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When I think of missed opportunities in wrestling, WWE denying us the chance to see The Rock sell the 619 is way up there.

Another amazing Juice promo.

Juice is the absolute poster child for getting out of the system if they aren't really behind you.

This isn't the Halloween episode of ride along we deserve. It's the episode of ride along we need.

I don't think this board could handle a "Who Has the Most Mundane Life?" challenge

Something someone pointed out a while ago made me think twice about the idea of PED users being pariahs: in the 60's/70's/80's all those guys were being fuelled by pills to the point that bowls of greenies in the clubhouse became a longtime gag. Can't it be argued that they were a performance enhancer as well because they were basically drugs that allowed players to play at a high level and get through a long season? I don't know if I fully agree with it but it really made me think and at least challenged my assumptions on the issue.

His piledriver in the tag match looked sick tho. Haku for G1. Haku vs. Yano! Where da fuck is Fale btw? P.S. There was an awesome fan experiencing NJPW for the first time in the row ahead of me and he was just losing his shit for everything. Added so much to the night and it was like having a personal David Crockett.

That sounds rad and I'm pissed I missed that but what an experience today was between eating lunch with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Legion of Honor museum and then this perfectly paced, spectacular card that over delivered big time. I don't have a tonne to say beyond witnessing NJPW wrestlers' spots live gave me a whole new level of appreciation for their athleticism. Some of the stuff you see the juniors pull off on tv and it's just a thing is not just a thing live. And the excess is unavoidable for both the Lee and main event matches because of what's come before. I also dug Lee and Hiromu countering so much because they've wrestled a hundred times and they've shown it in the past and are coming up with new counters to counters and new methods of killing each other. I think I preferred the ROH version of Cody vs. Kenny to this but it was still everything the crowd wanted and then some. The ladder spot was the best visual I've ever seen at a live show. Just beautiful. Really fun match but this will hopefully go down as the night Jay White matured as a wrestler and found himself. Just an unreal heel performance. And great stuff with Josh. If we get warmaster vs. switchblade out of this too?! Damn. I guess I did have some rambling in me. This really hammers home how badly I would like to do a G1 holiday in Japan next year, hitting up Korakuen and Sumo Hall with maybe another city or two in between.

After all the crap he has gone through I am soooooo happy for Cormier. He absolutely deserves this.

What a tidy little post-fight circus. In this day and age, two terrifying, smiling 40 year olds shouting at each other with that perfect mix of corny and legit really hit the spot.

Sun-Drop is the best. Sun-Drop’s number one.

How has this show not fucking happened yet?

Man, I miss bounty angles. Way too pro rasslin for WWE.

Good to see Act Yasukawa doing wrestling shit while drinking alcohol, even if she'll never actually wrestle again.

I actually do subscribe to this viewpoint. I completely believe that the main reason baseball players back then were doing coke and other amphetamines was to keep them getting out of bed, and keep going through the long-ass baseball season. I don't know whether it's "better" or "worse" than more recent PED use; but I completely think that they were using illegal drugs to gain a competitive edge.

Yep. I want rid of Brock Lesnar.

"Wow, ya done fucked up now..." "See that motherfucker run?" - Josh Barnett "The lack of control here is ridiculous. I wish they'd get their shit together." - Jim Ross Best part of the show, and this was a great, great show.

I have long thought that the rampant amphetamine use in baseball should be taken into account when talking about PEDs, but writers back then were so allegiant to the team that they would turn a blind eye to anything they saw so as not to besmirch the good name of the franchise and also fuck up the gravy train they had going with covering the club. A lot of these dudes that crucify guys on the gas have no issue with Mantle ripping through a handful of greenies to pick him up off the floor after a late night of boozing. If you take issue with one, you should probably be pissed about the other. Cooperstown is a place full of guys that don't belong for one reason or another, a number of them just for being friends with Frankie Frisch. Who gives a shit if some drug users are in there? I respect the hell out of the HOF as a museum, but who gets enshrined there hasn't mattered to me for a real long time.

I just got back. Man that was a great show. 95% Bullet Club shirts and 5% WWE shirts and those terrible overpriced jackets. Crowd was pretty on point for everything all night; reminded me of the NXT crowd in San Jose Mania weekend. Stage, ramp, lighting wasn't overly elaborate, but what a difference it added to this experience vs. when APW ran it twice previously. Floor and risers section were full. What would be called the upper deck (its not) was probably 50% full with the empty sections being right underneath NJPW's hard cam side. Speaking of which, it was interesting to see how they had their hard camera set up with the wide cam angle. WWE has theirs at the "9 o'clock" position, in relation to their stage/ramp, where as NJPW has theirs positioned at "6 o'clock" facing straight at the ramp and 'tron.' As a production guy, that stuff sticks out to me. I got into all the matches, even that Young Bucks match. The Hiromu vs. Lee was pretty nuts. After seeing him for the first time live at the KOI tourny, and win, I'm all on board with this guy. I was in line for food during the Okada and Niato entrances, and we didn't even get a rainmaker or an Oscutter, so I was bummed on that one. As mentioned the crowd was really into Juice vs. White. APW brought in White last Oct, just before his Switchblade debut in Japan and he impressed me then, so I might have been the only one pulling for him tonight. I know its pro wrestling, but were those barriers extra unattached to anything?! They were getting flattened and flipped over all night. Main event really delivered. I don't think Red shoes was awake, at all. I don't wanna go to a WWE show ever again.

