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What would his finisher be?

What would his finisher be?

Gotta keep something for later, right? The leg-twist spinny thingy he did on ROH, he do that last night? (I missed Collision)

I really loved the parking lot brawl. A blood feud match built around the hidden subtext of Greg bumping like a madman to make his injured friend Dustin look great. The sideways bump into the car, the roof-to-roof elbow drop, and the powerbomb into the windshield were all ugly and slightly-awkward in the best way. And Chuck bladed his arm! One of the upper-tier AEW TV plunder matches for sure.

Rage of the Dragons is also getting an update, Rage of the Dragons W. Not to be confused with Rage of the Dragons NEO.

I was thinking Rocky lurking in the background as a giant face or something.

If you really want to go old school for a VHS cover, you have to have it not totally match the actual card since it was put into print months before the show!

I don’t disagree with @Matt D, but I give Mortos a break since this was really his first featured singles match on tv. He should be able to bust out some fancy stuff for that. Hell, he hasn’t even broken out the top rope press slam on AEW tv, yet has he?

I started a new job two weeks ago tomorrow. It's a meat grinder, they just go through people. Part time, 20-24 hours a week (1000-1400 Mon-Sat, if you want/are allowed Sat). A guy got fired on my first day, for being their three weeks and not getting results. Another guy did the day after that. So I make it 8 days in, and I'm already getting the "Perhaps this is not for you" talks. But I knew the score right away, so I'm not scared. A guy in my room, he was saying he knew he was out of the door pretty soon, he has that whole Worn Down, Embittered Cynical Veteran thing going on, I found out he'd only been there six weeks. And then on Wednesday, I get a result. And on Friday, I book another couple, and the boss rather than offering me the Saturday shift, orders me to do it. And on Saturday I get another result or two, so now I'm getting a £50 bonus for sure, and maybe £100 if the other one went through. And in two days, I've gone from "Maybe this isn't for you" to "I want you to train the new people". How can I train the new people? I am the new people. I cannot impart pearls of wisdom, for I have accrued no wisdom. Also, it's right in the city centre of my nearest city, so it's a 40 minute bus ride to get there 25 minutes early (or 5 minutes late). But being in a small city, you really see how both the rise in internet shopping, and the devastation of 14 years of Tory governments wrecking the regional economy has really hollowed out the city centre. The amount of foot traffic even on a Saturday is more suited to a small town than an actual pedestrianised city centre. It's seriously depressing. 15 years ago, it was busy on weekends, bearable on weekdays. 10 years before that, it was busy on weekdays and UNbearable at weekends, hugely crowded. And now, it's like... they could reshoot 28 Days Later there, in the middle of the day, with minimal hassle. Although not as bad as that one time I was up there during Lockdown (had to testify in a court case, only I didn't have to testify because the guy changed his plea to guilty once the defence heard the witnesses showed up). Oh yeah, and I've got a job interview tomorrow. This one is ten minutes walk from my house, so that's less hassle.

I have no issue with the Bills passing up WRs others may have had higher if they got their guy. 49ers did the same thing except they didn't trade down first and get more picks in the process. If Keon Coleman is the WR that McDermott, Barry, and Josh Allen wanted after watching all the game tape I am not going to sit here at home and say they are wrong. I will just say I really hope they are right as if they aren't then Bills fans will be talking about it for the next decade which would be really annoying.

I have no idea what the Texans were doing this draft. But then again, I hated the JJ Watt pick, so ...

Big Bully Shad

The idea of holding anything back seems anathema to this promotion, be it the owner or most of the talent.

Imagine if he went 10 matches without doing it and the first time you saw him do it was in a big title match on a PPV though. Part of the problem is that AEW is run by a matchmaker instead of a booker. This criticism is not about “story” so much as it is about build and payoff. I am pretty sure that the management does not think about holding back to mean more in key moments. They want to promote as many great matches as possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHKPLBpa0gw The infamous Sabu vs. Sandman match from ECW November to Remember 1997. One of the worst wrestling matches ever.

Well, at least he looks like a classic fighting game grappler (Darun Mister from the Street Fighter EX/ Fighting EX Layer series)

I don’t know, the way that he snapped that first tornillo on the dive outside had me jumping off my couch. That’s how you introduce yourself to the TV audience.

Low key, the Iowa punter the Bears drafted might be their best pick in this draft.

I would totally buy it if he did it just so he could say "I got hit by a bus and I survived" in a promo

I'm just gonna take my prize in the Halen-off and walk off from this one, boys.

Maybe she is that rarest bird in wrestling: an actual kayfabe friend that's not gonna turn on you.

I worked a few NWA shows in the Richmond area for Rick O'Brien around this time. I remember on one show the commissioner was giving a speech to the lockerroom before the show, and said if the match got too stiff and started to look like a shoot, he would shut the show down and fine everyone. This worried me a bit, because I was basically doing a Russian MMA fighter gimmick, with the shooter gloves and all...

Tony Schiavone: "He could have broken his hand." Nigel McGuinness: "I guess he'll have to use the other hand tonight." Settle down, Nigel McGuinnestico.

...but Rocky's not on the cover anywhere?

Just hearing him talk is immensely entertaining. He's a crack-up on the Forever Hardcore doc. I don't listen to podcasts, but I'm sure his is fun. Speaking of which, I remember him saying he was a producer for Vince! I mean that's another notch there too. (He would call the office, say he's at the venue; call the venue and say he was at the office; and go back to sleep haha)