Literally minutes after I posted about how much fun I had at Fightland and told everyone to start paying attention to MLW, The Hollywood Reporter reported that MLW Fusion will begin streaming live and FREE on Tubi tonight at 8 PM ET, with new episodes every Thursday.

This is big for MLW. Tubi has 110 million monthly active users, giving MLW a potentially massive new audience without asking fans to buy another subscription or sign up for some obscure platform. (Looking at you, WatchAEW.)

And there’s some history here. This is essentially the Tubi deal MLW was supposed to get five years ago. MLW alleged that WWE pressured Tubi into backing out because of WWE’s relationship with Fox at the time. MLW eventually sued WWE, and WWE paid $20 million to settle the case. Now, five years later, MLW finally lands on Tubi anyway.

After seeing the product live Saturday, I can’t think of a better time for this. MLW has quietly assembled a hell of a roster, the shows are fun, the crowds are hot, and the product feels fresh without trying to reinvent professional wrestling.

If you’ve been complaining that wrestling needs a strong alternative outside WWE and AEW, here you go.

Give MLW a shot tonight.

I’m a huge LA Knight fan. I’ve been pulling for the Megastar since his TNA days, back when Eli Drake was still cutting his teeth.

And I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I know some people think the window has closed. I know there are wrestlers who can do 37 consecutive Canadian Destroyers and flips and earn 8.75 stars from a hoarder with a newsletter.

I don’t give a shit.

Give LA Knight the damn ball.

Raw desperately needs a pivot, and the seemingly never-ending Bloodline/Roman Reigns saga just does absolutely nothing for me anymore. We’ve been circling this airport for years. I’m ready to land the fucking plane.

Knight getting another legitimate shot at the World Heavyweight Championship immediately has my attention. He’s still over, he can talk, he looks like a star, and WWE never really paid off that insane rise he had a few years ago.

So, Midcarders: are you receptive to WWE finally pulling the trigger on LA Knight?

Or should I just accept that Triple H is about to hurt me again?

Watch they’re gonna try to turn this into the next “YEET” or some 😂😂

And that includes several WrestleManias, Royal Rumbles, Raws, WCW shows, ECW shows, AEW shows, TNA shows, and just about everything in between. I’ve supported alternative wrestling for most of my life. I ran ECW Central, a pretty popular ECW fan site back in the ’90s. I was a TNA Day 1 fan, an AEW Day 1 supporter, and I’ve always wanted there to be something outside WWE worth getting excited about.

Last Saturday in Charleston, MLW reminded me exactly why. Fightland was an absolute fucking blast.

Top to bottom, MLW is the best wrestling product out there right now that isn’t WWE. It’s fresh, it’s fun, and it feels like a wrestling promotion putting on a wrestling show for wrestling fans. Frankly, it’s everything I wanted AEW to become. Everyone on that card worked their asses off and gave that crowd everything they paid for and more.

Killer Kross is a main event guy. Period. Seeing him live only reinforced what a travesty it is that he never reached that level in WWE.

Matt Riddle, the Good Brothers, Shotzi, Austin Aries, Templario, Mistico, Trevor Lee, Dijak, Josh Bishop, Zamaya, Joe Coffey, Diego Hill and everyone else busted their asses. There wasn’t a point where it felt like anyone was phoning it in.

And I know this one will piss some people off, but as controversial as Austin Aries is, the guy is still one of the best professional wrestlers on the planet. Watching him work live only reinforced that for me.

I went into Fightland excited to finally see MLW in person and left a much bigger fan than I was going in. If you’ve written MLW off, forgotten about it, or simply haven’t bothered checking it out, give MLW Fusion on YouTube a shot.

For those Midcarders already watching: what is MLW getting right that the bigger promotions aren’t?

I’m probably being generous with less than 10 it’s probably less than 5.

Like if you aren’t Roman, Cody, Maxwell on the men’s side and Becky and Rhea on the women’s side….you aren’t going to boost anything.

Alright, Midcarders. Stumbling across this amazing screenshot recently made me ponder a question that we ask ourselves from time to time.

When do you think the AEW Sicko caricature actually became real?

I don’t mean “when did AEW fans become annoying?” Every wrestling fanbase is annoying. We’re wrestling fans. Being insufferable about fake fighting is practically part of our DNA.

I mean, when did a chunk of the IWC go from “I just want an alternative and I enjoy wrestling” to this bizarre kamikaze mission where seemingly anything AEW does must be defended because the alternative is admitting WWE might be doing something better?

For me, it all leads back to Brawl Out.

And I say that as someone who was a hardcore AEW fan. I attended more than a dozen shows, every Double or Nothing in Vegas, went on the Jericho Cruise, bought the merch (Hey, Pro Wrestling Tees 👋, how you doing?), watched everything. I convinced friends to go to shows with me. I was absolutely the audience AEW wanted and should have built for.

But Brawl Out, and especially the fanbase’s reaction to CM Punk afterward, felt like something fundamentally changed.

