Nia Jax is on Twitter saying that it is “lies” that she’s not cleared to compete and…
My tag partner is expecting
I thought anyone who could not defend would be stripped of their title. Guess not.
How many months was Hulk Hogan “not cleared to compete” (read: making yet still even another movie) without stripping him of the title?
I think the old NWA rule was, if one half of a tag team was suspended, the team forfeited the belts, but if one was injured, he could be replaced, as long as one member of the team that won the belts was wrestling. Of course, the actual rule, in every wrestling organization, is, “Whatever the booker says it is this week.” The “30-day rule” exists only when somebody wants it to exist for a storyline.
God, Clash of Champions was amazing. The ladder match was wicked even before the clever ending, and the right person won. Asuka had a good match with Zelina and then I honestly thought she might become Asuka Dos Straps, but I suppose Bayley will eventually be dethroned by Sasha.
The ambulance match was wonderfully cathartic; I loved all those legends getting their revenge on Orton. And Roman/Uso was AMAZING. “Acknowledge me as your tribal chief!”
Now we know where vehicles used in WWE angles go when they die.
Someone Found Vince McMahon’s Cement-Flooded C4 Corvette After All These Years
My buddy Timmy bought that car for him. Trump gave him a bag with 60 grand in cash and told him to get something that would look good getting filled with cement.
You mean Vince right?
Hah! That’s funny! Yeah, Vince. The Trump stuff is everywhere. Not a hell of a lot of difference between those two, yet Trump is still way worse.
I got an email late Friday night from NXT asking if I was available tonight to be a part of a “limited amount of fans” for Takeover tonight. I said I was, but was ultimately told the space filled up. That said, they did put me on the list for future tapings, so future NXT-at-the-newly-named-PC tapings are going to be invite-only and I’m on the list. Kinda disappointed about tonight though, that’da been fun…
The CWC setup is pretty sweet. It has an underground Blade Runner meets Bloodsport look. I like the way the online spectators are divided across a giant LED board that’s otherwise used for promotional graphics during the wrestlers’ entrances. Speaking of underground, two former LU stars faced each other without masks, the former Killshot and King Cuerno reincarnated as Isaiah “Swerve” Scott vs Santos Escobar.
It had some kind of weirdness in that Vic Joseph wasn’t seated with Wade Barrett and Beth Phoenix, even though he was ostensibly conversing with them. He was seated between a woman who looked like Sasha Banks with dark red hair and some guy. Were Wade and Beth in COVID-safe isolation booths, commenting remotely? Were the two others there to give Vic social comfort via proxy? Did Wade and Beth undergo cosmetic surgery?
Glad Kyle O’Reilly got a token push. He did some truly amazing shit in RoH and deserves more air time. He doesn’t have champ charisma, but he knows all the tricks.
For many years that car was on display at Wrestlemania Axxess, the fan fest before Wrestlemania, along with other cars used in WWE like some of Undertaker’s hearses and other things.
I guess at some point they decided to drop it from the line-up, but at least it isn’t like it’s gone missing 22 years ago 
I very much meant to say something, but I attended this past Wednesday taping. It was pretty fun and they definitely did what they could tell make things safe.
So, to follow up on my last post now that I’m on a computer and not trying to text, which I’m godawful at…
I still don’t know how I got on the list, but after randomly receiving the message about maybe attending Takeover, I got another email about going to the taping and accepted.
The first thing I had to do was RSVP who was coming. I could bring up to 5 people in my party. Then, I had to agree to take a Covid test on Tuesday at two different locations around Orlando. Finally, I had to agree to wear a mask and be socially distant and all that. The most interesting part about it was the Covid test. It was out of a couple labs and literally was just for NXT (they had a sign and everything). It was the nasal swab one and it was quite deep in my head. I took a test in April that was way less invasive. Either way, once I got the all-clear we got instructions.
We drove to the PC and checked in at 6. Once they opened the doors we were brought into the plexi-glass pods. There were 6 of us to a pod (hence me being allowed to bring 5 friends) and it wasn’t bad. The pods were probably 6x10 give or take, so while we weren’t crammed I think 6 was a liiiiiiitttle too much (I would have preffered 4 to a pod) but each pod had a bunch of bottles of water, hand sanitizer and paper towels. You could also get a chair if you wanted.
We were initially literally right behind the commentary team, but a staffer asked if anyone in our pod was a party of 2 and would be OK with moving. Mrs. Cups and I volunteered and we were moved to the entrance ramp and had our own pod. The staffer said someone would be joining us, but they never did. That was a ton of fun.
You can see us from time to time on the show. The best view of us is when the 4 women fight it out on the ramp…you can definitely see Mrs. Cups. We’re on the list now and got an email about attending this week too. We had to decline because we just got a puppy (!!!), but they told us that saying no wouldn’t take us off the list.
Is the show you attended on the Network yet?
In other news, YouTube posted The Sheik, a documentary about the Iron Sheik. They start with footage of his Olympic wrestling career in Iran, where he was practically the Iranian version of Kurt Angle. He was a bodyguard for the Shah, then left Iran when the political situation got too hot. He wound up in Minneapolis, where he trained under Verne Gagne, along with Ric Flair and other future AWA stars. He started his America-hating Sheik gimmick there, then eventually went to WWF, where they had him win the belt from Bob Backlund and then lose to Hulk Hogan a week later. If it weren’t for Iron Sheik, there’d be no Hulkamania.
There’s footage of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson explaining that Sheik came up with “Jabroni.” Sheik used to tell Rock when he was starting out, “When you go to locker room, don’t talk, just listen. Don’t be a Jabroni.” Rock worked it into his promos and created an icon.
Another one of those funny only to me moments: on AEW Dark, Ricky Starks took on Fuego Del Sol, a masked lucha wrestler billed from Mobile, Alabama. Taz on commentary said to Excalibur, “You know, I’ve been to Alabama many many times, Mobile many many times, and they all wear masks and hoods down there.”
I think he was making an allusion to the KKK, but he quickly added “Just like you, Ex.”
Another funny AEW moment: I think Kenny Omega is purposely trying to piss off Jim Cornette as much as possible. As much as I like Cornette, he despises AEW because Omega once had a match with a broom. With all the silly shit Cornette’s done in his career, he can’t get over a stupid gimmick match?
So, for his entrance tonight, Omega had a couple of bikini-clad girls dancing with brooms. I suppose the brooms are meant to represent his nickname “The Cleaner,” but I’m pretty sure it made Cornette take the piss. There’s sure to be ranting about it on his next podcast.
Right after I posted that, AEW had Jericho and MJF sing “Me and My Shadow” like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. and they somehow nailed it.
35 years in the wrestling business, and that may have been the funniest thing I’ve ever seen Chris Jericho do.
Congratulations to Rich Swann on winning the Impact World Championship. Swann was one of the most entertaining WWE Cruiserweight Champions in recent memory, and I’m glad to see him win the Big One.
Bah Gawd, could WWE do anything more to make Retribution look like utter chumps? They set them up to be the next Outsiders with the explosions and computer crashes, then they job job job, wish them well in future endeavors. Gobbledegooker, meet your fellow crash and burns.
I’m trying to find Orton’s 14 world titles. Are they counting the unification match at TLC in December, 2013 when he beat Cena to unify the two belts (World and WWE Heavyweight) at the time? That’s a bit of an asterisk, if you ask me, but then again, Triple H’s 14 includes one where he was stripped of the belt and won the match to fill the vacancy.
Sure. He won the World Heavyweight Title in that match.