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American Dragon

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Smackdown barely did over a million last week despite no NBA playoff game on.

Combine the 704K from regular TV that Dynamite got with whatever they are getting from HBO Max, Dynamite either eclipsed or likely came very close to beating Smackdown last week.
And they finished 4th on the night, getting beat out by two college softball games and something else I can't remember, NHL playoff game maybe? Never want to hear anything about NBA not being competition for AEW if WWE can't even beat college softball.
 

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I can’t swear to the veracity of this, but I saw an ad on Facebook that says some Appalachian Wrestling Association is putting on a card at the Corbin arena in August and FTR will be wrestling the Good Brothers.

I have no idea if they have the cash to actually get this match together but I thought it was interesting.
 
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Every time I see Mark Davis wrestle I am more impressed. He doesn't have any charisma to speak of, but damn, that big dude can go in the ring. He is probably my vote for AEW's most improved wrestler in 2026.
 
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Myla Grace asked for her release from TNA, the third woman this year to ask for it. None of them have signed with either AEW or WWE. For a division that has virtually zero talent anyone else wants as far as bigger companies go, it should raise some red flags that women don’t want to work there and would rather work in the indies instead.

Also, pretty sure since the TV deal was announced that TNA has lost more wrestlers than they’ve gained, and it wasn’t a particularly deep roster to begin with. And then they’ll very likely be losing Leon Slater and Mike Santana later this year as well.

TNA should have used the momentum going into the AMC debut to grow and improve the product, but they are just going one step forward and taking two steps back.
 

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Every time I see Mark Davis wrestle I am more impressed. He doesn't have any charisma to speak of, but damn, that big dude can go in the ring. He is probably my vote for AEW's most improved wrestler in 2026.
He's like one of them old school territory *** kickers bookers would throw at their babyfaces to get them some underdog, come from behind pop.

And he looks just like one of those guys too. Except he actually looks his age (35), back in the territory days this would be how he looked at age 22.
 
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American Dragon

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TNA had their women’s champ eat a pinfall in seven minutes last night against a guy named Mr. Elegance whose most high profile win in TNA is over something called the Home Town Man.

This is after earlier this year having Mara Sade (Jakara Jackson in NXT if I remember correctly) losing to career jobber Ryan Nemeth.

I think I get why women keep quitting the company.
 
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American Dragon

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So AEW left Triller globally because they weren’t getting paid by Triller

They created MyAEW to replace it. They are also recruiting indies to join MyAEW, while Triller has been the backbone for distribution for many indie shows.

The guy trying to buy Triller has his own indie promotion called PRODUCE.

PRODUCE will now broadcast their shows on MyAEW, the platform that was created due to the incompetence of the company the PRODUCE owner is trying to buy

 

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WELL DESERVED!!!!!

Seriously, this is Kaiser's career now, right? He's gotta stay under the mask and be that character between AAA and main roster. And then years down the road he's gotta do what Gable did, mask vs mask and the mask comes off in Mexico as his career winds down.
 
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American Dragon

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WELL DESERVED!!!!!

Seriously, this is Kaiser's career now, right? He's gotta stay under the mask and be that character between AAA and main roster. And then years down the road he's gotta do what Gable did, mask vs mask and the mask comes off in Mexico as his career winds down.
If I was him, I'd tell them just keep me in Mexico. Bring me in for an appearance when you need it but keep my focus in Mexico.

Undertaker has soundly embarrassed Triple H as a booker.
 
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Does it seem weird to anyone else that the biggest thing in Mexican wrestling is a white guy from Pennsylvania and a white guy from Germany?
 

American Dragon

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Does it seem weird to anyone else that the biggest thing in Mexican wrestling is a white guy from Pennsylvania and a white guy from Germany?
There's no active wrestler bigger in Mexico than Mistico. Mexico had that guy announcing part of their World Cup roster