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I assume the Bucks will have a move called six star suplex or something by the weekend.

If Kenny Omega was hit by a bus and was laying on the street, only hardcore wrestling fans would recognize him. I've seen enough impossible happen. Sammartino, Warrior, Madusa, Goldberg, Bret... Even Savage to a lesser extent. Omega will eventually be in a WWE ring. I'd wager at some point Punk will be too. It's an industry. Things are improbable, not impossible.

Is the wood workin you finally drilling a hole through your floor so you can plug an ethernet cable into your XBOX One?

Just rewatched main with Japanese commentary. Jesus, anyone thinking that "nothing happened" the first 15 minutes is out to lunch. I mean, if you think the match was too long what do you cut? What section of the match dragged? I mean, not much happened the first 3 rounds of Ward and Gatti and that turned out to be many people's pick for "greatest fight ever." Did the Red Ink knock off a star for people? The pace they worked out, the crispness, the selling, the insane bumps (Okada landing on his fucking neck on that dragon) was just next level. And, most importantly, the match had stakes. Too often it seems that matches are viewed in a vacuum divorced from time and place. It's why I have a hard time seeing match of the year as being an dream match on an independent show (like the six-man at at BOLA, which was fantastic in its own right), or just some kickass match on a PPV/iPPV that has no real impact or isn't for anything except bragging right. This was the main event of the second (or third) biggest show of the year for the second or third most prestigious title in the world. I would hope it would take 35 Rainmakers to put a challenger away. I would expect the champion to survive 40 V-triggers. That was epic wrestling that told a story that still brought next-generation athleticism and action. To be fair, on first watch unspoiled I was still coming off the insanely emotional Goto match and the awesome Naito match so yeah...it took me a few minutes to get into the main event. Going back fresh, though, nothing about that match dragged at all. Omega is great, but anyone who discredits or dismisses Okada is no different than people like Skip Bayless who spend their time denigrating and disparaging Lebron James. It's over. Get a new gimmick. This one is tired.

I know I've been missed terribly. No need to be sad and cry any longer, well come tomorrow evenin that is. When I get a few errands ran and a little wood workin done I ourghta be on about 5:30 or 6:00 pm. Just a heads up for those who have enjoyed a quite couple of days away from the drunken monkey, and want to make it a lil longer. P.S. I'm missed like an inflamed hemorrhoid. P.P.S. The black sheep of the family returns! P.P. whatever, all your asses are stuck with me.

Is that the Cheeseburger guy I've heard about?

He did. He no-sold it.

We talk about WWE here nonstop and there's a WWE folder too

Forgot about this but it was the WORST. When he gets in the ring to check on Allie, but LVN grabs him by the arm and he just walks away from her like "Cannot break...the...spell" and just stands there.

Think about the bolded sentence for a bit, and remember you're talking about TNA.

Just got off the phone after she's had her follow-up appointment. The surgeon took out a 13mm tumour, stage 2 ductal carcinoma in situ from her right breast, as well as about a cm around the tumour and some lymph nodes from her right armpit. Tests on the lymph nodes for further strains of this existing cancer and other types of cancer have come back negative. Pretty much a good indication that the cancer was localised to the breast and hasnt spread. There is NO need for chemo and for me to shave my head in sympathy efforts/ability to form a right said fred tribute act. She is to go back to the cancer specialists at the L&D on Jan 20th whereupon she starts her course of hormone therapy for 5 years. She is free to drive and do light housework from now. She is pretty much set now for radiotherapy in 6-8 week. She's doing it lads - she's going to fucking smash it.

Bastard didn't do the one day retire as Panther thing. Asshole. :-p

Doesn't New Japan always have contract negotiations on January? I'm leaning heavily towards Kenny Omega just trolling everyone. Everything to keep people talking, the Young Bucks do the same thing all the time.

The bag of money from New Haven must've arrived on his doorstep. It was probably delivered by AJ Styles and Karl Anderson.

Today is Professor Toru Tanaka's birthday (1930 - 2000). He would've been 86 today. RIP

The problem with Spags is that it has been pretty much proven that he is a terrible HC

In a more general sense, Inoki-ism involves the importance of "legitimacy" over more sensible things like entertainment value. The original concept of "strong style" wasn't stiffness and head drops but the idea that pro-wrestling was its own form of martial art that could stand up to and defeat other disciplines. Booking matches where regular roster members face off against judoka/boxers/Olympic wrestlers/etc. There's usually a reliance on "shoot" moves like armbars and sleepers. It also involves this nonsensical, markish tough-guy attitude that thankfully can no longer exists as it did due to modern MMA exposing Inoki's bullshit. Some really, REALLY dumb stuff went down from about 1997 to 2004 in regards to Inoki's booking. The Shinya Hashimoto / Naoya Ogawa feud, hot as it was, featured a non-wrestler absolutely CHUMPING NJPW's biggest draw of it's hottest period. Another great example is the 0-2 MMA record of one-time top dog Yuji Nagata. He wins the G1 Climax in the fall of 2001, and on NYE gets knocked out in 21 seconds by some guy named Cro Cop. Then, in 2003, after holding the IWGP Heavyweight Title for nearly a year and defending the title a then-record ten consecutive times, he's knocked out in a little over a minute to some other guy named Fedor.

