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Could always just keep the squeaky clean babyface squeaky clean tho. I couldn't tell you what the story is. They broke my neck at All In! Oh wait they wanted me to work one more PPV so we ignored that. Then they broke my neck and we actually stuck with it! Now I will train with them because my neck is weak and I need new technique? Idk man. Maybe I dont watch enough of the tv to understand it all. But to me youre slowing and dulling the work of one of the most explosive workers you have. Step 2 ??? Step 3, profit. Supposedly. Idk.

Ah yes, just what we need from the babyface ace, kicking a man when he's down.

Which is a bummer to me because I'd prefer some more DCF guys. Cage & Hechicero. Fletcher & Wardlow. El Clon & Archer. Trent & Rocky. Literally any of them over them dull ass Dogs lol

Is Ace Austin not good? I havent seen a lot of his work. But that match was not up to normal Ospreay standards, in my opinion. I specifically mentioned it because it was a dialed back less entertaining (to me) version of Ospreay. Winning with the most generic submission move should be the give away

Lots of doubt creeping in with Malik Nabors having a second knee surgery. I had the exact same surgery as his first one after blowing out my knee in the ring. Fully torn ACL and partially torn meniscus. I chose to shave the torn meniscus off to improve recovery speed / minimize reocvery pain. Malik chose to have the meniscus surgically repaired. Which is significantly more painful and has a longer healing process. I didnt have a need for that second surgery since they took off the damaged meniscus tissue. But its not uncommon to have complications when you try to repair the meniscus. If his recovery goes anything like mine did, he'll certainly get medical clearance in the first quarter of the season. But he's not going to be 100% back to his real athletic heights again until probably next season.

I think this is going to be an opinion I'm alone on, and thats okay. But I hate the Death Riders Mox-ifying Ospreay. Story wise and in ring work wise the story they are telling is stop being flippy start being meaner. Everyone on the planet is capable of using a cross armbreaker as a finish, why did they need Ospeay to dial it back so drastically? Despite that, still hoping for an Ospreay win in The Owen. MJF to have a movie role lined up where he needs to be bald, an Kyle Fletcher to return just in time to snatch the world title from a drained and weakened Darby at Forbidden Door, boom Fletcher vs Ospreay for the title at All In. They really havent set that up at all. So its not likely, but its what Im pulling for.

I'm all caught up finally, just got done watching episode 7. I wont go into super spoiler detail so people can watch for themselves. But this was a powerful episode. I knew this was the last season but I didn't know it was only 8 episodes. It feels like there's no way to wrap this up in one more episode. A movie to tie it all together? I dont know. I actually appreciate them pushing the religious angle so hard vs politics. It took me so long to catch up on this and Gen V because it's just too real. The political climate currently being mirrored exactly is just too unsettling for me. So I'm glad they dialed that back a bit and have moved it on the religion path. I'm enjoying the hell out of this and will be bummed when it's over. I don't feel like I have enough of a grip on things to make too many predictions. I just know MM is going to be the one to kill Soldier Boy. He just has to. It's his character's entire mission. He'll probably go down with him, but if MM doesn't take him out that plot point is going to feel like 5 seasons of filler. As for how Homelander is taken out? I gotta assume it'll be some epic team effort thing that ends with Marie being able to pull the blood out of him temporarily somehow, and with no V1 blood / sup blood in him for a short time, there will be an opening to kill him. But you know how media properties are today. They probably will just find a way to imprison him and not kill him so they always have him there in case they want to go back to the well.

There's two prices. You can pay to use a song once. Or you can pay way more to use a song in perpetuity (forever). WWE license songs for that night then dub them over. AEW pay for perpetuity so all re-showings of that event can still have the music in tact.

I'm going by memory here and it could be faulty, but how I remember it is RVD established his name prior to ECW. He created it & and Heyman just booked him. ECW & Heyman created The Dudley name & characters. Then he found performers to play those roles. So ECW owns the names. WWE bought ECW assets in 2001 so WWE owns all intellectual property created by ECW. Which means they own The Dudley names. RVD owns his because he created it, not ECW. 1000% ECW didn't care about copyrights. Hence all the unlicensed music. They were willing to roll the dice that Looney Tunes wouldn't sure. WWE, having already lost a lawsuit to Marvel over the Hulk trademark, were not about to play with fire like that. And hopped a unique spelling would be enough if WB came calling. Same with Rhino & Marvel.

That's.... not exactly how it works. For example CM Punk gets signed. They allow him to keep the name and have him sign the name over (on a temporary basis, not in perpetuity). When you sign the name over that's more just for convenience. WWE doesn't have to get approval on every piece of marketing with that name or toy or merchandise. They basically run the administration of your name during the length of your contracted services. But then you leave and once the deal is terminated WWE no longer have rights to it. CM Punk is still CM Punk. AJ Styles, Rey Mysterio, Christian Cage, etc. If you owned the name prior, WWE don't get to keep it when you leave. But as with Christian, if WWE shortened your name you don't get to go by that. You have to use the full name again. So Kofi can legally use his prior full name. Kofi Nahje Kingston. Woods (and Big E if he were to get out of his deal just to be a corner man) would not be keeping the same names tho.

Sweat is about heat regulation, not conditioning. Sweat doesn't mean they're blown up. Just means thier body is too hot. Hashtag science and all that lol

Without invoking the name of Shawn Michaels can you explain why turning your foot 90 degrees makes the kick have more force? Its all wrestling and analyzing this stuff can make you go crosseyed lol. If I kick a heavy bag full force from the front, I can grate the exact same force as I can superkicking the bag. So why is one more protected than the other? Not a criticism of your take. More a jumping off point for a thought experiment. Why do people say xyz throw too many super kicks and not xyz throws too many front kicks? Its all the same thing. Only reason why people care, in my theory here at least, is that the super kick was someone's finish for a long time.

Thats a taste preference tho. I generally like a little spooky from time to time, or at least spooky adjacent. Its worked more than Sullivan & Undertaker just off the top of my head Kane & Bray. Undeniable that element is what helped each of them break through after both having failed other gimmicks. I personally loved HOB. But I also liked the Flock in WCW. And The Deadpool (ICP, Vamp, & Muta). And The Brood. Take, Kane (original version), Danhausen, Dark Order, Darby, Sting. Different shades and flavors of it. But the spooky shit works. Not always and not for everyone. But thats why wrestling is a circus. You dont have to like every act. I cant stand Mox and The Death Riders, but thats a taste thing as well because thats a way minority opinion overall.

And before I get push back for wanting Black back, theres some fun meta booking you can do with a guy the fans think wont job. You can also get a hell of a reaction for a surprise job to someone lesser than him. If he's willing to play ball and job when told to, he's an asset. He's got a great look, unique work, and visually a great presentation that also elevated others. Give me a slow burn stirring the pot with Uno reviving Dark Order or reform HOB but make it House of Brody and Black & Murphy do the tag thing. Lots of possibilities.

Okay but first name a time Kamala read poetry like The Genius. You dont have to like the smirk into the camera stuff but thats thier characters. Kamala wasn't a poet. The Young Bucks arent ass kickers. Neither were The Rock n Roll Express or The Rockers. You just have whatever issue you have with them and then you literally make shit up to support the argument. And its so god damn tiresome. But I will stop it there. That wasnt even the point you were intending to make anyways. You just drag that shit into everything and Im sorry for the tangent and thread derail. The answers to what everyone is talking about are Kari, MCMG, and Malachai. Those are who I would bring in.