Day 750
- Doing this late, and refraining from all April Foolery...
- Hope Solo has been arrested on DWI and child abuse charges.
- The World Cup Draw occurred today. United States actually gets a good draw -- England, Iran, and the Ukraine pod winner from June -- and then they face the A group in the R16, which is headed by the Netherlands, who haven't been up to their usual standard lately. Damage can be done with this draw, but the USA has to be ready. They are favored to advance, second with England.
- Brazil open as betting favorites.
- OK, I guess it's time for Wrestlemania Week Stuff:
- To give you an idea of how far the WWE has cratered the last couple of years, the winner of the 2022 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal (previously won by the likes of The Big Show, Cesaro, and others of more repute) was Madcap Moss, a low-end tag-team partnership guy.
- Who was promptly destroyed seconds later when his partner, Baron Corbin, had his Wrestlemania 39 opponent, Drew McIntyre, show up.
- Hall of Fame tonight. They gave Scott Steiner a live mic and he actually behaved!!! (Doing his brother Rick and his nephew, NXT star Bron Breakker (who inducted The Steiner Brothers), proud.)
- Also inducted, Booker T's wife, Sharmell.
- And when they inducted Warrior Award (yuck) winner Shad Gaspard, I don't know if it was Warrior's wife or the other woman, but at least the last line was right, with Shad's son -- whose life Shad saved, trading his own to a Southern California riptide in the process -- next to them: "Women are known for who they are. Men are known for what they do."
- Vader's wife and son accepted the honor for Leon White.
- Vince McMahon is going on... and on... and on........... about The Undertaker. The crowd, after one too many Steve Austin "What?"s, was warned that one more would bring Taker out -- not to accept the Hall of Fame, mind you -- but to kick everyone's ass before he does.
- Another 30 minutes later, Mark Calloway left with three words: "Never say never." There is word that Cody Rhodes is backing out of going to WWE (good call if that's right!!!!) and Seth Rollins would need an opponent. But no, Taker...
- In the ring: Most interesting card of the weekend was and is going to be the first Ring of Honor card with Tony Khan at the helm.
- It does appear that Khan will be intermingling ROH and AEW, but, with the number of people he has, that's probably not a bad thing.
- Minoru Suzuki finally has an American wrestling championship, for the first time in his career, snagging the ROH World Television Championship.
- The WWE is going to have a hard time topping -- with anything!!! -- the bloody brawl for the ROH Tag Team Championships between AAA titlists FTR and GCW and ROH champions, the 2022 Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Cup champions, The Briscoe Brothers.
- However, after FTR won the ROH titles, The Young Bucks had to ruin it, setting up an AEW Dynamite match for Wednesday between the two for both the AAA and ROH titles.
- New Japan Young Lion on excursion Wheeler Yuta won the first championship of his career, winning the ROH Pure Championship in an upset victory.
- And Jonathan Gresham unified the ROH Heavyweight Championship he won the Interim belt of in December, but was stopped with Jay Lethal and producer Sonjay Dutt turned heel...
- Only to have the long-awaited in-ring return of Samoa Joe to blow all that up.
- Lince Dorado was on Renee Paquette (FKA Young)'s podcast to explain the beef between himself and Izzy Silyagi's father -- and we still aren't sure exactly what happened Thursday night! A number of Dorado's supporters are saying it did get violent. It APPEARS Dorado and Cody's beef about the chokeslam Cody's daughter took in the match discussed in this blog several years ago came to blows Thursday night -- as well as possibly Dorado's purported ties with pedophile Chasyn Rance.
- Various independent cards have also peppered the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the last two days, and will tomorrow, leading up to tomorrow night's first night of Mania 38 at AT&T Stadium.
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