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I hope everyone involved had a great North American celebration weekend, whether it was Canada Day on Friday or Independence Day on Monday.

Tommy and Scott have Money in the Bank reviews from the weekend. It was a perfectly acceptable show. Both of the ladder matches were fine. I wish they would just use one or two ladders max, but it’s the car crash/spot fest we’ve come to know. Liv Morgan got the Smackdown title after cashing in on Ronda Rousey. Good for her. She was part of a very deep women’s division in NXT and was very much overshadowed by some of the great talents there. But she stuck at it and found a place for herself on the mid card in NXT and then on the main roster and continued to improve and get herself over. Now I can assume they will feed her viciously to Charlotte as soon as Mrs. El Idolo returns from wedding leave, but until then I can enjoy the feel good story.

RAW is live tonight. Not sure of the card, but I bet it’ll be amazing. AEW YouTube is streaming too. I’m sure it will be amazing.

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I hope everyone had a good weekend avoided the heat wave or some of the nastier weather that was in parts of the states. We’ve finally reached the dog days of summer. No NBA. No NHL. No College Sports.

AEW held Forbidden Door last night. It seems like it was very well received. Both Scott and Tommy Hall have reviews to read.

RAW has its Money in the Bank go home this week. JOHN CENA IS RETURNING!!!!

AEW is streaming its Monday YouTube show.

Looks like Vince McMahon might have some more skeletons from his closet reveal themselves. I see him retiring sooner than later, especially when more comes out (and I’m sure there’s more).

That’s all. Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche for beating the Tampa Bay Lightning on the Stanley Cup Finals. Props to you Colorado, the better team won. Still love my Lightning!

More fun with Jim Cornette ripping Hulk Hogan’s Beach Shop.

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I hope everyone is well. Still recovering from COVID-19. The cough is reducing, but endurance is still a work in progress. My workouts have gotten much shorter. Oh well it will all come back in time.

Tough week for former WWE officials. We lost Dave Hebner, of the Hebner twins, and sadly lost Tim White last night. White was known as much for his relationship with Andre the Giant as he was for being a referee. He seemed like a very kind soul and someone who really cared about Andre as the times were getting tough. I hope he has been reunited with his old friend and many bottles of wine.

Not surprisingly Smackdown popped a big rating. Carny Vince was in super Carny Vince mode. Rampage absolutely did not pop a big rating. Between that and their porous Dynamite rating, I’m wondering if they are investing too much time in bringing guys over from Japan. I mean obviously there’s a segment of the audience that eats it up, but there’s also clearly a segment that won’t watch at all.

RAW is live tonight. They need something to happen. Anything. If there was ever a time to call up baby Steiner and have him demolishing dudes each week now is that time.

AEW YouTube is streaming.

Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals is tonight. Hopefully my Lightning will show a pulse. Also some College World Series is on if you like that sort of thing.

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. Thank you for all the well wishes as I recover from coronavirus. It’s been up and down and although the symptoms have mostly subsided, there is a lingering cough and my energy kind of goes in and out. But I think I will make a full recovery.

RAW is live tonight and going head to head with Game 5 of the NBA Finals so the competition is pretty fierce.

AEW is streaming on YouTube.

Kind of a busy Monday. Jeff Hardy gets arrested for being incredibly drunk and driving without a valid license, which is even illegal in Florida. I would ask Jeff to get help, but I think we’re beyond that point now. Some guy called Two Dimes got the axe in NXT for a rules violation, doesn’t seem like it’s a forever thing though. Thunder Rosa apparently treats her opponents like shit. It’s a lot to take in.

Fans have been railing on Hogan’s beach shop to Cornette and he’s enjoying it. Take a listen.

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. I did until I tested COVID-19 positive today. Symptoms are pretty mild and I figure I’ll be as good as new by the weekend. But this is a reminder that although we are done with COVID-19, COVID-19 is not done with us!

Tommy and Scott have PPV reviews last night of what was a pretty good show all things considered. I am happy to admit how wrong I’ve been on Cody Rhodes and how this would go. It’s a really unfortunate break that this is happening to him. But props to him for going through the match and props to Seth Rollins too because wrestling is art performance and Rollins was also put in a tough spot there. Still great match. Hopefully Cody will be back around Summerslam or Clash at the Castle.

