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I'd definitely put Marty in the top tier of WoS workers. I've only seen him wrestle as a blue-eye, though, so it could be he just wasn't comfortable working heel.

The latest Observer says Mandy was able to have her cake and eat it too as she was making main roster money in NXT without the main roster's restrictions on outside activities. Also, Lord Tensai was the one who stooged her out, so she lost her job due to T&A in more ways than one. As for Sasha, the Observer says her release was negotiated over the summer and she'll be free to wrestle at the beginning of 2023. The speculation is that she'll issue a challenge to the winner of the KAIRI/Nakano match at the Tokyo Dome. She was in talks to return after the regime change, but the two sides were far apart on money. She wanted Charlotte/Becky money and they didn't offer her anything close to that because they thought she had peaked as a star and wasn't someone who could be on top for the next five years. Just another example of how Vince resigning is far from a panacea for the company's issues.

She's walked out of WWE twice over unhappiness with the booking (and the second time her idea was so terrible any booker in their right mind would have shot it down), so there might be something to that. Given that, I have yet to hear a satisfactory explanation for why folks here refused believe reports that she pitched a fit backstage over dropping the tag belts at Mania. What makes you think he does? I thought you would've changed your perspective after you had figured Shibata going into business for himself at WK was an obvious work and Dave was a fool for taking it at face value. For what it's worth, he's said that people are wrong about 90 percent of the time when they try to guess his sources.

For what it's worth, MJF appears to be a big fan of Okada/Tanahashi at Invasion Attack. The diving double foot stomp on an opponent's arm that is grabbing the top rope he's done in several matches now (including on Wednesday) seems inspired by Tanahashi doing a diving double axehandle to Okada's arm in that match. He also copied Tanahashi slamming Okada's arm into the mat against Starks.

Let's recall that building NXT 2.0 around T&A in an effort to attract younger male viewers completely failed at that goal while driving away female viewers en masse to boot. This is a case where both sides are probably better off parting ways.

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The internet's got the scoops, brother.

I mean, it's not unreasonable for a company that does business with Mattel to not want their performers to put out softcore porn on the side. The fact that they cut ties so abruptly after pushing her so heavily over the past year leads me to believe that either she wasn't entirely forthcoming about how explicit her content was or they told her to tone it down and she ignored them.

She probably makes enough off the page that it made financial sense to risk getting fired by WWE, especially if she has no plans to wrestle elsewhere. PVZ once said she made more in a month from her OnlyFans than her entire BKFC contract, which is a seven-figure deal.

The Hammer's full legal name is Jonathan Anthony Wisniski according to Wikipedia. He probably goes by Jon in real life, but he obviously couldn't wrestle as Jon Valentine. I have no idea how he settled on Greg as a ring name, though. Doesn't Seattle have a pretty strong scene? The last Smackdown taping there drew well and had a hot crowd, and AEW's debut in the area should also do well since it'll likely be headlined by Danielson/MJF along with Darby and Swerve in prominent roles. Also, Defy is one of the top indies in the country.

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Vince still holds the majority of voting stock, so there really isn't anything they can do to prevent him from returning. Maybe he's tired of hearing about how much better the product is without him and wants to come back so he can inject WWE with a lethal dose of poison. Or maybe he just really hates Regal and wants to fire him again.

He seems to be trying to check off all the boxes on the poor life decisions bingo card.

I agree that the destination was far more important than the journey for most fans and what they accomplished in the ring more than offset any issues with the booking. I also recognize that having a team that can't appear on TV is a significant handicap when it comes to telling stories.

My understanding is that WWE does test for marijuana but only issues fines for it and not suspensions. That's why they call it the pot tax.

Oh, it's true. It's damn true. Anyway, here's an exciting development in the world of pro wrestling, the king of sports and the sport of kings: If this happens, I will send HHH a fruit basket like those dorks on Reddit.

But that doesn't explain why the match was set up in the first place. The Briscoes lost the first two matches fair and square. Where do they get off asking for another title shot, let one under rules that favor them? If you want to say FTR are fighting champions who never back down from a challenge, that's all well and good. But then they lost, so they seem more like overconfident chumps. Feuds between babyfaces where both sides come across not so great seems to be a TK booking staple because the same thing is happening with Mox/Page. As it currently stands, Hangman is a punk who's upset about being knocked out by a perfectly legal wrestling move and Moxley is a prick who mocked an opponent's serious injury.

I checked out the dog collar match. For the most part, I thought they did a good job of creating a chaotic atmosphere while maintaining a sense of structure, which is the key to a high-end brawl. After Mark took that bump into the pile of chairs, though, it entered too-brutal-to-be-entertaining territory for me and I just wanted it to end. I also found the booking of the match rather questionable as there was no precipitating event to turn the rivalry into a blood feud that would necessitate booking a grudge match. It was just the Briscoes challenging FTR to a fight after losing two wrestling matches. Good on them for winning, but FTR are still the better wrestlers. As far as trilogies go, there are quite a few who consider WrestleWar to be the best Flair/Steamboat match. It was the 1989 PWI match of the year, after all. And Dominion 2018 is widely considered to be the best match of the Okada/Omega trilogy. I mean, technically it's a tetralogy, but the G1 match doesn't really count since it was non-title and had a 30-minute time limit.

Gangrel said a while back that she didn't train for the match as much as he would have liked. He also said that after the match, she expressed interest in going over it to critique her performance but never followed up. She's apparently making serious bank on OnlyFans, so I don't necessarily blame her.

MY CLIENT CROATIA CONQUERED THE CANARINHA Hopefully that'll put an end to soccer talk on this board for a while.

The HDA is the sixth. Dave made a mistake in not including them in the chart showing votes and percentages, but they got in with 76 percent.

The issue's out. The HDA, Mistico, Ibushi, Naito, Los Villanos, and Mark Rocco were voted in and Daro and Doyle were auto-inducted. Just missing the cut were Rocca/Perez, Slaughter, and Los Hermanos Dinamita. Kind of surprising to see Villano III alongside Kawada as the first multiple inductees. I guess it really is true that Mexico has gone from the hardest region to get voted in to the easiest.

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Maybe the best example of this is JR proclaiming HHH to be perhaps the most technical champion in WWF history during his match with Cactus Jack at the 2000 Rumble.

Maybe not the best, but he was the gateway drug for a lot of people. Timothy Thatcher for one has pointed to Regal's matches with Flair on WCWSN as his introduction to the style.