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Second Trailer for Star Wars: The Acolyte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzur6JrUEA

I've listed my Best AEW Matches Ever but never my worst till now. Some of these picks will be controversial. Come up with: 14. The Hardys vs. The Young Bucks. AEW Double or Nothing, 29th May 2022. 13. Christian Cage/Jurassic Express vs. Adam Cole/The Young Bucks. AEW Full Gear, 13th November 2021. 12. MJF vs. Darby Allin vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Jungle Boy. AEW Double or Nothing, 28th May 2023. 11. Wardlow vs. Chris Jericho vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Lance Archer vs. Hook vs. Brian Cage vs. Magnus vs. Dante Martin. AEW Revolution, 3rd March 2024. 10. Chris Jericho vs. Orange Cassidy. AEW All Out, 5th September 2020. 9. Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara. AEW Full Gear, 7th November 2020 8. SANADA vs. Jack Perry. AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, 25th June 2023. 7. Cody Rhodes vs. Anthony Ogogo. AEW Double or Nothing, 30th May 2021. 6. Big Swole vs. Britt Baker. AEW All Out, 5th September 2020. 5. Orange Cassidy vs. Adam Cole. AEW Dynamite, 26th January 2022. 4. Chris Jericho vs. Hook. AEW Dynasty, 21st April 2024. 3. Adam Cole vs. Chris Jericho. AEW Double or Nothing, 28th May 2023. 2. The Young Bucks vs. The Dark Order vs. Private Party vs. The Butcher and the Blade. AEW Dynamite, 21st October 2020. 1. Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara. AEW All Out, 5th September 2020. --- I was so angry with the top two for how badly AEW handled Matt Hardy and Alex Reynolds KTFO.

Just wanted to wish everyone here a very happy May 19th!

The best Ospreay matches are when he’s constrained by his opponent or by pro wrestling bullshit because it hyper focuses his exceptional positives as inputs in traditional structures without it becoming excessive and bloated. That’s to say I liked the Taylor match a lot.

She was also Azteca in WOW

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-_O8Ee4fw Jon Moxley on Hey! (EW).

Thank you. Need a screen grab of Eddie Kingston's face when Renee Pacquette puts the bib on. This. Eddie Kingston's the everyman. Still think back to THAT piece he wrote. Eddie's the best.

Think Flairs still on the sauce?

What was the Steve Albini sound? Almost everything : NPR

So that low-rent Michael Hayes wannabe in the crowd really wanted to get his jacket on camera, didn't he? Damn fool paid for a front row seat and then refused to sit in it all bloody night. Kyle vs Lee was really good. They did the George St Pierre vs Matt Hughes 1 armbar reversal finish as a meaningless bit of matwork feeling out, and it was funny. But all in all, they did a really good job of telling a story of escalating damage, but without neglecting the short attention span crowd. Possibly (it being a pretaped show) AEW gave the fans a little audio assistance, but whatever. Reversing the Border City Stretch into a Regalplex was a great feat of strength and balance from Kylo. So Max Caster has a moustache now. Anthony Bowens has always had a Van Dyke (but his chin beard is less prominent than his upper lip hirsuteness). I think it's time Billy Gunn went back to the 1992 Smoking Gunns look and resumed his "Blonde Burt Reynolds" image. Cody Chhun, as one half of C4, is a top tag team wrestler in the Portland area, but RUSH's squash match opponents tend to survive for seconds rather than minutes. The post-match beatdown lasted longer than the match. Deonna Purazzo vs Robyn Renegade reminded us that there are three pushed women's matches going into Double or Nothing. And the build to Deeb vs Storm, and the build to Mone vs Nightingale, really puts the build to Rosa vs Purazzo in the shade. Really they should put Deonna and Deeb against each other (or team up or something), so they can talk about what great wrestlers they are for a bit (without actually having any great matches to prove the point). Just feels a bit off, they're both doing an "I'm really good at wrestling" gimmick, when Emi Sakura works for the same company and actually has a character in addition to being a great(er) worker. Anthony Bowens singles matches, that's what we want to see more of. Brian Cage already had one great match on AEW TV this week, so Bowens had his work cut out for him. So he did the smart thing and made it a completely different type of match. Whereas Cage vs Swerve was back and forth but largely a feature for Swerve's ability to do cool shit, this was Cage as dominant, controlling heel and Bowens as the underdog babyface trying to keep his head above water. All in all, another good 3 hours of weekend Wrestling.

