I have no idea how I never noticed this before, but JYD visibly having enough and peaceing out made my day. Read more

That’s an interesting way to look at it. His whole death was so deeply weird that yeah, even if they had already made amends, I’m not sure we get all this Warrior Award shit without it going down the way it did. Like if he makes the 2K deal and dies during the WWE negotiations, or even makes it through the week and… Read more

One of the most eye catching things about the knockout was how Wonderboy went down pretty similarly to the way Joe Schilling did after being clocked by what HAD been the most famous Superman hook in MMA history:

The best commenters. Read more

Weird footnote: Chris Lewis turned out to be a real dude working for Warrior. He was deposed during the last Warrior-WWE lawsuit. Now, whether he actually wrote the emails to Lowtax or if that was Warrior, I have no idea. Read more

Vickie was also being paid stupidly low money, based on reporting from her time in the company. Read more

Exactly. Nothing against Serena Williams. Read more

Or she just killed them, hid them, and took the heads. Read more

It’s that, as noted in the link, there's a concern that warehoused wrestlers will just be doing drills they don't need to to do, all say, every day, bumping around for the football players and the like that WWE trains from scratch. Read more

The quarterly thing is completely optional. Read more

It doesn’t really explain the lawsuit not picking up steam as a media or legal story (or it not running on, say, USA Today’s sports sites), but I have to think that some of the biggest sports media companies online having ties to sites that exploit un[der]paid labor is a big part of it. The obvious examples would be SI… Read more

There appears to be something bigger going on, because you weren’t the only one dropped (though I have no idea if you were gonna be paid, and Brent was being paid). Read more

Well, they also got sued over it. Read more

Because he said them on a third rate shock jock show that played only on satellite and small market FM radio. Read more

Graham would later brag(!) about purposefully not catching Liger on...I think it was a handspring reverse headbutt? So yeah, that makes perfect sense. Read more

I couldn’t fit all the Chyna stuff in, but yeah, that’s all worth noting. Read more

You mean JJJJJOOOOOOOE MCHUGH. Read more

There’s nothing to sell. There are barely any master/broadcast quality tapes, and since the shows ran without copyright notices, everything before March 1989  (when the law changed) is in the public domain, anyway. Read more

Right, the skits ended up pointing that way and then it was done away with as soon as the Triple H feud started. Read more

Eugene was Dinsmore’s idea. The fuckery came when they changed it from the original “actually this might be good?” wrestling savant idea to “actually he’s completely mentally and intellectually disabled.” Read more