Oh to have this much swagger, it’s almost too much for one man

The Triple H selfie thing is a really underrated aspects of why modern WWE is bad. Every debut or new champion has to get the lame endorsement from an overrated guy who sucks. Also feels like it’s actually about “take a look at MY booking” rather than the person themselves.

Since I have the relevant data, I did deep dive into the key part of the WON HOF candidacy of Kevin, Kerry, and David Von Erich as a unit: The gates WCCW drew in 1983. I went in w/o preconceived notions, and the results are...interesting. But there are question marks about how the criteria applies.

One of the all time great tweets from @jackbaker1311.bsky.social.

SILENT HILL PUZZLE: I am not 1 but I am not quite 3 - pray tell what could I be? ME AFTER 30 MINUTES: is there a gamefaq for this

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

One of my favorite post WWE interviews ever. You get the full scope of how much of a “dumb guy who thinks they’re smart” Black really is. The socks, saying Vince liked him and it wasn’t his call to release him, saying Heyman told him his issue is he’s “too smart and creative”. Beautiful shit.

"So Batman, I hear you don't have a father"

Great moments in @btsheetspod.bsky.social Patreon history: In which Paul Heyman seemingly pretends to be an Australian newsletter reader so he could write a letter to the Observer about how awesome he is.

When I say he is making a very obvious effort to do this he literally shocked the commentary team last Saturday I think when he went to do the promo. Its something that means a lot to him seemingly.

Friday night on BBC One trailers which go so hard they're ushering in fascism 29 years later

love the mat-level camera, which is especially helpful for watching El Hijo del Santo dribble Shocker's bloody face off the ground like he's trying to crack it open and find the secrets inside (Monterrey, 10/21/2001)

Oh, and that they're doing this at a time where it doesn't seem like they're signing any men to Legends contracts. That too.

You say that like it's weird for the most penny pinching version of WWE in its history to routinely sign women from Vince's 2/3rds life crisis era to Legends contracts where they get paid to do absolutely nothing for WWE

Numbered console generations were made up by a random Wikipedia user in 2004 in an attempt to standardize the "__ era game console" articles, and nobody ever corrected it. It's nonsense that no actual historian uses and you have permission to ignore it

🤼I'm not saying Samoa Joe stole that walkaway bit from a 1989 Russian sambo wrestler but I am saying you can't prove he didn't.

It's time for the semi-annual reminder that "Lex Luger Highlight (Dude has Issues) HAHAHAHA NWA WWE TNA ECW" is one of the greatest YouTube videos of all time:

The W*NG foreign monsters on playground photo shoot is one of the most sublime moments in wrestling history

print ad (1993) archive.org/details/tota...

Nothing sums up what an absolute delight of a promotion W*ING was during its short run like Crash the Terminator (Bill DeMott) being joined by Bash the Terminator (PCO) and Goliath El Gigante (Kurrgan) for this spirited pre-match promo from 1992.

"I gave my art to an AI training model and they sent back a rejection letter! 'At capacity,' they told me!"

Rob is right. The death clock just jumped ahead 22 hours. And there's something terribly sad about a company started up post-WCW sale to offer an alternative to WWE to just end up a gleeful part of the machine.

@davidbix.bsky.social Not sure if you've seen this already, but that answers your question from the Wrestlemania 1 Patreon show

As covered on the latest Rewind-A-Wai: Are we EVER going to figure out who Mr. Fuji's opponent was in the match from Kuwait on Best of the WWF Vol. 16: Around the World? Mean Gene says in the wraparound that he's a Kuwaiti wrestler, but he's not; he's a mystery westerner with bleached blond hair.

This is obscene.

The only wrestling on ESPN for me.

These shows are fucking terrible. Needlessly long entrances & filler, endless run ins, too many gimmick matches, no heat until a "moment" happens. WWE has never been worse.

Went to see The Dark Knight on release day, and when Gordon unmasks and says "WE GOT YA YA SON OF A BITCH" to da joker, literally the entire theatre cheered like Steve Austin just walked out in 1998.

Two PPVs ending with a cash in and Freakin' back on top. I don't think you could deliberately design a less appealing wrestling promotion.

"I will occasionally watch 'Yo, MTV Raps' to be up to date with what's hip and what's happening and what's now and what's tomorrow" is the most Paul Heyman quote possible. It contains multitudes.

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

KOMO-TV in Seattle posted a news segment from 1987 where Hulk Hogan met Seth Witz, a 7 year old fan w/ osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone condition. We've always heard how great Hogan was in these settings, so it's neat to see, especially how he lets his guard down and jokes about his hairline.

Someone needs to make a list of everything that's happened on a Thursday since Thursday night became Dave Meltzer's deadline for the Observer.

Hangman winning the big one at AEW's biggest US show to date while Phil is on a humiliation tour is *chef's kiss*

So everyone gets now that Okada is mostly treating TV matches like Road To shows, PPV matches like tour ending world title matches, and the C2 like the G1, right? He's not shot or even dogging it more than before. The off nights are just more visible than they used to be. #AEWAllIn

50 years ago today: The famous IWA show in Jersey City that drew 13,000 fans outdoors to Roosevelt Stadium during a rainstorm for Mil Mascaras vs. Ivan Koloff. The $110,000 gates amounts to $652,419.74 adjusted for inflation in 2025.

Is it me or is the biggest wrestling story of the first half of 2025 that barely anyone is talking about that WWE accidentally destroyed the illusion of the extent of their international popularity via the Netflix deal and the numbers Netflix has put out every week?

wild to me that the more money and more focused on "production" and being "a show" American wrestling companies get, the less extravagant they are. look at broke ass 1993 WCW putting together this cool set. what do we get now? sometimes the big TV is ... bigger.

Texas wrestling from Sept 52 to 53. There were 31 weekly towns, 43 total towns, grossing a total of $1,761,801, or close to $21 million by today's money. "The biggest wrestling city in Texas is Houston ..."

"Jeff Monson here! You like watching people get fucked for free?"

a shot of Yokozuna's dressing room at KotR 93 makes it super clear that this guy is definitely Japanese, don't even question it. he has a SONY tape deck! SONY is from JAPAN!

I could just watch Hechicero spam the taunt button in real life and do cool poses for like 20 minutes 🤼

tip the waitress? whats next, tipping the dog for shitting all ovefr my green grass???

Tony Schiavone spent five years working for Jim Crockett Promotions at its peak and even he's like "geez, it's LOUD in Arena Mexico." #AEWGrandSlamMexico

why did Matt Riddle just retweet a video of some dude having a wank

The wrestling isn't any good. The promos sound like an 8 year old trying to remember lines in a school play. The storylines aren't even any good. Why does anyone who hasn't fully jumped in on the cult watch that shit?

It's cached on the Wayback Machine, so I managed to rip an HD copy of "Cheap Pops," WWE's animated web series that was canceled after a single episode because someone in the company felt the cartoon's satirization of the portrayal of Kane hit WAY too close to home. Too bad, it was genuinely funny.