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I think Reka Tehaka is going to be a STAR for someone. Hopefully AEW allows her the time to improve.

I'm gonna say a couple things, then I'm gonna leave this topic alone. First of all, I 100% believe we live in a time where it's no longer necessary to "work through an injury" or give someone a "wake up" slap midmatch. I will admit that part of my sharp reaction to this practice is because I had to walk away from a promising football career early in college because I was pressured to play through nerve damage in my shoulder in high school. It wasn't until I started losing feeling in my left arm that I was able to see a specialist. The injury was far worse than I was told. I felt obligated to play through it. It's been 20 years and I still don't have 100% utility. It's enough to play guitar and do other things that I enjoy, but there will always be a reminder. That's why I have zero patience for folks saying "it's just how it's done." It fucking shouldn't be. As for the misogyny thing, I think I'm just overly critical (man) of workers I perceive to be hand picked for opportunities rather than the gifted workers they leapfrog. I mean, go look at what I post about the Young Bucks. Adam Cole. Seth Rollins. I assure you, Charlotte's gender has nothing to do with why I don't have any time for her.

There is no system so toxic that it excuses Charlotte's behavior during that match. I do not understand the desire to shift blame from her in that instance.

Becky had to hide Kairi under the ring. There’s no version of these events where Charlotte isn’t an unprofessional goon.

This is a much more eloquent way of saying what I was trying to say elsewhere.

That’s fair. In Charlotte’s cases, it ls hard for me not to make assumptions about the kind of person she is after seeing her continue to stiff a clearly concussed Kairi Sane, but I shouldn’t assume.

Yeah, wrestlers complain about looking strong all the time. idk. Maybe. I’m working hard at trying not to be dismissive of the opinion of others. If that’s the case, good for her.

Alexa and Charlotte were always reported to be close. I wonder if that promo Charlotte cut in ring with Alexa did some damage. There were some semi-live rounds in there. I wonder if Alexa would be one of the ones who feels like she doesn’t know Charlotte anymore. Fwiw, Sasha and Lex are friends now, or at least did a bang up job of pretending a bunch of times on upupdowndown. I’m just at a loss to think of anything Charlotte could complain about. She is repeatedly allowed to go out and curtail the momentum of other female stars. Just off the top of my head, this year there’s been Asuka, Rhea, Nikki ASH, Nia, and one or two others. Speaking of Nia, a few months ago I was mocked on here for wondering aloud if there was more to the story behind their tense, shooty match from a couple months ago. Nia is one of the few women Charlotte can’t manhandle and there were multiple moments where both women seemed flat out uninterested in cooperating. This has been going on longer than I think most people realize, and I’m not sure why the higher ups in wwe put up with it when they could fire her tomorrow and not only would ratings stay the same, but they could also build some new female stars.

Time to stomp some Asstros. Hide the trash cans, deny til you die, none of that is gonna help you now. #BattleATL

Damn. Lot of wrong decisions on this show. Superklique gets to make Jungle Boy look like a chump again, because them showing any ass at all would be too tall an order. Cody going over on Malakai seems stupid, too, but at least Malakai ate like 3 shotgun blasts first. I liked the women’s match, and both men’s tourney matches were bangers. It’s just sad that the evp’s are allowed to cast such an insane shadow over everything else that happens on a weekly basis.

It’s possible that I let my dissatisfaction with the product carry over into how I perceive the individual performers. Not Sasha, though. She’s awful. Full stop.

Fwiw, I agree with the sentiment that Charlotte and Becky are ruining the division. I just vehemently disagree with how to fix it.

In Muay Thai you’re taught to fake that kick before spinning to throw a fist or elbow. The idea is you displace the hands so you can have a clearer path. It’s like play action passing only being effective if you have some semblance of a running game. You have to set stuff up.

When I was a kid I just thought that when the babyfaces were running out of the back to make the save, the music guy would see them and play their music. Made sense to me.

Rampage closing the show with 3 squandered nXt champions in the ring wasn't lost on me. HHH was throwing things somewhere during that segment.

On what roster? The roster she’s on now? Lolololololololololololol. Thanks. I needed that.

Every second of that ruled ass. Because the Bucks were onscreen for zero seconds. I figure Cassidy went over so Moxley can obliterate him in the semis.

So you’re telling me you didn’t hear her dogshit promo? I should try that….

I know there were rumblingz that the women’s roster were concerned because Johnny was back and he has some influence over the direction of that division. Who really knows, though…

Sasha Banks is such an abysmal promo. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her come off as anything but forced. Ugh. It’s bad when Charlotte isn’t the worst interview in a given segment. The women’s division is so, so bad right now, and there are a dozen fresh faces they could use to rescue it, but they won’t, because Johnny Ace and Podcast Prichard are fucking clueless.

22 pitchers (so far) in 25 innings.

Fun fact; my mom and Scott were close when both their families were stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Two nights, two walk-off wins. And your boy was there for both. Hallelujah, holy shit.

Lolololol. The Bucks drop a fall? That would require a desire to help get anyone else in the tag division over. Like tonight. It wasn’t enough to go over on the Dark Order. They had to kill off Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy first. Then, when Jungle Boy came out for his shine, he was left only Cutler to get his shit in on. But y’all be sure to take me through the weekly leaps in logic y’all make to convince yourselves that all that no sell Outsider cosplay smarky bullshit is actually great. Really sullied what was otherwise a great show.

I don't understand why TK wouldn't have pushed harder to bring them in.