NintendoLogic

For those of you wondering how the writers would pop the audience of one this week, Angel Garza shoved a rose up Drew Gulak's butt on Raw.

https://www.njpw1972.com/96676 It looks like Okada, Suzuki, Desperado, Kanemaru, SHO, and YOH were all pulled from the show due to COVID protocols. Hopefully it's nothing too serious and they're acting with an overabundance of caution.

For what it's worth, JBL isn't really that conservative in real life. He's said several times that his favorite politician is Michael Bloomberg.

The sequence works a lot better when you view it in the context of the match. Presenting it as an isolated clip really does it a disservice.

I've never heard of Bikers Against Trafficking, but the fact that they're working with Low Qi and Matt Morgan (a man with financial ties to an actual child sex trafficker) tells me everything I need to know. On a related note, Proud Boy ref is promoting this event on his Facebook page.

If Nick Khan did tell the NXT crew to tone down the chuddery, some folks obviously didn't get the memo.

Bret indeed says in his book that he insisted on cutting Austin because Austin told he him he had never bladed before and too much was at stake for him to try it for the first time at Mania. Of course, that's nonsense since Austin had bladed plenty of times in WCW.

I can't believe Fuchi is only 25 there. He has that Arn Anderson deal where he's looked middle-aged his entire life.

For those who missed it, here's the full list of this season's episodes. Part one of the Pillman episode is out. Man, the years have not been kind to Melanie at all. I guess that's karma for you.

The reaction Roman got at Mania should have disabused people of the idea that he'll ever be a superstar babyface. For a lot of fans, it's not just his booking or his character they're hostile to. They genuinely hate him as a wrestler. Others are going to automatically reject anyone they perceive to be the company's hand-picked choice as the top guy. The only way I see fans coming around on him is if, like Cena, he reinvents himself as a PWG wrestler while a new guy comes along to serve as an avatar of fan resentment.

Homicide's Wikipedia page says he was offered a scholarship by the University of Miami and turned it down. According to this interview, it was a baseball scholarship. https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2020/08/07/catalyst-wrestling-new-home-for-veteran-homicide/ By the way, the Observer noted at the time that when Low Ki was on NXT, most of the other competitors thought he was a total joke.

I was going to say that it could simply be a case of injuries catching up to him. I remember him being a pretty reckless bumper.

The term shitenno literally translates as Four Heavenly Kings and refers to the Buddhist deities who watch over each of the world's cardinal directions. In a colloquial sense, it refers to the "big four" of any given field. The All Japan crew aren't the only wrestling quartet to be given that name. In the 1960s, Giant Baba, Antonio Inoki, Kintaro Oki, and Michiaki Yoshimura were the shitenno of the JWA. And in 2004, Genichiro Tenryu, Yoshihiro Takayama, Minoru Suzuki, and Kensuke Sasaki were known as the gaiteki (outside invader) shitenno because they were all freelancers working in New Japan.

He decided he'd rather work with Alberto Del Rio. The hottest free agent in years, free to work anywhere in the world, and this is how he decides to use his newfound freedom. What an idiot.

I already mentioned this in the empire crumbling thread, homeboy. Anyway, SRS is reporting that he was suspended and banned from the PC after his last maskless stunt. Hopefully he'll be out after this next strike.

This guy is seriously nuts. Any legitimate company would be embarrassed to have someone like him in a position of authority. Also, I wonder if he shed any tears when it was revealed that his pal Matt Morgan received a sweetheart tax deal from an actual child sex trafficker.

Looks like he didn't learn his lesson after WM37. His original rant included a comment about Sasha's ethnicity ( "Apparently this is the first time two black women have been in the main event of Wrestlemania, although I’m not so sure that Sasha identifies as anything but Latina.") that just about everybody in the comments section dragged him for. He initially tried to defend himself by saying he figured Sasha was Latina because of her Eddie Guerrero fandom, but he eventually deleted the comment from the rant. He needs to realize that the days of people laughing at or at least looking past flippant uninformed comments about serious issues are long gone.

For those of you who are taking moral character into account, using a live chicken as a weapon is a clear case of animal abuse.

It's a heel/heel matchup, really. There's no excuse for using someone's work without attribution, but repeatedly pestering her on Twitter was the wrong way for the guy to deal with it. And people are still dragging her after she apologized and gave the guy credit. There's no way to win with the outrage mob. Even if you do apologize, they'll reject it because it wasn't timely enough or it wasn't worded properly or some other bullshit reason. Social media was a mistake.

I'm not watching Raw, but Adnan Virk is actually trending on Twitter over how terrible he is on commentary.

I'll believe Low Ki's theories on COVID before I believe the Dallas Cowboys have the second-smartest fanbase in the NFL.

I'm surprised to see people high on the Taker match. The only time I would say a match is objectively actively bad is when the execution is so incompetent that it exposes the business. It'd be one thing if the botches were treated as botches, but they were sold like business as usual. It was genuinely depressing to watch, which is never a feeling you should have when watching pro wrestling.

Dave does have a history of phrasing things inelegantly, especially on radio shows. So I don't necessarily begrudge wrestlers sometimes taking things the wrong way, although all the clowns who tweet out-of-context audio clips for the purpose of winding people up can suck it. The real problem is when a bunch of other WWE wrestlers inevitably join in the pile-on. They surely realize that they work for a morally bankrupt company run by ghouls who screw them over in innumerable ways both major and minor, but it's a lot easier to shoot the messenger than to stand up for themselves.