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Linda might be getting a cabinet spot so.... ya the McMahons were one of his top donors. Gross.

 

Going to RAW tomorrow in Buffalo, a pretty conservative city, especially the surrounding area. Wonder if that'll play into their decision to acknowledge Trump, even in a commercial break.

 

Yeah I remember reading somewhere they were one of the highest, if not the biggest donor for Trump. Super gross for sure.

 

That's a shame but not surprising at all. Gross indeed. I wonder how that will affect any talents that speak/spoke out against him be it no or into the future.
That Linda being considered for a cabinet spot thing is concerning though. That would kinda shackle WWE for awhile.

 

nah, her job would be to make raw great again!

but seriously, i wonder if theres a difference in opinion regarding trump between vince/linda and their kids/hhh.

 

That's a good question, especially since they already have some contention over control/booking ideas. Vince and Aich esp seem to have some differences but it's all been reported from a control/company direction sense.

Shane seems like someone who might be the one who isn't a Trump supporter though.... but that might be the whole "Shane was always the cool one" talking lol.

 

Should we be trusting the Daily Star, since they're the ones that reported that? The idea of Linda as part of his cabinet isn't too farfetched, but still.

 

My mom after this happened:

"I realize the guys before her were busted open (two old CZW guys) but did she have to blade?"

My mom is getting smarky despite being clueless.

 

Your mom goes to wrestling shows with you?
Your mom is cooler than you, Mark

 

I won't argue that.

 

It's a big week for moms of wrestling fans who frequent Chorus.fm, it would seem. Replaced Matt with my mom on the podcast this week lmao

 

This read a lot better than I anticipated it would.


AN OPEN LETTER FROM JOEY STYLES

Friday night, I panicked on camera during the live broadcast of Evolve 72 on FloSlam when I realized that heel manager, Stokely Hathaway and I would be doing our promo at ringside and not in the ring with ring announcer, Joanna Rose as I had anticipated.

I told Joanna before the show that during my promo with her and Stokely in the ring, I was going to ask her about English tailoring so we could compare my suit with Stokely Hathaway's suit.

I had no idea what to say when Stokely Hathaway and I were at ringside about to trade promos and I didn't have Joanna with us to ask about English tailoring.

I panicked and I did exactly what Gabe Sapolsky told me not to do earlier in the week and made a political joke. The joke included a partial quote from the President-Elect that was meant to mock him and then, in-turn, my scripted nemesis, Stokely Hathaway.

I started the joke and stopped quoting the President-Elect without using the offensive word.

Again, I did not utter the offensive word.

I then turned to Stokely Hathaway and said "the word that I will not use, brings me to you."

As the veteran, I should have walked through the promo segment with Stokely Hathaway and Joanna Rose before the event so that there was no possibility of me putting myself in that position.

Gabe was justifiably furious at me and thought that I had endangered his relationship with FloSports.

After the event, I looked Gabe in the eye, apologized to him, and as not as to put him in the awkward position of having to fire someone he has known for 20 years, told him to fire me publicly and then shook his hand.

I apologized to Joanna who said she said she wasn't upset because she knew it was a joke about the President-Elect. It didn't matter if she was upset or not, therefore I apologized to her again, repeatedly.

I apologized to Jeremy Botter, the representative from FloSlam who was at the event, and he wasn't upset. It didn't matter if he was upset or not, therefore I apologized to him again, repeatedly. I also told him that Gabe and EVOLVE had no knowledge of what I was going to say and my actions should not be held against Evolve.

I apologized to the locker room and the wrestlers weren't upset. It didn't matter if they were upset, therefore I apologized to the wrestlers again, repeatedly.

While apologizing to the wrestlers, I saw that Timothy Thatcher obviously had a very serious concussion.

Timothy Thatcher's main event opponent, Drew Gulak also recognized that it was a very serious concussion and said that Timothy needed to go to the hospital.

I went to the hospital with Timothy and Larry Dallas. Gabe arrived at the hospital shorty after we did. We were cordial to each other, because I had already apologized to him and he had already fired me publicly. All that we were rightly concerned about by that point was Timothy Thatcher's condition.

Larry and I stayed at the hospital with Timothy until he was released at 1:30 AM into Larry's care to recover at Larry's home in NY until he is well enough to fly home to California.

While at the hospital watching Timothy struggle to regain his memory of what happened and even remember my name, I made the decision to stay quiet about EVOLVE 72 until today so as not to take attention away from EVOLVE on FloSlam on Sunday night.

In summary, I panicked on a live broadcast, ad-libbed by telling bad joke, apologized to Gabe, told him to publicly fire me to protect himself and then apologized sincerely and repeatedly to everybody involved including Joanna Rose, Jeremy Botter from FloSlam and the wrestlers in the EVOLVE locker room.

In conclusion, I'd like to thank FloSlam for editing out the segment from the EVOLVE 72 replay on FloSlam so fans can enjoy the historic event forever without it being marred.

Joey Styles

 

I've only half been paying attention to WWE stuff recently/mostly just reading spoilers, but I didn't know this was a separate thing, just thought Shane/DB were going to be on Raw?

 

The only things remotely interesting about that PPV is the titles on the line. I'll likely skip tonight.

 

Wow I didn't know Corino was a guest trainer at the PC recently. I hope they hire him and put him on NXT's commentary team.

 

I've been way out of touch with WWE the past few months since I work Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. I just looked at the SS card and man for one of the "big 4" this looks so underwhelming. With all the multi-person tag matches it's almost like New Japan "road to" show at Korakuen Hall.

Ziggler/Zayn should be good though at least.

 

haha, they are trying to push RAW Talk so badly that they wont even put the most important promo on the regular show?

I cant see what good possibly comes of tonights RAW.

 

Even though I know it's going to be shitty, I'm excited for tonight. Seeing Brock in person will be cool, seeing Goldberg live will be cool for a part of me, and it'll be nice to see a bunch of superstars live I haven't yet (Sami, Sasha, Bayley, Enzo/Cass)

 

Oh, its 1000x better live than on TV. I was at the RAW a few weeks after KO's win (the week before the cage match actually), and had a lot of fun. Came back and everyone's reviews hated it, of which I'd say 70% was complaints about commentary.

Only downside is if you arent ringside, you cant hear some of KO's hilarious smack talk.

 

go team smackdown

 

Destroy Sin Cara please.

 

lol Zoom in on the guy with a Young Bucks shirt and a Colt Cabana sign.

 

I love Braun

 

Just tuned in....gonna go ahead and assume that Brock needing security seems as stupid as I imagine