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  1. I saw someone somewhere note how in the backstage bit from the presser Rock and Roman were in lockstep but Rock was the one clearly the one taking the lead... which would sorta imply that in the grand scheme of things Roman is to the Rock what Jey Uso was to him. If Rock is willing to play heel for a bit and you do want to start laying the pieces for a Roman face turn... that's a very intriguing bit to have in play.
  2. Ultimately I think even if they decided "wow, last Friday was a bad idea" and just memory hole it... it's probably for the best? A bit sloppy sure and doing it too much results in everything suffering, but I'd rather this than being stubborn.
  3. What I caught was a solid show, although I consider that announcement to be more of the "announcement of an announcement" than a big one on its own. I get the main event deal but man, Starks is so it and this company is just never gonna get behind him in any consistent matter. I legit hope he goes to WWE as I think he just needs consistent tv time and matches to take off and Raw is 3 hours long.
  4. You don't get it, Dustin's AEW contract is expiring and Hunter is making good by finally giving Cody the Mania match against his brother to make good for all those years ago >_>
  5. I maintain that WWE has to get over its history and make both the men and women's Royal Rumbles only have 20 participants. This means the old records never get touched and it'll seem less impressive in the short term, but that gets things back to where it is only 10 entrants more than the old classic 30 men only Rumble shows and I think you have a fighting shot at a decently paced show that way.
  6. Great, I am looking forward to seeing the Observer Hall of Fame voters' crime rankings. I predict child murder by a good in-ring worker will be considered less bad than sex crimes by a poor one. (This is half-sarcasm but I don't wanna hear anything from those voters, they had the chance to do the right thing over a decade ago but planted their flag on the "separating the art from the artist" side of the line.)
  7. My only real thought is that Bron Breakker is a star the second he shows up on the main roster, he stood out in that match in a way literally none of the other 29 men did.
  8. So I didn't read the complaint (didn't feel like I had the stomach for it) but was talking online with a friend of mine who works as more or less a guidance counselor for at-risk kids as he worked his way through it and what stuck out to him was how much Vince was manipulating everyone he came in contact with in this complaint. The poor woman obviously got the worst of it, but he was even having the woman lie about things to Laurinaitis when they first became "acquainted" and he was quite literally Vince's partner in crime (he learned more later and still continued, that sure as shit don't absolve him). Lesnar comes off as a true asshole but it didn't appear at any point he was aware that this wouldn't be consensual. I point this out as I've seen a lot of people going "of course people knew" and so forth but from reading the complaint what he told me was how much it stuck out that Vince tried to keep several people in the dark about several aspects of all this, with only some people at a corporate level seeming to really get any sort of clue about this and in all likelihood no idea just how fucking depraved it got. I think it is worth keeping in mind that Vince as a matter of his daily life is probably manipulating everyone around him, lying to them, letting them only now certain bits of info, he's an actual fucking sociopathic predator. The actual wrestlers in the locker room probably thought he was a not a good person (especially after all the NDA stuff came out) but it seems very unlikely that Vince this aspect of his existence, for that particular mask to slip in front of them unless they were bizarrely close, and even then I doubt he was ever anything approaching honest.
  9. That feels unfair, he's probably been getting this question nonstop today so he's putting out what the company bylaws basically say.
  10. Yeah... have you seen exactly how "hands on" TKO is with all the various UFC stuff? Their Vince equivalent hit his wife in public and didn't get suspended because "it'd hurt the people working for the company more than him".
  11. I feel at odds with a bunch of you here, the strikes in Copeland/Suzuki were (very) solid but watching Suzuki try to take any move or bump was bordering on sad. I'm still glad we got the match but please, don't make murder grandpa have to fall down in any not-standard way any more.
  12. I hope they are right, Okada in current NXT sounds just bizarre enough to be fun.
  13. Lise I said, I love Suzuki and will probably voluntarily watch an Edge match because of him. I just think it is a bit silly to wonder what the match will be like, we all kinda know what we are getting into.
  14. I did not have "Imperium/New Day have the best TV feud in wrestling" on my wrestling bingo card for 2024, yet here we are. We need more matches wrestled by people acting like they legit want to beat/hurt each other.
  15. Like every other recent Suzuki match? Love the guy but he's just been playing the hits for a long time now.
  16. I think the solution to people's issues with Sting's last match is to just have him finally put someone over before his last match, sneak in a match against Darby or Starks/Bill, whoever could use said rub. Then you can have said last match be a celebration, a car crash, whatever Sting wants and not have that years long bit of tension hanging over it.
  17. You all are thinking too small re: a time machine and finding opponents for Hulk Hogan. ...I'm snagging Goliath, brother.
  18. I remember as a kid in the early 90s I was at a local roller skating rink and me and my dad kept looking at one guy skating around and asking each other "...is that Undertaker?". I am pretty sure he wasn't as in retrospect I don't believe he'd have been tall enough (also the roller skating part), but to this day I'm still kinda bummed kid me didn't have the courage to go up to this stranger and ask him if he was.
  19. I'm fine with Joe getting a gold watch title reign, but I hope it is a shorter transitional reign as '24 Samoa Joe is not who I'd put in this slot at all. Promos should be good at least.
  20. So... Tony sweeps in and steals the "most delusional wrestling claim of the year" award right before the deadline.
  21. Man after the prior two years where my first choice was a disaster and the one I didn't go with was the clear better option... well let's just say I'm glad I didn't boff this pick too. Glad you are at least better enough to drop by to do this and this has been my worst year for music in ages with virtually every album I looked forward to or tried being a swing and a miss, so not having to figure out how to pick a best out of this bunch just yet is actually a blessing
  22. I feel like if anyone liked Sammy Guevara they'd be complaining about him being the worst booked man in wrestling, but it is happening to him so people mostly shrug their shoulders.
  23. Now people hate to admit this... but we may need to accept that some of the at the time considered baffling WWE releases weren't. We all thought they were nuts for dropping Black and particularly Lee so early into their runs but if it turns out they just had more info and felt that there was only so much time left to get full use out of them and it wasn't worth it with younger people in their system... I could see not agreeing but it is at least a fair conclusion to reach.
  24. I think most would agree that this trios run has just done the Acclaimed no favors, the sooner they drop the belts and return to being just a regular tag team the better it'll be for everyone... well everyone not named Billy Gunn I guess.
  25. This feels very unfair, it's at best a coin flip whether AEW is running a tournament of some sort in any given month or not >_> Also the story with Orange and the international title was the run gradually breaking him down and how long he can possibly keep it up, with Gunther it is who can possibly stop this unstoppable champion.
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