Audience boo Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' at Cannes as long-awaited blockbuster receives mixed reaction (nme.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vG7kyokfM&ab_channel=WWE

Saturday night, it wasn't the best time for Boxers from Britain. First that big hype thing in Saudi, and then our boy Ogogo has to stand ringside and watch Shane Taylor lose another big match. It is strange that Shane was under contract for AEW for like a year before someone suddenly realised he was really good and started using him on TV a lot. If they'd kept O'Shay Edwards in STP, that would have been a fearsome looking team. Although having said that, the Iron Savages are a fearsome looking team, and that hasn't stopped them being given a comedy jobbers gimmick... although when you've got that fearsome look, it's pretty easy to cut out the comedy and become a serious threat when the time comes. But yeah, Shane Taylor pulling off and actual leapfrog with that low centre of gravity he has, he's a hell of an athlete as well as a great big man worker. Roddy Strong continuing the wrestling tradition of selling a spray of water to the face like it's concentrated acid was nice. Three of the former Undisputed Era guys arriving in AEW and suddenly being very good Sports Entertainers despite being all "We take Wrestling Seriously" in NXT tends to imply that Bobby Fish was a really bad influence. Well, Kyle O'Reilly hasn't really been much fun on telly, but his Hey! EW appearance was hilarious. Ospreay getting beaten down by a bunch of guys, and his Callis family stablemates don't make the save for him at all? I was expecting the split to be a big angle, not a quiet disassociation. Unless this is lack of save is a part of building towards that big angle. The trio of TNT Challenger qualifiers, Hook vs Johhny Taya Valkyrie was nice, a bit short. Hook couldn't get his hands locked on the Capture Suplex, but nobody really does, who isn't Akira Maeda. Romero vs Shibata was really good. The longest of the three matches, but also the one where I got a stronger feeling of "Wouldn't have minded a few more minutes of that". Bryan Keith vs Boulder, the pre-match promo was longer than the match, and then most of the match was all based around distraction spots and interference. One for your Raw fans, that. Cassidy vs Kassidy had some really smooth matwork early, and good action throughout, but it was happening to build to the post-match Trent promo and brawl. Although I did love how, after referee Steffon Smith told Trent he had to get out of there, Trent's counter argument was just "I'm a good boy!". They should pair Serena Deeb and Matt Sydal up as smug heel Yoga instructors, who boast about being in better shape in their 40s than most wrestlers are in their 20s. Jack Cartwheel is nutty as hell for doing a Space Flying Tiger Drop to nowhere. A decent TV match, but the 15 minute version of it that probably happened in GCW at some point was probably more fun. Lance Archer and the Righteous vs FTR & Bryan Danielson, that was a lot of fun. Cash inadvertently pulled off the heel offense of the year on Dutch during an outside brawl, grabbing one of the bands of his suspenders and twanging it right onto his nipple. The post-match beatdown did a great job of bearing out the point I made earlier about how if you look scary enough, you can go from 'goofy comedy act' to 'legitimately threatening' at the drop of a hat. Does make you wonder if Daniel Garcia might be replacing Darby Allin as Eddie Kingston's replacement in Anarchy in the Arena. On to Rampage!

He's selling different vitamins now!

As far as I'm concerned he all ready has his belt

Bobby Heenan freaking out over Blitz is a great wrestling memory

Those tag team Survivor Series matches were a cool idea on paper. Then, in execution, you realize that with both superteams at full strength the (hard) camera cannot catch anything as all four sides are covered.

They came close to answering this question during the tag team survivor series match at Survivor Series 87 but whats the maximum number of wrestlers that can stand on the apron at once? 22 wrestlers? although a match with no moves off the ropes because you can’t hit the ropes without knocking a guy down would be… unique.

