A winner is you. Read more

PWI reported it. WO contradicted it. Read more

We don’t even know to a scientific certainty if Benoit had CTE. There are no chain of custody records. Read more

If I cover the case itself here, it’ll be as a postmortem. Didn’t feel like it made sense just to aggregate the Chicago guys’ coverage here while it was ongoing. Read more

There are tattoo artists who will cover up Nazi and gang tattoos for free all over the country. Read more

Shane has no executive role, though. He’s just a performer. Read more

One of the Amy defenders went at O’Brien over the WWE stuff. He explained that a source told him that WWE knew about the Twitter mess, so he called to get a confirmation or denial. Then he told the Any defender to “go get DDTed” or something like that, and was suspended for making a threat. Read more

I think his specific job, negotiating deals abroad including in Muslim countries, is what forced their hand. Put him in a different position and maybe you can justify keeping him, but as soon as that story came out, it was going to be untenable because the first thing to come up about him on Google would be about his… Read more

Where did you hear that Zayn was paid for GRR? There was one report about the female wrestlers getting paid for the site, but it was contradicted elsewhere. Read more

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It’s a bucket within “The Vault.” Read more

Brian covered most of it. Patterson is SUPER litigious, including failed lawsuits over WWE calling the wrestlers WWE Superstars and having the revived WWE Superstars show that got cancelled a few years ago. All is this is why the “Superstars of Wrestling” branding has been dead since 1990 and why the logo has to be… Read more

Fair warning: A lot of people have viewed the Last Battle of Atlanta proper as disappointing, as it doesn’t have a traditional structure and there’s a healthy amount of laying around selling exhaustion. It seems intentional to sell it as the ultimate war of a feud-ending match to the 1983 fans, so I don’t really fault… Read more

There’s a ton of WCW and other non-WWE stuff on there, including: Read more

MSG cards started airing on HBO with the June 30, 1973 event. Exactly what aired on HBO vs. what aired on the regional and national versions of MSG Network (the latter becoming USA Network in 1980) isn’t exactly clear, but there was a December 1976 Atlanta card from Georgia Championship Wrestling that aired on HBO, as… Read more

I know you’re kidding, but the network has every single PPV. Read more

I don’t think it’s that big a deal. The rights fee increase more than makes up for the logistic hurdles of having to send a crew on the road for SmackDown instead of it being shot the night after Raw. Read more

I wrote about this last year. I’d suggest reading the whole thing, but the short version is that it’s a byproduct of when WWE/WWF style pro wrestling was an aggressively shitty byproduct of everyone crisscrossing the country constantly and having to be pilled up constantly to get to sleep. It should have been dropped… Read more

It’s been reported that it was a factor. Definitely by Dave Meltzer but I believe elsewhere as well. Read more

Y’know what’s especially dumb about the Jemele Hill stuff, besides...everything? Read more