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Sending death threats is the new black. And rape threats when it comes to women. People are insane and social media made it worse on that respect (of course, most of these people wouldn't say shit to people's face). It happens seemingly all the times now. About Malakai's case. Malakai Black on Insta, September 18 : "I did indeed ask for my release" (not under quotation marks, although he did use the word under quotation marks later in the same post) Also Malakai Black on Insta, September 27 : "I never said I asked for my release" Also, it comes pretty much when TK just says "I ain't releasing shit so they can go to WWE". Honestly I would not mind if AEW would just refocus on guys who actually want to be there, and mostly guys coming from the indies or Japan/Mexico. For instance if Malakai, Matthews, Andrade or even Miro jump back to the WWE, that makes no difference at all at this point (funny how Rush has been that much better overall than Andrade in the few weeks he's been here in term of coming off like a star, although Andrade was not helped by the booking for a long time). Of these four I'd prioritize keeping Miro though, but really now, the era of "Hey, this guy would be much better out of the WWE system, let's sign him" is over. It has worked for some, not as much for others. Watching Claudio in AEW actually made it clear that he is *not* a main event player and really wasn't underused that much in WWE after all. He's an excellent in-ring worker, but I have found him kinda dry as a character thus far. With Triple H at the helm, workers will have more opportunities to actually work like they do (see : Gunther or Pete Dunn). Placement on the card and booking is a different issue. Let's not kid ourselves, Karrion Kross seems to be the current new project, Bray Wyatt is gonna make a HUGE comeback, it's not like everybody coming back from AEW is gonna be Cody Rhodes. Anywoo. I guess I always pick the worst time to want to just lurk. Crazy times all the time I guess now.

As I had legit decided to take a break from online presence and also from following closely the news and such, I only have watched All Out yesterday and this morning, in two sessions yes because I wasn't that hyped about it after all and was kinda baffled by all the missfires, tone deaf booking and plain bullshit on the show, despite a few great things (the two six-men matches, the main event). After it was all said and done, I was kinda like, well ok, let's see what happens next, although in a very cautious way of thinking. Then before I would eventually catch-up with the weekly shows, I went to F4 to see if there was a news or two... HOLY SHIT. I can't stop laughing and shaking my head since then. After Elizabeth II died, some people talked about she had been the only constant in the world in the last 70 years. But that's wrong. The only constant is pro-wrestling being pro-wrestling. I mentioned WCW circa 98 feel a few weeks back. Someone said "WCW speedrun" earlier and that's a great line. I have no idea what's next, but this last week is legendary stuff. Back in pro-wrestling lurking mode in more ways than one, enjoy the ruckus everyone.

I thought of making a new thread but thought it was cruel. Not everybody has the same empathy as I do... The PPV is probably gonna be awesome anyway. I mean, it's beginning to be seriously packed already. Too many matches actually + Eddie Kingtson vs Ishii in the free-preshow, because why the fuck not. TK is teasing that after All Out AEW will have the best roster they ever had, so I would guess Adam Cole & MJF back working.

Since I'm not familiar with Riddle's, I read that hearing Vince Russo's voice. Unpleasant. Very unpleasant.

Got it. The most puzzling one was about blackmailing WWE with a porn or something like that. Like, wtf ? The video is pretty clear cut, yeah. Posting a pic of a training session with Marty Scurll in it in this context is like, either completely idiotic, either plain vicious (you never know, although Riddle strikes me as being a completely dumb jock. Broman indeed).

Marty Scurll for ya. Also, have you listened to the latest vid from the ex-girlfriend ? There's nothing consensual about this. From all accounts, the guy comes off as a total dirtbag. No one cares about him being horny or bisexual.

The jokes writes themselves. The guy is, at very least and if nothing else, a complete and utter dumbfuck.

She is very clearly talking of sexual abuse in the last video she posted. Of course the reactions are the expected ones (people always want a "perfect victim"). I wonder if any of this will have any effect, but really now, sure the lawsuit was dropped (secret settlement ? We never knew for sure), but everybody knows this doesn't actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Whatever happens next, there's no way any of this is a good look, especially coming off Vince's scandal.

I wondered why Samuel Shaw's theme from TNA, which was great, seemed somewhat familiar. Well, it just occurred to me that it actually was... Pro-wrestling needs more of this.

It is that close to being really uncomfortable. I mean, just a little "And everybody knows why" from Seth and...

In all honesty by the end of his IMPACT stint he was quite ok. Playing Sid in ECW basically. I'm not sure how tall he would look in WWE though. Pretty tall still I think. I'm kinda surprised he hasn't surfaced somewhere yet, he sure looked good in the Wardlow match (hell, it's still one of the most entertaining Wardlow match thus far).

