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One thing is for sure to me just seeing clips: Nu Bloodline would have absolutely zero juice pretty much anytime between 2010-2020 and benefit so immensely from being in a boom period where everything is over.

How much of Jumbo's Amarillo excursion made it to tape?

These past two years are some of the best work of Double J's career for sure. I think he might be the only wrestler to actually benefit from the Conrad podcast network because he seems like such a genuinely good dude. It's probably pretty fair to say Jeff Jarrett is the most important and influential non-McMahon in US wrestling between 2001-2019.

It's going to fucking rule

The team/stable started in Europe, particularly in WxW, which you may know was based in...Germany where "kampf" is not exclusively associated with Hitler. I'm pretty sure it started as a fashion brand like SPLX and absolutely did not have any Nazi undertones. This is really on some "all Germans are evil and Nazis by default" American media diet shit. Change the German to French and keep the presentation exactly the same and you might as well say he's a Napoleonic gimmick.

I think it is a bit extreme and unfair to say Gunther/Imperium leans into Nazi shit. His presentation is pretty standard snooty Euro in America, it just happens to be with German/Austrian instead of British or French. A German speaker using "kampf" shouldn't be seen as some Nazi dogwhistle. Kampf is used in pretty much all sports in Germany, particularly combat spots. Because that's like...the word for fight/battle/struggle/combat. Like is Gunther's presentation really that much different from Regal's when he was being taken seriously?

The newest version of the story just sounds like Britt is an absolute dickhead

Did lol at audio missing what Punk said before and after, only capturing him saying something about Seth's "Sabu pants".

MJF and Britt Baker are basically gender swapped versions of the same dickhead, makes sense to me they'd end up in conflict with each other.

Dave Meltzer reported the popular star, who just returned from a lengthy absence due to injuries and a medical issue, was either suspended “for either one or two weeks and fined by the company’s disciplinary committee.” It’s unknown when the suspension is up, but Baker was absent from this past Wednesday’s Dynamite. While the details are light, Meltzer said that something happened at the 250th episode of Dynamite on July 17th where Baker allegedly said something about MJF which Atout heard. She then told MJF who then confronted Baker about it. Ibou added the incident happened right after MJF’s match with Will Ospreay that opened the show with Fightful reporting that the Baker/MJF argument “resulted in MJF punching a wall before his hour long match.” Fightful’s report also stated Baker “exercised frustration” about MJF within the women’s locker room. The outlet also reported that they had heard there was a confrontation between Atout and Baker and that Ospreay even talked to Baker at one point. The conflict was apparently due to unresolved issues in the past and that, according to Fightful, the two former friends had a falling out at some point over the last year. AEW HR then launched an investigation in an effort to settle things quickly and talked to people on July 24th. Meltzer was unsure as to what Tony Khan’s involvement was as “everyone was attempting to keep this under wraps.”

What experience does Shane McMahon have in dealing with streaming services

Dynamite has fuckin rocked for months now. Really interesting because there was a long stretch where Collision was the way better show but now feels like an afterthought

Hell yes they're running Bryan vs Double J

Dbryne's seizure and paralyzed selling, which he's been doing since 2015, is easily the thing I dislike most about his work. 1. It is in poor taste 2. It also isn't believable because he's done it so often over the past 9 years, and it seems like he's leaned on that quite a bit more in AEW than he did in his second WWE run.

Maybe if the stuff with Vince hadn't happened and come out, there could be a shock and surprise of a McMahon in a different company, but post Vince crimes...

Shane The Man Shane McMoney McShane Tony yelling IT'S SHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEE Final Nitro: Shane McMahon buys WCW Final Dynamite: Shane McMahon buys AEW Poetry, rhymes, etc

I don't know why you would want to associate your company with the McMahon name, especially since WWE won't even associate with it anymore. Shane sucks and would add absolutely nothing to AEW, but it would be funny if he popped up with a bad TNA name.

Someone with a tweetsies ask Kenny Omega if he's a fan of Danny Kaye.

It's not hard to understand, but the majority of OG War Games are uneventful brawling and blading. Cage matches in general to me in all eras are hard to buy into as some ultimate brutality getting thrown into a fence. At least the old school bars WWF cage was like yeah you'd get fuck up if you got slammed into those no give bars.

JCP/WCW did a million of them, even before they were a yearly PPV thing no matter what, they just ran that shit on tour. Story and work wise, they were almost always just aimless brawling and blading you'd get in any cage match. There wasn't some big "finally the heels get what is coming to them" type story. Even before War Games made it to specific PPV event, it was just what cage matches had become in the 90s, or HIAC had become post 2005 or so. Everyone loves the concept and the visual, but there's a reason people only talk about one or two War Games as being memorable (usually 1991 and 1992, I might argue 1996/1997 as well). There's rarely any kind of story in the match beyond general heels advantage.

I think we're all mature enough and long enough viewers or at least historians enough to acknowledge both WWE and AEW War Games are better than JCP/WCW War Games ever were.

Bruv/MJF could have gone another 20 minutes imo. Excellent chemistry. It's going to be real hard to match or top that at All In.

A Hangman/Jarrett Texas death match blood bath at All In would probably rule. Actually, run Bryan vs Double J while we're at it.

Shitting on Boston because one of the members of the match was from Boston. Otherwise they would not have been shitting on Boston. Vaquer made a very positive impression with pretty much everyone in the crowd and who watched the show, and obviously enough for WWE to immediately swoop her up. Vaquer came off way more impressive than Mercedes in that match, and had she not, the crowd wouldn't have started shitting on Boston mid match.

The crowd completely turned on Mercedes halfway through the match. She was working face before that point in the match.