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Wow. It's kinda crazy how "little" it took it term of mainstream attention to get him the fuck out of the picture. Two articles in a mainstream outlet and he's a goner. If pro-wrestling was not seen as this under the radar, third tier kind of entertainment, it would have happened way sooner. As far as the creative go, the company is thoroughly unprepared for such a scenario, as the last few years have demonstrated.

Also Titus : "WWE is for everyone. Except Vince McMahon"

Steve Bannon guilty and Vinnie Mac retiring on the same day ? Coincidence ? I think not.

Yeah, I posted it in the AEW thread should have shared it here. Coach Tony K. in all its sleaze thread glory.

Goldy is available. They made their bed, now they lie in it. They are completely unprepared because they have made zero stars over the last 10 years and they have never prepared the post-Vince in term of running the company. Chicken are coming home to roost.

I was thinking, with Vince out of the equation, what if Brock pulled a "Doesn't work for me brother" ? I guess that's the answer, although I guess there's one week to milk the WWE cow like there's no tomorrow for Brock.

I hope they have Titus show up at SummerSlam to introduce the "Tell me a lie" video with Vince.

Take over the company, fire everybody related to the McMahons and have Dwayne buy in. If you smeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll.....

Stephy is incompetent. I mean, they said it themselves a few weeks back. I guess they changed their mind. Dunn is god awful. Triple H has been exposed a long time ago. Brucie is... You know Vince is gonna write the show from his home anyway.

I am legit DYING ! Still a DVDVR green board shitposter at heart.

They are beginning to fall. Slowly, but it happens. Harvey Weinstein fell. Some people in France are going through the same process (for rape accusations). Yep, but more is probably to come. I mean, I'm neither shocked nor think it will immediately change anything. But I'm not shocked. Now, I'm just waiting to see (and hoping) if there's an actual killshot coming.

Vince McMahon trending on the French Twitter. Insanity.

A thought for Dave Meltzer, who thought he could just lay back and enjoy Briscoes vs FTR this week-end.

Remember Trip just got back as the EVP of Talent Relations. Shit is crazy.

You mean, out of nowhere when there's an inquiry about him using millions of company money to shut off women employees whom he had sexual intercourses with ? I mean, out of nowhere kinda sorta.... This.

Damn, one minute too late ! Bye bye, we hardly knew ye. Can we get an entire Dark Side season now ?

Jade Cargill is still only one yeah and a half into her career. For all the talk about improvement, she is now visibly stagnating because she works a match every other week. They won't be able to work the streak gimmick forever either so as to protect her. And she doesn't need to be protected as much as she needs to *work* and get mileage on her pro-wrestling experience. Watching some Stardom lately did some people no good in my perception of some US women wrestlers. There's a debate about is it good or not to start training super young but you know what, Riho works circles around pretty much every woman in AEW (and knows how to get herself over to boot), and some of those Stardom girls who are like 19 or 21 (AZM, Starlight Kid) and have been working regularly for years are just on another level completely. That's what Jade Cargill, Tay Conti or Anna Jay would need, one year working in Japan, day in, day out. I bet you they would come back much, much better.

Excalibur is vital to the product. He's not only really good (he has his flaws), but he's the one who knows the product inside and out, and has the current pro-wrestling culture to call it the right way. Schiavone is the old guy enthousiastic about the current product aka the anti-boomer. And really, he's really good at actually learning about current pro-wrestling (he knows the name of the moves, he knows guys for having worked with them back in MLW), as opposed to JR who's the boomer (sooner) announcer of the bunch, cool as a legend and efficient in spots, but grumpy enough to be like an annoying drunk uncle who doesn't get what the hell TikTok is. Taz is the best color guy in the biz (he was really good in TNA too although at times he was just brought down by the overall product and atmosphere) and I'm glad he's been used more. They should really stick to a variation of a three men booth. Jericho has overstayed its welcome on Rampage for a while now. No idea who does the announcing on Dark anymore, but needless to say I still have no idea why the fuck they hired Paul Wight for. Nor Mark Henry.

After watching the last few big Stardom shows with both Tam Nakano vs Natsupoi matches and the awesome Saya Kamitani vs Starlight Kid title match (Kamitani is getting better and better, great babyface performance here, and Starlight Kid is just ridiculous, she's what, 21 ?), the biggest match of the week-end, the Summer and really the year thus far to me is Syuri vs Tam Nakano. Nakano has low-key been one of the best worker in the world these last two years, she would sure deserve a run with the red belt.

I mean, there's not much more they can do and Jericho has to lose the last match, he just has to (he actually lost the very first, which was the jumpstart point). Still, at this point they have way overdone the barb wire gimmick already, this match did not pop a rating at all. We're reaching the point of desensitization, and it's probably not the time to re-do the most extreme gimmick, especially when the last occurence did not exactly went well. Brody King should be getting the push Wardlow is. He's about a hundred times better in every aspect.

Yes. She did fine too. She absolutely would be a welcome addition. You know who did mighty fine when they switched guest announcers every week on Dark ? Shawn Spears. But AEW doesn't need another goddamn announcer, least of which Mauro.

NXT UK really is a great place to work. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/former-nxt-uk-referee-artemis-pay-big-issue-i-took-pay-cut-being-teacher Former (French) NXT UK ref explaining she never earned as little money as she did working WWE. Fuck, she was earning more as a teacher, and that was probably not very much (not enough anyway).

Tyrus is *worthless* and he's got a track record as a sex pest. That has to be an angle. Then again, Billy Corgan. Aldis little stint as cosplay NWA champ has run its course for a while now. When he showed up in IMPACT to team with his wife he looked like some random dude and not a star at all. In *IMPACT*, where they manage to make everyone shine on their own level, whatever it may be. He had his moment of hype and glory with All In, mostly because of Cody, but this ship has sailed, there's no hype whatsoever left with the NWA. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to see Aldis eventually get hired by WWE as an agent, since he's always been a Jarrett guy.

I mean, like I said I actually thought he was different announcing that IMPACT match last year. So I would be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Still, I would most probably shout some well thought out "Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiique !!!!!!!!" if it actually happened. I'm already not happy about Schiavone being cut down on Dynamite. Moving Taz in is a good thing, but if someone has to be cut down, it's JR.

Please, don't. I thought he was much more tolerable when he announced that big match in IMPACT with Omega, way less annoying than he was in WWE, but please, don't. That would hurt my enjoyment of the product QUITE A BIT. And that's the last thing I need right now (I still enjoy most of it a lot, but there are also some stuff I would gladly do without).