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David Bixenspan
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Eh, they made a point to only announce talent under contract to ROH & NJPW past April for the MSG show when they put the tickets on sale. It’s not either company’s fault if fans didn’t listen or pay attention. Read more

They’re great. The match they had with LAX at the House of Glory show with Low-Ki vs. Red last year was one of the best I saw live in all of 2018. So happy for them.  Read more

Just a month short of the first time they teamed together as Super Curry Max, too. I am excited for the fountain of youth battle of the evening. Read more

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It’s the theme from Crockett’s NWA Pro Wrestling show. Dunno what the stock song is called, but SoundHound won’t match it to anything.

They don’t release any individual numbers on any program. There’s a top 10 most-watched shows listing in some of the network apps, but there have been conflicting stories about if it includes the linear/live stream or is only measuring on-demand playback. Read more

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Both nights? That must have been incredible live, especially for Magnum’s return and Flair-Windham.

Something hit me tonight after I boiled the article down to brief Cliff’s Notes for an old message board acquaintance who, if he read the whole thing, appeared to comprehend none of the substance: Read more

I don’t think she’s getting much of a free pass here in the comments, at least from people who read the article.

I think it’s supposed to be tinsel from the tree? Since there IS some white tinsel on the tree. Read more

To find a way to get people to watch, to give context to why Goldberg-Undertaker was happening, and probably mostly to make the Saudi Royal Family feel like they were getting their money’s worth. Read more

The Ultimate Warrior is much, much more famous than Bill Watts, even if Warrior doesn’t have a “things he did in pro wrestling” legacy of bigotry at the level of Watts (like his WCW firing). And Warrior, as awful as his blogs were, also never wrote anything that sounded like a real life version of The Onion’s “Why Do All Read more

The Mae/Moolah thing is weird. I think I discussed most of this in the articles last year, but: Read more

The key thing, I think, one of which is that WWE will need to utterly collapse in a number of ways for any fan to feel anything more than futility in deciding to to give WWE their dollars. Between their TV deals, the Saudi deal, and everyone willing to just let the Network re-up, they’re VERY stable from a bottom line Read more

That was part of the equation at times, too. “I don’t know about most of these guys, but X is real.” Read more

This is purely speculation, but, I think there are a few factors beyond the more obvious ones, like hubris. Read more