A woman in the crowd was seen giving a Nazi salute during GUNTHER's entrance at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Cody Rhodes is upset that you can’t name your horse in Ghost of Tsushima whatever you want:
“I'm playing this game, Ghost of Tsushima, on PlayStation. I played it like 60,000 times. Nothing pisses me off more than you can't name your horse. You have to pick from the names and the names all suck.
My horse is named Nobu and he's cool and I respect Nobu, but it's like, come on. I want to put my own spin on this.”
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tbh it's just nice to hear a story where a wrestler isn't a creep to one of the female talent he likes and just fucked up talking to her like the rest of us would.
Cody Rhodes shared a story about a time Aaron Solo shot his shot with Fallon Henley:
“You were working there [in AEW]. You were doing some extra work and it was COVID bubble kind of. A lot of us in the hotel, and I had a workplace proximity associate, Aaron Solo. He often talked about you very fondly and very sincerely. He’s like, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty and she’s really smart,’ this whole thing.
He had said so much that finally, we all just were like, ‘Well, you should just talk to her.’ This is basic. You learn this in high school. You should say something to her. You should say hello. You should ask her if she wants to hang out. You should do anything other than talk to us about it.
You walked in and you had a bag of Arby’s. He literally nudged me and he goes, ‘I’m gonna go say hi to her. I’m gonna do it.’ And I thought, ‘Great. Do it.’ Here he goes. Now we’re watching and we’re not roasting him. We’re not giving him a hard time. We are sincerely looking, hope this goes well. No one is making fun of him, which is normally what guys I feel like would do to each other.
You walk past, so he missed that first opportunity. And then it’s even weirder now because he trails you to the elevator and you have a group, so it’s not looking good. And you turned and you smiled at him. You were very nice. And then he just looked at you and he said, ‘Arby’s, huh?’ And I feel like I could hear you say it because we were far away at this point and I just heard, ‘Yeah.’ And then the elevator door shut in my story and you went away.
He came back to us as if… why would you even walk back to us? Walk to your car. Drive away. Leave this city. Don’t ever… all that talk. A month of build-up, all that for that moment? ‘Arby’s, huh?’ Really? But he shot his shot I suppose and that was it. Nice guy.”
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Interesting take here "Bully".
Mox can handle himself just fine, so he doesn't need me to fight any battles for him, but if you ever have the itch to feel what it would be like to have your ass kicked so thoroughly to the point of epic humiliation, I can help you with that.
I can not only "beat the shit out of you", but do so in a way as to make your ass kicking legendary.
For you, any time. Just ask.
It's incredible to me that there was a 30 year-plus period in American wrestling where anyone with any real say in what happened in wrestling on TV absolutely despised wrestling.
Kayfabe isn't dead because journalists try and find out results and surprises. People wanting to know these things if anything legitimizes that your medium has interest.
The problem is when the backstage drama is more interesting than the show itself.
Becky Lynch on kayfabe being dead in WWE.
“The fact that we know what kayfabe is means it’s dead. Um, and we have a show about it being dead.”
“It is dead because we have wrestling journalists that want to know the secrets and then tell the secrets before the secret happens.”
I know it's Konuwa so obviously don't take him seriously, but AEW is probably the better investment now since there's no guarantee WWE will honour the contract you sign with them since they can cut you at a moment's notice, it seems.
AEW has 41 ex-WWE stars. Only 6 are fmr world champs & only 3 headlined Mania. WWE top guys don't go to AEW, so the difference in pay for midcarders jumping ship is small. Even if you get a bit more $ to go to AEW, that does not make it a good investment. Quite the opposite.
Roman Reigns' success after his heel turn is the biggest argument for listening to what fans want in recent history and it's incredible how WWE doesn't seem to realise it.
I like how he specifically cites 2015 opinions to prove fan criticism wrong when the main fan criticism was "turn Roman Reigns heel" and Reigns only got over once he turned heel like 5 years later.
Nick Khan pushed back on criticism of WWE’s product during a town hall, characterizing it as coming from ‘a vocal minority.’ He specifically cited the perception that WrestleMania Saturday was less well-received than Sunday.
“Khan went on to read multiple messages from around 2015, which may have been tweets, that were critical of WWE’s product at that time. He appeared to be using the examples to argue that such criticism has historically proven to be unreliable.”
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Hey Conrad, I'll show you! Here is Eric Bischoff saying, on your fucking show, that a wrestler, Logan Paul, is better than 98% of other wrestlers, not just in NXT, but "most rosters!"
Like I know what he's trying to do but listing a bunch of alt-right buzzwords and dog-whistles to a crowd of people who probably agree with that sentiment isn't it.
Wrestlers need to realise that 99% of comedians can't even do a funny parody of Rogan-style, shit right-wing influencers, what hope do non-comedians have?
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Sami Zayn segment at Kill Tony Mania.
- “I hope there’s no woke snowflakes in the crowd , Don’t cancel me cuck , cause things are about to get pretty controversial , How bad is it gonna get ? Well i might show you , Watch this , Retard”
- “Wondering where that came from ? I have been watching some Joe Rogan podcasts”
- “My wife didn’t really wanted me to do this show , She doesn’t really care for Tony , Shocking..cause i thought he’s one of the most well liked people on the planet”
-“I had to tell her i was spending the night with a prostitute , She doesn’t understand why i wanna do this , She doesn’t get it , It’s always been my dream to do stand up comedy”
Sami Zayn’s segment didn’t make it to the final cut in the Netflix broadcasting.
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@TableofJapan I don't want to put all the blame on TKO like some people have been doing, the product and the culture were repugnant long before TKO even existed, but it's definitely gotten visibly worse under them.