I used to do Max through YTTV (back when it was HBO Max), but I got annoyed at it dropping my authorization every month and having to re-link my accounts, so I canceled through YTTV and just got it direct instead.

Somewhere between your experience and my experience is how things are supposed to work.

I have Max. It’s a good service, despite WBD’s efforts.

Has anyone used a service other than Triller to watch an AEW PPV recently? I’ve had a ton of issues using Triller on my Shield lately, and when I’ve emailed their support team about it, they basically told me they don’t support the Shield so they can’t help me. Trying to decide what other service I can go with. PPV.com? DAZN? I guess I can do YouTube, but Google gets enough of my money.

SRS: Speedball Mike Bailey appears to be headed to AEW, according to those FightfulSelect.com spoke with.

I watched a video Cody Rhodes did with SportsBible, where he was comparing UK junk food to US junk food. There was one point where he had a Pizza Hut pizza, and he said about it, “This is America. This is all the presidents, from Washington to Obama.”

I see what you did there, Cody. And I appreciate it.

Pretty much, yeah. It’s sad how far they’ve fallen.

I mean, isn’t that the NWA title?

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I just wanted to add one helpful tip; a lot of feeds on Bluesky gather posts based on both hashtags and emoji used in them, and the emoji for the main pro wrestling feed is 🤼. If you post about wrestling on Bluesky, it will probably get picked up by the feed if you hashtag it appropriately, but include the emoji if you can just to be sure.

Yeah, I’m well aware that, in Damo’s words, a lot of wrestlers are fucking stupid. But it’s still always disappointing when someone whose work I respect and enjoy turns out to be a piece of shit.

Somewhere, Jake Hager is screaming about Tony Khan the billionaire communist.

Yeah, I think what she means is that she couldn’t travel due to COVID. Likely she has a comorbidity or something.

Wow. Fuck Hager.

Also, what an absolute fucking idiot. Yeah, Tony Khan is a communist, sure. A billionaire communist, that makes complete sense.

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Oh, if they break up, Max is 100% the heel

That’s not a belt, that’s a girdle.

I don’t know how I feel about The Acclaimed potentially breaking up. On the one hand, their act has gotten kinda stale and Max in particular seems to be attracting a lot of resentment lately. On the other, I feel like their team is one of those “greater than the sum of the parts” thing and both would probably get lost in the shuffle as singles.

I mean, fair point.

I’m pretty sure the Saudi government had creative and branding input on those early shows in SA. A lot of those early shows just reeked of someone who doesn’t really know what they’re doing at the helm, but nobody wants to tell them no.

“Oooh, let’s do a Royal Rumble, but even bigger! And we’ll call it the Greatest Royal Rumble!”

“Let’s call the next show Crown Jewel! That’s a name that’s just oozing with prestige! And we’ll hold a tournament to determine the Best In The World!”

“How about we promote the next show as being as good as, or better than, Wrestlemania?”

Perhaps, but it seems like such an extreme act.

Like, I remember how WWE refused to index any matches that featured Chris Benoit on WWE Network… but they didn’t edit them out of the shows. And what Benoit did is way worse than anything Kota could possibly have done.

Removing the matches he already had for them seems like an odd choice. I could see canceling his upcoming matches with them if the will isn’t there to have them, but why scrub matches that already happened?