https://i.imgur.com/Q4PaWs9.jpg

Saw this at the store earlier and just had to jump on it.

The Rock and Mick Foley still making that WWE coin.

Probably leftover stock 20 years out-of-date that someone found buried at the back of the warehouse. :lol:

Dunno, it has the modern wwe logo on there.

Lol its a tshirt

You are forgetting the star that is...

Jamie Noble Boy! So Roman AND Noble!

And you forgot about him injuring Balor btw

Angel Garza sticking a Rose up an Ass :rofl:

Doink with the bucket of water
Godwins with the Slop Buckets
Whatever dance Big E does over his fallen opponent
Stone Cold pouring beer on people

Also, didnt Adam Rose put a sucker in people's mouths?

Apparently Masked Superstar/Demolition Ax/Bill Eadie isn't doing too well. He's having heart issues from the Covid vaccine.

Isnt that what sidelined him back in the day, from eating contaminated fish?

Yeah he had an allergic reaction to shellfish

https://i.imgur.com/GBG9sTk.jpg

Kross and Krossed-eye

I could listen to Brian Last imitate Hannibal all day. My God that was amazing on the Drive Thru

Cornette pissed me off recently. Because, due to him, I now know about "Sissy Boy Slap Fight." And... yeah.

It was 4 minutes long. I couldn't get through it in one sitting. It is much like it's star's other work: It goes on longer than it needs to and the joke wears thin fast.

I haven’t listened to Hannibal speak much because I find him to be a boring interviewer so I don’t know how accurate the impression was. I was still laughing my ass off though.

Lol it's dead fucking on

https://i.imgur.com/GBG9sTk.jpg

Kross: (thinking) It sure is nice having to sit next to Shawn Michaels!

Michaels: (thinking) Sunny Days are here again!

Hannibal is a wild human. Partied with him a couple times. Wild. That’s all I will say.

Yeah I've heard from a couple friends who love around the Ottawa area that he's something else lol

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Judging from that Salina de la Renta story, he’s not all there.

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Wish WWE would utilize Jeremy Borash better. He's the only interviewer who knows how to really interact with the person he's talking to.

Interviewers are back to interviewing again?

No. Just Jeremy Borash. Who no longer even does interviews.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“We need a great finisher. I think I’ll throw the dude over my shoulder for some big slam. What do you want to do?”<br><br>“I’ll punch ‘em.” <a href="https://t.co/A1FPjTiiU2">pic.twitter.com/A1FPjTiiU2</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1404226843067224065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck's finisher in WCW was a Double Punch lol

I actually don't mind Buck. I've always been a Jimmy Golden fan. Dick Slater though has never done I for me, especially 900 year old Dick Slater there.

Poor Mike Enos here. So underrated. Saddled with a overthehill scrub like Slater.

There was a Bunkhouse Brawl with Dustin Rhodes and Buck at Spring Stampede 1994 that I love. That's one of my favorite ppvs ever. I remember when I got the tape as a kid Must've watched it 20 or so times at least. Pretty much the perfect PPV.

Golden had an incredible dropkick. Actually used it as his finisher.

Dirty Dick is gonna be Dirty Dick. And if he wants to punch a dude who is up on his partner's shoulders, I am gonna let him. I like my head to stay out of toilets, thank you very much.

Lol he literally couldn't do anything else by this point in 96

You're not wrong, either. He's just the right combination of Tough and Mean-Tempered that he gets a pass.

About a quarter of the way through the 1999 WCW Saturday Night Playlist. 423 matches to watch. Got vacation starting tomorrow so I know what I'll be doing in the morning with my coffee.

Former TNA announcer Don West has brain cancer

https://www.ringsidenews.com/2021/06...-brain-cancer/

That’s not good. At least it’s possibly treatable at this stage. I hope he makes a full recovery.

<3

Samoa Joe re-signed with the WWE, because there’s more dignity in taking a forced pay cut with them than signing with AEW.

