Cari Champion and I sat down with @stephenasmith for our podcast Flagrant and Funny and we went through it ALL. Part I drops tonight and Part II is on Friday.
Reigns literally started. Corbin shouldn’t be champ but that’s another discussion, Gable literally had a tv moty candidate against mysterio and will have another again dragon Lee in a couple days.
Always loved AEW. It’s good for everyone to experience new forms of wrestling. Hopefully AEW does a big mania weekend show since the other company on fuck shit
“I'm surprised that you're not so embarrassed that you wouldn't willingly take a 50% pay cut and go somewhere else."
- Christian Cage takes a shot at WWE when speaking about the Young bucks.
Kawhi Leonard’s legacy with the Los Angeles Clippers:
- Demanded the front office trade for Paul George, forcing them to part with every asset they had including a young Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- Missed 243 games in 7 seasons (equivalent of nearly 3 seasons)
- 2019-2020: Blew a 3-1 lead in Western Conference Semi-Finals
- 2020-2021: Clippers reach Western Conference Finals without him
- 2021-2022: Missed playoffs
- 2022-2023: Eliminated in the first round and didn’t finish the series
- 2023-2024: Eliminated in the first round
- 2024-2025: Eliminated in the first round
- 2025-2026: Missed the playoffs, locked up by Draymond Green with the season on the line
- Played just 35 playoff games
- No championships
- No personal Conference Finals appearances
- Demanded the front office continue retooling around him, causing them to trade for James Harden and depart with even more draft capital
- Collected nearly $350 million in salary
- Circumvented the salary cap
- Cost the Clippers a further 5 first round picks
- Inflicted a $30 million fine
- Inflicted suspensions on ownership and front office with no pay
- A personal $700,000 fine
- Had his uncle Dennis banned for life
Possibly the worst free agent signing in league history.
This Is Why Andrade Failed In WWE & Stephanie Vaquer Succeeded 👀
Andrade had the talent, but Stephanie Vaquer understood how to make WWE work for her.
Andrade struggled to find consistency, connect with the audience, and turn his opportunities into sustained momentum.
Vaquer did the opposite she arrived with confidence, a distinct character, in ring credibility, and the willingness to adapt.
She learned English, improved her promos, became more comfortable communicating with the WWE audience, and made sure her personality came through.
That’s why she succeeded where Andrade couldn’t and didn’t blamed the Samoan for his failures.
This might be the realest shit ever said about a company. They don’t give anyone else a chance, bitch ass old heads like Bruce Pritchard and Michael Hayes trying to tell you what makes a star in the big 2026 is fucking insane
Andrade reflected on his time in WWE and said that Mexicans don't have as many opportunities as they should.
"When WWE wants to push you, they will push you, it’s that simple. There are wrestler who have been given a chance WWE about 20 or 30 times and they still push them until they become stars. It doesn't matter how bad you are because they want to make you a star. I feel that I never got to be given the opportunity, they never gave me a chance, but when it was my turn to be on television, I took advantage of it. If I won or lost, those 10, 15, 20 minutes, I took advantage of them and I sold myself because I said: ‘The public is watching me, I still got it' I always thought that way. Yes, I got championships in WWE and all that, but I saw that there were people who gave them a chance and kept giving them another chance. And I just said: ‘He was already with this one, let him loose a little bit’, because there are very few opportunities they give Mexicans. It’s that easy, they have Humberto Garza... Well, Garza, Berto, very good friends of mine, they haven’t been given a real chance. When I returned to WWE they tell me: ‘Hey, wed love you to be in AAA’, but I told them that I sign with WWE, I didn't want to return to AAA. I know that AAA is a big company, but it’s at the national level, at the Mexican level. Maybe one or more places in the world knows them, but it's not WWE. You want to be a WWE star, he doesn’t want to be a AAA star, here in Mexico they already know me. Now that they have already given them the Perros del Mal, and I hope they do very well, but it is a national level, if you go to Saudi Arabia they don’t know what it is AAA, they have no idea. If you go to Scotland they don’t know AAA, it’s not for speaking badly, it’s just that it is. You know me, I was already a star in Mexico, maybe I didn't fill as many Arena, but I was a star. I wanted the opportunity to be in WWE, not in AAA. Now people ask me why I’m going back to CMLL, but I’m going to return a date or two, but I see Berto (And Garza), and they both have a good physique, they work well, they have charisma, they have everything to be superstars in WWE. Why don’t they give them the opportunity? Escobar (Santos Escobar) never had the opportunity. Then you see wrestlers, maybe it’s going to sound bad, but there are some jokes about the Samoans. Not everyone, Roman Reigns succeeded, he did well, but there are several that don’t got it and they are constantly pushed. I'm there like they’ve been doing it for 20 years and they still don't have it, and we never had those opportunities."
(Fighting For Your Dreams with @Victorlatin77)
“Why did you have Biggie killed?”
Things aren’t looking good for Suge Knight. Lead Tupac murder prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo says Suge was uncooperative during the 2Pac murder trial and revealed that his first question to Suge would have been why he had Biggie Smalls killed.
NEW DAY were asked to take more than 50% pay cuts in WWE
So it's a good time to remind everyone that last year:
- Ari Emanuel made $67 million
- Mark Shapiro made $43 million
- Nick Khan made $24 million