Dog

The guy who wrote The Ballad of Lacey gets no fewer than five chances to fail. He's earned that much.

"God I love pro wrestling!" - Tony Schiavone

Buddy/Andrade will steal the show.

AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD

Pollock and Thurston interviewed Andrew Zarian last week, who may have been the first to break the Collision story. Says he heard it from a WBD person, and the original intent was a 1-hour show that just replaced the Darks, so the lower card people could get more time working and learning TV matches. Definitely a B-show. Things must have pivoted when Punk started making it known he wanted to come back.

Yes.

Oh god, now you've awoken the ska fans.

MJF has shifted from saying he'll go to WWE in 2024, to saying he might just retire with Tony's belt, since he'll have beaten everyone by then.

DON'T TAKE ME FOR NO FOOL SONJAY DUTT

You've been insisting for weeks (months?) that Cole actively drags the ratings down. You in fact predicted his segment, the highest rated one from this week, would be the lowest rated one.

Oh great, now we'll have three months of arguing about why MJF/Cole was the highest rated segment.

Jack Tunney looked like a giant weirdo.

I thought it was perfect. Can't remember Gunther ever attempting a school boy, let alone winning with one. Remember, in WWE Brain, a roll-up is "stealing" a victory, so this shows that Gunther began to worry that he actually couldn't put Owens away.

Next week's special announcement -- the match's referee! "Thanks, guys."

For what it's worth, Brandon Thurston and John Pollock interviewed the main guy behind Dark Side (Evan Husney) last week, and he said Vice proper's bankruptcy stuff shouldn't affect them, as far as he's been told. https://www.stitcher.com/show/wrestlenomics-radio-2/episode/evan-husney-on-season-4-of-dark-side-of-the-ring-post-x-wrestlenomics-303971261

I haven't really watched much Nu-ROH, so it was especially striking in juxtaposition with Shibata's Orange Cassidy match ... which he lost.

If MJF is on Forbidden Door, I'll be shocked.

I felt bad for Moriarty when that match ended up as pretty much an extended squash.

DAX HARWOOD WON A SINGLES MATCH

But they're not competition! Or so I've been told.

I don't recall that.

Here's my problem with Statlander's "More Than a Woman" -- is there something WRONG with being a woman? If she's special because she's MORE than a woman, doesn't that imply that women are inherently LESSER? Just seems like a weird thing for an apparently progressive company to trout out there.

Going off WrestleTix numbers, Alvarez says they've sold about 7,500 tickets for the first Collision, which includes 500 tickets since Punk was confirmed last night.

You'd think after what happened to Dante Martin that Tony would have pumped the brakes on all these ladder matches, even if it was just in a reactionary way.