r/midcarder

Weird spot from last night's Dynamite with Thunder Rosa getting hit with(black) mist with her black and white face paint on. The visual and effects looked so weak that they had the whole thing take place with Thunder Rosa's back turned to the camera the whole time and the cameraman tried to hide it as well

The whole point of a sequel is to be better than the game that came before it and that’s exactly what 2 did. Better graphics, better combat, more weapons, way more suits, way better traversal, and better quality of life features. It’s a no brainer that 2 is the best in the series despite the trolls here on Reddit and the grifters on YouTube say. Newer is always better, it’s common sense.

Must be a slow shift considering Raw did 9K this week and even that was framed as some kind of disappointment

It FEELS GOOD TO BE ELITE E-DRONES!

A-HA!

It's hard to believe that Tony is a changed man until he distances himself and his company from sociopaths like this guy, or Rovert, or Ibou, or any of the many other hateful IWC accounts he's signal boosted and endorsed over the years. Tony is a product of wrestling message boards and he's terminally online, so he is well aware of what is posted on a daily basis. There is no upside business wise to coddling the FED BAD segment of the fanbase that alienates and scares away potential viewers

Now pay Danhausen his human monies Knicks fans..

According to MJF(he says that every metric is up for AEW) this should be Minnesota’s highest attended game of the season.. lol..

Appreciate the out of box thinking here by Tony

But a glorified house show starting at roughly 10PM that’ll go on until 11:15 ish.. Dunno how well that will sell..

Plus could you pick the two most uninspiring baseball teams to go on after that aren’t a draw?!?

Twins haven’t been relevant since Mauer retired & Torii Hunter left them.. & the Angels just flat out suck.. they almost got no hit last night by the soon to be Las Vegas A’s.. lol..

Again Midcarders.. I appreciate the out of box thinking here.. but the time starting & ending isn’t a good selling point.. plus the two teams suck.. at least go on after a draw(Yankees, Red Sox, any road team that isn’t the Angels lol)..

What say ya’ll?

The problem with Cody Rhodes turning heel is that, okay, who replaces him as the face of the company? It’s all fun and games to want Cody Rhodes to turn heel but who’s going to take his place as the undisputed face of WWE? Roman Reigns is the person who Cody Rhodes replaced as face of WWE and Roman Reigns isn’t even full time. It’s not going to be LA Knight, or Jey Uso, it’s not going to be Seth Rollins. Your OBAS and Trick Williams and Bron Breakker are still green and they ain’t there yet and they’re still young. Randy Orton is an OG. The only person who could be the face of WWE is CM Punk but he’s closing in on 50. You can tweak his character and make his character be a bit more edgier but you’re not fully turning Cody Rhodes heel. The same way that John Cena never turned heel even when half the audience were shitting on him on a weekly basis when he was the face of WWE during the Vince McMahon era. Business wise it would be a dumb decision to turn Cody Rhodes heel. Especially when there is NO ONE to replace him as the face of the company.

The problem is also a lot of the “heels” we see, they just get cheered anyways. Dominik Mysterio is the perfect example, he gets super heel heat but he also gets super cheered also. It’s hard to be a proper heel. Especially hard for it to be Cody Rhodes and CM Punk of all people.

CM Punk, it ain’t happening. He’s way too beloved at this point to ever turn heel. Ever since CM Punk came back to WWE in 2023 he’s consistently been universally cheered and loved by the fans. No one is booing him at all. Also in kayfabe and in reality, CM Punk after all the years is FINALLY getting everything he’s ever wanted that he SHOULD have gotten in his first run in WWE. The WrestleMania main events, back to back WrestleMania main events he was apart of. His Wife coming back to WWE and tag teaming with AJ LEE. The WWE2K26 cover. Winning TWO World Heavyweight Championships in 2025. What reason does he have to turn heel? CM Punk is also nearing the end of his career. There is no point in turning him heel when the fans will just cheer him anyways. It’s CM PUNK! The live audiences haven’t gotten tired of CM Punk. Like with Cody Rhodes it’s a bad business move to turn CM Punk heel. People show up to see people like CM Punk and Cody Rhodes. People buy their merchandise’s. You can maybe tweak their characters slightly but we are never going to get a heel run for Cody Rhodes or CM Punk. We may get Homelander Cody Rhodes in a tweener role but we are NEVER getting 2011 heel CM Punk.

I swear, sometimes being a wrestling fan is embarrassing.

If it’s not the parasocial weirdness where people treat billion dollar wrestling companies like sports teams they personally play for (Hi, Sickos!), it’s stuff like this. Grown adults melting down over who a wrestler married. Or those creepy convention photos where dudes pose spooning women wrestlers like it’s prom night 1998.

And then you meet some of these people in real life and suddenly the lack of social skills, poor hygiene stereotypes, and terminally online behavior starts making a lot more sense.

I like wrestling. I’ve liked wrestling my entire life. But man, some wrestling fans make it really difficult to admit publicly sometimes.