Pro Wrestling

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AEW is starting to sell tickets for weekly Dynamite taping at Daily's Place again with obvious pandemic protocols for attendances such as temperate check and zoning. They will try with 10% of max capacity (~500) first and may expand to 15% if everything goes right.

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Here is what WWE ThunderDome, which is a new set at Amway Center to replace WWE Performance Center, looks like.

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So far, there have been these on ThunderDome face screens:
- a sleeping watcher
- Mario
- Pikachu
- A sign "Asuka will rape Sasha"
- A sign "MJF 2020"
- pictures of Chris Benoit
- a video of cartel execution

[Lebron23]

Roman Reigns is the new universal champion, and he is now a heel.

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Roman Reigns is the new universal champion, and he is now a heel.

They had to wait until the middle of the pandemic where you can fake crowd noises to give up on face Roman.

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A recent free agent Brock Lesnar is in negotiation with NJPW at the moment. Brock at WrestleKingdom 2021?

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WWE has officially banned its talents to earn money with other third parties (Twitch, Cameo, Youtube, etc).

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Last night's AEW All Out was almost great, but it may be marred with some bad spots all over the event such as how they dealt with Matt Hardy's apparent concussion during the match and Jim Ross' raunchy comment about Anna Jay's near-wardrobe malfunction.

[BurningHammer]

Yesterday's AEW Dynamite finally reached 1M viewers after many months. NXT being on Tuesday may be one of reasons.

[Lebron23]

Randy Orton vs The Rock at Wrestlemania needs to happen.

[BurningHammer]

Randy Orton vs The Rock at Wrestlemania needs to happen.

Never gonna happen. Unless his movie and TV careers somehow totally crash he will never return to wrestle again. Their daughters in a pro wrestling match is more likely.

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There are more WWE employee layoffs recently including many live event workers, Mike "IRS" Rotunda and Gerald Brisco.

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ROH is back with something new to the current pro wrestling scene, the Pure title tournament that is reminisce of UWFi with much more sport-like representations than every others.

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RIP Road Warrior Animal

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Both AEW and WWE have been hit hard with COVID-19 last few weeks.

There are two confirmed positive cases so far on AEW; Lance Archer and Ben Carter. It affected last Wednesday's taping of Dynamite that many in-ring personnel were missing.

Another COVID outbreak has also hit NXT that they had to shut down WWE Performance Center again. Chelsea is so far the confirmed positive case.