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Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of The Wyatt Family, Wyld Samurai, at least it's an ethos.

The more I see Bray tweeting like Matt the more I hate it. I'd love if he went back to his Waylon Mercy character.

Poor Conrad.

I for one am shocked that the engagement Cena was forced into by his boss has ended.

We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We're takingturns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week-- But all the decisions *of* that officer 'ave to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting-- By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs-- But by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major--

It's what you get for returning Piers Morgan to us instead of blasting him into space.

Undertaker, secret best bro...

He made a terrible Wild Samoans pun one week that was like, "You may Sika this title, but you still won't have it Afa Wrestlemania." Paul's preoccupation with Reigns's Samoan heritage always gets weird. It's like he creeps toward the precipice of phrenology and backs off.

This is Sanity! They are here to have crazy fun!

So "Proud SquaredCircle Warrior" is another term for Incel right?

The problem with this is that there is a catch-22 there if the fans ARE clued in by Dave, because honestly it ties into a bigger issue than "Is Rusev going to get a push": The fans have just given up on their heroes ever getting pushed in WWE, and this is paradoxically the reason they WON'T be pushed. Sometimes in all of entertainment, you have to break the fans' hearts to make them want something THAT MUCH MORE when they do get it, and it's that fact that makes entertainment in any form. There's a world of difference between if WWE gave Daniel Bryan the WWE Title at Summerslam 2013

Finally! Somebody gets it.

That would've been great for PowerPoint Gulak

Sanity would be fine on the main roster with a few vignettes and an interview with Eric Young explaining their beliefs and mission in WWE. However, this is WWE, so we wouldn't get any explanation beyond Michael Cole repeatedly calling them crazy. I'm not asking for Chikara-level storytelling, but a little more than half-assed effort would be nice.

Re: Sanity They're not a cult. They're anarcho-nihilists. They don't care about anyone or anything. They just want to break down social norms and cause as much mayhem as possible. You saw that play out in War Games. Speaking of which - God bless Alexander Wolfe. I love that big ugly bastard.

Tie: Matt and Nick Jackson. Poll could do with some spicing up, both in terms of timeframe and geography. Not everyone here is too lazy to watch some Pat O'Connor. Of the options, I suppose I most enjoy the stories told by Bret during his peak. And there's also something to be said for being the one among the three who wrestled the style least conducive to brain damage, regardless of how his career ended. So what's the deal with this account? Are you the DVDVR version of those Facebook quizzes that are collecting everyone's data?

That was probably one of the best SmackDown endings ever!

Marty and Sweetster.

I don't know, Jonestown had some massive turnover.

Catching up on the main event and holy shit, this is everything I thought we'd see with Gaethje in the UFC. Just porous, shit defence matched with an iron skull. Poirier hit Gaethje with an absurd amount of shots to Gaethje's dome. Gaethje is just so wild in everything BUT his leg kicks, which are next level, and a decent but inconsistent jab. What an awesome fight! One of the best and it exceeded the hype. It's almost like trading 3-5 significant head shots for one leg strike doesn't work out most of the time.

That was such a great, great fight! You really could see Casey's shortcomings and strengths all in one fight. Waterson needs that atomweight division badly. Way too much size to give up even though she's become a really good wrestler all things considering, taking down Casey and Torres in her last two fights. And that kick that sent Casey backwards at the end of round 2. Perfection.

Michelle Waterson is still undersized for 115 and she doesn't respond well getting hit by the bigger fighters but she is able to make up for that in heart. Incredible fight.

Which feels like a terrible idea on multiple levels. Bray turning again so quick would suck, and Sanity doesn't need him. Although if he does turn again, I guess he does need a cult since him without one really sucked.

Pets are wonderful. As dumb as it may sound to some, my cats have kept me from seriously hurting myself because I can't fathom not being there to care for them.

Damn, Jim Neidhart looks different.

He'll always be Robin Hood with an English accent to me.

For those that loved the Gresham vs. Lethal match from two months ago tonight they topped it with a even better match.

My favorite part of this whole thing is the idea that there’s a shortage of Bob Backlund footage.

It truly is amazing that a basically untrained actor stole a Kubrick movie to the point where you don’t really care about what happens after his character dies.

The Demon's Dance was a great main event that could have gone a few more mins but they did pack a lot of things in the time frame given.

Joe is way more of a bulldozer than Roman. Roman is like a Samoan pick-up truck.

Well there's the cherubic smile, the fact that he was over 16 years younger and probably about 50 pounds lighter than he is today, and if at any time in the last 15 years he's worn a backwards baseball cap in a picture, I can't recall it. I think it's a fairly easy one to miss.

Bryan didn't. - RAF

At least Cedric and Mustafa Ali don't get fucked out of royalties Austin Aries and Neville did.

Thanks UK. First Russel Brand and now the measles. Good job.

Sweet phrenology reference, dude.

I know it's a minor change but War Raiders...meh. Still I greatly look forward to Hanson and Dozer in a hoss fight. Oh yeah Rowe and Knight will be involved as well. I know NXT doesn't need another stable, but I kinda want to see Moss/Sabbatelli team up with EC3. Seems like a perfect fit.

This needs to be a seasonal post and I don't think I've noticed it in a few months, sooo....

I hate that a lot of younger wrestlers have never seen this match. I get so mad at them. It's on about 20 different DVD collections.

Related to Rusev - Lana was doing a Twitter Q&A last night to promote Total Divas and Rusev was tweeting her questions like “What time does your flight get in?”

Between 1998 - 2011 - Dave only gave 9 matches 5 stars (5 had Kenta Kobashi in them and 3 of those were Kobashi vs. Misawa) Since the Tanahashi era began is when Dave started handing them out left and right to New Japan. Every single year since 2012 - he has given at least one Tanahashi match 5 stars. 2012 - 2017: 23 matches got 5 (or more) stars. 20 of the 23 were NJ. The other 3 were PWG And the other helpful reminder - the amount of stuff Dave actually rates is like maybe 5% of all wrestling. The only indie stuff he did (does) was Ring of Honor. He maybe reviews one lucha a s

According to Sky Sports in the UK, this show is scheduled to be 5 hours.

So many awful choices. "Hi, I'm a non-fan and presumably of sound body and mind, I am aware that pro wrestling exists, but choose to ignore it as it's not really my thing......WHAAAAAA, grainy Youtube footage of two Japanese guys trying to drop each other on their head without any context unless I also happen to speak Japanese? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME BEFORE? SIGN ME UP FOR A NJPW WORLD SUBSCRIPTION YESTERDAY"

Cena wasn't humiliated. It's perfectly logical that he'd be done after drinking a couple beers and running that ramp twice.

As bad as everything was, at least Sumie Sakai didn't win a title on this show.