Blehschmidt

So, I follow PWG, Chikara, and RoH. I have made friends with several local wrestlers in my area during my time as a ring announcer, have an ECW Icon's number in my phone and correspond by e-mail and trade dvd's with a famous 80's wrestling personality. I very much enjoyed All In, and I am very interested in seeing what AEW has to offer. Yet, I have never seen a single episode of Being the Elite, because I don't feel the need to spend several minutes of my week watching a bunch of guys fucking off. I don't see where this makes anyone less of a fan, where it makes anyone less interested in the product, or where it matters in the least when discussing this company. I was just hoping we could all be happy that maybe having some semblance of competition might light a spark and convince WWE to start giving a fuck about the product again.... but instead it's turned in too a "who is the bigger fan" dick size contest. Well, at least I got my credentials in!

Put that cigarette out!! RIP Gene.

I always thought Hayabusa looked cool as fuck. The little bit of paint mixed with the mask in all different colors with the matching baggy pants. Then he had either the long robe or this thing.... Never cared for the H look, and honestly didn't like Darkside that much, but his regular look is awesome.

Bugsy McGraw has apparently written a book and has a Kickstarter up to get it finished. Bugsy McGraw Book Kickstarter

I got Nitro, Death of the Territories, David Schultz, and The Grappler's books for Christmas. Started with The Grappler. Already half way into it, and enjoying it a lot. It isn't very long, and the way it is written makes it a quick read, but it's had several good laughs, and Denton doesn't take himself too seriously, which is a nice change from most wrestler bio's.

Xavier is usually so crisp in connecting all of his flippy shit, while Everett has always come off as a bit sloppy to me. Not necessarily trying to place the blame, but I have to wonder. The Christmas special they put up has PCO doing his best to cripple himself. Crazy old bastard.

If they don't want another replay of the Batista/Daniel Bryan Rumble situation in Pittsburgh, they better have Becky Lynch winning that thing.

You've got my vote

So, is this a reverse troll now? Are they going to "give the fans what they want" to such a ridiculous degree, that they'll be begging for them to start feeding them the same shit again.

Oh, so we are still gonna have General Managers AND McMahons. Maybe we can finally get rid of the pesky wrestling matches on our sports entertainment shows and just have endless, hysterical backstage segments.

So the McMahon family is the exciting new direction that is going to restore the ratings and turn the company around? Welcome to 1997! This fucking company....

Now apparently Bandido has signed an exclusive contract with RoH. I certainly hope something happens with this company since they are snapping up a bunch of the indy talent with momentum. I'd hate to see the PCO comeback tour and the progress of Bandido, Cobb, and King derailed by the same coasting on life support , nothing happening, mediocre at best booking that has plagued RoH since before Gabe left.

Between Bella kicks and crazy bumps, I fear for the length of poor Liv Morgan's career.

Well, they made a big deal about one of the Uso's blind tagging Kofi, then ignored it, went into a long face in peril segment on Kofi, and the match ended without the Uso's who were technically legal ever getting back in. Uggh. It's the little shit.

Hour long pre-show and god knows how long of a main show, and that's all the time Buddy and Cedric can get. Fucking Ridiculous.

Ember Moon replaced Alexa Bliss Mickie James replaced Sasha Banks Bobby Roode replaced Kevin Owens Jeff Hardy replaced AJ Styles Curt Hawkins replaced Braun Strowman Apollo Crews is replacing Finn Balor

Several U.K. news sources, as well as Marty Jones and Will O'Spreay on Twitter reporting that "Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington has passed away on his 60th birthday.

If you've never seen Straight Shootin' w/Raven and The Sandman, do your best to track it down. Nothing like hearing Raven and Sandman go from telling drug stories to discussing the Wall Street Journal to reminiscing about stealing each others door mats.

So Braun and Ember Moon are 4-0 in Mixed Match Challenge and have absolutely dominated, so they replace him with Curt Hawkins? This company really is actively trolling it's fanbase.

I am glad to see that someone else finds Jimmy Havoc as unappealing as I do. I see this guy getting praised all over the place, and I just don't get it. He looks and wrestles like a thousand other guys that I've seen a million other times bludgeoning themselves for twenty bucks and a hot dog on garbage indy shows all across the East Coast of the United States.

Especially since the theme half the night was that no one on Raw could get along.... But I guess we needed to make sure that Stephanie would be able to come out and brag about it tonight since we haven't heard about how wonderful she is since she invented women's wrestling for that PPV last month. On the plus side, at least we got to see how "The Best in the World" Shane McMahon is the top wrestler on that loser show Smackdown. 21 years of McMahon's dominanting storylines at this point...... Will it never end?

Those two won a crowd that didn't give a shit about either of them when they came out. Awesome stuff.

Here is the MOTN.