Exactly; the statement will have been reviewed by lawyers who would have suggested rewording it.

I just want to jump in here as the whole thing about the tonnes of factual errors stuff…

A lot of the allegations about the accuracy of their data basically came down to arguments about the validity of statistics garnered from testing methodology; and how Labs guy claimed their methods were super good, vs other content creators claiming their methods were better.

My opinion is that all of these benchmarking content creators who base their content on rigorous “testing” are full of their own hot air.

None of them are doing sampling and testing in volume enough to be able to point to any given number and say that it is the metric for a given model of hardware. So the value reduces to this particular device performed better or worse than these other devices at this point in time doing a comparable test on our specific hardware, with our specific software installation, using the electricity supply we have at the ambient temperatures we tested at.

Its marginally useful for a product buying general comparison - in my opinion to only a limited degree; because they just aren’t testing in enough volume to get past the lottery of tolerances this gear is released under. Anyone claiming that its the performance number to expect is just full of it. Benchmarking presents like it has scientific objectivity but there are way too many variables between any given test run that none of these folks isolate before putting their videos up.

Should LTT have been better at not putting up numbers they could have known were wrong? Sure! Should they have corrected sooner & clearer when they knew they were wrong? Absolutely! Does anybody have a perfect testing methodology that produces reliable metrics - ahhhh, im not so sure. Was it a really bitchy beat up at the time from someone with an axe to grind? In my opinion, hell yes.

You don’t put out a statement saying “This company looked at us & found this:” without running the statement by the company in question first.

Well, you can, but you’ll usually find yourself in hot water if the things you’re claiming the company found run contrary to what they actually found.

This! Would you hire a mechanic who you know does what you say but 1/3 cars they “repair” ends up breaking again 6 months later?

As noted above, I think the statement is that allegations were made and they were not ignored, and/or were addressed.

This is silly.

If it was reported, it was reported. The whole point of Roper Greyell being involved is to identify if there were events that weren’t reported, or were reported and not acted upon.

That’s not the only way to read that at all. Your interpretation is that sexual harrassment was not ignored & was addressed; but the sentence is actually that allegations were not ignored and were addressed.

Nobody trying to make money on YouTube is going to stop click bait; its a necessary evil to get your videos fed by the algorithm. It sucks, but its here to stay until the algorithm starts punishing it.

I think its worth bearing in mind that professional sports people compete injured all the time, and “career ending” can mean a lot of different things.

Eg I don’t think we’re talking never be able to walk again type of injury - but it could just be something that he will lose range of motion, or be in pain until its fixed surgically and then once fixed he won’t be in pain or will have full motion but its not safe to risk the repair from that point on.

And, of course, the whole thing could be a work :)

So, do you think that was kayfabe, or is Chuckie T actually finished? He got to say shit on TV, and had an epic final match - but if he’s not coming back as either a wrestler or manager i’m going to miss him - the Best Friends & Dark Order were both my favourite things from early days AEW outside of the Bucks, Omega, Hangman early story that culminated in the original Stadium Stampede.

I guess given the references from Kenny he’s written out until a point where he can compete in a Blood & Guts match; but if the write-out was so he could get surgery I thought the way it worked is that the timeline for recovery was pretty open ended.

“I wanna be a good boy”

From what i’ve seen of Thekla she is awesome too, so hopefully she does show up on Forbidden Door because adding more from Stardom to the women’s side of those matches will be rad.

So good.

I was flying into Brisbane Australia years ago and halfway through the immigration / customs section I saw 3-4 border control agents around this absolute giant of a man, super tanned, jacked, blonde hair. Initially I wondered if it was a drugs bust but everybody was way to jovial and chatting and only later did I realise it was Billy who I think was in town for some indie show in 'straya. He looks big on TV, even bigger IRL.

Yeah there’s a difference between having young wrestlers wrestling, and young wrestlers posing for glamour photo books & whatnot I guess.

Probably a lesson to not clap back at Tony if you’re not tippy toppy in WWE and certain in your contract though.

I think you’re expecting something that is unlikely to happen - there’s a bunch of privacy related issues, employment law restrictions etc that potentially mean they will never comment further on it.

That’s the one thing im hoping - that this footage & the angle between Bucks / FTR is the last we ever hear of Punk in AEW.

I agree what was the point of airing it, I guess we’ll see if the Bucks v FTR match gets any kinda bump from it but I think they could have done essentially the same angle without actually airing anything.

The trouble is stuff is so polarised between WWE v AEW and Punk Fans vs Punk Haters that I think everybody is just seeing what they want to see in the video.

I think im just going to go back to watching NJPW, but would have been on the AEW / Punk Unhappy side - and to me it just looks like a grown man acting like a baby and a bully instead of doing his job. I suspect there was probably more post-match that will never get aired that might make him look even worse (and vindicate TK’s response) but the whole thing is just dumb and beyond time to move on.

Is that Chris Hero walking back through the camera shot afterwards head in hands?

To me the only interesting part of this is that WBD are so keen on it; some folks are wondering if that’s because some part of non disclosure/disparagement might have been breached but you’d send in lawyers if that were the case. So really it just comes down to correcting Punk’s version of events and if it were me the only reason i’d be so keen to do so would be because the way he has portrayed it is so far from the truth that its reputation harming to leave it uncorrected.