RAW is tonight as they try to figure out how to motor along without the services of another top babyface. AEW has streamed.

Colorado tries to close out Edmonton tonight in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final.

I think that’s all.

https://youtu.be/V8A_ZxM5DOA

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I hope everyone had a great day, a great weekend. Those of us in the states had a long weekend with Memorial Day and to those of you that have had family members that served and are no longer with us, I hope this day brings you a level of comfort.

RAW continues its slow crawl to this weekend’s Hell in the Cell. Looks like Cody-Seth might get the main event slot for that one.

Tommy and Scott have Double or Nothing reviews and this might be the rare rare rare time that Tommy has a more favorable opinion of an AEW show than Scott. AEW’s YouTube show is streaming too and I’m assuming it was taped over the weekend too.

Charlotte and Andrade got married this weekend in Mexico. Pictures are floating around the interwebs. Andrade is a very handsome man so good on you Charlotte and congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. El Idolo

NBA Finals start Thursday. NHL has the final second round game tonight between the Rangers and Hurricanes.

With Tammy Sytch in the news recently, here’s a story on how Bill DeMott lives for his daughter and is rightfully pissed at Sunny.

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I hope everyone had a good weekend. By the time this message reaches you I’ll be in Tampa watching the Lightning try to sweep the Florida Panthers.

RAW is tonight and the start of a new week of WWE drama after last week saw Naomi and Sasha walk out AND Stephanie McMahon take a leave of absence. I think this is the Hell in the Cell go home RAW? I can’t remember. AEW’s YouTube show is streaming as well.

Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Final is tonight. And Game 4 of NHL second round playoffs are also tonight on TNT.

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As of tomorrow, I am taking a leave of absence from the majority of my responsibilities at WWE. WWE is a lifelong legacy for me and I look forward to returning to the company that I love after taking this time to focus on my family.

— Stephanie McMahon (@StephMcMahon) May 19, 2022

Speculate as you will. There’s different rumors going around that she and Triple H are dealing with some couple issues. I don’t know if I buy that one. They do, however, have three teenage (or close to teenage) daughters and that itself could require some extra home time. Either way I hope it’s nothing serious or health related.

Stephanie McMahon is the WWE’s Chief Branding Officer, handles a ton of their business relationships and makes a large amount of promotional appearances representing the company. She is also the daughter of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and would be very close in the line of succession to run the company, if not the next in line (hard to say where Nick Khan’s spot is right now).

Against speculate as you will 🙂

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. It’s the start of another work week.

We got the usual things happening. RAW is on USA. AEW is on YouTube. I think both the NHL and NBA playoffs are off tonight. Sorry about that early exit Toronto fans, but you guys are used to it by now.

Well with that being said…not much really going on today, so no need to add anything extra. Have a great evening!

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It’s been a week, but it’s Monday. We got RAW. We got YouTube wrestling. We got NBA and NHL playoffs and a bunch of baseball.

Backlash was last night. I was watching the Lightning beat the damn brakes off the Maple Leafs, so I had to check out the replay. The in-ring stuff was quite good. Main Event was fun stuff with an odd booking finish. At first I thought Drew might get a pin on Roman to set up their bigger matches, but I actually would’ve given Riddle a pinfall other one of the Usos and have a pissed off Roman decide that he’ll fight Riddle and show his cousins how to handle business. I think Riddle-Roman would be a banger. Riddle sells well and understand babyface comebacks, which would work with Reigns trying to run him over. They would flow well.

I thought Charlotte-Ronda should have went on last because it had the most build of anything. That match was good, not great. I like that it felt like they hate each other (and they might), but they don’t quite have the **** match chemistry I was hoping they would. Cody-Seth was good. Edge-AJ was fine although Edge’s new thing is eh. Good card, but nothing I need to see more than once.

Bray Wyatt made HOW MUCH??!! Alright maybe Nick Khan has a point.

For your viewing pleasure Ric Flair and Mike Tyson do a podcast together.

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. It’s NHL Playoffs time! Which means I’m not all in on the Lightning three-peat, starting tonight against the EVIL Toronto Maple Leafs. God they are the worst.

There are four NHL playoff games tonight on ESPN and ESPN2 and a NBA playoff doubleheader tonight. So all kinds of sports happening for you.

