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  1. Wouldn't want Socko in my mouth knowing where it's been.
  2. This seems insane given that the range of AEW shirts you could get on PWT was absolutely massive at one point. Is that part of the problem though, allowing all these guys to sort their own shit? It's consistently a massive missed opportunity, although from the pics I've seen, they appear to have one shirt for every member of the crowd last night. We went to an NXT show in Sheffield a few years ago and our kid was excited to get some shirts. The merch offering was dreadful. And it was still better than that.
  3. That one for "If only they'd come along... in 1926"?
  4. I like Mox a lot. Great worker and promo, obviously, but his is one of the few new wrestling books I've read and he seems like a good guy who worked hard it, is just trying to have the time of his life in what he's doing and is generally winning at it, so I liked him even more. They all go back though, except Randy Savage. There's no way he doesn't - eventually. He'd never have gone back to the creative environment before but I'm absolutely sure that in another year or two, it will be unrecognisable from that POV and they'll throw money at him. Punk went back. He was the one I really thought never would. After that, I'd never give less than a 75% chance of anyone going back, except Mel Phillips and George Zahorian.
  5. I thought about Sid with the Yoko comparison, but he was a pretty major star though. Not quite the same as if Flair had main evented 8 but closer to that level than the complete unknowns of Yoko or Lesnar.
  6. File that in things you'd completely forgotten happened. That whole period existed because someone obviously thought the issue with John Cena all those years was that he won all the time. So they made Roman an absolute loser, presumably imagining it would get him sympathy. Just another terrible read of the audience in a good decade-long period of them.
  7. My daughter's gotta take a bus across Lincolnshire for her Uni placement. I couldn't work out the route and the stops from the website but googling it brought up a video over an hour long of a couple of lads getting the bus. Genuinely the dullest thing I've ever watched in my life and I've watched TNA Wrestling.
  8. Yoko works the other way around too. Hadn't even been hired by Mania 8 and had very little national recognition before main eventing Mania 9. Very little precedent for that in the company's history.
  9. The booking of him and around him was atrocious for years. Their usual fetish with babyfaces who smile a lot, not striking while the iron was hot and then striking once it was stone cold, making him look like an absolute loser compared to that nerd Seth Rollins and a 67 year old Triple H, not turning him heel after he beat The Undertaker which would have been the hottest thing they'd done in years and then turning him heel in front of zero fans. He was a guy who beat cancer, came back and cut one of the most brilliant, heartfelt promos we'll ever see and they had fans booing him within months. As absolutely unforgivable as doing your most interesting possible heel-turn in the middle of the Thunderdome era was, they finally got the presentation of him spot-on from that point. Having him just win all the time as a heel, having him be the only World Champion (ahem), having him steamroll everyone isn't engaging week to week TV, but it's absolutely the way to make a star and re-establish your title and your hierarchy which they're benefitting from for the last 18 months or so, muddy-Rock waters aside. (Full disclosure, I've hardly seen any of the heel run but you know that already.)
  10. Fuck sake, gotta tell the kids we're boycotting Maccies.
  11. We've been arguing about this on here since the dawn of the forum. It's nothing new. I'd say, respectfully, you're wrong. Most successful doesn't mean best. Maccies burgers might be the best branded, best known or best promoted but there's no way on the planet they are the best. Wrestling is a creative industry. In any creative industry, music, films, TV, theatre, etc - what is popular isn't always what is good. WWE does appear from all I read and hear to have hugely improved. Fair play to them. However, when everything you read and heard was about how fucking shit they were, how dreadful Dunn was, how out of touch Vince was, who was the most successful wrestling promotion in the world? Who signed mega deals with Fox and USA? Who sold to Peacock for billions? Yep. The "shitty" WWE.
  12. The problem is that all those reactions are positive. I've never been big into wrestling Twitter, even when Twitter wasn't 80% bots and adverts, but if you click on trends, all you see generally is the enthusiasm and over-reaction of the moment. And any counter voices in the comments/replies are absolutely worthless because the counter 99% of the time is that someone is a WWE Drone or AEW Supermark. It's worthless from a critical POV. WWE are going to make a load of money. For all the people criticising Kevin Dunn and praising HHH this morning on the trend I clicked on, WWE made record revenues when Kevin Dunn was inducing epilepsy on a weekly basis. Not to drag down all the people who want to turn a blind eye, but WWE made billions after a scandal that should have brought the organisation to it's knees. It's revenues, clicks, likes, shares and subscribes are not evidence of good booking. No-one on Twitter, that I can find as a casual clicker of trends, is going to give the same well-thought out view on the poor booking as @d-d-d-dAz has in the last couple of weeks. As much as he's sometimes hyperbolic in the moment (Sorry Supes), no-one is giving things the thought that @Supremo does. I don't really care too much as I'm not gonna watch, but I'm interested in whether HHH is a good booker because I'm a nosey bastard lifelong wrestling fan, for my shame. Seems to me that they've muddied the waters with Cody/Roman/Rock, Roman isn't the focus he should be, Rock is a reluctant heel, Cody has lost a little bit of the clear momentum he had, Seth Rollins is a waste of space, Jey Uso hardly ever wins, Sami Zayn has gone from the most popular man on the roster to being second preference to Chad Gable and very little else of consequence is happening on 57 hours of Raw and Smackdown. My take would be that HHH is a huge improvement on Vince, that isn't difficult because Vince is useless and none of it matters really because they'll cash in regardless.
  13. I think they fucked it the day they switched to Rock/Roman and then backtracked quickly without rhyme or reason. Completely agree with you that it's be alright in the end but it's piss-poor booking, let's be honest. I'd much rather judge on the people on here than the people on Twitter who were telling me that shows in the Thunderdome were great, fwiw.
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