What you’re saying about the knee rule is not true. Knee to the head of a downed opponent is illegal everywhere that uses the Unified Roles or a close approximation thereof. The only state to state variance is what constitutes a “downed opponent,” but Crowder would have been considered downed everywhere. Read more

Yoel Romero is an ATT fighter and had some corner shenanigans (like “stoolgate,” which was, as the referee has explained, completely misunderstood and not really egregious, as well as having water poured on him), but I believe that those incidents involved some of the outside coaches he uses, not ATT staff. Read more

I’ve been watching MMA since my dad brought a UFC 2 screener home from work in 1994, but I get what you’re saying. I just don't write about MMA as much. Read more

Mansoor or one of the other Saudi wrestlers? Read more

It can be said about a lot of businesses, but it really is true here. As long as they can maintain a base of 2-3 million people who will watch the main shows, they’re golden no matter how many fans give up on paying them for anything. And it’s so antithetical to how wrestling promotions always had to stay creative to… Read more

Exactly. Read more

...they did slow him down not long after he got really good, didn't they? Read more

I was expecting this one:

Yes, somehow. Read more

That’s always been the big question for me. AKI may not have wanted to do an annual title and that left them out even earlier, but Yuke’s had been making two completely different titles (Day of Reckoning and SmackDown) when it came time, and the lesser one (SD) became the cross-platform one.  Read more

I WAS COMMENTING FROM MY PHONE. Read more

That... actually looks significantly better than I remembered. Read more

The GameCube WWE games deserve significantly more hype than they've always gotten. (Though I've never played the WrestleMania ones, just Day off Reckoning and it's sequel.) Read more

But Yuke’s managed to make some really good, AKI-influenced games with the Day of Reckoning/Wrestle Kingdom series. (Which also had the best commission detection in rasslin game history for some reason.) It’s not like they were always completely inept. Read more

No, because it wasn't weekly. It aired at most every few months during certain off weeks for Saturday Night Live. Read more

Not if you're talking about The original title and its lineage. The since-discontinued World Heavyweight Championship is the one that Booker T and Mark Henry held. It was sometimes slotted as the more important title, though, yes. Read more

Actually, Master P just bought House of Glory, the NYC indie that runs at a nightclub right by the Jamaica LIRR station/the Sutphin Blvd-Archer Ave stop on the E, J, & Z subway lines. No, nobody knows why. Read more

I normally hate WWE mood lighting, but, like many things with The Fiend, this was an exception...for a little while. Then the match fell off a cliff, to say nothing of the difficulty that the fans in the building had seeing the match. Read more

Well, not exactly, but the feeling is that those in the 50+ demo are too set in their buying habits to be worth targeting with ads for retail products. Read more

...but that’s not what I said. I said that he wore a ton of hats beyond his official title that could be useful. Read more