He was going to look like a pathetic loser either way, so might as well have done in service of a story that would have made sense.

Dumbass took a 50% pay cut to lose the world title in nine days after zero successful defenses. All-time loser shit.

You too can win the world title if you simply take a 50% pay cut. Just don't expect it to last long

Phone call audio: "I just want to find four goals."

This is the greatest sporting headline I've ever seen

Look in my eyes. What do you see?

Well, at least the fifteenth red flag finally convinced people

They fucking elected him President. Twice.

The fucking Pod Jons were among the biggest assholes responsible for boosting this guy despite the mounting evidence he was a scuzzball. They don't get to disclaim responsibility now.

Yup. Lots of victims/survivors don't come forward until something compels them. The number of battered wives who don't report until he starts on the kids attests to that.

Can’t wait to hear the Pod Save guys rationalize this. Just kidding! I don’t listen to their shit anymore.

The nice thing about booting candidates with nazi ink immediately is you get to skip the inevitable other disclosures that happen when you don’t. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

We didn't really need to wait for it to emerge that Graham Platner was a rapist. His Nazi tattoo was sufficient. Everything after that was a waste of time and resources.

The Totenkopf tattoo he pretended he didn't know was a Nazi symbol wasn't enough for you? SMH

In the future, a “No Nazis” rule might help protect you from endorsing monsters. Your endorsement was an embarrassment long before today. You should consider all the missteps that brought you here, and firing the people responsible.

Bro, this is like scandal 21, do you have any standards?

It was wild watching people double down on this guy. Like, People, this is what Primaries Are For. Like, right here, right now, this Exact situation is why we do this. Holding your nose and voting is supposed to be for the General, in the primary you breathe freely of God’s own air.

Oh he DEAD dead...

"Fuck your mother, asshole colonizer." Real graps, baby.

The hardcore criminals are now consolidated to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Congrats on getting the belt for nine days, you fucking mark. Hope it was worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars and the self-respect you lost.

It's pretty funny that AEW just did a great job of putting Umino over, maybe better than I've ever seen NJPW itself do, and the first thing NJPW did afterwards was take the belt off him. Gedo gonna Gedo.

There's just so many guys he can work with that would result in fun matches. Sure, he's older, and sure, his best days may perhaps be behind him, but he can absolutely add value to AEW if they're interested in bringing him in even if he isn't in his prime.

I've posted this elsewhere, but I don't think this is in fact the Fed's assumption. They're not trying to convert AEW fans. They're trying to keep their own from getting curious about the competition.

For comedy value, what if they bumped up MJF/Omega because they found a new title challenger for Redemption? 😏

Oh great, I see we're doing exactly the same shit with Sheamus that we did with Ciampa. I guess we're incompletely incapable of learning.

Time for banger after banger after banger.

Trump just said “immortable,” so things are going great.

This was legitimately a better pyrotechnic effect than the Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match.

Sometimes I wonder how different the Fed would have looked in the 90s if Luger had won the belt at SummerSlam.

...Aren't both of these guys on SmackDown? Why Raw?

I've gone on record as saying AEW and Costco are the only two companies trying to add rather than subtract value for their American customers, and I mostly stand by it. (I think folks chimed in to name Chewy, the pet food brand, as another example. I'm less familiar with them, but I'll grant it.)

Every podcaster telling you how they would "fix" AEW be like:

Had to squeeze in that unannounced tenth match on the broadcast, you know. What would we have done without the Rush squash? (Not complaining, Rush owns.)

Can we please stop making it seem as if one of the most ignorant and demented people has accomplished greatness? The only reason this level of criminality is possible is because the entire Republican party, the corporate class and the Media have ceded responsibility, honor and duty to America.

It honestly reflects how reliant on crowd reaction he is to tell us the extent to which he liked a match or not. It's coward shit.

Genuinely, what the fuck?

I was trying to work out how he's 19-0 in ROH when he previously lost the Pure Title before I remembered that he lost it on Rampage. Therefore, if he loses here, he'll still be undefeated in ROH, which I'm sure they'll leverage as needed in the future. Clever.

The loaded boot spot was one of the worst things I've seen in maybe the last decade.

AEW must be doing really well if "the matches on tv are too good" gets thrown around as a "lobster too buttery" complaint.

ELP has mega-babyface potential in North America. Get him out from under Gedo and watch him shine.

Wait, Don paid Takeshita? How does this managerial transaction work?

VIDEO PACKAGE for Beach Break. Bryan Alvarez breathes a sigh of relief. #AEWCollision

That match could main-event Death Before Dishonor with minimal build and the madman Tony Khan is just giving it away on an average Saturday.

Rolling bridging fallaway slams is such an impressive athletic feat. Maya is so cool. #AEWCollision

A Rush squash now and we're up to TEN matches scheduled for this evening. #AEWCollision

Tony doing a trios match with all the workrate guys and setting the match to "All Out" in his TEW playthrough this evening. #AEWCollision

Rina looks damn good for 19. I suppose getting started at 11 will do that. #AEWCollision

Holy shit, double hardway juice in the jobber squash. These boys are going hard. #AEWCollision