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Copied and pasted from Wikipedia for your reading pleasure. Mahal wrestled for Reality of Wrestling (ROW) under the name Raj Singh at their summer iPPV, ROW Summer of Champions 2014, defeating Jasper Davis.[62] On October 24 at All Star Wrestling (ASW) in Vancouver at the live event Fright Night Live, Singh teamed with his cousin Gama Singh Jr. to defeat Kyle Sebastian and Collin Cutler to win the ASW Tag Team Championship.[63] Between 2014 and 2015, he appeared in Puerto Rican promotion the World Wrestling Council (WWC) against local star Ray Gonzalez.[64][65] He also participated in Qatar Pro Wrestling (QPW) Souq Waqif Championship tournament in April 2015, where he ended up as first runner up.[66] On May 5, Singh made his debut for Japanese promotion Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), losing to Wang Bin.[67] In 2016, he also wrestled for The Great Khali's wrestling promotion Continental Wrestling Entertainment (CWE) in India.[68] That Indy Darling, he.

Drew ? I guess so, yeah, he turned a negative into a positive. Jinder ? What ? The only thing he raised was the amount of steroid in his body. He just happened to be there at the right time for a WWE business model experiment, which thus far has produced one of the all-time worst championship stint ever. But it's neither here nor there. If they do well on the indies, good for them. As of now, they have just been fired and lost their income. Painting that as "a chance" is capitalistic corporate horseshit talk, sorry to say. They are not "leaving". They got fired for cost reducing measures...

Not my fault that WWE booking is predictably horrible. I dare you to predict what good things I'm gonna say about their next step though. Lately, Alexa Bliss has been my favourite part of their shows, so there... Not really "in-line" with "people".

I talk like it's the worst place in the world ? Really ? Oh, that's why I said some of those girls from the MYC deserved to be signed, for instance... Or that I'm glad AJ gets his big money break... Or, or, or... But yeah, the "WWE stocks talk" is a joke I had in stocks ( ! ! ! ) for a while now. It's actually pretty amusing to me, the predictability of it (including, to be honest, your last post, which I knew was incoming).

The greatest achievement on 90's Japanese indie sleaze. A classic.

Wow. Getting fired and losing your income = getting a chance to "find yourself". What a bunch of capitalistic corporate horseshit. I wonder if some of you have a bunch of WWE stocks sometimes...

Well, this last show was certainly something, although in the end, I never clicked with Puma as the lead babyface, while Mundo won me over somewhat as a heel. Those last vignettes were exactly why LU is what pro-wrestling should be today. It will be pretty sad if it goes away. But if iit does, well, it's been one hell of a fun ride...

And so, the latest KC project is Vince Russo hosting interviews to recap the Attitude Era... Well, running out of interesting ideas I guess.

"Building up" a 50 year old guy who's been pushed on TV for 20 years as a top guy/monster. Yeah, right, that's really needed...

Abyss. Yes, his gimmick is a rip-off, but as a worker, he's actually pretty consistently carryable to very good/excellent matches, and he does bring tons of goods to the table himself. AJ Styles worked a MOTYC with him in 2005.

Yeah, from memory of the AJPW TV show taped that day, which showed at least the tag title change and Bulldogs vs Rock'n'Roll, the matches were super underwhelming. Pretty much sucked to be honest.

That was my exact thought. That Asuka PPV debut makes even LESS sense now and it didn't make any to begin with. Dumb. As. Fuck. They could have something in her and fucked it up completely. Hope Emma lands somewhere she gets happy and makes money.

I think the debate about "not doing a job" became broader, and Nia has simply become a case study at this point. There actually could be an entire thread about "Refusing to do a job" in the Military Industrial Suplex, makes for interesting discussions of different cases and contexts.

Well, I have nothing against her, the person, obviously. As a worker, I find her to be not very good at her role as I've stated many many times (the comparison with Amazing Kong blasting on TNA in 2007 is murderous). She got her current spot solely because she's from a famous wrestling family and because she's big. So yeah, that makes this kind of selfish behaviour way more grating to me than say, a girl who would have struggled for ten years in indies scrapping for every buck she can make. I mean, good for her that she got the spot, but acting like a prima dona when everything was basically handled to you reeks of Warriorism, if you will. That being said, refusing to do a job when you're basically a midcarder, whether you're the greatest worker ever or a complete tool, just doesn't set well in general, especially in the current form of what pro-wrestling is. Now, for instance, Austin refusing to do a job for Lesnar on free TV when PPV still mattered, that's another kind of case.

