Snitsky's back acne

2 hours ago, Supremo said:

The man’s a scumbag and an absolute liability as a member of your company. AEW would be morons to go near him.

Tony Khan's ringing him as we speak. 

I liked Maximum Male Models and thought they were criminally underused.

That is all. 

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

I'm no Ziggler fan but I find the idea of him having a one off match with the best big time singles wrestler in the world intriguing. 

I thought you said you wanted him to wrestle Omega? 

58 minutes ago, Supremo said:

Tamina, tomorrow morning, explicably surviving the cuts.

She is the JTG of the modern era.... only not as talented. 

1 hour ago, TheBurningRed said:

Aliyah gone now. I can’t believe how long she lasted there. 

 

Aliyah has been with WWE 8 years. 8 years!!!

Dolph is surprising but not surprising. I thought he'd be a lifer in many regards but he's obviously not been around for ages.

22 minutes ago, Infinity Land said:

First bit of business done. Smackdown leaves FOX to return to the USA Network. 5 year deal starting next year, with NBC producing some specials.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2023/09/21/wwe-smackdown-returns-to-usa.aspx

I'm unfamiliar with American TV. Is this better or worse? 

Have to echo what has been said.

Picking up a guy who clearly cannot move and dropping him on his head again is just beyond reckless.

6 hours ago, Supremo said:

 

We’ll definitely have to do a pool if he goes back to WWE. Six months max, surely?

I'm in for 'Three months, gets injured, comes back for 6 months and then leaves' if we do start one. 

2 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

That Judgement Day match is absolutely bonkers. By the end both men are bleeding buckets and the entire ring canvas is completely cake in blood. I watched it recently and it's an absolutely tremendous and dramatic spectacle. JBL's best match for sure.

Understand why the blood puts people off though, it's never really bothered me personally. I love a good crimson mask (in the right match or the right reasons).

I genuinely don't think JBL was bleeding was he? Any blood on him was Eddie's blood if I remember rightly. Admittedly I haven't seen the match in years. 

2 hours ago, Daaaaaad! said:

Even more bizarre is that he’s doing it while hidden away from everyone! Why even blade at all? Get a blood capsule if you’re doing it away from people’s line of vision!

Real pro's blade, damnit!!

Blood capsules are for pussies!! 

3 hours ago, TimmyB said:

Good point well made. Changed to:

"Regarding owing wrestlers money a lot of them seem to have the attitude that it won't happen to them and this was emphasised when the company was relaunched and people who had dealt with him previously or read the book warned them.

Even more surprising are the people who had previous experience with Mr Gauntley."

Maybe it's the 'well he never conned ME' mentality that some people have.

1 hour ago, Infinity Land said:

It's been apparent since Mike Santana returned it was for a singles run. Changed up his name. Own entrance music. The vignettes he was producing bleeding over onto TV. The annoying thing is that he's leaning into being a heel when AEW's got plenty.

Time's going to tell if Ortiz is venting since it leaves him at a loose end, angling for a feud against his old partner, or already in on it and trying to generate interest in the upcoming match.

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First thing said in 14 months when they've been at tapings and worked a match involving each other. Aye. that'd be right. Even Punk and Young Bucks had a brief interaction at Wembley.

I can't help but feel like this is all CM Punk's fault. 

Did the live TV shows at Crystal Palace draw well?  

3 hours ago, Your Fight Site said:

I’m not saying it’s related, but:

Bless them. Making out as if workers getting stiffed by a promoter on pay is some new and uncommon phenomenon.

 

'We brought it up in our report but have done nothing about it'.

I don't mean to sound horrible but what is the point of the APPG?

Surely there is not one of us on here that hasn't seen a small child sat on their parents shoulders and thought about clotheslining them off while yelling 'Doomsday Device', no? 

4 hours ago, Bellenda Carlisle said:

The cage match was my fave. Trish was great, that would be a rough match for anyone, can't believe the level she can still go in her late 40s having hardly wrestled for 2 decades. 

She and KO must be so sore today though.

Plus she had a bloody nasty knot on her head. Great match that should have been the main event in my opinion.

