>HHH is so riddled with dementia from years of CTE and steroid abuse he released Kairi, in favor of allocating more contract budget for walled up diva slop shitters >IYO had an impromptu IC title match with Becky Lip Sync, which was excellent on both sides >Asuka eventually interfered with the IC match to relegate the only Wrestlemania feud with long term booking to Backlash, because apparently Pirates remind Ari Emanuel too much of skeletons >IYO and Asuka so far have still not posted about or advertised Backlash 5 days after their match was announced >WWE have been bombarded with WeWantKairi posts on all social channels, so there may still be hope of a Ri' Truth style Backlash return, if Mark Shapiro's AI spreadsheet indicates profit potential, inbetween him blasting rails of cocaine >Otherwise, IYO said goodbye to Kairi for the 3rd time in 9 years because, as established, TKO are fucking retards >Refugees welcome >IYO has officially reached over a 1000 days as champion in WWE, across 7 title reigns >IYO is the GOAT >IYO is the ACE >IYO is the protagonist
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Before they throw down at #WWEBacklash, @WWEAsuka and @Iyo_SkyWWE will sit down and hash it out TONIGHT on #WWERaw! https://x.com/WWE/status/2051346345206968374
>>20397898 It seems unlikely, TKO had her as the main face on their 2025 report a week ago, so sounds like they're pretty happy with her, I would imagine it's one of the guys on multi milly contracts or something
>>20397964 >why did half the users leave the site in the past year it ebbs and flows. I must have replied to a baiting janny. fun fact 80% of the site now phone posts. I wonder why
>>20402913 princess cut IYO. old nose 'ri >>20403291 >>20403569 fuck gaych for taking that. also dakota having monkey on her face was a rib this only lasted like a month and they made a kairi action figure of it
>>20407066 based /arrrr/ player >>20408648 is this real? >>20408809 lotta diamonds and shit. rolexes are legitimately good at telling time. they were famous and popular cause like train conductors used them. they are better than any other mechanical watch at keeping time and basically just as good as a $20 casio. I've seen conflicting reports on what actually keep time better, but yeah why spend Rolex money when a casio keeps time just as well other than it flex?
>>20407793 same >>20408128 I hope they dont do it to IYO >>20408484 very cute IYO card. >>20408809 she's happy because it was her card and she's featured super prominently on the packaging
>>20412932 >Tozawa's face screams "50% oof, you're right. It's a shame Tozawa & Otisse weren't pushed harder back when Chad was abusing Alpha Academy. They were so over back then they could have cemented themselves as a top tag team.
>>20413708 At least he still has a job I guess, he's been there for years so he would have had a bunch of pay raises, but he's probably back down to the $350k minimum now, he's also an NXT coach so that probably helped him out a lot
>>20412932 >>20413708 >>20414071 Were Tozawa and Otis ever paid more than the minimum? Tozawa especially. I fucking HATE how gaych keeps pushing his dimeless indie shitter pseudo sons over Chad. >yfw a year ago when they were in Chad's whole town and they had the >that's chad gable >no it's not chants going
>>20414143 he couldn't be the main one because dave said >significantly pushed and tozawa gets like 2 moves of offense a year. >>20415394 >>20416257 post proof of IYO friendship
>>20416311 >>20416336 I'm just happy they occasionally let him hit that Senton when he wrestles now. It's one thing to job, it's another to ask someone to take that kind of bump for zero fucking payoff.
>>20412932 I have to think Tozawa isn't making too much to begin with, so they probably didn't approach him about the payout. He probably looks like that because Kairi isn't there for the group pick because Hunter is a reckless knob. I have to think Nikki was the one sitting with Giulia when I saw her at the piano bar at New York New York casino Mania week.
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>>20425323 the samurai fears the party hat >>20428057 based strawberries on cake enjoyer. I always have strawberries and or cherries on my birthday cake
IYO isn't one of the first 2 matches right? Like did they annouce the first 2 matches like with mania? I just want to see the IYO match and the Danhausen match
>>20434696 yeah I thought she was retiring >>20434219 lol I literally woke up as Danhausen was driving in in the Danhausen mobile. That match was amazing
>>20435559 he clearly had juice left in the tank idk do joshi usually hang up the boots early? is there a stardom equivalent of the NJPW dads that never retire and just stink it up forever? asuka already has a kid and can't have more, so that's the main reason to retire gone she can clearly still go, so it's only if she doesn't want to anymore, and there's no way for us to know that it's not like she's never taken a big loss before
>>20435629 Joshi's usually retire in their late 20s/early 30s and then go and get married and have kids but some of the current gen wrestlers like Mayu are sticking around way longer than joshis used to stick around
>After the match, Sky bowed respectfully to Asuka. Emotional after the loss, Asuka broke down in tears before embracing Sky in a heartfelt hug. The two shared a long embrace as Asuka raised Sky’s hand in a show of respect. This came off like the end of a big chapter. I am already getting emails asking if this all meant Asuka was done (and I can understand why, based on how this looked). Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. As I write this, no idea but we will see and if THERE IS ACTUALLY ANYTHING TO REPORT, I will. Relax and stay tuned.
>Big E: “I don't either. I wondered... is this a goodbye? We've never really seen Asuka this emotional. If this is goodbye, I know she will be dearly missed. She has been a pioneer; she had done truly incredible things in the ring even before she came to WWE, but she has further staked her claim as an all-time great here. I don't know what this means, but shout-out to IYO SKY for another incredible performance. She's someone I expect to be in that World Title picture again very, very soon.”
>>20436654 >She's someone I expect to be in that World Title picture again very, very soon.” lol unless Rhea drops the belt to Jacy Jayne it ain't happening.
>>20438137 I feel like the end is incomplete. I wish the story had been their from the beginning. It would've made more sense for their last match to tell the tale of their bond since Iyo started. Instead of pivoting from a failed Kairi story. It feels a sour taste in the mouth.
Hopefully they'll get one last chance to fight down the road in Japan. Maybe with Miyo involved as well.
>>20438231 kabukichad, by the off chance iyo retires from the wwe and goes to japan to fight asuka again, asuka will be in her 50s. this was the story, this is it.
Asuka Doko? Transcription courtesy of WrestlePurists on X:
>The story I heard is that she (Asuka) is 'semi-retired.' I haven’t really gotten an exact meaning of what 'semi-retired' means. But I guess, people were wishing her goodbye and things like that backstage so… I don’t know if that means she’s going to Japan and still wrestle, I don’t know if that means she’ll do stuff here and there. But I was told 'semi-retired.'
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>>20437327 Nattie has never politicked her way into anything benefiting her except having a few matches outside of the company to do her grizzled vet Nattie gimmick, even though she could've done worse because her family ties. And because of that no one has said anything bad about her. So I wonder why you're lashing out at her like this?
>>20442794 I wonder how much she'll have to say on her weekly spot on Busted Open this week about the match and her take on whatever may be going on with Asuka?
>>20443159 She may not go in to what's going on with Asuka, but will probably talk about how Asuka carries herself backstage and what kind of lockerroom leader she is.
>>20443823 kek at those hair clips It looks like they are interviewing her while she's doing her make up and she has hairclips that look like bows to keep the hair out of her face
>>20444976 is the he thing a google translation thing or do other countries not differentiate male and female in the third person? I've noticed this in other shit like nazi, not just nihongo >>20444993 based
