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First show : nostalgia act. All you need to know is there.

This podcast was dead the day Bruce got back on WWE's paycheck. Well, it had mostly jumped the shark before that point, but it was done then. Bischoff I have no idea, I just quit after a streak of awful shows where the rants had come back in strides. The JR one started off well, but I feel like there are already kinda cruising. Conrad has been wearing himself too thin with doing too much podcasts, talking about the same subjects multiple times. (and I forgot the Schiavone one was still going on, and I actually started by this one which was really cool before it turned into a complete unfunny joke) From now on I think I'm gonna give any of those a chance only if I hear some really good feedback here.

They are saving their booking genius and star making power for the Fox debut. Get with the program a bit. Well, this thread was not nearly as fun as the Takeover one. You can feel the complete disinterest... BTW, Maria Kanellis wasn't on the show either ? I ask because from what I got from the weekly thread, she was the only thing really talked about week to week after the infamous Heyman reboot...

In other news :

Peyton Royce is fucking awful at her job. She's a godawful worker. 'member the idiotic meltdown last year about the "offensive" comments by Meltz ? Yeah, I know, not really because it was stupid and irrelevant. Still, that will end up the peak of this girl's mark on the business, because really, I have no idea how she even got that far on the main roster. She can't work a lick. At least her partner, who also sucks, got some kind of goofy "charisma" to her. Alexa Bliss should be working against Becky, she's still an efficient little heel. Ok, that will be all for me. Enjoy the show (just kidding). Hopefully that thread will get some laughs out of me tomorrow.

I'm gonna try to catch the pre-show on Youtube if I'm not off to bed already. Just because I want to watch the hilarity that is gonna be the IIconics vs Cross & Bliss.

I'm gonna borrow that term sometime if you gently allow me so, because it's hilarious.

I'm baffled that they don't have Roman Reigns & Daniel Bryan on the second biggest show of the year. This company makes no sense whatsoever.

This. Favourite Meltz match of the G1 thus far is Tanahashi vs EVIL, which is about as understated as you can be as far as big moves go and is all about psychology and storytelling from Tana. The obsession about Meltz star ratings is annoying anyway, but "lol movez" coupled with "Meltz gives this a billion star" is even more annoying. And boring, quite frankly. But yeah, that match sounds unbearable. Isn't the whole overdramatic stuff that has marred Gargano's last two programs, from what I understand, coming straight from Micheals vision ? I mean, "Sorry, I love you" may be the starting point of this style of ridiculous, very badly acted kind of epic.

That thread was classic PWO. Hope you guys do the same thing tonight.

Wait, we're Sunday night already ?

Also, I feel your pain with Mauro, people. He's one reason I won't watch these Takeovers anymore.

Who came out to it ? "We're not the Mounties" played in 2019 is high on the WTF range.

As someone who doesn't follow NXT at all pretty much (last show I watch was before Mania with Gargano/Cole and Walter/Dunn), when has the tide turned on Gargano ? I mean, last year (what it last year ?) when the first Gargano vs Ciampa match happened, the hype about this guy was crazy, he was the best worker in the world, the best babyface since Ricky Steamboat, his match with Ciampa was the best WWE match ever and whatnot. Now it seems his stuff (matches and angles) turn people (on this board I mean) away.

Rarely a match wore a more adequate name. The Triple H wankery epic in all its splendor. Austin didn't manage to not make this boring and overblown.

Gargano vs Cole has excess for the sake of it written all over it. The last match of theirs I saw the the epitome of WWE self-conscious epic. I used to love the Takeover shows, but now I can't find myself the motivation to watch them. Especially being one day late on the G1 already. Candice Lerae vs Io Shirai is he one match I would be interested in though, I like both of them. The few I've seen from Mia Yim (granted, it's been a while) I wasn't impressed with.

I went through all the weekly TNA PPV a few years ago. It was 75% hot trash, if I'm being generous. Thus far, I don't see anything that even remotely ressembles what TNA did wrong in AEW. The only thing AEW got from TNA thus far are the cool tunnel entrances.

Because that's the only thing they can criticize yet, unless they go straight into über-biased opinions about "modern wrestling sux movez croosfit lolz. #Cornettehead". I mean, there's nothing there apart from these little things that they can rip apart for now. So we get pages of bitching about the Librarians and the Dark Order over and over and over again because you can't really say nothing much more negative about what AEW is presenting thus far. 9/10 of early TNA was complete shit (I should know), so obviously, no, it's not the same thing at all.

If there was only one reason not to support WWE, that's the fact they want to destroy every pro-wrestling that isn't them (wait, they aren't pro-wrestling, they are sports-entertainment, but not sports for tax reasons, but yes they are sports to get in FOX). And make pro-wrestling fans basically miserable. Fuck this company so much.

Well, more love for her from me then.

If we're being honest, well yes.

Last year's War Chamber match was mostly considered a failure though (if I remember right, and I don't remember much about it apart from this feeling of it not working). And considering how bad this whole Contra vs Lawlor & Von Erichs has been thus far, I don't have any hopes of it being any better.

Word. He was fun as Tom Lawlor seconds acting like a tough guy. He has totally sucked in the latest Contra matches (and looking worse than Josef Samael takes some will to suck, really), not to mention his now flabby looking body. Poor work, dull look, boring promos. He has become a total waste of time.

You know what would be hilarious in a very self-aware über geeky reference ? Savio Vega. Because HE COULD BE the mystery partner !

Ok, enough innuendo, what has she done wrong ? I sure hope she ends up somewhere where she can showcase her talent.