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It took me like a full day to realize Pete Dunne is, in fact, not Executive Producer Kevin Dunn
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coconono posted:Pete Dunn looks like a disease english colonials would get from dryhumping infested cotton bales.
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Aug 6, 2021 23:20
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that's not a mouthguard
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Petey might already be ready to bounce as is, wouldn't be surprised if he left Adam Cole's Refugee Camp For Short Wrestlers https://twitter.com/BlerdEclectic/status/1423685385419464708
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"AEW Fans, get over yourselves" as WWE is getting lower than WCW's lowest rated show of all time at 1.7 and NXT is pulling 500k
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Aug 6, 2021 23:47
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...maybe they're using the Observer awards definition?
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I watched the first half of smackdown for the first time in forever and there was a Dominic and a tamina match.I know most of them are disingenuous but how can you run an aew botches account with a straight face.
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Willninho posted:I watched the first half of smackdown for the first time in forever and there was a Dominic and a tamina match.I know most of them are disingenuous but how can you run an aew botches account with a straight face. you don't, you run it to be willfully disingenuous because you buy into the culture war
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That guy posted a picture of Kenny and Roman 10 years ago with Roman in NXT and Kenny doing some comedy spot in Japan and I said that Roman was in a garage in Florida and Kenny was already a star selling out the Budokan for DDT. The guy blocked me for pointing that out. It's just an echo chamber. These guys have a toxic codependent relationship with each other completely based on the little endorphin rush they get when they agree with each other that, yes, indeed, the wrestling company they don't like is bad. Y'know, like what we would be if we weren't so cool and sexy and smart.
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Aug 7, 2021 05:48
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https://twitter.com/storytellerwes2/status/1423849364905205760?s=20 2 jobbers, a guy feuding with one of the jobbers, and a guy who has to be worried that his next opponent is going to end his career by dropping him on his head.
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Aug 7, 2021 05:50
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has jinder even been on tv in months? i don't remember seeing him in summaries in ages also yeah zelina's doing Great lmao. has she won a match yet since returning halfway through commercial
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flatluigi posted:has jinder even been on tv in months? i don't remember seeing him in summaries in ages Yeah, Jinder and Drew are feuding over a motorcycle, or a sword, or something else stupid.
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Aug 7, 2021 05:55
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Hurry up talking coyote, I wanna post one too.
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Accidentally posted in the podcasts thread which I guess is technically correct. I’ll never pass up a chance to laugh at tights and fights. https://twitter.com/tightsfights/status/1423862110178594819?s=21 They also seem pretty adamant about calling AEW racist the past few days because they’ve gotta prop WWE up somehow. MJeff posted:Hurry up talking coyote, I wanna post one too. Don’t rush me you’re making me antsy!! A talking coyote fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/TightsFights/status/1423865736997457925 All those people that grew in NXT. 
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davidbix posted:...maybe they're using the Observer awards definition? Hell this conversation alone has shot Tyler Bate tpo the top of my Most Underrated 2021 list over Mascara Dorada/Gran Metallik and KUSHIDA because I literally forgot he existed.
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Reminder that one of the Tights and Fights people posted that take that Marko Stunt being a jobber who gets squashed by big guys was like, ableist against short people or whatever
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https://twitter.com/SportsAreAndy/status/1423869792230903811 https://twitter.com/nathanfielder/status/620060895209779200
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A talking coyote posted:Accidentally posted in the podcasts thread which I guess is technically correct. Maybe an argument could be made there since New Day have been champion and Lashley is champion while apart from Shida, the AEW champions haven’t been as diverse.
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TV Zombie posted:Maybe an argument could be made there since New Day have been champion and Lashley is champion while apart from Shida, the AEW champions haven’t been as diverse. I think you're forgetting about Scorpio Sky, Riho, and Nyla Rose.
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Benne posted:Reminder that one of the Tights and Fights people posted that take that Marko Stunt being a jobber who gets squashed by big guys was like, ableist against short people or whatever "lazy and regressive" was the term I remember; and I always will because its incredibly funny. The people that try to do the 'WWE is progressive/more progressive than xxx company" thing are funny to me simply because you can almost always just respond with something Vince said/did in the past, or just say "they take millions of dollars from a murderous dictatorship to hold shows there and will go back again despite having their roster taken hostage once". Doesn't excuse other promotions obviously (although a lot of the take you see are incredibly overblown) but using WWE as your model is very funny.
