Professional Wrestling

[RJK]

I'm going to guess it was no coincidence that Chad Gable walked in this week past a truck with "scary" Alexa Bliss on it

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[henryeatscereal]

I did not care for the Wyatt Sicks debut last week, but i liked Bo's "VHS" promo from tonight, i always considered him talented.

[tony.parente]

I missed cinema in the WWE. Weaving real life into kayfabe always hits when done right.

[Swykk]

The VHS promo is by far the best I’ve ever seen Bo do.

[richardp]

Dude that VHS promo was fucking UNREAL.
Incredibly effective promo. Also loved Nikki delivering the tape to Cole and then wandering off through the crowd. I really REALLY hope they don't fuck this up. There's so much pressure on this to be great, so hopefully they treat this the way they initially treated The Bloodline when that saga was at it's peak.

[Demogorgon]

Roman Reigns' father, Sika Anoa'i, has passed away, according to the WWE facebook page.

[tony.parente]

Dude that VHS promo was fucking UNREAL.
Incredibly effective promo. Also loved Nikki delivering the tape to Cole and then wandering off through the crowd. I really REALLY hope they don't fuck this up. There's so much pressure on this to be great, so hopefully they treat this the way they initially treated The Bloodline when that saga was at it's peak.

I kind of want each member of the sicks to have an interview with uncle howdy/their alter ego to help us identify their motives - but at the same time i don't want 6 weeks of vhs tapes on TV.

I LOVE how they were in the funhouse, there was a theory somewhere that Bray/The Fiend kind of held the characters in the funhouse almost as a prison guard, and now that they're gone they sort of escaped. The possession/alternate personality angle is brilliant and i'm super excited to see what they do.

[Swykk]

Mystery solved on Buddy Matthews-He and Rhea Ripley got married the other day. Congrats to them!

[Space Suicide]

Forbidden Door was arguably the best show from AEW since last year's All In, although slightly below Revolution for this year's shows thus far. It definitely was better than Dynasty and Double Or Nothing. The only match I did not have much interest in was Moxley and Naito.

MOTN for me was definitely Danielson/Takagi. Such a great showing. All of the matches were strong in their own right and I personally really enjoyed the Ladder Match (even though the winner was a foregone conclusion), The Elite vs Tanahashi/Acclaimed and Toni vs Mina.

[Swykk]

Swerve and Ospreay was probably MOTY so far.

[tony.parente]

Much needed attendance W for AEW. Good for them.

[richardp]

Good lord how many MOTY can Ospreay possibly have?? This dude is 1000% the realest deal. Incredible match with Swerve. Swerve breaking kayfabe at the end of the match to show Will some love was a really nice moment too.

This right here though, courtesy of WrestlingInc. may genuinely be one of the most idiotic takes I've ever read. In regards to Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa's match.

Impersonal connections between queer people are fine, but it felt like AEW wanted to have three women kiss while distancing themselves from a possibly queer storyline (despite Anthony Bowens' famous "I'm gay" promo, having multiple members of the queer community on their roster, etc.). The distinct use of lesbian skinship in order to generate attention and, consequently, profit through exposure and revenue is crude and, frankly, insensitive entertainment meant to generate a cheap pop. It is near-pornographic in its absurdity and exploitativeness.

I mean, if you REALLY wanna talk "near-pornographic absurdity exploitation" we can pull up Dawn Marie and Torrie Wilson's segment from Armageddon 2002 and pinpoint the differences between three modern women wrestlers in charge of their own sexuality and tastefully executing a romantic angle, versus a segment being written by an actual sexual predator forcing two women talents to make out in lingerie in front of one of their actually fucking fathers.