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It's an upper breast and thigh business.

We can joke about the Brakkuses and the Renee Duprees but god damn, just look at the aforementioned Ryback and Braun Strowman. Both guys got big pushes (Strowman moreso), both main evented PPVs, and both were off the main roster 5-6 years after they started. It's just anecdotal and maybe other people here can give more examples or even contradicting ones, but if this is the track record with guys they build from the ground up, where they're trained, used up, and spit out in less than a decade, that just sucks and probably isn't worth it for whatever college football washouts or American Gladiators alternates they might be able to lure. Also, I'm still laughing over "we need people who can main event Wrestlemania!" Like motherfucker this shit is a work anybody can main event Wrestlemania.

… All you fat, out of shape, sesame street sweathogs …

keep the noise down while I tell you how to get to Sesame Street

Even better:

There would have to be Jaguars fans for that to happen

Ha, I thought about posting in this week's Dynamite thread "The crowd was pumped up from the last bout, so this match was seen as something of a letdown" about the main event, but wasn't sure if anyone would get it.

Can we stop talking about how much money someone made like it fucking matters? It doesn't. The reality is that the vast majority of everyone making that much money is really bad with money. If they're not bad with it then they think that income is always going to be there and they live like that. The more money you make, the more your expenses increase. Not everyone is a Punk or Foley where they never elevate their expenses.

He didn't steal it, it's a somewhat frequently used term. Not the most well known one but I've heard it many times in my life, and often times in corporate situations.

Rick Rude should have worn the Bird outfit when he was the WCW Phantom in 1991

Yeah, I'm worried Wight vs Marshall isn't going to get the time it deserves.

Pictured: three guys who really moved the needle

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A school that doesn't exist playing a wholly-owned subsidiary of a talent agency that only exists to exploit unpaid teenagers is a nice microcosm of where "amateur" sports are in this country.

Cassie & Jessie are a package deal. Plus, it’s fitting for them. And, in some neighborhoods, there’s a Big Joker and a Little Joker in spades. I’m guessing TK has never played that version, though…

The insane executive director at my job says it and I immediately was triggered lol

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Did this version of big bird knock out Oscar the grouch with an open handed slap?

Mickie James and a fan.

Goddamn. If I wanted to see people direct that kind of thin-skinned hostility at their own fans, I'd watch Raw.

I GOT SOMETHING TO SAY KILLED YOUR TERRITORY TODAY, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH TO ME, AS LONG AS IT'S DEAD

I don’t think any of those guys, other than Hobbs & the Bears, would leave AEW unless they aren’t offered extensions. Why on earth would you go somewhere away from a friendly owner & locker room full of likeminded talent to go play Nicky Budgets’ Reindeer Games for a couple years before they cut you loose? None of those AEW stalwarts are going anywhere, and idk why people would think they are…

I can't wait for a headlining match between the Samoan Bloodline vs the Bull Buchanan Bloodline.

#1 on cable so still a good number.. TNT is probably cool with that.

C'mon. Michigan is rising up in Jim Harbaugh's 7th year and looks poised to defeat Ohio....BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Who am I kidding.

That sure is a weird way to say "I should never be trusted with my tweets ever again"..

Brady Booker should have been the manager for Creative Control.

Nice to see they went back in time and signed young Baron Corbin.

And in what's sure to be completely unrelated news... The Bears announced they're taking offers (lol) on Nick Foles. Based on his contract, I'd say a $25 gift certificate to Pequod's should cover it.

I will say, if the whole thing is a work - I wouldn't at all be surprised. FTR pride themselves on being the "last of a dying breed" and there's nothing that says that more than having a storyline blend into real life. They're using that old school philosophy and adding it to the storyline. This feels like something out of the 80s. Also, if it were their last match - I doubt they'd do it on Dynamite. I'd see TK at least having it at the PPV. I know its not too far from what we had but MJF/FTR vs. Jericho/PnP would've worked for the PPV in some fashion as well with now two storylines playing the "is this it?!" note.

They also could've been pulling from outtakes. Kurt's a Disney lifer anyways.

Meltzer thinks plans for Danielson have changed and he'll debut at the PPV this weekend. Dave was previously told BD would debut at the NYC Grand Slam event. Have FTR even been under contract for a year? Maybe they've realized that the odds of both of them staying injury-free for more than 3 months at a stretch are slim and have decided to retire before a tree falls on them or one of them is struck by lightning.

