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This is the same Big Kev who went around wearing pro Trump shirts to try to trigger the libs, so he's always a worker to the core.

If he's not losing at Triplemania, he's certainly losing it to Rush if that match takes place in CMLL. He was always holding out for the mask match with Wagner, and now that it's no longer an option he might as well cash out to the highest bidder now.

It's all connected. The original deal with Wagner was he'd lose the mask and in turn they'd do a title program with him and his son to make Hijo a star. Konnan coming back scuttled those plans so Wagner bounced, and Dorian brought back Jarrett in response to that. I'm just hoping Konnan's booking will be more than "take the most violent aspects of ECW and imagine if it survived and moved to Mexico" style that seemed to take over the last time he booked.

No surprise since Amman's whole case seemed to be "people said mean things to me on Twitter", which is hardly deserving of the nearly $4 million in damages he was asking. Punk clearly embellished a few things but his team made it clear he did have the fabled lump, WWE doctors never seemed to catch it, and he never singled out Dr. Amman by name (the only time the name Amman was mentioned in the podcast was a reference to the unrelated lawyer with the same name). People put two and two together, but it wasn't from anything directly said.

They seem to be no longer sticking with the 50 collection cap, as they added a few previously removed collections back most important being the Wargames Collection.

Sunday's show was very reminiscent of peak WCW, the first couple matches were all good to excellent and the main event was a trainwreck.

AAA announced the four participants in the main event mask match for Triplemania: Psycho Clown, Hijo del Fantasma, Pentagon Jr., and....... LA Park! Not the AAA La Parka, the actual OG LA Park who is also feuding with Rush in CMLL which everyone assumes is leading to a mask/hair match at the 85th Anniversary show. According to Park it's still on for CMLL, and if he loses the Triplemania match it will be hair vs hair. Also Rey Fenix (and probably Penta) are going to be making apperances at Arena Mexico for CMLL while also appearing for AAA. Literally everything that was always considered impossible in lucha pretty much since the day AAA was born all seems to be happening at the same time.

Ronda seems to be the type where if she's given something stupid to say, she'll say it but make it clear the whole time she thinks it's stupid. Last night looked like that's what was happening.

...and even then it was in spite of the booking, not because of it. No matter how much the WWE version of history tries to spin it. Not co-incidentally Bryan is also one of the current guys who does everything mentioned that babyfaces used to do to draw sympathy, and is one of the few in WWE with a real connection to the audience.

Wasn't she the one that did the 2018 Rick Rude and was on WWE, Impact, and ROH tv all in the same week? I know she was everywhere that she could go, nice to see hard work rewarded.

This has been the case for every generation of older wrestlers and their feelings about the new generation. The only difference is that there weren't a million outlets back then for everyone to air their opinion. Although I have to admit a podcast of 1986 Ole Anderson grumping on like Dynamite Kid or whoever would probably have been tremendous.

I find history in general fascinating, and in a business like wrestling it's even more so. It's always interesting to see the choices promoters made that worked as well as the ones that didn't.

Not only was he a WWE exec, he apparently was the one negotiating Middle Eastern deals for them. Oof.

Vince was only concerned about the time slot, so he probably didn't care about the tape library then. Also I was under the impression that Turner owned the rights to at least everything Georgia taped at the WTBS studios as Dave has mentioned several times that WWE owned everything from 70s Georgia to Florida/Central States/UWF with the WCW purchase.

Between the NBA conference final game 7s and the NHL finals starting, WWE has pretty clearly punted on this week's tvs.

Basically any leg lock that's not a figure four, but Daniel Bryan might be doing that all by himself.

Mid South 1984 uploads are continuing, so we should have the great Mr. Wrestling II-Magnum TA angle in full.

The only thing that stood out to me was an actual dollar amount for Raw instead of the nebulous "2-3x" increase.

I miss tag team finishers. Even basic ones were neat little touches to show it's two guys working together to win a match instead of two single wrestlers.

I'm just glad they don't make her walk around in the booty shorts she wore for her WM match, since Vince has an "everyone must always walk around in their gear no matter how ridiculous it looks" fetish.

MLW seemingly made an attempt to get guys who weren't already signed elsewhere under contract before going on TV to prevent the usual "they got a TV deal let's raid them" WWE ploy. Funny how they stayed clear of ROH after they got their fingers slapped with tampering threats, and immediately started doing the same thing to the next company that came along.

I love the fact that he's not only aware of the memes he inspired, but takes part in them:

Brazilian meltdown?

You mean Two Time Stanley Cup Champion Phill Kessel, and a damn sexy man?

Last week's back issue was the obit for Johnny Valentine, and Dave mentioned the last public appearance he made was for New Japan during Inoki's 30 anniversary celebration in 1990. He brought in a bunch of gajin he had classic matches with like Lou Thesz, Hansen, Andre, and Johnny was one of those guys. To my surprise he actually walked down the aisle on arm-support crutches. I was always under the impression he was wheelchair bound after the accident.