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I mean did he ever take the fishing trip? It would be some total internet fan nonsense but if Claudio and Yuta just gave Mox a tackle box and some rods and maybe a bucket hat and told him to scram I'd laugh.

All these comments about Jimmy Valiant (whom I've only seen videos of the tail end of things) and the comments makes me think of the people who don't like Jey Uso. And I'm a fan of Jey, I just wish he could pad out his moveset a bit more.

I'm pretty sure Rey comes in Season 2. Also if you don't remember who Penta's master is, that great. Totally forgot about Famous B! He really picks up as a character once he becomes more of a manager. I just looked on Cagematch and he's been working in Australia a few times a year since 2022. Totally random and might be a different Famous B.

That table spot was kinda nasty since both Carlson twins overshot the tables/they were positioned too close to the edge. Before that it wasn't a great brawl and selling was not great. Katerina looked good against Kara Kai Sprout Greens is back and lost right away lol. But they might have something coming up with Big Rigs and Bourbon.

In my personal experience if you see a couple and wonder how they're together, I find out the guy is usually a pretty cool dude and it makes sense.

Yeah, "different" at the time was something fairly accessible and featured some fresh faces. ROH was syndicated at the time but was dependent on if you had a Sinclair owned station and whatever time it aired at (it was on at 1PM on Saturdays for me so it was in line with the historical syndicated wrestling spot) and Impact was bouncing around channels (I want to say it was on POP at the time LU debuted) both companies had guys you were used to and had been around for a while if you were a wrestling fan. Current ROH is streaming on their own service on Thursdays and is usually taped at one of the AEW tapings. I have no interest in checking it out because I just don't have the time. I have a NJPW World sub and I don't think I've loaded the service since WK this year. Dollar is still strong against the yen so it's the same as 3 High Lifes at the bar down the street. I used to freak out if I missed a show and now if I miss it and I don't have the time to watch the recording, I don't worry about it.

As far as the style goes, Chris DeJoseph was one of the producers and he was a WWE guy from the early 2000s to early 2010s. Chavo was also a producer so him not getting pushed to a top role makes sense since he was busy with other stuff. He generally killed in his role though. The rest of the producers are mostly reality TV guys with Mark Burnett being the big one and he's now the envoy to the UK since he was appointed by Trump. He was the producer of The Apprentice by the way. You getting ansty with story development when you're able to queue the matches up is hilarious considering we had to wait for these weekly at the time and I didn't even have El Rey during season one so I had to watch the Spanish broadcast on UniMas which was in 480p. Are the original threads still on the board? While I enjoyed the show at the time, it's not something I've had a strong desire to go back to watch even when it was available on streaming sites. It was something different when the only big game in town was WWE and if you wanted to look for ROH and Impact which were both fun at the time or the NJPW show that was on AXS. I don't think you can do something like this again since you have a viable alternative in AEW which is different enough compared to WWE.

I watched the Meiko Satomura supercut on the WWE Vault earlier today and the casual racism from the WCW matches is nuts but fits in with the times.

He's always had that belly, it's really only the Mantanza costume that kinda hid it. He could probably find some gear to hide it (and if Vince were around he would probably have to) but he's a henchman, not a pretty boy babyface.

Kinda. An issue as a result of moving to storage on the system instead of memory cards. WhatsTheStatus who is a prominent creator in the 2K community recently had to create a new profile to be able to upload more CAWs to users but that also means a fresh save file so he had to do all the unlocks again.

I feel like the logical step is for Roxy to integrate herself into TJD, Liv comes back like "WTF" and they program from there. Total agreement that GAB is getting thrown to the wolves. Not sure on the ownership of Center Stage versus State Farm Arena but if they got a good deal, then I guess they had to take it. I have a feeling SNME is going to take a soak too because if you're the person watching All In, that's going to be draining either way so you might not want to see more wrestling after that. Gotta agree that nothing about Monroe says face (she may be an angel IRL) and I can only assume it's because she's matched up against Jacy and crew. They muddled the D'Angelo family stuff so bad. They need to figure something out.

I knocked out the Cody birthday event last night (I have no shame in getting count out victories), the Bret birthday event (same thing) and the July Smash and Stash event. All of those packs netted me the Ruby jumpsuit Roman and a bunch of in game currency so I was able to do the encore Roman/Punk event to get the Amethyst Roman. I'll probably but the cards I don't have for the July Numbers game event.

