NintendoLogic

The inductees: Los Misioneros de la Muerte Ultimo Guerrero Villano III Dr. Wagner Jr. Gedo Jim Crockett Sr. Bearcat Wright Paul Pons Still no justice for Taue or Akiyama (although the latter came three votes short). On the plus side, the lucha logjam finally broke.

If Colby Lopez with the volume turned all the way up doesn't lead to a new boom period, the WWE creative team needs to pack it in.

Page isn't from Texas.

So they gave Seth clean decisive wins over Brock and turned him heel after the fans rejected him. If they had done those things with Roman years ago, he'd almost certainly be a much bigger star today. Instead, they stuck to the John Cena playbook, and now he's probably damaged beyond repair. And they applied the lessons learned to someone far less suited for the top guy role. WWE: always fighting the last war.

Didn't El Dandy retire a few years ago?

Have Mauro and Corey ever been on the same broadcast team? Maybe they'd spend so much time trying to talk over each other that they'd cancel each other out.

What a letdown. I'm turning this shit off.

Keep this in mind the next time one of you complains that they're not pushing Roman strong enough.

It's pretty amusing how WWE tries to push brand supremacy as the most important thing imaginable while having team members turn on each other every year.

The fucking red light. This does not bode well for keeping the bullshit to a minimum.

Good thing all the damage they sustained the previous night didn't prevent them from hitting every move ever invented.

How badly do you have to fuck up on every level to have a Chicago crowd completely dead for a match with AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Roderick Strong?

Brock/Rey is the only thing on this card any sane person should be looking forward to, and it has the potential to be a real classic. Brock killed it this year with Finn Balor and Seth Rollins, so just imagine what he could do with an actual good wrestler. But it's not worth sitting through three hours of Brand Supremacy horseshit for. I'll be checking in and out until the match starts.

Here's Kylie Rae on her departure from AEW. Make of it what you will.

I know firsthand how crippling depression can be, and I wish Mauro all the best in his personal life. But if your mental state is such that you can't deal with trolls on social media, you're probably better off not being a public figure. Of course, it doesn't help when you have coworkers doing shit like this: Corey Graves ripping anyone's announcing, particularly on the grounds of not letting other members of the broadcast team get a word in edgewise, is truly the pot calling the kettle black.

Mauro deleted his Twitter. I hope you guys are proud of yourselves. Anyway, it sounds like skipping this show was the right call. I don't even particularly care for the classic War Games matches, so a WWE workrate version with silly weapon spots and towers of doom and cage dives is certain to do less than nothing for me.

I cancelled my Network subscription after Hell in a Cell, but I'm seriously considering re-upping just to see Brock/Rey.

The deal with Cornette and Justin Roberts reminds me of a couple of months ago when some people were trying to make a big deal out of Nyla Rose responding to a transphobic troll on Twitter by asking if he was molested as a child. It's all bullshit on both sides. Completely insincere weaponized outrage.

I think it's far more likely that he's just a reckless fool and will be for the rest of his (probably short) life. The fact that he took his ring name from two famously self-destructive punk rockers doesn't exactly scream long-term perspective.

I'd like to see Shayna/Charlotte at some point. They're both in dire need of fresh opponents, they match up well stylistically, and Shayna is probably the one person Charlotte could face and have the crowd completely behind her.

I continue to be taken aback by how technically unsound Riho is. She's a joshi dojo product who's been wrestling for 13 years, but she looks like she just got out of the Performance Center. Nothing she does looks crisp at all. She does have a connection with the audience, and AEW's women's division isn't exactly a murderer's row, so it's not that big a deal. Still, it is rather jarring.

Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa). EDIT: beaten to it Anyway, I'm shocked to see a Sinclair subsidiary behave so unethically.

The "90 miles" botch was scripted. "90 days" was not. Of course, that's the length of WWE's non-compete. Could it have been a Freudian slip? Looking forward, the 12/23 Raw seems guaranteed to set a new record low rating. Not only is it the Christmas Raw, it's going head-to-head with Packers/Vikings on MNF. I wouldn't be surprised if all three hours ended up with under 2 million viewers.

Cornette likened the way he felt when Meltzer defended Marko Stunt to finding out a close friend was a Trump supporter, so jumping on the MAGA gravy train would be a pretty severe volte-face.

NWA White Powerrr.