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Dave Meltzer: The thing is, y’know, journalistic integrity is.... I met this guy at Stanford and, the thing is..... so so so so so so you can’t just, there’s a principle you have to, uhhhh, you have to make sure you don’t get, you don’t want to get, I knew a guy who made that mistake and.... the thing is you have to maintan journalistic, I remember one time Dana White called me up.... Dana calls me you know, Vince used to too, back in 1987 there was this one time...... I said that we went to a school that had an insane sexual environment and, so I was only 20 years old I had a big crush on, on... she's 20, I'm 20, I wanna get her in, cause I'm in California and I know we're gonna get the coverage.... so I go down to see this school and, so I'm walking up the steps to go to my, to my room to... and this girl is running down the stairs to her room, I mean she's running. And this guy is walking on the same... the other two are walking on the other side of the stairs. And I said... I said... "whoa." And I mean I said something to the effect... "whoa is he going down there?" I mean I'm a journalist, I'm not a pornographer. I don't do that, I don't, and I wouldn't do that if I was doing porn. So you just have to, uhhh, keep your eyes open. I don't, I've been one of the guys, not often, but some of my colleagues, but I've seen guys do that and I've said, I've said some very aggressive things to my guys who did that and I've told, they are a piece of garbage. You have to be a certain way to be a reporter and I guess, I'm, I'm a pretty tough guy. I don't think I've got a very big mouth. But if, if a reporter ever did that, I would hate them.

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Dave Meltzer: The thing is, y’know, journalistic integrity is.... I met this guy at Stanford and, the thing is..... so so so so so so you can’t just, there’s a principle you have to, uhhhh, you have to make sure you don’t get, you don’t want to get, I knew a guy who made that mistake and.... the thing is you have to maintan journalistic, I remember one time Dana White called me up.... Dana calls me you know, Vince used to too, back in 1987 there was this one time...... that I didn't know where to go with it, like, I should have asked him. He doesn't like my business, I never asked him for his phone number, he would just call me and say hey I want to talk to this guy and I would just be thinking to myself how do you know this guy? And it was so small, you know, I don't think he would have cared, he would have just said well there's nothing wrong with it and I should have asked him. But it's like this media thing is where you have to tell people the truth and you have to say what you really feel and you have to make your decisions based on that, it's a very tough balance. And, you know, the thing is is we don't live in the days of, well it's right to say that. If there is a bad decision or something you don't like someone to say something about it, then why? I'm not saying you say something just for the sake of saying something. But if you say something, and it's something, you should stand by it and explain why and maybe if that's not even the case just try to explain it and then go on. But I think it's just a tough thing to do sometimes and you have to understand what the rules are and you have to understand that you're dealing with fans. I mean look at some of these characters in the UFC you know. Is a guy who looks like Wahoo Jones is a villain, is he? Is a guy who looks like Karl Malone, is he a hero? Like that stuff matters.

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Meltzer's gotta retire sometime...


...but what if he didn't have to? What if I didn't have to?

Would we have ever gotten to see the Master from the past, did we ever really need to see this guy... and that's the point. We have seen other versions of the past, we have been here, we've seen the future, we know how this story goes.

We have to get back to the idea that we know that the Master was not in our timeline, or the second timeline, the timeline where he is alive and well and in control. If it is the same, then we are going to get some answers and learn some things about this guy.

Here's the thing, for the last two years, this is all we have been allowed to know. We have heard the whole story about the Master's history, and that's it. We know that it is the same guy as the Master, but we don't know where, when or why he is the Master.

So, what do we do with that? What if we are wrong?

Again, what if he's not the Master? What if the Master is not the same guy that we have all been told about? What if he is another Master? We have seen the Master die. We have seen the Master in a whole new timeline.

How will the Master respond? Will he accept this new Master, or will he say that there is no new Master?

What if he was never in our timeline?

What if he was never in the Shadow War?

What if, what if, what if...

Meltzer's gotta retire sometime, right?

