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@RollSonnenRoll Will you be watching Dustin Poirier's last fight?
Classic corporate shenanigans
If I was(allegedly) getting it in with Lola then you wouldn’t be able to get me to stop talking about it. It’s how I would have started the interview
@RollSonnenRoll Will you be watching Dustin Poirier's last fight?
I’ll keep a list of matches that are worth everyone’s time and report back in a weekNight 1 of the G1 used to damn near be a wrestling holiday, bigger than a lot of PPV/PLE nights. Now I probably won't even watch a single night of the entire tournament.![]()
It really is masterful. I knew of it somewhat from the Lapsed Fan WCCW journey. You don't start in This Business in 1847 like the Jarretts and not know a thing or three!@RollSonnenRoll One more thing about that USWA mini doc, they talked about the World Class-USWA switch at the beginning but they didnt go into how amazing of a booking job it was outta Jerry Jarrett and Eric Embry
Jarrett needed a fresh new babyface to get the fans back invested in Dallas so he goes out and gets this nobody ass journeyman midcard heel in Eric Embry and gives him the book and tells him to make himself the top babyface and the fans were so desparate to cheer someone again that they went All In on Embry as he battled the evil villains of Skandor Akbar's Devastation incorporated
Then Jarrett needed to figure how to kill the World Class promotion name and the connection to the Von Erichs, something the fans had been deeply invested in for over a decade, without losing the fans
So what does he do, he has Embry book a storyline where "evil foreign oil cartel businessmen" came in with their evil foreign oil money(obviously something that was gonna be felt deeply in the oil working state of Texas) and bought World Class and put Skandor Akbar in charge of it and put these hard working Americans out of jobs!
So now, you got white meat babyface Eric Embry, representing a new group of American investors called the USWA(America, baby!) vs the evil foreigners and their corrupted World Class promotion
When Embry won the big blowoff cage match and ripped down that World Class Championship Wrestling banner from the top of the Sportatorium, the place actually exploded in cheers, something that woulda been unthinkable and dang near sacrilegious just a few short years earlier
Now that is top notch fan psychology booking for yo ass!
I love it, love everything about it
Well I was gonna say Usyk before the fight@GoldenAzazel usyk vs dubois at wembley for all the marbles. who ya got?
it was an awesome performance by usyk. gonna be sad when he retiresWell I was gonna say Usyk before the fighttrust me
Yep and it'll be sooner not laterit was an awesome performance by usyk. gonna be sad when he retires
Well I was gonna say Usyk before the fighttrust me
Was Fury there to promote that big time trilogy everyone is clamoring forit was an awesome performance by usyk. gonna be sad when he retires
No and noWas Fury there to promote that big time trilogy everyone is clamoring for