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Another fine example of needlessly confusing WWE verbiage: they kept saying SummerSlam is "one week from Sunday", which is technically correct but since they never said the actual date of the show it makes it sound like it's next week when it's actually 13 days from Monday (IE: almost two weeks, on 8/23). Why would the be so intentionally obtuse about the date of a major show on the company's schedule? It would be bad enough to do for a throwaway B show, but this is goddamn SummerSlam they are playing word games with to confuse the audience. It was a clear directive too, since they seemed to be purposefully not saying the actual date of the show.

Ric Flair may be old, decrepit, potentially putting his life at risk by even being here.....but damn he can still do the Ric Flair Promo like no one else. Plus we need to have Randy Orton: Mercy Killer of Legends as gimmick of the year.

Love Shanya wrecking shop on Underground, complete with that blonde who looked like she just came from shopping at Target.

Evergreen post if there ever was one.

Dom's dad still looks like he's 12 so he'll most likely have a baby face forever.

Also holy shit I will never not think of this now when I see them

The funniest thing to me is that they haven't even decided who's supposed to be in Retribution yet. Whoever was in the angle on Smackdown was just there to fill a role and not emblematic of who's actually going to be in the faction.

WWE put up a collection of Kamala matches from various places he worked at, and it's actually a pretty good snapshot of his career. I always did wonder who was under the Friday mask in the different places he worked. I know "Kimchee" was Steve Lombardi, but I never found out who the others were. I assume it was just some random jobber from each area under the mask, but Friday was such a part of the act I always wondered if it was the same guy going from place to place.

Ospreay is still in the UK so he couldn't be on a NJPW no matter what right now. He's being advertised for Rev Pro's return show and they are partners with NJPW so I suppose he is by association. And I don't know if everyone's "okay" with Riddle being on TV, but for one thing whataboutism sucks and is the main cause of the world's problems and secondly no one honestly expected WWE to do anything about it anyway.

The idea of this tournament is trying to see who they can get to fill out the women's roster while travel restrictions are still in place, so you're going to get some not-great matches. I hope that it also makes them realize there are better options than the folks they are currently pushing like Big Swole. Since they haven't shown to be stubborn or fighting their audience like you-know-how, I wonder if after the program with Dr. Britt is over she just doesn't go back to the world of Dark and/or whatever the new show ends up.

So basically Will Ospreay is going to suffer zero consequence from blackballing a rape victim from the business, and Dave said he won't even ask her side of the story because she pointed out how much Dave has ignored/handwaved/"you don't want to know the facts"'d the story. He posted on the WO Board that he believes she thinks he's part of a conspiracy against her despite there being at least one promoter on record backing up her side of the story (that to my knowledge no one has contradicted). But hey, Will has depression issues so talking about it is apparently bullying him Just Like Hana *shrugs in fatalistic dispair*

Seth's best hope would probably being the next Road Dog in a Hunter Administration.

I've gotten it too, but normally if I reload the page it lets me back in.

My favorite Kamala trivia was that the dude apparently had a great singing voice and I think he released a few albums

I'll never understand how the Sting/Jeff thing got to that point. It's not like Jeff suddenly got fucked up seconds before the match was about to start, no one backstage could step in and say "you know, this isn't going to work". Do some kind of angle, say mysterious forces took him out before the match, anything but allow the train to fly off the tracks in front of the whole world. I'm guessing the logic was something along the lines of not wanting to be in a position of being unable to deliver the main event, but if there was ever a time a company would have got a pass on doing that it would have been then.

I just assumed he had one of those WCW deals where they would just forget they signed someone and he just sat at home cashing checks.

Be a shame if the heavily promoted match with Orange gets cancelled because Jericho gets popped on a covid test.

Don't forget early on, they did an angle where the Bellas (ironically enough) kept thinking Bryan was a virgin because he said he was vegan.

I think the answer is yes to both. It definitely came off as "ANTIFA as imagined by someone who's brain has been addled by Fox News". The Braun stuff was indeed gross as well. They've been playing him and Alexa as a Beauty and the Beast duo off and on, so him just being all "GRR ME NO LIKE HER" just ignored years of backstory as well as being icky on many other levels.

That is true, but in These Uncertain Times, there's unlikely going to be anything getting better ratings than AEW so they will probably be okay for the foreseeable future.

No one is arguing Hogan was a worldwide phenomenon because of Rocky II and New Japan. I'm saying the WWE Narrative that Vince built Hulkamania is patently false since it existed prior to him arriving in the WWF. Vince gave him a national platform and was smart enough to get out of the way and let Hulk be Hulk. If he went to Crockett in 1983 instead it could have been a Road Warriors type situation where he would be one of the NWA's top stars while doing Japan tours (I know politics at the time would have got in the way since All Japan was the NWA affiliate at the time, but I'm fantasy booking here).

I would assume that AEW is in good shape as long as the 18-49 ratings are where TNT wants them, Unless the next person in charge has a hate boner for wrestling, they should be alright.

With Austin and Rock it was their promo ability that made them superstars. Austin had his "Austin 3:16" and Rock was able to channel his anger at the fans that shit on his babyface run when he joined the Nation. It's unlikely either one would have had the same chance in today's highly scripted and highly regimented WWE style. I suppose Rock might have still had a chance because that level of charisma can overcome nearly anything, but the current system makes it very difficult to ever create a star of that magnitude again. Which seems to be how it is intended to work.

I think a lot of it was bad timing, having a safe place for women to hang out and discuss the rasslin' on the heels ( no pun intended) of #SpeakingOut rubbed a lot of people the wrong way and made it sound like AEW was saying women should pay them to avoid the creepers. Which clearly wasn't their intent I don't believe, but shit happens and apparently Brandi can't keep from showing her Steph-like tendencies when facing criticism,

It really is kind of amazing how many of WWE's ideas end up turning into "this probably would be pretty decent if anyone but WWE was doing it".