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The BBC announced today the shock hiring of pro-wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer as the new showrunner of television show Doctor Who. Meltzer, best known for writing the Wrestling Observer newsletter, has no apparent background knowledge or indeed interest in the show which makes this hire all the more puzzling. In a statement the BBC explained his appointment in rather questionable fashion:

“Dave will be overseeing the whole production of Doctor Who for the first time, and we are very excited to welcome him on board. With this new role he will be becoming much more involved in the day to day of the show, as well as developing new Doctor Who features for the BBC.”

The BBC later stated that “this is not a remake, reboot or revival.” According to Meltzer, he has known about the series for a while, so I don’t know if he actually has that faint of an idea of what he’s getting into.

Since there are many in the fandom unhappy at this development I thought I’d post up a brief run down of my thoughts on what could possibly be the main reason.

10,000 people have died to date because they either refuse to read the Doctor Who guide on the internet or “do not believe that they need an internet guide,” as Pocket Magazine put it. The fanbase as a whole was never really there in the first place.

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When pushed on the topic of his new Dr Who Reader's Guide, Bryan heard papers shuffling. Dave made several deep noises to indicate he was deep in thought. Bryan was clearly disappointed and made a huffy 'ummph' noise. That would be the final straw in any human being's patience and Dave threw up his hands and yelled 'Nobody cares about Dr Who!' which set the moustached man into near paroxysms of anger and crying. The cat fainted. Bryan was forced to leave.

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Alexa Bliss continued collecting a doll for each superstar until she was finally in the ring with... That's right! A spooky doll army! "THEY'RE ALIVE" she screamed out at the bemused audience. "EVERYONE OF THEM IS ALIVE", then Stephanie McMahon stepped out of the shadows to explain the dolls had NEVER been alive and it was all just a desperate ploy during the pandemic to get ratings.

We come back from commercial break and now Alexa Bliss is throwing the dolls at people ringside. Or carrying them. Point is she's running and flinging it at them like a rag doll of terror and, well, more props to you, Auntie Stephanie, whoever you are. But it doesn't last long and the champion goes one on one with Asuka, who snaps her doll in two then jams the pieces back into her mask to use as booby traps for whenever she needs to get under the champion's skin. It did not seem to do any harm. Asuka delivers some traditional hands to the face and then hits her classic DDT. Alexa blobs out in slow motion and while they didn't call this one, it's surely all part of the act. She goes the break, which just kept becoming more and more ominous, before the clown doll spits out some sort of tonic mist to trigger a choke-hold in the manner of Shane McMahon's Razor's Edge at WrestleMania 32. And she didn't get up this time.

Braun Strowman comes out to address the clown doll army and assures them that their sacrifices were not in vain. Everyone in the back smiles like zombies, knowing that he's up to something. Sure enough, he soon changes into some sort of military uniform to set out and dispatch his remaining warriors. What he didn't realise was the way out of the parking lot. Asuka hit a concussion kick on the floor and proceeded to lay it in. Alexa fell over and hit her head, then Asuka put the sleeper into an armbar. Hilariously, after being questioned about how she gets into these matches, she shouts "I'M FINE" like the big kahunas she is.

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Cody Rhodes in Rhodes To The Top: The Go Big Show, which did not have Big Show on it, but did have Snoop Dogg.

Joey Ryan in World's Most Dangerous Book (hardcover) with Dennis McCarthy.

Buddy Murphy in Mick Foley: Inside The Attitude Era (hardcover) with Mick Foley.

* Molly Holly in Mick Foley: It's What I Do: The True Story Of His WWE Career (Hardcover), which was on the list last year. This year it is not on the list. Holly did not really make any appearances outside of her appearance with Mick Foley in this year's Hell In A Cell video package.

* Tyler Breeze in 2MB Christmas pajamas.

* The Fashion Police with Stacy Carter (Danielle Danielle, not me), who is not working the convention this year, but was at last year's.

