Technico Support

Need to make a list of all the dumb terms they've used to try to disguise "hey it's a promo seg." How they haven't gotten to "scrum" yet is anyone's guess. Honestly, Chris' next reinvention should be a middle manager type who talks in business buzzwords. He should tell Hook that they'll take this offline and circle back to touch base on their action items so they can strategize once they've gotten a 10,000 foot view and buy-in from the leadership.

Caribbean change No one knows the exact date range Drop the strap to avoid a riot Apter mags they don't buy it

Oh god I hate to open this can of worms, but what happened to the original tag title lineage?

Yeah, I just read the history of the title and I need to make a flow chart or something. So if I have it right, Cody's belt is essentially the 2002 Brock "unified" championship (itself the old WWF and WCW titles, essentially), plus the 2002 Triple H Raw championship, plus the Universal title. And then there's the other belt that tafka Punishment Martinez has, which was just created out of thin air. Jesus.

They had Roman unify the belts, but then made a new belt with brand new lineage because Roman didn't work that much, right? I hope I got that straight, I don't really watch WWE. This whole thing is nuts and I just want titles to mean something and make sense, in general. Anyway, what title has lineage back to Bruno? Or is it none of them?

Thinking about this sent me down a rabbit hole of "have trios titles ever been meaningful in the US?" The only somewhat relevant trios/six man title I could think of were the NWA belts in the 80s. Checking those titles' Wikipedia entry, there's reference to a regional six man title from a Tennesee NWA territory that was hot for like 6 years back in the 70s. That aside, the belts existed in Crockett for a bit in what only felt like a way get the Russians over and, later, to give Dusty a way to get the rub from the Road Warriors and stay relevant. Six man matches on US TV wrestling nowadays are just a vehicle to get six guys on TV and continue storylines. You have two guys who are going to be on the PPV against each other in a month and you want them on TV but not really wrestling each other? Give each two partners and away you go. That's all six man matches exist for right now. It's not as much a division as it is a vehicle. If you want to have an actual trios division, you can't have random-ass six man matches every show that have no bearing on the division. Why is HoB out here winning six man matches if their PPV match is against another random 3 man team with no title implications while the current champions have no match lined up at all? It's like every other non-world title in AEW. They need to figure out a reason for the title to exist and book things around that. I'd be fine with taking all the really good working JTTS singles and teams and just letting them fight for the trios belts. Make it the party match division where you know you'll get something crazy fun when those titles are on the line.

Gonna tell my kids this is Little Mac vs King Hippo OR Taz: now look here, brudda. First hit him in the mouth, then pummel his stomach when his pants fall down.

I wonder if “traditionalist” HHH ever goes back to a single world title. We all complain about AEW’s multiple lower belts but honestly, having two supposedly top tier, “world heavyweight” level belts in one company is more egregious.

I love those designs, they’re the ones I grew up on. Unfortunately, the company logo isn’t prominent enough on them and that’s the name of the game today. It’s still equal parts hilarious and sad to me that their top titles are nothing but the company logo. Maybe within the next year it’ll be the company logo and some space reserved for sponsorship.

Yes, that’s exactly it. I assumed @BloodyChamp was hitting the heavy bag and taping every time. Wraps are far easier in that scenario. But shooting darts, no idea. I got nothin’. Also, it’s not just to cushion your knuckles. The tightness keeps you from breaking your hands or wrists. Punching is not good for you.

That's a funny way of spelling "Kenny and the Bucks."

Let that HOB match be your weekly reminder that this company is exceeding at putting out excellent six man matches in a division that is in a holding pattern with a thoroughly average tag team and their freshly divorced dad looking partner as the non-defending champs. God damn, imagine awesome weekly six man matches knowing they're actually building to an incredible title match instead of whatever The Acclaimed and their mascot are doing. Also, what the hell is Deeb's accent or vocal affect supposed to be? She speaks very strangely. Don Callis won the whole weekend with that promo.

Oh man, how did I forget Drake Younger? Though last I heard (maybe a month ago), he'd checked back into rehab. But a dude like that going to rehab reminds me of celebrities like Mel Gibson, for example, going off on racist tirades and then blaming booze and then going to rehab to help their images. Like I've been drunk many, many times and it never led me to blame "the globalists" for anything. Drake Younger fell down a Qanon rabbit hole and I don't think quitting drugs or booze would help with that, but God bless the guy and I hope it all works out for him. I'll always remember his resurgence after getting clean originally; his 2012 - 13 PWG run was amazing and he probably should have accepted a title run and stayed on the indies. Moving to Florida did him in.

I'm not sure how that would work because it would need to be really tight. Have you ever used wraps instead of tape for punching?

No, it was all very vague, perhaps purposefully so. He also said something to the effect of "early in your career," which would rule out Osprey and Okada. BUT it's also conceivable that HHH doesn't know they're veterans. Or maybe he's such a Kool Aid drinker he believes your career hasn't even started, and is thus still early, until you've worked New York brother. Me, I just assumed he said "early in your career" so vets he knows personally, like Edge, wouldn't feel like they were catching strays. But really, in the end, a guy who is supposed to be on the business side now, and just had the best weekend of his career as an exec, doesn't need to be punching down at anyone. To paraphrase a line from a great work of cinema, "Are you such a fucking loser you can't tell when you've won?"

Alvarez & Meltzer were talking over the weekend about Vince starting a new promotion (they said nah to that one) and their key question was, "who would he be able to get?" Now come on. That's the one problem he wouldn't have. He could lean into the whole "people used to love me talking about my genetic jackhammer and grapefruits! Woke wrestling cancelled me!" thing and hire every sexual predator, MAGA choad, and otherwise undesirable currently not working or not working much and looking for a payday. Off the top of my head: Marty Scurll David Starr Jack Gallagher Joey Ryan Jimmy Havoc Michael Elgin That one Crist brother Tyrus Tessa Blanchard Alberto Del Rio Flip Gordon That one neo nazi/neo nazi-adjacent deathmatch guy whose name escapes me Shit, he could promote it on Truth Social

It was just nasty, cynical trash directed at a lowest common denominator audience who surely wouldn’t understand any “message” that may have existed anyway. I did a work trip right before the pandemic hit and, on the plane, saw The Rise of Skywalker on the way out and Joker on the way back. What travel gods did I piss off?

Has Kyle Fletcher ever had a non yee yee ass haircut in his life?

Apparently, if you go to aewtix.com, there’s some sort of “AEW Insider” signup where they send you codes.

I’m late to the party but I’m really enjoying Mayor of Kingstown (not to be confused with Mare of Easttown, which is also great!) on Paramount +. For a wrestling tie-in, Erik Rowan is in a few episodes

It feels like a bad sunburn for an hour or two after getting it done, but after that, no.

Weird things I notice watching wrestling: Julia got a new tattoo, new enough that she was wrestling with a square of protective film over it. I just got a new one this week, first one in a few years, and had never seen the film before that

Looool I always wondered what the Asian equivalent of “black don’t crack” was. Best could come up with was Asians don’t be agin’ which is not great.

There was a "Jarrett's crew is sick of Jay because Jay keeps losing" storyline that I forgot existed (and was probably dropped) until I saw @Matt D's post.