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They could change their team name from the Bucks to the Brokes. Good thing they got one in 21.

Hopefully, this means Saki gets a rest. She's been wrestling with a screwed up ankle/foot for over a week. Thekla's aim is to kill idol culture in Stardom. She's going after Mina first, then wants to go after Tam and Poi. AWG's CatMASK Calico was spotted practicing at Marigold's gym.

Tonight! Fenix is cleared!

They tell me this one's tougher than usual, so this is actually not a bad time!

11 minutes 2 seconds. I sucked today.

Stolen from Facebook, as usual.

WB and David Zaslav is making sure all these projects don't see the light of days while Sony is trying to force Kraven the Hunter on people even if he means moving the release date every three months.

There are several examples of the commission doing nonsensical stuff to overcompensate so they don't look like the Keystone Cops. The thing is if you catch it BEFOREHAND and not afterwards, you probably won't come off as bumbling idiots. One of my personal favorites is a story from early in Roy Jones Jr. career. So Roy Jones after being robbed at the 1988 Olympics at Seoul turned pro shortly afterwards and was extremely mishandled in terms of management despite probably being the best fighter of the 1988 USA boxing team. He would occasionally pop up on the dying days of boxing on NBC or like Tuesday Night Fights, but he spent most of his time off TV fighting locally in Pensacola and at like state fairs in the Florida panhandle and often against no hopers and nondescript opponents. One of those opponents in 1990 was Derwin Richards of Houston, TX....Okay, it was suppose to be Derwin Richards. What happened was a guy named "Derwin Richards" showed up at the show in Pensacola and got KO'd by Roy in the first round much like all of Roy's opponents at the time. Roy gets his win and everyone goes home happy. That is until someone from the local paper in Pensacola points out, "Yeah, I don't think that's the guy who is in the program for the card." The commission looks into it. And yup, there are some irregularities. The first being that on the commission paperwork, the guy who showed up wrote down a record that totally didn't match the record in the relatively primitive record keeping sources at the time. The person whose job it was to check for those irregularities said she was **checks notes**...too busy. Yes, that was her excuse. Wouldn't want your job to get in the way of your commitments at your job. Anyway, they launch an official "investigation". First thing they find is it definitely WASN'T Derwin Richards. Why? Derwin Richards on the night of the fight was working as a security guard at a correctional facility in Houston, TX. So unless this guy who was probably making minimum wage at the time had a private jet to get him back and forth from and to Houston, Texas, it certainly wasn't him. So who the hell fought Roy Jones Jr. that night? So they look into the person who procured Roy's opponent. It was a guy out of Oklahoma City named Elvis Belt (what a name). Belt had been asked by the matchmaker named Gerome Peete if they could get the services of Mr. Richards for a purse of $2,000. From what I can figure, either Belt knew Richards and chose intentionally not to discuss the arrangements of a fight with Roy Jones Jr. or he just pretended to know Derwin Richards. Either way, Belt saw an opportunity to make some extra cash. In 2024 dollars, that purse would have been almost $5,000 dollars. What Belt did was roll up to some Oklahoma City boxing gym, found some guy with little to no experience named Tony Waddles, told him he would get $700 for fighting Roy Jones Jr., Waddles agreed, and they both drove down to Pensacola for the fight. When they got down there, Belt had Waddles pretend to be Derwin Richards and the matchmaker probably knew it wasn't the guy who he asked for. However, seeing as Roy Jones Jr. was the big local attraction, figured he couldn't have Roy not fight the guy who was advertised to be there. That and Waddles having little or no experience probably wouldn't have been cleared to fight a person who was literally two years removed from being declared the best boxer at the summer Olympics. They went through with the fight, Waddles got paid $700, and Belt pocketed the rest (over $3,100 in today's money). Afterwards, everyone got punished except the person whose job it was to make sure shit like that doesn't happen, the dumbass woman working for the commission who was too busy to look into shady stuff. Had someone (not working for the commission) not pointed out the guy who got knocked out wasn't the same guy being advertised, the commission would have been none the wiser.

Fatal Fury COTW in action https://youtu.be/0VqOcPNxsJo?si=06jLYkWL1leryqi_ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YI7Sk4qty8A

Hager's really the only one who didn't get anything going on with him after the IC/JAS breakup! I mean yeah he saved Orange Cassidy once but that's it.