* Tyler Breeze in a Hawk & Dove shirt with Jason Reed and Trenesha Biggers, who are not working the show.

* The Joker in Midnight Express pajamas, who is not working the show, but was working last year's.

* Maryse (already working last year) in Austin Powers pajamas.

* Goldust in that odd, promotional Jimmy Hart pajama shirt with Sharon O'Neil that he wore in a pre-recorded video that is on the set of "Golden Truth" with Curtis Axel and Fandango, who are not working the show.

* Goldust in that weird Peter Pan get-up with Rocky Johnson, who is not working the show, and Shannon Moore.

* Goldust in Wonder Woman pajamas, who is not working the show, and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart.

* Goldust in a 6 Pack pajama shirt with Rocky Johnson and Truth Martini.

* Goldust in a Crowbar pajama shirt.

* Goldust in that never-released-as-seen-before and short-lived brother tag team with R-Truth.

* Goldust in a "King" pajama shirt with Ron "The Truth" Killings.

* Goldust in his Dude Love pajama shirt.

* Goldust in his Women's Championship belt with Sharon Osbourne, who is not working the show, and Trenesha Biggers.

* Goldust in an interesting pair of Spandex pants that fans should have seen at the 2000 Survivor Series when Goldust teamed with Batista against Bobby Lashley, Chris Jericho, and The Rock (we know this because, as part of the build, he wore these pants, so when the shoe was on the other foot, no one seemed to think they were odd).

* Goldust in a reverse Starrcade/Slammy Award/Grappling-Arms-Expo uniform combination with Daffney.

* Goldust in that interesting "I Am the Champion" pajama shirt with Sasha Banks.

* Goldust in that odd, promotional outfit with Scott Steiner that was in the "Extreme Rules 2013" promo, which was also not working the show.

* Goldust in his American Bad rear end/WWE Championship belt pajama shirt.

* Goldust in that short-lived short-lived team with The Miz and R-Truth, which included the very strange attire.

* Goldust in a Silver Surfer pajama shirt with Ron Killings.

* Goldust in his "Men's Division" pajama shirt, who also was not working the show, and The Great Khali, who is not working the show.

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Transformer's list of the greatest wrestlers who ever lived.
1)Mr. Kangaroo
2) The Performer
3) Sickle
4) Dogg Dog
5) Jowlface Incarnate
6) Nova

7) Kung Fu Kahuna

8) Dallis Eberwolf

9) Viscera

10) Juiced Mike

In another strip, Billy Jack recruited the alien "Trapper" Hopper to join up with the team to fight the Underworld, but he proved to be a disappointment, as the aliens won the match.

Mr. Kangaroo was also in a band called The Banana Split Brothers, and he had a "banana the size of a ship's propeller" on his head.

Trapper also had a "throwie", which was a throwable pepper shaker.

The Invisible Apes were a team of vampires who traveled the country causing havoc.

They were not found to be guilty of any crime, but their actions nonetheless received a lot of publicity.

Bill was a black man in a coma, and the only clue that led police to suspect him was that his car had a baby sitting in it.

Billy was arrested for the crimes of accidentally killing two teenaged girls.

But when Bill was brought to the jail, he had disappeared, and the Apes were convinced that Bill was helping the police capture them.

Eventually Bill was able to regain his wits, and joined the squad.

Billy Jack disbanded the Invisible Apes and made the Fantastic Four the team of the future.

The Apes are killed at the end of issue #46.

Jerusalem posted:

Love that it starts with possible wrestler biographies and then suddenly becomes obsessed with wrestlers wearing pajamas. I feel like I stumbled upon a VERY specific subreddit.

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Never forget Fox network has an honest to goodness Sports Robot that hangs out during WWE Drafts. Remember during last year’s draft when RAW’s draft revealed that all their booking of RAW GM Kane was a colossal waste of time? Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion, I’m just glad it wasn’t my opinion.

