Now on Threads @ same handle. *There's zero wiggle room left to justify supporting the dangerous scumbag clown that Donald Trump has shown himself to be.
I remain truly dumbfounded and dispirited that anyone says they plan to vote for this clown show of a person. He's such an idiot and a fraud surrounded by dangerous smarter assholes using his single gift of conning people for their own selfish gain at the expense of our country.
Donald Trump gave a speech tonight in Miami and did the following:
1. He again praised the fictional cannibal named Hannibal Lecter.
2. He said insurrectionists are “hostages unfairly imprisoned” and said “the Supreme Court ruled they should be out soon.”
3. He said he “didn’t
This isn't a good tone at all if he wants to get people who love good wrestling regardless of brand to feel goodwill toward WWE's strengths and its vocal leader. "Buddy"? "Little guy"? Disappointing and character defining condescension. This is heel Corbin promo content. :-/
Ahhhh I’m sorry little guy. We already have a better version of you here and he just won his first US Title tonight (Congrats
@KingRicochet
). Keep working hard though buddy!
Saying that fans complaining about bad WWE TV shows is unfair because it's hard to create TV each week is ridiculous. WWE is raking in record money and they could spend it to expand writing team. Upset fans should be applauded for taking time to provide feedback, not scolded.
Rear Adm. Barry Black's opening
#ImpeachmentTrial
prayer: "Lord, help them to remember that they can't ignore you and get away with it. For we always reap what we sow."
Joe Rogan: "This is not going to end here. This is going to spill out onto the streets. There's a lot Russian fans, there's a lot of Irish fans, there's a lot of booze, there's a lot of chaos."
#UFC229
AEW couldn't ask for any better publicity, and WWE couldn't be any more short-sighted, then to continue to force fans to remove AEW t-shirts. This makes WWE the petty bad guys in this, and they shouldn't underestimate how much that actually costs them in goodwill with fans.
So are we all supposed to be okay with Stephanie making jokes about "dismemberment" being a "corporate liability" live on Raw tonight just weeks after the dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi was a p.r. nightmare for WWE and other U.S.-based corporations taking Saudi money?
#Raw
TRUMP: "We built a tremendous thing, a tremendous power platform. So when it got ill, when we had a problem, we were able to cut it off, stop it, just like this, stop it. Keep everyone inside. Keep em away. Keep em together, away, uninfected. And we saved millions of lives."
#wut
I orchestrated this first-time meeting between Cody and Tommy Young, main ref of dad Dusty's matches, once Tommy told me he had never met Cody. Crazy.
#Starrcast
#ALLIN
Eric Trump just claimed that "my father had 30,000 in an arena in Charlotte last night." (The Bojangles Center in which the rally was held holds 8,600 people.)
I just want to thank the health care workers who are likely in the next few weeks/months to risk their health and experience their lives uprooted in order to be on the front lines trying to keep the old and vulnerable who get Coronovirus alive and as comfortable as possible.
WWE wants everyone to trust their judgment and then they fly 70 year old Jerry Lawler to
#Raw
to stand right next to Tom Phillips on camera without social spacing.
#WWE
#MondayNightRAW
@WWERollins
But isn't the point of a Hell in a Cell match - the selling point, in fact - to beat your opponent so senseless that you can score a 1-2-3. Fans see the finish for what it was - a finish to protect Fiend from getting pinned so early in his run. Own it and try to move on.
Dana White on FS1 now: "A lot of bad stuff. A lot of stuff that shouldn't have hapepened. Khabib jumped over the cage to one of Conor's guys that was talking trash to him and all hell broke loose. I don't know what to say. I'm disgusted and sick over it."
#UFC229
@WWEGraves
@MAmeltoe
@solomonster
@CorruptedPOD
I would be careful to assume people outside of wrestling who cover it as their jobs or hobbies would rather be working in the biz. People are different, and that's honestly never been a desire of mine. My passions are journalism and entrepreneurship.
As WWE and AEW decide whether to have attendees at TV events wear masks, CNN's Dr. Soanjay Gupta reports at six feet distance from someone who has COVID-19 (perhaps pre-symtompatic) has a 17% to spread without masks, 3% with masks. For all of 2020, masks should be a gimmie.
Here's the set list for part one of my nearly 2.5 hour interview with Jon Moxley (formerly Dean Ambrose), his longest interview and the first he recorded since his AEW debut. Part two drops Sunday late afternoon/evening on
#WKPWP
free feed, Saturday afternoon for VIP members.
As Rey Mysterio came out, I just thought about how the length of this show is so unfortunate for kids with school tomorrow who were really looking forward to rooting for Rey. This excessive show length is so unfriendly to a core part of their audience.
#WWE
#RoyalRumble
Vince, Stephanie, Coach, everyone seems to think the "h" in the word "historic" is silent, and keep saying "an historic night." A cat doesn't make "an hissing sound," so it's "a historic," not "an historic."