I finally got around to watching Godzilla x Kong the other night. Kong throws pocket sand at Godzilla, then Godzilla counters with a vertical suplex. That was the most noteworthy scene.

Shocking how good Claudio's promo was. You could even tell it how Moxley was looking at him with total pride. Calling another wrestler "fake" has to be the biggest insult. And then the Hook and Shibata matches were good! John etc. seemed to realize Hook was a bit of a crowbar and work accordingly, then Shibata had an incredibly surprising match with Rocky Romero. Rocky is the definition of a boring-ass "good hand" but they worked out something that really worked. Shibata shooting into the kneebar and actually were both awesome. Also, Jericho going back to his delusional WCW period is the best decision he could make right now. I was afeared of him dragging Bill down but this might just work. More later

I’m starting to get burned out on this Collision/Rampage stuff. Collision has settled into being Rampage+ and Rampage is just, well, the same as it has always been. Dynamite is still where it’s at. I don’t blame them. Ain’t no one watching on a Saturday. Most weeks it will be around 11 pm and then I’ll realize, oh yeah, Collision. I’ll watch a little bit of it, turn it off, and then over the course of the next couple days I’ll watch a little more here and there. Sometimes I’ll finish it, but more and more I’m just not.

Yeah they definitely don't need a major shake up, but a big guy who isn't a twig (nothing against Chet) would certainly help. And if ever a team could reasonably point towards internal development, it's them. They are so young to have gotten this far.

I would say that mid 30s in the HW division is basically like being 29-31 in other divisions, probably a little younger. Problem with Fury is he has rarely taken care of himself between fights, and he had plenty of marquee fights against notable names. Usyk, despite being older and having a ton of amateur fights like his stablemate and countryman Lomachenko, has always been in pristine shape and never had those bad habits. Moreover, some guys age and slow down faster physically than others. It's kinda like Roy Jones Jr. and Antonio Tarver back 20 years ago. Roy was technically younger than Antonio Tarver, and they even fought in the amateurs as kids in Florida. However, Tarver physically has way less wear and tear because he got a later start. That's even with the drugs issues that stalled his amateur career and promoter issues that stalled his pro career early on. When you watch those three fights, Tarver had younger legs and Roy was a guy who spent the latter year of his prime potshotting and fighting segments of rounds. That and fighting guys like Richard Hall and David Telesco, he could have fought and won those fights blindfolded and an arm tied behind his back. I believe Jim Lampley somewhat insinuated during his fight with Glen Kelly that Jeff Fenech, the legendary Australian fighter in the lower weight classes and Kelly's chief second, had a better chance against Roy than Glen Kelly. That's the competition he was against towards the back end of his prime. When Tarver with the fresher legs fought a much faster paced fight than Roy was accustomed to at that point of his career, it became very evident who the older fighter was. On paper, it was Antonio Tarver. In actuality, it was certainly Roy Jones Jr. The same goes for Mike Tyson (born in 1966) and Lennox Lewis (born in 1965). Even though Lennox retired not too long after they fought, Tyson was the guy who looked aged in the fight just because of the various layoffs and not training like he should have. I would say Usyk is still in his prime. It's a bit harder to say that about Fury. Besides guys like Usyk and Joshua, the later he still hasn't fought yet, who would force him to do anything beyond what he normally does strategically? Once you're out of the danger zone with Wilder, you can fight as usual. The guys he fought on his comeback trail didn't force him to do anything different. Dillian Whyte is a guy tailor made for Fury. So he necessarily wouldn't have to be in his prime to do a lot of what he has been doing. It's kinda the difference between Larry Holmes fighting guys like Ken Norton and Earnie Shavers and Larry Holmes fighting Marvis Frazier and David Bey. I think we've clearly seen the best Tyson Fury already against top competition.

That was the feeling I had from the very first episode. I think the biggest question I have is just how is FX able to afford this. Shogun is maybe the best looking tv series I’ve ever seen. It has to be outrageously expensive. No, wait, that’s not my biggest question. My biggest question is… WHERE IN THE FUCKING FUCK IS THE GREENLIGHT FOR ONE MORE SEASON OF JUSTIFIED?!

Please do. I need company.