I mean, that's fine on paper, but this is a different time than like it was during the Monday Night Wars*.

The idea of counter-programming is a bit dumb when the world is moving beyond the concept of appointment TV. Anyone truly interested won't be picking one show over the other, they'll be watching both when they're good and goddamn ready to: possibly neither one "live".

I mean, great to get some NXT love on actual television, but hopefully they'll be using it as more of a broadened technical course for Full Sail communications people and not as an earnest attempt to dissuade folks from tuning in to AEW.


*Even then, there was a point where WCW started re-running Nitro later on - even though they would gradually push that rerun later and later - , so it was fiesable to watch both RAW and Nitro if you watched WWE first.

Well, we've gone beyond the "7 year threshold" from LayCool, so maybe.

More exposure for NXT Brand plus more availability of the lesser Indie stuff like Evolve might be something that actually works well. I just can't see FS1 putting NXT on in primetime on Wednesday consistently given their coverage of other sports.

LOL @ newbie bashing

Just sitting on my couch having some coffee reading the sheets thinking wow what an amazing season for wrestling. We have WWE creatively on the rocks, posting Heyman and Bischoff to key creative roles, we have a AEW going to TNT and putting on great shows with a lot of fan fare, we have ROH reeling from the effects of WWE and NXT. We have NXT which is probably the best product WWE has ever produced putting on multiple amazing shows a year. We have an underground feeder to everyone MLW that is finding some of the best unrecognized talent and making them famous (MJF, Mance, Hammerstone, Fatu, Lawler)... With a very solid nostalgic hour of TV each week and coming soon with a big PPV. Oh and then we have the west coast wing, PWG which I've never been a patron of but obviously is one of the most influential companies in wrestling history, selling out their shows every show year after year. And then we have the cockroach of rasslin Impact, seemingly on the cusp of a new era if they get the Saturday Night deal along side WOW and NJPW. NJPW which is often considered the best product in the world, now a thing in the US. A pretty big thing too.... Shit and we got the border creeping up with Lucha Libre more popular than ever in the US. We have two AAA shows this year one at MSG and one in LA. We have CMLL stars making waves in almost every company in the world along with a huge change there with Paco's passing....

If I was 14 now, I don't think I'd ever do anything in high school I'd just be watching wrestling constantly. We are in a Pro Wrestling hurricane.

Oh and how can I forget the rest of the world? NXT UK, Progress, WXW, and Australia becoming a real thing in rasslin. Also Evolve on WWE Network. Just an insane amount of wrestling content going out right now.

Mance Warner is booked to fight Jerry Lawler at a GCW even in August. I read the news and I was worried. Lawler is old and he's survived a heart attack... I mean he died. And no joke, Mance hits harder than any wrestler I've ever seen. I've seen him in several match a MLW tapings and this guy man... his punches, forarms... and my god his chops. You cringe because really lays it in. It's possible he's an amazing worker and the guys aren't getting hurt but I would seriously be worried if Mance was chopping Lawler or crashing him with his forearm strikes. I hope they work light.

They shouldn' have booked a man/woman match to begin with. They should just end it and set her up with a Knockout title story.

As best I can tell, virtually every Lawler match on the indies for the past few years has been the same. Very basic but effective stuff. Heel keeps exiting the ring and stalling for time, relatively harmless heat spots. Heel rolls up Lawler with feet on the ropes, ref notices and stops it. Heel knocks ref around. Lawler eventually rolls up heel with feet on the ropes. Ref notices, but shrugs and counts the 3 anyway as a fuck you to the heel. Everyone gets a laugh and pops.

You don't need anything more from a Lawler match. But I'd be interested in Warner's willing to work a simple match like that.

Lawler hasn't taken a bump in 10 years.

I saw him work Kevin Owens in a Piledriver match in what might've actually been KO's last indy date before his signing was official.

I marked the fuck out for Lawler's flying dropkick, fist drop, and the piledriver. Guy was having a blast.

How's it been nerds?

Good to see you bak Black Widow. I got worried when you didnt call me after our first date.

Kofi Kingston is still the WWE Champion :)

ehhh...

Still sucks hey...what is Vince thinking aboot ?....ehh Bruce could ...ehh book it better.

I can't believe he's doing the fist drop. His knees must be fucked

Pretty good. Yourself?

Big week end of wrestling
NJPW G1 tomorrow morning on NJPW World or at 9pm on AXStv
AEW on B/R free
Evolve on WWE Network
Extreme Rules on Sunday

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The secret to life is young pussy and not doing drugs....

Yikes

I don't think Lawler even drinks

Yeah. Pretty sure I’ve heard him say he’s never had a sip of alcohol in his life which seems insane for a pro wrestler who came up in the 70s/80s.

Imagine being a teetotal wrestler back in the day... the shit you'd see and remember.

She doesn't do any research before interviewing people?

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You can see the fear of retaliation on her face as soon as a CBA is brought up.

He does not

I hope the Evolve show ends up being a good night for JD Drake and Anthony Henry.

https://youtu.be/XVSyrJRtPls

Liv Morgan Stinkfaces Ember Moon

I just hope Eddie Kingston gets a live mic.

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Hate spots like that, wrestlers that would never use a powerbomb using it to get reversed, to the surprise of absolutely noone.

wonder where that little blond interviewer will end up, she did not get wrestling at all.

Yeah totally. Of all the monologues that guy did I'm surprised he didn't do one like that. "Hey, I never do powerbombs but right now I think I'll coincidentally try one and AH FUCK!!!!"