You are entitled to your own opinion, and I’m really cool with that. So are all of the readers of this site, of which there are zero. So I appreciate your time to read this drivel that I’m going to comment on.

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With AEW growing more and more popular by the minute, the WWE is continuing to look at ways to get eyes back on the product. The WWE came up with a brilliant idea for tonight's episode of RAW: A Spring Break episode!

"Returning to our 'Spring Break' Spring Breakers theme for this week's edition of Monday Night RAW, a bunch of grapplers will make their way to Florida to ride to the rescue in high school bikinis, coconut bras and rubber bands."

Here's WWE's official description:

"The WWE Spring Break Mayhem continues tonight as Becky Lynch makes a comeback, Brock Lesnar and Braun Strowman battle it out for a No Disqualification Match at WrestleMania, & a WWE Women's Championship Steel Cage Match is on the line in a Main Event Match! And that's just the start! All this and more, tonight at 8/7 C on USA Network!"

The official YouTube description for the new Brock Lesnar & Braun Strowman "No Disqualification Match" stipulates that if any superstar goes over, his entire roster will take it out on them. Let's not even get into the other potential brawls with wrestlers and other WWE Superstars! It's very likely that WWE is trying to have eyes on RAW for the Spring Break episode, but if all the matches go off the rails, it could turn out to be a mess.

What do you think? Is WWE trying to pump up the ratings for RAW? Will you be watching it?

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AEW's got themselves a top prodigy, and he has not had a single match yet. He's growing more and more popular each and every day, and this wrestler is none other than Taz's son, Adam Cole.

The 45-year-old promoter has been linked to Adam Cole in the past, and it's almost a certainty that this is the real deal. And with this potential opportunity, Taz has decided to share this with all his fans and his YouTube viewers.

The future is his

Taz told Metro that he has been wrestling since he was seven-years-old and his father, Terry, has been his primary coach. "We did a lot of shows together," he said.

He's also admitted to being a huge influence on him. "Terry taught me so much, it's tough to say everything I learned from him but he was a good friend of mine and my parents were the biggest influences on me, I learned everything they did," he said.

Cole's father and Taz were also part of the Ring of Honor roster together. The Canadian Wrestler also shared a post on his Instagram page and revealed that he had a good conversation with the younger Cole at the Team 3D show in Tampa Bay.

Adam Cole has done well in the ring as of late

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WWE had no new ideas and a truck full of water balloons nobody remembered ordering. These days, almost everything WWE does has special sauce. They don’t need it. Their only obstacle is their own absurdity.

It’s a shame Vince McMahon failed to innovate, to truly evolve, because in this era of WWE’s reinvention, he, and the WWE Universe, are being beaten to the punch by less desperate competitors. Let’s say, for example, that those CEOs were successful in their efforts. A time traveller from the future, armed with Photoshop and a magic pencil, could take an extreme close-up shot of the backstage after those tech companies were sold off and match up a shot of their Undertaker against a Super Cena and Mr. McMahon against an MMA fighter. Just look at that Super Cena. An “uncanny” image, a frozen Zayn in profile. The nostalgia on this shot was the real saving grace, so much so that it might even have outlasted Undertaker.

On Raw, there was a long-running joke with the “Roman is Dead” jokes. Those jokes were for what was assumed to be the vaunted past, not the WrestleMania future where the company was pursuing the removal of Undertaker. There was this famous photo of AJ Styles looking over his shoulder, smiling like the Undertaker did after the match. Is it because he won the match? You know the answer. It was about the dead guy no one could see.

Perhaps Vince McMahon is searching for a way to save his company.

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After it was announced that Olympic Gold Medalist Gable Steveson was drafted to RAW, Chad Gable had an idea. He convinced the RAW newcomer to fuse with him, forming the wrestling machine known as Gable Gable. Gable Gable's first match on the RAW brand was against Breezeango at WrestleMania 33.

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Now, here is what Gable had to say about his unlikely coupling with Steveson.

