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I mean, it must send mixed messages when the show's being run by an Iron Cross enthusiast. All joking aside, not sure why stuff like that is tolerated. It shouldn't get to the point where the talent has to break character to tell a racist to STFU. They could easily do what they do at baseball games (and other sports I'm sure) where they set up a number to text to let security know someone's being a shithead. Especially at those Florida loop shows, where most of them are in venues so small it should be apparent what's going on.

Kross will probably be okay in NXT since he's probably bigger than everyone there other than Keith Lee and Damian Priest. I'm fairly certain he'd be just another dude on the main roster though.

Say what you will, when Uncle Paul wants to get someone over, he fuckin' gets them over. Rhea was like everything they were trying to do to with Brock on the main roster except they actually pulled the trigger on beating the unstoppable monster without any kneecapping bullshit booking.

It's kind of amazing how three different promotions are doing homages to Dusty right now. Obviously AEW, then NXT brought back the Dusty Classic, and the NWA named their next PPV "Hard Times".

It's probably not a coincidence those places let him do what he wanted to (well I'm sure no one in WCW cared either way) rather than script the life out of him. I also appreciate he finally realized he can't hang move for move with the young guys and went all in on character development.

Also Cody posted a photo of him and Dusty sitting on the stairs in this arena from 2007 next to a photo of him sitting on the same stairs by himself today and it was "right in the feels" moment.

I kind of lol at Michael Nakazawa's role as plot device in Kenny Omega angles.

It's time to put the rocket on Rhea, and it's time for Shayna to go to the main roster, there's literally no reason to not pull the trigger now unless they find a dead hooker in Rhea's trunk.

So Okada was named to be one of the people running with the Olympic Torch in 2020, so that was cool.

Any pushback on ratings would have to be coming from Fox. They've been BFFs with the USA Network forever and they know what to expect at this point. Fox are the ones who just backed the money truck up Vince's driveway and promoted the hell out of it on NFL games and got the same or lesser ratings they were getting with what was on Fridays before.

You may never be able to pinpoint the exact place hit happened, but once someone is clearly out of it there should be a way to make a call. If they can do it in the NFL which is the last bastion of alpha maledom, surely WWE can figure it out.

Rewatching it really shows how scared the refs must be to make judgement calls. Becky seems to know Kairi is hurt immediately, probably because she got landed on with that elbow to the table, Asuka definitely knew after talking to her if not prior, so you have half the people in the match aware something went wrong. Plus you have Becky doing Hogan-light chair shots to Kairi's ass while Charlotte is swinging for the fences. Now it may have happened off camera, but not once did I see any part where the refs were trying to communicate to her. What really looks bad for Charlotte is the powerbomb spot. You could excuse the spear as her thinking it was a botch and getting mad, but when someone who is probably 100 pounds soaking wet and is regarded as one of the best workers in the company suddenly is dead weight on you, that should have set off alarm bells.

WWE has been doing a thing where if someone gets concussed, they get all weirdly defensive and secretive so while they are trying to keep it under wraps they way they do it is pretty much a big neon light advertising someone has a concussion. Bryan also mentioned on Twitter folks in the company are more or less being taught to not self-report concussions since it will lead to you getting a rep for being fragile in the company and lessen your odds of getting a push.

AAA has a premiere set on their YouTube channel for Sin Cara's run in during the show. They certainly seem to be under the impression they can use that name. Normally I'd think this is a slam dunk for WWE, but Mexico tends to be the Land Copyright Forgot. Also yes, Rush in AAA feels like when Sting finally showed up in WWE. Like, it's cool but he's so ingrained in your brain as a guy from the other company it feels weird to see.

It's really the most WWE thing that can happen considering they have a million refs ringside for these matches and apparently none of them could tell Kairi was loopy.

I don't see how Charlotte was unprofessional, there very easily could have been a language barrier preventing Kairi from communicating to her that she was fucked up (Asuka spent a lot of time talking to her afterwards I noticed). The match was a trainwreck though, with Kairi having issues throwing chairs into the ring (and getting smacked in the face on the rebound from one of them) and the usual problem of having women who are much lighter than the men doing table spots that end up not working because the table doesn't break. The Insane Elbow spot on to both Charlotte and Becky looked like it killed everyone involved.

I think Kairi knocked herself silly, looked like Charlotte had to shoot powerbomb her through the table there.

Damn, Bryan looks like 15 years younger out there.

Yes! I was trying to remember who he reminded me of, that was it! Dude has ridiculous amounts of charisma and is the best part of any segment he's in. My only issue is how WWE seems to want to go the "ha ha, look at the fat guy do funny stuff" route when he should be exactly what Steaks and Weights implies: a crazy strong dude where the only reason he's not ripped is because he likes to eat meat.

Dragon Lee won the TV title, which you'd think would have been bigger news literally any point in ROH's history before now.

So Sin Cara showed up using that name and wearing his WWE mask.

To be fair, considering he hosted two Wrestlemanias and was a huge draw main eventing another he's more qualified than anyone else in the Celebrity Wing and like half the wrestlers in the normal one.

It was just a joke referring to Jerry Lawler not getting who he wanted to induct him, that since Batista is a big star of Marvel movies now Vince would want one of his co stars to do it instead of Finlay.

AAA has one of their biggest non-Triplemania branded shows tonight airing at 9pm EST on Twitch. The show will feature the blow off hair match with Big Mami vs Lady Maravilla. It's kind of odd since Maravilla wears a mask, but she usually wears an open top style mask that should allow for sufficient hair cutting if/when she loses the match (Big Mami is expected to win) The rest of the card is a lot of "stuff everyone on the card" that usually results in fun spotfests if nothing else. The card (bearing in mind AAA is the worldwide leader in "card subject to change): Dr Wagner Jr/Drago/Psycho Clown vs Blue Demon Jr/Rush/Bestia del Ring Big Mami vs Lady Maravilla (hair vs hair) Fenix & Pentagon Jr vs Australian Suicide & Mystery Partner vs Hijo del Vikingo & Mystery Partner (AAA Tag Team titles) (this one's weird because Vikingo's usual partners are doing a reality show and Australian Suicide's partner (Angelico) is apparently having a spat with AAA and said he wouldn't be on the show) Brian Cage/Murder Clown/Pagano/Puma King vs Chessman/Killer Kross/Taurus/Texano Jr (TLC match) Faby Apache/Octagon Jr/Taya vs Carta Brava Jr/Mocha Cota Jr/Tito Santana (not that one) vs Abismo Negro Jr/ Ayako Hamada/Keyra (Lumberjack match) Aramis/Dinastia/Octagoncito vs Arez/Mini Psycho Clown/Parkita Negra ("lets put all the minis in one match" match) Mascarita Dorada/Mr. Iguana/Nino Hamburguesa vs Demus/Latigo/Villano III Jr ("here's some people who had nothing else to do so we put them in a match" match)