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Vince is under Federal Investigation

Thin White Douche

More people will see this here: Bayley done dirty.

He didn't sell the shares to Endeavor. How it works is this -- Vince sold 8.4 million shares to an underwriter (it looks like Morgan Stanley) who paid him $670 million or so. The underwriter and the company came up with a price per share based on where the price of the stock was around the time they were negotiating the deal. The underwriter then owns the stocks and then can sell them, which is usually done to the "open market." I put that in quotes just because it's a little tricky to explain. But in this case -- Endeavor then paid the underwriter $100 million to buy back however many shares that could get them. And at the same time, a few board members also decided to buy some shared ($1 million each or so.) There's nothing on its face too wild about any of this. The most likely reason why Vince sold his shares was "I want $670 million." You'd also have to be insane if you're Endeavor's executives to sign off on some kind of stock manipulation or what not when the SEC is already out in the public about looking into the WWE for Vince paying NDAs out of the company piggy bank without telling anyone.

I left "I Believe I Can Fly" in 1996/1997 along with "Stomp" by Kirk Franklin. Yeah, the new era of gospel music is suppose to be hip now. We get it, Kirk.

Based on how below the radar she was those four years, the response would probably be, “Linda is in the cabinet?” Then her boss would screech about fake news and our gutless news media would move on to the next controversy or shiny object.

Oh, this is 100% true, and I think evangelicals by and large get very loose in their interpretation of "redemption" as it pertains to presidents who, i don't know, banged p-rn stars while their wives were in labor or megachurch pastors who embezzle money but tell their congregation what they want to hear about their faith aligning with their personal values. It's my very least favorite thing about religion. Here in the south it's running rampant...

For folks not familiar with what the Mad Dog can do with a chain, here is an awesome Dog Collar match against Manders from St. Louis Anarchy last week

The criminal investigation into this stuff is absolutely not a surprise. TBH, I was expecting this news to drop sooner than later. They've been looking at him for a while, now. The subpoenas that were reported from the summer are looking for items related to everything in the suit and who knows what else. Johnny's lawyer talking about the complaint the way he did now reads like code for "Johnny's going to do anything he can for a plea deal" if/when it gets to the indictment part of the story. It might take a while to get there if more women are coming forward that we don't know about yet. And there's a good chance of that. The woman in the complaint's attorney said that yesterday. You usually have to take with a huge grain of salt anything anyone's attorney says when they're fighting in the media over a lawsuit. (Which they're doing.) But these tea leaves...

He'll totally be like the old gangsters at the end of Casino, in a wheelchair wearing an oxygen mask.

Fredo Rhodes

It used to drive me crazy that Mark McGwire's jsutification was something like "As I got older I was a smarter better hitter so it wasn't fair that I wasn't as fast and strong at the same time so I could be my true self." MF that is why the game is hard. By the time you get smart at it you aren't young and strong anymore. Every single person lives that in and out of sports. Can you imagine if Ali was as fast in 1979 as he was in 1965? NO ONE gets to do that. That's the point.

That and his teammate was Roger Clemens. In the words of Katt Williams mocking Clemens on his stand up special, "Senator! Senator! I was NEVER on steroids!....I just got bigger and stronger the older I got...."

I dunno about thin.

Paul Levesque is the same guy who pulled the Hulk Hogan and said in the prime of career, "Matter of fact, I did take steroids but it was for injury recovery". You cannot rule him out.

The wack thing about therapy is I've got all kinds of depressing songs about addiction I could have played but my audience won't have it. Everything has to be uplifting or about remorse or penance or forgiveness or something, and nobody likes electric guitars anymore. It's completely foreign music to everyone if it hasn't been written since the turn of the century or doesn't have pop melodies. Meanwhile I'd rather force them to get through "Dying Inside" by Saint Vitus. There is one I have in my chamber for the right moment though, and that's "Fucked Up" by Dead Prez, and they're gonna have to listen and like it.

Last time he was in Federal Court, during the steroid trial, he did do the neck brace thing.

I’m glad he’s probably got another twenty years left in him to be put through the wringer by the feds. I do wonder if he’s too proud to do the standard Weinstein feeble old man transformation for courtroom appearances.

