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The angle was leading toward Ki winning the title at some point, it is kind of a surprise they did it this soon though. Can't help but think MLW is playing with fire since it seems there's only a finite amount of time before Low Ki pulls another one of his unprofessional shithead moves.

I have no doubt we're getting the top guys on this show.

Guess this means Sinclair's lawyers flexed nuts and got WWE to back down. I fully expect ROH's entire roster to get offered NXT contracts in the next 6 months in what will be a completely unrelated move.

What sucks is they tell the guys to come to them with ideas to prove they are working hard on their careers or some other horseshit, when they really want the talent to be unpaid writing interns for the rest of the company.

Yeah, for as much as "creative has nothing for you" has become a meme nearly every former member of the creative team has done interviews saying they had tons of ideas for X, Y, or Z but they all got turfed for one reason or another. There's also numerous tales of guys going to management with an idea for their character and get shot down, only to see that idea get used verbaitm for someone else.

Black Saturday is the new hidden gem. There were rumors that more WCWSN was coming in a future content dump, so maybe that means we'll get the rest of 1985? I guess the question is would you consider that the end of the Georgia TV or the beginning of Crockett TV in Atlanta?

I always felt it was an overcorrection from the 90s era of ECW and deathmatches that bordered on gore porn. Some of that stuff was so over the top it killed the impact of seeing blood in wrestling. It's something best when barely used, as seen when Jericho busted up Naito.

Cesaro and Sheamus have been doing house shows, so it might also be a little of Creative Has Nothing For You as well, which...yeah. Also Daniel Bryan is the only person besides the Rock with the consistent ability to make the normally stupid WWE comedy skits work nearly all the time.

There's also the aspect that Lashley and Roman are feuding over who gets to be Vince's favorite (being "the guy") instead of a shot at the championship.

Dave made mention of how odd it was they went out of their way not to mention Brock last night despite him getting mainstream attention for his UFC antics (and how said antics played perfectly into the "Brock doesn't care about wrestling" story they've been building up). It would be pure undistilled WWE if after all the years of keeping Brock strong to elevate whoever ends up beating him, it all ends up for naught because Vince had a hissy over something.

The weird thing about that is most WWE injuries of late have been shoulder injuries from the silly weightlifting regimen they want everyone to do. I think Daniel Bryan was the last serious in ring WWE injury and it wouldn't be fair to blame that on the company. The only other ones I can think of are "shit happens" type moments like Big Cass's knee blowing out.

Man, the Cheeseburger/Bully Ray stuff on this week's ROH TV was so goddamn good. Say what you will about Bully, but he is so good at being an old school make-them-hate-your-guts heel. It helps that Cheeseburger is the easiest guy in the business to get sympathy for, but holy shit the crowd was losing its god damn mind when Cabana came out to save him.

Their show on July 19th looks solid: 40 Man Battle Riot Match for a future World Title Shot Basically this is LU's Aztec Warfare match (Royal Rumble with pinfalls/submissions counting as eliminations). Everyone on the roster seems to be entered plus they are bringing in legends and suprprises, they already have PCO listed as entered. MLW World Title Match Shane Strickland vs Sami Callihan MLW World Tag Title Match Pentagon Jr/Rey Fenix vs Drago/Aerostar MLW World Middleweight Title Match MJF vs Joey Ryan to crown first champion John Hennigan vs Low Ki Hart Foundation (Teddy Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr managed by Brian Pillman II) vs Rich Swann/ACH

I don't think Brock cares about passing drug tests as long as the check clears.

It's already out on PC, here's the requirements from the Steam page: (hope this pastes correctly without the formatting screwing up) MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 Memory: 4 GB RAM GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with minimum 512MB of VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 4 GB available space

Cody and Nick Aldis are official, the storyline is that Nick won't put up the NWA title unless Cody is ROH champ by then.

Yeah the people in charge in Impact now are doing a really good job (that feels so weird to type), it's a shame the brand is so damaged from years of shit.

Maybe, but this seems to be a new era where anyone not signed to WWE can appear anywhere. When even CMLL is open to letting anyone not on AAA TV appear, we're in a whole new world. Even after the Bullet Club runs its course, there will always be guys ROH can bring in if needed. If anything, I'd like to see ROH use their non New Japan partners better. It's sad seeing no one from CMLL get much reaction other than Ultimo Dragon and Dragon Lee. They have some of the best young lucha guys around and it would be nice to see them get more US exposure.

It certainly has a "so bad it's good" appeal if you're in to that sort of thing.

I saw someone on Twitter state that Rusev and English are what would happen if Wario and Waluigi were hot, and now it's all I can see when I look at them.

To be fair, I get the impression no one plays online on Steam because everyone who has the game ends up spending all their time making edits

My hope is when Smackdown moves to Fridays for the Fox deal, it allows WWE the chance to move around their taping schedule. My guess is they'll be to stuck on the "Live" portion of the name and insist it stay where it is though.

Well we don't even know really what gets watched on the Network. WWE announces the most watched shows (which is usually the PPV of the month + NXT) , but there's no numbers released on viewership on each show.

There's a pretty large community on Steam that has created not only wrestler edits, but ring and arena mods. I saw one that even recreated Arena Mexico with all the edecanes along the rampway.

I never figured out how "soy" became the slur-du-jour for the alt right. What if someone is a super alpha male but just has food allergies? At least it gives me a good way to know who's opinons to ignore.