MoS

My fantasy booking for JCP has always been to turn Flair face in 1986 and let him be the man for a few years. He could always turn back heel when it was time to put over the next generation of muscleheads. I know he didn't like working face, but that's why you have bookers looking at the larger picture.

Really interesting. Do you think his change in character also was reflected in how he worked matches?

Also, like, does Impact really have enough clout to put this relationship in jeopardy over something like this? It's clear that so far this cross-promotion has benefited Impact far more disproportionately than it has AEW. So, even if this is true, the only way Sammy would be in trouble would be if he pissed off Tony Khan, and really, I don't think anything to do with Impact would piss off Tony Khan enough to get him really mad at Guevera, who is one of AEW's biggest young stars and someone with so much future potential

Good for you

Sorry but this is a total misunderstanding of how demos work and how Nielsen ratings work. Of course kids don't own Nielsen boxes. Nielsen boxes also measure viewers per household, as well as the age and sex of every single viewer in that household who is watching. If the TV is left on by boomers because their grandkids want to watch, that absolutely will be reflected in the demo ratings. Your anecdotal experience is not reality. I am glad that you see a lot of kids in house shows you go to, and know kids that enjoy WWE. It doesn't change the fact that by and large, WWE's biggest audience is boomer. Hell, house show numbers had nosedived so ridiculously, that even before the pandemic they had greatly scaled down on the live events they were doing, cuz they were literally losing money on them, something that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like it or not, WWE's biggest income stream is TV rights, and their TV audience is largely boomers, and that remains so even if you don't personally like the fact or completely misunderstand how Nielsen works. It doesn't change just because you know a lot of kids that love WWE. Anecdotal evidence is not reality. Sorry.

In case you didn't know, he was the boy in the middle of the early 90s WWF sexual scandal involving Mel Philips. This is absolutely awful. May he rest in peace

Have to go with Fujinami, who has had one of the longest, most complete career arcs I have seen. A genuine GOAT contender

I still hope they return for 2026 GWE. Dylan barely posts about wrestling even on Twitter, but Loss has had some absolutely fascinating insights and observations/analyses on wrestling over on Twitter. The board misses him and Dylan and was so much better with them posting regularly

Same here

I don't think putting eyeballs on the product is a factor now. They had 1.4 million viewers for their debut. They have had Tyson and Shaq segments on their TV, which have had 1 million plus viewers. They've aired right after a big NBA game, having a big lead-in. Getting awareness or one-time watchers isn't their problem. Getting those viewer to stick to them is the problem. Plenty of people have viewed them and yet gone right back to not watching. The Shaq match wouldn't have changed that. If anything, given the terrible build and just how bad the actual match could be, it might forever alienate new viewers.

I mean, this should be a big story, but given how badly they have botched Cody's booking since Full Gear, it doesn't even matter? Like, there's a lot of things AEW does great, but they are terrible at both introducing new people and storylines, as well as transitioning to new storylines. That has been really evident with Cody's booking. He has been alternating between completely cold jobber matches where no one is over, and celebrity angles like the Shaq one which, personally, are totally boring and a complete miss, and just a complete misfire. It feels weird to remember that Cody was the hottest wrestler on this planet 15 months ago, cuz he has been so cold and over-the-place the last few months. He had the brilliant and intense Brodie Lee feud (RIP) but that seems more and more an exception to the rule when it comes to him.

Maybe we need to post more in the Ric Flair v. Bret Hart thread to get @Loss back to posting on his own board...

My favourite example of Vince booking a guy cuz he sees him as some ugly fuck whom no hot woman would give the time of their day is when he booked the Bella twins to take a bet and hit on Daniel Bryan, with the joke being that any girl as hot as the Bellas are would never actually date a vegan bearded geek like Bryan. Really funny how that worked out

That was an absolutely crazy car crash brawl. Really loved it

I am getting actively annoyed by both Sting and Tony yelling IT's STING. It was not even a thing in WCW, wtf

That's the thing though; they didn't even act as if the cameraman was invisible. Sammy took the cameraman to the locker room and specifically said "The cameraman stays" so it just makes no sense

The Good Brothers are complete dorks and I have no idea how the have fans

What's the point of recording this conversation secretly when...there's a cameraman right there? What?

The Forbidden Door is open!

I think it's basically been okay till now. However, if he keeps doing commentary and cutting promos on air, it will definitely get too much for me. I don't even know if I would call it exploitative as much as totally unnecessary and excessive. I am sure the last few weeks have been enough to give him memories for a lifetime. He doesn't really need anymore.

Got some nerve talking shit to me about doctored Indian pitches a couple of days after England thrashed us and kicked our ass six ways to Sunday. I bet @ButchReedMark hasn't been sober since then

I think if there has been anything the NXT v. AEW feud has proven indisputably, it is that QT's wrestling school and the Nightmare Factory's training for rookie wrestlers is far far far superior to WWE's performance centre and developmental's best shot. And it's not even slightly close

This is the first time I have seen Omega compared to Earthquake. Brother Dav'oh, as a big Tenta fan and as someone who doesn't care about Omega, I am offended

Thought this was interesting, because we did discuss coded language here when this happened. Of course, Brandi is an excellent promo and Jade is the worst promo in wrestling today, so I was always going to be more impressed by Brandi