Technico Support

Bill & Keith squashed two locals on Dynamite two weeks ago. Yes, Dynamite is the A show and they have fewer squashes than you’d get on Collision. I grew up on 80s WWF. Things change. Multiple squash matches per show hasn’t been a thing in, charitably, a quarter century. We might as well be arguing that AEW needs more ethnic babyfaces. I understand the point of squashes but if that’s just not really a thing AEW does, I don’t care.

They’re not pushed as equals, though. It’s just that the “JTTS” level guys are still good enough to at least hang. This is the same pearl clutching that happened five years ago when Omega dared to give Alan Angels part of their match. I’d rather see a good match, even if I know who’s winning, than a squash. I fast forward squashes. I’d hate to +10 the whole show because “2 minute squashes make more sense than 10 minute really good JTTS matches.”

Unless you’re a no-name local explicitly brought in for a squash, most of the time you’re going to hang with the more pushed guy before losing. It’s like the company is designed with the idea that you must still be pretty good just to be there. It’s as if they’re all elite or something.

I just mentioned that Vince’s strange and naive assertion that WWE was the best possible entertainment was weirdly charming. How far off are we from missing Vince’s subtle right wing booking and refusal to publicly pick sides politically, as opposed to TKO’s out and proud MAGA bullshit?

I’d love to see those early, non broadcast King of the Ring tournaments from Foxboro.

Carny can’t fathom that someone might not be just fleecing a money mark and biding their time until New York calls them for another run: film at 11. Funny timing, there was a thread in r/squaredcircle just a day or so ago about how much Stevie’s show has changed, especially since James joined, leaning into the profitable land of negativity.

“VEGAS JUST NEEDS THAT WWF MAGIC PAL” is some real “we have Santino” shit. You can say a lot of bad things about Vince and be right about all of it, but his naive delusion about his promotion being the absolute apex of the entire sports and entertainment space was bizarrely charming.

Yep! I can’t post the pic but if you Google “Wrestlemania 5 ring apron,” you can definitely see they just covered the “I” in “IV” with fabric.

I thought the same thing!

“My team with Rosa is Thunder Tits. If I teamed with Kris Statlander, we’d be Thunder Thighs. If I teamed with Mr. Schiavone, we’d just be Tits.” Tremendous

MJF and Hurt Syndicate are perfect for each other. Both are one dimensional and feel like they’re written to appeal to incels. MJF is an uncool person’s idea of what a cool guy is like and Hurt Syndicate are the weak man’s idea of strong, tough men.

I'm the opposite. As someone who watched at the time, I (and friends of mine who watched, as well) reacted, "WTF?" I don't see Rude as a former world champion because the WCW title he;d the NWA lineage and was the world championship at the time. The International title was some made-up bullshit. This bit from Wikipedia is something I never knew and is pretty funny: Bill Watts bringing back the NWA tag belts for what felt like a month or two was equally head-scratching.

Now you're going to make me look it up! I remember checking on it sometime in the last year or so and recall maybe it wasn't as clear cut as that. But hey, I could be wrong, obviously. EDIT: Cool, I did some looking. Apparently what they call the "Undisputed WWE Championship" is technically two titles that are jointly defended (the original title and the Undisputed title), but maybe also contains the lineage of the Universal title? I'm confused and it's awful. Where does the World Heavyweight Championship, established in 2023, come in? It sounds like they unified a bunch of shit and then had second thoughts? Man, that's a good question! Pros: They had national exposure via PPV/TV/YouTube Cons: They weren't "The NWA." They we a glorified indy just licensing the titles. They didn't tour, and that was when touring was still a thing. They were just a TV product. The NWA title had been dead and worthless for a long time. I'd lean toward no but I don't feel strongly either way.