That part was obviously sarcastic on my part. But non-usage of smileys makes things difficult sometimes...

I'm absolutely not worked up over it. People bitching about the fact someone made light of Nia for being a puss (if she did refuse to do a job) get worked up about it. So it's kinda fun drilling the point home. Not wanting to do a job on TV in 1985 an not wanting to do a job on TV in 2017 is not exactly the same thing. And really, I guess all of this talk makes Shawn Michaels a great professional in the mid-90's after all... I find it totally juvenile, immature and the sign of having an unwarranted ego, but whatever. And again, it takes two to dance. So, what about the one you refuse to do the job for ? It's a big fuck you to that person, whose been working putting your sad ass over before and taking bumps for making your average offense look deadly. What about that part of the deal ? Funny how the whole thing is twisted into "Good that she stands up for herself against the evil office that wants her to do a job (god forbid)", without taking anything else into consideration. Selfish thinking all the way.

Not feeling this feud at all. Garvin actually drags Flair down in his idiotic slapfests matches, and the other Garvin really still shows nothing good to me, he's definitely useless. But damn, those interviews get creepier and creepier.

It really has nothing to do with "disagreeing with WWE or Vince" per say (really, doing a job is the basics of pro-wrestling), it's the fact a midcarder (who really is only where she is because she's been a corporate favourite to begin with and not someone who has been on the roads by herself trying to make a living for years) refusing to do a job, in 2017 mind you, is completely ridiculous. Plus, it's kinda insulting toward Sasha Banks. So, Sasha, who has done jobs left and right without complaining seemingly, isn't worthy of you doing your job ? Now, wanna talk about "disagreeing with Vince and WWE" for real ? Let's have someone try to bite into that ridiculous "independant contractor" bullshit, now this would be interesting. But being pissy about doing a job when you are 2 years and a half in the field ? Yeah, fuck that. Pussy, mark, diva, whatever. Then again, if that's all rumours and she only wanted to get off the grind for a few weeks, well... kinda... wanna talk about the eighti... ok, I'll stop now. It's gonna be way too obvious I don't particulary care for Jaxx at this point.

Yeah, I don't care much about the usual Meltz kinda-obsessive bash-fest, but that kind of comment is so overtly ridiculous that it's hard to take anything seriously.

Nia is basically a rookie with very average talent at best who has done jackshit in "Da Biz" and who's only where she is because she's big and from the Family. So yeah, if she indeed had an ego booboo because she had to do a job to Sasha Banks, who's been working her ass off and killing herself for a while now, she's a big pussy with an oversize ego. That's not "standing up for yourself". Seriously now, where are Chiggy and Satomura to kick some of these people in the fucking teeth ?

The Jeff Jarrett episode was absolutely fascinating stuff.

For fuck's sake. What I said about Kane yesterday. Again.

For a while, this was the most watchable WWE PPV in a long time. Enjoyed the two women's match a lot, although Asuka should have been put over much more strongly and the fact they played the "old" card for James is beyond stupid. The tag cruisermatch was very fun too. Didn't watch Enzo & Elias matches, because life is short. AJ Styles vs Finn Balor was legit great, and yet another proof Styles is one of the greatest ever. Balor really should binge watch every Great Muta match ever, because the Demon character is a bunch of cool looking paint and nothing more. The main event was like a fun clusterfuck of a match that turned so-bad-it's-good in a WCW 95/96 way (glad I'm not the only one who had Uncensored flashbacks), then the whole Kane kills Braun thingy happened and it became legit offensive. When you put the ratio of TV Time / terrible matches-angles-pushes together, Glen Jacobs has to be the all-time least enjoyable wrestler ever. Why the fuck is he on a PPV main event at 50, and getting the best of fucking Braun ? Anyway, Kane is one the worst ever and then the match became just awful and stupid as opposed to fun and stupid. Then Kurt Angle came back, as every guy who has to be carried back half-dead always does (how lazy can the booking get at this point with this shit ?) and at least they sent the fans home happy. I guess overly bloated garbage brawls are the brand new thing now, it's like a 1998 revival mixed with self-conscious epic or something....

Bret vs Shawn for the title was always the plan. It's been discussed at length before, including by Prichard on his podcast. Sid getting the title after the debacle was only a way to pass the belt onto Taker at Mania after all got fucked up.