YouTube video of the bank robbery scene from The Dark Knight where all the Joker's goons shoot each other to pull off the robbery

Hail Hydra

My interest in WM just dropped to absolute zero. This is completely a lose-lose scenario. First, for a YEAR since he lost last year at WM you continue building to Cody finishing the story which was winning the title Roman has. Then you have Cody win the RR two years in a row. You have him cut this promo about Seth's title is this but Roman's title is the one with all the history and the one that meant the most to his dad and ultimately he...steps aside so a blown up Rock who can't go for more than a minute can challenge Roman at WM for the title that Cody has been going for and finishing the story is now taking the WWE universe from Roman? Uh, what? The mental gymnastics involved here and the galaxy brained thinking is astonishing. Seth vs Cody is a foregone conclusion. Seth's body is fucked. There's no fucking way Cody is losing to Seth so there's no drama there. No only that, but he's settling for a title that Roman just buried two minutes prior. And on the other side you have Roman vs Rock where Rock has zero cardio and Roman puts on a boring as fuck match so maybe, MAYBE it might be ok and he can carry Rock to something passable, but the two outcomes from that match stink. So Rock wins and a dude who is even more part time than Roman or anyone else is champion, a guy whose best option after winning the title is to drop it back to Roman because that dude is going to have shit matches against just about everybody. Plus, the Rock is the one to unseat Roman as champion, not Cody and not even anyone else worth of getting that kind of a rub or torch passed to them. And if Roman wins, great, he continues a title reign that is absolutely fucking dead and boring for another year or whatever the fuck. It's just stupid. It's Vince level booking. You could have easily gone with Drew vs Seth at WM and Cody vs Roman vs Rock with Cody in the Bryan Danielson spot beating an all time great and the head of the table to finish the story, but no, we must do this shit ass match with Roman and Rock.

Cody’s about to win every young ball players dream the NIT

None of what Cody just said made any sense. Did I miss something? Obviously they want The Rock vs. Roman but why have Cody win the Rumble then?

so basically Cody is an idiot in this storyline?

Maybe you’ve stumbled upon why Double J has been so careful to be uncritical.

Roger Clemens and Cedric the Entertainer should probably start a support group for folks affected by Hurricane Katt Williams.

Coach Tony K saw you'd posted the thread, and immediately tweeted this.

Wonder if that stock sell off back in November, when Vince got $670 million for 8.4 million of his shares is going to come back up in all of this. That felt weird when it happened.

I'm still amused that somebody in my group therapy session picked "I Believe I Can Fly" for so-called "music therapy"*. I really really really wanted to say "I bet he wish he could fly out of the prison yard" but I held my tongue. * The big hit these days is Jelly Roll. That shit isn't therapy, it's straight torture. We had to sit through THREE of his songs/videos the other day, BY REQUEST. One dude was bemoaning the fact that he needs to lose weight so "he stays with us to keep giving us his genius". His GENIUS? He's an obese dude with face tats that raps about addiction and remorse over sad pop country tunes. The only thing genius about him is that he wasn't pressed out of a mold to feed to the public sooner and showed up on his own.

On Fridays that's enough for a chicken tendie sub, which would blow his mind through the top of his skull. That's not a bad offer. No, he should go to AEW. But I always think everyone should go to AEW. Sue me.

So when MJF makes the save for Orange Cassidy after the UK attack him, any guesses for what the tag team name will be? Will MJF take OC for a spray tan to make Orange Jews remotely appropriate?

He could be trying out for a spot in Mac Sabbath.

No, he's right. There is an imposter Rob Black running the "new" XPW kinda like they replaced Lionel on The Jeffersons.

Streaming on Amazon Prime who announced they are investing 14 billion in XPW to counter rival Netflix When asked about founder Rob Sicari's horrific crimes CCO Lickboot Offjacker said "He's gone. He's not there. He's gone."

Having grown up in the black church, unfortunately, that seems to be the case for A LOT of people to abuse that tenet or find ways to condone the abuse. To get this off of religion and tie it back to Vince, it's insane to write a redemption story when they themselves aren't looking for redemption. Vince had almost eight decades to get his life together when there are folks who never got life cause they were stillborn or died in a car accident as a teen or for whatever reason did not get to enjoy a full, long fruitful life. You might not believe in karma or even a higher God, BUT there is always a decent chance that if you abuse life, life will abuse you back. That has come home to roost.

Batista has been good in James Bond, Dune and Bladerunner. He’s really carved a nice career as a character actor. He’s also in the new Del Torro film The Boy and The Heron. Cena did good voice acting Ferdinand The Bull Austinnwas good in that hunting humans movie he did

Necro Butcher and Ernest Miller in The Wrestler.

