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Late match announcement part 1!

Well, the "I'm going bald so I shave my head" is a Gen X thing, because all previous generations would do the combover thing or the Skullet thing. And so to people in their 50s and 60s, having a receded hairline and NOT shaving your head makes you look like an old man. Perhaps they're inspired by Marvin Hagler, or Scott Ian, or Billy Pumpkins, or Steve Austin or Dwayne Johnson and Vinnie Diesel. Which does mean that from the younger millenials and Gen Z'er perspective, having a shaved head makes you look old, so they walk around with grandad hairlines. The big beard, that's jawline camouflage. If you stay lean, you don't need that... but staying lean over 50 isn't too easy. It's possible, if you're genetically lucky and put the work in, but it's not easy.

The whole "Evanescence is a Christian Band" thing came from the original guitarist, who would do solo interviews and talk about his personal beliefs, but say "We" instead of "I". That and their label pushing them to Christian bookshops and that. I'm guessing Dynamite, with only 4 announced matches and no "We'll hear from..."s is getting some stuff added in the next few hours.

Cody responding to a post documenting him doing the thing, by saying "Well, we're not obligated to do the thing", that's just him putting himself over as a babyface. We don't have to do it, but now you've all seen me doing it, I'll just mention that we don't have to. But I did anyway, you all saw me doing it, even though I don't have to, because I'm just a nicer person than everyone else is.

That's not what happened. TLDR: Autistic American Wrestling fan gets too addicted to Twitter, decides to book Wrestling show, gets way over her head Books famous Joshi wrestler, offers to get her hotel room, Joshi wrestler says she wants to arrive days earlier and, stay at the fans house instead They go to Outback Stakehouse Joshi wrestler eats too much, goes into food coma Twitter addict tweets "I hope I didn't kill her" in reference to said food coma Then checks her messages, sees three booked and announced wrestlers (one of whom is a big draw) have cancelled off her show two days before it happens Tweets "The Lord is testing me today" in reference to said cancellations Transphobes on twitter decide that this means she is struggling with the temptation to molest the Joshi wrestler in her sleep People who haven't been following the situation see that backlash and decide to accept it no questions asked I never called Stefanie transphobic, I said she was accepting a transphobic narrative spread by transphobic people. Because she was.

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=458280 ZERO MINUTES~!

OK, Zero minutes.

AEW gave Stephanie Vacquer a figure for their contract offer. She contacted WWE and told them how much AEW were offering, and got the response "Sorry, we cannot match that offer. Have a great time in AEW". And then she accepted WWE's deal anyway. So hopefully she's enjoying whatever it is that she's doing over there. But between that, and Mariah May/ Blake Monroe tweeting about "Why would I wrestle, when I can eat doughnuts with a knife and fork instead?", it's a real mindfuck. The Bella Twins started the Give Divas a Chance movement, because those ridiculously short match times meant that they weren't getting the opportunity to even try to have a good match. The Women's Revolution was supposed to be a triumphant changing of the guard. And now the 2 minutes of women's wrestling in a 3 hour show thing is back, and WWE's current fans and performers are apparently just fine about that.

Well, you'd be wrong about that. Alexandre Pantoja was working as an Uber Driver WHILE IN FIGHT CAMP five years ago. But then when he won that fight, he also earned himself a $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus. That's where the money is in UFC - the Per Fight money and Win Bonus money, if you aren't a main event draw, are terrible. A no-name Boxer working untelevised shows makes more from their fight career than a non-main event UFC fighter, even if they're in the divisional top 10.

Dave Meltzer doesn't need to do anything to make WWE look bad. WWE's business practices and the quality of their TV shows and PLEs makes WWE look bad.

When The Dogs started doing the Who Who Who, I thought they were referencing The New Day, not the Baha Men.

For months, they had The Hurricane going around and addressing other wrestlers as "Citizen". So Big Show was "Citizen Show", and JBL was "Citizen Layfield". And then, after months, he found himself in the ring with a microphone, and Kane was there. So he takes a big deep breath, raises the mic to his lips and says "Citizen Kane!" and pauses for an audience reaction. Complete silence.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Interpromotional Era really started when AJW started doing interpromotional matches with FMW? Because this is from the 19th of September 92.

If everyone on the indie shows understands that setting up and breaking down the show is part of the job of being booked on the indie show, and also that only time served veterans are exempt from that (ie Nick Gage isn't expected to because he's Nick Gage; Shotzi isn't expected to because she's been on TV, Marcus Mathers isn't expected to because he's signed (but also will voluntarily do it anyway, because he's nice)), Avery Styles not only not doing it, but being asked to and refusing, it's not a good look. If he's going to wrestle on the indies as a nepo baby and gets a reputation as a prima donna, someone's going to rough him up sooner or later. Or bookers will decide that whatever type of draw he is, he's not worth the headache. Like, it's 2026, Teddy Hart would still be a draw, but nobody's booking him because he's Teddy Hart.

TKO, they look at the UFC business model and think they can replicate that with WWE (not realising that AEW isn't the pro-wrestling equivalent of a WFA, WEC or Strikeforce you can just buy out, or even a Bellator/ ONE FC where you can just wait out the main eventer's contracts and sign them away).