Gable Gable credited the former champion for his making the move to RAW viable, and the WWE website reports that he is under the belief that Gable Gable has "the potential to one day headlining the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view."

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Fans in the area, however, shouldn't be shocked that Steveson would be attempting to establish himself as a competitor.

Steveson recently wrestled in the UK, teaming with Tommy End against Zack Sabre Jr. and Mark Andrews on March 4th. While there is no official word on when Steveson may be signed, we can assume that WWE officials have big plans for him.

a cyborg mug posted:

Lmao

Let’s start a pro wrestling website that’s exclusively populated with articles generated with Transformer

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Why WWE Needs to Go All In on Clowns
Written by Talkto Transformer

It's obvious that Vince McMahon needs to fill his promotion with wrestlers with clown gimmicks if he wants to turn the fate of the WWE around. In an era where injuries are rife and competition in sports entertainment is taking a serious bite, clowns are definitely the way to go. After all, they are freakin' scary. WWE needs to go all in on clowns.

People need to quit and take a good hard look at the new face of the WWE. He's a 50-year-old guy whose entire purpose is to be terrifying and make audiences hide under their seats. In all fairness, there were a lot of disturbing looking wrestlers when I started watching the WWE. Back then, it was Koko B. Ware and the stereotypical "crazy" wrestlers that really made the WWE scary and awful to watch. So, I can understand how Vince McMahon now trying to update his roster to make it more appealing to modern day wrestling fans, one of them being clowns.

Clowns are scary. Especially if they are wearing a brightly colored suit with goofy hair and makeup, all while performing the Ring of Honor equivalent of the Death Valley Driver (where the guy looks like he has a cockroach in his back pocket). The clowns in WWE are arguably the scariest and most disturbing looking wrestlers on the roster right now. WWE has always had over-the-top characters like Mr. Perfect, Curt Hennig and Road Warrior Animal. But even they tried to go easy on them and put the blame on the writers. In the 80's, the WWF tried to make Hulk Hogan a good guy by giving him a gimmick, but it was pretty obvious that he was just another sad excuse for a wrestler who was really just a showboat. On paper, Brian Pillman was supposed to be this tough anti-hero who would come out of nowhere to kick everyone's rear end. And now he's a leper who has trouble getting people to come out to their shows.

Before I continue, I would like to point out that I don't think the WWE should solely go with clowns as a gimmick. Instead, they should work up to it by using horror-themed gimmicks like zombies and vampires. That way, they could introduce all sorts of clown imagery in fun and understated ways to draw in a younger generation of wrestling fans. Then, after enough times of success, they could switch things up and just start telling scary stories about clowns and start walking around with a red nose and lipstick on and pretending to be one of them. Now that would make for really great television.

Instead of making fans wait for months until someone is injured, it would be much more rewarding to make new wrestlers look like clowns and introduce them early and often. Think of the WWE as an amusement park and you have a lot of new rides to build up your little section of the park. Make a clown with freaky face paint who rides a unicycle into the ring on all fours, either by suicide or fall-off-the-top-rope. Or maybe you make a clown wrestler who can hardly speak, but has a weird obsession with the color red.

