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Sean Ross Sapp reported that Orton is "willing to talk to" AEW, which is quite a bit different than assuming a jump is imminent or even a possibility. Any WWE star who's due for an extension would be stupid not to leverage AEW for all they can, and Orton's no exception. I don't see any real chance of him leaving. He'll get either the raise or schedule reduction that he doubtless wants, or both.

Konnan's match is against the lucha Rambo, working as "The Mercenary." And I believe the Razor match is him in his never-seen-on-TV long-tights gear.

Solie was more divisive among sheet-readers in the '80s than you'd think. Meltzer straight-up disliked him going back to the earliest Observer Yearbooks.

Reading comprehension, anyone? Has anyone "shit talked" Excalibur as an announcer? Anyone at all? Gordon Solie was a tangible and proven draw as a wrestling announcer--many complaints to TBS after Black Saturday were from fans wanting not Georgia or World Championship Wrestling back, but their "Gordon Solie wrestling." I'm not sure JR is all that far off from the level of '80s Solie, especially if he's used properly.

I feel like Ross has too much name value to be dismissed entirely, but keep him in some sort of Gordon Solie-in-1990-WCW type role, doing "Ross Reports" or sitting in on certain matches, instead of making him the face of the broadcast.

Excalibur is not a known commodity with me in the slightest, and I'm with CS here. The name is dumb for an announcer. AEW should be striving to be above doing stupid shit we saw on Raw and on indy shows.

Meltzer flat-out said on the front page of f4wonline that this was the plan all along and it's not because of Braun not being cleared.

Don't know how Jericho keeps doing it. That's match of the night so far.

I'm not sure who was arguing this, in a general sense. Or as a wise man once said, just because we don't care doesn't mean we don't understand.

Some of us are the farthest thing from indie fans, "extremely" or otherwise, but still have some vague interest in AEW, as I think my posts here will flesh out pretty conclusively. Are we allowed to be that?

Second question dodged. That'll do it for me, and I suspect anyone unfortunate enough to read this exchange.

How do you know that's what happened? Or should I say, that's *all* that happened? Do we know that Meltzer posted this blindly without shooting a text to Cody or a Young Buck, who we know he's close with?

You're the one who said Meltzer "fucked this up," so I figured I'd ask you instead. But you don't want to actually answer questions or elaborate, which seems to be your usual act after you say something provocative. News is not subject to copyright and nobody "owns" it. Meltzer could do a better job of naming sources or even saying, "according to a source close to the situation," that's been discussed, but he's not under any obligation to do so.

So did she sign or didn't she?

Fucked up how? She didn't sign?

Mrs. Adam Cole (or Adam's girlfriend/partner). Significant inasmuch as it signifies AEW is committed to having a women's division.

What Les did was arguably even worse than what sek is describing, which is that he Tweeted that, and then painted himself as the wronged virgin in white when responders asked him to name names or shut up, all while never actually naming any names. I say this as someone who neither knows nor cares who the fuck "Les Moore" is. But he wants to eat his cake and have it, too with regard to calling people out for being on the imaginary AEW consulting payroll.

This is the worst news since I found out my mother-in-law was moving in 6 months ago. "The actions of this Clown are deplorable." Only Gene could sell a line like that. RIP.

Stu was also credited with helping to lay out Bret and Owen's WM10 match.

Looks like the Nick release was asked for or at least mutual, as he has a child now living in Australia and wanted to stay closer to home. I'm sure when or if NXT Australia launches he'll be a focal point.

Doesn't appear to be anything there that wasn't in the AJPW Archive, no.

No, not going for a joke--whether I amuse you on a given day is so far down on the list of things I give a fuck about doing that it can't even be charted. No, that the WWF considers itself "sports programming" when it's convenient for them, despite blasting the term "Entertainment" in our faces at all other hours of the day, is a fact. Probably if they're too shitty to get any actual work elsewhere, which explains a lot about how WWE creative has operated for the past 15 years.

Except when there's a potential writer's strike, then magically they work for "sports programming" instead of entertainment and are exempt from being able to form/join a union. So in that sense, even if it's the "independent contractor" sense, they are ex TV writers. I just can't believe Rollins is Tweeting this stuff just a day or two after ripping Raw's content on television. I'm not going all BUT MUH KAYFABE here, but come on, can we at least try for a little consistency when most of the roster is trying to use Twitter to push storylines?

Another howler this afternoon: someone wrote in asking Keith about the rumored story of Verne Gagne paying Iron Sheik to break Hogan's leg. Keith rightfully dismissed it, but then acted all incredulous that anyone could possibly believe that IRON SHEIK, of all people, was some shooter. Of course Sheiky's grandiose amateur claims are somewhat dubious, but it's a known fact that he both wrestled and coached in the Pan American Games and went through Verne Gagne's boot camp. He wasn't an Olympian, but in an all-time free-for-all of former WWF/E Champions, I'll take prime Sheik against anybody outside of the Angle/Lesnar upper tier.

AJ's probably kind of a piece of shit too, but he and Lars aren't even in the same bigotry ZIP code.