#WadesGrammarPetPeeves
#Raw
The stranded WWE wrestlers are being told it's mechanical issues with the plane preventing them from taking off on time from Saudi Arabia. I can pass along that there's a lot of speculation among wrestlers of other things going on, but I don't know any details.
No sign of Vince McMahon backstage at Smackdown as of a few minutes ago, I'm hearing. Waiting to hear more about whether he's involved in the creative process, though. As I reported on Wednesday's VIP Keller Hotline, many were hoping he was at Raw only due to being at WM39 in LA
Did Corey Graves really say his heart couldn't handle it if Angle shipped either Bayley or Sasha to Smackdown? Does he not know he also is a commentator on Smackdown? Or did I misunderstand?
#Raw
This week's
#Raw
rating should be a wake-up call for the increasingly arrogant approach
#WWE
is taking in its programming, putting corporate brand building and excessive cross-promotion ahead of serving viewers in an increasingly deep mix of TV choices:
The inability to pause or rewind
@WWE
live events on Peacock is going to be an irritant to a lot of viewers, but especially for those of us trying to cover it live. Let's hope
@peacockTV
prioritizes fixing this inexcusable shortcoming.
This is an important bragging point for
#AEW
- a tie with
#WWESmackdown
in the key 18-49 demo. It took very special circumstances and won't be replicated until Smackdown is bumped to FS1 again, but it's a landmark moment for AEW to tie SD overall when both are on a cable channel.
I want to second the Tweet from
@bryanalvarez
that it was great to finally meet and spend time with him after all of these decades doing largely parallel jobs. It was a pleasure to get to know him plus pick up right up with where we left off w/my longtime friend
@davemeltzerWON
.
@WWEGraves
@MAmeltoe
@solomonster
@CorruptedPOD
Also, not specifically, but more generally, I think it's dangerous to think truth about companies comes from people dependent on paychecks from that company. It's really counterintuitive. Yes, you have access, but also motivation to avoid certain truths or color certain truths.
I'm sorry, but this shit is fucking idiotic. THERE WAS A PUSH FOR MAIL-IN VOTING BECAUSE THERE'S A PANDEMIC (220K+ dead) & THE LESS EXPOSURE OTHER VOTERS AND VOLUNTEERS AT POLLING STATIONS HAVE TO POSSIBLY PRE-SYMPTOMATIC COVID POSITIVE PEOPLE, THE SAFER. Fucking Idiot. Fuck you.
Brace yourself for some very good ratings news for AEW, based on what I'm being told from people with some early indicators. Not sure if that means 2M plus, but it's not going to be a disappointing number at all. It could exceed optimistic expectations.
This thing on Twitter today of people associated w/WWE now or before saying Raw sucks b/c it's hard work to write TV under Vince McMahon's conditions r making excuses instead of blaming the process & their leader for those conditions. I get why, but let's see it for what it is.
ROH PPV commentator exchange of the night... Caprice Coleman: "Nice of (Shane Taylor) to give fans one-on-one attention." Riccaboni: "Uh, we've had enough one-on-one attention of fans lately."
#ROH
How interested would you all be in these being republished and available to purchase? They ran between 60 and 100 pages with original Torch Talk interviews, Top Stories, Most Influential People lists, Top 100 Wrestler Rankings, more.
Baron Von Raschke is ringside at
#AEWFullGear
. 40 years ago I saw him at my first live wrestling show. He didn't look ANY different then than now. *He* doesn't age,
@SeanRossSapp
!
I just stepped outside to see what negative 24 degrees feels like. It feels like cold has never felt before. Like an ice bath that immediately freezes into actual ice. Then I inhaled and thought my lungs were going to freeze in place and then shatter into piece. I'm staying in.
The next few weeks will be the worst of the pandemic. Maybe a good time for WWE & AEW to restrict maskless interaction in ring to only wrestlers, mask refs, separate announcers by distance/plexiglass, no more backstage close-range interviews, etc. (Should've always been policy.)
How about the top men
@undertaker
@tripleh
@JohnCena
on WWE's Saudi Arabia show earning at least high six-figure paydays for one match chip in and give the women on the roster what they would have earned if they weren't banned from performing on the show?
#GreatestRoyalRumble
Can we get some eyewitness reports on the fan that just ran into the ring and appeared to jump Bret Hart and Natalya at the Hall of Fame? Yikes.
#FuckHimUp
is right.
More
#AEWonTNT
and
#NXTonUSA
ratings metrics and demos, and why TNT is going to be very happy. In addition to other metrics I've posted, AEW doubled NXT in kids and teens. It beat SD last week on USA in M18-49 (.92 to .90) and M-18-34 (.73. to .52) and adults 18-49 (.68 to .67)
If the Royal Rumble lives up to higher expectations, what a cool wrestling weekend this could end up being. Imagine someone who was busy Saturday night waking up Sunday, watching
#NXTTakeOver
,
#NJPW
's top singles title matches, and then
#RoyalRumble
. Who needs the NFL, right?