Kevin Thayer

"WWE isn't being booked like WCW 2000" Wrestlemania 42 Night 1:

@FateSmith5h @JDfromNY206 Yeah, last year Night 1 gave you around 1 hour 45 mins of wrestling. Right now, we're at almost exactly an hour of wrestling (and 3 hours of PPV time)

@JDfromNY206 Weren’t they all like that last year too?

Roxanne Perez outfit was the MVP of this Stephanie Vaquer and Liv Morgan match. Why are these matches so fucking brief? #WrestleMania

@JeffMakinbjyq @cape_wrestles

@cape_wrestles If the show is good I could give 2 shits about the stage

What a downgrade compared to last year lol.

@SkytelWrestling Yeah, but Darby isn't 200+ lbs, so he could never be a champion, let alone in a HOF someday. /s

And as we all know this killed any ongoing long term story being told with Hogan as champion, destroyed WCW's momentum, and lead to their closure. Right? According to a bunch of insane X accounts this morning, that's the only conclusion.

@Swavwav @WitcherFreak5 @JDfromNY206 @victorspoilz1 Not every story needs a 250+ day title reign. As mentioned the attitude era had short reigns. Heck Triple H lost his title to guys like HBK, Goldberg, Benoit around the 100ish day mark and it didnt make the title "worth nothing"

@WitcherFreak5 @JDfromNY206 @victorspoilz1 You’re talking like Roman Reigns didn’t give us the best storyline in the last decade as a result of his reign? Gunther’s IC reign built him into a star and restored prestige to the IC title only for it to be worth nothing now due to hot potato booking. The story makes the title.

Jesus FUCKING Christ man. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING? We did this with Brody King, now you end the strongest world title run in MJFs career for 4 weeks to belt him again in Queens for the COLDEST wrestler on the roster? THIS IS FUCKING TERRIBLE

Everyone is debating if Darby or MJF should win tonight, but think about this: How often do we get a World title match on TV that everyone is talking about, and other than speculation, we really don't know who's going to win. Kudos to AEW for that.

If you're still not sold on Darby Allin winning the World title tonight, that's a 'You' problem. #AEW

@rickmillz_ @kenny_sports Do you not watch Raw when there is a PPV on Sunday?

@kenny_sports Yea I’m not watching wrestling back to back days.

AEW Collision moving to Thursdays would be a stupid idea. #AEW

@jamesdub7 @JDfromNY206 Maybe not the best example haha but my point is, losing those matches didn't hurt him and it wont hurt MJF either. Not every title reign needs to be 200+ days.

@KevinThayer @JDfromNY206 Youre talking about the same triple H that was known for the reign of terror during that time?

I see all of the fake wrestling media spewing "I fully expect Darby Allin to win the World Championship on Wednesday bullshit", like they don't know or haven't been clued in on what's happening from people who work there, and what's going to happen. Puppets. Leaving you guessing. I don't give a fuck where you stand. Him winning is fucking terrible, and shouldn't even be a discussion. You don't stop a World Title reign that's working for one that will mean nothing. No matter what Sapp, Alba or any of them spin, it's does nothing, and means nothing.

@sebasLadinoR @wrestling_VI Didn't him and the Hardy's do a similar match in TNA a month or two ago?

@wrestling_VI I want to see it just to see Bully Ray getting a stomach ulcer out of rage

Do you want to see a 3 way TLC match between FTR vs Bucks vs Cope and Christian at #AewAllIn?

@ChiTownSportz88 @JDfromNY206 I'd love to hear why.

@KevinThayer @JDfromNY206 With respect You’re wrong

@AndrewBaydala Personally I feel if Darby wins, it gives him a boost and MJF is talented enough that it wont hurt him. Tho he needs to win it back in May. If Darby loses but looks strong in defeat, then it gives him momentum for a future rematch.

Great PPV from #AEW last night from top to bottom. A lot of "predictable" matches end up being the complete opposite, and for me, that's when pro-wrestling is at its best. AEW rarely misses on PPV, and #AEWDynasty was a smash. After the show, Tony Khan announced MJF vs. Darby Allin for the AEW World Championship this Wednesday on #AEWDynamite in Everett, Washington, the state where Darby is from and trained. I had a feeling AEW was going to LOAD UP this Wednesday's show(Which I tweeted about hours before the match was announced) and have the vast majority of the fan-fan base watching and talking about the episode, creating headlines and hype surrounding their brand during a very, very busy and headline-driven week for their competition. With that said, I have seen the discourse and discussions about who will win or who should win, etc. Of course, I have my opinions on it, and my opinion is not the "end all be all" as some others try to profess. At the end of the day, it's pro-wrestling & entertainment, and I will see what AEW decides to do, but I WOULD NOT switch the AEW Championship to Darby just because it's Washington and to capture headlines or have a footprint during a major week for your competition. MJF has a TON of momentum, and to me, Darby is one of the guys that IF he's going to finally win the "big one," let the moment have some major, major build with investment from your audience, and if you capture that, then have Darby win it. Either way, I will be watching and seeing what comes next after #AEWDynamite before completely rushing to a hot take or sound bite, and in my opinion, you should as well.

I have a feeling that Chris Jericho is going to turn heel in a few months. I'm getting 2008/09 vibes. He's all-in with the fans and gives them the "classics," but it gets him nowhere, so he eventually turns on them.

WWE is where WCW was in 1999. They had a golden-goose storyline in Bloodline (nWo) that could do little wrong. Yet now that the story has ended, they had no idea what to do next and can't figure out how to create new magic.

@rob_bohanan Fix this?

How can we as a community fix this main event? Comment and share to leave a suggestion or a take let's figure this out together #smackdown

Listening to Pat Mcafee cutting a promo on discounted Wrestlemania tickets like:

@BigEffinKev @Fightful @WrestleVotes @FightfulSelect Honestly, they're better off just taking the "L" on this one and doing what they planned since we're only a week away from Mania. If Randy did that, it would make the story even more confusing IMO.

@Fightful @WrestleVotes @FightfulSelect Randy is going to turn on Pat…

WWE has "reworked" some of the plans for this Friday's SmackDown after the reaction to the Pat McAfee, Cody Rhodes, and Randy Orton angle, @WrestleVotes Radio on @FightfulSelect has learned. Full details are now available for Select subscribers.

@producer_man @TheRoyalePain @SeanRossSapp @AppaGarg Honest question. If the stream didn't glitch live are you saying Youtube glitched it when processing the replay? How would something like that happen? I would assume what you see live is what you get on the replay.

@TheRoyalePain @SeanRossSapp @AppaGarg As the person who would have cut it, the ep. was not edited at all. I’m assuming the stream glitched there for whatever reason. Tony’s team didn’t ask us to cut anything, and we didn’t. Why would we? He mentioned his faith multiple times throughout. Why not cut all if we did?

There was a cut from the interview here, when Tony said "Much like you Vince, I'm a Christian" It's at 46:12 of the video, and you can see the jump cut here. Not sure why this would be sliced out.

@_MiracleMan @Thecoachrules There's a cut at your time stamp but if you go to 46:30 you'll see the Christian/Jesus part

@Thecoachrules 46:12 explain that timestamp 🤔😆

My man we haven’t cut ANY of the interview. Haven’t. Didn’t. Never would. It’s as is. So not sure where this storyline came from but whoever started it is just wrong. 🤷🏾‍♂️