I'm pretty sure a tag titles match was announced on Raw with Raquel and Roxy versus a team from SD, NXT and maybe Raw too, but I think this episode was taped after last weeks so that may have been something that wasn't discussed at the time. I wonder if they just toss Fallon and Jazmyn in there since everyone else is occupied.

The new Big Body Javi? Also the note I saw on Cageside this morning indicated that WWE wasn't interested in either act. Which makes sense because I don't see a path for them. Also poor Wes Lee, I think he was going to get called up before the back injury and now he's just floating and getting used to get Tyson and Tyreik over.

I feel like it's happened here and there in WWE with gimmick changes but I can't think of it being a true part of the character. Closest I can think of would be Danhausen calling The Gunn Club the Ass Boys and them running with it.

The thing about signing recent PC releases is that they taped this entire season of WOW in August and did a live event in Vegas in September so anyone released after May/June probably wasn't getting picked up. This helps with setting up a narrative for the season without too many issues with the talent. Now for next season? They have a ton of folks they could pick from. Also don't poke around the internet too much, you'll see spoilers and it might throw you off. I saw who the current champs are and it made me wonder how they get there.

I don't understand the airing schedule for WOW here (probably based on if CW is airing live sports or not) but it came on at 4PM today so I'm watching it now on the DVR. The former Valentina Feroz from NXT is in WOW as Gabriella Cruz, a quick search of Cagematch shows that her and Yulisa Leon have done some tag work in Mexico since leaving NXT. Anyways, she takes on Fury in a fun little match. The Reina Del Rey showing the rosary when Holidead came into the ring was a nice touch. You can tell Goldie Collins is an actress that wrestles on the side based on her promo. It was something you'd see on a random streaming service show. Xena looked good here and Goldie got to show off some power moves. That 4 way was fun. I was expecting Santana to interfere.

I believe the rumor was that her thunder and lightning entrance from AEW was too close to what The Rock was doing around that time so they went with snow. I feel like Jade has had a few times where she's struggled lifting someone and I wonder if it's a positioning thing or "show vs. go" muscles. The folks that have actually wrestled can probably comment on it.

Going back to Dorfus' comment from last week's thread about AEW bringing in talent from other promotions, I'm pretty sure the initial AEW partner promotions were AAA and the DDT/TJPW/NOAH conglomerate since NJPW and CMLL were honoring their partnerships with ROH at the time. Pandemic probably changed a lot of plans as far as bringing in people from other promotions and how they would be featured on AEW and here we are.

Paola causing the DQ in the title match really annoyed me so it worked perfectly. I assume Santana will interfere in the 4 way next week. Sweet Heat is really letting the Oklahoma come out in their accents now which is hilarious. Scout looked good in her match and worked over the leg well. Her not applying the holds well worked out with the rollup finish.

If they hadn't used the "big money purse" gimmick so much over the last few months I'd say this would be a perfect time for it.

WWE2k25 locker code BIGMANJ4MZ gets you a basic Punches and Promos pack and a basic Legends II pack. I pulled the Solo card from Punches and Promos and the Eddy from Legends. I've hit the point where I finished the live events I can do so I just do random Faction Wars runs. I've also gotten into the habit of going for countouts so I'm just being a crowd killing heel at this point.

Jeff also couldn't get into England so when they were in TNA previously there was always a yearly angle where Jeff got injured right before their UK trip. I seem to remember it being a big deal for Snoop Dogg to travel to the UK as well since he had a few drug charges on his record.

Turkey has a pretty good plastic surgery tourism business with hair plugs being a big part of it. They're some of the better hair plugs apparently and it's cheaper than most western countries even accounting for the travel costs. There's a fairly popular TikTok/IG video of a guy traveling back from Turkey at the boarding gate and he's taking video of all these guys with bandages around their heads covering the scars after surgery. As a bald, I've looked at plug options and told myself if I ever hit the lotto (I don't even play it) then I'd think about it after paying off the house and car.

I think the difference between an AEW crowd and a NXT crowd with regard to sexual stuff, the AEW crowd wants to hear people say "sexy" things while the NXT crowd wants to see it. So something like Lyons or Jaida being a whole lot of woman, Michin having a running joke of slapping Jaida on her butt when she was down there for a few weeks or Vaquer's Devil's Kiss getting the crowd worked up plays better with the NXT crowd versus Blake saying stuff. Now why that's a thing, who knows.