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Stephen P. New was trying to keep this in Pennsylvania state court where it would be seemingly more beneficial for Tate/Kelly. Whomp whomp.

Tonight, TNA Impact comes to us from Fayetteville, North Carolina!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
Rhino vs. Frankie Kazarian

Six Man Tag Team Match
Hammerstone, Jake Something & Trent Seven vs. Ace Austin & The Hardys (Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy)

Singles Match
Ash By Elegance (w/Heather By Elegance & The Personal Concierge) vs. Jody Threat (w/Dani Luna)

TNA Knockouts World Title No Disqualification Match
Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Alisha Edwards

And more!

Please check your local listings and TNAWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Tonight, ROH on HonorClub comes to us from Providence, Rhode Island!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
Serpentico vs. Kevin Knight

Singles Match
Angelico vs. Gabe Kidd

Tag Team Match
BEEF & JD Drake vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor) (w/Shawn Dean & Trish Adora)

Singles Match
Shingo Takagi vs. Ariya Daivari (w/Mark Sterling)

ROH Women's World Title Proving Ground Match
Athena vs. Leila Grey

ROH World Television Title Match
Brian Cage (c) vs. AR Fox

And more!

Please check your local listings and RingOfHonor.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Ok. I don't have recording/streaming equipment, so I can't actually be the one to do this.

However. What if one of us created a new community here on Lemmy, and the purpose of the community was this:

Once a week, a streamer goes on twitch. And they record a video. Maybe 10 minutes. Maybe an hour. Depends how long all this takes.

But basically, lets say there are 5 of us in this game. So all 5 of us pick a wrestler. Then the steamer has our 5 wrestlers, and 35 other wrestlers.

We have a CPU vs CPU game. Everybody starts with 5 points.

A win gives +5 points. A loss -5 points. A championship win is +6 points.

So all week we can trash talk in the new community, and then the day of the show a 10 match card is released. Our wrestlers will always have a match, while the unowned wrestlers will cycle out so they can't really build many points.

Then, once a month, we have a ppv style show. Streamer will write down 6 different specialty matches on a list, and number that list.

Then roll a dice. Whatever match it is, thats what match the title will be faught in.

And the competitors will go like this: highest points number gets highest spot. Meaning the wrestler with the highest points will face a jobber in the main event. The second highest points will face a jobber in the match before the main event. And so on.

And when I say jobbers, I don't mean easy points. I just mean nobody owns that wrestler, so they won't have a high point total.

Then for the ppv, screw the jobbers. It's all the human owned wrestlers vs each other.

And as far as which video game we'll use? I think fire pro wrestling, since anyone can beat anyone else at any time. So it won't be like the WWE games where you HAVE to pick who the company was pushing. That would have unfair advantages for whoever picked a guy like cena or hogan.

In fire pro, gillberg could just as easily beat 1985 hogan and 2007 cena. And then he could lose the same match the next time.

So at least everyone is fair.

Open secret, but finally confirmed it seems!

Tonight, AEW Dynamite comes to us from Reading, Pennsylvania!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
Hikaru Shida vs. Kris Statlander

Singles Match
Orange Cassidy vs. Wheeler Yuta

Singles Match
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Darby Allin

Eight Man Tag Team Match
Mark Davis, Powerhouse Hobbs, Ricochet & Will Ospreay vs. The Don Callis Family (Brian Cage, Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher & Lance Archer)

And more!

Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Cultaholic, since PW:I is paywalled

Despite initial reports noting it was believed in All Elite Wrestling that "Speedball" Mike Bailey would be debuting as part of the Continental Classic, that won't be the case.

Mike Johnson of PWInsider has provided an update, noting that Bailey is not part of AEW's plans for the Continental Classic and he likely won't debut until after the new year.

Fightful Select also reported that Bailey's contract with TNA is not officially up until the end of the year, although he finished up with the promotion at the post-Bound for Glory tapings in late October in Detroit. Bailey was able to begin speaking to outside companies in November.

Although he won't be debuting as part of the Continental Classic, Mike Bailey is still expected to join All Elite Wrestling. Bailey had been a part of TNA Wrestling since 2022, establishing himself as one of the promotion's top acts. Bailey ended his time with the company as a three-time TNA X-Division Champion.

