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The AEW moment that still makes me scratch my head was when they had the big 5-on-5 elimination match between the Dark Order vs Elite, and Hangman just ate the last pin and went away for a bit. Now we know Hangman was getting some paternity leave, but it just made no sense at all, and it pushed the Hangman title win back a PPV cycle, when Kenny was being held together by duct tape and chicken wire. I would've wagered that the plan for that match was for the Elite to ultimately go over, but the "big moment" was going to be that Page was going to kick out of the OWA, and cause Kenny to start to doubt himself, while Page grew more confident. When Page just ate the pin I pulled a Taylor Twellman and said "What are we doing?!?"

Giancarlo Esposito has joined the Brave New World reshoots in a “villainous role.” What are the odds he’s the new Kang/Kang replacement?

I dunno, the ROH/CZW feud was crazy fun and during that you also had the crazy Cabana/Homicide feud and the never ending Jimmy Jacobs/BJ Whitmer quagmire. There was a little something for everyone James

At first I thought you were saying Hechicero joined the House of Black and that would be super cool. THEY GOT A WIZARD! Watched the Taz meltdown at work last night and was kind of shocked. "Call the match" really was a dick move, withering kinda comment. Unfair.

Will you both fucking drop it, please?

Is there a club for hopeless, delusional Stans with no perception of irony or joy?

Boy, bet nobody had that on their bingo card for this year.

Okay, I finally watched the 5-on-5 where Inoki steals the win. The reason is, it's mercy for Fujinami. Saito kept pulling him up on the pinfalls and was torturing the man, so Inoki stepped in and pinned him himself as a mercy killing. Of course this makes Inoki look good when just a minute ago he was cheating by pulling the corner barrier aside so Fujinami could get smashed bloody, but there's your underlying psychology/egotism. These matches are so good they need a comp made of them. You don't even need the backstory. Every individual performer shines on their own with their own specific style enough to be identifiable without it. And there's always a story you can read from them; this time it was Fujinami wasn't in and was protected the whole match so let's see if his freshness can match Saito, who's been in since the start. A blizzard of tags, and they push the pace so hard. And then there's the moment when Fujiwara has Maeda's number which is just perfect. EDIT: Two more things. 1. Who knew Dick Murdoch was so freakin' over? Every single person stands when he stomps to ringside and loses it when he gets in the ring. There's got to be a great match with him and Choshu, which you might've already reviewed and I'm forgetting about. 2. AEW should totally steal the 5-on-5 elimination gimmick. Forget Anarchy in the Arena, let's do this instead.

here's my wrestling hot take to kick off the month: ROH is severely overrated. I'm talking specifically about the early years. i've watched every event from the first 3 1/2 years so far, in slightly quicker than real time. Yes, there's some excellent matches. Yes, it introduced a wider audience to so much talent. and Yes, it was definitely doing something that WWE wasn't offering. But every match doesn't need to go 20-30 minutes. The storylines are atrocious. Did anybody ever give a single solitary shit about Special K? Who finds the Carnage Crew compelling? Why the fuck is Jamie Noble treated like some wrestling god? He's very good, but next to the guys that were already there- Danielson, Joe, Homicide, etc., he's kind of an also-ran. His WWE run never gave him in aura of "amazing underpushed talent" or "held back by bad booking", so i don't get where the over-the-top appreciation comes from. If they were running one show a month, with the occasional double shot, i would rate them higher. But i'm at the point in my watch that they are running FOUR shows a month, practically every month. And with so little of storyline importance happening on each show, we are seeing an even worse version of what AEW is constantly accused of: having great matches for the sake of having great matches. I'm knee deep in the "Summer of Punk" (hasn't been called that yet, FWIW) and it feels forced and lame.

Hard to argue. A machine serving a wizard is certainly a more common arrangement than the opposite.

Jesus Mark, post that in the blood thread pronto. I can't do Twitter. Reading that is just nasty haha

It almost seems like a shockingly unclever way to pluralizing The Wolf's character in Pulp Fiction.

"Word Up" has been playing like every day at Walmart now

I just had a vision of Livia Soprano yelling "You're dressed like a pimp!" when she sees Hunnam in that photo.

Gaia Title Oh wait

Oh, a word doesn't have to actually exist to have a nice ring to it. Consider "Melaflugent".