While I don't believe it's realistic to expect the WWE to go clown crazy and have an endless supply of clown wrestlers, I do believe they could make the existing roster look really different. They should allow one clown on each roster to do some crazy things. Instead of making your normal wrestler kick a dude in the head or knock a fellow wrestler out cold with a T-bone, have them do all the same thing with a clown. And once people get used to the idea of seeing something odd with a clown on TV, maybe even expand it into someone's real life. Or maybe they should just tell an actual story involving a clown. Maybe it should be a brooding, angry clown who dresses up as a cowboy. He wants to start a band and somehow the musician that he likes starts becoming a recluse after seeing him. Maybe he murders the singer and makes the body into a soup and eats it for dinner. If people become scared of clowns, then the hero can hunt down a criminal clown and rescue the girl from a crazy clown. It's a creative, up-to-date version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Instead of giving the new wrestlers gimmicks and acts that are familiar to them and doing the same thing with them over and over, the WWE should give them some very scary, surprising acts. Imagine if Taker turned into the Living Dead. Imagine if Sting teamed up with the Hobo Clown from Tales From The Crypt to fight a ferocious trio of Leatherface. It would make them feel different and make them new again. The WWE should let their superstars develop naturally as characters and get a new experience and look when they're given some new looks. At first, they should give the wrestlers the normal, one-time clown makeovers, like a flamingo, panda, giant yellow chicken, or clown's body. Then they should make them more twisted and intimidating, like a low-budget slasher movie. Then they should let them have some truly wild and ridiculous appearances. The obvious one would be the clown wrestlers spraying paint on people while they're driving through the city. After seeing that, how could you not love clown wrestling?

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YOSHI-HASHI: The Greatest Pro Wrestler Of All Time
Written by Talkto Transformer

There is a video online in which a Japanese fan is asked who her favorite wrestler is. Without a moment's hesitation she answers "YOSHI-HASHI", and with tears in her eyes explains that YOSHI-HASHI said that he would try his best, and that she believes in him. I believe in YOSHI-HASHI too, and think that he may in fact be one of the greatest pro wrestlers to ever live. Here's why.

First off, I don't watch much wrestling, and that's mainly because I can't get over how much of it is in the business of hyping up itself. No matter what I watch, I'm bombarded by the same chants, the same mindless facial expressions, the same overly dramatic entrances, and the same cheesy scripts. It's all tiresome, and it's all poo poo. One thing that wrestling is good at is making those who are watching feel a connection, a bond, a kinship. If you watch wrestling, you're not alone, and that's always a good thing. You can feel the love from your fellow wrestling fan when the wrestler is being introduced. That's how I feel about YOSHI-HASHI. If you don't watch wrestling, I don't see why you should care about YOSHI-HASHI, but if you do and follow him, you can feel the connection between you and him. It's a pure connection, and if you have that connection, that connection can only mean one thing – good things for him and his fans. He'll give you everything he has. He'll give you all of himself, and if you don't have that connection, all that he gives you will be for nothing. YOSHI-HASHI is a connection. I have that connection with him, and I'm very happy that I do.

Now, there are many wrestlers in Japan. Many of them are amazing. A few of them are even amazing in the United States. But none of them are in the same class as YOSHI-HASHI. Why? Because YOSHI-HASHI is on another level. He's on the same level as Brock Lesnar, John Cena, and Bill Goldberg. Maybe not in stature, but in skill he is their equal. I don't know why, and I'm not going to spend my time trying to figure it out. All I know is that YOSHI-HASHI is the greatest wrestler of all time, and if you don't believe me, ask your local wrestling fan in your area and see if he agrees.

The last time I had a connection this strong was with a friend. This friend and I had a similar bond, and we would always hang out together, sharing everything that we had with each other. It wasn't one of those friendships where everything you did with him you had to do it like a robot because he was so different from me. It was one where we grew close, where he was one of my best friends, and I could rely on him when I had a problem, or when I just needed to talk. It was a bond that was strong, and this friend of mine gave me a connection like none other. And I trusted him with my whole heart.

I've been sitting here all day thinking of the right words to explain my feelings towards YOSHI-HASHI. My head has been racing, and now that I have it all down in writing, I can finally sleep. YOSHI-HASHI is a connection, a bond that is pure, that is real, that is pure friendship.

Thanks for reading.

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Vince McMahon cried out "Hunter! Help! I'm trapped in some kinda anime!" but there was no one to help him in inono baidan kingdom. The entire world is a videogame, and the only guy with the power to free you is Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and it turns out he's in Japan of all places. It seems that Tokyo Rainmaker has kidnapped Vince, and is holding him at gunpoint in the National Police Headquarters. You, as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, are his only hope of freeing the Mega Man parody from his captors.

