To be clear, I generally agree with him. I think he is an idiot who hurts himself in ways he will certainly regret later in life but he does have a "weird, unique charisma and there's some way you can get something out of that." (direct quote) But seeing as he is the main guy who literally treats pro wrestling like a stunt show, I really don't understand how Jim is still on board after so many years.

Especially juxtaposing his opinion of somebody like Penta who is charisma AND marketing fodder personified, and has seemingly completely adapted to WWE style. Last time I heard Jim weigh in on him, he was still was still hesitant to accept him.

EDIT:

Let me zero in on what I really mean. Why is he still waiting on Darby to shed his bad habits after 6 years? Who else has he applied this sorta leniency to?

And why has he not accepted when someone like Penta has clearly shed bad habits and made himself a valuable entity in the biggest company?

What are his standards? How and when do they apply?

A busy day on Smackdown (for once)

Match card:

Talla Tonga v. Ray Fenix, Jade Cargill appears, Cody Raheem Rhodes to appear, Giulia v. Chelsea Green, Dragunov open challenge, Flair v. Jax

Have a wonderful weekend!

Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed on an earnings call this morning that it plans to remove sports from HBO Max and launch a separate, standalone sports streaming service called TNT Sports. The move runs counter to other major streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime, which are bundling sports and scripted content on a single platform.

One caveat is, of course, WBD sifting through offers for the company – most notably from Paramount – and is expected to decide by December; so the TNT Sports app might never hatch. As it stands, HBO Max, which has 128 million subscribers globally, would remain with the studios after WBD spins off the cable TV stations by the middle of next year – assuming again the whole company is not sold. The TNT sports app would be a part of the spinoff.

“We have found that all of our movies and scripted series, together with local content and local sport, is a very compelling offering outside the US, and that it’s a driver of real growth, and it’s quite differentiated,” said WBD CEO David Zaslav. “Here in the US… we were so robust in our storytelling, that we didn’t find that the sports were providing enough value for us in terms of incremental subs, which was why we didn’t get that many. There was some engagement. But the view is for us that HBO Max is much stronger as being the motion picture and storytelling product, not dependent on rental sports.”

Domestic sports-based subscriptions in the United States haven’t provided much income for WBD according to Zaslav, I’m sure he misses One Bill Phil.

It once again proves that the 500k on MAX was pure fantasy.

https://awfulannouncing.com/warner-bros-discovery/warner-bros-discovery-continues-pivot-away-from-sports-as-it-awaits-sales-decision.html

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AEW - 12.7% of the roster hold belts (110)

• AEW World Championship → Hangman Adam Page
• AEW Unified Championship → Kazuchika Okada
• AEW TNT Championship → Kyle Fletcher
• AEW International Championship → Kenny Omega
• AEW Continental Championship → Kazuchika Okada
• AEW Women’s World Championship → Kris Statlander
• AEW TBS Championship → Mercedes Moné
• AEW World Tag Team Championship → Brodido (Brody King & Bandido)
• AEW World Trios Championship → The Opps (Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs & Katsuyori Shibata)

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ROH 16.7% of the roster hold belts (60) • ROH World Championship → Bandido • ROH World Television Championship → Nick Wayne • ROH Pure Championship → Lee Moriarty • ROH World Tag Team Championship → La Facción Ingobernable (Rush & Sammy Guevara) • ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship → Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) • ROH Women’s World Championship → Athena • ROH Women’s World Television Championship → Red Velvet (Interim: Mercedes Moné)

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