captaindangerstein @captaindangerst

Matt Cardona / Zack Ryder was good enough to get signed Good enough to get called up Good enough to get over despite WWE creative Not good enough to push / keep on the roster Good enough to be successful on indies Good enough to be re-hired Not good enough to be pushed…

WWE @WWE

3 months ago

He is ABSOLUTE 😎 @starkmanjones picks up the WIN over Matt Cardona!

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This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

Without Hulk Hogan the wrestling business wouldn’t be what it is today and we would NEVER have gotten: * Dude Wipes branded ring gear * Slim Jim tables * Logan Paul hydration station * Speed Championship * TNA sucking * Fireball Ladder * Vince becoming a depraved Roman Emperor

Allan @allan_cheapshot

3 months ago

The Hogan debate is exposing how badly WWE has conditioned wrestling history. Hogan mattered enormously. But if your take is that successful pro wrestling effectively began in 1984, you are not discussing history. You are repeating the corporate myth. Let me explain.. 🧵

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this is legit bringing a tear to my eye! thank you for this amazing edit!

ً ‏ @strawhatstyles_

3 months ago

The Protagonist of Pro Wrestling Kidd Bandit x FLOW (@kiddbanditpro) 🎵: HERO -Kibou no uta- #TROOPSTakeover

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riding off to the sunset! thank you for all the love! this is the protagonist of pro wrestling signing off.

They sought mainstream coverage and acceptance. Mainstream outlets are burying the show. They do things believing it’ll attract extra casual eyeballs. Casuals on IG, TikTok, Twitter thought the show sucked. The truth is it’s entertainment for nobody except soulless content creators that attend the event as a show of status. And media partners. Stephen A has to sit there and pretend to know and care about pro wrestling while his alleged favorite team was playing a playoff game. Remember this when he makes severe, declarative takes on First Take about the NBA playoffs. It’s a 4 hour ad grab. They’ve even forgone video packages in the name of more ads. They know the audience is a bunch of suckers. You have WWE fans paying $40 to watch this event and defending commercials, you can’t help these people. WWE has always been about the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry, the theatrics, but it always did its brand of entertainment within the confines of a wrestling promotion. At present, it has never ever felt like less of a wrestling promotion. I don’t say this because it brings me joy to say, I’m a big fan of numerous talents on the roster. I say it, because it is so blatantly the truth now, and there’s no revoking of access that any company can dangle over me that’ll discourage me from being honest. Not only is it not actually for the casuals or the hardcores, it’s not even for the wrestlers themselves. I actually feel bad for the talent who still dream of getting their big wrestlemania stage appearance and match. The people on that undercard were background actors. Outside of your top guys, the stars of the show were Hulk Hogan, Wheatley’s American Vodka, RAM Trucks, Minute Maid, and Fanatics. It’s not going to get better. The people that run this operation are all focused on preserving their backs and making sure the money continues to roll in at the same rate and they’ll do whatever they need to get there, even if it means an extra ad where video packages used to be. Ads where a charming backstage segment used to be. It’s not for you or me, it’s a ruse. The undercard talent only get to have actual matches on the TVs and the big show hits you over the head that the TV doesn’t actually matter. You’re insulted for caring and paying attention because the TV stories are incongruous with the things that happen on the big show. In past bad eras of WWE, it was bad wrestling produced by wrestling minds. This is something entirely different. To describe it as a facsimile of wrestling would be too charitable to its proximity to pro wrestling. It is a dystopian, synthetic, cynical, corporatized, vaguely similar recreation of a sports entertainment product and it’s produced by businessmen that’ll free their hands of it and dump it off to the next sucker that’ll buy it the first chance they get.

Always found it interesting that Bam Bam Bigelow won the Slammy award for “Best Head” when you never hear about him being sloppy in the ring.

The only real Champion.

AEW is proud to celebrate Black History this month and every month! #BlackHistoryMonth

my going rate went to absolute dogshit since trump became president and all the “proud ally” indie wrestling companies stopped platforming LGBT folks i mean it’s why i went on a world tour in the first place cause being in america sucks donkey balls for queer performers rn.

Miss Valentine 🍒 @manicpixiqueen

6 months ago

I think about how much indie wrestlers get paid quite often. In burlesque, we are incredibly transparent online with how much we accept, and people start discussions and movements to ensure a bare minimum rate. Last I knew, it was $75 per act. Wrestlers are risking even more

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AEW fans hate HHH because we are all old and been around forever and discovered the indie scene because the HHH reign of terror of 2002 chased off half the audience.

William @William74424982

6 months ago

@SkytelWrestling Based on what ? Here's the reality. AEW fans hate Triple H because he's in his position in WWE.

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"They're eating the dogs. They're eating the reindeer"

Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling

6 months ago

WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING WEIRD NOW

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It's better than eating human shit I suppose.

Ecstasy of Gold Wrestling Website @EoGWrestling

6 months ago

WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING WEIRD NOW

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WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING WEIRD NOW

Chelsea Green addresses Michael Hayes’ comments on WWE Unreal that she isn’t meant to be the ‘Top Girl’: “One of the head producers of WWE, his name is Michael Hayes. He works very closely with our boss Triple H, and he basically on Unreal said, ‘Chelsea makes the most out of her time, so we don't need to give her 30 minutes. We give her 30 seconds, and she does the same work, which is great because she's not meant to be here for 30 minutes. She's not meant to be the top girl. She's meant to elevate all those girls to be in that top position, to be a main eventer.’ It's crazy because I'm a self-aware human being, so I know my kind of place on the totem pole in this fake hierarchy that is wrestling. But to actually hear it, to actually hear that there was a ceiling put on me, it's different. You can't help but be pissed off and a little upset and just aggravated at the fact that you thought that there was maybe a chance that there wasn't that ceiling, that maybe it was all in your head, and then it was confirmed. And it wasn't confirmed to me. It was confirmed on national television.” (Reality Checked)

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If she returns while I’m out yall will witness the crash out of the century on this app⚠️

WrestlingWorldCC @WrestlingWCC

a year ago

Naomi claims she will not retire until AJ Lee returns (via The Wrestling Classic)

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You’re really shocked the rest of the world want to see Homelander defeated? Come on…

Public Enemies Podcast @PublicEnemiesHQ

11 months ago

Cody Rhodes name getting booed in the UK is wild 😭 #WWERAW

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It’s the Colby Corino Benefit Show - Destination: North Carolina on Friday October 24th! Talent & Matches TBA soon! Tickets $25 (All money to be donated to Colby Corino) Doors @ 7pm Bell Time @ 8pm Friday October 24th Missing Link Crossfit 111 Wilmington Hwy Jacksonville NC

TIMES AEW HAS RIPPED OFF WWE (thread!) 1. Back in 2021, AEW copied WWE’s current relationship with TNA and AAA. 🤦‍♀️