Just Dave

It felt to me like maybe she and Sarah Logan were gonna become the 3rds in their men's tag team feud, but that didn't materialize I guess.

Renee Young on my tv is never bad. Wrestling, sports, weather, cooking. Whatever. Just get it done.

I think he'd go back eventually for a Shield reunion/HOF induction. But just to do stuff? Nah.

Turner has the NBA deal, too. I'm sure they could work out a thing where she does NBA studio shit and moonlights w AEW. Might be fun.

Not enough "Quite frankly"s....

I get that. And he shouldn't have said it. I think back to how dumb I was when I was twenty-two, and how lucky I am that social media wasn't a thing. AS someone who dealt with impulse control problems until my late twenties, I guess I feel a twinge of.. not sympathy, but... i dunno. It's hard for me to process. It really is. Like, I'm sure I said something at least that messed up as a twenty two year old kid. There should be consequences. I'm not saying there shouldn't be. But I'm not sure Sammy should go on the list of "giant pieces of shit" for all time.

I mean, as far as Sammy Guevara goes, I'd always prefer someone talk about doing something shitty and then not doing it than the other way around, but you can't just say shit like that, either. Sasha was far classier than she needed to be, and I truly hope Sammy understands why that's unacceptable.

I felt like the Viking Profits thing was a nod to "Superhero Team-Ups" in movies and comics, where the two heroes meet, fight, and each tell the other to stand down, before a common enemy forces them to work together. Only WWE is incapable of telling that story in a compelling manner.

I feel like they don't fully trust Alexa again yet, either. They'd be pretty justified in being afraid that as soon as they put a top title on her, she'd get another concussion. At some point I feel like she's got to get another run, but she's one of several females with a spotty injury history that probably gives them trepidation.

Can Scarlett Bordeaux work? I honestly have no idea. I don't watch Impact. But someone said it earlier; Karrion Kross is a geek and Scarlett is the money there, unless Karrion pulls a Buddy Murphy and becomes an otherworldly worker after his significant other got the call-up.

The backlot brawl was pretentious nonsense. Not because it was "cinematic style," but because Adam Cole is the least self-aware worker in the business right now. I enjoyed Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong getting thrown into the trunk of a car. I was hoping Dexter Lumis would slap a "nonstop to OVW" sticker on the car. Women's six man was dope. Main event was not. Happy for Io, but the level of protection Charlotte gets is insane. She isn't a star, no matter how badly they'd like her to be. She's the female Seth Rollins at this point, only she can't play "smarmy" well enough to fall back on that.

It's funny to me that they wanted to do Sasha/Bayley in Boston with Sasha as the face bc they were afraid that's the only place she was gonna be over. No Forgotten Sons this week. Hmmmm. I love Otis so much. There's no add on. I just fucking love Otis. Makes me laugh. Fuck Braun Strowman.

Irritated that Sasha went over on Alexa, no matter who took the finishes. Other than that, good show. Loved the Gulak thing, too.

Mox would sound intense ordering Chinese food. When he's even remotely interested in what he's doing, it's magical. I was crying during the Britt Baker montage. To me, this is what separates AEW from WWE right now. One of the things, anyway. People with actual senses of humor working there.

I'd stick Dijakovic with Rollins. Make him an apostle. He dan get his feet wet without having to talk much.

I thought about that too. I do think there's an outside chance Vance Archer either costs him the title or gets the match thrown out from interference.

The Inner Circle thing was fucking hysterical. All the gifts, Hager's poem. Thought Mox was funny on commentary. It's too soon to turn Wardlow on MJF. Hopefully that's a slow burn. Nice FTR debut. Assuming Miro and TAFKA Zack Ryder are next. All in all, good "reset" show.

Fair enough.

Chris Candido started at 14 too I think.

In fairness, I think Roaddogg misunderstood what was happening.

I forgot the good match Ronda carried her to. Thanks.

Also, that JDfromNY guy has made a living off of saying horrifying things about Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax, amongst others. At the risk of sounding like a dick, my theory is that these empowered women remind him of all the girls who have told him "no" over the years. Dude is pushing 40 and has nothing but an angry podcast emanating from a closet. Fuck that dude.

Most of them were in FCW, or had some other experience. The rebuttal to my argument is Alexa Bliss. The nXt system found her, trained her, and are making piles of money with her. But nXt didn't have a thing in the world to do with anyone on this list except Baron Corbin. Big E came from nXt tanked, and needed a page one rewrite to keep his job. He's phenomenal now, but that had nothing to do with his time in nXt. Sasha has done zero on the main roster except botch moves and complain. Charlotte would've been a star either way. She's too good an athlete not to be. Seth Rollins is an abomination, but he was a big name in ROH before nXt had anything to do with him. I don't know enough about Asuka before she got to nXt to comment one way or another, but if anything the amount of time she spent in nXt delayed her making a difference on a tv show that matters. Drew had to get away from HHH to become a star. Bayley & Becky had the indy experience to keep their head above water if they'd been sent straight to a show that matters. I understand that in certain circles it's blasphemy to speak ill of Daddy H and his little troupe of go getters in Tampa, but the vast majority of his chosen ones die on the vine because away from nXt they just aren't that great. The list of talent you provided is...exhaustive, for sure, but fewer eyes are watching the product than ever and current nXt tv is embarrassingly awful. It's unwatchable dogshit. Keith Lee, Ciampa, Dijakovic, and Velveteen Dream have a chance on the main roster. The rest are kidding themselves about making a difference anywhere but the developmental brand. nXt has failed to develop new stars, in that people generally watch stars. Ratings are abysmal. The product is trash (with a few exceptions). That's on HHH.

There's a lot of cool old shit in the basement of the Turner mansion. It's still there. Last I went down there, about 5 years ago, there were some WCW artifacts.

Getting his teeth kicked in by Dusty's kids while producing zero difference makers on brands that matter? Tell me more....