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Hijo del Fantasma aka King Cuerno from Lucha Underground was officially announced as signed and will probably be the "hey it's that guy" in the crowd at the next Takeover. What makes that signing interesting is that he was famously getting a degree in International Relations and his dad is the head of the Lucha Commission so he's likely going to have a low tolerance for WWE nonsense since he has the wrestling equivalent of fuck-you money (they need him more than he needs to be in WWE).

ICP are always great. No matter if you like their music, Violent J in particular is a great interview, really smart guy, and funny as hell. Not to mention they "get" wrestling more than most of the people in the business.

All I know is that this whole Kylie Rae deal is going to get a whole bunch of "wrestling reporters" bothering someone who's obviously going through some shit just so they can score themselves Cool Internet Points.

And I'm sure it has nothing to with the AAA show coming to NYC 9/15, since WWE tells us they don't counterprogram other promotions.

AAA has announced some matches for the show on 9/15 at the Hulu Theater in NYC: Cain Velasquez/Psycho Clown/Brian Cage vs Taurus/Texano Jr/Rey Escorpion AAA Tag Titles: Lucha Brothers vs Santana/Ortiz AAA Women's title: Tessa Blanchard vs Taya Valkyrie Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Blue Demon More matches will be added involving Impact wrestlers. As much of a mess it's been getting this show off the ground, the card looks pretty good so far.

Just look at all the guys from the past who were really good promos, but struggled reciting scripts loaded with WWE verbiage.

I get the guy's point, but on the other hand it's really not that hard to find other channels on YouTube. If you subscribe to any of the channels in the AEW Extended YouTube Universe (no they don't really call it that, I'm just being glib) the algorithms will end up suggesting you check out the others. Having said that, they really should streamline things in that area. My guess is they will probably use the official AEW account for most things and the TNT one will probably be for PPV pre shows. BTE was basically their "TV" for all intents and purposes before they had anything else, so having an actual TV show kind of eliminates the need for it to exist anymore.

There may be issues with footage featuring the non WCW folks on those shows.

Don't forget Jesse Ventura and Jack Reynolds hosted Prime Time Wrestling for the first 6 months or so of it's existence.

Yeah I'm just dreading the TVs leading up to it with her doing promos in the same heel cadence she's been doing with her chronic case of resting b-face.

Starting my watchthru now, gotta say I was impressed to see Sonya and Mandy pull out Total Elimination. Also it's amazing that no matter how they book Joe, he still comes off as the baddest dude in the room.

The issue is this makes Charlotte the defacto babyface in that feud and she's so unnatural in that role.

I'll be watching Smackdown on DVR as usual, but is it wrong I was hoping Bayley would be like a reverse Doink? Go from kid's character to evil version of the same gimmick. I would have popped for her terrorizing little kids at ringside.

Yeah, but apparently the fight was due to some political stuff from Japan. Bea allegedly cost Sadie a job and when they were together backstage shit went down. Kenny probably should have known since he's the one who would be most aware of Joshi goings-on, but I don't know if I can completely blame AEW for something they weren't involved in. The belt is just lol though. In a weird way it's kind of great it happened to Jericho since it fits in with his gimmick/real life persona. I mean, I know when I heard the story I was like "yeah, that sounds about like something Jericho would do". They have a spare belt, and they can always make another one so at least that story is just funny. You can't have people bringing in outside BS to your locker room and fighting about it. I would hope now that they are aware of any potential issues they will make sure it's not tolerated.

At this point it's incompetence. If it was just one person I'd buy character assassination, but anyone on the roster who's pushed as a babyface gets made out to be a geek unless they have the charisma to overcome it.

The NWA using this opportunity to shill their "10 pounds of gold" belt buckles had me rolling too.

That report is weirdly written, but it seems like Jericho just left the belt in the limo while the driver return the wrong luggage? So either the driver returned it with the wrong luggage, stole it himself, or left the limo unattended while returning the luggage and someone yanked it from the car? Seems like it's not really Jericho's fault other than leaving it in the car. I mean, he probably was drunk, but leaving it in the car rather than taking it in the restaurant like he was the NWA champion in the 70s wouldn't have been the worst thing he could have done.

It did, because the company is no longer able to successfully book a babyface act as anything other than a bumbling idiot and/or an annoying jerk. Fans shouldn't have to hope their favorites turn heel to be able to not look like goofs.

FWIW, there's nothing worse than someone who hints and/or outright states they know some kind of HAWT NEWZ but aren't going to say anything about it. I purposely did not attach any names to the above line, so if anyone thinks it was directed at them they're telling on themselves.

She's been booked as either an idiot babyface or a complete asshole most of her main roster run, not surprising she wanted to be a heel. Hence my previous post where fans are popping for heel turns since it means the person finally has a shot at being booked competently.

There's nothing more WWE than the heel turn of a once beloved character getting a massive pop to close the show.

It seems like every year when football season starts they have to do some sort of "doesn't it suck when officials take too long to make a call?" angle.

LAX!

ARN!

I'll pop if Spears pulls out a Slingshot Suplex at some point.