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He sure did. Actually, no one knows for sure. Nor should anyone care, really. You realize what "sissy" means, right ? And he said other things too on Twitter by the way, but I couldn't quote that from memory. As far as "prancing around", yeah those fucking V Trigger don't look like it's kill someone for sure. But anyway, this is neither here nor there, Corny did make some very awkward, to say the least, comments in the past. First, "accusing" someone of being gay is one awkward way to put it to say the least. There's no accusing someone of being gay. Second, yeah that stuff about "unhealthy fascinaton with female japanese wrestlers" is another one filthy declaration on Corny's part. Omega has learned from watching joshi puroresu from the 90's because thise girls were some of the best wrestlers in the world. And then he has a fascination for Japan and Japanese culture, like many people of his generation. And then he worked DDT, which has intergender matches. So yeah, he has japanese wrestlers female friends. Maybe dated some, who knows, who cares. There's nothing unhealthy about all of that. As far as booking them strong in AEW, well, these girls have been the best of the bunch, easily. Riho was one of the most over act at first. Again, nothing "unhealthy", whatever that means. But really, we all know what Corny is trying to say by "unhealthy fascination with female Japanese pro-wrestlers", and it's disgusting for Corny to say. He's had one of the best career in Japan a gaijin can hope. Coming up with DDT (which is basically the second biggest company in Japan, really, whatever that means in the 10') and ending main eventing with Okada in some of the most notable matches of the last 15 years in Japan, and anywhere actually. Yeah, he had a cup of coffee... But this really isn't about Omega. This is about Corny and the awful things he seem to say all the time now.

Yeah, I really feel sometimes, the few bullshit that gets some buzz is actually the tree that hides the forest, sadly. What parts ? The part where he talks about Kenny killing the business for working against a 9 year old girl in DDT years ago or the parts where he makes half-covered homophobic remarks about him ? Or maybe the part where he says Kenny is a geek and not a star when, hey wait, he's one half of the match that basically jumpstarted this whole AEW thingy and before the shutdown was one of its most over act (despite the naysayers who live in denial), and is actually living on a fat-ass contract as a talent and top-ranked official of the N°3 pro-wrestling company in the world. Yeah that guy will never amount to anything. (I won't even go into match quality since it's the most "subjective" element, but these people in the crowd in Japan who probably don't know who the fuck Dave Meltzer is kinda went crazy for his stuff for years) As far as Cornette being toxic in 2020, I totally agree, because he carries with him a crowd of sycophants and haters who just parrot whatever he says. For instance the fact that NWA Powerr shared quite a bit of its viewer with the AEW Dark audience on Youtube should be enough to realize Corny consistently shitting on AEW and its fans was a very bad things for the NWA.

That's even worse, actually, because it means she's really fucking terrible at pro-wrestling then.

Well, it is and it is not. When you're hired for a job only because of your looks, and when years after years you display pretty much incompetence at anything other than looking the way you do (and by the way this has been a constant criticism of male pro-wrestler for years and years, way before women in wrestling became a serious matter) it becomes part of the issue. From what I saw during the MITB debacle (granted, it's not very much), Dana Brooke still isn't good at doing jackshit apart from flexing muscles. How long has she been part of the main roster now ? While "lesser looking" girls on the indies/small companies are a hundred times the workers and characters. So yeah, when all you got is your look, expect people to comment on it because that's pretty much all you bring to the table and this is why you are making money.

Damn, Kenny Omega killed his career dead two weeks ago now this ? Wow, AEW is so fucked now. Ok, next.

Well, that's YOUR point, the one you choose to make, and it's a totally valid one I might add, but that's not what I was going for. One : Corny's an idiot. Two : Dana Brook should find much better arguments than "spread positivity". Three : people on social networks who spend their time posting selfies of themselves in "Look at me, I'm so hot" pauses (generally speaking, not talking about Dana Brooke specifically), especially when they are public figures, have no business telling other people not to comment on how they look, whether they are men or women.

