C.S.

That's my guess too. Roman vs. Brock is a Last Man Standing Match. They're both knocked out. Boom! Theory cashes in.

I figured it was something like that.

Who are those guys in the black suits? Their former Indianapolis Colts teammates?

Prediction: Edge rejoins The Judgment Day, congratulates them for "passing the test." Update: Or maybe not. Would've been more intriguing though. lol, Finn loses...again!

Max Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii looks absolutely miserable and not into the gimmick at all. So I can kind of see Vince's point - assuming any of that nonsense was true in the first place (which I seriously doubt).

The AIR Logan Paul got on that jump...WOW!

Ciampa lost his first name?

This show has already exceeded expectations!

The SummerSlam set and Becky's costume are both straight fire. I wish AEW would spruce up its visuals a little - at least for PPVs, but even Rampage could stand to look less like the redressed Dynamite set it is.

Beating Roman would be a much bigger win for Drew. Drew has already beaten Brock. Roman has been World Champion for the past two years or thereabouts.

It's one thing to praise kayfabe accomplishments on-camera as a kayfabe part of the show - it's another thing entirely for a wrestler to bring that up in a business meeting as a leverage point.

There's a rumor going around that Gresham brought up his PWI 500 ranking to Tony Khan during their argument. If true, holy shit! Supposedly reported by PWInsider, but I never go to that spyware-infested shithole of a site. (For all I know, it hasn't been that way in years - but they lost my trust almost immediately and never gained it back.)

According to the upper right corner of this page, I'm one of the top posters in this thread with 90 posts. How is that possible? Or is this some fuckery from switching to the new board? I didn't watch Cornette in his prime (my introduction to him was in the WWF), don't listen to his audio show, don't generally like what I've heard about him, and don't care about him in general otherwise. If the statistic is true, I can only assume the thread veered off-topic at points and I contributed at those times. Either that or I waste way too much fucking time on a forum where 90% of the users actively dislike my posts and opinions.

Agreed. But could be a case of Tony wanting to make the calls himself. (But then doesn't do it, I guess? And that leads to these problems.) Vince having Johnny Ace do it always struck me as the ultimate bitch move. Maybe that's common in corporations, which - okay, fine - but still a bitch move.

Yeah, but there's standing up to promoters and then there's cussing them out like a middle schooler having a tantrum. One is professional and adult, and the other is what Gresham did.

Cussing out your boss like you're in middle school gym class? Come on... That's some real Peter Pan shit. Gresham is not someone I would make any effort to keep - a company literally went bankrupt when he was on top - and I don't see him fitting into WWE, so what are his options realistically? Maybe Japan, but even that I don't know... Sounds to me like he thinks he's hotter shit than he actually is. He often called himself the best wrestler in the world in multiple interviews, and while I realize that's a standard line, I think he really believes it. He's not even better than the guy he lost to - never mind Danielson and others.

Gresham sounds like an unprofessional ass who is used to being catered to despite headlining a company into bankruptcy (ROH). At the same time, TK also sounds like he needs to get a real system in place for talent relations, because this isn't the first complaint of that nature.

I get that Nana is a legacy ROH name and notable for that reason, but having him so quickly and haphazardly replace Tully after Tully was removed from FTR's corner and sent to ROH to form a stable there makes me wonder exactly what Tully's current status is. I assume he's gone, but I wonder what the story is.

Any word on what's going on with Tully, if anything?

Max Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii was apparently Bray Wyatted, with Maxxine Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (Sooooooooooooooooooo Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia Cromwell) becoming the Alexa Bliss to his act and replacing him entirely. https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/report-max-dupri-done-with-wwes-maximum-male-models-faction

No judgment here, brother. What you have in your bedroom is fine by us.

Happened exactly as you predicted. You must be psychic.

I spoke too soon. They've reportedly reached out to Goldberg.

Losing Roman vs. Brock at SummerSlam would be a huge positive. Any other match would be more interesting to me. Eventually losing Dunn and his awful camerawork would be amazing too. The sooner the better.

Unless that commentator is Mauro Ranallo.