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It's mostly the fans being bro-y seals, competing for who can be the funniest. A reporter stood up and asked if they were going to book Flip Gordon. Turns out it was Flip Gordon. He then superkicked MArty Scurll. Ripped his shirt off to reveal a "BOOK FLIP" shirt. He was then spinebustered by Page through a table. Young Bucks then come out for their turn at the presser. Flip Gordon is just laying under the broken table. No one cares.

Yeah. Abby moonlighted as Sudan Fats around the territories.

WWE is doing great and making money hand over fist. A lot of that is due to the escalators in the rights fee, obviously, but arguing that WWE is doing poorly financially is idiotic. Yes, if you shit on WWE’s financial success, you should be embarassed. Now, if you don’t like the creative, that’s fine The issue with this show is people have dismissed these guys as money draws, have argued that the wrestling style they all champion is killing the industry and suggested that they’re not as popular as they claim to be. And they sold 10,000 tickets in an hour for a show that had one announced match. This is industry-changing stuff and in an era where people literally say that only Brock Lesnar and John Cena actually sell tickets, this development should cause a lot of people to reconsider things. Bucks, Cody, Omega just proved themselves to be A-level draws in this country. That said, feel free to think they’re shit wrestlers, bad people or think that the show will under-deliver, which it probably will, but they drew a lot of money today.

Unmitigated success and a lot of people who have hot takes about the popularity of these guys, the passion of independent wrestling fans and the ability of this modern style of wrestling to draw money should be embarassed. Shitting on this event or these guys is no different than Skip Bayless trolling Lebron.

Vince probably thinks Cody still works for him and must just be on SD, so that's why he never sees him anymore.

Anyway, the real enjoyment will be when Vince crushes these generally unlikable human beings and their even more unlikable fanbase for their hubris. but full credit to them today.

Iron Spider merchandise:

I'm legitimately asking: Do you consider him selling a block of tickets to WrestleMania something that makes him untrustworthy? Also, I guess you won't take his word for it anyway, but he's literally said he personally has nothing to do with the VIP ticket package sales.

It's a gift.

I guess you never got the memo that Meltzer isn’t to be trusted anymore. It’s all over the internet these days. And it’s leaked onto this board a little, too.

The one thing that is definitely shows is that the only reason for the Young bucks or even Cody Rhodes for that matter to go/back to the WWE is to show people they can. This kind of proved they don't need anything WWE related to be big time. Would actually be a money loss unless something horrible happens to them

So, there's one little bone of contention I have with saying they drew a lot of money today. I think it's awesome they sold out. That should be looked at as a huge success. What they made today is going to go towards using the building, paying off workers, etc. For them to draw a lot of money, they're going to need many of these tickets sold to show up, buy concessions, buy merch, and more. I think they will do that, but I felt it was worth pointing out that they haven't crossed the finish line yet.

Worse: Both teams make it to the eastern finals without you on either playoff roster.

This press conference is all the cringe.

Happy Mother's Day.

maybe they could try, oh i don't know.....making the movie versions better reflect the comics versions instead of vice versa.

The inspiration for Silva and Machida:

I just got around to seeing Black Panther yesterday, and I watched it again tonight with my family. I haven't watched a movie two times in a row in decades.

On tonight's episode of Horrific MMA Cornering....

Is it a reenactment of the Syracuse incident?

Maybe they just sound more sinister at 1.5x speed?

Beaten to the punch on the Seinfeld joke. I had a long day at work.

His matches with "Maestro" Bob Cobb are legendary.

Do you have any numbers on this, or are you just saying it? Shows don’t have to sell out to be a financial success. When apw ran the cow palace last year, they drew somewhere between 2-3k with mostly $25 tickets and it was a financial success. The cow palace is certainly cheaper than this venue, but they are already making money here for sure. And for sure all the die hard fans are going to buy whatever exclusive shirt there is and a ton of other merch. These guys hit a grand slam. I also still don’t get all the scalper talk either. Right now 283 tickets on stubhub, less than 3%. I know there’s other avenues but this seems like an insignificant number. Im no bullet club fan boy either, don’t own any merch, although I do like them. As a wrestling fan, this is an awesome day. Long live wrestling.

Matt Jackson said he wants to book PCO so this show is the best idea ever now.

This backlash against the event made me so upset that I bought a $1500 ticket from a scalper just to show how serious I am about supporting indy wrestling. (I did not actually do this)

You honestly think 4,000 tickets were bought by scalpers, and that they'll just sit on StubHub and other websites, not being sold? Or do you think they sold 10K regardless and 4,000 people just won't show up the day of the event?

Not to be a dick but a show promoted by the Bullet Club and Meltzer with about 4000 - 8000 guys in Hot Topic Bullet club shirts and NOW you are having second thoughts? Always thought this was basically a higher class version of the Gathering of the Juggalos shows and nothing has really convinced me otherwise

They ran out of Moms to kill off

Dear Gregg, It's Bonsai, not Banzai.

Probably doesn't help you, but years ago I stopped being DVD cases. No one cares about seeing that. I bought a couple disc binders and moved everything into those. Recycled the cases I could and kept a folder in my hanging file cabinet for the case inserts. Freed up a lot of space.

So, I know 99.999999% Raquel is gay. And then, I think Anik, said something about her husband, and I got all twisted up. lol

John Lineker out here doing John Lineker type things.

If you're fighting someone nicknamed Capoeira, you should probably be concerned about spinning kicks.

There are no good jokes about Jonestown because the punchlines are always too long.

Thanos is mostly just stunned by the size of Warlock's flame penis.

An upside is Rowan has improved greatly since 14.

My bot waits for me.

John Motson's final commentary game today, Crystal Palace vs. West Brom. Amazing stats.

So...I can't think of another fighter who turned to their corner right before the 5th round and wanted to end it only to get talked out of it by their coach. And then for the fight to end like that with Pennington's eye all fucked up and nose gushing all kinds of blood because it's been crushed in ways that Rich Franklin would be familiar with. So what should her coach have done? Called the fight? Don't you want to protect your fighter?

I'm amazed how many die hard Russo fans there are on Twitter. It's staggering.

Now *THAT* is the total package

What does that Vince Russo tweet even mean? Like what does that statement actually tell us about "ME & THEM"? That he's eager to be there and that people don't want him there? Why would he want to point that out? I feel like blood is going to shoot out my nose thinking about this.

That Irish team with the priests gimmick should win the main event of that show

Ruby challenging after beating Sasha and Bayley makes sense. Ruby getting a title shot after just failing to qualify for the ladder match makes less sense. What WWE does will bear little or no relation to what makes sense, though, so this is really just pointless rambling.

We celebrated our first wedding anniversary yesterday by having an offer accepted on a condo. I'm still in the "oh wow, we bought a place" phase but am rapidly moving into "oh my god there is so much to do."