W. Morrissey is a free agent. Get him. Please. With his girlfriend in AEW, I fear something unpleasant might eventually happen.

First PPV in a stadium in Great Britain in 30 years, a Scottish guy in Cardiff, Wales, challenging for the title in front of legit 70.000 people. Yeah Roman's winning. (they should give Drew the win of course, can you picture the pop that would get ? First real Trip era PPV, in a huge setting, in the UK, way to make a statement and a legendary moment)

Maybe years ago, but he's shot now. He was shot the last years of his WWE stint. I'm not sure he's as bad as Gonzalez though. It's top tier shit worker level. But from what I've seen, he's terrible and not improving. But he's really, really big. Maybe Trip will care less about this though.

I got one for you : he sucks. That and the bolded part. I mean, they got Omos, who's bigger. He sucks even more, but he's bigger.

Also, Santana Garrett is back as a coach. Make the Performance Center Great Again !

Trip honeymoon... tik tok tik tok tik tok.....

Yep. Although not only with pro-wrestling, I mean yesterday I learned about Scott Kelly from Neurosis and Win Butler from Arcade Fire... "Regarde les hommes tomber", as we say. And really, there are things we just don't think about. I realize the frosplash is pushing it, because obviously the meaning has nothing creepy about it today, but there's no twisting around the fact of its origin and why Eddie did it, and at times, I have this flash of "Wow, do these people know the entire story ?". Another exemple of things we don't even think about : the NWA champ right now if Trevor Murdoch. A pretty good worker with a cool old-school presentation, who's named after a guy who was a really good pro-wrestler in the 70's and 80's, former partner of Dusty Rhodes and ... possibly maybe a member of the KKK. (although I don't know if the rumors were ever truly confirmed, but there have been a numbers of red flags) And really, this is the story, he's named after Murdoch as a tribute. It's like... ok. Maybe Hansen is a better name. Or Slater. I dunno. But I don't even think about this one usually, this just popped up in my mind because of this discussion.

What's ironic is after all the talk about how great Tim Storm is, well, he's half the announcing team for this show (unless he left after the pre-show, in which case I guess Velvet was there).

Dunno, I don't watch sports apart from sumo. Sons-of are everywhere, it's social reproduction. What annoys me more than anything is the term "wrestling royalty". Considering how fucked up most pro-wrestling family are/were, that's kind of a backward compliment. And mostly, since when is aristocracy considered a good thing anyway ? I dunno, that triggers the French in me I guess.

Thankfully I did not hallucinate ! Yeah, I guess this was a fumble and Hangman taking 10's place is the plan for the finals. Video game, DLC maybe ? People are already posting stuff about them leaving of course.

Nothing to do with what-aboutism. Those are two points I think about regularly. Just a opportunity to drop them in the 'Comment that don't warrant a thread' (EDIT : oh, well, the NWA thread, but really that's so much out of my radar I legit thought I was in the other thread !), much like much thoughts about pro-wrestling families in Japan and such. There's no big conversation about this issue that can be "muddied", especially considering you ended up making pretty much the same remarks anyway (gross, should have talked about Jake instead). I guess my first reaction is that I expected even worse, which says a lot about how much I think about the company (Tyrus, hi).

Yep. Also, I sure hope #10 acting like his knee is fucked up will lead to him being replaced by Hangman Page eventually, leading to a final that actually looks like a final. I could have sworn that the graphics of Dark Order on Dynamite was Silver/Reynolds and a shadow, but I did not check back. Obviously it wasn't the case in the end, but there's no way they make it to the final without Hangman being involved, it would make zero sense.

BTW, and since this is related to the entire "wrestling royaltie" annoying trope that has me cringe every time I hear it (Hi Cody), I was thinking about this recently, the american wrestling business has a lot a wrestling families and second, third and more to come (with now a lot more male/female wrestlers couple) generation wrestlers. Mexico is obviously based on wrestling families. But Japanese pro-wrestling doesn't seem to have as much if any of this. Out of the top of my head, I can think of Rikidozan's son of course, Hana Kimura was the daughter of a joshi wrestler, Hashimoto's kid works in Z1, the son of Red Shoes Uno is a pro-wrestler and may become a star one day, but I can't really think of a lot of generational things with entire families of pro-wrestlers. I wonder what are the cultural/social reasons behind this. I know sumo has some sons of and grandsons-of, though not sure of the extent of it (not paying enough attention), but it's seemingly more than in japanese pro-wrestling.

What are you even taIking about ? I just said it was *gross* and stupid in the post just above and said they should have referred to Jake instead.