This. Fuck, Jon Jones.

Chris Charlton on Twitter said the attendance was 6333. The crowd was great except for some of the annoying chants. When they showed the heavyweight title montage Lesnar got big boos and AJ got big cheers.

The juice vs white match felt real violent. That was great.

The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

Yeah, having Solo at number 2 in the box office is killing me, along with other things. Its only going to get worse. . . .

Cody's not a 60 minute worker, but damn if they're not doing enough smoke and mirrors to try and stretch him past 30.

The sad part is, Dunder Mifflin is how companies are actually run.

Kuetsar really shit the bed this week.

lol, the Canadian dollar sucks. I paid $120 to buy Final Fantasy VI back when it was called Final Fantasy III, when it was the hottest new shit on the SNES. Don't think I've crossed three digits to buy a game since. I also dropped another $20 on the Nintendo Power produced FF III guide, which is actually a pretty awesome collectable in hindsight and I'm happy to say I still have it in one piece.

Hard to begrudge guys needing something to get through playing on astroturf in St Louis or Kansas City in August 1977.

Here is the Fandango update And the Cappotelli's death was posted in both RIP thread and the general discussion thread (though it might have been the end of June so that is a different thread)

Which he’ll probably get.

So is that it for the Bullet Club? Billy Gunn for the quick squash.

Hey, guy ringing the bell? It's not working.

Shit, I totally forgot that I probably spent over $100 for VPW2 between the game and the cart adapter. I think I got my FPG for $40 and got my PSX modded for $30. There was a chain of stores in the Philly area that did imports, so that was my goto.

Goto/Cobb was a real solid match. Goto heeling it up to get the crowd behind Cobb helped a lot. I enjoyed the Tanahashi tag more than I was expecting. Marty and Hangman brought some fun tandem offense.

So if you half arse your picks you do better than planning them, I'm sure I'll come tumbling down soon though.

Given where DC and Derrick Lewis are from respectively, I'm betting in the right era, these dudes would be headlining the Superdome in a Tuxedo match, a Ghetto Street Fight, or some shit. They missed their calling in life.

Hey! Some of the old (old as in CLASSIC) gang are still around! I'll admit I pretty much stopped watching wrestling entirely after the Benoit incident, though got back into it a couple of years ago with a few PWG shows, and then getting back into DDT and New Japan. Now I obsess over Hiromu Takahashi as much as is probably appropriate. To elaborate slightly on my intro, I have a podcast called "Eric Roberts is the Fucking Man" (http://www.ericrobertsistheman.com), which is a tongue-in-cheek look at the life and work of actor Eric Roberts. We're about 75 episodes in, and the whole thing culminated in a live episode at the Cinepocalypse film festival in Chicago last November, where my co-host and I interviewed Eric live on stage. It was the most surreal thing I've ever experienced, and was followed by us all going for lunch, where we were joined by director Larry Cohen (director of Q THE WINGED SERPENT, THE STUFF, etc.). We got some nice coverage at the time: https://www.avclub.com/a-talking-cat-was-dubbed-in-a-bathroom-and-other-fun-1820415120 We've only done one wrestling-related episode, featuring DVDVR legend Matt Hollinger covering the films Eric Roberts did with Steve Austin (HUNT TO KILL) and Randy Orton (THE CONDEMNED 2) Also, you might remember when I was writing about the BLOODY NIGHTMARES box-set over at the old Movie Feast website, which was a massive 100-film box set of no-budget and microbudget films. Well, I also turned THAT into a podcast called No-Budget Nightmares (http://www.nobudgetpodcast.com) Which has led to some friendships with ultra low-budget directors, and an eventual appearance doing a commentary for J.R. Bookwalter's THE DEAD NEXT DOOR (and his upcoming release of ROBOT NINJA). I'm also shockingly active on social media. Particularly on the hellscape that is Twitter https://twitter.com/Doug_Tilley But thanks so much for the re-intro. I'm still catching up on what has been happening on the board for the last.. holy shit.. 7 years or so.

Happy Canada Day!