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Wait, we're supposed to hate Mutoh now because no-knees bald Mutoh wasn't a workrate machine? Sigh. If anyone needs me, I'll be over in the corner plotting to destroy the internet. It has awful opinions.

A world is in mourning for a stuffed cat that accompanied a wrestler for about 2 months. Sometimes I love this business.

After the tragedy that happened, we are all Daryl guys today.

James Ellsworth attended WWE referee Darrick Moore's wedding yesterday. Check out his tweet. Brilliant.

I love that the whole Diva Revolution thing has already gone completely full circle to where they didn't want to be Barbie Doll Divas to now LITERALLY being Barbie Dolls.

I do like it that Wall signed it basically in the middle of the night on a Friday Like he really wanted the money but really wants to downplay being stuck with the Wizards

Virgil's not spending a lot of fuck money on ring attire, I guess.

No but the monkey does teach the dog how to channel his chi. The dog and the mummy are the last two in the battle royal and the mummy is winning. The monkey tells the dog to channel his chi and this inspires the dog to unwrap the mummy and win the match.

The CINEMATIC GAME CHANGER~! shit was infuriating but that had nothing to do with the actual footage shown I really need to reread the book

One one hand, The Stacks and the visuals of the OASIS look exactly like I'd imagined. The action sequences in the end don't look like anything that was in the book (namely that big chase scene featuring the Delorean and Tron bike), though I suppose they could be from one of the big battle scenes. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how much stuff they were apparently able to license. My biggest concern is still that they're going to get the overall feel of the book right but significantly change some of the bigger plot points and characters.

"World's Chimpion" was right there, man.

Ambrose: "That's life in the big city"

That's the one issue I have with Elgin, he does so much stuff that could be a finish, even in Main Event style New Japan. He's gotten a lot better at it, but watching him in PWG was like a chore. Okay, he's doing that spot and that one and that one and that one and that counter he always does and that spot and he probably wins with that one, yup. You could fall asleep to an Elgin singles match at times. He'd rarely change up a match formula with counters or different stuff. It was like a 5 minute WWE match stretched to 20 regardless of the opponent most of the time. He's gotten a lot better at the stuff between his big moves though and his aura is much better.

Hail Hydra

The Defenders trailer: Great trailer. Matt Murdock/Daredevil is one of my favourite MCU characters. I bought Daredevil red suit Funko POP from his first season. Still the best thing from the whole MCU.

Okay. Here's some reasons 1. It basically ruined Adam Sandler for everyone that grew up watching him. After this movie everyone wanted him to do more of this. Instead he did Don't Mess With the Zohan. His career hasn't really been the same critically since. 2. It's a really sweet love story. 3. Phillip Seymor Hoffman is an epic badguy and has an all time classic rant over the phone. 4. The music is really good and the cinematography is really gorgeous sometimes. 5. This is the movie where PTA started to move away from Scorsese rip-off stuff and find his voice that's he'd later perfect in There Will Be Blood and The Master, but the movie remains clearly the most accessible of those three. 6. This one is kinda cryptic because you haven't seen the movie, but it's probably the best live action movie about Superman since I guess the first Richard Donner one.

I can imagine Virgil being pissed backstage about the guy sandbagging him.

Which audience?

I love how nobody in the audience pops.

Please tell me this isn't in slow motion and that's the actual speed of what happened.

That treatment is to maintain the impermeability of the sac in his larynx where he stores thee Poison Mist Juice. - knowing of a lot of things, RAF

Why are all subsequent Chainsaw Massacre movies so gory? The original is about as bloodless as a slasher movie can possibly be. It's one of the few qualities that I actually love about the first film.

Usual Hulu M O is to do the first two or 3 fps on one day, then go weekly.

I feel like it'll be difficult to capture that lightning in a bottle again, and they'll probably get way too cute with all the references...but I'm still ALL THE WAY IN on that.

I am a Daryl guy, too.

She was really up for the interrogation.

Machine Pix has a bunch of machine and not necessarily machine stuff. This guy probably kicked ass at twiddly winks. This payloader is 2 legit 2 quit

Maybe someone should accidentally push Roger Goodell down a flight of stairs and elect Richard Sherman as new Commish.

Blue Panther vs Sam Adonis hair match on Aug 4. As cubs said, this is the feud that Danierlson wishes he could be doing.

I have an urge to slap you with one of those clouds I'm always yelling at..

Don't want to be mean but I dunno if YOSHI-HASHI's cut out for this main event thing. Seeing him in there next to Naito highlighted some deficiencies.

It's the most obvious "Other guy is doing the move to himself" version I've seen since Buff doing it. Other people at least jump.

Bennett is a good utility player. He wrestles basic WWE style, can cut a good promo and him and Maria have been doing this act for seven years or so. Honestly, WWE is the best fit for him of all the companies he's been out. The dude was built for nine minute TV matches with a commercial break. His journey is hilarious that he's managed to be a pushed act in ROH, New Japan, TNA and now WWE (sans developmental) based on basically his wife being hot. It's pretty inspiring. The WWE gets it, which is why he's promoted as being whipped.

