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9 minutes ago, Version1.0 said:

This weeks episode of Raw is the 3rd LOWEST RATED SHOW EVER on Cagematch.net

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&view=statistics&page=2

Only Heroes of Wrestling and a 2010 nXt with 0 matches are lower.

Oh behave!* Old Man Yells At Cloud as I may sound, they don’t realise how good they’ve got it. Was it a great show? No. Was it even an average show? Probably not, but Theory v Rey was decent as was Street Profits v KO & Zayn. 
Yeah, they got screwed with the promise of a tag match that even Stevie Wonder could see wasn’t going to happen, but we’ve presumably got Cody v Brock on the horizon now, that’s massive

*Not you, the reviewers

28 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Nick Khan probably doesn't even watch the shows. He's there to make the business (and therefore himself) as much money as possible via any means necessary. An advert for a tax returns company immediately before the Wrestlemania main event and Rey Mysterio shaking hands with a corporate mascot on the way to fighting his own child is his handiwork and all he cares about, he probably doesn't even know who Sami Zayn is. 

Nick Khan doesn’t deserve Wrestling 

Sick of being compared to Spitting Images’ Ronald Reagan puppet, so grew a matinée idol tache 

Dan Lambert for the big ‘Night After Wrestlemania’ debut 

Didn’t think they’d actually bottle it, but there you go. 
Actually that’s not strictly true. I did get a feeling watching Night 1 that there were a lot of faces going over, almost as if they were setting up for Roman to get the win. 
But then you had that promo video, Cody’s massive entrance, the crowd completely with him, hugging his family- the triumph was there for the taking. 
But no, onto Saudimania we go

Definite step down from Night 1, but it was always going to struggle as Night 1 was fucking great. Imagine if they were still trying to do all of this in one go, it would’ve ended up being a bang average Mania.

Triple Threat was awesome and I was surprised they kept the belt on Gunther. Surely he’s breaking the record in a few months time.

Other than that, Brock/Omos was OK for what it was, Belair/Asuka was alright. Popped like an idiot for ‘South of Heaven’, but the Hell In A Cell match was pretty poor. Even if Balor hadn’t had his head torn open, I still think it would’ve been pretty poor. It says something when the biggest heel in the match is the ad for The Pope’s Exorcist. 
Fucking Kendo Sticks (and colour coded ones at that) though, I’m fucking sick of them.

”Shane’s still got it!”, Cole says as Shane crumples into a heap unable to stand 😆

Cody’s got to work extra hard to get his moment tonight thanks to Angelo Dawkins putting Strowman on his arse. If he’d done that in Rugby League he’d have a 4 match ban right now, but it was an amazing hit none the less. Honourable mention to Gable hitting the big lump with the Chaos Theory too.

Could’ve done without seeing Otis’ moist crack though

Nobody has questioned your value or self worth. The only person banging about that is you!

ScottishSiren making it all about themselves again. How long has it been since that last happened? 2 days?

36 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

@Devon Malcolm could go and see if Evan Seinfeld still bears a grudge. 

What’s the story there then?

The reunited Biohazard have announced 3 extra dates while they’re over here in August for the week after Bloodstock:

15/8 - Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill
16/8 - Manchester Club Academy
17/8 - London O2 Academy (Islington)

Good thing the AEW guys have health insurance. Oh wait….

Stupid spot 

41 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

What does that mean?

Rather that being a reference to the bands themselves, who obviously all predate Instagram, I took it to mean that it’s an event for people that want to be seen at the show “getting content”, rather than wanting to see the show itself.

Although I could be way off in my assessment there as I’m not a super instagram influencer thing

53 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said:

The cheapest ticket, to be stood at the back, is $600. I think it's $1800 to be in the front standing bit.

Ah, aiming for that “More Money Than Sense” Cochella crowd eh?

7 months after announcing his retirement from touring, Sharon is already wheeling Ozzy back out for what is obviously a mega-payday.

Seriously, that must be costing an obscene amount to put on

1 hour ago, Fatty Facesitter said:

I won't have Dion Dublin's name tarnished with slanderous remarks like this. 

Screw “Escalera de la Muerte”, give me a “Stairs, Leading Up To The Bedroom” Match at the next PPV

1 hour ago, Dead Mike said:

Shakin Stevens is 75 and just released this banger

 

 

I love how it’s basically Sting’s AEW tron video 

AEW don’t even factor into it unless they specifically mention it in a promo. Granted, there are those that know what Cody’s been upto the last few years, but that are plenty that either don’t know or just plain don’t care.

I’m happy to admit that I’ve come around on Cody completely since he went back to WWE. Did he need that time away, absolutely. Did everything work during his AEW tenure? Absolutely not. But he’s come out better for it and the crowd are completely behind him, and WWE have done a great job of building this match and making it feel like a big deal.

The fact that only a month ago people were trying to say that Sami should’ve been winning the belt or trying to figure out ways to shoehorn him into the main event as well is crazy looking back at it. That’s not a knock on Sami or the work he’s put in, he’s been great,  but the Cody story over the last year is without doubt the right choice to go with for the big match on the biggest show

10 minutes ago, Tsurutagun said:

It is pro wrestling. What do you expect. People to be treated humanely? 

If that’s one of the things they were touting at launch as making them different from big, bad WWE, then yes.

14 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

No, although AEW was going to give the workers health insurance weren't they? Or was that just the EVP's?

I seem to recall shortly after Mox debuted for AEW he said in an interview that he “had health insurance through his wife”. Renee at the time was still working at WWE, so I think staff get it but not the wrestlers, which is pretty arse backwards when you think about it.

There was also something when AEW launched about everyone getting “equal pay” that seemed to get misconstrued as Luther was making the same as Kenny Omega, but I can’t remember which interview/outlet that came from.

I’m calling bullshit that Punk hasn’t seen Rocky III. He’s the type of fan who growing up will have watched any old shite purely on the basis that there was a wrestler in it, and Rocky III has half of the main event of Wrestlemania I in it. There’s no way he hasn’t watched that

Following the cancellations of DevilDriver (Dez is still suffering from the effects of long covid and has been advised by doctors not to take any long haul flights, though he’s still doing the Mudvayne US tour that Coal Chamber are on) and Nonpoint, Bloodstock have announced Abbath as a replacement while Bossk have been moved up in the order on the Sophie stage

36 minutes ago, JimmyAnderson said:

He's had his big return and his run as champion

And what a run(s) it was

OSW Review are back in TNA to cover the Main Event Mafia period of the company. First episode is looking back at Bound For Glory IV, which was the last PPV before the group was formed

Blaze Bayley suffered a heart attack last night and is in hospital in what is described as a stable condition.

Hopefully he is able to pull through, he’s been a consistently great performer and writer for decades now and has definitely overcome not being Bruce Dickinson 

1 hour ago, chokeout said:

He's already filmed a few episodes of the next Loki TV series and is contracted for at least another 3 films over the next five years. They are actively building literally every film around him for the next phase of Marvel so if its true then shit is going to hit the fan. 

It'll be telling how many people come out in support of him over the next few days 

If Ridley Scott can reshoot Christopher Plummer into a film in 8 days, Disney can recast someone against a green screen