Nah, not really a struggle, just describing my weird efforts to get protein because I poured that shake over my cereal and thought “we gym people are not normal.” I did a bunch of research because the broscience of 1g/lb of body weight sounded insane. I was around 310 when I started and there’s no damn way I could get that much protein and still hit my calorie target. I found a good article (I’ll post it later) where a guy read a bunch of studies and landed on 2/3 gram per pound, which is much more reasonable. Today, at 248, I only need around 164, which is easy.

Dustin Poirier beats Islam Makhachev by guillotine choke in round 3. You read it here first. ;).

BONUS EVENT #1 POINT TOTAL: 688 5 vs. 5: Queensbury vs. Matchroom (06/01/2024) - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Kingdom Arena) Deontay Wilder vs. Zhilei Zhang - Zhang, DEC WBA Super World Light Heavyweight Championship: Dmitry Bivol vs. Malik Zinad - Bivol, DEC Interim IBF Heavyweight Championship: Filip Hrgovic vs. Daniel Dubois - Hrgovic, TKO, R10 WBA World Featherweight Championship: Raymond Ford vs. Nick Ball - Ball, DEC Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Austin Williams - Sheeraz, DEC Willy Hutchinson vs. Craig Richards - Hutchinson, DEC EVENT #49 POINT TOTAL: 688 UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier (06/01/2024) - Newark, NJ (Prudential Center) Islam Makhachev vs. Dustin Poirier - Makhachev, TKO, R2 Sean Strickland vs. Paulo Henrique Costa - Strickland, DEC Kevin Holland vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk - Holland, SUB, R2 Niko Price vs. Alex Morono - Morono, DEC Randy Brown vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos - Brown, DEC César Almeida vs. Roman Kopylov - Almeida, DEC Jailton Almeida vs. Alexandr Romanov - Almeida, TKO, R1 Grant Dawson vs. Joe Solecki - Dawson, TKO, R3 Philip Rowe vs. Jake Matthews - Rowe, SUB, R1 Mickey Gall vs. Bassil Hafez - Hafez, DEC Ailín Pérez vs. Joselyne Edwards - Perez, DEC Mitch Raposo vs. André Lima - Lima, DEC

Yeah, for the first few years into this, my whole damn diet consisted of protein, basically. I came to my senses after a few years and have tried to be much more well balanced with my food. I still get plenty, I could stand to cut back on my protein intake even more to spare my kidneys, but I just like to eat stuff that has plenty of protein, so it adds up quickly. But in a world where Whey Protein powder exists, most people don't have to worry about a cost effective way to meet their protein demands. Of course, @Technico Support is a big guy, he'll need more than your average intake.

This week episode might be my favorite so far. That was fucked up and dark at the end. Kind of digging what Davies is building around humanity of the future. It feels wrong but also kind of right in terms of how we could easily end up so split apart.

Or it would have, if it was a real word.

Hey, I know! The European Title... no, wait. I've got nothing.

Here is the template for this week: BONUS EVENT #1 POINT TOTAL: 686 5 vs. 5: Queensbury vs. Matchroom (06/01/2024) - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Kingdom Arena) Deontay Wilder vs. Zhilei Zhang - WBA Super World Light Heavyweight Championship: Dmitry Bivol vs. Malik Zinad - Interim IBF Heavyweight Championship: Filip Hrgovic vs. Daniel Dubois - WBA World Featherweight Championship: Raymond Ford vs. Nick Ball - Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Austin Williams - Willy Hutchinson vs. Craig Richards - EVENT #49 POINT TOTAL: 686 UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier (06/01/2024) - Newark, NJ (Prudential Center) Islam Makhachev vs. Dustin Poirier - Sean Strickland vs. Paulo Henrique Costa - Kevin Holland vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk - Niko Price vs. Alex Morono - Randy Brown vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos - César Almeida vs. Roman Kopylov - Jailton Almeida vs. Alexandr Romanov - Grant Dawson vs. Joe Solecki - Philip Rowe vs. Jake Matthews - Mickey Gall vs. Bassil Hafez - Ailín Pérez vs. Joselyne Edwards - Mitch Raposo vs. André Lima - The Saturday events deadline is June 1, 1:30 p.m. CT.