“If WWE or AEW don’t want to hold genuine media scrums where reporters can comfortably ask any valid question, even if it's tough or unflattering, they shouldn't hold them at all.”
The Weird Dynamic of WWE & AEW’s Media Scrums
If Mercedes Monè is signing a full deal with AEW, I think she needs to be brought in like it’s as big of a deal as when CM Punk first debuted. Main Character.
She could spearhead a new era of the Women’s Division in 2024 and fill a lot of fans with optimism about the division.
According to sources close to the situation on CM Punk’s side, Punk has had talks with WWE, but who those talks were with exactly is unknown.
CM Punk has also spoken to multiple WWE roster members, including top stars.
I don’t care what company it is, this is how release requests should probably be handled…
Talent: “I’d like my release”
Promoter: “Is there anything I can do to change that?”
Yes - “Cool. Lets work something out”
No - “Okay. We will grant your release. Good luck”
It turns out that Oba Femi isn't actually 22. He is 25, according to his mother on Instagram.
Either way, he's still a star that will do huge things in WWE.
Tony Khan is in a position now where his digs about WWE creeps don’t hit the same after hiring Ric Flair and poorly answering the Jericho questions.
Hugely unfortunate, unnecessary own goals. They’re definitely not just as bad as WWE, but the high horse ain’t so high now.
When you look at what Grimes was able to do with the “to the Moon” & Ted DiBiase stuff in NXT, it’s actually insane that WWE found nothing for him on the Main Roster. The dude’s versatile man
Roman Reigns’ legacy defining reign comes to an end after 3 and a half years in tremendous, dramatic Mania Main Event.
Cody Rhodes the perfect modern day babyface to be WWE’s face of the industry for years to come.
What a night. I love professional wrestling.
Personally really enjoying both AEW & WWE at the same time at the moment.
Always been a fan of both but right now WWE is doing its hottest Mania build in years & AEW is really starting to heat up again in this exciting pivotal phase with new faces etc
🧵Ranting.
It’s frustrating as a fan watching these media scrums a lot of the time, and they only become more frustrating when you become part of media because you know when its bad, it comes back on all of wrestling media. Which already has a shit rep as it is lol
Mercedes Monè has really got 4 fanbases (AEW, WWE, NJPW/STARDOM & TNA) on their knees right now.
Unpredictable, hilarious, but also just a really great star.
If I had a promotion with a TV deal and a few million dollars, I swear to god that Willow Nightingale would be right at the top of my wishlist. Special talent.
Everyone wondered how Bucks/FTR was going to follow Bryan/Ospreay, & they went out there & put on 1 of the most insane efforts I’ve ever seen.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the Main would lose some pop, but the crowd was with Swerve all the way. Huge success in that regard.
“I am coming for you Roman Reigns … but not at WrestleMania
I mentioned taking counsel. Roman, 1 of the individuals I talked to, he knows you very well”
So I’m meant to believe Rock’s advice to Cody was “let me fight Roman instead” & he was just like “good idea!”
😂
Spoke about it at length on stream yday, but I actually kinda feel sorry for Daniel Garcia at the moment.
I think the choice he has to make between AEW & WWE is genuinely insanely tough for somebody in his position and how the current landscape is.
MJF chants weirdly popped me.
Nice to see live crowds miss him, the way a lot of people have loudly thrown him under the bus I never felt was entirely fair, and most who have seen me review his segments know I’m happy to criticise the guy.
FTR deniers can hate all they want, but Dax & Cash are straight up one of the finest tag teams of this generation & have had genuine legacy matches this year.
Undeniable greats. I promise nobody in 10-20 yr is looking back like “but that little section on twitter hated em!!” Lol
H went up there & spoke freely for 10 minutes and the first question was about the Netflix deal. Come on.
If your mindset is “im not the person to ask” “im not wsj”, then, on a week like this when real questions need to be asked, why are you there?
So let me get this right…
The heels won the tag tournament match, the heels won at Clash, the heels beat down the babyfaces countless times in angles and “injured” them.
The babyfaces come back and finally win one & im seeing hella peoples thinkpieces about why its wrong? LOL
Have said this for months, but MJF is way too young, good & valuable to be rushing back from injury when surgery is an option.
The idea of him rushing back and being less than 100% was insane to me
Sources close to the situation have confirmed to WrestlePurists that MJF has undergone surgery on his left shoulder.
MJF was originally aiming for a March return and met with Tony Khan in Boston to discuss creative plans.
The injuries to MJF and Adam Cole have dramatically
It’s real and that absolutely helped, but Kenny Omega did such a good job of describing the severity of his Diverticulitis and connecting during his promo.
Just made the attack on him really hit.
#AEWDynamite
The NXT Mens Breakout Tournament starts next week & here are the competitors…
- Riley Osborne
- Keanu Carver
- Tavion Heights
- Dion Lennox
- Luca Crusifino
- Myles Borne
- Trey Bearhill
- Oba Femi
#WWENXT
Regardless of whether or not you think he’s a great booker, most agree that D’Amore put a lot of focus & time into Womens wrestling.
Rossy of course goes without saying. He literally founded STARDOM.
Both firings don’t exactly fill me with optimism for womens wrestling in 2024.
The promotion is not paying you to be there. Nobody is forcing you to be there. If you’re just a content creator You can still make content without being in the scrum and asking dead questions and taking a chance away from a potentially real question being asked.
Those spoken to said that The Rock had not only pushed to work the match vs Roman Reigns, some thought he was even pushing to win the match.
The early word is that The Rock will attempt to work a full-length match. There were some concerns about him working a WrestleMania main
Jay Briscoe is one of my favourite wrestlers ever. Any time I’d try to tweet last night, I’d just delete what I had typed.
I don’t write features but tried my best to give a tribute that to anyone that reads it can fondly remember the unique journey of being a Jay Briscoe fan.
Seeing some weird reactions to Jade Cargill signing with WWE. Ranging from William Regal getting brought up to people putting a magnifying glass on Ricky Starks saying he’s proud of his friend
Mox: I wanna work without a contract even tho I’m world champ because everything could change in 6 months
Also Mox: You want me to have a creative meeting and put over the companies biggest star on PPV!? Wow, Im really bending over backwards for you Tony!
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