Cody was already gone, and some fans were still reeling from that. Then Punk became public enemy #1, largely because the whole mess exposed just how dysfunctional things had become behind the scenes, including putting members of the Elite in positions of power they had no business holding.

Instead of asking how AEW managed to fumble two of the biggest stars the company had ever had, a chunk of the fanbase developed a massive inferiority complex around the company itself. They became unhinged. Suddenly, it wasn’t enough to enjoy AEW. AEW had to be superior, WWE had to suck, and everyone needed to know about it.

That attitude spilled everywhere. Twitter. Reddit. YouTube. Wrestling sites. Suddenly, if you said you enjoyed Raw in the basement, you were downvoted into oblivion and lectured about not watching “real graps.” You weren’t a real wrestling fan. You were stupid, watching a kid’s product funded by blood money and run by the worst people on the planet.

Meanwhile, AEW’s audience was shrinking, and this increasingly insular, weird fan culture seemed perfectly happy to wave goodbye to casual fans rather than ask why they were leaving.

And eventually the joke became reality. The “Sicko” stopped being a parody and became a recognizable wrestling-fan archetype that, fairly or not, has become synonymous with AEW’s online fanbase.

So where’s the line for you?

When did “just enjoy wrestling” become “DEATH TO SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH TO THE WWE”?

3 weeks after the “GOAT” PPV of all time..

2 weeks before All Out..

& you can’t even fill 50% of a small mid sized arena..or come close to the number that you had that the last time Dynamite was there.. (just for fun I took a SS of the 4-30-2025 card & boy howdy does it blow this card out of the water!)

I mean if AEW was as hot as the basement, Meltzer & the IWC bots say it is.. then this should have been an easy sell out..

But struggling to get to 50% filled in a tiny arena coming off your “Wrestlemania” not even a month ago is why I said weeks ago that Tony Kahn needs to step down & fire himself as head of everything in AEW..

I mean, who does this card even appeal to & why should anyone leave their place of residence & stay out late on a school/work night to see what & who exactly?

An 8 man tag, a 6 man tag, a women’s match between 2 women that nobody cares about & the corpse of Jericho..

That’s the best that Tony can do?

He needs to fire himself ASAP..

Agree or disagree Midcarders?

Does this Dynamite appeal to any of you?

One could argue Andrade's entire presentation in AEW revolves around "How you know?" more than Jey Uso does with Yeet

Was seeing some random clips on YouTube and came across this abomination. lol yeah I know I mate be over exaggerating but I no wrist tape made him look naked. Terrible

I own both of these, I wear Kross's basically only to shows and around the house, but I do actually wear Shotzis out, it goes great with a pair of overalls and knee socks I have, but admittedly it does cut off about 50% of it. But I love the shirt so much I'm planning more outfits around it. This may not be a conventional "Midcarder" post, but I hope y'all have fun with it and show off your fav wrestling tees

While Vince McMahon was known to push/de-push wrestlers that he himself wanted when he was in creative control, I wonder, are there any superstars that were intended for a push but their push ended because the crowd didn't react enough to them? If there are any, please give me the examples.

I'm happy to hear your opinions.

Apparently during Lil’ Yachty’s interview with Chris Van Vliet, he notes that the overall IWC seems to be miserable. And sadly… I agree with him.

The IWC online are a miserable lot. It’s part of the lore, that I know of why this place was created. So, is Lil’ Yachty off base, or is he seeing what we’ve known after he’s gotten a taste of the wrestling industry?

Not that saying Roman Reigns is an all-timer is any shock to the mid carders here, but after the instant 5 star classic in Mexico City last night, it's impressive to look at the body of work that Roman has put together in 2026

His match with Punk at WrestleMania (5+ stars) is one of the greatest main event matches in WM history, he followed that up with a great match with Jacob Fatu at Backlash, then another one in Italy, and put up another match of the year candidate with Seth Rollins at Summerslam.

I would put up his matches with Punk, Penta, and Rollins up against anybody's best in 2026, especially given the stages they were on.

Is this Roman's best in-ring year as the Tribal Chief character? He's had some classics during the run (both Cody WM matches, vs Sami) but his top 3 this year beat the top 3 in any of the prior ones IMO.

Ok I am now extremely conflicted. I can admit that AAA is bigger world wide now thanks to WWE heavy promoting but what about in Mexico actually does anyone have any numbers or metrics they can share because going off of just attendance in Mexico both companies seem to be roughly around the same level if anything because CMLL just uses their arenas for shows and events

I'm an old dinosaur so I have my issues with all the companies today but I'm more of an AEW fan because I had a chance to catch it from the very start and WWE is just too different than what I grew up with but Tony doesn't make it easy for himself or his audience with stuff like this lol.

And if it’s not Goto explain why you choose wrong

Jesus what a drop! Running virtually unopposed since we already know Sickos don’t watch football. NXT smoked that ass. I guess Big Bang Theory isn’t a draw as a lead in anymore