Maybe, just maybe, a company so vindictive and petty they fired your ass on TV, is doing the same to Alberto Del Rio El Patron… and how much more hypocritical can you get with naming the episode Corporate Wrestling Doesn’t Work… when he’s spent millions of other people’s dollars trying to make Corporate Wrestling work for him. Also… it’s no secret that the biggest wrestling promotions are corporations, but I digress.
I wonder what they found in discovery or if Vince pulled the old CM Punk on him and wouldn’t cover his legal fees so he decided to go back to the original plan, claim to be a victim and turn evidence. Too bad the feds dropped the criminal case with Johnny now being cooperative again. He was going to claim to be a victim, then he sided with Vince that it didn’t happen, now he’s back to paying her off and becoming a witness, even if he gets away with being a party to it, I just want them to take down Vince, assuming it’s all true, and at this point with Johnny turning, it’s looking more true with each filing.
Also, I find it really weird that the news companies and stories never call out the weirdness that is Vince and Linda and their clearly only married on paper shit. I find their relationship weirder than Trump and Melania.
The counter programming has gotten worse since you posted this, it’s now NXT Bash at the Beach, Saturday Night’s Main Event, and Evolution happening across two days.
WWE always wanted to block anything Vince called “not-competition” like TNA and AEW, they were just more subtle and had some constraints. TKO is a whole other monster, it’s owned by Private Equity and money is all they care about. Hurting or removing a competitor in AEW gives them more money in their goal of getting a real monopoly.
EDIT: Their VIP package plan they offered me shows they view the women about half as much as a “regular” card. Gold VIP plan for SNME is $750. Gold VIP plan for Evolution is $400. NXT is at Centre Stage and I have no ticket info on them at this time, but yeah, they are undervaluing their women which shouldn’t come as a shock to any woman, it might to a man that doesn’t pay attention.
Edit: I had my WCW brain on, I think it’s Great American Bash, not Bash at the Beach. There is no beach in Atlanta.
Ron Cena, what a man, what a man, what a mighty fun man.
Hangman’s the right choice, Hangman should be in the Mox position as his rise to the top is still one of my favorite story-lines in AEW outside of Toni oh and the fact that his burning of “Swerve’s House” is my favorite holiday yule log.
Erik and Ivar already play Stormcloaks, so why not.
I knew TNA+ was a scam, seriously this is stupid in the long run, unless there were problems with the show this just boggles my mind. TNA gonna TNA I guess
“It doesn’t matter” where WWE picks to host Mania, because TKO Group will change it for money, New Orleans is getting a UFC event out of this and MITB, but TKO probably makes more with the UFC events, you think WWE tickets are crazy high, UFC’s are astronomical. I point this out because most of these crazy prices and event announcements come from TKO, not WWE, because WWE no longer has autonomy, Nick and HHH are there to take the blame for it.
Today I learned, WWE NXT gets preempted for WNBA games in Georgia, at least North Georgia with Peachtree TV.
El Grande Americano the King of the Luchadors… search your feelings, you know WWE can’t resist the dark side.
It came out of Florida, chances are they did real well in places across the Southern US when porn and strip clubs weren’t allowed in a lot of places.
They had decent but not great wings, better than Buffalo Wild Wings, IMO, but not good enough to ever go get some, just wasn’t my scene.
I read that when I got up this morning. It seems it just went sideways everywhere.
Oof. Hopefully this is a learning event and fix it so it can’t happen again.
Why not? It’s an outdated business model pairing up with an outdated piece of human excrement; doesn’t that sound great.
Hulk Hogan’s Real American Hooter’s IPA, the beer your frat needs!
Hoots Wings is the better name these days, they should take him for millions though to license the old Hooters name.
Well, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a fuck up like tonight, a whole half hour just disappeared, unless you have HBO Max or had the west coast feed, hopefully their TV apps will have the whole thing in a few days.
I hope going into all these residencies where things will be taped a lot that TK gets with WB and makes sure this never happens again.
Saw this on the interwebs, I had a chuckle…
Sabu’s one of those I don’t think ever really got their roses, outside of like the tape trading IWC people. He was something to behold, today some of his spots are generic, but at the time, man ECW and guys like Sabu really influenced the shit we see today, he’ll be missed, 60 is too damn young.
Sabu and Taz was a hell of a spectacle and I never hated RVD & Sabu so much as when Barely Legal ended. Hugs to a beatdown, ECW at its finest.
WWE Released: Road to Taz & Sabu at Barely Legal
Final note, I thought that last match last month was a train wreck, but now, I’m glad I saw it.
This is just good business, like how sometimes booths get set up at protests/sporting events that sell cheap knockoffs of certain teams shirts or flags to toss in the bonfire as you tailgate and talk shit about the people you hate.
I’d argue it’s likely TNA is using a print to order system like AEW does/did at the start so if nobody buys them they aren’t out a lot of money.
I feel like Mexico’s wrestling reporters are as dysfunctional as American ones… one says new contracts, Luchablog says assumed contracts, it’s very Observer/SRS/PWInsider-esque.
No matter what, I feel ADR isn’t long for NXT:AAA, unless WWE:TKO is going to be hands off and let them run as normal, which we all know isn’t likely.
But… but… she said she was just on vacation… damn carny ass wrestlers.