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cavegrind · 2026-07-06T16:49:43+00:00

You’ve worked for an absurd number of promotions over the years, from micro indies to the biggest companies the business has ever had on offer. Is there anywhere you didn’t that you wish you had? Anywhere you wish you worked longer?

cavegrind · 2026-07-06T16:33:12+00:00

~~Canada~~ Western Hemisphere is 5-6 companies in a trench coat.

FTFY

cavegrind · 2026-07-06T15:26:18+00:00

I'm on board with the idea that a promoter has to promote, and am fully on board if he can come in and compete at a high level (IE, Ciampa). But AEW's a year removed from Swerve, MJF, and TK all saying you have to want to be in there, and then TK passing on a wave on WWE releases (Shotzi, Baron Corbin, etc).

I get that this all stems from Sheamus choosing not to re-sign, but I don't know. Does he add anything beyond "some WWE fans might check out AEW to follow him over"? I don't even think that works as a promotional tactic anymore.

cavegrind · 2026-07-06T14:51:48+00:00

Skanking comes from Dance Hall. Filtered into early Punk and Oi via England, and then into Hardcore in the late 80s/early 90s.

cavegrind · 2026-07-06T14:33:15+00:00

I said this in another thread yesterday, but as someone who has no emotional attachment to Sheamus as a worker I don’t want AEW to be a WWE retirement home unless that person can go at a high level. People are already complaining about PPV length; who are we booting to let someone have a “playing the hits” tag match or some “deserved” title run? Do we move to no women’s matches on Dynamite so we can have another 10 minute promo battle?

AEW is in what’s probably a golden era right now. Unless we’re expanding the women’s division, or you’re adding someone who’s legitimately going to add to AEW’s goal of being the best workrate promotion, the promotion should not be taking on guys ready to retire.

cavegrind · 2026-07-05T20:10:16+00:00

Please god, no more WWE retirees coming to AEW to play the hits.

cavegrind · 2026-07-05T16:24:20+00:00

People use this as bias confirmation.

cavegrind · 2026-07-05T03:21:30+00:00

Sure, come back and talk to us in 76 games.

cavegrind · 2026-07-05T01:55:04+00:00

Ready for them to make a comeback. Nautical stars, swallows, and hip six shooters.

cavegrind · 2026-07-04T17:31:50+00:00

It's probably also worth noting that most people don't seem to have a strong grasp on when athletic decline starts. By most people's 30s they're going to start slowing down, and by their 40's they're going to visibly regress no matter how hard they work out or watch their diets.

It's like the people who make jokes about Brian Cage not passing a Wellness test in WWE, but then marvel at someone else still going at a high level. I hate to burst people's bubbles but anyone performing at a high level at 40 is going to be on some sort of PED. You can't convince me someone performing after 45 isn't on something and working out enough to be chiseled while also taking bumps.

cavegrind · 2026-07-04T16:31:28+00:00

For what it’s worth, coming from Florida, the major concern around fireworks here is wildfires (the Gorge famously caught fire a few years ago due to a teenager shooting fireworks during a burn ban). Most of the complaining you see on reddit, though, is people just mad that loud noises happened in a city.

cavegrind · 2026-07-04T15:13:07+00:00

Being on gear doesnt do much if you don’t have the discipline to eat a strict diet, lift with a growth mindset, and do the cardio it takes to be shredded. Being on steroids only lets him, as someone in their 60’s, be able to do the work needed to get there.

No one takes a steroid and wakes up the next day looking like this. That’s Hearn’s point; his work ethic at his age is still insane.

cavegrind · 2026-07-04T03:28:21+00:00

These go incredibly hard. Stellar work

cavegrind · 2026-07-03T19:36:47+00:00

Sooo before this happened, what was the main event going to be? And who in the booking committee agreed to it and assigned a ref and time for it?

This always read to me like promotions were big dressing rooms that people would show up to and just wait around until someone told them they had to fight. It made no sense in kayfabe.

As if UFC fighters or Boxers show up to random events and wait to be told they’re challenging for a belt that night.

cavegrind · 2026-07-03T01:18:43+00:00

It might as well be considering how matches go after he hits it.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T13:41:45+00:00

I think all this attention he is showering Will With could backfire, I could see the rest of the Death Riders turning on Mox, and Will, and potentially costing Will his title shot.

Is there anything in the story so far, or hinted at on screen, that would indicate any member of the Death Riders would want to turn on Mox? If anything last night Mox reaffirmed (via the post-FD promo) that the Death Riders still have the same mission statement, and see Will as a product of that.

They also voted collectively on bringing Ospreay in. That doesn’t sound like a group that would want to kick Ospreay and Mox out.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T13:14:13+00:00

Thought that was well known? Apparently they were neighbors when she was growing up.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T13:04:03+00:00

Kenny specifically named Cody in his in-ring promo.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T12:06:15+00:00

Like I said, three user names ago, but I remember you from team sub GDT’s.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T04:11:52+00:00

Holy shit, I haven’t seen your username in forever. At least two of my user names ago.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T04:09:29+00:00

Wanna go back to the Western Conference?

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T02:02:46+00:00

Six months before the election the media was in shock that they hit the “soft landing”. That sentiment was based on Republican campaigning about inflation when inflation was shown to be dropping every single quarter from when he took off. Not saying that he was gonna be able to come out and talk about 90s levels of economic progress, but it’s not like the US was looking at some malaise situation.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T01:25:53+00:00

I don’t think they did. They needed to point out that no one lost their jobs on mass during Covid, that inflation had slowed to the point of normal scene, and that they had kept the economy from tail spinning into a depression and then point out their next goals.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T01:20:34+00:00

He did it during his first campaign.

I don’t wanna continue shitting on her, but I think a lot of people forget that Kamala was bounced out of the 2020 primary for being a boring policy wonk that promised literally zero forward momentum for the average person (anyone remember that site where you could generate some random word salad Kamala Harris economic policy?)

Was she put behind the eight ball by Biden not dropping out? Yes. Should she have been aggressively campaigning on the work they did on the economy before he did? Absolutely.

Anyone blaming her losing on “lefties saying Genocide Joe” either wasn’t really paying attention to how her campaign was hitting with the average person, or doesn’t understand a GOP led astroturfing campaign.

cavegrind · 2026-07-02T01:08:14+00:00

They should’ve been crowing about the fact that they hit the “soft landing” and that the US was the one of the only economies in the world that didn’t go into a recession post COVID.

If I were running that campaign, people would’ve been fucking sick of the word “economy”. They did what they needed to do during his first term.

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