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tbf, I also don't care about the ratings breakdowns and the week to week, but like as fans of the product it does matter it is really fucking funny tho to see the Cult of Cornette on Reddit wasting so much oxygyn on it. Move on bruvs

tbh man we're all living in Achewood what difference does it make

He's finding his groove on the promos. I like when he talks about how fucking dangerous he is personally. Pro-Wres needs more emphaishs on DANJA Seriously though, his nickname is the Ariel Assassin and he hits really fucking hard. He beat Big Soup Boy or whatever people call him round here. HE BEATS PEOPLE UP 4 A LIVIN INNIT

Hahaha, just realized I blanked on the Okada 6 man tag. I love the pairing with the Bucks, and I also think Okada working American TV style is an ongoing work in progress and it's fun watching him master it in real time. That dropkick highspot that I'm used to 40 minutes into a match 4 minutes in instead is going to take some getting used to, and I think Okada did more in and out and down to the floor and back in a short time than he has in forever.....that can't be great on the ol back and knees......

Nah, it was the security Swerve beat up. After Joe bails and walks back up the ramp, he notices a dead security guard and casually kicks him off the ramp to his doom. It was hilarious. the other thing I noticed later was completely different, but it was such a nice subtle thing I thought "this has to be a hint" but I'd have to watch the show again to remember and fuck that. It will forever be a mystery

Oh yeah and I loved Joe kicking the security guard off the ramp on his way back up. That was such a great little touch and the dude sold it so well it had to be a planned spot There was another one like that later in the show that was so good I was like, "that has to be leading to something" but I can't remember what it was now....

a few things in response before I get into the show - they're absolutely splitting the Continental belt off. Sorry TC fans. Notice Eddie hasn't been carrying all 3 belts much either. - I fucking hate the pre-programmed "CHANT ALONG FANS" built into the theme, thank you username! I'm already sick of Ospreay trying to lead fans into it, and now CEO???? Is this what hiring former WWE production adds? Treating the audience like sheep? Also, for that matter we have the EVPs and now the CEO? One thing I can't stand is gimmick redundancy in the same promotion......and what does CEO stand for in this context anyway? I was hoping Mercedes would explain that. Maybe next week.... I thought the show had great energy until the Jericho match. I remember the last time I posted about him I was looking forward to him doing a hardcore Onita style run.....instead he's Lionheart again? It was cool the first time he brought back Lionheart. I still think he's got another run in him but man, nothing he's been trying has worked a while now, time to step back..... Anyway, loved Joe and Wardlow. There was some great stuff during the first break. They've done an amazing job rebuilding Wardawg in short order. Cole's fairytale at the beginning was a nice touch. knowing how TK loves the double debut/surprise/return I was half expecting MJF tonight... I like Ospreay as a promo and thought he was good tonight. His shift from straight into the camera to his left with his eyes was throwing me off though, he'll get used to being on live television. Like he said a couple times when he came to the ring, "this is new for me!" The crowds aren't quite as hot for him yet as I hoped they'd be.....but then I have to keep in mind how he's sorta brand new to a lot of the audience. And then I saw Jay White out there being really over after a slow start early in his AEW run...so yea....not worried about Will Jay and Darby F'n ruled. Loved Darby's selling, Randy Savage style. Taz comparing him to Spike for pain tolerance was spot on, a comparison I'd never thought of oddly, probably because Darby is so much more athletic and high impact and not just a ragdoll like Spike was. So glad BBSG is over and done with, it was a means to an end to unify those belts and I'm guessing Juicy is about to be back I liked the Deonna heelish promo more than anything she's done thus far. Felt way more natural. Good call on putting Mone with Willow, Julia, Skye, Riho to start.....good matches minimal BS hopefully.... Great show overall. So stacked and there's so much new talent I almost forgot KYLE MF'N O'REILLY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!

I'm fine with one women's match per show but I'll never understand why they don't do more multi-women tags. 6, 8, 10 whatever. You get more people on tv and if you lay out a well booked match that's fast paced where everyone gets to shine it's going to do so much more for the division than long, heatless singles matches with a commercial break. Also might hide how green some of them are. And you can get more stories and rivalries going that way I don't really pay close attention to the ratings/segment breakdowns but my guess a lot of those singles matches die, especially when it's a match with someone relatively unknown or who only shows up on tv once a month. Some of the women show potential but I'm not invested in the division at all at this point, and since I'm usually watching the shows on delay or the next day I've gotten in the habit of skipping most of the women's matches. And that's crazy to me because I like women's wresting and they have so much talent!! Doesn't help that the champions are someone I have a hard time taking seriously in Julia Hart and then Toni Storm who used to be my favorite and now I can't even watch her matches. Like, the division is a bigger joke to me now than even the WWE Divas at times back in the day. I'd think I'd rather watch a LayCool or Bellas tag than some of AEW's shit Hoping Mone coming in is the impetus for a complete tonal shift and they get back to treating it seriously

