This week in the news: QT Marshall quits AEW, Jeff explains torn labrums, Flair being Flair and we mourn WWE cutting McKenzie Mitchell. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Put your great promos on tv, the Punk promo was mid and in the wrong slot, fun matches from Rush/Mark Briscoe and Ilja/Nathan Fraser, and Chris tries to heal the world with a holiday EP and so much more.

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This week: Hot Takes on War Games and Ice Cold Takes on Full Gear. THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM is in full effect as CM Punk is back in the WWE, and the Young Bucks are Killing the Business.

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This week, we preview Full Gear, the Observer Hall of Fame issue is out, and THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. Now with 50 percent more positive things to say.

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This week: NXT to the CW, Vince is selling stock and a Bill Mercer sighting. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including: A bevy of topics including "fixing" women's wrestling, the tell don't show nature of AEW matches, who is the devil, and we pitch a match that is nothing but nut shots.

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We watched Crown Jewel so you get HOT TAKES for a change. Then the news and THE LAZY RIVER OF CRITICISM. We talk Ric Flair, we talk another intra-Elite angle and tie that into the discourse of AEW "losing its way"

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Impact is now TNA again, Ric Flair is back onscreen again, and somehow Vince McMahon is Dana White's boss. Bad decisions abound as we talk all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including giving flowers to the NBeXT era, are they pivoting to "Laundry Wars" for Survivor Series instead of the smart story and so much more.

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Chris is back, Vince is out of creative, Sting is retiring eventually and all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including whatever we had time to watch this week. Plus: What would Shane McMahon's son's NXT name be?

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This week you get what you haven't in a long time: A HAWKINS RANT! Jeff wasn't happy with MJF/Juice, then Warren Hayes of the VoW family joins him to talk Tuesday's "war" and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM actually includes some New Japan. Plus at the end we get stupid by asking where the NWA ends up without answering "Who Cares?"

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This week: Quick hits on the deaths of Russ Francis and Dick Butkus, Adam Copeland is in AEW and that leads us to THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on a fun weekend with NXT No Mercy and AEW WrestleDream, a preview of WWE Fastlane, and we talk bad comedy, good acting and logical plotholes from both WWE and AEW.

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This week, Jade Cargill talk, Turnstile-gate and the THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: previews of No Mercy and WrestleDream, why the MJF/Jay White segment was a net negative, and more! We start it off as all wrestling podcasts do: Duran Duran talk.

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This week, we're late, but you know, here. Smackdown goes to USA, WWE makes some cuts, and more news. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we see what we watched amongst all the voluminous amounts of content out there

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The TKO merger is done, Vince is "back" changing things and Jade Cargill might be changing addresses, plus THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including a debate on whether clever is the enemy of smart.

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CM Punk got fired. Lots of good wrestling on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. We start with a music lesson and go from there.

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Hawkins goes solo as he talks Perry/Punk at All In, Cena back in WWE, the AOP on the roster and the women of Impact Wrestling. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: NXT then ICE COLD TAKES on All In and a preview of All Out and Payback.

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We talk about the passings of Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt and Jeff's journey to becoming a Terry Funk fan through JCP. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we preview All In and a few quick hits on other WWE.

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In the news: Cash Wheeler gets arrested, CM Punk throwing weight and shade, Edge wrestles his last in WWE and Asuka addresses her enemies! Then the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Juggalo Championship Wrestling? Tony Khan booking everything at once on Dynamite, World Wide from this week in 1986 and MORE!

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This week, we talk Robbie Robertson and William Friedkin, then onto the news-- scintillating Board of Directors discussion and WWE shakes up announce teams. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we pretty much loathed everything with a few notable exceptions.

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The Elite re-sign with AEW, the Feds are looking into Vince, then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on the Great American Bash, a SummerSlam preview, both AEW shows were strong and Chris for some reason watched NXT twice.

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This week, we ask the question was the AEW sign about the women's division acknowledgment or an attempt to spike the football? Vince gets surgery, is he now Mecha-Vince? Then the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: NXT Great American Bash preview, AR Fox, Collision missteps, the endgame of Jericho and Callis and should L.A. Knight be getting pushed harder due to his reactions.

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We enjoyed Collision and were a bit dour on Dynamite. THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM must flow because the children you were promised last week aren't on this week, and we explain why on that too.

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