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Likely, yes, but that was 411 -> Wrestlezone -> PWInsider, which is a lot of degrees of separation from the original report. Not believing it until Bleacher Report confirms it! Wrestling Observer reported the giant swing thing a long time ago. This was in the Newsletter two weeks ago:

I want Steen and Zayn to be the new Quebecers. Heck Jacques and Pierre both trained/mentored them.

Ambrose isn't hitting guys anywhere close to as hard as Nigel did. What Bix said to the nth degree. Nigel felt he had nothing going for himself and feared for his ROH roster spot so he decided to appeal to the ROH mutants by laying in the things hard and essentially intentionally throwing out his shoulder. Dean on the other hand has a lot going for himself in an interesting/quirky way.

Anyone listen to the AJ Styles Jim Ross podcast? He was extra, extra preachy/annoying/condensing during his opening preamble about the deficits of modern Wrestling and then extra, extra belligerent during the interview. On another forum someone dubbed it " JR gives AJ Styles a bunch of advice hour." He legitimately came off as drunk or other. He recently talked about his ambien but this sounded more like a drunk at the bar preaching about life to a young'un. In terms of AJ Styles the headline here was that he is treated so well he would be afraid of disrespecting New Japan by even entertaining a TNA currently.

Big Show seems to have dropped a significant amount of weight:

Hit the Go 2 Sleep.

At the NXT tapings last week they did a tag tournament to decide the next challengers.

Adding to the Paige Pile On she adjusts her hair incessantly between spots.

This picture just popped up on my timeline!

Thing about Paige and her vaunted by some UK Indy experience is that it wasn't any preparation for US Wrestling. She worked in a small ring, she never got any appreciable amount of offence in matches as her role was a tiny girl who got beat up - the only time that formula changed is when she would wrestle her mother and whatever reason she never seemed been taught how to sell (sell sympathetically and then eventually fire up) instead she just held her face with one hand and looked to be on the verge of crying. Something that has carried on in WWE where she "dies on the vine"/flops like a fish when selling.

Paige has lost a bit of weight since Wrestlemania too. There's a lot of pressure on them due to digital cameras, Twitter and Instagram. Also people get addicted to exercising in a body dysmorphic way.

I assume The Ascension debuts tonight and attacks the Usos. Jericho will have a series of blah matches with Wyatt that won't get him over.

Fandango vs Adam Rose is now the kick off match. Cameron vs. Naomi got bump up to the main card.

Yeah locker room banter being played out on screen.

Watching the fans during LuFisto-Athena was fantastic fun. Sparse enough attendance so you can see each and everyone lose their shit at various times.

Jerry's promo here:

One of my favourite Dave audio's ever: Peach State Pandemonium: Black Saturday Special with Dave Meltzer and Mike Mooneyham :http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PSP/2009/07/15/Peach-State-Pandemonium.mp3

I can understand where you are coming from but Moxley did have his playful side. Absolute Intense Wrestling put this old promo up two days ago: For Sami Callihan's sake I hope this promo was one take.

I was really surprised people thought Seth's injury was a shoot - I know we are coming off the heels of Wade Barrett's injury, it was late in a slog of an 3 hour episode and the cameras constantly switch but Seth clearly landed the opposite leg - the one closest to the ringsteps to the one he grabs:

Most winners have had to carry it around. CM Punk said he used it for his hand luggage.

Relative to this forum it gave John Lister his first real platform to write about Wrestling. Greg Lambert put up the cover of the first magazine:

Inside the brand new issue of the magazine. Finlay Martin says that this is the final edition of the magazine: Have had a love/hate or combative relationship with the magazine the last ten years. But it was a real outlet for UK/Irish fanaticism and for those who went further - wrestlers extending to WWE/TNA stars to managers, promoters, writers, podcasters, other publishers etc. At launch it's approach and design was really revolution. Helped spread the word about ECW, Puro and Lucha in particular. Also gave me something to read in class during secondary school. The loss of any long standing publication and a small business sucks.

Has Place To Be Nation cut a deal?

Ric Flair busting open Bray Wyatt : http://cms.springboardplatform.com/embed_iframe/75/video/959477/wr011/wrestlezone.com/10

Cox COMPLETELY skipped over the main story from this week's podcast. In the opening minutes he totally disavows the label himself from the label of the being the leading Wrestling historian. Instead he said he is just a guy who writes about Wrestling.