High Speed Chicken Borb Saya. I'm waiting for dancing Starlight Kid in Cosmic Angels.

I just want one more Tazmission. Sure he can do that. Did you hear the pop he got just from standing up from the desk? Even Jericho was distracted by it.

Brandon Thurston's update on Nick Khan's stocks https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1784247544266059854

Paul Heyman gets emotional talking his family, Hall of Fame & creating a TRIBE | WWE on ESPN (youtube.com)

Everyone in Final Testament presents better than Kross. I feel like Kross and the group as whole would be better off if they had Kross shut up and let Scarlet or Ellering speak for him.

They quoted (HA!) Raven on the Dark Side Facebook page. So, he's gonna be on the Sandman ep this Tuesday. This is gonna fuckin' rule.

New wrestling crossword: https://twitter.com/avalanchestyle/status/1784227752691793963

I was assuming that Cody and Carmelo were going for the mid-ring collision spot that Carmelo and Ricochet had done in NXT but well Cody isn't Ricochet. Which is a shame since Carmelo took one of the cleanest Codycutters I've seen and Cody took a great fadeaway DDT from 'melo which is a very hit or miss move with how it looks. I had pegged Blair Davenport for the "We don't have anything left for you in NXT" women's division move up but, in hindsight, I think Kiana is a good move up. There's not really any fresh feuds for her left, I don't think she's going really improve character or ring wise with any more time in NXT and I think her overall presence and solid ring work has a higher ceiling on the main brands. I think they've done a good enough job in the last year or so to move away from most of the egregious aspects of the "All our wrestlers have day jobs!" aspects of the early parts of her NXT 2.0 character. For no tangible reason she kinda makes me think of Alexa Bliss in terms of someone that didn't set the world on fire in NXT but might have more potential on the main brand. In moves that I was hoping for, that actually happened, glad that the Unholy Union are moving to Raw where they should have more of a chance with 3 hours, happy to see Corbin get the call back up, and think that Nia Jax is moving to Smackdown. One take away I had from seeing Bayley live last weekend was that she is perfectly posed for a Bret Hart style "babyface that just finds a way to survive" title reign and Nia is a perfect monster heel for that.

Watched the ACTION show last night. Very show as usual. From what I can see because of IWTV issues, Manders vs Alex Kane was damn good. Mustafa Ali vs Landon Hale was also very good. I hope Ali is using this indie tour to recruit TNA talent. The hair vs hair match was heated as fuck. Bald Matt Sells is going to be weird I do have a possibility dislikable hot take. I prefer Krule more when he was this death match monster who you had to hit with a sledgehammer to get off his feet. I understand why they are doing it and don't get me wrong he is really good wrestler. seeing a guy who would get hit 50 light tubes and not flinch and now needing a rope break to get out of an Adam Priest figure four feels wrong. It comes with being the ITVW champion While I am tired of Dusty finishes, at least it set up Priest vs Krule cage match next show. Also keeps us from getting what I want which is Krule vs Jonathan Gresham

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't even notice you said "I don't want to spoil it" above, thought this was already something established.

I wanna buy Street Fighter Alpha Anthology.

Also, if Tony can find a red Ribera jacket and a bat with “THUMPER” on it for his next TV appearance Lost in the background of the best known Doug comment is the amazing “if I were you, I’d wanna play Doug Gilbert every day” which is an amazing way to respond to being imitated

I have been a fan of his since the first time I saw him on f'n Worldwide at 2AM in the white gear, but MY GOD he needs a 6-12 month Fozzy world tour in the worst possible way. He's always been great at reinvention, but I think part of why it usually worked well in WWE is that he would take these stretches of time off to make the audience actually miss him. I fully respect and appreciate the fact that he wants to try and use what gravitas he has remaining to further elevate the shows/promotion. I think anyone who enjoys AEW, whether a fan of his or not, is sort of "indebted" in that way. But he has missed something like one Dynamite a year this whole time since day 1 - I think he's wrestled the most AEW matches of anyone on the roster besides Mox (someone fact check me please). Plus he's in the booth on Rampage! All I'm saying is: lets take a breath or two before we go ruining Big Bill - why not slot Hager in that role and tie up some loose ends with the IC/JAS stuff??