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That sucks. Hopefully he gets better and recovers quickly.

Tough shit. Because pro-wrestling has always been evolving. I don't care about a segment of fans who doesn't like this or doesn't like that. I always care about one thing : what I enjoy myself. Pretty much no one watched Lucha Underground after the first season, sadly. It's still my favourite promotion of the last 5 years (and the one who made me evolved and get with the times too). Actually at this point, IMPACT is my favourite promotion, not AEW, because there's no TV yet. AEW is definitely makin pro-wrestling better for everyone, that is a fact, because workers have never had this kind of leverage in the last 20 years, and fans have never had more choices either. So, those are facts, not opinions. As far as Corny being the spokesperson, he's a pretty shitty one considering how much biased he is. He still talks about Kenny Omega like "that guy who ruined pro-wrestling because he wrestled a 7 year old girl" and not the guy who was a huge star in NJPW, sold out huge arenas against Okada and is considered by many of one of the greatest worker of all time already. He still talks about the Bucks like they are indie geeks and not legit stars, which at this point is factually wrong. I could go on and on. His "feud" with Callihan was bullshit, he admitted it himself. Corny ain't the spokesperson for no one, he's making good business selling soup to people. And really, the people who don't like what AEW is doing, guess what : dont watch. You're not the right target. They don't need a "spokeperson" nor a "voice of resistance" (seriously). Like I said, pro-wrestling is evolving. Tough shit. But who knows, maybe AEW will end up tanking and those Corny guys will be happy that they were "proven right" and then they can go back bitching about how boring WWE is... (and really, if I had my ways, I'd glady get another strong season of Lucha Underground that no one would give a fuck about but me)

I mostly love Cornette. Always have. Was all over his stuff (podcast & great shoots with KC) a few years ago when everyone was shitting on him going back on his ROH days and unpopular political opinions. I find his views on modern wrestling to be mostly irrelevant because they are ridiculously biased. Sorry, but this is LOL material. The "Voice of resistance" ? Because we sure need "resistance" toward actually making pro-wrestling better for all parties involved, which is what the emergence of AEW is doing. Corny is doing podcast business. His "feud" with Sami Callihan was a work. He cornered himself against a wall with some of his ridiculous takes on the Bucks and Kenny Omega. He's basically working his "old man yells at cloud" gimmick to wonders to a bunch of his fanboys who blindly eat his shit up, just like some fanboys blindly eat Brucie's shit up. Trying to paint AEW and basically all modern pro-wrestling as some kind of "threat" to whatever pro-wrestling would supposed to be in 2019 by "good standarts" and something that needs to be "resisted" is completely ridiculous.

And then they can wait until a governor changes it back to the old ways and they can have a big PPV there again and give that person a world title belt and declare the USA is the greatest country in the world or something. I wonder about the AEW contracts BTW. Guys like MJF definitely are "independent contractors" as they also work MLW for now, but most of the exclusive deals probably don't allow that, especially once they get on TV.

Agreed. And considering some GWE analytical obsessive type have a pretty narrow way to look at things themselves (not pointing the finger at anyone in particular, it's just a fact), it's not only patronizing, it's also ridiculous. And yeah, in 1990 in WWF, Valentine vs Garvin was totally a JTTS vs JTTS match, which is the perfect definition of non-star match. That Conrad has a pretty mainstreamy taste is nothing new. How any time can we hear "X is one of the most underrated guy" and think "What ? He's been a consensus greatest worker forever now."

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This is some of the best stuff I've read on the WWE machine recently. Spot on.

Because this is what they want their wrestlers to actually believe IRL too (they had that backstage stuff with Stephy the other week telling them if they leave their career would be over basically... meanwhile, John Moxley, Juice Robinson, Sami Callihan and others...). This is how they think, so they have to put it out there in the minds of their audience too.

Finally a good news for IMPACT !

Well, Meltz is funny.

I can totally see Shane entering the court to the sound of "Here come the money" and doing shadowboxing in the jury's box.

Meltz often has a deadpan sense of humour that flies right over the head of many people (many people simply don't get deadpan humour). In that case, he probably did not know about Shane being on jury duty, but the "Vince forgot about him" reeks of deadpan humour... Bryan's reaction was quite funny.

It's easier to praise a piece of trash when he's already dead meat. Well, there was this "Invader I is such a great worker" kinda thread once, but still...

Like they had anything to fear from a AAA show that has failure (as far as interest, not actual quality of the show) written all over it...

A try out... You don't give Scarlett a try-out, you give her a contract... El Hijo del Fantasma is certainly an interesting name to get into NXT. Watch him get wasted like every luchador before him. Well maybe not, since he can also speak english better than most I believe and has a good body for their standarts (that is, if he looks like he did in the first season of LU). Two people I'd rather have in AEW, but oh well...

I pretty much agree with most of the selection here. I do think Duggan is actually a pretty good guest, he's easy going and tells some good stories. I enjoy Sullivan and Nash too (although the later is amazingly full of shit). The Windham Timeline to me was a complete bore and waste of time. And the Francine episode of Breaking Kayfabe I thought was excellent, I love that girl, she seems so adorable for real. I would not recommend any shoot interview involving Sunny.

Yeah, the Corny Timelines are great. Tully is terrific too. I'm sure some of the early stuff, especially some Youshoots, haven't aged well at all. Well, I guess Alberto's is good a for laugh or two, as he was played straight family man then.

Certainly looks much better than CMLL Anniversario show, which is crazy when you think about it. Tessa vs Taya & LB vs ex-LAX basically are two of the hottest IMPACT matches of last year. No idea how Wagner vs Demon will get over in NY though...

MJF. You can quote me on that.

As expected, it was much lighter on pro-wrestling this time, but also considerably darker and deeper. The one criticism I have is that it feels too short and I want S4 already. And I mean, with that ending there have to be a S4. Loved this season, again.

A lot of it is going on with AEW in general. As if they rub a lot of people the wrong way with their success so far. I mean, hearing Cornette, of all people, use the "if that happened in the WWE people would shit on them for that kind of stuff" argument is mind blowing. Really Corny ? You of all people ? That reeks of bad faith and sadly, it makes him sound as much of a gimmick as Brucie does. It's kinda interesting to see guys like Schiavone being much more open minded, as I mean way before he was even involved with AEW, you could feel he had fun in MLW calling some crazy-ass indie style matches (when they still had some good names), just like he would have fun watching old ECW cards on his podcast. And speaking if MLW, what if someone would break down the very mediocre product Corny is involved with right now ? Because they sure don't deliver anything great ever, have zero hype despite being on Being Sports and having their show on Youtube and very often displays the most indierriffic of indierriffic stuff on the undercard (awful spot monkey guys like Gringo Loco and Aero Wolf or whatever his name is) because they don't have a legit roster. If Corny would use the same kind of logic he uses breaking down AEW with MLW, I wonder how that would look...

I quit after two minutes in (of the review, did not listen to the rest) when he said that Excalibur was exceptionnally bad and that him and Goldenboy sounded like two fans talking in their basement and that it got better when JR came in. I mean, when you're that much biased, you're not getting more of my time.

Oh I forgot LAX ! Oh yeah, that one would rule. I would guess Ortiz & Santana are gonna be Jericho's guys too. Too bad they won't use the LAX name and theme though.

Cody has looked like the most over guy on every PPV and he won all his matches (agreed, against guys who haven't won once, but then again, when you only had three shows it's hard to go all hard stats). Makes all the sense in the world. Can't wait to see what they will announce for the Bucks now (I kinda fear for the Dark Order, not for the match, but the gimmick is so not over that it doesn't sounds like any big match).