You jump in Vince's landcruiser, proclaim yourself revenge on all living beings, and launch into an assault on headquarters and Brian Belaudiuki, three foot blue man. (You see Belagheruki facepain. Jay Havran son tagbatht it before jumping in.) Brian lays few ducks as grand hunter slayer HUNTER HIERMANDSLEY unleashes multivuaoine torpedos. Right before the trailer's end the historic shots of forces on Van Damm Parliament fill the left die and ends! Yup: that's right: Rex Burnerton showed his ribcage monggit upstairs again!!! then down came this picturesale resolution sequel. Yes folks: THERE WILL BE JUSTICE.

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With Vince McMahon no longer interested in signing wrestlers from indie promotions or international promotions to WWE, NXT has been revamped specifically to push new homegrown stars. The new crop of NXT 2.0 is full of rookie wrestlers with such bizarre names as Ashfield Miranda, Spokko Turtle, Crowen Brickman, Clevva Christian, Hellcat Debra, and The Bensona Of The Wood and are all about the same size and weight (though Hellcat looks like a dude with tits) and are the quintessential little person wrestlers. While there have been some cute moments like the little person Sarah Bridges and Catawissa Finn from two years ago, these new little people are all serious hard working wrestlers. They’re really not that attractive though.

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AEW has the best in the world, the best wrestler in the world and the man who wrestled the best wrestler in the world to a thirty minute draw. You can’t beat that and you can’t do anything but turn around and smile in agreement that All Elite Wrestling is the next biggest thing.

I have mixed feelings about Cody and The Young Bucks

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Tony Khan was one year older and one year wiser. What would he spend his birthday money on? Why, more wrestling of course! First he bought Jake the Snake a new snake, he bought Arn Anderson a new Cody he bought Diamond Dallas Page a new guitar, and then he bought a present for his sister. The gift? Bruce Prichard’s new book.

As if that wasn’t enough, he spent his birthday on a flight to Texas to see an old friend and a legend that he got to say “hello” to…

Then, his stepfather took him to the Ring of Honor shows that weekend in Texas. It was great to see so many friends.

That’s all he had to do. That’s all any kid would do, even Tony Khan.

His father gave him a gift he could never give back. He gave him a ticket to the ring where a legend, and one of Tony’s biggest idols, waited for him. He gave him a chance to put the disappointment behind him.

As he walked down into the ring, he could hear the crowd roaring.

They were cheering his name!

He heard chants of “Sensational Tony!” and “Tony’s our man!”.

It gave him a charge. It made his stepfather proud.

It gave him the fire to go do it.

Tony Khan will be the best drat President this country has ever seen.

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Kicking Stu out of the group is dark order heel
John Silver wearing a condom when he is both hard and soft is dark order face
Evil Uno Shirtless is dark order heel
Colt Cabana being champion of AEW is vaguely dark order face
The Bollywood Boys are dark order heel
John Silver wearing a mask because he's so ugly is dark order heel
Ten going to rehab is dark order heel but also Anna supports it and she's always right
Get Chili's is dark order face

Jack Swagger getting his "woken up" is dark order heel

Having Eva Marie on the podcast is dark order face

Cody Rhodes being a good heel is dark order heel

Cody Rhodes going to be the next NWA champ is dark order face

Chad Gable and Jason Jordan getting married is dark order face

Cody Rhodes being a face is dark order face

Chad Gable being a heel is dark order face

Steve Austin to walk in on a fight between the AEW boys is dark order heel

Cody Rhodes signing with the NWA is dark order heel

The Rock being a babyface with a "#FingersCrossed" on his tights is dark order heel

The Rock being a heel and staying in the U.S. is dark order heel

The Rock being a face and going to China is dark order heel

All the big wrestling companies are going to merge and have one giant company is dark order heel

