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@Switchblade97 I stopped buying on YouTube and started buying on Max. I think lots of people probably have. Makes this year vs last kind of apples to oranges comparison.

AEW Double or Nothing currently has 2.9k live PPV viewers on YouTube. This is up from the peak for the last PPV which was 2.5k but down year on year from 6.6k for last years Double or Nothing.

@MATTHARDYBRAND @Fightful If you have to call your own match a classic, it might not be a classic brother.

Because @Fightful is extremely influential on social media. Smart marks try & downplay our match versus Team 3D and it’s bullshit. That match was/is a bonafide classic, even if it wasn’t someone’s specific cup of tea.

@vintagepuro Low Ki to me was to the 2000’s what Sabu was to the 90’s. The way he moved, the intensity and the aura were so different and revolutionary that his DNA ended up all over what cutting edge wrestling looked like for the next ten years.

Seeing Low-Ki in the late 90’s/00’s for me was like seeing Liger, Sabu & Mysterio for the first time. It wasn’t just that he was doing moves nobody had ever seen, or moves you had seen in a new way, it was like a whole different thread of pro wrestling had been unlocked. 👑☠️

@larrykim Linkedin kudos as part of the severance package is gold

Today we cut headcount by 87%. Business is stronger than ever. Let’s be direct. I own this. Productivity’s evolving. My company leads or dies. Not cost-cutting. Savings rocket to the survivors: $7.5M bands for 10000x AI impact. Deepest gratitude to the exited. Generous packages + LinkedIn kudos from strength. THE 10000X ORG Fewer humans. 10000x output. Old jobs = AI bottlenecks in hoodies. Builders: Elite engineers command agent armies. Everyone else = review spam. PMs merge into AI whisperers. No shipping code — that’s for agents. Agent Managers: Self-automators turned AI zookeepers. They eat. Front-Liners: Human soul for customers. Agents do the rest (flawlessly). Rewards: Savings fund the keepers. Old bands die. 10000x or goodbye. Future: Pricier humans + silicon slaves. We’re the revolution. Best to the “next chapter” crew ❤️

@AwedaJoshua @TheHost_ Way to eat the corporate slop, Joshua.

@TheHost_ The fact that he stopped, looked her in the eye and asked for her name instead of letting her shrink into “just an intern” this warmed my heart. Small moments of dignity like this stay with people for life

Many years ago, a friend of mine worked as an intern at The Daily Show. She was more than a bit star-struck to be in a space among so many people she respected and admired. One afternoon, her colleague Stephen Colbert came in to the office to prep for his new show at the time: The Colbert Report. As he walked past her at my cubicle, he stopped and said, “You’re a new face, what’s your name?” She didn’t know what to really say, so she replied, “Oh, I’m just an intern.”

@CDisillusion Only weirdo i see here is whoever you are spending your Friday making AI graphs to explain to people why what we are seeing with our own two eyes makes us weird to point out.

Ok, Imma explain the admiral neck shadow thing. (Spoilers: it's not a rubber mask, ya weirdos)... 🧵

@JCup2013 Cool fan fiction, I’m sure they sit around the TKO board room all the time talking about if the HeArTbReAk KiD should be made an executive. Thats definitely how actual billion dollar companies operate.

Going to share some water cooler talk around the state of WWE. Note: these are just rumors, and I do not expect most of them to be verified by TKO sources because, well… -I’ve spoken to a few people from the WWE side who are of the belief that Nick Khan had to vouch for HHH

@BoarIsWar Shasta McNasty and Homeboys in Outer Space were the crown jewels of UPN at this point in time.

Important to remember that this edition of SmackDown was only 90 minutes. UPN used the last half hour for an exclusive sneak peak for it’s new show, “Shasta McNasty”

@SeanRossSapp @JonAlba @bpritchard152 @davemeltzerWON @BrandonThurston Brandon Thurston is so unbelievably cringy pretending to be a rasslin’ business analyst and asking these kinds of questions to a private company that has no reason or obligation to share their financials with dorks on the internet.

@JonAlba @bpritchard152 @davemeltzerWON Tony Khan is asked by @BrandonThurston if AEW is profitable. Tony Khan says he's reinvesting in a lot of projects and they have the highest revenue year in AEW by far. He won't comment on how it's specifically accounted

I'm on the AEW media call with Tony Khan. Pertinent notes to follow.

@JoeHulbert Mike Graham busting out the Walmart cutoff tshirt for the seven hour shoot interview

No event contributed more to the shoot interview industry than WCW’s demise. The lean back and nod here is so money.

@itsbybanshee Oil funded sportswashing campaigns, billion dollar media conglomerates and shameless people who will keep eating the corporate slop and asking for more.

I'm struggling to determine who the target audience for WWE's current product is.

@realpwoloss Not to sound like an old man but it’s insane how much wrestling crowds have changed. This is a kind of reaction both audibly and visually you just don’t see anymore. Really cool building too. Luger was such a blue chipper at this specific point in time.

Really great atmosphere here.

@luchablog It’s so weird to me how court bauer was everywhere and by far the most media savvy promoter in wrestling when MLW launched and now the MLW media strategy has been so nonexistent I have no idea if they have even run or not since the pandemic and I’m on wrestling media every day.

so MLW stopped airing on YouTube, spent about five months taping shows without putting them anywhere, and announced they're now going to start airing episodes on YouTube

@AEW @Twins Please stop making my wrestling look geriatric and uncool by carting out Jeff Jarrett

For the first time ever, a Major League Baseball game and All Elite Wrestling are teaming up! It's "Brawl in the Ballpark" with the @twins – a high-octane postgame event on Fri., July 10 at Target Field! Head to twins.com/brawl for more information and VIP pass options!

@RobertW95204151 @WrestlePurists She was one chapter of a 23 year shit show where a zombie company just keeps getting flipped to greater and greater fools.

@RobertW95204151 @WrestlePurists She was essentially running a charity for out of work wrestlers. TNA was getting 30k ppv buys for 1.7 million viewers and didn’t run outside of orlando because they couldn’t sell tickets. It was terminally lame. She kept the lemon running and gets vilified too much imo

Dixie Carter turned down several invitations to appear on and be interviewed for Dark Side of the Ring’s three-part episode on TNA and Jeff Jarrett. - PWInsider