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Gee I wonder who will help Jacob even the odds against the Temu Bloodline?

so apparently (according to Nexus Point News - pretty reliable site) DC is making three shows set in Japan, Korea and Brazil. The entire show will be in those languages, set in those locations and feature native actors and characters. If you’re wondering about the Huntress part, it’s because that role was supposedly written and developed specifically for Pom Klementieff. Byung gil Jung (The Villainess) is rumored to write and direct the show.

Thank you for your answer. I'm with you on deathmatches but this one was the exception to the rule. I was also invested in their story so that helped overcome the hurdle also.

That really sucks. Condolences to his family.

Tiffany is SO not good on the mic right now. Also, they really need to reshuffle the men's tag division up with the draft. Especially if they're having to group all the main teams together in the crappy Wyatt Sicks vortex.

Opening with Cody, Orton, and Drew was fine as a setup for Drew/Orton but nothing memorable. Enjoyed the setup to Alexa and charlotte teaming. The triple threat tag with Secret Hervice and Mia/B-Fab was fine. Wyatt Sicks vs. Ford/Humberto/Gargano/Sabin was fun. Dug the finish with a scared Gargano running off form the tag as Rowan rose. The Stratton, Stratus, Jade segment was forgettable. Tiffany/Trish should be solid, but its not a match that particularly excites me. I kind of wish they just waited to do the big Nia/Tiffany grudge match. Would have meant more on a big show like Evolution. Conversely doing Jade/Naomi there after letting the fued get cold the past month or two just feels dumb. Fraxiom vs. Andrade/Fenix was good though it feels weird to have Fraxiom take their first loss here instead of a rematch with Street Profits. Jacob/Jimmy vs. Solo/Cobb was solid. Surprised this ended with a clean win for Jacob. Didn't feel necessary given the post match beatdown. As good as it is to see Smackdown back to two hours this was not the best episode. Wasn't bad or anything, but it also wasn't nearing anything memorable despite decent-solid build for various feuds and and Evolution.

It's AEW's 3rd best gate ever and the best North American non-wwe gate ever too. They're doing alright for a t-shirt company. I was thinking, with Darby being climbing Everest and being associated with Sting, he should 100% get Stingers old snow entrance from now on. Imagine Mox having Hanger set up for death and then it starts snowing in Texas... Also, has anyone called the Redwood "My Big Beautiful Bill" yet? Because they're missing a trick if they haven't .

Is it too soon to ask if Bowens is the Janetty?

"We need jobbers who can take the Steiners offense and we're running a show in South Carolina in 1993 for some reason, call George South"

Nothing against that style or anything, I just can't stomach deathmatch-y stuff. Regular hardcore matches are fine, but it's hard to explain.

Did you notice the significance of Marion’s under garments? (Or did you know it already) . frenzy also reminds me in some ways of peeping tom.

Movies today.... Psycho (Netflix, leaving on 7/31) - 5/5 stars Jurassic World Rebirth (saw in the theaters) - 2/5 stars The Hater (Netflix, leaving on 7/5) - 4/5 stars Frenzy (Netflix, leaving on 7/31) - 4/5 stars Intruder in the Dust (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 3/5 stars

Happy 101st birthday Eva Marie Saint.

Steiners vs Rikki Nelson and George South. A JCP tribute match?

Wrestling data has the St Louis title change as a combined JCP/ CS show, but none of the name guys are on the show or at least in the results. Just Cousin Junior and Ric McCord, no Bob Brownfor example. edit: looking at all of 86. That’s the first joint show, but they become all joint shows in late September.

there's probably a Dusty mixtape that the Vault could make that would have some amazing stuff that they own but haven't shown since Classics On Demand, or ever, with Dusty from a few years earlier where he was doing even more and was also super-charismatic but yeah, the response here is pretty good for it being a match vs Flair in Greensboro since Flair in the Carolinas is gonna have a certain amount of support and then for this Dusty reign, Central States managed to get Flair/Dusty in back to back weeks, was JCP controlling CSW by that time?