Hey! Stardom posted yesterday's matches on Youtube. I loved the Ice Ribbon roll-up section in the Natsupoi/ Darkness SLK match. It's so great to have Takumi Iroha back and Maika held up her end. The surprise for me was how good Rina was at 14 versus Unagi Sayaka. SAYAKA- CARRIER OF YOUTH! ======================= Toxin is the best wrestler on the free internet and probably the world. This match is overall NUTZ! but Toxin is the center of the craziest parts. He is sooo good. Everybody else in this match is also crazy and good. ================================ Dulce Tormenta, who is awesome, brings the strange micro-heat by sporting a UTEP t-shirt while wrestling in front a New Mexico St football crowd. "HEY! THAT'S THIRDISH LEVEL RIVAL! BOOOO!" So great. Lady Diamond is wrestled around.

If we're talking AEW themes for working out then might be worth checking Butcher and the Blade's theme. As it goes on it sounds like a proper metal tune that may or may not need vocals on it.

Today marks one year of Roman Reigns as WWE Universal Champion. Hell of a run. Year plus world champions in WWE since Randy Savage held the WWF Championship from March 1988-April 1989: John Cena, WWE Championship, September 2006-October 2007. CM Punk, WWE Championship, November 2011-January 2013. AJ Styles, WWE Championship, November 2017-November 2018. Brock Lesnar, WWE Universal Championship, April 2017-August 2018. Longest reign in the title's history. Adam Cole, NXT Championship, June 2019-July 2020. Longest reign in the title's history. Pete Dunne, NXT United Kingdom Champion, May 2017-April 2019. WALTER, NXT United Kingdom Champion, April 2019-August 2021. Longest reign of the modern era. 870 days. Trish Stratus, WWE Women's Champion. January 2005-April 2006. Longest brand split reign in the title's history. Becky Lynch, WWE RAW Women's Champion. April 2019-May 2020. Longest reign in the title's history. Bayley, WWE Smackdown Women's Champion. October 2019-October 2020. Longest reign in the title's history Asuka, NXT Women's Champion, April 2016-September 2017. Longest reign in the title's history. Shayna Baszler. NXT Women's Champion, October 2018-December 2019. Kay Lee Ray. NXT UK Women's Champion. August 2019-June 2021. Longest reign in the title's history.

You did the Top 10 *just* to make the North Carolina joke, admit it.

I mean, Braun and Ryback both made quite a bit of money in those five or six years. According to Wrestling Observer, Braun was making around $1.5 million when he was released. I guess he and Ryback had a bunch of gigs lined up that were going to pay them $5-$10 mil. CZW? Impact? Braun said he made more from his WWE run than he did in Strongman contests and whatever else he was doing. 5-6 years seems like a decent run. Most careers in pro sports don't last that long. For that matter, most acting gigs don't last that long (on the same show).

Robbie keane has let himself go.

Can’t get a time stamp but it’s around 1:15 that made me think of it: the heel feeding for punches, the back body drop, the stuff in the corner. It’s rote and time-tested but is still done creatively and feels fresh because so few people are doing it.

I'm sure he learned it from watching this video. Although he prefers "Anti-Air Dropkick" to "Defensive Dropkick."

I haven't understood a word on this page.

I read the NXT comments a bit differently than most it seems. I may be off base, but I took it that WWE looked at NXT and went "we have way too many 'indie-type' wrestlers right now" so they aren't going to look to pick up any more of them because that niche beyond filled there right now. Basically if in their ideal NXT the split would be 50% indie guys and 50% athletic students they train up (the specific percents aren't important, pick your own if you'd like) and they see that it is currently 85% indie guys and 15% students they likely end up releasing some of the indie guys they are less sold on (which they've done) and likely hold off on hiring any more for the next bit while focusing on hiring for the latter group. I think it is more than likely once they are finished correcting what they see as an imbalance and the indie group thins out via call ups or releases you will see some hired from that talent pool once again. Or I'm wrong and they'll never hire an indie wrestler again, but that feels rather unlikely to me.

So if I'm reading the new NXT edict right, WWE's popularity has waned because people do too many drop kicks and 2 3/4 kick outs? If you can't create compelling characters involved in compelling stories, it really doesn't matter how tall/good looking the workers are.

Fuck, it's a Sunday PPV so midnight Monday UK time. Not the usual Saturday. AEW PPVs tend to be on a Saturday, UFC PPVs are nearly always on a Saturday so 1am for AEW and 3am for UFC on a Sunday. Seriously, a shout out to the Brits and the Europeans here who watch these in the early hours of the fucking morning. We're hardcore!