Steve Austin and the Rock signing a contract with the NWA is dark order heel

Dale Earnhardt Jr. coming to the NWA is dark order heel

The Rock going to China and competing in China is dark order heel

The Rock going to the WWE is dark order heel

The Rock becoming a face is dark order heel

John Cena to come back to the WWE is dark order heel

The Rock being a face is dark order face

The Rock going to the WWE and going to Hollywood is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase as a babyface is dark order face

Bobby Lashley going to the UFC is dark order heel

Bobby Lashley being a heel is dark order face

The Miz to take a year off is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase going to rehab is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase going to the U.S. was dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase being on TV when he's a heel is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase going to the U.S. and not talking about the U.S. is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase going to rehab and not leaving is dark order heel

The Miz saying he's always been a heel is dark order heel

The Miz to return to the U.S. and be a heel is dark order heel

Bobby Lashley going to the U.S. and becoming a face is dark order face

Bobby Lashley winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania is dark order face

WWE going to China to compete and not being in the U.S. is dark order face

John Cena to be a face is dark order heel

The Miz using a selfie stick is dark order heel

The Miz saying he's always been a heel is dark order face

The Miz calling someone a fake is dark order heel

The Miz being in the U.S. and not talking about China is dark order face

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase talking about China on TV is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase selling his life story is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase selling his WWE Hall of Fame ring is dark order heel

The Million Dollar Man selling his WWE Hall of Fame ring to make some money is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase selling his life story and then selling his life story for a book is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase selling his WWE Hall of Fame ring to go to China is dark order heel

Bobby Lashley saying he's always been a heel is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase going to rehab and then going to the U.S. is dark order heel

Bobby Lashley using a selfie stick is dark order heel

The Miz saying he's always been a heel is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase using a selfie stick is dark order heel

The Miz saying he's always been a heel is dark order heel

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase saying he's always been a heel is dark order heel

The Miz going to rehab and not being in the U.S. is dark order heel

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On the day when the Codyverse finally merges with the main AEW continuity the casual AEW fans are going to have some important questions which I will attempt to clear up with a cheat sheet here.

1) Cody used to be the leader of a training stable known as the Nightmare Family.
2) You've never seen nor heard of any of them except QT, who is evil now.
3) Cody originally spoke with the executives of AEW and even had to have a match with Darby Allin to convince them that Darby was a prospect worth hiring.
4) Arn Anderson hangs out with Cody and he says that on the day Dusty Rhodes was making him bleed in front of all of those children that he had deserved to bleed and that Dusty had been right and Arn had been wrong.
5) Cody has a slow burning feud with MJF with the odds of them being a team being extremely slim.

6) The new members of All In have been told they cannot leave AEW unless they are doing so under the Warrior's Way banner. Cody is like a Godfather figure to them and they are terrified of offending him.

7) It appears that the plan is to have the roster have a little chat in The Cascade Bar and Grill. All the wrestlers are on at least six month contracts and are signed with no escape clause, meaning they cannot just leave for better contracts.

8) The Dark Machinations are out for recruiting and Cody wants Cody Killin to do it for AEW. (Sgt. Slaughter)

9) Darby Allin is being carried by his ex-girlfriend (who looks a lot like a female Dave Meltzer), to the bar. All the members of The Holy Rollers are desperately trying to get in the bar as well but can't.

10) Young Bucks are fighting the Shield Brothers in the back and are currently the Four Horsemen.

11) After being told not to, Ron Killings leaves his perch and uses his new power to call one of the wrestlers he trained in the Family from a long way away and make him a free agent.

12) Al Snow has left AEW and is involved in something outside the realm of what we see happening within the Arrowhead substation. He may or may not be in danger.

13) Nick and Matt Jackson are just going to give Cody a 4,000 pound ladder and hit him with it over the back of his head. Cody is gonna be able to sign everyone to deals with no mention of contracts, but with several other stipulations. I would put my money on the Thunder Bay Twins, Wrestling Gods.

14) Scotty Strong is the newest addition to the AEW roster.