Pretty sure he's going for boos at this point. Dude is really self aware so he has to know what the typical crowds think of him now.

Also, no ****ing clue why AEW only did this for the live crowd.

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Alot of his problem is how badly he wants to be his dad, to the extent he tries to recreate primos and moments and it never works.

LoC’s (Levels of Cody):

Level 1: Cody is a good guy.

Level 2: Cody is a good guy who’s so obnoxious at being a good guy that he’s actually a bad guy.

Level 3: Cody is a good guy and is so obnoxious as a good guy, that you come back around and appreciate his desire to so badly be a good guy even though he has no idea how to actually be one

Level 4: Cody is a good guy, is incredibly obnoxious as a good guy, and then realizes that fans interpret this as Level 2 Cody and not his earnest Level 3 Cody, thus actually now trending toward being a bad guy. <— WE ARE HERE

Him and Brandi would make an excellent heel power couple ala Triple H and Stephanie, provided they balance out that whole emasculating all of your talent issue.

Why in the **** did WWE change Rex Steiner's name to whatever the **** it is now? Just let the ****ing kid be a Steiner legit and he's damn near guaranteed to get over just based on that, nevermind the fact that he pretty much checks every single box you could ask for in a prototypical WWE wrestler.

Let's take a moment to reflect on the plan WWE had to make da big dawg look real tuff and Finn Balor look good:

Pretend Demon Balor is hecka fat that he broke a rope and Roman pins him that way.

LMAO

Balors probably leaving so I doubt they care.

That's what I don't understand. They cared enough to have that dumbass ending.

They're all about doing dumb shit...

LMAO Have one extreme rules match at the PPV titled Extreme Rules, with prior precedent being every match is a gimmick match even if it makes no sense. The next night on RAW, have a no dq match and a cage match for the WWE Championship that wasn't even defended the night before. Just WWE things.

I'm heading to the AEW show in independence in November, anyone else?

How was the show last night?

WWE seems intent on making sure no one watches them right now.

Part of me still suspects that they're setting the company up for a sale.

Yep you do not simply cut people for budget cuts especially when most of the cuts are big name stars.

They care about their shareholders, they cutting people to make a higher profit.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/po...-aew-wrestling great article from the mad king.

Here's some real fun news...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He has arrived! <a href="https://twitter.com/DanhausenAD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanhausenAD</a> is ALL ELITE!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDynamite</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeachBreak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeachBreak</a> <a href="https://t.co/gI0PyeCjJz">pic.twitter.com/gI0PyeCjJz</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1486532166477565953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Love that danhausen. Also 2.0 are chiefs fans. Matt been a fan since montana both from canada.

LMAO Finally signed him, eh? Good for him.

AEW going all out tonight...Switchblade Jay White....Keith Lee...Jon Moxley and CM Punk teaming up..The Elite having a Schism....Hangman Page against Lance Archer in a Texas Desth Match...

Scott Hall on life support



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ex-WWE star Scott Hall on life support after suffering three heart attacks <a href="https://t.co/XtD5NF84Jy">https://t.co/XtD5NF84Jy</a> <a href="https://t.co/GkZARg7dgN">pic.twitter.com/GkZARg7dgN</a></p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1503052228034285571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Scott Hall is one that I’m astonished made it this long

Saw poor Big E got his neck broken. Dude that did it is way too green still.

It is a miracle but I think Scott's family should pull the plug so Scott will not suffer

Thankfully he should recover but it was an ugly bump.

Of all the guys it could have happened to it has to happen to probably the nicest guy in the biz. One of my absolute favs.

Looks like that is what they are doing.

LMAO Probably one of his best raps. CM Punk didn't even try to not corpse

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He sounds like such a little bitch when he says "Listen."

AEW is so much better than WWE these days.

Aew is great thou they need to hire cesaro now!

Not even the best recent one.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Everybody knows what&#39;s coming next... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheAcclaimed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheAcclaimed</a> have arrived! <a href="https://twitter.com/PlatinumMax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PlatinumMax</a> is here to take on <a href="https://twitter.com/SonnyKissXO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SonnyKissXO</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDarkElevation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDarkElevation</a>! Watch it all unfold right here: ▶️ <a href="https://t.co/twXtGkPxHD">https://t.co/twXtGkPxHD</a> <a href="https://t.co/sMZthogmww">pic.twitter.com/sMZthogmww</a></p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1508587238648594439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

AEW doing everything right that WWE isn't, but right now they are too top heavy. Tony needs to bang a few rails and get ROH back on TV and use it as his own NXT.