The whole Meltzer 6 star thing reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Homers a food critic giving everything 9 thumbs up.

I still don't know why people get so wound up about one person's match rankings, but I'd say Omega/Okada was easily better than DIY/Revival.

ohno! You should spoiler that.

Hey, don't make fun of Dragon Lee like that.

I feel bad for whoever beats the Warlord's record.

There is literally no position in which those two bodies fit together for intercourse. It's like trying to make weeble wobble porn. Also...DON"T GOOGLE "WEEBLE WOBBLE PORN" I thought it would be funny but I can report that IT IS NOT FUNNY AT ALL

After no-selling death, he powerbombed the shit out of it and went off to find Ernest Miller.

Norton is 55 and looks like he never left NJPW.

A Gallagher with a sledge hammer gimmick? Ridiculous.

That would've happened regardless of who was booking.

You're going to be even angrier when they name the sequel PeeBee's Big Adventure. You'll be sent to find the cure for the Genophage in the basement of the Alamo.

Thanks everyone. The worst part was telling Xavier, he's only 12 years old and he's never really lost anyone in his life before (his Maternal Grandfather died when he was 3, but they hadn't seen each other for a year or so before that (they're a family that falls out sometimes), so he has no memories of him). And most of my cat stories are really Xavi stories. How she followed us to the chip shop (a fifteen minute walk - thirty minute round trip) and then lay down in the middle of the floor while we were eating, glaring up at us like 'Look how tired you've made me'. How she followed us to my Dad's house one Sunday, and had to have a lift back in Grandad's car, and Xavi would laugh his head off every time we'd go over a speed bump and her eyes would go all wide and panicky. The first time he met that little cat, he hadn't learned to crawl yet, and she was bigger than he was. One of the first words he learned to say was her name. And over the years, in a way she was more his cat than mine. He was always much more pleased to see her (because he didn't see her every day, he lives with his Mum (around the corner) most of the week). I think in his mind she was going to live forever.

2/5 New Beginning in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Main Event: IWGP Heavyweight Championship "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada (CHAOS) (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-gun) Semi-Final: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3-Way Match CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) (c) vs. Glory Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) vs. Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.) (Suzuki-gun) NEVER Openweight Championship Hirooki Goto (CHAOS) (c) vs. Juice Robinson IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Roppongi Vice (Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero) (CHAOS) (c) vs. Suzuki-Gun (Taichi & TAKA Michinoku) Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manubu Nakanishi, Michael Elgin, Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Lee vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, EVIL, SANADA, & Hiromu Takahashi) Takashi Iizuka (Suzuki-gun) vs. YOSHI-HASHI (CHAOS) Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Tiger Mask IV, & Katsuyori Shibata vs. CHAOS (Will Ospreay, Jado, & Gedo) KUSHDA & Hirai Kawato vs. Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado) 2/11 New Beginning in Osaka, EDION Arena Main Event: IWGP Intercontinental Championship Tetsuya Naito (Los Ingobernables de Japon) (c) vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin Semi Final: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship "Time Bomb" Hiromu Takahashi (L.I.J) (c) vs. Dragon Lee (CMLL) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3 Way Match * CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) (c) vs. Glory Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) vs. Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.) (Suzuki-gun) RPW British Heavyweight Championship ** Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Will Ospreay (CHAOS) NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi, & Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs. L.I.J (EVIL, SANADA, & BUSHI) CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Trent Baretta, & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, & TAKA Michinoku) CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo) vs. Juice Robinson, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Tiger Mask IV, & Yuji Nagata Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & KUSHIDA vs. Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) David Finlay & Henare vs. Yoshitatsu & Hirai Kawato * Champions dependant on 2/5 match ** If Shibata is still champion. If not it will be a regular singles match.

I read that as "Cold Shitter" and it'd be even more fitting for the Wyatts.

The name change is the best thing ever.

If Dern had done that on someone notable, it would certainly be on the list.

I think part of the reason I like Stephen A. is that he's in on the joke. In a world where we treat sports like they are sacred, it is fun to have someone who will work heel. He's as obnoxious as anyone in sports, but he is clearly having fun with his obnoxiousness. I honestly think Cowherd and Whitlock actually believe everything they say, Stephen A. believes about 75% and puts 25% of show business on it.

I just don't see him changing his character this far into the game. Maybe if it were anybody other than Vince booking, but Vince is the head honcho. I am totally on board with what you're saying but it just is so unlikely.

Did I just read that Jarrett is a Steve Jobs type figure?

Gosh, I really hope that leads to a three day long discussion about whether or not signing with the WWE for $20000 is better than working for TNA.

This is someone else's good news, but holy shit. A friend and former college classmate is the assistant director of an upcoming production of Night of the Iguana. Which is cool and all, but okay... They just announced the first cast member: http://www.playbill.com/article/james-earl-jones-will-appear-in-night-of-the-iguana-revival Motherfucking James Earl Jones!!

You tend to keep moving when you have the death sentence on twelve systems.

Man, whatever you're on, share.