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Everyone made jokes, but who knew Seth's new gimmick would literally be Crossfit Jesus?

Angel Garza is just great.

Charlotte really looked like a blonde Steph out there tonight, which just made me realize there may be creepier reasons Vince is so bent on making her the face of the women's division.

Charlotte coming out in NXT colors is a nice touch.

Also I don't think there's ever been a wrestler with a greater motivated/unmotivated ceiling than Orton. He can literally go from a completely bland, interchangeable part to GOAT entirely based on how much of a shit he feels like giving at the time.

Matt was able to reinvent an entire universe of characters in Impact when they couldn't find their ass with both hands as a promotion, he'll be fine in a place like AEW.

His deal is still running out March 2, and hasn't resigned yet.

I remember saying it was odd that DIY was teaming again after they spent all that time trying to kill each other, so it made sense to me that they would still be feuding.

Oh it certainly did happen!

Nox-Kai was the only match I was expecting to fall short (because WWE produced street fights often end up lame), and since it didn't this could be an all time great Takeover.

Heel Balor really needs different music that doesn't encourage the crowd to participate.

Yeah, I believe so.

Guys I think Teagan is dead.

OUCH

A chain! Somewhere Uncle Ivan is looking down smiling.

Holy fuck, this match is bananas.

Keith Lee sending motherfuckers flying with a Pounce will never not be awesome.

Nothing like starting off with a hoss fight to get a show kicked off proper-like.

Mansoor out here looking like a star on this pre show, it helps that the crowd really hates Sam Roberts.

This looks like it could be a really solid show even if a match or two doesn't click as expected.

See, Jim does have a valid point in the middle of all that nonsense that there are people in the the wrestling sphere who pretend to be journalists but just make shit up and/or make enough vague scoop hints that one of them is bound to come true. But Bix isn't one of those people. I may disagree with his takeaways on some topics but at least I get where he's coming from when he says them and isn't just pulling it out of his ass. You have people like Brad Shepard blatantly making shit up and Ryan Satin pretending he's tracking down hot SCOOPZ while not-really-but-kinda-really working for WWE.

Considering the drop off in the NFL from the top level QBs to everyone else is probably bigger than it's been in a while, it's really noticeable that the QBs in the XFL so far have been extremely Not Good. It's not like they can do anything about it, they get who they can get, but it's something I've noticed so far.

Considering their champion is part of the Anoai family and their tag champs are part of the family Vince always wanted to poach in the national expansion but never could, it wouldn't shock me.

Any time anyone on twitter mentions Cornette or even slightly alludes to him, hordes of his fans snitch tag him to see the reaction it gets. It's really the worst thing that's been introduced to Wrestling Twitter and that says a lot. All the obvious problematic stuff aside for a moment, it is kind of said that a lot of his audience just seems to get off on watching the old wrestling man have a hissyfit more than anything else. Like it could be anyone in that position but it just happens to be Cornette because he's Extremely Online now.

Been getting back into MLW the last few weeks, and I gotta tell you as a certified Old Man Fan it gave me chills to see the Von Erichs entering to Stranglehold in Dallas. It's striking to see Marshall out there looking like someone dropped his dad from 1985-ish right into 2020. It's funny to see the perils of taping in advance, with all the Killer Kross hype videos when he's already signed and about to debut in NXT. Gave me "WCW tapes way too far in advance in the early 90s so hilarity ensues" vibes. Also Mance Warner looks (and sounds) like Steve Austin and Mark Briscoe got genetically spliced together.