LMAO That's pretty good. Nothing will top that line about Renee to Moxley though.

Wasn’t a 5-star classic, but that was a lot of fun watching Stone Cold at Wrestlemania again. Send the fans home happy.

Kevin Owens has been my favorite wrestler since arriving in the WWE. Stone Cold was my favorite wrestler as a kid. That was AWESOME. Owens has to be over the moon right now.

I told my wife the same thing.

She said “why would he be happy to lose?”

I was like you don’t get it. Getting your ass kicked by Stone Cold is pretty much every guy’s dream if you were a fan in the 90’s.

No way KO wasn't marking out the entire time

Actually watched it last night.....the Usos match was a waste...Miz and Logan Paul vs. The Mysterios was almost worse.

Ronda Rousey still seems a little unpolished as a wrestler....

Rhodes and Rollins was a good match although Rollins really sold it better than Rhodes.

KO really sold it hard enough that SCSA kicking his butt and giving the Stunner blew the house down.

The Lynch v. Belair match was a good match too. Apparently, there was a Charlotte nip slip in her match...

Okay that was weird, but actually pretty funny.

Not sure if anyone else caught it but Mr. McMahon kind of tipped off that something was about to happen after his match with Pat McAfee. He acted "surprised " a couple of beats before Austin's music hit.

This has been one of the best Wrestlemania's I can remember. Hopefully Brock and Roman deliver, then the b Rock comes out afterwards.

Yeah, this show has really exceeded expectations. The card didn’t look all that great, but it’s delivered.

This match is being hyped so much though. I hate to say it but I think we might be a little disappointed with this.

That was…uh…pretty weak. I kept waiting for some twist at the end, but nothing. Just a finish that felt really rushed.

Good show otherwise.

Yeah. Not a great match.

No idea who is going to dethrone RR at this point.

Johnny Knoxville

MJF potentially no showing tonights Double or Nothing show. That'd be disastrous both for him and the company.

It gets worse though (rumor):

https://wrestlelamia.co.uk/is-goldbe...SIx4&fs=e&s=cl

Wow. Although if they convince Goldberg to lose I'm not so sure that's all too bad. Storyline wise you can say MJF was so afraid of Wardlow he left the company, called in Goldberg, and still Wardlow beat his ass. You absolutely cannot have Wardlow lose though. That's a main event star in the making.

That would be the correct move…but let’s see if they can resist the urge for the nostalgia pop and have Goldberg win in a squash.

Although I'm sure they'll probably resolve whatever MJFs problem is. Apparently dude still makes 150k a year while all the schmucks they've brought in from WWE are at 7 figures. Can't blame the dude for being pissed about that.

FTR they just now put the hype video for the match back up after privating it earlier in the day.

MJF with one hell of a promo tonight.

Supposedly they offered him more money with an extension and he blew it off...makes no sense..

Also I'll be at the show next week if anyone else is going.

Where was this reported at? But he knows WWE will offer him a multimillion dollar contract just like Cody. He knows he will be a top heel in WWE

Potentially massive scandal for Vince and Lauranatis

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wwe-boa...ay-11655322722

The board of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is investigating a secret $3 million settlement that longtime chief executive Vince McMahon agreed to pay to a departing employee with whom he allegedly had an affair, according to documents and people familiar with the board inquiry.

The January 2022 separation agreement bars the now-former employee, who was hired as a paralegal in 2019, from discussing her relationship with Mr. McMahon or disparaging him, the people said.

The board's investigation, which began in April, has unearthed other, older nondisclosure agreements involving claims by former female WWE employees of misconduct by Mr. McMahon and one of his top executives, John Laurinaitis, the head of talent relations at WWE, the people said. The Journal couldn't determine how many previous agreements were being scrutinized.

The board's outside counsel was still collecting information about the other NDAs this week but has determined that the payments totaled in the millions of dollars, the people said.

The board's eight independent directors have retained New York-based law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to conduct the investigation, one of the people said. The board's preliminary findings are that Mr. McMahon used personal funds to pay the former female employees who signed the agreements, including the one involving allegations against Mr. Laurinaitis, this person said.


