All posts related to pro rasslin’ that isn’t covering specific shows or events.
In light of recent developments on WWE television that would see veteran superstar CM Punk finally achieve his goal of main-eventing Wrestlemania, I had come up with the perfect banner for this year’s Ramblemania post due in a couple weeks.
Congrats, Phil. You deserve it… I guess.
For anyone who gives a shit, the DLC packs for the upcoming WWE 2K25 video game was revealed and anyone hoping that a certain TNA World Champion who appears whenever his name is said… well, his name was never mentioned. And therefore, he doesn’t appear. However, one of the DLC packs does include Abyss as a playable character, so it’s not all bad.
Otherwise… eh, I don’t care. Including that fellow who shall not be named in one of your stupid DLC packs would have been enough incentive for me to actually fork over money for this thing… alas, I can rest easy and stick with what I’ve got, which is more than enough.
So apparently, something big happened in Toronto last night. Something the world never saw coming but were clamoring for this to happen since the dawn of time. I didn’t witness the event, I only heard about it just a few short minutes ago after I woke up, I thought about it for a bit, and said, “Took them long enough.”
And then I went back to bed.
In case anyone missed the State Of The Blog yesterday, I was going to avoid posting anything about wrestling this month outside of the scheduled PPV Musings, which means I’m not going deeper into this until April. I think, by that point, we’ll have a clearer picture on where things are going, but for now, just enjoy the ride.
Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/report-miro-released-from-aew/
Where the fuck is Miro? Who knows… but now we know where he isn’t.
How long before he crawls back to WWE, hoping for a fresh new run, and then realize he’s a small fish in a gigantic ocean?
Or maybe he takes a chance and goes to TNA.
Or maybe he goes back to his video games.
The world may know eventually… but hey, we can put this stupid meme to rest, I guess.
Source: https://www.sescoops.com/news/aew/aew-grand-slam-australia-scam-fan-backlash/
Someone at SEScoops.com – apparently feeling that today is a slow news day in the world of professional wrestling – decided to venture into the Reddit world and scour some opinions about whether or not AEW’s Grand Slam event in Australia is a SCAM.
A scam, you say? That’s serious business… or something…
Continue reading “The Guzzling Goose Turd That Is AEW Grand Slam Australia”
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Might as well get it out of the way now.
There’s a bunch of jokes to be made about the guy spearheading the Hall Of Fame putting himself in the Hall Of Fame, sleeping his way to the top, and all that, but honestly, when you look at his resume and everything he’s done – both positive and negative – is there any reason why he shouldn’t be in there? Sure, the pseudo-induction as part of DX was nice, but the man is more than leading an influential faction. Hell, what he’s doing now behind the scenes is actually more vital to the development of WWE than his in-ring career ever was… and that’s saying something when you’ve had an impressive in-ring career.
Whatever the case may be… we’re in the mood to celebrate the greatness that is Paul Levesque. Might as well give him an HOF nod and get that out of the way. The man has more than earned his flowers.
Royal Ramble post will be up this Wednesday.
Congrats to Joe Hendry for winning the title he should have won months ago.
Yes, we’ll do a Genesis musings eventually… but not this week.
This week… I’ve got other stuff to get out of the way first.
Source: https://itrwrestling.com/news/the-rock-helps-wwe-nxt-break-five-year-long-record/
First off, let me stress that 957,000 viewers for NXT is a great number. It’s probably their best number in years and a large part of that is due to Dwayne’s appearance. I haven’t seen the show, but it was a show according to people who did watch the show and Dwayne claimed to be 20 steps ahead of everyone else… which tells me they’re just making this shit up as they go along and hope no one notices.
That having been said, I really thought that maybe – just maybe – they might actually break that magical million number; something that they really haven’t done since AEW’s debut on television back in 2019. Alas, even with the help of THE ROCK, they couldn’t quite get the job done. So maybe – just maybe – AEW has a chance of winning this ratings war with a banger of a show.
Oh, who am I kidding? They’ll probably do the same 500-600k number they’ll always do and tout that as a huge success in wrestling or something.
Yeah, there’s going to be jokes a-plenty… but let’s be honest; there have been worse and far stupider names in wrestling than someone shortening their last name to one syllable. Besides, it’s not like we couldn’t have seen this coming… how quickly we forgot that this man was TNT Champion and held the COPE OPEN?
And look at him. He’s happy and gleeful. Why would anyone want to crap on this man’s happiness at this stage in his life? Especially after everything that he’s been through with injuries and the hurricane and all that stuff?
Besides, is it really any dumber of a name than EDGE? EDGE – let’s be honest – is a dumb name… but he made a career out of it, so it worked.
If the man wants to be COPE, let him be COPE.
He’s earned that privilege.
And think of all the jokes you could come up with.
That’s a win-win proposition in my book.
P.S. If he doesn’t have a move called the COPE-ing Mechanism, I will be severely disappointed.
Kevin Owens is right.
He tried to dethrone Roman and got screwed for his efforts. He helped others in their fight against Roman and they would end up helping Roman when he was in need. Hell, I was one of those who wanted to see Cody finish his story and he got to do that… but for him to forget all that and agree to teaming with Roman for a tag match… that’s where I draw the line.
Kevin was stabbed in the back for being a nice guy and he has every reason to feel this way. The man stepped aside from the main event circle so others can have his moment – he even started liking TEXAS – and look what happened. He got his match against Cody Rhodes, he gave the man a stunner, and probably would’ve been champion right now if not for the fact that the referee was taking a nap outside.
And then Cody won the match… or I should say, he “won” the match. The Codyverse, it seems, is in full swing. Then Kevin responds by hitting Cody with his signature PACKAGE PILEDRIVER. A move that he hasn’t used in ages. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Even more so, when Kevin picked up the Winged Eagle (yes, they finally brought back the Winged Eagle for a one-night stand) and raised it over his head while standing over the broken American Person, the Long Island crowd showed their approval (and thus their seemingly mythical intelligence) by cheering for this hero of the people who was in the right, who tried to be a nice guy, and got fucked in the ass continually for his efforts.
You know what, folks? I hereby advocate for the finishing of another story. I want to see Kevin Owens win the WWE title that has eluded him for years. I want Kevin Owens to overcome the egotistical American Person and finish his own story that’s been put on hold for years for the benefit of others. I want Kevin Owens to beat that fake blonde haired pretty boy for that title.
And I want to see it happen when RAW moves to Netflix.
Do that and you’ve got a Netflix subscriber for LIFE*.
Disclaimer: May or may not have a Netflix sub for life. Their content is still ass outside of Old Star Trek, Cobra Kai, and the entire run of Sailor Moon Crystal.
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