It’s a bit sad that wrestlers aren’t betting on themselves. This would have been the perfect time for CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan to forge their own promotion, or go to an entity with billions of dollars and say “We can do better than either of the big promotions.”

Come on, Rock. You bought a twice defunct football league. You could get this shit on fucking NBC with your star power. If AEW can get $45 million with a drunk, bloated, washed up Chris Jericho and bad comedy, I’m pretty sure you could get half of what Vince gets for Raw. $100 million per year from a TV deal would make back the initial investment. After that, keep it in the green and use its revenue to fund your other projects as you branch into almost literally anything. Start your own theme park or something. Fucking who cares? Just come back and save wrestling please.

Memphis Wrestling had some weird fucking gimmicks

Ta-Gar Lord of the Volcano

Get RedBird Capital involved, Rock. Plunk down that money.

And hire Noid as head booker please

I don’t have the energy for that anymore. I’d actually make Bryan Danielson the booker — as long as he doesn’t book himself into oblivion because he’s too selfless.

Damn. Admittedly, I never liked him as a commentator, but I wouldn't wish that on anybody. Hope he pulls through.

Lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Aw man, that fucking sucks. Hope he pulls through.

Jonathan Barber, former CHIKARA ref, co-creator of Botchamania, copyright protection guy for a bunch of indies, and perhaps most notoriously the guy who edited Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry prior to the official announcement of his death, has passed away.

Interesting -- SD might have the most viewers a week but Raw has the most live viewers under 50. I expect AEW's number here to go up when they are back on Wednesday Nights.


Viewers 18-49:

RAW - 637k
SD - 623k
AEW - 244k
NXT - 240k


Credit for this info goes to Wrestlenomics/BrandonThurston

R.I.P AEW

“Must see TV” all round.

This is what I’ve been trying to say to AEW fanboys since the start. Just because they’re in an echo chamber where they talk to other people who validate what they say, it doesn’t make the narrative that AEW is “cool” true. It isn’t the hottest product, either in terms of overall viewership (which factors in children in the schoolyard), nor that allegedly “covered” 18-49 demo. There is no metric that AEW is besting WWE in. Not one. People are talking more, getting more excited for MONDAY NIGHT FUCKING RAW than they are Dynamite.

This whole 18-49 demo being coveted this is a largely mythologized metric by folks like Dave Meltzer to have something to talk about week-to-week so their business can stay alive. Dave doesn’t report the false numbers there (too much accountability), but he does focus on a simplistic overview that he preaches as some sort of golden ticket.

A chimpanzee could read a Showbuzz chart and buy advertising blocks according to that data. More complicated breakdowns, which Dave either ignores, doesn’t receive or doesn’t care to pay any mind to, reveal a lot more varied and less archaic details that can help advertisers make more informed opinions about different shows’ audiences:

-Their age is one factor.
-Their gender is another.
-Their sexuality is another.
-Their ethnic and cultural background is another.
-Their other viewing habits is another.
-Their disposable income is another.
-Their willingness to spend their income is another.
-WHAT they spend their income on is another.
-How consistent an audience is for that show is another.
-Is this the totality of the audience or is there a variation week-to-week?

This is common sense. All these factors run together to help determine how “valuable” audiences are. It’s why AEW is getting the boot for hockey, despite the NHL having a much smaller week-to-week audience. There are a number of factors:

-Wrestling fans might generally find themselves to be 45, living without disposable income, being interested in only video games and may not find themselves having much social influence. 80% of the audience might be week-to-week viewers.

-Hockey fans might be in their 30’s, have more disposable income, be interested in clothing and “lifestyle” products, and be more influential in their ability to propagate trends. 80% of that audience might be unique viewers catching specific games, as opposed to the total audience.

When wrestling fans, wrestling journalists and FUCKING WRESTLING COMPANIES THEMSELVES! Take these abstract demos and treat them like the holy grail, they ignore so much of the greater picture. Do advertisers even want to target 600k thousand people via cable television in the age of internet?

But for some reason wrestling — possibly because of faux competitive, macho nature — sees a show getting a higher number in one context and treats it like it’s dropping the elbow on the other companies. Woooo!

