Callum1993

Brendan Vink and Shane Thorne. Appeared on TV just after CovidMania in 2020. Paired with MVP. Lasted maybe a month then taken off TV. Vink went onto be Shane Hudson in NXT as part of Chase U to limited success. Thorne ended up part of another short lived group renamed the even shitter name of Slapjack in Retribution another Covid Raw creation. Other members of the group included T-Bar(Dominik Dijakovic), Mace( Mason Madden), Retaliation(Mercedes Martinez), Reckoning(Mia Yim) with Mustafa Ali as leader. Debuted as the new big group on Raw but most of them ended up released not long after with very little success.

Could be the quickest debut then release in history.

Obviously an awful situation with the Tiger this tweet however did make me laugh.

The show peaked with Reigns and Knight for me. Probably LA Knight’s best showing and wouldn’t have been against them shaking it up and putting the belt on him for a while. Bronson/Oba was fine and the right guy went over albeit they are making Oba potentially too strong kicking out of two Brass Knuckle shots and a Tsunami. Not going to look great when he loses to a spear at Wrestlemania. Women’s Triple Threat was decent although another Liv title reign doesn’t fill me with excitement. I think the two ladder matches could arguably be the worst they’ve done. The women’s match I think struggled by not having at least one experienced person in there. When Roxanne Perez is the most experienced general and she’s 24 that has to be a concern. From Tiffany nearly knocking herself out to the spot where Lola and Jacy slid down the ladder it could have gotten really ugly. Tiffany as the winner was probably the least interesting option they could have gone for. The Men’s ladder match however was even worse. The first 15 minutes just felt like rinse and repeat, someone would climb up be pulled down and thrown out of the ring. The ambulance spot took forever to get set up and wasn’t worth the time it took. Bron looked good in defeat but can’t say it elevated Trick or J’evon. Penta winning was the right call I just worry they won’t want to put him in either title picture and will end up having him cash in on the Triple A title.

Really can’t see Punk or Owens winning the briefcase. Feels like they don’t really need it. Penta seems the most likely but wouldn’t be surprised if Breakker finally got that main event push. If Reigns/Knight had been the main event I could have seen Knight winning but no chance with it opening the show.

What a fantastic tribute show. Should never have had to happen but perfectly done from top to bottom.

No post on their official X about it but of course news of yet another sponsorship deal instead. Awful awful company.

Fantastic post @HarmonicGenerator summed it up better than I ever could. A brilliant wrestler and by all accounts an even better human being.

Jerry Lawler was in a TLC match against The Miz when he was 61 so think he’s the oldest in WWE to have done it.

I think on Prichard’s podcast(to be taken with a grain of salt) I think the reasoning was that Warrior was afraid of getting cut by the glass so wore the hat.

For those not on X. Video of the year. v24044gl0000daq2v0vog65j39056f2g.mp4

Happy Anniversary everyone! Been on here since 2012 albeit a lurker for a while. It’s a fantastic place filled with great people. Long may it continue.