Broke: AEW showing tweets in air Woke: WWE commentators discussing your tweets on air

I was live for this, about a foot from the guardrail where Credible came out, although thankfully not on camera. I tried to think of what a modern equivalent but it’s not replicable.

Tracy Smothers hunts while shirtless during a Smokey Mountain video package (at least I hope he’s hunting)

The Nightstalker folds up Daniel Little Bear with a backdrop suplex

Paul Lee tries a top rope legdrop and pays the price

Went to a minor league hockey game last weekend, the various wrestling themes were played at one point: -Ultimate Warrior theme -Shane McMahon theme -Elevated -Let it Roll (old Main Event theme, great song) -Cult of Personality (feels like a wrestling theme in this context)

Alex Wright with a brutal landing. I appreciate DDP (in hideous gear) doing the “I’m smart” head point, like getting out of the way of someone jumping on you is a 4D chess move.

Yuma Aoyagi falls from great heights several times during his match with Ren Ayabe

Mulkey Mania runs wild on TBS

Twin Gate match from today’s Dragongate show is well worth seeking out

Daisuke Sekimoto absolutely trucks poor Shota Kofuji

Amazing sequence sees Rip Rogers trying to get the drop on Vader but ends up getting blasted by Vader’s helmet instead

Maybe Jim Nash should have called in sick that day

I feel like this is the fifth time I’ve expressed this sentiment, but when they signed Ciampa I was like ehhhhh but man has he crushed it with every opportunity he’s gotten. The kind of run you’d make a VHS comp of once upon a time (highest compliment).

20 years ago the first episode of Joe vs the World dropped. I had planned to release an anniversary episode today, but back in March my mom passed away, & well, that threw a lot in disarray. But that episode is coming, I swear. I refuse to have watched No Way Out of Texas for no reason. God bless

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Ten years ago today I went to an NXT house show highlighted by Samoa Joe’s shocking NXT title win. Still one of the best live shows I’ve seen. If you made a Takeover out of Girard/Ciampa, Andrade/Aries, Asuka/Bliss, AA vs FTR, and Joe/Balor it would have been very well received.

Oh yes the infamous Reviving Elbow. The Butcher knocks out Hogan with the sleeper and Randy Savage drops an elbow on his partner to wake him up. There is a logic to this, Hogan always Hulked Up after prior elbows, so why not one where Savage is a friend instead of a foe?

Terry nooooo

So now that WrestleMania week is (essentially) over, who won the week? Meaning, what wrestlers or companies are you going to think about if someone brings up Mania week 2026? Is there anyone?

Despite everything, there is still a part of me deep down that roots for Punk, and I’m glad he’s getting his actual WrestleMania main event.

Thanking the good Lord above I declined my wife’s offer to put Mania on the television and kept watching on my phone.

Commentary right now

So far the WWE on ESPN run has yielded Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber, and Mania Night 1. Even if you’re a big WWE fan you have to admit this hasn’t exactly been a Rumble ‘01 to Mania X-7 kind of run.

WrestleMania review

Iron Sheik at Mania 17 got to the ring faster than Randy

It’s too bad WrestleMania is after April 15th because there’s enough time in between matches to do the taxes of your entire extended family.

Rollins is probably my least favorite wrestler around but You Gotta Hand It To Him that was his best match in forever. He didn’t act like a moron and he and Gunther beat the hell out of each other. Interference is what it is but whatever

There’s no 2 on 2 tag matches on either night of Mania. There’s a 6 man tag and a 4 way women’s tag title match but no traditional tag matches. Fraxion and the MCMG have a match on Thursday afternoon in a warehouse. Oh well

Daisuke Sekimoto’s finisher is so powerful that reality blinks out for a second

The Evolve intro usually ends with quick shots of the men’s and women’s champions winning the titles and posing with them. Last night showed Wendy Choo winning the belt, which is weird because she won the belt that night, so they spoiled their own main event. OOPS

AEW Men’s: Darby Allin Women’s Champ: Thekla TNT: Kevin Knight TBS: Willow Nightengale Men’s Tag: FTR Women’s Tag: Bayne/Kross National: Jack Perry international: Kazuchika Okada Continental: Jon Moxley Trios: Strong/Orange/Kyle That’s a lot of titles (but I like the champs)

I think Darby is the first wrestler to hold the AEW World, TNT, and tag titles. I remember watching him in Evolve, who would have guessed he would become such a successful national wrestling star?

More stellar WrestleMania press as the AV Club decries the current state of wrestling games (and insult to injury, they show Goldberg beating up Triple H) avclub.com/wwe-2k26-wrest…

Gorilla’s indignant “WHAT!!?” still makes me laugh to this day

Barbarian hits a sick looking Tombstone

This was all that was in the Raw email preview. Big night for guys standing around.

WCW YouTube uploaded the (in)famous Bischoff/Russo reset Nitro, really a must see. Feels like an early John Waters film at times and not just because of what Hogan threatens Bischoff with.

AIR SEKIMOTO

Hijo Del Vikingo tries a dive on Penta and ends up eating shit

Vanvert Jack with the rope run DDT

OUCH

Amazing things are happening on WWE television

Cactus Jack takes a brutal fall in the background

I was at my kid’s band concert last night and they were playing selections from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and I thought “how do I know this song?” Turns out it was The Great Gate of Kiev, which was Jerry Lawler’s (and other WWF kings) theme music.

This is how you should book yourself in the main event of your produce show

Not a promo line I’ve heard before tbh

Dynamite ends with United Empire all defecting to AEW like a Russian ballet dancer