There is also sports entertainment. I think this is the RAW go home before Backlash? Not sure about that one. But we know the main event is a six-man between the Bloodline and RK-Bro/Drew McIntyre. My early booking guess is that they made the change to get Drew a pinfall win over Roman to set up their summer series. If they don’t do that than I have no clue what they are thinking.

So we got NHL, NBA, RAW, AEW has its YouTube thing going on. All kinds of options for you guys tonight!

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. Doesn’t seem like there was a ton of stuff going on outside of the big boxing match in England.

RAW is live from Knoxville, Tennessee. The card will have a women’s title match between Bianca Belair and Sonya Deville. The WWE isn’t usually kind to their wrestlers in their hometowns, but I expect Belair to win this one to set up matches with Rhea Ripley down the road. There are rumors of other potential returns and we could always see a cameo from Knox County Mayor and big-time Putin stan Glen Jacobs.

AEW Elevators is streaming too.

Scott has a fun little review on some 1989 World Championship Wrestling

Boston goes for the sweep against the Nets of gentrified Brooklyn. Very light NHL schedule, pretty normal baseball schedule.

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Whew I was afraid I wouldn’t get this in by 8 p.m. because WordPress seems to be a little slow tonight. Anyway it’s Monday and yadda yadda…

RAW is tonight. Austin Theory will try to take the U.S. Championship from Finn Balor and Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley will try to take the Women’s tag straps from Sasha and Naomi…someone might turn on someone else tonight. Plus more Cody I’m sure.

AEW Dark is streaming. Scott handles that in the AM

We got NBA playoffs, late-season NHL action and a whole mess of baseball.

Friday’s wrestling ratings were down across the board. I think the Wrestlemania bump has come and gone.

I caught the Broken Skull Sessions interview with Bubba Ray Dudley and it was very good. Even if you are at odds with many of the former Bully Ray’s opinions he is a very good talker and has a true passion for the business.

With the recent word that Virgil is in rough shape health wise, I was looking for the official YouTube of him and DiBiase at Summerslam 1991 or Wrestlemania VII, but the WWE hasn’t put them up yet. So here is one of my favorite DiBiase/Virgil vignettes.

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

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I hope everyone had a great weekend and a good Monday.

Not too much to speak of this week, so no need to type too much. AEW is streaming, Scott will surely tell you what you missed with a review tomorrow. RAW is tonight. Rumor is Tommaso Ciampa will be on RAW tonight. I think Cody has a match against The Miz and I think Rhea Ripley will turn on Liv Morgan after they lose their rematch to Sasha and Naomi. Of course MAYBE Liv makes the turn…or maybe they win.

Lots of baseball tonight. NBA is off for a day until the play-in tournament begins. NHL has one game.

Here’s Jim Cornette on the very troubled Tammy Sytch, the first time he’s really talked about her outside of discussions about working with her.

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Happy Monday to all. This is infamous RAW after Wrestlemania so who knows what to expect tonight. Probably a major promo from Cody Rhodes and something from Roman Reigns and maybe a few debuts…We’ll see.

Scott and Tommy have reviews of both nights of Wrestlemania up. I thought the first night was great with some very good matches and “main event” that far surpassed expectations. The mileage on night two may vary…it was much more “sports entertainment” heavy and some of it worked, some didn’t. The crowds were pretty hot for both nights and that made it a little better IMO. I think the traffic numbers were pretty good and I thank all of you for that.

AEW Elevation is streaming.

North Carolina-Kansas will officially end the college basketball season.

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I hope everyone is having a great day!

This is your official Wrestlemania 38 Sunday thread. Kickoff show kicks off at 6 p.m. on…somewhere, presumably Peacock, but we’ll see. Scott and Tommy have reviews on Wrestlemania Saturday…Tommy has both a live review and a review from watching it later, I swear that guy doesn’t sleep.

I’m still watching the last hour of Saturday’s show, so it was hard to stay away from spoilers so I did. Originally I thought Boogs’ injury was a work, but then I replayed it and right away I saw he was a MCL tear BEST CASE SCENARIO, but sadly he blew his quad out. That’s a tough break for him. Nakamura’s expression said it all. I wonder if they were booked to go over.

