ricochet like he did Swerve. I feel like I'm watching AEW in November of 2024 again, and that's not something I wanna feel for the last month of the year.

How long are the Hurt Syndicate still under contract ? Don't tell me TK gave them 3 years ? The first year has been unbearable enough, and keeps on being unbearable. RIcochet looked so awesome before hooking up with them. Now he's stuck in that shitty vortex and looks like a geek. And Shelton Benjamin calling an audible ? Blame the ref all you want (and you kinda should), but why the fuck is Shelton Benjamin calling audibles ? When you manage to make Mike Bailey look stupid, you're one special kind of bad. And yeah, BOTH HS guys won their match, of course, because they absolutely have no problem doing jobs. What can you say, after that awesome special episode last week, this week was a disapointment and the worst episode in a long ass time. Well, PPV should be awesome anyway. Mox vs O'Reilly in a no holds barred match sounds like fire. This has been the great feud no one ever thought would happen. Pac vs Darby ? Same. And then it's CC season. What a year this has been, in term of quality.

Add this C) a *black woman* that is not doing it in the WWE machine. 20 years of WWE monopoly has made wrestling fans way stupider on average, really, it's a scary thing. Honestly I would not mind her winning the belt against Stat either, although the arc that the AEW belt is the one she can't seem to win is probably better for a win later on. But yeah, Ultimo Moné is awesome. Gotta love how she behaves with the fans on these shows too, saluting and taking pictures with everyone at ringside like she's Tanahashi. It's so obvious she loves doing this.

If anything, they should get a per appearance contract out of it. They certainly looked better than the two other idiots. Maya World in particular looks like she's got good potential. And so Mercedes is winning another title today. Well, unification of the ROH tv title, whatever it means. She got a 13th belt a few days back defeating Malaysian worker Nor Phoenix Diana at HOG. She's really doing the Ric Flair thingy by having matches she should not have, neither in term of competitiveness nor quality, with local champs. I mean, she went 18 minutes 50/50 with Diana, who has had 43 matches total per Cagematch, and although she does have good potential, you can see she's very green still and some of her stuff did not look great (she did a bad botch near the end in which it looks like she stunned herself). This stint is one for the ages in term of what it accomplishes for these people. (because really now what are the odds most of these match would even happen anyway ?)

Nothing can follow Tanahashi's retirement. Especially with Okada doing his best to give him the best match possible. And while Takeshita is one of the best worker in the world, Tsuji just ain't at this level at all, and basically whatever combination of main events you get, he'll be a very distant fourth best. So might as well end up with Tanahashi. Apparently Aaron Wolf has the charisma of a wooden door. The fact he's working with EVIL is like... well, I guess smokes and mirrors will be in effect to carry a guy on his first match. He may be a mainstream name in Japan, but if he sucks in the ring or has zero charisma, that is not gonna cut it, not to mention the possible resentment of him getting pushed ahead of better talents. I have no idea if the current generation of fans still cares about this kinda thing either (I mean, the legit amateur wrestling star). The fact there will be no IWGP junior title match (not single nor tags) at WK doesn't sound like the booking is getting any better in the grand scheme of things. Like, how hard was it to present a major single junior match at the biggest Dome show in 25 years ? Saya vs Syuri hopefully get enough time to shine.

Of course, Dezmond Xavier was the "mystery" partner for the Rascalz. Talk about a career move that went nowhere. 5 years later, he's back in TNA at the exact same spot, only his tag team partners very well may end up leaving soon to go where he came from (although at this point, who knows, these four guys should really try to go to AEW instead , they ain't going nowhere far, as demonstrated, in the WWE system). Not to mention, he *still* is gonna work with a NXT affiliated product, only he's like the Indi Hartwell's of the world (no, I don't mean he's a crappy worker). The dynamics are legit funny as hell. Also, TNA is basically now feuding with Evolve-level workers. N°2 company, baby.

And they darkened the place for their 13/11 tapings because they couldn't get 350 people in Full Sail. Yeah, those NXT fans surely are turning up to see a bunch of mid-carders beat up the World Champ of the N°2 promotion in the world. The promotion is so hot right now thanks to the WWE "collab", you know... But Carlos "Cuckchair owner" Silva said new big TV deal was coming (I mean, he's been saying it for 6 months now, so it must be big), so everything is great. And now apparently they want to turn people being pissed about it into an angle. Are we sure Russo is working for JCW and not TNA again ? I mean I'm all for it. I would take a Russo booked TNA clown show over the dull-ass boredom shit that TNA has been since D'Amore has been fired.

I wonder if Jericho already feels like a complete idiot... (I mean, he should have already but) Yeah. N°2 company right there. The "TNA is growing and breaking records" bullshit HAS to be studied and debunked in a serious way. There's a reason there's no numbers at all apart from the fake numbers of the two biggest shows, both of them pushed by AJ Styles showing up and Hardies vs Dudleys "last greatest tag team match" and comped to death.

And it's even worst when you see it because it looked like *shit* Seriously now. 😂

I fell right on my tailbone once and the pain is unbearable. Yeah, this was lowkey the worst spot of the night. That being said. The Marina spot where she walked on glass to then use it for her kick, visually speaking, was the most bad-ass shit of the night.