NintendoLogic

Maybe Dolph Ziggler is the devil and they're waiting for his non-compete to expire to do the reveal.

Holy cow, this man should not be anywhere near a wrestling ring.

I'm sure the last thing WWE wants to do is draw even more attention to all the premature deaths in the industry.

I've always thought Starks was pretty mid, much like LA Knight. But as with Knight, whatever works works. Having charisma and talking ability while being good enough in the ring to hang with elite workers with some smoke and mirrors is actually a pretty great starting point for a main event guy. Good technicians are a dime a dozen these days. Guys who connect with the audience on a star level are much rarer, which is why they need to be protected. Even if Danielson's body wasn't breaking down, the best use of him would be to have him make the Starks of the world look better than they really are while letting him cook in occasional dream matches.

TV deals are the lifeblood of modern wrestling, which means ratings are as important to the company's bottom line as PPV revenue if not more so. And they did plant the seed for the match on BTE a few weeks ago. They absolutely could have done a better job of promoting it, but it didn't come completely out of nowhere.

The injury is legitimate per PWInsider. These folks need to learn to work because the injury rate should not be this high in a fake sport.

Now that the end is near, I think we can safely conclude that Impact was not, in fact, the best promotion in wrestling history. It looks like Betteridge's law of headlines also applies to thread titles.

I had always been a big Darby fan, but now I hope he dies on Everest.

Coach Tony K promised a special dream match for tonight's Collision, and did he ever deliver. Of course, I'm referring to this:

It was brought to my attention that this week's Raw was only the third show Michael Cole has missed in 26 years with WWE. Whatever you may think about him as an announcer, that's some incredible commitment to the job. I don't think I could deal with Vince yelling in my headset for 20 minutes, let alone 20 years.

How about calling him Adge? I am a genius.

Rosenberg is 55% Hispanic, so that makes sense.

Christian has been a longtime board favorite, and I honestly can't remember anyone here ever arguing in earnest that Edge was better. The days of you being the board's lone Christian advocate are a figment of your imagination. Anyway, if you all think Edge's promos are interminable now, wait until he turns heel. Remember the mountain of omnipotence? Imagine that unfiltered and unedited.

Setting aside the fact that Hogan/Warrior really didn't work that well (Hogan/Earthquake was actually a stronger program, which is why Summerslam nearly outdrew Mania on PPV that year), Roman/Gunther is just a bad matchup stylistically. People aren't into Roman's matches for the in-ring work. Forcing Gunther to slow himself down for him would be a crime against humanity.

It looks like Ricky's bug eyes comment caught Edge flat-footed. He likely figured he had to respond because his character would look like a chump if he just stood there and took it and things heated up from there. If he really was upset by the "over the edge" line, that's honestly a bit weird. I'm sure Owen's death was a traumatic experience, but that's a common enough phrase that you should probably seek therapy if hearing it in any context is going to set you off.

How many more times is this going to happen? I'd hate for AEW to start fully scripting promos like WWE, but that might be the only option if the wrestlers don't have enough common sense to clear what they're going to say with the person the words are directed at beforehand.

Taker's in-ring track record prior to the Mankind feud might actually be worse than Kane's over the same time period. In fairness, he wasn't given much to work with.

I don't know if I'd call it great, but I do recall Kane's match with Benoit at Bad Blood 2004 being quite good. If you put a gun to my head, that'd be my pick for the best Kane singles match. He also had a surprisingly good match with Daisuke Ikeda in PWFG.

What limitations does Lesnar have that need to be worked around?

Lashley is an interesting case. He may be in his late 40s, but he doesn't seem old because he's looked pretty much the same for the past two decades.

TV age is more important than chronological age. Carlito may be older than Randy Orton, but he feels fresher because he hasn't been a featured act in WWE forever like Orton has.

To me, saying the MJF/Juice angle was mild by historical standards wasn't so much an attempt to minimize it as an acknowledgement of how bad things really were in the past. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that Harley Race was calling Ron Simmons "boy" in promos. And I'm pretty sure Meltzer is himself Jewish (he's said in the past that he lost relatives in the Holocaust), so he certainly wouldn't be inclined to take that sort of thing lightly.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Also, it bears repeating that the National Labor Relations Act explicitly prohibits employers from supporting unions. The whole point of a union is to represent the interests of workers against employers, and a union that's too chummy with management can't be considered an independent bargaining representative.

I don't know who you're referring to here because the reaction I've seen to this has been universally negative. The only thing remotely close to a defense is people saying it isn't quite as bad as Christian roasting people's dead relatives. Doubtful. There might be momentary uproar in some circles, but most of the world would shrug their shoulders and figure that's just what WWE does.

Dick Blood is an incredible ring name.