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Apparently, per SRS (I think it was him), the plan is for Gunther to be John Cena's final opponent.

Without speculating TOO MUCH about it, I do wonder if its a recurrence of his concussion issues. He missed a LONG time a while back and, to his credit and also possibly detriment, he wrestled like a guy who didn't have concussion problems taking a lot of hard bumps (That Fletcher botched power bomb on the apron for instance) and I wonder if it caught up to him. Wishing him the best!

https://3downnation.com/2025/07/11/montreal-alouettes-release-db-don-callis-one-day-after-gimmick-jersey-giveaway-with-aew-wrestler-of-same-name/ Don Callis suffers big L before All In

I actually think those two reuniting as singles partners wouldn't be the worst thing, haha. Realistically, neither has really fluorished without the other, though, admittedly, I enjoyed Max Caster's Open Challenge run. Also, what sign was Tazz talking about where he said it replaced "Founding Fathers with Founding....and that wasn't very nice." It either got bleeped up here in Canada, or some background in-ring swearing got bleeped, I can't figure out which. Lastly, I'd just like to point out how insane AEW programming has been in Canada. We got Dynamite right from the start on TSN (Think Canadian ESPN), TSN also got the rights to Rampage and later Collision but would only show them when the shows were in Canada, the only way you could watch them would be to subscribe to TSN+ (So even though you have TSN through whatever your cable package is, you'd have to pay again for it!). This past January, the big cable provider Roger's announced it was bringing the USA Network to Canada but it's a Canadian version of the USA Network (LOTS of 'Highway Through Hell'!). Now USA just paid big bucks to feature Smackdown, but all WWE programming in Canada is now the property of Netflix, so even though USA is the home of Smackdown, in Canada you can only watch it on Netflix. Even more bizarre is that as soon as USA Network premiered in Canada, it immediatey became the home for...AEW Collision, running live on Saturday Nights. So the home of Smackdown in the US, is the home of WWE's rival company in Canada. And, further adding to the weirdness, the Canadian USA Network also run some WWE content shows like 'WWE's Greatest Moments: Celebrities of the 80s' and 'WWE's Greatest Moments: WCW' on Thursday nights which means on certain occasions, such as next Thursday, 'AEW Collision' is followed up by the above two WWE shows and will likely even be pre-empted by AEW going over. It's the weirdest thing ever.

He's almost got this over-the-top TRYING to sell either gimmick so hard feel to him, that I'd like to see him pivot to being a health and wellness influencer (Like that one that went viral where the guy soaked his face in expensive bottled water) who is so overly trying to sell you on what a great person/role model he is that the crowd turns on him. Have him brag about getting up early to go to the gym and how disappointed he is that people can't maintain his standards. I think he'd be better as a delusional heel who acts eartnes than an actual earnest babyface, IMO.

Would it be too much of an on-the-nose joke if at the end it was revealed the AI he was using was just this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-1_(wrestler)

Has anyone been following this Karrion Cross can't take a back bump trend on the ol' Twiter? Kinda fascinating.

In Jericho's book he says that Gedo was booked to come in and defeat him in a one-off match and Jericho went to someone (Terry Taylor? Bischoff? I forget whom) and wondered why he was being booked to lose to a guy who wasn't going to be staying in WCW and said booker agreed with him. So they changed the result to Jericho winning. He says that when he went up for the frankensteiner, Gedo (Whom Jericho was supposedly friendly with and had teamed with in WAR (?!)) inexplicably gave him a two-handed shove to the chest as he was performing the move which caused him to land on his head. Jericho (whose mother was paralyzed in an accident with her boyfriend) had an elevated fear of paralysis and leapt to his feet after the fall and continued the match but I think he made reference to feeling like he'd suffered an injury in the spot and probably shouldn't have. He doesn't mention talking to Gedo afterwards or any more clarification on what happened so, as an armchair, uh, wrestling guy, I have a feeling Gedo was told he was going over, then found out Jericho had talked them into changing the outcome and was maybe a wee bit annoyed with Jericho and gave him the shove, just as a dick-ish heel move not realizing it would lead to Jericho almost killing himself. I have no information to back that up, just making a guess.

What was the deal here?! Why does the crowd hate him so much? Did AEW know this? Seems weird to position him with a team of faces when the crowd detests him!

So someone explain this Jinder Mahal-Masada drama like I'm twelve...and also explain who Masada is?!

My friend watched a edited for TV 'Kill Bill' one time and he claims the dialogue was changed to "My name is Buck and I came to...PARTY", then after Uma escapes his clutches, she looks dismissively at his car that has been edited to read 'Partymobile' and spits "Partymobile!" and my friend said "What DOES this woman have against partying?!" (I never saw this, so I can't vouch for its veracity but it's one of my favourite stories of his aside from the time he said "Movies" into his remote control and a message came up on the screen saying "Will not comply with searches for terms like this "P*SSY" just as his wife walked in and he was going "I honestly did not say that!")

Ewww

Bizarre. Was so smooth when I posted a few hours ago and now back to the reload.

FWIW the site was almost unusable last night (Every single thing I clicked had to be refreshed at least once, even if I was going forward a page in the same thread!). But today it's faster than ever! Smooth sailing!

I ADORE this song. I always loved the line "money to pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep". Somehow I didn't really discover it until mid-2000-2005 when I saw it on a retro music video channel. Great choice!

