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JR's more "grandpa who uses outdated terminology" than "wannabe edgelord who keeps playing with fire and is constantly surprised when he gets burned" so I wouldn't expect him to get the Cornette reaction here.

If he does get that treatment it would be over the "Oriental" line.

Didn't Cody do that in ROH too with his Ring of Honor?

FWIW Cody's said he wants to add a TV title at some point once things gets more established.

Not sure how I feel about one of my Pirate heroes Andy Van Slyke hawking testosterone boosting pills in these commercials.

Wardlow as MJF's giant Rick Rude is pretty cool.

I'm down for Allie channeling Pieter from New Japan.

Is that Silas Young's dad?

Tony was much better until WCW broke him. JR was better in those Attitude Era main events but Tony was always the better bell to bell guy IMO.

How did WWE let Kris Statlander get away? Pretty sure she was at one of their training camps?

"Who beats up someone in their hometown?" LOL

Jericho's dad getting more heat than most WWE heels right now.

Jericho is winning at professional wrestling so hard right now.

I kind of hate those kind of apologies. No attempt to really take ownership, just the usual "sorry you got offended" deal. How else was the tweet supposed to be taken Corey? This is just "It was just a prank, bro" done in WWE style. I'm sure there will be additional apologies dealt to Dave and Bryan for attacking their professionalism by.....*checks notes* calling out a publicly posted tweet.

I believe Vince wants it to happen, since Seth started the Twitter banter toward Punk almost immediately after he appeared on the FS1 show. I doubt Punk cares since as stated he wasn't interested in facing Hunter at Mania, why would he want to face Huntercito instead? It seems like it's Vince trying to bait Punk into wanting to do it since he seems to really believe all wrestlers want their WWE Mandated Wrestlemania Moments but there's nothing to suggest Punk gives two shits about any of that.

Even before his Twitter shenanigans, Seth was always one of those guys better suited to be heel. He never seemed to click as a babyface, and it was only "Burn it Down" somehow getting over that got a reaction. Once his music stopped that was usually it.

As soon as it was clear Roman wasn't going to be constantly in the title picture, fans calmed down on him. Just like how the hate for Cena largely went away when he wasn't always in the title match and being Super Cena every PPV. It's always been a rejection of the forced push rather than the guy directly. Instead of making the fans want what the company wants, they keep presenting it as "here's the guy we're making a star now, you better accept it or else". Combined with them constantly kneecapping everyone else with start-stop 50/50 nonsense, it just led to the fans not wanting to accept what they are told they should like.

As much as anyone retires in wresting, especially lucha, yeah. Other than Konnan, who's on the list for obvious reasons, most of the people who get blacklisted are there because they know their value and don't accept the peanuts CMLL offers most folks.

Maybe not, but you think Hunter forgot? Doubtful.

They weren't on the level of his six star classics in Japan so therefore in some people's eyes it's a flop.

People forget because of name/gimmick changes but Luchasaurus was one of the people who's accusations ended up sinking Bill Demott in NXT. That probably sticks in Vince's craw as much as Cody and Jericho being big stars.

So it turns out in addition to the known names like Santo, Konnan, Blue Demon, there are other names on the CMLL blacklist such as Pirata Morgan, Lady Apache, and El Dandy. So the answer to the age old question is CMLL. It's CMLL who doubts El Dandy.

Vince was said to be pissed that Seth did what he did since he hates when guys promote a match that won't happen. If Punk is coming back to wrestle, why waste his return on a low rated FS1 show and not a big show like Survivor Series that just happens to be taking place in Chicago? The "It's all a work, brothers" types are very seldom correct anyway, and if this is a work its less Kaufman/Lawler and more "Eric works the boys in WCW".

Drew must have been inspired to up his chop game after being in the ring with WALTER, Randy didn't seem too happy taking those shotgun chops from him.

Also shoutout to the guy in the crowd with the prominent AEW shirt that somehow managed to last the whole show without getting mugged by the WWE clothing gestapo.