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Lyra/Bayley ruled so much. God damn that match told such a great story. Bayley really is the GOAT. So many of the other top women in the company need the title or to be in the mix for the title to be compelling and have great matches. Bayley is almost the exact opposite at this point of her career. That was just a special performance from one of the best to ever do it. And maybe “one of” should just be taken from the sentence.

I thought RAW was good tonight. I liked Heyman's answer to Jackie's question about Seth. "He's got till June to cash this in...". In the past they would just hot shot the briefcase off someone if they got hurt. So I guess Seth gets to stay Mr. MITB for the time being. Lyra vs. Bayley was a really good match. I like that the Lyra vs. Becky feud will continue. Nikkie Bella looked pretty good in the ring. Found it funny that she almost did the rack attack move that destroyed her neck. Even on twitter someone pointed it out to her and she was like it was muscle memory. The bit with AJ Styles praying had me laughing my ass off. "Don't listen to him God" The gauntlet was pretty good. I would have had Penta run the table only to run into Bron, but it worked with Bron beating everyone but Punk. Didn't think Roman would actually show up after the crowd was chanting for him. That was a nice surprise.

I don't watch NJPW but I do have a running Best of Japan 2025 so I've shared the current top 10 below. I've been trying to get caught up on Joshi but have barely seen anything besides a bunch of Evolution shows and some Sendai Girls so I'm slowly amassing a separate parallel Best Joshi of 2025 list. 1. Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura vs. Hikaru Sato & Manabu Hara (Fighting Detectives III, 2025/04/07) 2. World Junior Heavyweight Championship: MUSASHI (c) vs. Seiki Yoshioka (AJPW, 2025/05/18) 3. Lidet UWF World Championship: Katsuhiko Nakajima (c) vs. Minoru Tanaka (GLEAT, 2025/01/26) 4. World Tag Championship: Jun Saito & Rei Saito (c) vs. Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi (AJPW, 2025/03/09) 5. GHC Heavyweight & GHC National Double Championship Lumberjack Match: OZAWA (c) vs. Manabu Soya (c) (NOAH, 2025/03/01) 6. Champion Carnival: Yuma Anzai vs. Ryuki Honda (AJPW, 2025/04/20) 7. All Asia Tag Team Championship: Yuma Anzai & Rising HAYATO (c) vs Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi (AJPW, 2025/06/15) 8. All Asia Tag Team Championship: Yuma Anzai & Rising HAYATO (c) vs. Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura (AJPW, 2025/02/24) 9. Champion Carnival: Ryuki Honda vs. Madoka Kikuta (AJPW, 2025/05/11) 10. GHC Tag Team Championship: Kenoh & Ulka Sasaki (c) vs. Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba (NOAH, 2025/06/03)

https://youtu.be/eUHirP_KJUY?si=pruMHbApXqh6Al6Q main event Raza Rayleigh with Shorty vs Mr Personality Kelly Klark Shorty is manager/security for various folks on the southern indie scene. normally Raza is a face and Kelly is a heel. So that is why I am cheering raza. Ok Raza is about a year into wrestling,got trained at Luke Hawx's WIldkat Wrestling School. And dude knows how to get a crowd into it. He works the crowd. Kelly Klark is quite a few years into his wrestling career,dude started in his mid teens. Got trained at Flatbacks wrestling school. And like Raza knows how to work a crowd. And no I didnt put Raza's vest on. Put it over my shoulder,then once the match was over hung it on the bottom rope. For me this was the match of the night.

https://youtu.be/FLHuGGbC7oc?si=BUTggeTrM4yvE0OH 6th match(5th match I havent gotten online yet) Hunter Hendrix vs Hollywood Hickman with Jay D the Kraken Hickman I do not think I have met before. Thought he was good in this,the crowd was dead most of the night. Hunter is a younger guy from FL that is going all over and doing whatever it takes to improve and move up. Before the show he did a mini training camp with kids. He worked for 1 hour with 5 kids. After this match,and I dont have it on this footage,it is still to be uploaded I did 2 cameras this show,the kids came out and beat up Hickman's manager. https://youtu.be/M5BZ0UyPnx0?si=wuROCWBYfEmRzQCN Stationary cam version.

https://youtu.be/H9z7o4jxNCw?si=vnuzHIeCqIXWVjjm 4th match Nightmare Jeremiah with Ryan Razors vs Renegade Jayson Land Few months back at the first Crusade Pro event I first saw Land. He was in the main event. Now he is getting matched up with the vet monster so I am guessing the booker sees a lot in this guy. Nightmare,dude is retiring end of the year after 20 years in wrestling,started august something 2005. And one guy who I can bullshit with for 4 hours heading to the show then 4 hours coming home and never stop laughing. I knew that it being a match with nightmare it was going outside the ring. So was kind of ready. Love when he is yelling for a tazor. And the plastic fork attack.

