Cristobal

What kinda dogshit deal are these people getting offered if a 21 year old is looking at a contract with the biggest wrestling company on the planet and saying "Pass"?

Settle down Hollywood Bookernetico...

The last try I gave it was the go-home Dynamite before All In Texas. I could barely stand any of it and fell asleep before the last match Actually Honor Club might be worth a shot. Dunno if the current product will bring me in but watching the old stuff chronologically might scratch the itch.

Man I dunno what to do now. AEW is fucking garbage to me (not tryna start anything with those of you that like it, but I just cannot enjoy it. I've tried. Every time I do it's terrible,) but WWE, despite having dozens of very talented wrestlers on their roster, most of whom are not giant pieces of shit, has made it clear that I can't keep watching them and maintain a modicum of self-respect. So that's done. I've cancelled both Netflix and Peacock. And I really liked Gunther/Punk, too.

At some point someone gave Travis Scott the advice a lot of young wrestlers get and that's to slow down in big moments, and unfortunately that was NOT the advice Scott needed to be given.

Seriously can Cole and Graves kiss and make up now? Every so often McAfee still comes up with a good one but my god he was insufferable tonight.

Anyone watching the post-show for Cena waited through 20 minutes of HHH talking just to see Cena drop the mic and walk out without saying a word.

I thought this scenario was a long shot because now this turn maybe takes a lot of the feelgood factor out of the rest of Cena's farewell year but they did it, and honestly I kinda dig it because it leaves the outcome of the Mania main event in doubt. We could get a run with Cena as heel champ finally overcome at the end of the year by whichever babyface they want or it could be another mountain for Cody to summit and then Cena tries to find redemption for the rest of 2025. Also Bianca/Rhea will be a good Mania match.

The opening promo by HHH was good, though I could do without terms like "face", "heel", "work", and "shoot" being thrown around. Yeah I get most of the audience knows it but that doesn't mean you've got to hit them over the head with it. The Rock's promo was less like a Rock promo and more like Dwayne Johnson accepting a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award. Opening match was alright before the inevitable clusterfuck. Owens and Cody felt really shoehorned into this. Rhea/Liv just felt like a normal Raw match except for Taker coming out at the end, which, uh, ok, I guess. I liked the finish of Jey and Drew right up until the finish of Punk and Rollins because it had that same "slightly overwhelmed babyface catches a lucky break to win" element to it. Echoes of the previous match's finish aside, I thought Punk and Rollins was a really good match. Even with the extended injury time, I think you can make a case for Punk as WWE MVP of 2024. Seeing Hogan get booed, especially when the crowd realized he was just out there to shill a product, was so satisfying. Four matches, five babyface wins (I'm counting Hogan being booed as one of these) was an interesting choice. Might be worth investing in a VPN so I can miss the commercials in the future.

I do not understand what Shane even offers to AEW. They already have plenty of people who can't throw a decent working punch but are willing to kill themselves doing huge dives that make little or no sense.

Ok who knows the story about Cody's mom beating up an undercover cop at a Willie Nelson concert cuz I gotta hear that one.

I have to assume by the sheer volume of Punk-related trolling the Elite did that everyone involved in Brawl Out is working with each other again otherwise that was just a complete waste of time.

They were gonna do that but the guy they brought in was only two inches shorter than Matt so they nixed that idea. I'm not even sorry. If everyone else gets to be petty, I get to be petty.

This bit mostly encompasses where I'm at re the BCC. I was all in on them at the start. Danielson was fresh off his almost-but-not-quite heel run where he'd had a bunch of great matches bookended by good programs with Kenny and Hangman. The Yuta stuff made sense to try and elevate a younger guy and also give the group someone who can drop falls without getting hurt. And even though Danielson got hurt at a bad time, Claudio's arrival seemed like it was gonna kick-start things back up. Instead we got the endless Garcia shit (the matches were good, the angle wasn't) and Danielson drops all the falls. No one's benefitted. Yuta's still just a midcard guy, Mox is where he is because he's Mox (and because of Punk's assorted issues) and Regal has, until now, just been around to do commentary during assorted BCC matches. And look at where Danielson is now compared to where he was before.