I was a Rock fan 97-03 but never followed him to Hollywood and his other ventures. Not a fan of the big, dumb action movies (never seen a F&F) or kid oriented comedies. The type of "bad" movies I like aren't the type he does, and he doesn't seem interested in doing things like Blade Runner 2049 or The Man With the Iron Fists, both of which I would have seen even if Dave Bautista wasn't in them For Dwayne I think I've only seen Faster, Southland Tales (because I felt I had to) and Get Smart. I liked Faster, thought he was solid in it. I like the old Get Smart TV show and that movie had a good cast, enjoyed it for what it was. I suppose I should check out Be Cool someday but whenever I'm contemplating it on a streaming service I end up watching something else

On the latest WOR with Dave & Garrett they were talking about a Russo booked SummerSlam where the main event was up in the air and constantly changing. As they were talking I thought 99 which was the triple threat with Austin/HHH/Foley and there were rumors at the time that it was supposed to be Austin and HHH 1v1 but they put Foley in so Jesse Ventura could raise a babyface's hand (and to be the transition champ to HHH because Austin was being bitchy about losing to him)....but Dave ruled that out, says it wasn't 1999. They (mostly Dave) settled on 1998, which can't possibly be true. In my memory that Highway to Hell went for a long time and there was never any doubt that Austin and Taker was the main event. Sooooo....if the story is actually true....it has to be 1997, right? Wasn't Bret vs. Shawn on the books for that show at one point just like KOTR? Stuff was changing constantly that year

That was my thought too. Would love to know the difference in bidding.....Amazon doesn't need them....Netflix clearly thought they did

I'd say more, but it's such a different world now....

*insert PENTA gif*

Oh yea Edge and Suzuki. Sold. I'll be there.

With WWE dominating the conversation today I just wanted to say I'm really looking forward to Dynamite tomorrow......except I can't find the fucking card anywhere. All I know is the cage match on Saturday.....sigh.....c'mon Tony!

Personally I feel like SD! being on FOX was a huge part of WWE's recent boom period. Money aside, they've taken a massive step back in exposure with this recent round of negotiations. Gonna take a while for everything to shake out but I could see this hurting house shows, merch and other core business metrics, but it'll be masked by the massive rights fees. But overall this feels like a massive step backwards to me Netflix is extremely guarded with their numbers and IIRC SAG-AFTRA didn't get the concessions they were after in that regard. Doubt we ever get accurate numbers for RAW We're also at a time where there's so much wrestling content out there, so much free media in general, people are already cutting back and consolidating their streaming budgets.......I don't really see a huge upside for Netflix either

It's already started. Sports Illustrated, Business Insider, Men's Health and others have been busted with AI generated articles riddled with errors, written by AI generated "authors" with fake bylines and pictures from one of those huge libraries. A lot of it was pushing bullshit products with referral links under the guise of an actual product review The future is here and it stinks!

Yea, I was so out of the loop I didn't even know they'd been sold to Conde Nast before this article. All these websites are gonna be AI all the time soon anyway

https://apnews.com/article/music-pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-wintour-media-ecaef9445b5d9f86d9990c181306cb71 This makes me pretty sad. Pitchfork had a utility for me in the 00's for discovering new music. I'm not the type of person who was into Surfan Stevens, Joanna Newsome or other stuff like that they heavily pimped, but I remember discovering Burial's Untrue, Flying Lotus, Animal Collective and some under the radar rock music (Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls and stuff like that) there. Haven't gone there regularly in a long, long time but this is definitely bad for musicians and for music journalism. Another brick in the wall.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/20/man-arrested-disorderly-conduct-tried-open-door-taylor-swift-building/ Cops referred to him only as "David". I did a F'n triple take

Do you ever wonder if you're the asshole? Like, not everyone knows the joke....

like nice hair a constant hoodie and phones and long whites wasn't......this motherfucker jacked my swag yo

crazy thing for me is I was all that and a bag of chips 25 years ago. whats old is new again

Perhaps. I knew that general area in the early 00's as a hipster spot and I imagine it's only gotten moreso. Hook living there for example

Always stoked to enter the RICCABONEZONE Knox' gimmick is he's the blind ref. Stolen from whoever the blind ref in WWE was for years. That finish in the tag was ridiculous. Quen didn't look ready to be back on TV yet at all. Kinda sucks for Kassidy because he'd improved quite a bit and now he's saddled with this guy working himself back into shape who was green to begin with, and it sucks for Top Flight because they'd been building momentum, were better than PP to begin with.....so yea....I would have had Quen working the rust off before doing any of this Hook has always been billed from St. Mark's Place because he legit lives there. It's a "hipster spot" in the East Village, lower Manhattan. That whole area actually has cool history beyond comic books and whatever the fuck Greggulator was on about up there Urange on the table was BRUTAL. I rewound that multiple times, it was back of the head straight into no give. For someone with so much core strength, Hook often looks like a young giraffe or deer struggling to get his legs under him during his matches....am I the only one? He's legit strong, but he manages to look not that at all in-between his suplexes.... Austin Gunn is a tremendous FiP, much like he's a tremendous stooging heel. During the break I was transfixed by him selling taking a beating from Bishop. It's kind of weird that BCG are ostensibly faces now and the guy who was getting the biggest face reaction of the group isn't there for it. I needed a clearer listen of their new remixed theme which took the Gunns dope theme and did something to it. Merge the 6 man belts please. I got a kick out of Toni's "fat ass and bad attitude" comment, also confusing Ian with Tony was great once I picked up on it