https://youtu.be/FDJgtr_XwEY?si=FiGPZuiR6G83d8Us 3rd match El Seiko Gato vs MT2 Wow just wow lol. MT2 hasnt had a match in over a year. Last year did a 3 hour shoot talkinng shit. Was on a popular live stream about the local indie scene recently. Asking to just settle everything. And well Gato stepped up asked for a match. And we got one. Gato I see at least 2 times a month for the past 2 years. MT2 is a guy I havent seen live in years now. He was mostly working small AL feds for a long time.

https://youtu.be/QCPr7xsDfRA?si=zi_YzvpY6_Po8lcV Second match from same show 4 way elimination match Ryan Razors(big dude with butchers apron and pig head) vs Jeffery Love(Kid that looks like he is 74lbs tops) vs Alexander Knight(big beefy redhead kid) vs Moloch(bald Cannon Movie Villain head henchman looking dude) 2 years ago on the worst show I went to that year I first saw Love and Knight. Learned on the ride home they had like 4 matches each before that show. They have majorly improved. Moloch I had never seen and he wasn't bad. Ryan Razors is the big monster on the coast and now working a bit away from the coast. You will see he has fellow Black Water Society member Nightmare Jeremiah with him.

So show I mentioned in some thread here. Crusade Pro July 12th 2025 Poplarville MS https://youtu.be/LZAzK_bX1VQ?si=NzB2I6MMqJH5dOsp Opening match Bohdi Ohara(no hair in green day shirt) vs Aiden Prince Seen Bohdi a few times on coast shows. Think he is a FL based guy. Prince was new to me. Lots of rookies and young guys on this card.

Hamilton County: Bengals Hamilton, Ontario: Tiger-Cats

This might be a weirdly specific criticism but I actually thought the worst thing about his performance was his uncannily stiff, near-motionless posture through the whole verse. Looked like he was trying to keep a coin balanced on top of his microphone while also walking and rapping.

I hope you get help. If not, I hope you go away.

Francie fucking Fak. I've never thought spin-offs were a good idea, but... spin-off, somewhere, somehow? Not with her, but it's just fun being with this group.

Prepare for a screenshot from me of Bull being the holder of every title in the game.

Even with KSI out of the bag via the Swirch 2 shop we still have one unannounced character left for the WM pack. (I don't really give a shit about Punk and Charlotte or whoever else with their WM41 gear and, to the extent possible, entrances.) Should start getting videos any day now for Bull and friends.

Still coming down from the greatness of all this. Loving all the reactions/thoughts here. Forgot to mention the preshow in my post, but everything Big Boom AJ related is always excellent. The crowd reaction when Trent shoved BIG Justice and later pop for his spear was massive. Mercedes' epic entrance cape having the names of all the opponents she's beaten over the last 2 years was incredible. Seen a few mentions of music feud videos and would definitely love to see AEW do a big one recapping all the events that took place here

Punk versus Gunther at SummerSlam. Punk wins. Seth cashes in. Drag it out until WrestleMania. Profits. You can strike out the second point and slot in the third if they're doing the WM31 thing. But either way. This pretty much lines up with what Meltzer said about Rollins' injury, that they want the crowd to think he's out so it's a surprise when he cashes in. I like Rollins & Punk both, but, man, I'm so sick of this feud. Hopefully they can wrap it up with a banger like he did with Drew. If it's at WrestleMania and Punk wins the title there, even better. I do find it funny that Roman is back to do a short little program before he goes to Australia in August to film Street Fighter. Same thing with Cody, he's gonna win the title back and then disappear. Unless he's just an insane person and will be traveling back and forth between Australia and the US to appear on Smackdown and/or wrestle. That's crazy, right? No way.

Naomi was fucking awesome tonight and what a monster pop from the returning OTC. RAW was pretty good from in-ring action to story line progression. I still think the whole Jelly Roll and Logan Paul thing sucks but everything else is getting better, maybe?

Deadline reported this today, along with Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalism.

Cleveland Return part 2: Electric Boogaloo?

......cool. A reskinned Chad Gable with a slightly different moveset.

Garrett Wilson just got his apology from the Jets for the time he had to spend with that other QB. He gets an extension 4/130 (90 guaranteed). He's now under contract thru 2030.

Movies today....rehearsal ran long so I didn't get a chance to do another. Bone Tomahawk (Netflix, leaving on 7/14) - 3/5 stars The Apple of My Eye (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 2/5 stars Illuminata (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 4/5 stars

So... apparently the Lakers are listening to offers on Lebron?

As Hangman Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley is probably out for the reasons you gave though it might be the exception and prove you wrong this go round, I'd recommend: Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega and Swerve Strickland/Will Ospreay vs. The Young Bucks. The latter coming from someone who cant stand Ospreay and the Bucks.