So I stumbled upon a Netflix movie called Russell Madness. It's about a dog who becomes a pro-wrestler with the help of his trainer who is a talking monkey. John Ratzenburger and Fred Willard are in it. John Morrison is also in it.

OH MY GOD~!! OCTOBER RELEASES ARE OFF THE HINGES~!

Too Southern.

Like 4 posts up man...

RIP to George Romero. The father of all things zombie in modern pop culture.

But isn't that shot the one shot that they do in every remake of this to pretend like they understand why the original was so good? And then they proceed to misunderstand everything else that made it great.

How wild would've it been for Taz to show up on a random Nitro and choke out Hogan to end one of his long-winded self congratulatory Hollywood promos? Was Taz a guy that jackass Russo could've gotten behind or would he have turned him into an actual oompa loompa faster than you can say "That Seventies Guy" Mike Awesome?

People shouldn't shit on Corbin so much. I mean, you can, but there are far, far, far worse options than him. As a fan of Big Banter Corbin though, I think he's doing pretty well. If he loses to Nakamura, which he likely will, it's no different than any other time when a MitB winner loses. And a Nakamura win pushes him even further towards a title shot. It's all good as long as Corbin doesn't win. It's too soon for Nakamura to drop a loss to someone like Corbin.

WWE TLC 2009. Wiki tells me that the dark match for this was R-Truth pinning CM Punk, which is interesting. Christian Vs Shelton Benjamin: This is your ladder match for the ECW title. Infamous 'let's steal the show' build. I started off liking this. They were working hard, and it looked nice and snug. Christian got busted open hardway really early on, which also gave the match a nice focus. Then it started to fall apart quite badly. Mistakes crept in, and it became really convoluted in the way they were setting up and telegraphing the spots. In the end I would say this is easily the worst match Christian had over the course of the year, and I don't ever want to see Benjamin wrestle again. Drew McIntyre Vs John Morrison: Now, this was a good match. Morrison defending the IC title, and Drew really just grounding and dominating him, which is the only way to get a good match out of Morrison. Drew wins the belt in pretty convincing fashion. Michelle McCool Vs Mickie James: We're in the thick of the "Piggy James" angle here, which was just so horrible. God, I hated Lay-Cool so much. It seemed like around this time WWE had so many gimmicks and characters that were just put out there to annoy the fanbase. These, heel Michael Cole, John Laurinaitis, Vickie Guerrero. Like, it didn't feel like real heel heat to me- more just 'get these off my TV' heat. But maybe I was just being worked. Anyway, this angle seemed particularly mean, although the match here is a decent short match. McCool retains her title with a boot to the face. John Cena Vs Sheamus: Tables match for the WWE title. Quite a boring match. I don't think tables match generally yield very interesting results, and this was hurt even more by the fact that Sheamus seems well out of his league here. To say his ascent to the title came out of nowhere is perhaps an understatement. And then his win is really booked as a total fluke, with Cena pretty much just losing his balance and falling through the table. The Undertaker Vs Batista: Speaking of matches that don't tend to yield strong results, here's a chairs match for the World title. Striker tells us that Taker has been in cell matches, inferno matches and buried alive matches, but perhaps no match as brutal as a chairs match. Shut the fuck up. Striker really is the pits. He goes on to tell us that Batista has an advantage because he has denser bones than Taker, and thus the chair shots won't hurt him as much. Lawler and Cole openly laugh at this one. This is an okay match, but I think they could have done more with a less restrictive gimmick. Another shitty finish as Batista hits a low-blow and a chair shot to win the belt, but Teddy Long comes out and orders the match to continue as chairs are legal but low blows are not. Taker then hits a quick tombstone for the win. Batista's pouting after the match is good value. Randy Orton Vs Kofi Kingston: Man, they really missed the boat on Kofi here. Everything they did with him was pretty much perfect - from destroying Orton's car, to the MSG attack where fans were chanting his name, to the way he stormed into Orton's lockerroom prior to this match and called him a coward in front of Legacy - but then they get to the match and he does a job and goes back to being a midcarder. So frustrating, and I wasn't even a Kofi fan. The match is fine, but nothing memorable. Chris Jericho and The Big Show Vs Triple H and Shawn Michaels: TLC match for the tag titles. Fairly mundane match for the most part. Didn't really feel as violent or chaotic as it should. Jericho nearly has a disaster towards the end when he doesn't get enough distance on a bump over the top rope and thus doesn't bump through the table like he was supposed to. I liked the creativity of the finish, as the ladder in the ring was broken in half, so Triple H holds it up so Shawn can climb up and get the belts. Yeah, weak TLC match overall. MOTN: God, is it really Drew and Morrison? Yeah, i think it is. 3 stars. Show rating: Other than the surprise of Sheamus beating Cena, I don't really see any reason to ever watch or think about this show. 2 stars.