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Sounds like when Americans try to understand someone Scottish. In theory they're speaking English but in reality they sound like someone falling down a flight of stairs.

To me, the discussion here is normally less "should X get a job?" and more "should AEW expect their experience with X be any different than everyone else's?" which I think is a far question to ask based on history.

Yeah, it's possible for one spouse to get it and the other not, like Renee and Mox, but I'd wager Ric wasn't exactly following protocol.

Hey now, this place on its worst day is no where near as toxic as Twitter, even if sometimes there's occasional squabbles amongst us. Now finding things to bitch about? OK, you got me there, lol.

One one hand yes, but on the other that segment reminded me of how WCW used to stick all the Mexicans to hour one of Nitro. Also having Steph be the one to talk about systemic racism is like a rib gone out of control. I can only hope she says she knows how POC who face racism feel because the government was racist against her dad by trying to prosecute him for steroids. Or maybe she will say WWE defeated racism by making Kofi the champ at Wrestlemania (while not mentioning how his run ended).

Well if Jack Evans is one of those people not happy, it is his business since he does work there and apparently wasn't a fan of working with her before.

Well there is a tiny difference between stretching out a trainee (still abuse but at least there's somewhat of a "we're toughening them up for rasslin" defense) and straight Suge Knight-ing a motherfucker from a balcony. I believe if you asked anyone in the UK scene they probably had some stories about the Knight family's various antics running the gamut from normal promoter carny type fuckery to "that family weirds me out" level stuff.

I seem to recall Jack Evans saying she was the reason he left Lucha Underground. I'm not sure of any specifics but it seems she's not been the easiest person to get along with. My impression is she's another Tessa but without the racism accusations (that I know of anyway). I'm surprised AEW gave her a shot considering the word on her has been a variation of "there's a reason no major company has reached out to her in a while". Maybe they can buck the trend and everything will work out fine, but the odds do not seem to be in their favor here.

I doubt we'll see Brock until actual crowds are back. He's way too smart to come back for a rona show.

Time for another great WWE trope: title match loser somehow gets another shot because....reasons.

From today's Observer update:

Real testament to how often shows get rewritten that they are doing the "person claims to be a champion" story with two different people on the same show.

That was a pretty dope frog splash by Montez.

I appreciate Shotzi trying to start a mosh pit in the crowd on every show now.

I dunno, I still dig the style of the new US belt. People seem to be clowning on it, and perhaps I just have low expectations on WWE belt design, but I dig it.

Well....... https://nypost.com/2020/07/20/ric-flair-spotted-without-a-mask-even-though-wife-has-coronavirus/ Basically is wife has tested positive and he was pictured going on a Starbucks drive thru run without a mask. Goes on to state a source saying he's already tested positive as well but Ric himself is denying it.

I've never seen any company, wrestling or otherwise, with such open and obvious contempt for their own fanbase as them.

Looks like Kairi Sane is finishing up this week and going back to Japan.

So Dave on the post show Observer show stated Apollo Crews' absence was indeed because of Covid, and the eye for an eye match was in fact intended to be Rey's write off with the "the doctors may be able to save his eye" part being an out if and when he does sign a new deal (Dave believes he will sign at some point).

I'd wager the sticking point is WWE wants to lock everyone in to long term deals and Rey has been going on shorter 18 month contracts. I can see WWE stupidly thinking they have some kind of leverage as if A: he wouldn't get a AEW offer in like .2 seconds, and B: their word means anything now after cutting a bunch of folks on long term deals.

The whole thing is weird, they must want Rey to sign one of those 5 year deals that aren't worth the paper they write them on and Rey is not budging. But continuing to go to work at the Covid Hut without any kind of contract isn't the best plan either. The best plan for Rey himself is to go literally anywhere else so he can make decent money and not have to deal with this bullshit. I get why he would want to stay in WWE for Dominic's sake but at some point he has to wonder if that's the best place for him as well.

The only thing I can see JR's point is that it did seem Cage was going in and out of looking menacing and that is something that could be improved. Taz getting up in the camera cutting some boss ass promos while Cage stood behind him flexing and mean mugging was some top notch business. I can see where he would think someone like Cage isn't being heel enough in his ring work by doing high spotty type stuff, but that comes off as JR being more cranky than any fault of Cage.

Braun was a guest on "A Moment of Bliss" not too long ago and they referenced their team and them being friends still. I thought it was weird at the time to suddenly reference a show that was otherwise reconned from WWE canon, but I saw that an was like "ohhhh, that's why they did it". Also stupidness aside, I guess this was Rey being written out since he didn't sign a new deal?

Fire Pro World has a promoter mode, and you can create just about any wrestler/ring style you want, and if you don't want to make it yourself there's *tons* of pre made ones you can download for free since FIre Pro has a famously loyal fanbase that makes pretty much any edit for every game in the series.

I love how at least 75% of WWE cinematic matches end with wondering if someone is dead or not.