"It’s never a good sign when most of the audience leaves as the main event starts." Turns out I covered Mike Santana's last match in TNA & the big story was how many fans headed for the exits.

Does anyone else realize WWE is setting up watch parties because a Saudi WrestleMania is 50/50 at best? Whether the Saudis pull funding LIV Golf-style or the war gets worse, it'll be up in the air into next year, even after (if?) a date is announced.

Maybe it was just the hot crowd, but this RoH show is the first time the Hook-led Opps made sense.

The Saudis wasted so much time & money on sportswashing since they can now just bribe the President.

Mamdani is a classic politician because he promised something huge that he couldnt do & made a big spectacle of not being able to do it. That's a lesson that can apply to Dems outside of NYC. Let people know what you would do if you could.

Triple H still hates Scott Steiner for that negative 10 star classic they had at the Royal Rumble a long time ago. But Scott wasnt the only blown-up, gassed out steroid monster in that match.

The funniest part about this post doing numbers is random people telling me (unprompted) how much they hate seeing WWE on ESPN. Oh, I get it.

Beantown Beatdown is too good a name for a random YouTube episode. AEW needs to save that for a big tv show next year.

On July 21, 2025, Eric Bischoff predicted TNA would be #2 in a year. On July 21, 2026, we found out AEW beat TNA in the demo by 5x. So close!

Is he bragging about killing 18 service members? Another helpful reminder Republicans do not actually support The Troops.

As part of my outreach for @newsofprowrestling.bsky.social, I asked ESPN if Andreas Hale would ever cover WWE again since his last pro wrestling article was a Darby Allin feature. Got that one answered!

I really wish pollsters would stop asking Republicans if they "identify" as MAGA because they are all 100% MAGA trash. There is no such thing as "Non-MAGA Republicans" in 2026.

extremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus

Also... can we agree WWE is not sports? It doesn't belong on ESPN.

ESPN laying everyone off so they can pay Stephen A & Pat McAfee 9 figures is exactly why ESPN sucks now. Every media outlet (sports or otherwise) prioritizes carnival barkers despite consumers rejecting them. PTI is ESPN's most-watched daily show for a reason.

There are precious few stadiums that have lore in pro wrestling & SkyDome (or whatever it's called now) is one of them. AEW All In 2027 there would be massive.

AEW should book All In for Toronto next year & use that for a superweek of shows. That would have the added bonus of wrestlers not needing visas from the US Nazi Party.

ESPN seems to get behind dumbass white guys with loud stupid takes who do friendly Trump interviews, what a surprise.

hey does anyone know where i can read a profile of some dumb asshole that fell for a reality show hosts bull shit and it took a decade for them to realize theyd been duped? oh every day in every major publication? awesome thanks

This version of "Dems should do nothing" is based on the "fact" a state with a Dem Governor would automatically elect a GOP Senator. The defeatist attitude of too many terminally online liberals is infuriating. "Flip that seat!" should be the goal.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

LOVE TO SEE IT

If only AEW had a ppv (or 10) that takes place in a big city that has multiple venues for indie shows with 1000s of wrestling fans around??? Indie promoters need to move past its WrestleMania obsession. The Saudi show could be a good forcing function.

This is tremendous stuff because AEW would be dumb as hell to run anything opposite WrestleMania. That Saudi show will look & feel disgusting. Let WWE have that spotlight all to themselves for a few days.

Lmfao could you even imagine if Olive Garden was carding for pasta?? "I'll have the spaghetti." "License, please."

Dana "I Slap My Wife in Public" White, who recently built an entire UFC show around rapist Conor McGregor, is friends with rapist Andrew Tate??? A stunning revelation.

"This lobster is too buttery!" complaints never work. Shockingly, fans do enjoy a good meal.

ESPN laid off Ryan Clark on-air during NFL Live on Monday & canned Karl Ravech the morning after he called a game??? Every company in America seems to be in a contest to treat its employees the worst. I don't even like either of those guys, but common decency.

Mitch McConnell update: he's still dead.

My LinkedIn feed is full of "trending" posts from job-seekers railing against the obvious AI scanning all companies are doing to resumes. This country is in fucking hell & AI is a huge reason why. It has made everything so much worse.

I live here & I don't trust the United States. Our government lies to us too.

The (most annoying) AEW fans complained last week because the 20-minute women's main event on Dynamite started at 10pm WWE doesnt even book them.

ESPN should lay off the execs who decided to lose (at least) $150 million per year on WWE.

Next week's Raw includes a face-to-face confrontation, a weigh-in, and a concert. No, I can't figure out why fans of pro wrestling have turned off WWE for AEW either.

WWE must be having a really hard time selling out Summerslam. I just got an email offering $25 tickets.

So much of the MAGA dynamic is people who want to speak to the manager for every single thing that even threatens to inconvenience them, including imaginary grievances, and now they think they have a manager who will listen

Tiger called Trump after his car crash. Of course Bryson threatened to. What a loser.

Hilarious publicity for WWE. Brady is working such a stupid, terrible angle with Logan Paul that everyone in football is already begging him to stop.

Ive learned NWA has more fans than you think. This got posted to their socials & Facebook is where their fans live. Not sure why wrestling media is ignoring them. A promotion with national tv employing talent is a big deal.

I don't understand the criticism about Redemption. If you don't want to buy the show, don't. The show didnt exist last year, so anything over 0 is a net gain for AEW. I can't be mad MJF/Omega was on tv, sorry.

Our national news media covering this with a shrug sums out why we need a new national news media. As if Trump being a rapist & constantly supporting other rapists isnt newsworthy anymore.

A fitting coda to a life lived terribly.

"U.S. President gets booed & openly mocked during the world's biggest sporting event" wasnt even shocking news, it was expected. That's how far America has fallen. We're a joke. Everyone is laughing at us, and we deserve it.

Ticket sales for Raw tonight are down 35% from WWEs last visit to Detroit & more people watched AEW Dynamite than Raw or Smackdown the past few weeks. We've officially reached "AEW hot, WWE not" territory.

cropping photos is an important skill

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Measuring the boos for Trump like it's a big 3rd down. The most American part of the World Cup yet.

“The Final Halftime Show.” Is that a promise?

This is some dystopian shit. The audacity of FIFA to put "LOVE" on the field when Peace Prize winner Donald Trump is the guest of honor. 100 thumbs down. Could've just been Madonna & the Muppets.

Bad Bunny's halftime show was roughly a trillion times better.