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WWE released Luke Harper, and Sin Cara tweeted he got his release too. I suppose they have some kind of "you can go anywhere but AEW" provision attached, but it's interesting to see them letting folks go again. Maybe they realized keeping unhappy folks held hostage isn't good for morale.

The funny thing is Billy walked away from ECW because he (probably rightly) felt Heyman saw him as just some dumb money mark to fleece, and then years later people called him the mark for buying the NWA trademarks. People were also mad at him because it ended the short lived NWA On Demand service that was opening up the Houston vault. He has ended up doing more for the NWA name than anyone since Crockett, considering it ended up getting any level of recognition in 2019. His Achilles Heel so far seems to be not handling it well when old school wrestling people start acting like....well, old school wrestling people.

WWE's talent relations group is really an amazing collection of fuckery. There seems to be a million stories of "I was promised/told X, but it never happened and when I asked about it no one knew what I was talking about" floating around. And it's like not even evil empire fuckery, it's usually more like the "clown ass incompetence" kind.

How many old dudes to they have in AEW? Obviously Jericho, but he's the biggest star in the promotion and his faction is building up young guys. Dustin and Daniels have been in player/coach roles to advance angles and put folks over. 3 older dudes and 1 only being pushed as a main eventer doesn't seem very WCW to me.

If Arn & Tully get in then IMO all the Horsemen that are HOF worthy would be in. The fourth spot was always more based on angles anyway. I hope we get some Mexico folks in, Villano III being on the "needs 50% or he's off the ballot" is goddamned ridiculous.

Well it's kind of a shocker in the sense he didn't actually do anything directly to MLW, just that everyone's clearly cutting ties with him since it's becoming clear he's lying about his missing girlfriend and no one wants to be attached to him if/when the shit hits the fan.

She was still in charge of creative, if someone suggests a shit idea it's on her to veto it. I do think she did get way more hate than warranted, half from neckbeards mad that a wimminfolk was in charge of their rasslin and half from people mad at anyone named McMahon. Kind of like how every time WWE has a good show now it's because of Hunter and when it sucks its because of Vince.

Google got busted ignoring laws against advertising to children, so the overreacted as usual and made it hard for anything with violent content to get any ad revenue. They just announced not to long ago that they will loosen up on simulated violence like video games as opposed to actual war type violence, so perhaps that will make it easier for wrestling companies. Of course this will probably be one of those times where the same crowd that always has to tell you wrestling is fake will tell you it has to be lumped in with the real violence.

So after everyone on social media dogpiled on Dave for suggesting AEW's drop was due to it being a night most of their target audience being away from home, it seems he was right since the number bounced back the next week.

I didn't hate it, but I was surprised to see people comparing it to the Dark Order when it was like the Straight Edge Society with Brandi and Kong as Punk and Gallows.

I dunno, Kairi still looks like the little sister that mom made the big sister take along with her when she goes out. Io on the other hand is amazing in her role so props to them for figuring out that she's awesome and letting her be awesome.

I guess one good thing to come out of the whole mess was that it exposed how clown shoes the whole thing was run, so there's that.

I dunno, I was on the fence about giving up on the NWA but the Cornette tribute sealed the deal for me. Not so much for the tribute itself, but for how the company very clearly feels nothing wrong happened and only cut bait with him because he was getting too much negative pub for them. Then you had Marquez white knighting for him on Twitter (when your defense is "it's not racism, just a joke about starvation" you really should rethink saying anything) which just made it clear they are just like Corny's other cultists who will excuse anything that shits out of his mouth because they watched him om TBS as a kid. There's too much better wrestling out there to waste time on them to be honest.

Good lord, Brandi.

LOL at "Moxley" being the new "ARM-bar"

Shanna makes the save (well tries to anyway), AEW is booking for PWO tonight!

I guess Nyla just turned face for The Thread Killer after squashing the Librarians.

Cody is like the perfect mix of Dusty and Flair. I could see babyface Ric do this promo in 1984 Mid Atlantic.

It seems to be going up and down in terms of volume, but I'm streaming via my cable provider.

Dustin in a Bucks outfit is somehow stranger looking than anything Goldust ever wore.

Lawler's an interesting case. His work in Memphis was usually anywhere from good to outstanding depending on who he was facing, and you can't deny anyone who could draw the numbers he did in the same towns every week. My first experience of him was the title unification feud with Kerry Von Erich where he had to do pretty much all the work both on promos and in the ring, and as someone who grew up watching WCCW he did his job getting over with me as a villain. The problem is Commentator Jerry is only going to be what Vince wants him to be. He was 100% heel when he came in and was feuding with Jake and Bret. He was horny Uncle Jerry during the Attitude Era when it was all about bra and panty matches and Playboy shoots. Now Vince wants him to go heel again and that's what he's doing now being Seth's cheerleader on Raw. It's been the running joke that Lawler pays zero attention to anything WWE when he's not on the job, so he pretty much runs on a combination of his own quick wit and whatever's being fed through his headset.

I guess it depends on what he wants at this stage in his career. Get more money to stay in a promotion going nowhere, or a lesser offer (that probably would still be pretty good) to get in on something that actually has a direction in mind.

I have a feeling you're both going to end up right. Most likely the $9.95 tier will focus on current shows, PPVs, and those "Network Special" shows like Starrcade, and whatever the higher priced tier ends up being will be that + old stuff.

I wonder how much of the "classic content will be reduced" is due to most of the territories they focused on being finished up recently. WCCW was said to be complete (as much as they could at least) and the last Mid-Atlantic dump was said to complete that category as well. Since they don't seem to have any interest in putting up the AWA or Florida stuff, I'd expect them to maybe fill out the Mid South/UWF stuff and that's it.

I suppose this is how WWE is planning to fix their problem of having an older audience, just get rid of anything that appeals to them. It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.