Based on the bullet points I speculate, they, or the owner personally, owed money to somebody that could take the company, and that somebody is likely on the board or knows someone on the board based on the CEO getting pissed about a board member being cc'd on an email.

Taking the TV money to use on other stuff screams of when AOL Time Warner used to do this to WCW, take parts of the big revenue and put them on the Warner books and claim WCW lost money, and while WCW lost money either way, on paper it was more the way Warner was cooking things.

Refusing to do loans is another red flag about the board, they didn't want to take out loans likely because the board would need to be notified. I can see why AEW was their golden goose, it was the only real "brand name" they carried and it was far cheaper than a cable plan.

Those final two bullet points... y'all remember when Dixie was playing the investor shell game, which ultimately led to TNA going to Anthem... yeah, this sounds eerily close to that, to me.

::: SPOILER Adrenaline in my soul... Drew just dethroned Cody Rhodes! :::

I had to switch to lemmy because I couldn't get the spoiler to show right in Piefed, maybe it doesn't work or I was screwing it up. Anyway... I'm super happy with this spoiler, I am so bored when watching this feud these days. Then again I'm burned out on wrestling lately.

Probably deserved it's own topic but here it is...

BOO!

That’s one hell of a World Tour they’re going on!

Wrestling at its finest.

Rollins may be injured, looks like his knee buckled when he came off the top rope, they immediately went to the finish and he was helped to the back during commercials.

Goldberg ended up losing as predicted, made to look strong, Gunther is a miracle worker getting an ok match out of him, but it's nothing to go out of your way to watch, NBC has gone straight to commercial, no Goldberg in the ring or nothing from what I saw, just Gunther rolls out, commercial... they then came back to Goldberg and his friends and family in Ring and he has a mic thanking them and the fans, for his career. NBC cuts him off and leaves the show... I assume there is more on peacock.

For us old timers, I have a bittersweet thought on this, tonight we have potentially seen the actual final bit of WCW's existence in active (well semi-active) wrestling, Goldberg retires and takes the last WCW Theme Song with him, short of Naomi going back to Ernest Miller's (The Funkadactyl's) music one day.

I switched over to t.Lemmy.zip from Piefed for this because Piefed.zip is currently really slow for me. For anyone that wanders in here, Piefed and Lemmy each have some strengths. Lemmy (at least Tesseract) has a better notifications system. Piefed has a more bulletin board style (they're damn similar though) that I kind of prefer. It's a tossup.

EXCUSE ME!?! Duck that.

I'm assuming it's to work with Dom and just long enough WWE gets to use Eddie on TV and secure the rights to his name and likeness for a while longer. If we're lucky it'll just be some vault filming or something.

I guess if they aren't stripping the titles they'll just have Roxanne take the title and Dom.

I can't believe people don't like their state police wearing plain clothes, using unmarked cars, hiding their badges, showing up without judicial warrants, and just snatching people before sending them off to foreign prisons, what a bunch of wokesters. /s

It's important to stand up to the fuckers, but equally as terrifying knowing this is likely just the beginning. We still have 1309 days to go, assuming they don't go full coup the way so many think they will.

You lose every shot you don't take, so good for them.

I don't disagree with the opinion, but where do we go? If Firefox goes down the forks do too, Chrome/Chromium has a monopoly on almost all other browsers, we're stuck between two turd sandwiches as far as I know.

The rumor was that's why the title was put back on GUNTHER, so he and Goldberg could have the retirement match the weekend of Evolution on SNME.

The screwdriver and then push part is the only big thing that draws it into question for me, I'm somewhat hopeful you're right.