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No disagreement there. Everyone who was thinking "competition makes Vince work better, AEW existing will improve RAW" has to be bitterly disappointed now. Same old same as always.

I don't see any way Vince can mess up Orange Cassidy's rise to stardom.

They were talking about Penelope Ford throughout the break in Sabian vs Janela. So the camera was shooting her a lot, because you line up sound and vision. And then JR said "She's got blue eyes, I just noticed". She'd been out there fifteen minutes!

Make Cody face Ortiz next week. Tiger Style those lash wounds~!

Chuck Mambo

RIP to a legend.

It's really obvious which was the Wardlow one. Lots of people in the chat were predicting that MJF would do nine, then walk away and say it didn't count. I counter predicted that he'd do nine, but then go into a whipping flurry for the tenth like a Kobashi corner chop spot. But everyone was wrong.

I have no memory of ever having watched this show, or of starting this thread... six years ago. TNA has existed for 18 years? Really?

Cody's back:

The cameraman was basically just shooting Penelope's arse for the whole break, and at one point JR and Excalibur were ribbing Tony for staring at his monitor for too long. But then Tony claimed he was looking at the 10 Lashes graphic in the corner of the screen.

She had it after the match. Just not before. Everyone in Fite chat was cursing USA copyright laws.

Cara Noir Wrestling Manifesto shirt.

Suge D is doing something like that in PWX:

Timothy Thatcher vs Eddie Kingston.

Shahid Khan maybe. Seems to be pretty hands off in letting Tony run AEW, he might let H & Steph run WWE similarly.

The stock price crashed when they pretended Vince sold half the company to the host of the Apprentice and didn't smarten people up that it was an angle right away.

On the other hand, someone coming in from the business world and doing talent evaluations of the PC may well decide that a guy with 10 years on the indies has more value than an ex-college football player with no previous wrestling experience. So the indies would be flooded with all the mini Corbins and Rawleys.

I hadn't realised Kip Sabian was such an in-match shit talker before seeing the mixed tag match. He should up his volume so the ringside mics pick up on it. Guevara's shit talk usually makes it onto TV, but he has Jericho as a mentor, and was on LU.Makes sense he'd be a bit further along as a TV performer. So was Dr Luther a retired ex-Wrestler, or a guy who never retired and was just keeping in shape in case he got another booking, ten+ years after his last match? Because he seemed to disappear after FMW closed, but he didn't seem to be a guy who knew what he was doing, as far as being a ringside manager guy. Repackage him as a creepy nosferatu fucker who just turns up whenever someone bleeds, or something. Or put him in a best of seventeen gimmick match series with Jimmy Havoc, where every matxh has a different stipulation. You do wonder, when they were putting the Nightmare Collective stable together, who they thought was going to be the Worker of the group. Because Kong was great, but can't go any more, whilst Brandi never really got into her stride as an in-ring wrestler, and Mel seems to not have it either. Maybe that's why they were so keen to recruit Kris Statlander. They needed someone to actually do the wrestling for them.

Dan Houser is leaving Rockstar games. Although he's been on leave for Eleven months already so he was already gone, sort if.

Now reading Terry Funk's book. It was written fifteen years ago, and all of his criticisms of the 'current' (ie 2005) WWE are still relevant today.

Yeah, when he was Robbie V in WCW '93 he was still wearing plain gear. It wasn't until he was in AJPW a year later that he started getting designs put on. And even then, he started in 89 or 90.

Don't ask and you won't receive: Note to self: Look at the mirror and not the camera view in future.

What was up in the Asuka vs Natalya match any way? Why was Nattie all pissed off after the duelling leglocks bit, and shouting about shooting on me? Was the big facekick later deliberate?