It's all part of a bigger picture... that you're too stupid to understand - Wade Barrett

Roman vs Rey has been moved to SD instead of the HIAC PPV

Current HIAC card:

Drew vs Lashley (HIAC)
Alexa vs Shayna
Rhea vs Charlotte
Bianca vs Bayley


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS:<br>Per <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWE</a>, it will be <a href="https://twitter.com/reymysterio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@reymysterio</a> vs. <a href="https://twitter.com/WWERomanReigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWERomanReigns</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/HeymanHustle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeymanHustle</a> for the Universal Title inside Hell in A Cell on tomorrow’s SmackDown on FOX! <a href="https://t.co/t9fIjR3jrm">pic.twitter.com/t9fIjR3jrm</a></p>&mdash; WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEonFOX/status/1405701907599998981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That’s huge news for AEW. WWE clearly worried about losing viewers to the young upstart company.

Hope this leads to more exciting wrestling action!

Probably Noid's best yet.

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SmackDown hot-shotting and probably going to drown AEW.

Lol, isn’t this going to be the same week AEW does Kenny Omega vs. Jungle Boy? So there’s going to be a lot of “top this” for the wannabe heel champion with the wannabe top manager and a way, way, greener underneath babyface.

Sounds like Bray Wyatt might be in Drew's orbit soon

https://i.imgur.com/0rGpHyK.jpg


Happy Juneteenth yall!

Let's celebrate Juneteenth with the greatest African American wrestler in history


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Well that was anti-climactic. Is it fair to say that nothing interesting is going to happen on WWE TV until the weekend of July 16?</p>&mdash; Raj Giri (@RajGiri_303) <a href="https://twitter.com/RajGiri_303/status/1406807856205111298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yes Raj

Guessing Drew wins MITB to invalidate the no more title shots clause thing

Watching some of the old Nitro-era WCW stuff I’d forgotten about. It’s crazy how fresh eyes change things. I’ve always been a fan of William Regal, but his ring work as Lord Steven was just so many notches above his WWF/E work for quite a long time there. Regal would eventually get his feet warm, but for a while it didn’t feel like he meshed well in the E.

For some reason just fell in a YouTube hole watching clips of Rusev/Lana Russian gimmick... was so golden. (And the Russian national anthem is a sweet anthem)

They really missed out on giving Swagger the push over him... would have been better than his first loss going to John Cena.

Reddit points out WWE Credit Card is not a good deal

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...e_credit_card/

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bull Nakano was out here, biting people’s kneecaps. <a href="https://t.co/Y7eZcK2SXJ">pic.twitter.com/Y7eZcK2SXJ</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1407061957467856902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's outstanding

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wrestling peaked when Braun the Leprechaun bit Teddy Long and then Craig Pittman barked at him like a dog. <a href="https://t.co/QUVL5QBzLP">pic.twitter.com/QUVL5QBzLP</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1407152910094512129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You know what I noticed about that Nakano clip? No one struggles to apply a hold anymore, unless it's a finisher. I miss that.

There used to be an art to this.

lol Holy shit


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If I told you someone attempted to run down the ramp &amp; hit a 2nd rope step-up 630 senton - you probably wouldn't believe me, right?<br><br>So here's the clip of <a href="https://twitter.com/vikingo_aaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vikingo_aaa</a> doing it last night. <a href="https://t.co/K9UCXLKjP0">pic.twitter.com/K9UCXLKjP0</a></p>&mdash; Rob (@LuchaGifs) <a href="https://twitter.com/LuchaGifs/status/1406873258675380224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Has anyone ever watched this before. Vince losing his shit during the intros is fucking tremendous as are the skits.

:lol:

Give Kevin Dunn a few more years and the HIAC cage will be all CGI

Imagining wrestlers having to mime actually hitting the cgi cage walls, etc.

