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In the world's most exciting league, Ipswich are level with Leeds on points after getting held late at Hull. They play Coventry Tuesday before it all kicks off on Saturday.

Normal service (hopefully) restored in the Heat Celtics series

I never said it was and I was never talking about McMahon.

I guess my comments here are 1. YDI are legitimately scary and make me feel like Gai ( who of course I also love) do to you 2. Evil Metal deserves at least a bootleg. The tracks not being on the LP version of The Story of Death SS is a big miss.

my copy showed up today! looks great in person. thanks all!

So it's ok for one owner to want to be "one of the boys", but not the other? Consistency is important, pal

No. And whataboutism is a poor defense of Tony Khan.

Remember when Vince was taking tag team finishers in bars? Do you hold the same position about Vince's "leadership"?

What you did there, I see it.

Yeah, with Ibuki and Kaho out, Ice Ribbon's best role is Tsukka functioning as a bridge to other promotions and having their younger wrestlers come there to get more experience with their fellow younger wrestlers and steady veterans like Hamuko Hoshi, Totoro Satsuki, and Kyuuri that aren't going to be big draws or anything. Pure-J's going to be the same way; Hanako Nakamori and Leon might be a fresh match and wouldn't be out of place at the top of the line elsewhere, but the rest of the roster (Crea, AKARI, Momo Tani, Rydeen Hagane, Chie Ozora) are solid matches to help the younger talent grow by the fact that they can give them a weekly match where they can put in some time. Think of it this way, there's a ton of value in getting to go work a twelve minute singles match and work out the kinks at Kame Dojo against Crea before trying to do it against Mayu Iwatani, and Stardom's shows right now are too full, even with the exodus, to give them that sort of time. New Blood helps, but having a partnership with all of these other groups would be nice to see. I get the feeling Stardom would rather not try to manage a developmental brand, so why not work with smaller groups?

Well Michigan didn't get the record but still one of the largest classes ever.

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Man, props to the Atomic Drop being used!

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You are correct. We were not on same page. I totally missed that you meant younger wrestlers. I'm all for more that. I dug the New Blood stuff specifically for that. Wish it was done more often.

SS Decontrol's Get it Away... messy hardcore EP. Just the way I like it. Dezerter's Ku przyszłości... Polish punk EP. Very cool. RYM says it's a hardcore record but it was fairly rhythmic. YDI's A Place in the Sun... angry hardcore EP with terrible production. That either adds to the aesthetic or destroys it. YMMV. Fang's Landshark! This sounded closer to noise rock than hardcore, imo, due to the slower tempo and humorous lyrics. Not bad. Death SS' Evil metal... early Italian effort at doom metal. Actually kind of amazing that this is from 1983. This sounds like it comes from a later point in metal history. Death Cult's Death Cult... The Southern Death Cult begin morphing into the Cult with this EP. This marks the tail end of their post-punk gothic rock phase. It's an interesting peek into a band in transition and a pretty good EP with improved production and musicianship. Naked Raygun's Basement Screams... This was okay. I was expecting it to be more clever based on the name of the band and the EP (something along the lines of The Misfits, I guess), but it was an interesting mix of punk rock styles. Gai's Damaging Noise... there's hardcore, and then there's Japanese hardcore. The vocalist sounds like a rabid dog on this. This will give you nightmares. The Long Ryders' 10-5-60... The Long Ryders were a Paisley Underground group who did a Country Rock thing. It's kind of weird to hear country music coming out of Los Angeles, but they were committed to it. MDC's Multi-Death Corporations... thrashy anarcho-punk. No prizes for guessing who they were going after. Pretty Maids' Pretty Maids... interesting debut EP from this Danish metal group. This is very much straight metal but enjoyable. Sonic-Youth's Kill Yr. Idols... this is a companion piece to Sonic Youth's Confusion as Sex LP from the same year. Slow, brooding noise rock. It's hard to imagine that these guys would become one of the biggest alt rock bands of the late 80s-early 90s from listening to this. Subhumans' Evolution... this isn't bad, but as with a lot of UK82 stuff, the vocals bother me. I know it's meant to be working class punk rock, but the accent is grating. Los Lobos' ..And a Time to Dance... this okay. I imagine they would have been a fun band to see live. Front 242's Endless Riddance... fun Belgian minimal synth EP. They don't make music like this anymore. Thomas Dolby's Blinded by Science... I have zero attachment to She Blinded Me With Science. It's not one of my jams. But I was interested in the rest of Dolby's output on this EP. It turns out that he was quite a decent songsmith. Certainly deserving of a bigger rep.

This is solo Dave!! This is Van Hagar era!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Honest question: do you at least like him as a promo??

I'm not sure we're on the same page. If the younger wrestlers are going to smaller groups for experience, I'm not sure it needs to be "special". Venues like Ice Ribbon's dojo or Post di Amistad barely seat more than 60 anyway. If you're saying that they shouldn't be on the dojo-level shows, then fine, groups like Ice Ribbon do a larger venue like Skip City or 176Box each month, run... I dunno, Lady C vs. Totoro Satsuki there. Or Pure-J typically has an Itabashi Green Hall show each month, send someone to that. It seems realistic.

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Spencer Rattler got drafted by the Saints What has gone viral is apparently Ian Rapoport said on the broadcast that he was shocked by the number of teams that said they were still influenced by Rattler "poor" performance on QB1 (the Netflix documentary)

If it becomes a norm it stops being special for both sides. That said, I did think it was more often than it actually was after doing a quick check so it would be nice to see it increase a pinch.

I wanted to see some of Mortos recent stuff before the show, so I did a quick search - imagine my surprise when I found out he wrestled a (clean shaven!) Nick Comoroto on ROH just last week

Jets drafted Jordan Travis QB from Florida State. Congratulations?

It's a shame we didn't get Max Rushden on the radio live while the Cambridge game was played, like last year.

He's in the Sandman trailer too.