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She was in one of the Mae Young Classics but you probably remember her as part of the Dollhouse in TNA with Taryn Terrell and Jade (Mia Yim).

So apparently there was some talent exchange with WCCW and Mid South in 1985, as Kerry Von Erich shows up (and puts over Mid South as the best wrestling) then Chris Adams shows up the next week with the American Heavyweight title (WCCW's top title at the time).

She announced on social media she wouldn't be accompanying Cody to the ring anymore and she wanted to focus on other things, and apparently that meant she's going to focus on her in ring career instead.

Another great show from Dave and Garrett talking about the Championship Wrestling from Florida DVD that Highspots put out. Interesting insight from Dave about how Eddie Graham was not a nice guy, how he seemed to get off on his shooters hurting people wanting to break into the business, and how he was involved in dealings with shady people that were about to come out when he shot himself (and also how he had to shoot himself twice to get the job done, holy fuck). Really good segment, its always great when Dave gets into these deep historical dives.

AEW just announced they signed Anthony Ogogo, who is a bronze medal winning Olympic boxer.

I'll say one thing, the Dark Order gimmick still sucks (are they supposed to be BDSM sex dungeon masters?) but they got themselves over with the match. No one was expecting Stu Grayson to do that dive over the ringpost, and it got a huge reaction. Evil Uno doing a fat guy senton will always score points with me, and they even managed to get the crowd back after the Inner Circle did their walk-in.

I mean, how dare a company want you to watch their product that is the main income source of their business by legit means, right? The very fact King Corbin exists is a seminal WWE problem. The whole King of the Ring tournament was build with Chad Gable positioned as the underdog set to take out the bully who keeps making lame short jokes. Instead the bully had to win in the end because HEAT is good shit, dammit, and we ended up with Shorty G dressed like a 90s Sesame Street puppet. Corbin with the King gimmick is the same as he was before, only now he's dressed like a lazy ren faire attendee. He can get boos, but the point of having heels is to give the babyfaces something strong to play off of. WWE gives us heels that trample the babyfaces and make them all look like geeks. The funny thing is AEW isn't inventing anything new with their booking, they are just doing things that make sense and follow a logical pattern. It just seems groundbreaking because an entire generation thinks pro wrestling is toilet humor and self loathing promoters.

That dang invisible wall Cody mentioned keeping Rey from going to help his son!

Nice to see Cena's fully in the "Jingle All the Way" phase of his movie career.

Alright, fair's fair. WWE remembering what Daniel said when he turned heel was a surprising consistency moment. Also lol @ Sami and Nak caring about the world being heel characteristics.

He was basically a Dean Malenko type shooter/badass. I get no one really watched 205 Live but it was some fun stuff and just reconning it all away is wack.

Gotta love them throwing away all the character development Drew Gulak did on 205 live so he can go back to being POWERPOINT GUY on Smackdown.

"There was a muscleman in a suit who kept firing me" Rambling Rabbit owns.

Big Dog out here dropping truth bombs on Corbin.

Dave told a story yesterday about going to wrestling shows as a kid and how Roy Shire's territory was a high workrate territory and had some of the best workers of the day. He mentions talking to the Mexican kids he'd meet there and how they thought US wrestling looked so fake compared to lucha while Dave thought the opposite. He said it was a teaching moment for him where he learned the wrestling you grew up with is "real wrestling" and anything different looks fake by comparison. The story was in context of the other day being Dave's 60th birthday and him explaining why he's more open to modern wrestling than a lot of other folks his age (*cough* Cornette *cough*).

In the Britt Baker hype video talking about her Pittsburgh roots one of the photos that were shown was of her with Cole. I saw that on the big screen in the arena and wondered if it made it on TV or not.

The issue is that wrestling fans look at the overall number of viewers, but TV networks look at key demos way more. I think AEW ended up ranked #4 in 18-49, and TNT would care about that more than had they finished lower but had more overall viewers. Now that the NBA is back, it should be interesting to see how much synergy there is considering AEW has exceeded TNT's expectations so far.

They will be on Saturdays, not sure what the cable price is. Bleacher Report is the streaming option.

Catching up on Impact and I just watched the Brian Cage-Melissa Santos wedding and it was the most wrestling-est wrestling wedding ever and it was awesome. I kinda wish I could have had Jim Mitchell officiate my wedding.

...but Madison isn't a Hart family member? Or am I missing a joke here? I do like what the current team running IMPACT is doing, it's just a shame they are doing it with the Chernobyl of wrestling companies most people won't want to give (yet another) chance to.

Yeah both shows did pretty good against strong competition. I think a lot of people were expecting much lower drops from both shows.

AEW: 963,000 NXT: 698,000 Going up against the World Series and the start of the NBA season, I was expecting both shows to drop more than that. AEW is still almost tripling in the key demos, but we should all remember NXT wasn't getting super high viewership on the network so 700,000 on cable TV is probably ten times the viewers they ever had prior.

Cain is definitely a bigger fan of lucha than WWE, but I can't fault a guy for going where the money is.

It wasn't a complete sellout, but I would say it was probably at least 80% full not counting the section they left empty for the hard cam/lighting. That's something they are doing differently than WWE. At WWE shows the hard cam is usually on the floor in front of the first row of elevated seats, at this show AEW had the hard cameras (there were 3) placed in front of a row of seats halfway up the section off the floor with lights arranged around them. There was another empty section on that side at the start of the show but it filled up during the first match.

WWE shows have been provably bad and AEW has been a breath of fresh air by making booking choices that used to be commonplace but haven't been in 20 years. Saying it's a matter of "WWE bad, AEW good" just diluting a legit discussion to absurd extremes to cover for the fact WWE has problems that need to be addressed. NXT was really good last night. I have no faith anyone on that show has a chance in hell at succeeding on the main roster for obvious reasons. That is not a "WWE bad, AEW good" argument. There's letting things play out and then there's expecting the scorpion not to sting you when it's been known to do so for decades,