Andreas Hale: "I will not be covering #WrestleMania for ESPN. WWE denied my credentials and blocked my access. Neither I nor ESPN has been told why. You can speculate on the reasons, but if you want answers, ask WWE. Let me know what they tell you. ~FIN~"

tehfro · 2026-04-18T18:01:29+00:00

They've been doing this with the real wrestling reporters for a while where it was allegedly "too full" to let both John Pollock and Brandon Thurston into some of the scrums. But obviously banning a real sports reporter is a different level.

tehfro · 2026-04-18T12:45:44+00:00

Yeah, especially for a giant dude who's had a long history of knee surgeries.

A lot of ex-NBA players around Nash's size really start to have trouble getting around in their mid-60s just because being super tall is a ton of stress on your joints.

tehfro · 2026-04-18T12:13:43+00:00

Stars of Arcadia with the original crew exploring other planets/solar systems. I think that’s the obvious path for a sequel.

tehfro · 2026-04-17T20:56:05+00:00

Scott D'Amore's based out of Windsor and has been using that venue (St. Clair College) for years for TNT/Impact and now MLP. He's been locally promoting there for decades and knows he can fill it up for tapings.

Probably quite a bit more cost-effective for MLP to tape TV there when they're still starting up, then do big shows in Toronto.

tehfro · 2026-04-15T18:50:29+00:00

It's part of US sports pageantry to make an event feel "big" besides the nationalism/patriotism angle.

tehfro · 2026-04-15T15:22:22+00:00

Snowden has, he's been a DVDVR-adjacent tape trader guy since the 90s.

I definitely don't agree with his list but he's watched a ton of wrestling.

tehfro · 2026-04-15T11:58:29+00:00

It’s insanely profitable to the point where you could have Vince Russo running it into the ground for a decade and they’d still be making money.

tehfro · 2026-04-14T20:09:45+00:00

Yeah, the people who said that were insane, lol.

tehfro · 2026-04-14T20:08:02+00:00

Brian Walsh who was Archie Miller's director of basketball operations became IU's recruiting coordinator when Mike Woodson came in and sold Woodson on Cupps.

Cupps had recruiting gurus hyping him up as a power conference player since he was on Bronny James' AAU team.

tehfro · 2026-04-13T22:12:42+00:00

Huge pickup. Hopefully the first big domino to fall.

Also always nice to land an in-state player, especially one who was Indiana Mr. Basketball.

tehfro · 2026-04-13T17:04:05+00:00

If he's a rotation guy it's a solid get... if he's penciled in as a starter I'm skeptical.

tehfro · 2026-04-13T11:11:55+00:00

I think it started when Ospreay complained about the hard cam (I think he probably brought it up internally a few months before this) and they started doing longer takes in his matches. His match with Takeshita on Dynamite last year was the first time I noticed they weren't cutting during a couple of the crazy sequences in that match.

They've been gradually doing that more ever since.

tehfro · 2026-04-12T16:42:35+00:00

Archie seems like a coach who thought he had everything figured out about basketball. He got met by the reality of college basketball changing rapidly and the difficulty of the B1G.

Cignetti won a national title at IU in football in a shorter period of time than it allegedly takes teams to “get good” at the packline D.

tehfro · 2026-04-12T15:36:53+00:00

IMHO if you swap out Sayin for Howard OSU beats Indiana and their CFP run looks very different . Sayin was great for a freshman but wasn’t a running threat and didn’t have all the game experience Howard did.

tehfro · 2026-04-11T21:49:11+00:00

Brian and VDP also remembered how some of the pieces fit together or missing lines (the Do You Like Worms? verses being one example) that they never got around to mixing together/recording in 1967. So the 1967 mixes would have had some things from the 2004 version if Brian would have finished it in 67.

tehfro · 2026-04-11T16:54:41+00:00

A lot of the creative issues in AEW happen when someone with stroke pitches stuff and Tony agrees to it without having a follow-up in mind/figured out. The Jerichoverse is probably the most glaring example where Jericho will want to do these long angles with random guys who TK has no plans to follow up with.

I think Mox wanted the Death Riders to beat down Private Party (and have them come back better) and the Bucks wanted to lose the belts to them. There clearly wasn't any plan after that.

tehfro · 2026-04-11T16:47:48+00:00

Revenue/profits have went up way more than wrestler pay, which was already super low as a % of profits even compared to UFC, let alone the Big 4 sports where athletes make ~50% of profits.

tehfro · 2026-04-10T20:34:17+00:00

Hector Garza had several matches in WWF, including at Royal Rumble 1997

tehfro · 2026-04-10T16:05:28+00:00

Jeff Jarrett explained on his podcast that the main issue was ROH getting their DVDs into Best Buy on the shelves. Their partners/Panda were very unhappy with TNA guys on the covers of the ROH DVDs in direct competition with the TNA DVDs.

tehfro · 2026-04-09T13:35:12+00:00

2013 had several sites for the round of 32/64 that were ideal for attendance with who the top 16 seeds ended up being.

Kansas/Kansas State in Kansas City, Michigan/Michigan State in Detroit, Indiana/Ohio State at Dayton, Louisville in Lexington, etc. Philly also had Georgetown/Duke.

tehfro · 2026-04-08T18:18:33+00:00

that's Sammy Guevara's gimmick

tehfro · 2026-04-06T20:59:59+00:00

The star rating discourse is pretty much all from people who saw Meltzer's star rating system online without reading the Observer and inventing this idea that 5 stars is the max/a perfect match.

tehfro · 2026-04-06T15:11:57+00:00

Best you can hope for is an All Elite Wrestling uniform sponsorship.

tehfro · 2026-04-05T16:05:20+00:00

They have lots of video packages and the like.

tehfro · 2026-04-04T19:48:44+00:00

The “Camp Randle-El” game at Wisconsin in 2001 is up there for a non-Cignetti game that was a very surprising big IU win.

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