The AEW Continental Classic is scheduled to begin on the pre-Thanksgiving episode of Dynamite in Chicago on November 27.

First Dynamite on Max will be the New Year's Day episode, and will be Fight for the Fallen.

Also of note: Live Collision on 12/21 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, with Dynamite taping the next day (no live Christmas Dynamite lol).

Lots more dates in the article.

So, I decided to go check AEWs merch, and see if there's anything that caught my eye. First, I decided to check their clearance section. Despite running a sitewide no coupon needed black friday sale, and despite me STARTING in the clearance section, I found a BCC design that I thought was hilarious looking, and so I added it to my cart.

35% off something that was already in the clearance section. It's just a T-Shirt. Take a guess at how much it cost.

jeapordy theme

Did you guess $48? I'm unclear if that was with or without shipping. I'm sure it told me, but I wasn't going to pay $48 for a god damned T-Shirt.

But then I started looking around the rest of the T-Shirts. Awful. Truely awful designs. So I thought "Well, ,maybe that's why all this shit is being discontinued. Let's take a look in their normal section"

This time I started with Hoodies. Nope. The designs all look exactly like one guy who's bad at visual design, created ALL of these.

I mean, take a look at this one

I want you to look at this hoodie from the perspective of "I'm going to buy this hoodie, and wear it, in public, as a thing that other people will see me wearing."

95% of people out there in the world don't watch pro-wrestling! And of the 5% that do, only a small fraction watch AEW. They're averaging about 4,000 people per arena per show. I live in a city with 350,000 people in the city itself, but if you include the greater area it's closer to 1 million with surrounding areas. So within a 1 hour drive of downtown Cleveland, 1 million people COULD show up to a show. They had a show here Oct 30th for dynamite. From what I read, less than 3,000 people showed up.

So that means, in this area, if I wore THAT hoodie, only an average of 3-5k people, in a city of 350,000 would get it. Good design relies on the idea of being good even if you've never seen the reference product. Even if you have no idea what AEW is, you can look at it, and say "Oh, THAT'S cool!"

What they have instead is a bunch of products that looks like one single dork designed ALL of it, in the exact same style, and it's all just awful. Taz is employed there. He used to do ECWs merch design in the 90s. He's mediocre at commentary, but I NEVER heard anybody say that old ECW shirts looked like shit. People even replicate the style in parodies/tributes with their own merch. I have an "E C F'N 3" shirt, with the same style/font as the "E C F'N W" shirt. Looks awesome, even if EC3 is irrelevant these days.

My god, if Tony Khan is supposedly such a fan of pro wrestling at it's core, he certainly doesn't seem to have a grasp on how any of it works. Like if we never saw TKs face, and just was told someone named TK is running AEW, you could convince me it's some 12 year old, and it would fully make sense. I'd have no problem being convinced of that. Other than the lack of sexuality, because a 12 year old would be in puberty, and AEW doesn't seem like it's being run by someone obsessed with boobies. Outside of that, the creative decisions DO seem like some random 12 year old saying "YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL??? IF WE PUT A NEEDLE IN A GUYS MOUTH, AND COMMITTED MURDER ON TV OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!! AND ALL THE MERCH CAN LOOK LIKE EARLY 90S WWF MERCH, EXCEPT WITHOUT ANY PERSONALITY, AND THEN....AND THEN....AND THEN....."

Meanwhile you're just rolling your eyes wondering why you can't find a wrestling brand to suit your tastes.

WWE is just morally corrupt on every level.

AEW is seemingly run by a 45 year old 12 year old.

TNA......eh, maybe I should give them another go. 10 years ago it was just laughably bad.

ROH is just AEW version of WWF Metal or WWF Jakked.

MLW just doesn't have an easy way for me to access them.

It's like I enjoy watching wrestling for the first 30 minutes......and then it just sloggs on, because there's a bunch of OTHER stuff that pads the run time. I just want to grab TKs shoulders and shake him while yelling STOP BOOKING FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE!!! YOU'VE LOST YOUR AUDIENCE!!!! STOP IT!!!!

Welcome to SquaredCircle's 'Meme Monday'!

Have you seen a great wrestling meme this week that just made you crack up? Did you watch a silly moment in a show and just need to craft a meme out of it? Well post em below!

The highest voted meme shall win and be showcased in next week's thread!

Last week's winner attached!