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Not all all. And really. Scott Keith ? Is Mike Micasa threading on Twitter these days ?

Wait. It's 2020.

Wait, he said that too ? Holy shit, welcome to the past. It's time for pro-wrestling to grow the fuck up. Thankfully, it seems like it does, slowly but surely. Corny won't.

I don't give a flying fuck about kids, people having kids, people congratulating each others for having kids (like they are accomplishing something special... helloooooo), and even I think Corny comes off like a total ignorant, petty and misogynistic douchebag here.

Pretty much. The show doesn't get any better. He manages to state that Orlando Jordan was underrated (of all people that really are underrated, really ?) and defends that godawful match with the godawful, talentless Rob Terry. Speaking of which, Uncle Eric is also pretty smart yet transparent when he insists over and over again on the last point, adding that basically the booking doesn't matter, it's all about the presentation. Let's not forget Eric was pretty much overlooking everything that involved Hogan one way or another, so he was actually responsible for this creative. And Hogan was all over the TV during those Monday Night shows. And it's a proven fact that in the end, they ended up losing viewers because of it. The godawful Hogan shit during this time drove people away from TNA. By hammering down the fact that "stars and booking did not matter", Eric absolves himself from the awful creative that involved Hogan which actively hurt the product. And he can make fun of the "TNA Originals" stuff all he want, but the fact is using WWE rejects (not talking about Angle and Foley which had helped them gained viewers earlier on) like Ken Anderson & Jeff Hardy and putting him ahead of the guys the audience already had a connection with (despite what he says) like AJ or Joe (who had been fucked over a long time ago by Russo's booking, really) did hurt the perception of the company too, which became more and more the land of "We know who that is". Of course staying in the Impact Zone did not help matters, but horrendous booking with Hogan doing Abyss-a-Mania and the latest nWo reunion/reboot (including Sting doing the lone wolf stuff) and Flair falling down like a clown really hurt more than anything else. And since Bischoff oversaw all of this... well... "it was about the presentation and Dave Meltzer doesn't know shit about TV, I'm a successful TV producer yaddi yaddi yadda.". Painfull. And Conrad at this point doesn't add shit to his own show. His fake loud laugh I can't handle anymore either. People have pointed out how petty he was retweeting Alvarez Tweet about that stupid Brother Love cameo during that awful MITB match, and really that's how he comes off now, going through the motion, not defending his own sources for one second because it's all a gimmicked show (really, he quotes Meltz a hundred times per show and Bisch states over and over again that this his worthless pseudo-journalism and stupid ignorant opinion, at some point, either Conrad should step up or he just do something else, because it makes the entire show sound kinda schyzophrenic).

Well, yeah, sadly the streak didn't last, as the dirtsheet/Meltz bashing was incessant during a way overlong episode and it's unbearable. I dunno how even his biggest marks can find enjoyment in Bischoff saying the same thing over and over again. He makes a couple of good points, but it's buried into a sea of "dirtsheet blablabla" and other uninteresting stuff about Jason Hervey and stuff.

Actually and despite the idiotic booking (especially on the women's front), I'd say things pick up after Slammiversary and during the Summer, and from then honestly there's quite a bit to enjoy with so much talent on the roster. I'd say without blinking that from the time the Summer hits, the promotion is much better than most of 2009 which has been a waste of a year. The first half of 2010 is clearly a complete waste too, but never boring though because of the WTF aspect of it. Was Conway already working there ? Anyway, yeah, the fact they mix it up with Fortune is ridiculous, leaving the babyface side totally dead, although I must say the Matt Morgan turn is actually pretty smart. Abyss-A-Mania reeks of WCW 1995. Abyss can be a decent worker still at this point (although he never has matches like the one with AJ back in the mid-00's) but his character is a constant fuckery of terrible angles after terrible angles. How TNA fans weren't sick of him at this point, I dunno.

