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American Dragon

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Maya World went from jobber filling in because two other jobbers said that doesn't work for me brother and turned it into a triple main event spot against Mercedes Mone on a PPV and needed just 8.5 months.
 

Laparkafan

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Liv Morgan hurt tonight so both champs are hurt - Liv is so injury prone I don’t know how they keep belting her.
Give iyo and giulia the belts they put on good matches.
 

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Sol Ruca is a great athlete but she's going to kill someone. That injury isn't on Liv.
I think part of the problem with some wrestlers that are trained in nothing but the WWE system and have little to no experience outside of WWE is that they are taught from day one to follow a script and don't learn how to react and call/improvise things on the fly when necessary. So Sol was likely going for a move that was part of the script, Liv clearly wasn't in position to take the move, but Sol did it anyway because that's what the script called for.

And the sport which she came from - gymnastics/acrobatics/tumbling - is also a sport in which it's basically by the script. They have routines they develop after weeks and months of practice and the only time they have to change things on the fly during action is if they screw up. And they spend all their time perfecting their routines to avoid screwups on gameday.

So unless she has extensive experience playing other sports like football or basketball before college where one has to constantly be reacting and making decisions on the fly to react to what the opponent is doing, then she doesn't really have that situational awareness and skill set in her repertoire.
 
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Call me crazy, but I have an idea: Get two of your best tag teams involved in the tag title scene in New Day and Motor City Machine Guns

Oh wait they fired one of them and ran off the other one…

 
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GeraldV

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Wrestling fans are so bad Sol Ruca had to lockdown her twitter.
Female wrestlers have it rough, man. Weird wrestling fans saying vile stuff about their appearance either good or bad. And then when they accidentally hurt another beloved wrestler, it gets even worse. Those ladies can’t win.
 
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I dunno, I don't really see a lot of fans online begging for tag team wrestling in 2026. While New Day's turn was fumbled badly, there wasn't anything left in WWE for them as a team. They win the titles again and so what? MCMG should've went to AEW on the simple fact that as good as they are, they're bland with little wrestling personality. They're about as bland as babyface Dom. Whatever your personality is has gotta be turned up a certain percentage for WWE. Just the way it is. I think Austin said he's normally a calm, quiet guy but in wrestling his character needed to be loud, upfront, and aggressive because it's a show. It's why it's great there is an AEW. New Day and MCMG will finish their careers there and kill it.
 

American Dragon

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Why would anyone do this?

The whole idea behind the concept when I worked in college athletics was that it counted as a tax write off as a donation to help fund the construction/renovation of facilties.

I’m not sure this could qualify as a donation, and why would anyone even donate to WWE to begin with?

 
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Josh Barnett was not a fan of Bully’s comments and asked for a piece of that. No response from Bully to Josh.
Has Mox replied to Bubba/Bully? Not a fan of Bubba/Bully's comments either, he's a narcissistic schmuck who has brought his wrestling persona into real life way too much (or maybe he has brought his real life persona into wrestling way too much?), but I think Mox needs to respond.
 

Nightwish

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Mox does not need to respond like the other two dummies who are working themselves into a shoot on social media which in and of itself is already lame. Having said that, I don't disagree with Bully's DR comments. Mox watched some Neo-Nazi movie and created this gang of sorts and takeover storyline that most fans begged to be over for months. That sentiment eventually died down but the DR arc isn't a good one (and that's not just me saying it!).
 

American Dragon

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Mox does not need to respond like the other two dummies who are working themselves into a shoot on social media which in and of itself is already lame. Having said that, I don't disagree with Bully's DR comments. Mox watched some Neo-Nazi movie and created this gang of sorts and takeover storyline that most fans begged to be over for months. That sentiment eventually died down but the DR arc isn't a good one (and that's not just me saying it!).
The Deathriders produced one of the greatest matches, main event finishes, and stories that culminated at All In last year, which was the third largest gate/attendance in AEW history.