*grab a bag of chips and a beer*

Come on, people made fun of him wearing the T-shirt back in 1999. People have been mocking Mickey Rourke (who does look like a car accident) for decades now. Of course there's a double standard, as there is from pretty much *everything* in society. But that's not the point. Plus the social pressure on getting work done in waaaaaaaaaay heavier on women than on men (yes, double standard, again). I don't think being a good little soldier of that normative pressure is exactly what I'd call "spreading positivity". Well, actually it is, because the whole "positivity" thing is the latest mental avatar of über-capitalism (and which is why at times DDP annoys the fuck out of me on his DDPY app, which still is really good).

I get the feeling we'll see more of this when contracts are up, despite the fact these people are pushed on TV or not. I guess they have learned that the best way is to keep quite, say nothing and then simply not resign.

Quite honestly, that's the first thing that jumped to my mind when I saw her at MITB and that's the least you could say. Of course, everyone does what they want with their bodies and if she's happy with it, more power to her and whatever. On the other hand the whole "spread positivity" millenial bullshit sounds really dumb when doing stuff like this may encourage younger women and girls to have that kind of work done for futile reasons (and think they must abide to some kind of normative look of big boobs and big lips and whatnot). Reminds me of famous actress Emmanuelle Beart who had her lips done, it looks like crap and really has ruined her looks, she knows it, she has said it, said that she regrets it and warned people about the danger and consequences of doing stuff like this. Spread intelligence instead of idiotic "positivity". Of course Corny's post is anything but intelligent, but the point remains, when I saw Dana my reaction was "WTF happened ?". (oh, and don't anyone give me the whole "oh you can't say anything about someone's body, that's bodyshaming" when those people are spending their time on Instagram posting selfies all the time for narcissistic reasons and to feed their vain ego, it's such an hypocritical point to make)

This. There's two occurence of JR sucking bad today. First, the drone beatdown. Either get with the program or get the fuck away. Second, when he pointed out in a super condescending way that Brodie Lee did not hook the leg at one point, as he was Gorilla Monsoon at his worst. The thing is, it also allows me to points out how *good* Schiavone is. First, listen to the tone of his voice when he concludes the drone beatdown sequence, with a sense of empathy and sadness in his voice, selling the fact it actually means something to Matt Hardy. Second, when JR makes his stupid remark about not hooking the leg and hammers it down, Schiavone jumps in and tries to rationalize it, talking about maybe it is part of Brodie's arrogance that he doesn't feel he has to do it. And then Excalibur, who is obviously smart but would not "counter" JR, adds to to Tony's point. In both case, JR acts like he's above the angle/the character and it's Schiavone who puts things back in the rails of the storytelling. Apart form that, I enjoyed the hell out of the tag-team match, Matt looks much better than I thought he would, I thought he was more broken, pun intended, that this. Omega ruled, as he does. Glad to see Ortiz and Santana back "in the best shape of their life" (aka wrestling lingo for "nowhere near the best shape of their life, of not fat") too. The women match however was a complete mess, and it's obvious Penelope, Statlander and even Baker are way green still, so the three of them together was not a good recipe. Statlander really is the greener of the three though, she dropped herself on her head on that one, it was scary. Baker should focus on doing heel maneurisms and spots like she did on Dark in a very nice squash, high speed intense spotfest aren't good for her at this point. Penelope was fine apart from the awful spot with Statlander. Nyla vs Shida no DQ could be quite good however, as Nyla has delivered in big matches with excellent workers, which is what Shida is. When you have an announcer looking like Dasha, put the fucking camera on her at times, especially when she is being intimidated by Brodie Lee, so we can see the intimidation on her face. That's something I don't get. Lucha Underground was the best at it and of course Melissa Santos was an awesome announcer (will she follow Brian Cage to AEW when he eventually shows up ?). The small crowds doing tons of noise and even chants makes all the difference in the world, so the PPV should at least have a decent atmosphere. The Stadium Stampede could be awesome. Also... Colored wrist band for people who have been tested = pro-wrestling tapings are now officially like a gangbang.

Wait, what's the story here ?

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.