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Personally I find Flair's ancient Crypt Keeper looking ass an absolute channel changer...

Split the marketing. Dark Dominos will be edgy and full of people cutting each other. Dominos Classic will be mat based pizza and family friendly breadsticks.

John Cena's incredible.

Wow, so you’re telling me that they did all this to double cross Sting again? I think they’ve taken this way too far at this point.

So he's winning the GHC when?

Poor Popitekus must've thought Mexico City was having an eclipse.

At this point yes, but Ric Flair isn't who he was in his prime. That should go without saying. With that said, the biggest thing missing from modern wrestling is there are no Ric Flairs, Hulk Hogans, Steve Austins, or The Rocks. There is not a single wrestler in the world who jumps off the screen like any of those guys. There are great wrestlers, but there aren't any transcendent figures. Ric Flair won his first World Championship 40 years ago, and he's still someone who can pop a crowd if he's not overused. There are a lot of people who have came and went in that 40 years, and there is a reason he's still being talked about in 2021. I don't think anyone working right now who has the potential to be a Ric Flair figure in the 2050-2060s

Flair vs Sting cinematic match in AEW soon.

For AEW it’s all… For NXT it’s…

The Viper strikes.

L…O…L

Dax doesn't seem to be done collecting Horsemen.

A perfect FTW champion.

Hello. Playing the part of @The Natural today will be, me:

This is not a bad comparison. I'd also argue that both are much better in ring workers than they get credit for, especially when allowed to work towards their strengths. Honestly, I don't think anyone has any real problem with Bray's in-ring work as much as they have a problem with the goofy shit they've asked him to do. I don't care how good you are, no one is going to make a match that stops to put a video of maggots on the mat work.

If the Bills are gonna use the city of Austin as leverage, they probably should have clued the city of Austin in https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/08/01/austin-city-council-members-not-aware-of-possible-bills-move/

He’s been working without a contract since July, told WWE he would work through SummerSlam weekend and then re-evaluate things, and apparently WWE assumed his contract was up in December but it was actually in July.

AJPW and NJPW were cooperating around this time. Baba was back in the president's chair and Sakaguchi was NJPW president by this point, so there were friendly relations in 1990 which were compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall (yeah it seems dramatic, but I've seen this specific comparison in multiple Japanese sources, and hey, it was topical). The story has long been that Baba came in clutch and agreed to let Sakaguchi book some dream matches (in which his talent was protected) when the NJPW Dome show plans with WCW fell through, and I haven't yet seen Japanese accounts that contradict it. (The two had always been friends; in fact, I've read that Sakaguchi going to New Japan instead of All Japan had less to do with Shohei and more to do with Motoko.) If the story in the Jumbo bio about the no-pulling agreement both companies signed in 1985 is true and that paper still had any legal weight, then it stands to reason that these friendly relations were how Baba got Steve Williams (and probably Andre too) and Sakaguchi was able to go on ahead with the WCW guys. Remember, WCW was working with All Japan as late as 1989. There's also that June match where Vader defended the IWGP belt against Hansen, and Fujinami attended the May show where Misawa unmasked. According to the 2019 Hidetoshi Ichise book on the Pillars that I've been transcribing (I finished Chapter 6 but I'm going to bundle this up with 7 when I post again, and that's probably a couple weeks out due to chapter length and personal stuff), Tenryu/TMII vs. Choshu/Takano was originally Tenryu & Kawada vs. Choshu & Kuniaki Kobayashi. As it tells the story though, Choshu switched Kobayashi out for Takano (which Sakaguchi was not happy about), and Tiger Mask II was slotted in just five days before the show (which Kawada felt snubbed over).

David Crockett was awesome, being everything that Jim Ross should be. He didn't ever say, "KICKEM! KICKEM LIKE A DOG!" though. And they didn't go into Nikita Koloff clotheslining him though it was right there.

Cole is a better promo than anybody else in the Elite so just bring him in to mostly talk shit and stooge.

This is the least intimidating group of wrestlers I've ever seen. They look like the cosplayers you see in Japan when the WWE tours.

Adam Cole is small no matter where he is

Yeah but did he do it with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK?!?!

As long as the last name has to be Dragon, because nobody wants to watch Kendo KaShin.

Ric Flair requested and was granted his release. Flair vs Gage

AEW at the United Center has apparently souled out.

I think you could say the August wrestling discussion got started with a... Boom

They may need to rename it or something, but I think it would be a mistake to phase the TNT belt out. They’ve built a lot of credibility and fan interest in that title in just one year. They’ve proven it can pop a rating with a title defense. Would be an own-goal on par with New Japan phasing out the IC title.

Speaking of 91 WCW, Sid Vicious and Stan Hansen vs Davis Isley and Keith Hart This is from the replay: This is after the match:

Bob Backlund berating John Silver for not being able to recite all the state capitals in alphabetical order please and thank you

Says there were no negative mentions of the match (meaning everyone liked it). Says the match was bad (meaning he didn't like it).

The Browns gave Nick Chubb a 4 year extension. Sadly, I have yet to see anyone reporting it use the headline "Browns extend Chubb"

If Bray Wyatt isn't safe, I feel like no one is. Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, Cesaro, or Seth Rollins could all be cut next week. I just find this all deeply unsettling. Bray Wyatt was probably one of the most compelling interesting homegrown characters WWE had in years. An heir apparent to Undertaker and Mankind. And then, he was still able to reinvent that character and turn straw into gold once again with the Firefly FunHouse. It's like WWE never knew what they had and squandered Bray Wyatt at every turn. And you know once you have a character as over as the Fiend, WWE did everything in their power to sabotage it. First was that trash at Hell in a Cell, and then having him job clean to f'n 53-year-old Goldberg in Saudi Arabia. An absolute joke. What Vince McMahon and WWE Creative did to Bray Wyatt/The Fiend is unforgivable.

Dooo what you want to do! In living color!

I wanna see Bray come in playing mind games with Cody, claiming to be his illegitimate brother, dressing himself in a polka dot leotard, calling himself Husky Rhodes etc

You had ONE FUCKING JOB!

The general public on-sale for the Rampage show at the United Center in Chicago sold out in 5 minutes according to WrestleTix.

Or how about Teddy Hart walks out and is immediately arrested for murder, or at the very least assault and battery.

I said it when the Colts signed him, and I'll say it again now. There is no evidence that Carson Wentz is currently a better quarterback than Jacoby Brissett. He was the worst QB in the league last year not named Dwayne Haskins, and his body is made of shards of glass, splinters of balsa wood, and held together with chewing gum.