More broadly, the law firm also is assessing WWE's compliance and human-resources programs and company culture, the person said.

A WWE spokesman said the company, which runs the world's most-famous wrestling business, is cooperating fully with the board inquiry and that the relationship with the ex-paralegal was consensual. He added that the company takes the allegations seriously and is dealing with them appropriately.

Messrs. McMahon and Laurinaitis didn't respond directly to requests to comment.

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. McMahon's attorney, Jerry McDevitt, said that the former paralegal hadn't made any claims of harassment against Mr. McMahon and that "WWE did not pay any monies" to the ex-employee "on her departure."

WWE reported record revenue of $1.1 billion last year and net income of $180.4 million, with most of its revenue from selling content rights, including a five-year exclusive agreement with NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming platform in 2021 that is valued at $1 billion.

WWE also has TV licensing agreements with Fox Corp. and NBCUniversal, and recently secured its first stand-alone international distribution deal with Disney Plus Hotstar in Indonesia. Fox Corp. and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common ownership.

WWE also is seeking to make more international deals and its negotiations closer to home. The company's deal with Hulu, which streams WWE's Monday Night Raw, is set to expire later this year. Walt Disney Co. holds a majority stake in the streaming platform.

The 12-member board of directors includes several WWE executives and members of the McMahon family, including Mr. McMahon, who is chairman; his daughter Stephanie McMahon; her husband, Paul Levesque, better known as the wrestler Triple H; and WWE President Nick Khan. Man Jit Singh, a former Sony Pictures Home Entertainment executive, is the lead independent director and is running the inquiry, according to people familiar with it.

Ms. McMahon stepped away from her role as WWE's chief brand officer last month, writing in a LinkedIn post that she was "taking this time to focus on my family" but that she planned to return.

Though its stock is publicly traded, Mr. McMahon effectively controls the company, WWE securities filings show, as he owns a majority of the company's Class B shares, giving him a majority of shareholders' voting power. The Class B shares have 10 times the voting power of the Class A shares available to regular investors and are owned exclusively by Mr. McMahon, his family and trusts benefiting individual family members, the filings show.

Board members learned of the $3 million agreement in a series of anonymous emails they received from someone who said the former WWE paralegal was a friend.

The first email, sent to board members on March 30, alleged that Mr. McMahon, 76 years old, initially hired the woman at a salary of $100,000 but increased it to $200,000 after beginning a sexual relationship with her. The email to the board also alleged that Mr. McMahon "gave her like a toy" to Mr. Laurinaitis. The board is investigating the allegations in the email, the people familiar with the inquiry said.

"My friend was so scared so she quit after Vince McMahon and lawyer Jerry paid her millions of dollars to shut up," the initial email to the board said, referring to Mr. McMahon's longtime lawyer, Mr. McDevitt, who negotiated the deal, according to people familiar with the board inquiry.

Mr. McDevitt, a Pittsburgh-based partner at law firm K&L Gates, has represented WWE and Mr. McMahon for decades. He defended them in the 1990s against federal charges of distributing and conspiring to distribute steroids to WWE wrestlers. A jury acquitted Mr. McMahon and WWE in 1994. WWE is partnering with production company Blumhouse to develop "The United States Vs. Vince McMahon," a TV series about the steroids case.

The directors received a copy of the $3 million agreement from one of Mr. McMahon's lawyers on June 12, one person familiar with the inquiry said. The nondisclosure agreement provided an upfront payment of $1 million to the former employee, with the remaining $2 million to be doled out over a period of five years, people familiar with the deal said.

The former employee, 41, had fallen on hard times before joining the company and spoke of needing extra money, said people who spoke with her while she worked at WWE. She said she had a law degree but had never taken the bar exam, telling colleagues that her career got sidetracked while she tended to a sick parent, they said.

The former employee moved from the legal department in 2021 to become an assistant to Mr. Laurinaitis, according to the people familiar with the inquiry.

Near the outset of the inquiry, lawyers for the independent directors asked WWE, Mr. McMahon and Mr. Laurinaitis to turn over complaints or allegations about any relationships the executives may have had with company employees, one of the people said.

In recent days, the investigators learned of the other nondisclosure agreements involving allegations against Messrs. McMahon and Laurinaitis, the person said.