He never was.

I literally just watched a Dark Side of the Ring episode where Jim Ross said "anything with puke, taking a dump or piss was big with Vince" which was obvious already but stood out even more since last week. My mom was at the Spirit Squad poop show and said it didn't smell like real poop at least

Luchasaurus vs Cash? Hells yeaah! But seriously folks. That looks incredible. That special mix of excellence and goofiness that AEW can dish out better than any promotion anywhere anytime ever. And, really, bring on Luchasauris vs Cash, too. Plus: Dragon vs Hechicero. Which is a mix of excellence with (a different kind of) excellence. AND; AEW Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston faces Bounty Hunter Bryan Keith! SLUGFEST! Yeahhh BABY! I JUST got done calling Hulk Hogan a racist. So. Uh. Is it racist for me to suggest that Bounty Hunter and Willie Mack should maybe form a tag team? I like the idea of two under six foot beefy dudes where the heavier one is also the high flyer of the team and the lighter one is more of a brawler. PLUS: In just over an hour we are getting: AEW Tag Team Champs Ricky Starks & Big Bill vs. THE #2 RANKED TAG TEAM CONTENDERS The Dark Order. - YES! Rankings paying off IMMEDIATELY in the most amusing way possible. Queen Aminata vs Willow Nightingale. - WILLOW! Plus: Love Queen getting ALL the reps lately. Is she the next Skye Blue? CMLL stars Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Hechicero, & Volador Jr battle Christopher Daniels, Matt Sydal, Cool Hand Ang & Daddy Magic. I love how t he FITE app (where I got this info) has to pount out that they are CMLL stars. I bet every website giving this info uses that exact language. This could literally be too much fun. Maybe we'll get a BCC run-in, too! To set up tomorrow. Top Flight vs Private Party. - NO WAY this is less than super-fun. Edit: Just checked. Sure enough, in the Collision preview Bryan is facing "CMLL star Hechicero." EDIT: Definitely a very fun show. Top to bottom. I have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. Glad I had some free time today! Tomorrow too! Kind of sad that the reason I have free time is that a lot of people are down with the flu this weekend... but I'll take whatever good news I can get out of that situation. The crowd was having fun, cheering for Private Party and Ricky Billy even though those teams were working Bad Guy Style. Willow's charisma won them back over to the Good Guy Side, though. The main was exactly what it needed to be. Let everyone show a bit of what they can do, let the CMLL guts bump and sell during picture in picture, put over Hechicero before his huge match with Dragon tomorrow. I am stoked for Collision! Any time you give me Eddie and Bryan I am going to get stoked. And if you give them each an interesting opponent,then even more so

I've been thinking about some of the toilet humor thats made the air. Stuff like the Rock Bottom onto the dog poop and DX dropping shit on The Spirit Squad

I don't know if that support group can find a building strong enough to stay standing in a Kattegory 5 hurricane.

Wait a second. No issue with the names, but DEAN was a great ambassador of how shitty Multi-way matches are. Something I always appreciated about his keen eye for Pro Wrestling. I so want to be at the DEAN. Such a neat looking card. The talent booked for this show feels like a great reminder of how big and interesting a talent pool there is across the US Indies. And how good the Indies could still be. Or maybe are in your local area?

Vince might be wishing he had a trunk and a shotgun, but he's just gonna have a wheelchair and an oxygen tank.

Fuck yeah, Uncle Sam about to get his win back, you love to see it. I didn't realize this til Dave mentioned it on a WOR clip I saw earlier in the week, but they've had a federal grand jury on this since August - I assumed that was for the SEC stuff, but boy was I wrong. I have two hopes for prison Vince: 1) that he outlives the 109 his mother made it to 2) that without the gas he grows titties in there like the As I Lay Dying guy

I sincerely hope that movie is incredible, but I don't see it ever living up to expectations

I mean, if this ends with a grizzled old Billy Jack Haynes shooting Vince at the courthouse while shouting, "Idolator, your soul is required in Hell!" that would be alright by me...

BRO BRO BRO, I HAVE A GREAT REASON TO PUT DOWN $100k ON A COLLEGE BASEBALL GAME IN ANOTHER STATE, BRO, THE COACH TOLD ME A BIG TIP

You know what, those guys can be real jerks at times, but fair play to 'em here. They got new info, and reacted accordingly - kinda can't ask for more than that, really. (I mean, other than, oh idk, reading the fucking thing before you go on the air to goof around about it - but I digress)