Yikes. Didn't last long. I'm one hour into this week's show about Sacrifice, and Bisch has spent about half the time talking about how people in the dirthseet don't know the television industry... Fuck Conrad, edit you fucking show already, it's been unbearable. Plus, his insistance on the only issue with TNA was about "growing the brand" and "go out of the soundstage" as he says and had nothing to do with the booking shows how narrow-minded he really is. Not to mention the ill-advised comparisons between then and now (get a shot each time he says AEW or NXT would love to have the same ratings as TNA had in 2010, which is mind-blowing stupid and ignores all the other things factored in like... AEW selling out actual big shows and doing pretty good PPV numbers and having a fat-ass TV contrat, while NXT is part of the biggest money machine ever, all in a very different context anyway). The fact is, the move to Monday has hurt the company because of the booking that drove the faithful audience away, just like WCW did. I hope the show gets better (and really, 3hours and a half should have ring the alarm bell already) but I'll be more cautious next time around...

She's actually the daughter of DDP's ex-wife. Considering she was part of DDPY last live workout at his house (along with Jake and one of DDP's legit daughter) and DDP still calls her one of the Diamond Daughters (no shit), it's safe to say the relationship between the former wife and husband must be pretty good. But yeah, no idea why Atout isn't in AEW. And no idea why MLW hasn't used Salina on screen for months.

I thought most of these were boring as fuck. The Von Erichs as a main event act, even in MLW, is a complete joke. Contra has always been mostly a terrible act and Jacob Fatu is overrated (or simply not being featured the best way), the only match in which he delivered was against LA Park at the PPV. I like the guys in Justice allright, but again their gimmick is crap. I don't enjoy Mance Warner. The Harts became kinda boring during that time too. Dynasty's vignettes were the best thing during this period, with Holliday totally stepping up (this guy has to go somewhere). To me MLW was quite fun when it was about indy-dream matches called by Tony Schiavone back in the field and not believing what he was witnessing and Salina de la Renta feuding with Konnan. There's pretty much nothing in their current incarnation that makes me want to watch. Their long-ass tapings and no-exclusive contrat signing makes all their booking plans irrelevant, as showed by their laughable attempt at a women's division and the super delayed Killer Kross showing when he was already signed by WWE (and which they tried to sell as "interpromotional matches" in a move so carny it was embarrassing). BTW, whatever happened with Aries ? I don't get the Alicia Atout thing BTW, wasn't she supposed to work for AEW when the company started ? What happened ?

Oh, wow, my memory definitely was totally off, you're right. Just edited my post. Crazy how fast the LOD fell off the cliff (no pun intended). They were crazy over at Mania 13 in Chicago. One year later they got that cheap repackaging with Sunny, who herself was totally lost and had been rendered irrelevant by Sable, which lasted a few weeks, and by the end of the year they were done...

I gave up on MLW a while ago (never any real good match, crappy gimmicks like Justice and Contra, overpushed VE slogs) and was thinking about checking out the joint AAA shows, but reading this I'm gonna give it a pass. The promotion was super uneven but fun at one time (seems like ages ago honestly) but it seems like the PPV was a fluke winner now.

Learned pretty much nothing new from the Hawk episode and there was some approximations at the end (they kinda speedrun the fact the business had passed them by in the late 90's which is why WWF tried this disgusting angle), but I thought this was still one of the better episode. Really cool depiction of the Minneapolis scene, they actually talked about the fact Hawk re-did the Road Warriors with Kensuke in Japan, Charles Wright talking about Vince taking the finisher is classic. Hawk's little brother really looks like him. You gotta feel for Animal, when someone you love is fucking up and you feel you can't do anything for them, it gets really hard, frustrating and can destroy you too. There's so much stuff that are being overstated in pro-wrestling, but it hard to overstate anything about the Road Warriors, really. Ok, next week is gonna be hard. (edited)

Main event was good, although Latimer is pretty much there. Brody King and Scurll bring so much aura and crisp work. I really hope they end up in AEW sometime, because I'll probably never check ROH. Agreed, really not the best show of S2, too light of what made it really cool to me (Ricky Starks, Zicky Dice, Trevor Murdock, tag matches with Drake & James Storm, Thunder Rosa) and way too heavy on the shittiest stuff (Mamma Storm's angle, Stevens & ? Mark, a Marti Belle match). And the announcement pretty much was... hey, we're doing a show on Youtube next week. Ok. Cool. Yep. Not a great way to recycle a very average show leading to a non-happening PPV... Kamille's make-up/workout videos with funny voiceovers were better than this...