Glad to see Drew is still very much over despite getting shuttled down the card and cooled off. The crowd reaction should tell you something Vince! I do think he was supposed slice through all three ropes and the fact that he didn’t couldn’t have made this stunt a tragedy, but it’s all good.

Bianca-Becky was tremendous. Great heat throughout. Great storytelling. A little bit of timing issues aside it was great drama. And Becky is a tremendous pro for doing her part in building this up over 7-8 months and making sure the payoff was right and the visual was amazing. Bianca is clearly a success story from NXT.

The reaction for Cody was far more than I expected, but the presentation was great. He is coming in as the guy that he has had success with. What a great match too with a lot of old-school/new-school type of psychology.

Anyway still have to watch Ronda-Charlotte and the Austin/KO, so you guys order a pizza, make some dinner, grab a few Steveweisers, do whatever you need to get ready for Wrestlemania Sunday and the biggest match EVER!!

Tonight’s card:

WWE/Universal Championship Unification: Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns (c)
Women’s Tag Team Championship: Queen Zelina & Carmella (c) vs. Sasha Banks & Naomi vs. Rhea Ripley & Liv Morgan vs. Shayna Baszler & Natalya
Raw Tag Team Championship: RK-Bro (c) vs. Alpha Academy vs. Street Profits
Anything Goes: Johnny Knoxville vs. Sami Zayn
Edge vs. AJ Styles
Pat McAfee vs. Austin Theory
Omos vs. Bobby Lashley
The New Day vs. Sheamus & Ridge Holland

Let’s hope New Day make it on tonight’s slate!

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I hope everyone is having a great weekend. This is the Wrestlemania 38 Night One thread. we’re just going to keep it to one threat tonight and see if it works out.

The card is as follows (order subject to change):

Kickoff show on USA Network at 6 p.m.

SmackDown Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Ronda Rousey
Raw Women’s Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Bianca Belair
SmackDown Tag Team Championship: The Usos (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Rick Boogs
The KO Show with Stone Cold Steve Austin
Seth Rollins vs. McMahon’s Man
Drew McIntyre vs. Happy Corbin
Rey & Dominik Mysterio vs. The Miz & Logan Paul
The New Day vs. Sheamus & Ridge Holland

Stand & Deliver has come and gone. I didn’t watch much of it, I think I will binge it tomorrow before night two. Surely Scott or Tommy will have reviews of these things eventually, maybe.

Only thing I have seen is the Hall of Fame, which was GREAT. Undertaker’s TED Talk was pretty good and he’s absolutely got a future doing some keynote speaking for the things he’s interested in like national law enforcement organizations and the NRA…whatever. Do your thing Mark McCool. The Shad Gaspard video was so beautiful and…yeah I cried. You probably did too! The Steiners were fun. Sharmell is so beautiful and her speech was so gracious she made me think she did deserve a Hall honor. Plus, let’s be honest….Booker outkicked his coverage like very few men have. And Vince McMahon proved he’s still a hell of a character and does live crowd interaction as well as anyone.

In honor of Stone Cold’s return, his finale.

https://youtu.be/QmbZccDKFHg

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Quick update here since I’m just getting in the house.

This is the final RAW before Wrestlemania. There should be a few items addressed on the show including Seth Rollins’ match and a potential return for Bobby Lashley.

The Steiner Brothers will be inducted in the Hall of Fame so whatever issues the WWE has with Scott were handled to the extent needed.

AEW Dark has streamed for the night I believe.

Women’s College Basketball Elite Eight games are also tonight.

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Obviously you all know the news by now that Triple H has officially retired from in-ring action. This should be is a shock to absolutely no one. He’s 52 with heart issues that can kill you in less than a second.

He broke this news during a sit-down interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith and here are some observations and notable things that he said:

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather was beautiful here, spring (or as we call it in Florida, ‘pre-summer’) has begun and everyone is happy.

We get a few days off from the men’s college basketball tournament and a couple of days for the women.

Meanwhile RAW is live tonight with their penultimate episode of the RAW before Wrestlemania 38 as final touches on the stupendous show are being made.

Unfortunately it looks like Scott Hall’s death was much a sadder story with him continuing to face his demons and also dealing with being away from family. Just terribly unfortunate on many levels.

Here’s a match.

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