Bryan Alvarez is trying to push the theory that Shelton, Bobby and by extension MVP don’t want to lose matches and only look strong because they want to go back to WWE. lol

I do have to say asking people how they feel about their current boss/promoter publicly is a... let's say flawed metric. Any wrestler who outright criticized their promoter is either looking for a way out or is in for a rude awakening (a.k.a. the Lio Rush special).

They can always have non-title matches, no...?

Bowens seems like a really likable human being outside of the ring but I struggle to see where his spot is as a singles in the company. He's not old but not really young either, Caster really carried the personality half of the act, it's not like he's being exposed in these singles but he's also not really standing out much either. If ROH were more... well many things I could see a run/push down there possibly being helpful for him in terms of development but it feels like there are so few eyes on it right now that I'm not sure it'd be that productive.

So, I skipped a couple matches on both nights, and I skipped the cage match here because 1. I watched the last one, and 2. I watched the Roadies/Russians chain match, so I think I got both my fill of MX and Roadies. Went straight to Flair/Dusty. The Flair 3-disc DVD with the two Dusty/Flair matches came out in 2006. I don't even remember watching those (they were both Starrcade matches) so even if I did, and I probably did, it's been nearly 20 years. If those were good they must not have impressed me, but this one definitely did. It felt really close-up, cinematic, and probably more important than anything was that Dusty won whereas I doubt the ones on the Flair DVD, he did. This was the close of a whole tour and had the dragon get slayed. Big Dust might've been a guy who was all charisma, but when you have that much charisma, you don't have to do a moonsault. These guys were just getting by on bullshit and blood (Dusty Gunshot-to-Eye Level 0.9) the whole match. I don't think I would have even appreciated that in 2006. The pop on that three was unreal.

TBH he did bring a lot to the other match. All the verbals, telling them there's no wrestling and that pins don't count etc., had a good place in a match like this. It's kind of an intentionally ref-heavy match. Now, kicking away Nikita's arms for the pinfall in the Magnum match later for example, not so much. I really enjoyed the Boogie/Valiant match because the closeup shaving with Boogie's face was so intense. You can see in his eyes, he moves from total blind rage to this steely resolve that he is absolutely gonna kill this guy in revenge. For such a goofy, unserious wrestler that was some epic shit. Rock'n'Rolls/Andersons was pretty cool; don't think I've ever seen a straight Andersons match unless they had one on the Horsemen set. It was really non-stop action for 20 straight minutes til the finish line. Was fun seeing Ole sell the leg when I'd think of him as a character who'd rather not. The big wishbonings of the legs were some classic '80s pops and Arn was such a sadist working on the nose, then Ole at one point grabbed Ricky's face to work on it too when they were on the mat; it looked like he stuck his index finger right in his eye, with the camera like six inches away from them. And hey, at the end we got to see a Baby Rockers! The Magnum match was real basic, probably because you could clearly see a green Nikita calling it while he had on headlocks, but the Magnum bladejob was Passion of the Christ-like. Gooey.

Tommy Young standing at the back noting how much better his version of Garvin/Tully was not sure how often this comes up in shoot interviews, but I would have liked to hear from 1988 JCP people when they realized Earl Hebner was now working for the WWF

Watched it, and nahhhhh the first Taped Fist was the better match. This one had: 1. Way more pulled-looking punches from Garvin (probably because Tully just couldn't/wouldn't have it like that a second night in a row) 2. Tully's cheating wasn't as extensive 3. It was less even of a match from both guys with way more Garvin dominance even though he was taking it easy on Tully 4. They did the fist-wrap spot but then had to DOUBLE it by later giving Tully a knuckle-duster that looked like an actual weight for hand-lifting 5. They had Garvin stomp the crap out of Tully in full view of Earl Hebner, who let it go because of course, it's Earl Hebner. It also just felt less grimy, less like a fight, not as long, wrong guy won thus no pop. Points for JJ blading though. He looked like an executive who managed to survive a plane crash or bombing that you'd see walking away from the wreck on an '80s news broadcast.

I bought Anthem on Xbox last year for like $1, so I’m not too upset, but it’s still annoying that they won’t patch it just to be a single player offline game or something.