2 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

WWE is also no longer Vince McMahon's Domain like it once was, it's an incredibly corporate public company in the process of a high profile sale/merger. There may be significant resistance within the company to bringing in someone who has just been fired for assaulting co-workers and attempting to assault his own boss. They might see the bad press around it as not worth whatever short term business he brings in.

Good point that I hadn't thought of.

Punk and Vince apparently always had a decent relationship by all accounts. It's whether the execs see more value in 'We can get the highest ranked merchandise seller from our main competitors' or 'We can get a problematic talent who was fired from his last job'.

I guess time will tell. 

Does Punk have heat with anybody in WWE that would prohibit him from potentially going there? I know Rollins called him a 'cancer' but who knows if that was a work or not and Rollins had heat with Riddle but they could both co-exist together.

I know reports are Punk has always been a massive prick but he was able to last in main roster WWE without getting into punch ups and endangering the bosses life wasn't he?

Whatever happens Punk certainly knows how to get headlines, good or bad. 

Toni Storm's new gimmick is amazing. That is all. 

8 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Who even is the other side anymore? The Bucks and Hangman have stayed completely silent since the incident and Omega has publicly said he wished the whole thing never happened and he "wishes the other side well". From all reports they just want to move on from the whole incident and part of that is not wanting anything else to do with CM Punk. Everything seems to be coming from Punk's side now. The "other side" basically now appears to be everyone except FTR. And it's only a matter of time before one of them does something to upset him.

The Bucks and Hangman have publicly stayed silent since the incident, yes. However, as we know, what someone does, or does not, say publicly does not always necessarily tally with what is said, or not said, privately. 

 

1 minute ago, BomberPat said:

I know Bryce Remsburg is their travel manager, and Paul Turner also has a role in that area, there's a couple of other names I know that probably wouldn't mean anything to you.

The point is, they have a whole team that deals with this thing, and people are jumping on "AEW's travel coordinator liked a Tweet!" as evidence of an anti-Punk conspiracy, when he's just some random bloke who works there, and there's no guarantee he had anything to do with Punk's travel mishaps, if said mishaps happened the way Punk's camp are describing in the first place. 

As I said, I don't particularly care for either side. Knowing the wrestling business as we all do, nobody should think it's beyond the realm of possibility that someone in charge of travel 'accidentally' forgot to book a car for Punk, particularly if that person is long-time friends with the people Punk has issues with. It's wrestling. It's a shitty, petty business.

Did Punk orchestrate the whole thing to make AEW look bad? Possibly. Again, we know he is petty.

Nothing is beyond the realms of possibility and that's why I'm just sitting back, eating handfuls of popcorn and enjoying the drama and gossip.

 

4 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this is "probably" true.

Aside from anything else, there isn't just one person responsible for travel for AEW. 

Who is responsible for travel in AEW?

It's definitely a battle of 'Who can be the pettiest and most passive-aggressive' from what it seems.

Apparently AEW's travel co-ordinator is friends/family of the Bucks so, did they deliberately fuck with the travel arrangements due to Punk deciding to come in a day late? Probably.

Did Punk, instead of getting an Uber on his own, use the one means of public transport that he knew would get the most people to see him so that he had documented evidence of his claims? Probably.

It's brilliantly petty from both sides and I'm here for all of it. Keep it coming, I say. 

 

There are pictures of Punk on the underground/train in London so it seems the transport story is legit, in which case this is a massively amateur move from the second biggest company in the world, Either it was a) unintentional, in which case they need to look at who they are employing to book this sort of thing or b) intentional, in which case they need to look at who they are employing to book this sort of thing.

It just makes AEW look massively petty. Everyone knows Punk is thin skinned and petty but AEW is not looking good from all this no matter how much people try to babyface the company. It's nice that Tony wants to be everybody's friend but there needs to be a happy medium between the (seemingly) rigidly authoritarian WWE and the (seemingly) no rules, everybody can do what they want AEW.

1 hour ago, LWOLeN said:

 

You fly from Holland to London, takes you 55 minutes aswell.

 

You actually get back to London about 5 minutes before you leave Amsterdam due to the time difference, brother.