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For posterity https://twitter.com/LindseyKelk/status/1245561913884307457?s=19 "Deeply uncomfortable" was the part that got me.
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The part I remember is when everybody dunked on it, she was like "oh boy looks like the WRESTLING MEN are at it again 🙄"TV Zombie posted:Maybe an argument could be made there since New Day have been champion and Lashley is champion while apart from Shida, the AEW champions haven’t been as diverse. I mean, it's easy to point out how lily white the lineage of the AEW World Championship and TNT Championship (....I dunno where Miro falls in this conversation) are so far, but, I don't think there's any PoC on the AEW roster that should have held those belts by this point. Scorpio Sky wasn't right for the TNT Championship and I say that as somebody who really loves Scorpio Sky. Who else is there? Hobbs, Big Shotty, Top Flight, Red Velvet, Jade Cargill, these are all prospects on the come-up.
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Leaving everything else aside, the idea that WWE booking more PoC to win championships equals treating them better overall hinges on the idea that a WWE title actually means something, which is a questionable proposition at best.
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They definitely had big plans for Lio Rush but then he Grandpa Simpson'd his way out of the company. Maybe they can still use those plans when he unretires for the fourth time next year.
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Aug 7, 2021 07:41
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give lucha bros belts.
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MotU posted:give lucha bros belts. That's your solution to everything.
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MJeff posted:That's your solution to everything. it's a pretty good solution
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It also feels a bit weird to compare the amount of PoC champions to a company with 2-ish years of title lineage compared to WWE/F going back to 1979.
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WWE has had 5 black world champions in 50 years, this is good and progressive
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TheKingslayer posted:It also feels a bit weird to compare the amount of PoC champions to a company with 2-ish years of title lineage compared to WWE/F going back to 1979. It's also weirdly dismissive of all the WoC talent filling out the women's division and getting pushes (including the first-ever trans champion in a major company, who also happens to be half-Black). Even the goofy tag team tournament they never mentioned again was at least won by a Cuban and a Puerto Rican. Benne fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:Leaving everything else aside, the idea that WWE booking more PoC to win championships equals treating them better overall hinges on the idea that a WWE title actually means something, which is a questionable proposition at best. Let's also remember that putting the title on a PoC doesn't actually mean any part of the rest of the promotion is less racist. Bill Watts was famous for putting the title on a black babyface and trying to build the company around them and he was famously one of the most racist men in a racist industry.
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Benne posted:It's also weirdly dismissive of all the WoC talent filling out the women's division and getting pushes (including the first-ever trans champion in a major company, who also happens to be half-Black). Even the goofy tag team tournament they never mentioned again was at least won by a Mexican and a Puerto Rican. Diamante is Cuban-American, not Mexican.
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Benne posted:It's also weirdly dismissive of all the WoC talent filling out the women's division and getting pushes (including the first-ever trans champion in a major company, who also happens to be half-Black). Even the goofy tag team tournament they never mentioned again was at least won by a Mexican and a Puerto Rican. Diamanté is Cuban B, I believe Ivelisse is Puerto Rican though. Efb
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I stand corrected
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While we're talking about how useless the PC is in the other thread, let's take a second to point out that Raquel is one of its graduates and when confronted with a situation where her opponent was potentially injured, she dealt with it by standing still and screaming "GET UP" at her to make absolutely sure the camera was focused on her the entire time, then on the finish she just loving dropped her with a power bomb and didn't guide her down at all.
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MJeff posted:While we're talking about how useless the PC is in the other thread, let's take a second to point out that Raquel is one of its graduates and when confronted with a situation where her opponent was potentially injured, she dealt with it by standing still and screaming "GET UP" at her to make absolutely sure the camera was focused on her the entire time, then on the finish she just loving dropped her with a power bomb and didn't guide her down at all. that Charlotte did this too while the others tried to protect Kairi it seems to be something they're taught to do
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