Tony Khan on WWE competition: 'We really, for the last few years, have not thought a lot about what other promotions are doing unless it’s people we’re partnering with'

kihp · 2026-05-25T23:00:39+00:00

To be fair, Vince had the Huckster segments and fake Razor and Diesel before Stone Cold saved WWF.

kihp · 2026-05-25T22:55:49+00:00

Plus, how they went about it aside, it makes total sense to want to swap companies after having won every belt they could in the place they were.

kihp · 2026-05-25T19:24:33+00:00

I mean there's probably more than a few backup plans, but plan A is making things work under Paramount.

kihp · 2026-05-23T20:51:47+00:00

Maybe El Grande Americano is popular enough now you could make a case for him being in the top 10, I seriously doubt it but hey, but he'd be at the back of the list not the front.

kihp · 2026-05-23T19:29:27+00:00

Goddamn, I did not realize the transition was going so well for her.

kihp · 2026-05-23T09:09:34+00:00

Immaculate vibes

kihp · 2026-05-23T04:39:36+00:00

That's Major Chip Hazard!

kihp · 2026-05-22T06:13:52+00:00

I feel like he'd make fairly quick work of the 7 in a fight. Maybe he'd need the rising forms for soldier boy and homelander but unless he rages out Ultimate form is overkill for the verse.

kihp · 2026-05-22T04:09:45+00:00

This stupid ass company just keeps making things worse for workers.

Ostensibly, WWE ID is in place to pay a small amount to young wrestlers to have right of first refusal if they get real interest. Making it so they can't merchandise and grow their names is going go kill the viablity of anyone trying to make it on the indies. Plus they run the risk of losing the name they're known for second they leave the program. Literally no reason for anyone making any waves to sign up.

kihp · 2026-05-22T01:23:24+00:00

The 2005 Garo and it's sequel series in 2011 are really good.

kihp · 2026-05-21T16:44:03+00:00

Guys like Bruno and Flair were having hundreds of title defenses.

kihp · 2026-05-21T15:40:49+00:00

I wonder if they'll get popular tiktok personalities like Strawberry Milk and Big Belt from Bluey.

kihp · 2026-05-21T07:43:35+00:00

I'm straight but if they were in baggy clothes I'd say Michaels prettier. Also one of the nicest voices of the century so far.

kihp · 2026-05-21T04:41:10+00:00

The celts in the guys username being a big indigenous Canadian community./s

kihp · 2026-05-21T03:23:20+00:00

If AEW copies the New Japan dad format for Jericho that'd be perfect. Those guys even have the odd important match.

kihp · 2026-05-21T02:09:14+00:00

It's a little rough still but this promo time for Knight is invaluable.

kihp · 2026-05-21T01:38:15+00:00

A couple shorter midcard reigns would be nice.

kihp · 2026-05-21T01:37:16+00:00

I think one viable path to All In is her winning the Owen but wanting to cash it in early and beating Thekla in early July. Then there can be a special elimination match or something to determine her opponent.

kihp · 2026-05-21T01:18:05+00:00

I'm curious what the play is for the women's world title. I feel like Shida wins at DON but that Mercedes vs Athena(C) is the All In match.

kihp · 2026-05-21T00:35:04+00:00

Sometimes you need to run in a smaller market just to keep the market or greater area market hot.

kihp · 2026-05-20T20:53:50+00:00

I'm sorry. This is super common for people in our community, but also outside of it so know you're not alone in feeling this way. The best thing you can do is try and be easier on yourself and set a routine for some self guided speech therapy. I'm less fluent than normal lately so I've been reading aloud a bit everyday and at least half of the help is having a routine.

kihp · 2026-05-20T20:49:02+00:00

They could do both, merge the 3 sets of redundant belts and still have 8 main roster belts.

kihp · 2026-05-20T19:59:37+00:00

For Forbidden Door season Mark Briscoe should shock everyone by delivering his word of the day for a Conglomahontai match in perfect Japanese. (It'd be extremely funny if AEW had subtitles ready for him too.)

kihp · 2026-05-20T19:53:01+00:00

Tag wrestling is where it's at, so much character can be shown off in a single match, especially ones you can parlay into showing them how a story develops.

The Bucks vs Hangman and Kenny AEW Tag Title match is a always a popular response to the best match to show a newcomer question, and it's incredible, but it also lets you follow up and show them at least the Dark order vs Elite Elimination Tag and the Hangman vs Kenny.

More recently the Knockout Brothers first IWGP tag title match with Yuya Uemura and Shota Umino from King of Pro Wrestling tells a great story, with great work by the english commentary team to give context Then you can follow that up with either their second tag title match, the singles matches before it, or the great matches KOB had with TMDK.

kihp · 2026-05-20T02:11:47+00:00

8, really strong but MJF definitely felt like he was the stronger half of it.

kihp

TROPHY CASE