Probably my biggest AEW complaint: they jam so much stuff in each episode that they never let stuff breathe. A quick replay or something lets a segment breathe a little but instead it gets a little "Bang! A match! A debut! But we have to jump to an interview! Heel turn! No time we gotta talk about a tournament!" Look, I'm not a big Adam Cole detractor/body-shamer...but I gotta admit, tonight when he came running out of nowhere and attacked Kyle Fletcher...I genuinely thought for a second that Marko Stunt had returned. I would like to see a Best of 7 Ops-Frat House (One change needed, the Frat House should have a frat/wrestling name (Phi Beta Head Droppa but...you know...better) instead of the generic Frat House) where the Frat Guys keep trying different combinations to defeat the Ops and keep suffering worse and worse defeats and go 0 and 7. I could watch that every week.

I was just wondering what happened to him the other day when I was watching 'Beyond the Mat' and they showed him being held back after someone had spit on him and it made me remember seeing him in PWI where he was billed as La Migra Maxx Justice and feuding with Hispanic wrestlers.

Also, the Cena heel run might not be making especially enjoyable matches, but the heat was absolutely nuclear last night. I love how they popped for his music, booed his entrance, cheered for R-Truth like he was 1980s Hulk Hogan, popped huge for Cena seeing the error of his way, booed when he cheated again. I don't know if the Cena "I'm going to ruin wrestling" really makes a lot of sense given his ties to The Rock and his being on the board of directors etc. etc. etc. but it has made for some unbelievable crowd reactions. I wonder how long it goes on for because I think you HAVE to let Cena run out the last few weeks (months?) as a face for his and the fans' sake. If Cena doesn't see "the error of his ways" until his last appearance or whatever, I think it would be a failure of a run.

Man Jesse Ventura on commentary was great in how uncomfortable it made Cole/McAfee. I miss the days when colour commentators went on unhinged tangents and things were just less corporate and over-produced. Ventura mocking Priest's exit while Cole and McAfee tried to explain it ("He's making a statement by walking out!" "Well if you're gonna do that at least go over the top!") and refusing to let it go when Cole and McAfee are desperately trying to move on was amazing.

I kinda think you could debut Tony D in his current gimmick, somewhere very Italian-friendly (Chicago, given his billed city) and make a big deal of it (Maybe pay some guys to lose their shit in the crowd over him), give him a big win, have him throw his opponent in the trunk and drive away and if he's over enough there it can transfer to other cities where they react favourably to appear to be in on him the same way he was his first night. Alternately, he would be a great heater (Even though he's not HUGE huge) for a cheating heel (Dom, for instance, if you wanna keep him heel!) and you can kind of build out his character from there.

https://youtu.be/QXlqF7g-tjU?si=cwIUwUIWY2a2SgSu How was I not aware, until today, that Goldust was once on Conan O'Brien, in character as a guest. It goes...it goes about as well as you'd think.

This show blew my mind as a teenager. I was vaguely aware of Japanese wrestling as a friend had taped that Superbrawl with Flair-Fujinami and had seen Great Muta once or twice, but I somehow had no concept that there were more than 1 or two Japanese wrestlers, never mind a whole federation including a guy with a sweet bodysuit and mask. I used to leave my TV on the PPV preview channel and look up and intently watch every time the Starrcade promo would come up (Had all the wrestlers standing in a row while Sonny delivered a motivational speech: "Liger? Fly high. Come down hard on WCW!" I can still remember that some...sigh....30 years later. But the new password I made LAST WEEK for my Apple account, completely gone! Oh, I should add, blew my mind as a teenage before I actually saw the show. All I saw was the preview and I may have listened to it in squigglevision. I finally tracked down a copy maybe 4-5 years later and gleefully purchased it and was STUNNED how matches with guys I had seen in good matches (Liger, Chono, Ohtani) and guys I had heard good things about (Kanemoto, Tenzan) wrestling actually good WCW wrestlers could be so stunningly BORING. This is where she calls Onoo "Hop Sing", right? And the crowd is mild for it, everyone is mild for it, except Dusty Rhodes who flips out: "Hop Sing! She said Hop Sing!" [laughs uproariously]. This match was impossibly boring. Three great wrestlers in a poorly-structured mach should be able to overcome it and present something interesting but it is SO long and SO dull that it's one of the most disappointing things I've ever seen.

I watched a Hakushi-Sabu match the other day and, man, does his entrance lose a lot of his mystique without simple things like lighting and, oh yeah, music. Watching him walk to the ring, the same slow gait that he used in WWF and costume, but under glare-y gymnasium lights with no audio accompaniment was really jarring. IIRC Bret Hart loved wrestling him, he said they had a really good match, then everyone after ate him up so when he got progammed against him again he decided to make him look good. Hidaka was one of those guys, like Tajiri and Crazy actually, who got super over with the ECW crowd but it took them forever to get behind. He had good to great moments in ECW, but the only real thing they did with him was have Joel Gertner call him "Poky-mon" because he was Japanese and taking the US by storm.

Considering the absolute hoops they dove through last night to discuss Mina and Toni's history without once mentioning Mariah May, I'd say it's highly unlikely ("Toni and Mina were involved in a sort-of love triangle" which if you were unfamiliar with their past, you'd wonder how they had a triangle with only two people!).

So that WASN'T something I thought I might have imagined/hallucinated?!