Such. Good. Shit.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ja" dir="ltr">突然ですが馬場さんです <a href="https://t.co/1Udv6ZZqeT">pic.twitter.com/1Udv6ZZqeT</a></p>&mdash; スコット北村ー��������（幼名やかもひ） (@powpowaoaoda) <a href="https://twitter.com/powpowaoaoda/status/1407316251299368969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is pretty much an average night in AAA Mexico. :lol:

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I'm surprised by this, I figured Samoa Joe would get them a bump

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE NXT last night on USA Network was watched by 665,000 viewers, the lowest yet in the Tuesday night slot. <br><br>224,000 viewers were aged 18-49 (about a 0.17 rating), down 9% vs last 4 wks. <br><br>61,000 were 18-34, up 20% from last week.<br><br>All data is kept here: <a href="https://t.co/a0cas6CU3n">https://t.co/a0cas6CU3n</a> <a href="https://t.co/sr9RGk0KkJ">pic.twitter.com/sr9RGk0KkJ</a></p>&mdash; Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1407839462369988619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

was there basket ball last night that was where everyone was at

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Theatricality and grandiose entrances can be equally as important as what is going on in the ring when it comes to a characters presentation. This bare bones entrance does not do Kross any favors. <a href="https://t.co/Rx0f0d3G57">pic.twitter.com/Rx0f0d3G57</a></p>&mdash; Dick Van Klondike (@DickVanKlondike) <a href="https://twitter.com/DickVanKlondike/status/1408125727434813442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">**WWE DRAFT WILL BE AUG 30th and SEPT 3RD**<br><br>I made a total bone head move and looked at the wrong month on my calendar! Sorry guys!</p>&mdash; Andrew Zarian (@AndrewZarian) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewZarian/status/1408130582882574337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Is this on Main Event? Why wouldn’t they give him his normal OTT entrance?

yeah, he and bronson reed both wrestled on main event

Post a video of his NXT entrance so I can prepare. Thus one makes him look sub-Baron Corbin level

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Getting caught up on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWENXT</a> now. Karrion Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux's entrance is probably the best NXT entrance since Nakamura. Will be awesome once they're able to do it in front of a crowd. <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestlingInc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WrestlingInc</a> <a href="https://t.co/z4U45Gpy7U">pic.twitter.com/z4U45Gpy7U</a></p>&mdash; Raj Giri (@RajGiri_303) <a href="https://twitter.com/RajGiri_303/status/1258416201618739206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not sure what I think of the lip sync thing but the rest def makes him look like a "big deal".... they could have at least given him that music....

I give him six weeks on the main roster before he becomes irrelavent.

Jesus that is dire

Lol Sasha Banks has outed herself as an antivaxxer

Ew.

Apparently that is not necessarily true.... she just shared something from an anti-vax Instagram account about thinking for yourself..... but she doesn't follow the account and could just be ignorant to its meaning and just thought it was something about being unique or whatever.....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To put this into perspective - Ron Reis/Reese was a legit 7’2 - at least two inches taller than Paul Wight. <a href="https://t.co/chcJm6zGvf">pic.twitter.com/chcJm6zGvf</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1408114915827544065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So she’s either an antivaxxer, an oblivious retard, or both. Not good.

SD, like RAW, also dropped in ratings post HIAC instead of the usual PPV bump.

That is the key demo Jericho and Tony Khan sheepishly crow about. This is why wrestling will get bumped as soon as anything else comes along. It’s not good.

I cannot BOlieve it


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">…how did I miss this? <a href="https://t.co/iF4Bnmb5Ja">https://t.co/iF4Bnmb5Ja</a></p>&mdash; David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1408969919086186497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I remember he had a match this era with Chris Ben... some guy. It was actually entertaining, and hilariously, Ben...some guy more or less squashed him.

Damn.

So AEW is the cool product. Tied only with old wrestling stuff.

There you go.

Who looks for median over average?

Reis could have been something had they not saddled him with horrific gimmicks

holy shit, that's four years old. jericho admitted he's a TRUTHER on his own podcast and somehow we're only finding out since he joined AEW how much of a douche he is
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