Just my own opinion but: The NWA title ceased being a world title once the WCW split happened. They went from being backed by a national company to being backed by a loose affiliation of indy carnies. They may have been fine for the territory era, but not once we got cable TV and actual national promotions. The WWE title's lineage is beyond fucked and they devalued their "world" title as soon as they made a second title of equal value after the first brand split. You can't have two "top" championships. I haven't watched their show in a long time and it'd probably take me some wikipedia-ing to figure out which existing title, if any, can be traced back to their original one. That sucks. I accept that wrestling changes and I still enjoy it a lot, but two things I really like to see as constants are 1) your #1 belt should be the most valuable thing in your company and you should protect it and 2) a legal tag is hand to hand, with the illegal man in the corner.

Just logging my week's workouts here because it keeps me honest! We're in mid-Atlantic Spring, which means the weather might be nice OR it will be cold and rainy. It's been the latter this week. Sunday: 35-40 minutes of chest, tris, shoulders Monday: 30ish minutes of treadmill running, 35ish minutes of back, legs, bis Tuesday: 30ish minutes of treadmill running, 35ish minutes of chest, tris, shoulders Wednesday: Thought I'd just run for 15 minutes, did 30ish because I'm nuts, then 35ish minutes of back, legs, bis Yesterday: just lifting, about 35ish minutes of chest, tris, shoulders Today is just lifting again, about 35ish minutes of back, legs, bis About a month or two ago, after months of constantly switching up my lifting regimen (drop sets sometimes, sometimes warmup --> working sets --> 1-2 drop sets, various other bullshit), I went back to my tried and true "3 sets. First set needs to be 8-12. If it's below 8, you're doing too much. If you hit 12, move up. Last 2 sets art whatever you can do. 30-45 seconds between sets." It's a nice balance between endurance and power, for me, and I've almost been moving up on at least one exercise per workout every session. Thanks for reading!

Didn’t Andre shit himself and then butt-splash Bad News? Or am I conflating three different stories?

Hopefully it’s an actual part, not just 5 seconds as a clicker under heavy makeup.

My best life advice: Find someone who loves you like @Andrew POE! loves movies! You’re a good dude and I appreciate your posts.

That's awesome. I didn't notice that on my playthrough. Does it change when you play as Ellie? The only time I ever noticed that was in GTAV, where each protagonist had his own color, and it flashed red and blue if the cops were after you.

That sucks. I never watched CZW but saw her on Dark Side and she seemed so sweet. We should all be so lucky to have someone like that, or to be that person for someone else.

In the early 90s, I was watching a U of Miami game on TV where the QB had been sacked so many times he was puking on the sidelines. Of course, we didn't know concussions were bad back then. I'm like you, man. If I have the flu, I'm in bed doing nothing.

I stopped listening to Stevie's pod because I felt like he was getting too far into Cornette style "wrestling sucks now" commentary in a cynical bid for that audience, but then a Stevie video came up in my YouTube scrolling. He was going to do an analysis of the FTR/Undisputed shitshow from a few weeks back and I thought, "it'll be cool to see an analysis from a worker here." One minute in, he makes a dumb comment about how Meltzer probably gave this match 7 stars anyway, and the Generic English Hanger On/Cohost #73 jumps in to parrot it. Ugh. I can't even with this bullshit. Brother, you worked for ECW and late era WCW. The old time marks are never going to love you.

CaliFTRnia Love? Honestly, there are just too damn many songs with "California" in the title. Half of them are probably Chili Peppers songs. Pet peeve as a guy who plays too much GTA: Songs that reference California on the game's in-game radio, where "California" really doesn't even exist.

The board is broken and I can't post the No Holds Barred DOOKIE gif Gotta love Hook shouting out Droz. The Bucks have a Cuck Chair. They have finally found common ground with Cornette.

I never meant to come off like people who disagree with their bosses should quit. You’re taking quite personal offense to something I never said. My point, which maybe I didn’t make well enough, is that it’s cowardly to dunk on an internet rando when she could do more for the cause by asking her boss what his deal is. Her boss is the one out and proud siding with bigots right there on TV.