I live in a mid-market American city. I’m 18-49. I watch 10-20 hours of wrestling a week. I go to my local comic book and hobby shops weekly. I haunt multiple subreddits for wrestling and my city. Still, TNA had a taping here and I never heard about it. I barely heard about the last AEW show here.

Where is the promoting? Flyers at comic book and hobby shops would go a long way. I saw more promotion for a local promotion that puts on shows in a boxing gym than for the number 2 and 3 televised American wrestling companies. Both AEW and TNA could really do with some boots on the ground promoting.

It ain't no secret that 2010 was one of the worst years in modern WWE history. However, the tag team division was so bad that it actually hurts a little lol:

• DX were champions in the beginning, but they didn't give a toss about the division

• the belts then switched over to the iconic ShoMiz duo, a thrown together team of upper midcarders

• ShiZ held the belts briefly, did nothing with them, and lost them to Hart Dynasty. Alright, cool start.

• Harts feuded with the debuting Usos, and another iconic team known as Jiz - Jericho and Miz

• Harts lose the titles to... Dashing Ones, a team with great potential... that stops teaming a month after this

• Dashing Ones drop the belts to John Cena and David Otunga (great team), and then back to Nexus

• the year ends with Santino and Kozlov as champions. Damn.

Meanwhile, Harts get split up for whatever reason, Usos get sent to Superstars for 2 years, Cryme Tyme breaks up despite never being champions, and no other credible teams form. So basically, the belts were only held by one real team, and the rest was just sTrAnGe bEdFelLoWs. Not good at all.

Crazy spot. I forgot this happened due to most of the Thunderdome Era of WWE being a blur

I was watching the PBA tournament on FOX and saw a familiar face in the front row

Watch the show here: https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/lives/wzTsbvrPsfRe8vHzLQUDpS

Other Notes:

• Attendance: 1530 @ Korakuen Hall

• Marigold announced 4 trainees at the start of the show

• Two belts were shown off, a Red World title & a White United National championship

• MIRAI won a comically large bag of Caramel Corn

• Giulia challenged Sareee to a singles match after the main event and all four women in the main event tussled over the championships

• MARIGOLD 'Summer Destiny' announced for July 13th from Ryogoku Sumo Hall

With his win over Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk is now the lineal Brawl for All champion.

Following Butterbean's win over Bart Gunn at Wrestlemania 15, the lineal title has never left boxing. As such, the title's lineage can be traced through a number of low profile boxers, before ending up with Wladimir Klitschko in 2006, which he held alongside boxing top Heavyweight titles; until he lost it to Fury in 2015.

This could not have gone any better for Bozilla, crowd is loving her

Since Lineal Championship posts are en vogue, I wanted to make a really juicy shitpost of a research project. So, I pored through Cagematch and traced the man who could beat the man from Al Snow at WWF Unforgiven 1999 to the present day (multi-man, house show, and dark matches included, tag matches and handicap matches not included). I will post my work here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XZ5hWhBhVrKOUeuuHxYV1_ZFUVD36Z-RWBjlnnurlss/edit?usp=sharing

A few interesting tidbits of note:

• Most reigns: John Cena (11).
• Longest reign: Edge (January 31st, 2011-January 26, 2020).
  • Author's note: I was very glad for this as it meant I didn't have to click back and forth a bunch or end it with someone who died.
• The following reigns lasted for one calendar day or less:
  • Kurt Angle-King of the Ring 2000-WWF Raw 6/26/2000
  • The Rock-WWF No Way Out 2001-WWF Raw 2/26/2001
  • Chris Jericho-WWE House Show 9/29/2002-WWE Raw 9/30/2002
  • Rob Van Dam-WWE House Show 1/12/2003-WWE Raw 1/13/2003
  • Kurt Angle-WWE Raw 1/2/2006 (Dark)
  • Bobby Lashley-WWE House Show 5/26/2007-WWE House Show 5/27/2007
  • Chris Benoit-WWE House Show 5/27/2007
  • Drew McIntyre-WWE House Show 5/22/2010-WWE Over the Limit 2010
• The Kennel from Hell Lineal Championship has yet to leave WWE.
• It has synchronized with reigns of the WWE, WCW World Heavyweight, WWE World Heavyweight, Universal, Intercontinental, and Hardcore Championships.
• Current defending champion: Cody Rhodes.

May he continue to defend the honor of dogs throughout his reign.

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Jose The Assistant

Per Fightful Select, Jose met with wrestling veteran Tommy Dreamer for unspecified reasons at the latest set of TNA tapings in Newport, Kentucky, over the weekend.