Terrific promos from Eli Drake and Eddie Kingston, establishing exactly nothing. Is Pope able to wrestle ? Because if there's no match between him and Kingston, I don't get the point.

May Valentine looks so trashy and plays the douchebag millennial influencer quite well. That gimmick is actually really good and relevant in 2020. No idea where this can go as far as in-ring stuff goes though. But, yeah, that was good stuff in S2.

Every time I hear Tim Storm talk about Mama Storm, I think about that George Carlin routine and Tim Storm comes off as a total geek. And really, as much as I have enjoyed S2, this Mama Storm angle was the N°1 awful angle. Storm vs Dane is quite boring really. The ref holding the Crockett cup so Storm could ram the other guy's head into it was so cringe ! Hey, chop exchanges and suplexes ! Strong style NWA of something. Dane is hitting the 0,01 grade on the Muta scale. Match got decent once they got in the ring. Still, this angle totally sucked and Storm is a 50 something old grandfather referring to himself as "Mama Storm's Baby Boy", and that's enough for me to want someone to slap the fuck out of him.

Ricky Morton in 2020 is still one of the best promo in the business. The issue with Stevens is that nothing he does in NWA is even half as smart of funny or good as Mizdow. He clearly struck me as someone who was *better* in WWE. I dunno what does that says about him or the way he's booked. That US Belt or whatever it is has been rendered useless immediately. That ? Mark shit has jumped the shark last decade. I really like Zicky Dice. So sleazy. Kind of a successful Jimmy Del Ray.

As long as he's not announcing a new Pumpkins album, the world is fine. Kamille's first match was already showed a few weeks ago.

I believe he got booked in Japan because he was Animal's brother, basically. Then he's probably a political weasel (as showed by his years as a yes man in WWE) and Miss Baba liked him, and I guess he was friends with Steve Williams, so this explains that (because really in term of gaijin, even though at some point you can't work with the Four Pillars and Hansen/williams without being involved in great macthes, he never was that special). Then got to WCW as an agent and replicated some of the finish he learned in All Japan and got everyone go "wow this guy is so smooth" and I believe got more responsibilities in the dying days. And then when WWF bought in he had a good reputation as a backstage guy in WCW so he got brought in. More or less. Don't quote me on that.

Well... "On one hand you have that weak-ass Roman Reigns and his damn cancer who won't grab the brass ring. On the other hand you're got a female with a womb who isn't dependable. Where are my alpha males godamnit ?" Stephy should have come out, congratulated Becky and reminded everyone she invented pregnancy.

So I watched the thing. It was terrible. Even in this setting, the camera work and editing makes it super annoying and hard to watch. The "ideas" mostly sucked and it was pretty boring for such a concept match. The attempt at humour is pathetic and embarrassing (Brother Love in the bathroom, food fight with Heyman, pie in the face of Johnny Ace, the worst fall on wet floor ever). The less said about Corbin "throwing people off the tower", the better. I mean, it's stupid enough but the execution with that piss-poor splash sound was so amateur hour. And hey, what a WWE show be without Stephy talking down to talent and making them look like idiots and geeks ? Just stupid on many respect, poorly executed and produced, not very interesting nor fun to watch really (yeah Asuka, Bryan, Otis, Lacy and Carmella had their moments).

Old-school to the chore, this guy... Paige knows. He's all good for a Dark Side of the Ring episode next year and that's about it as far as his "legacy" goes. What a piece of shit.

Just put Youtube on, for the sake of it. Cesaro vs Jeff Hardy. In a matter of a few seconds while Cesaro is just dropping elbows to Hardy's face : ZOOM, UNZOOM, CHANGE ANGLE, CHANGE ANGLE, CHANGE ANGLE. Wow. It's crazy how much this shit is unwatchable when you're not used to it anymore.

So, who takes the bump that will make the Giant infamous drop off Cobo Arena look believable ?