Mr. Laurinaitis, a former wrestler whose ring name was Johnny Ace, has been at WWE since 2001 in various roles and most recently as the company's top talent recruiter. His biography on the WWE website describes him as "one of Mr. McMahon's most trusted associates."

Mr. McMahon bought Capitol Wrestling Co., the holding company that owned what was then known as the World Wrestling Federation, from his father in 1982, corporate records show. In partnership with his wife, Linda McMahon, who served as head of the Small Business Administration in the Trump administration, Mr. McMahon expanded the company into a colossus of the professional wrestling boom of the 1980s, turning performers like Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura into household names.

Decades later, WWE continues to portray Mr. McMahon as critical to the company's success. Mr. McMahon "leads the creative team that develops the story lines and the characters for our programming (including our television, WWE Network and other programming)," the company reported in a regulatory filing, which lists the potential loss of the CEO as a risk factor for investors.

Top Left to Bottom Right: Lou Simmons, Eddie Bradshaw, Cecil Christian, Krusty Gangrel, Sideshow Edge, Godfather Hibbert, The Big Castle, Jebidiah Snow, Lenny-Ray Dudley, Carl-Von Dudley, Ralph Holly, Superintendent Holly, Frinky 2 Hotty, Comic Bookishi, Grandmaster Nicky, Vince McBurns, Meldust, Jeff Itchy, Matt Scratchy, Kurt Skinner, "Good Ol' JM" Jim Moleman, Timothy "The King" Lovejoy, The Flandertaker, Groundskeeper Kane, The Moe, Barney Foley, Frank Shamrock, Bart Jericho, Tod Mosh, Rod Thrasher, Martin Bearer, Stone Cold Homer Austin, Lisa Chyna, Triple Muntz, Jimbo Dogg, Badass Kearney Gunn, Mill-Pac...and off screen (I hope) Shawn Smithers

I am confused like never before

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Roman Reigns and brock lesner at summer slam

Reigns wins after a physical matchup. Theory cashes in and wins the title after.

no way does theory hold the strap. He isn't going to be reigns reigns is too big

Aren't they working towards a Reigns/Rock WM title match? I thought I heard this is the first time in forever he isn't making a movie leading up to WM.

I don't think The Rock ever wrestles again. Why would he?

Just going off what he said.

https://itrwrestling.com/news/the-ro...wrestle-again/

If the Rock takes the title from Reigns, they’ve effectively buried the entire roster.

No one can beat Roman, but a guy who hasn’t wrestled in years from the good old days does. Great for nostalgia and fan service, but bad for the rest of the roster.

It would probably be a 1 and 1 type deal. The Rock drops the next PPV and the next full time guy Gera a shot at RR.

It's really hard to care about what's going on in either company nowadays as far as on screen stuff goes. The only interesting thing now is seeing the WSJ gun for Vince McMahon.

Sure he's going to say that. His daughter is in WWE now.

But if he really wanted to come back, he would have been back multiple times by now. I just don't think he's really that interested in wrestling anymore and that's ok.

Probably but this would be a perfect scenario. RR on his streak and "head of the table" vs the guy that is real "Head of the table". Seems like a perfect fit and timing but yeah..he 50 and may not want to risk anything. He sure as hell doesn't need the money.

Well the last time he came back he ended up getting injured and put some filming at risk. Vince would need to pull out some gigantic bucks to even move the needle IMO.

Vince retired

Just saw that. Guessing they've found something pretty substantial in their investigation.

Forbes or WSJ or whatever was about to release a hit piece.

Really curious what and how HHH changes things. Before he got the proverbial boot out of NXT and got replaced with Johnny Ace it was by far the best programming WWE had. AEW oughta be a bit worried because they've been pretty lousy on the talent relations department of late and a whole lotta HHH guys that got the boot may want to come back.

Shit has hit the fan in a major way over at AEW. Tensions have gotten so high between Punk and the Elite that they actually had a semi serious fight after the media scrum.

Sounds like a work

Cornette is going to be fun to listen to this week. Looking forward to that.

Well, they're doing it a way that nobody looks good if it's a work. And I seriously doubt it given the drama apparently centers around Colt Cabana. Punk threw a 20 minute shit fit about it pretty much calling out the EVPs for how ****ing shit they are at their job and really shitting on Page.

AEW is good shit

AEW need to get colt and punk in a room tell them ether fix your shit or your both fired. I like both guys but this whole shit got to end.