I've been so overwhelmed by everyone's kindness. I just want to say thank you and I appreciate this community very much. I'm still out of pocket for a bit, but I want to reiterate how much I love you all and appreciate your well-wishes and condolences.

I believe this, too. Thank you.

A good mindset in approaching loss I'll try to carry with me.

Guys, I'm very sad to report my mother passed away today after a short battle with quickly advancing esophageal cancer. She just turned 68 this past Sunday. I love you all and I'll look forward to chatting wrestling as I'm able, but I may be spotty here in the coming days.

5 years ago today, the world lost Jon Huber, a great man known to fans as Mr. Brodie Lee + Luke Harper. His family came first, his loving wife Amanda and their sons Brodie + Nolan. He loved wrestling, + he was an amazing wrestler. He loved you fans. Please keep him in your hearts

I'm sure the spin from the griftsphere will be that they "wasted" an excellent TV show to air it on Christmas Day, as if excellent wrestling is a finite resource that can be wasted.

Better than Phil in every 👏 single 👏 way 👏!

Kenny Omega-tier human.

When you and your partner lose your chance at a well paying job because you thought you should be booked like the 80s road warriors in georgia

I would have had Okada and Takeshita as a lock for the finals, so that they're facing off in the semis is very interesting. Either Okada wins the whole thing again to delay Takeshita breaking away on his own, or Takeshita beats Fletcher in the finals, I'd wager.

60 minutes of Uso vs. Uso would be fascinating to see if you can break the scale in the negative direction.

Jack Perry proving all the doubters wrong makes me glad he told some sad old bitch to cry about real glass.

I liked the way they sold Strong's win like a flash KO, the jumping knee putting Claudio on roller skates and the pad-down knee putting him out. Sold the idea that Strong can beat anyone on any given night, protected Claudio, and put over that anything can happen. #AEWCollision #ChristmasCollision

The schadenfreude I am experiencing at the expense of Newell and Alize is absolutely immense.

Any time Tony consolidates creative control, the product improves. He should be in the conversation for one of the best bookers of all-time.

They're going to make taking the belt off Page up to the Hangfans by having these men fuck on live television.

We're Marley and Marley🎶🎶⛓️

I like how he has no qualms about biting whoever wherever. It's a simple thing that adds a fun edge to his otherwise pretty vanilla babyface character (not a knock--he's a good babyface).

If no one watches in December, it's the fault of the monopolistic industry leader who punted on putting anything worthwhile in December for two decades.

This is the textbook definition of "will never beat the allegations."

As a business, if you start from the premise that "no one's watching," why wouldn't you create a must-watch annual event to keep eyeballs on the product? Then again, a whiny podcaster may not want to do any work for a month, so pros and cons.

Super Jannetty Turbo: Champion Edition.

This is so great when you remember the low point of AEW quality (by several million miles) was December 2019. They got pre-empted on Christmas, TK changed the booking, and a much better promotion showed up in January 2020. That New Years night Dynamite turned everything around.

You're probably still a part-timer if you're only working a match a month, there, bud.

Meanwhile over on Twitter

"he books wrestling shows for people who like wrestling shows" is an incredible criticism. flawless. you've got him now dude.

Oh no, I can't believe that heartless promoter offered so much great wrestling, I had to make the choice between staying and watching more great wrestling or going home early. The monster.

Fortunately, I am a sicko just like Tony Khan and I will happily have as much wrestling as he wants to give me. If you don't like it, watch as much as you want or don't watch. Don't demand I get less because you don't like wrestling as much as me.

As a Virginian, Tim Kaine seems to have made it his personal mission to disgust me personally. Can't wait to vote for his primary opponent.

They're incapable of considering viewpoints other than their own, much like individual MAGA chuds. They're always the heroes of their own story, the unstoppable entertainment powerhouse, the underdogs fighting up against adversity, the saviors of lucha libre.

Correct. The only way to read it.

Gonna be a nice turnaround for her when she loses everything and only then is she ready to win the world title.

Or Raw taught them some tough lessons.

Loved this game and would love to see a modern revival of the series.

Reminiscent of some of the old all-killer no-filler Rampages.

You know how folks say AEW is too predictable? Tell them to go fuck themselves.

I'm trying to imagine a world where NJPW kept both Knight and Okada. Forget Knight ever beating Okada--would they have ever let Knight move up to heavyweight at all?

And Knight beats Okada. Wild shit for an hourlong show way out of timeslot.

So apparently there are Max Hogan people on this platform? You realize that's just as stupid as when trolls said it about Mercedes, right?

Tremendously funny.

Glad Joshua beat the brakes off him.

Absolutely blitzed and dropping truth bombs, bless them.

In their infinite wisdom, the Trump admin has now again made the story "what are they hiding?"

So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.

I really want them to do an Omega/Callis 80s-homage simple wrestler vs. manager match where Omega finally gets comeuppance for two-plus years of Callis bullshit. We have more than enough Kenny Omega epics. Now let's just enjoy having him around while we do.

These men would later fight for a world title at WrestleMania.

Damn, Sara really goes off in this thread and drops some bombs.