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Well Cody seemingly tried to big time him when it looked like Punk might have wanted to be a part of All In, so I didn't think it was any secret there.

This is one of those deaths that on one hand isn't surprising because of everything he put his body through, but on the other hand it's the most surprising since I had him in the Jake Roberts "if he survived all that shit, he's gonna live forever" category.

Also I gotta wonder how Dave's pal Tony feels about this interview.

Yeah I tend to be on the Dave Defender side of things, but fuck giving this guy any platform.

So Dave and Garrett did an interview with Bruce "AEW and his widow were lying about Brodie Lee having COVID" Mitchell, and it was basically Dave and Bruce saying Bruce was a victim of the mean old internet mob, which yeah he was after doubling/tripling/quadrupling down on his amazingly fucked up. To show how poorly this interview is being received, the WO board is 100% in the "this was a mistake, Dave should take this one down" camp.

Even better, he called Biden the "fake President " so on top of everything else he's one of those too.

Yeah but this was the kind of tone deafness you'd expect to hear from someone in WWE and he's very much been the "we do things better than WWE guy". since practically every promo he's done since AEW launched has at least one shot (veiled or otherwise) at how they do business.

It was interesting to hear the crowd want to cheer the guy carrying on the legacy of their beloved Dusty, but being uncomfortable with the rah rah aspect of his promo. I honestly think the worst part of it was it made Cody sound like a clueless corporate suit when his whole gimmick up until then had been the guy telling the corporate suits to fuck off.

Most of them are low information types who are easily swayed by right win media and their useful idiots like Joe Rogan. A recurring theme from them is "anything you don't hear from us is just going to make you a liberal pussy" and it ends up stoking their usually already fragile egos. That way any attempt to get them to listen to common sense is seen as an attack on their manhood.

In a weird way I could see that being true, as Vince does have a history of respecting people who stand up for themselves and/or tell him to F off. Like I'm sure he was pissed he had to pay the guy, but I'd 100% believe he'd also go "Goddamn! I like the balls on that guy!" afterwards.

It's amazing a company that is at times comically obsessed with PR as WWE seems to be OK with an episode of Dark Side of the Ring play out in real time under their watch. I suppose the most likely outcome is that they have a come-to-Jesus (pun not intended) moment with him and offer to help him, which will inevitably be seen as as an attack on his freedumbs. At that point he'd either quit or give them grounds to fire him, thereby solving the problem for WWE.

I expect there to be some kind of leaked news stating Drake is taking a leave of absence at some point, WWE when asked will give some sort of "we don't comment on personnel matters" answer, and let him sit at home until his contract runs out. I do wonder what the feeling among the (mostly POC) ref crew at NXT seeing all his antics, especially the times he's taken stances against things like BLM and teaching accurate Black history in schools. In any normally functioning company, that would be a hell of a HR issue there.

Also it seems like it kind of went under the radar that AEW is going to have a full crowd for Double or Nothing and will be going on the road again in July.

I thought the good outweighed the bad, and the bad wasn't *that* bad....maybe WWE has just lowered my expectations that much, who knows.

Per Dave the finish was an audible but the plan was to do a draw to get to a three way so it's not like the long term booking was changed.

It seems clear the Bucks think the way to get AEW fans to boo them is to lean into the "annoy the smart fans" aspect of it. YMMV if it works, but it seems that's the idea.

Gain 150 pounds and start affecting a black accent maybe?

I get what he's trying to do, but not only is AMERICA, FUCK YEAH a tone deaf babyface promo in 2021, Agogo is a million times cooler than neck tattoo geek Cody.

I didn't watch either, but from what I read they either implied and/or flat out said Savage only started having drug issues once he went to WCW, which is so laughable on it's face it's almost impressive.

There's some Alanis Morrissette level irony in the NWA finally getting a distribution source that they would in theory get money for at a time when they lost pretty much everything that people liked when it was free on YouTube.

Absolutely loaded show tonight, capped off with your captain and mine Yuji Nagata challenging for the IWGP US title on American TV. 2021 is wild, bubbas.

Indi is one of the best things in NXT right now. Her "lovestruck teen and mom keeping her away from a boy she doesn't approve of" dynamic with Candice is always great stuff.

I wonder what it will take for him to get to "we need to release Kurt so we don't have an Olympian OD on our watch" levels with this company. As much the people in charge may agree with him, dude is a walking PR embarrassment for them at this point.

Yeah, Lio seems like a dude better off not being anywhere near WWE for his own mental health if nothing else.

I found this interview fascinating. Not only is it slightly jarring to see Danhausen out of character, him talking about his journey from a go-nowhere generic indy guy to someone who managed to get a following is a great story. What he does may not be your cup of tea, but he's definitely a guy you want to root for and hope to succeed.