Yeah, it’s basically a development version of the NWA Championship, the NWA Committee had to approve anybody that would hold the belt or the territory did flip-flop shows where one night the local guy won then the Champ got it back the next night, with the knowledge the NWA wouldn’t recognize those as title reigns.
I mean sure I agree with that sentiment.
But, Booker T works elsewhere, Booker T is persona non grata to most of the AEW fans and even a large chunk of the IWC, and those outside it won’t give two shits, so what point does this serve, I just don’t understand it.
That’s good to know about the tags working in some of the apps now, I’ll have to check Sync to see if they work there too. If it’s working fine in Voyage I’ll just go to that for my phone, still prefer Sync on a bigger screen.
TL,DR: Hopefully they talked before this and did it together, otherwise it could to be a slobberknocker at Mania.
Living up to your legendary father has to be hard, but she is really not living in his shadow, she is becoming his shadow. She uses Ric’s moves, has a remix of his music, does his woo and taunts. For somebody that didn’t want to be in his shadow she has adopted his entire persona. I was starting to feel some empathy for her, that interview with Sherri (I think) was enlightening to how hard things seem to have been for her with this last year’s injury and divorce. Yet, she came back, same old same old, and sure not entirely her fault, at least I assume, but she’s beyond stale.
As to this segment, well who’s shocked, remember the whole belt drop incident that appears to be because she didn’t like the way it was to happen. If you believe that lie it was an accident go back and watch it again, she snatches it away and then drops it to the mat while almost on the verge of laughing.
So then this segment with Tiffany, the crowd broke her, by turning on her and backing everything Tiffany did she “lost her smile,” and went to middle school taunt mode, making fun of Tiffany’s voice, claiming she’s sexting Kaiser, it’s just childish and I don’t blame WWE for editing it out. I’m not letting Tiffany off the hook, Charlotte was just on TV explaining how hard that divorce was on her mental health, which is serious, and she pulls out those lines, oof, I can see how that could hit hard.
Overall though, this was clearly more entertaining than whatever they were scripted for and it’s led to an outpouring of talk about his match that was on the verge of being a “who cares” match earlier this month. I just really hope they discussed this backstage together before hand, otherwise this match may go hard because both sides have some receipts to give.
I’d just like to shoutout Kaiser’s response to Charlotte, posting the clip of HBK telling Diana Hart-Smith… “Do. Not. Flatter. Yourself.”
2025 is straight out of hell or we all died and went to purgatory together.
They didn’t buy Vizio because they like TV’s, they did it because they like data harvesting. They are an advertising tech bro giant, just more quiet about it.
Personally, I hope he comes back better than ever and somebody in the office, Tony, remembers what this guy was doing in NJPW and books him better. But, I felt the same way last time he was injured, so what do I know.
I was saving this for a post about my opinion of Booker T’s over the top perviness on NXT commentary, but it feels like it fits here just as much.
This guy would get future endeavored so fast his hot wife will leave him again if he tries that in TKO’s WWE.
The picture of the car was ugly, super glad he’s still with us it just sucks a man who really shouldn’t have concussions got one.
I’m a big fan of the World Title goes on last, unless it’s the Rumble, I get why they might not want to go that route, because Gunther and Jey Uso feels more like a mid to upper-midcard match. Not necessarily their fault when the story has been bland, that’s on creative.
Yet, This triple threat match would still have been my opener, a decent match but outside of Rollins it’s an older fella and a Part-timer, big stars all of them, but it’s not my must watch and pay good money for this match-up. You get some big stars out first, a match you know will be decent storytelling and have Paul Heyman ready to pop at any second because he still owes Punk a favor, it’s a good crowd pumper, IMO.
I’m also not big on John Cena and Cody, but I’m hoping but not betting on Cena to get that big win on Night 2.
I know a lot of you are super anti-Punk, and I get that, but WWE metrics show he’s still a big draw with the crowd that can afford tickets and merch which I assume is why he got put in this position.
Rollins hates Punk, very vocal about it, Punk then eliminates Rollins and Reigns at the Rumble, Rollins loses it and attacks both Reigns and Punk. Fast forward to the WWE MSG RAW and Rollins and Punk are having a cage match, Rollins just can’t put Punk down even after 2 or 3 curb stomps, Reigns comes out and curb stomps Rollins (All three SHIELD members did curb stomps during shows this week, it was kind of cool.) while Paul Heyman is checking on Punk, Reigns attacks Punk with a spear. Fast forward to some segments where they all just can’t stand each other and can’t coexist without chaos breaking out, They make a match, this leads to this segment where Punk gets added to the Reigns Rollins Mania match because Reigns and Heyman put him in by a clause in the contract.
Really makes Punk look like a chump, he finally gets his Mania main event, but it’s because God Emperor Reigns has allowed it to happen.
OK, the headline had me going, WTF, only Randy still wrestles… the image cleared it up quickly, but damn I was confused for two seconds there.
You need to run something like AntiSplit-M to make the split package into an APK that is usable.
I’m not affiliated with that program, it’s just the one that I was linked to when I had similar questions about split apks. So use it at your own risk obviously.
If TNA hadn’t of gotten that new TV deal in Canada I would swear the plan was 100% to wind it down like WWE did with Evolve, they have almost the same deal as Evolve did and eventually WWE just absorbed and closed it.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking this, I read that on PWInsider and went, WHAT THE FUCK?
There are no anticipated operational changes at TKO.
Anticipated is a very important word in that statement, it conveys that changes can happen while trying to say they won’t. This isn’t great, Private Equity usually ends badly for the product with cuts and changes, but perhaps being so far down the line will save WWE this time, I’m not sure how many more “synergy cuts” the company can make after the TKO/UFC “not-a-merger” that saw mostly WWE employees fired.
greater financial flexibility outside of public market pressures.
From what I’ve seen this is not how private equity works, they swoop in and buy shit and then cut corners and costs to recoup the investment money, if the company survives cool, if not, oh well they can write it off on their tax sheets. People making money from these types of deals would disagree with my take, but that’s my take on these types of investment groups.
a tighter focus on intellectual property
Gross, just what everybody needs, more overzealous IP businesses.
Shit, I hope they get that sorted out for him.
LAX was one of my favorite parts of TNA in the mid-late '00s once 3LK broke up and went to war with Konnan and he had them come in as backup. He may not have reached the top, but he was a top act in TNA’s real golden era.
This is a low quality video, but a classic from that early time that made me love LAX… it helps they were against AJ & Daniels.
I’m kind of sad it’s not Sting Steiner, but DDP is a great choice.