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[Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling]

Matt Cardona / Zack Ryder was good enough to get signed

Good enough to get called up

Good enough to get over despite WWE creative

Not good enough to push / keep on the roster

Good enough to be successful on indies

Good enough to be re-hired

Not good enough to be pushed…

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

[Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling]

Without Hulk Hogan the wrestling business wouldn’t be what it is today and we would NEVER have gotten:

* Dude Wipes branded ring gear
* Slim Jim tables
* Logan Paul hydration station
* Speed Championship
* TNA sucking
* Fireball Ladder
* Vince becoming a depraved Roman Emperor

[kidd bandit キッド・バンディット @kiddbanditpro]

this is legit bringing a tear to my eye! thank you for this amazing edit!

[kidd bandit キッド・バンディット @kiddbanditpro]

riding off to the sunset!
thank you for all the love!

this is the protagonist of pro wrestling signing off.

[Ibou, of Self Made @BackupHangman]

They sought mainstream coverage and acceptance. Mainstream outlets are burying the show. They do things believing it’ll attract extra casual eyeballs. Casuals on IG, TikTok, Twitter thought the show sucked.

The truth is it’s entertainment for nobody except soulless content creators that attend the event as a show of status. And media partners.

Stephen A has to sit there and pretend to know and care about pro wrestling while his alleged favorite team was playing a playoff game. Remember this when he makes severe, declarative takes on First Take about the NBA playoffs.

It’s a 4 hour ad grab. They’ve even forgone video packages in the name of more ads. They know the audience is a bunch of suckers. You have WWE fans paying $40 to watch this event and defending commercials, you can’t help these people.

WWE has always been about the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry, the theatrics, but it always did its brand of entertainment within the confines of a wrestling promotion. At present, it has never ever felt like less of a wrestling promotion.

I don’t say this because it brings me joy to say, I’m a big fan of numerous talents on the roster. I say it, because it is so blatantly the truth now, and there’s no revoking of access that any company can dangle over me that’ll discourage me from being honest.

Not only is it not actually for the casuals or the hardcores, it’s not even for the wrestlers themselves. I actually feel bad for the talent who still dream of getting their big wrestlemania stage appearance and match. The people on that undercard were background actors. Outside of your top guys, the stars of the show were Hulk Hogan, Wheatley’s American Vodka, RAM Trucks, Minute Maid, and Fanatics.

It’s not going to get better. The people that run this operation are all focused on preserving their backs and making sure the money continues to roll in at the same rate and they’ll do whatever they need to get there, even if it means an extra ad where video packages used to be. Ads where a charming backstage segment used to be.

It’s not for you or me, it’s a ruse. The undercard talent only get to have actual matches on the TVs and the big show hits you over the head that the TV doesn’t actually matter. You’re insulted for caring and paying attention because the TV stories are incongruous with the things that happen on the big show.

In past bad eras of WWE, it was bad wrestling produced by wrestling minds. This is something entirely different. To describe it as a facsimile of wrestling would be too charitable to its proximity to pro wrestling. It is a dystopian, synthetic, cynical, corporatized, vaguely similar recreation of a sports entertainment product and it’s produced by businessmen that’ll free their hands of it and dump it off to the next sucker that’ll buy it the first chance they get.

[Ash Stabbath @ashstabbath]

Rose gold light tube pin giveaway (USA only)

To enter

1. Follow me if you haven't already

2. Like this post

3. Wait until Sunday when the winner is announced

[Ash Stabbath @ashstabbath]

My food stamps are frozen now cause of a new rule that passed right as my old pet-sitting gig ended

Orders help me meet the new work requirement, anything helps me stay fed and sheltered

@ashstabbath on Venmo or $ashstabbath on Cashapp

[Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling]

Always found it interesting that Bam Bam Bigelow won the Slammy award for “Best Head” when you never hear about him being sloppy in the ring.

[Drew @DMcIntyreWWE]

The only real Champion.

[All Elite Wrestling @AEW]

AEW is proud to celebrate Black History this month and every month! #BlackHistoryMonth

[kidd bandit キッド・バンディット @kiddbanditpro]

my going rate went to absolute dogshit since trump became president and all the “proud ally” indie wrestling companies stopped platforming LGBT folks

i mean it’s why i went on a world tour in the first place cause being in america sucks donkey balls for queer performers rn.

[IVPvideos @IVPvideos]

AEW fans hate HHH because we are all old and been around forever and discovered the indie scene because the HHH reign of terror of 2002 chased off half the audience.

[Matt Johnson @VivaMattyVegas]

"They're eating the dogs. They're eating the reindeer"

[IandrewDiceClay @IANdrewDiceClay]

It's better than eating human shit I suppose.

[Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling]

WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING WEIRD NOW

[WrestlePurists @WrestlePurists]

Chelsea Green addresses Michael Hayes’ comments on WWE Unreal that she isn’t meant to be the ‘Top Girl’:

“One of the head producers of WWE, his name is Michael Hayes. He works very closely with our boss Triple H, and he basically on Unreal said, ‘Chelsea makes the most out of her time, so we don't need to give her 30 minutes. We give her 30 seconds, and she does the same work, which is great because she's not meant to be here for 30 minutes. She's not meant to be the top girl. She's meant to elevate all those girls to be in that top position, to be a main eventer.’

It's crazy because I'm a self-aware human being, so I know my kind of place on the totem pole in this fake hierarchy that is wrestling. But to actually hear it, to actually hear that there was a ceiling put on me, it's different. You can't help but be pissed off and a little upset and just aggravated at the fact that you thought that there was maybe a chance that there wasn't that ceiling, that maybe it was all in your head, and then it was confirmed. And it wasn't confirmed to me. It was confirmed on national television.”

(Reality Checked)

[Trinity @TheTrinity_Fatu]

If she returns while I’m out yall will witness the crash out of the century on this app⚠️

[Drew @DMcIntyreWWE]

You’re really shocked the rest of the world want to see Homelander defeated?

Come on…