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You throw Brie in there and that’s 4 non blondes. But I don’t have an opinion because I haven’t read through this whole discussion and I’m not sure What’s Going On.

relppriC?

Now I have that fucking song in my head. . . .

Was Garbrandt's masterful defense against Dominic Cruz the biggest fluke in MMA? He straight clowned Cruz with his footwork and head movement, but as soon as he gets in the cage with Dillashaw he wants to play rock em sock em robots...and then his head pops off.

After he gets sent home for having an umbrella that looks like a rifle you can go to the principals office and be all like-

Who wilfully becomes a White Sox fan after listening to Hawk Harrelson?

To no one's surprise, I'm partial to the western mortician Undertaker for being the closest to authentic. ...and yes I've had bags under my eyes like that from making removals and embalming while people with normal schedules are sleeping

Running back Cejudo and DJ while going with Cruz vs. Dillashaw seems like the obvious answer. If guys want to move up weight classes, they should have to forfeit their titles. Ideally we get those two fights before the end of the year but who knows how long the flyweights need or if Cejudo is willing to do that fight after calling out the Dillashaw/Garbrandt winner. What a great couple of title fights though. I know none of these guys are PPV draws but you gotta feel like they increased their respective value with performances like this. DJ having to face some adversity for the first time in forever is a really interesting scenario too.

There are a bunch more I just picked the first one that showed. Almost all of them will get your ass kicked

Randy's acting ability is AWOL.

With the guy yelling "holy shit" and the blood spray, it reminds me of the infamous Budd Dwyer video.

The Bucks were at the NEW baseball stadium show last night and were talking about doing All In 2 in NY. Let that calm your mind for the time being. Oooor is it a cryptic hint that they'll all be in "New York", as in what some professional wrestlers would call the World Wrestling Federation back in the day?! I'll have to continue my work on the matter back at the Ibushi Wrestling Research Institute's Vancouver branch! There's no time to waste, Robin!

Did he follow up by claiming it was balderdash? Or rubbish?

This is the first time I've ever looked through the WWE shop. I'm kinda appalled this is how people spend their money. Making your kid lug a Bayley "I'm a Hugger" backpack to school should be a matter for family services.

He didn't throw him off the roof, brother. The Giant jumped. It was a set-up!

Really does seem set up for Evil, who has had no real moment this G1, to spoil things for White, so that Okada can dismiss his draw syndrome against Tana. Okada/Ibushi would be nuts, with either a viable winner. But I’m not certain yet. Like @Tromatagon is suggesting, I could easily see White “helping” his faction mate, and “accidentally” ensuring whichever result he needs. (Or maybe even interfering if he loses, hoping to at least win the battle for CHAOS’ soul.) Anyway, I’m glad I did watch today. Overwhelmingly simple, single arc matches, the sort of thing you’d call great tv matches if there were a Raw equivalent in Japan. Suzuki worked about the most compelling and generous match possible for a guy committed to taking zero bumps, and Page (again) got the crowd; Makabe can still thrive in a scenario where you really want him to club someone, and Jay is remarkably clubbable; Elgin is physically capable of whatever you want, and Tana’s a genius who kept things to one near fall (credit to Elgin for the selling @sevendaughters noted, however); I liked Okada and Evil calling back last year’s upset, with Okada ready to counter everything this time. This was a satisfying day of salad, lean protein, and black coffee after yesterday’s indulgence—not the sort of thing you crave but good and necessary.

Of course he was! Do you think he wouldn't have dried himself off and switched gear? You can easily catch a cold at that time of the year.

and a pizza bagel

watching today's matches tomorrow, finished watching yesterday's matches today DAY 14 DELAYED REACTIONS SANADA-Yano this is more of the previous year models for both men but I think this whole Paradise Lock bit is over when it comes to Yano matches so I will forgive it because it was funny. **3/4 Tonga-Goto beyond tedious. Weird how Tonga may be remembered for wrestling in one of the hottest companies and tournament blocks ever and has actively been trying to bring it down. * Juice-Sabre I probably need to see this again. Good teaser for a title match presumably contested in the west, the hand wrenching stuff was great, less so the weird contortionist sub shit, which is a bit "yellow belt with ideas above his station". ***1/2 Ishii-Omega at the highest level, strangely, you can still nitpick. did they do too much - both artistically, and humanely? did the one or two minor botches and obvious bits of cooperation take away from it? discuss that if you please, but i thought this was the best telling of the "man will not stay down" story probably ever. an insane, vertigo-inducing work of wrestling brilliance. ***** Naito-Ibushi perhaps wisely I did not watch this immediately after the previous, instead I watched it in isolation with a cup of tea. Yes one or two moments were boggling, my eyes on stalks wondering what on earth was going through their minds. A crazy match but not a trainwreck; it teetered on the edge of sanity. But ultimately when they'd finished they seemed a lot more at the racetrack than Ishii or Omega. Surely this is Ibushi on a main event/title push? He's looked outstanding. ****3/4

$80? I’d rather spend $37.50 on a Three Musketeers.

Man, I didn't know what to expect after Cejudo appeared to roll his his foot. But man, that was so intense because neither guy had a clear advantage. I wouldn't mind the decision swinging the other way but it was clearly a nip-tuck fight.

I was SO hoping for the SSD to make an appearance if he were to beat Omega (that 2013 Tanahashi match in Korakuen is still among my faves!), but it worked perfectly as is. Kenny's in another, untouchable world right now in terms of closing sequences at lightning pace with just the right amount of selling and time between big moves. You're right in that his counters never felt contrived/dancy, just as they didn't against Naito. I'm also glad you brought up the delayed sell. That was brilliant and received the exact response from the crowd they were going for. Osaka has sometimes felt like it's a little overrated in terms of great crowds but not today, not one bit and they were a big part in making this a classic. Another thing I think elevated it into that elite stratosphere among the GOATs is how this match had personality all the way through it from beginning to end. Their previous encounters, while great matches, kind of felt a little generic outside of the rope bite in Long Beach last year. This had Kenny not taking Ishii seriously at all early on, constantly slapping him upside the head. Then as the match progressed, each man's strengths (athleticism vs durability and resolve) also started to play into it. Just a beautifully woven tapestry of violence with perfect pacing and unpredictability. Not until the last 30 seconds or so was I pretty sure Ishii was winning and that's a huge achievement in this era of winners giving the loser the lion's share of the match and therefore telegraphing the result. In other words, this match fucking rules. Can't wait to watch this again with my NJPW viewing buddy. It's all I've thought about the entire day.

Watched it again. Live, the energy and violence of the finishing stretch was obvious, but I don’t think I quite appreciated how clever it was. That is, many of the counters were counters to the other guy’s counter (even counters they used in the US title finals)—and yet there’s really no sense of choreography. You even get moments of the opposite, like when Ishii spots Omega shifting to a sitting position, visibly reacts, then hits the lariat. There’s no “this is the next move I hit in a series”—he just takes what’s there. And fuck, Ishii’s delayed sell after he blasts Omega into the corner with a forearm—you can hear the crowd cry out the second he cringes and pinches his shoulder. AND they left Ishii’s screwdriver Tanahashi killer in the chamber, so there’s still sequences to be built around those attempts. I might just watch Ishii versus Goto, Ibushi, and Omega tomorrow and skip Block A...

That's on Omega, man. Trying to scuttle Ishii's big win like he's Hogan at Starrcade '97. Fucking puke.

Mankind feud was purple era sorry pal

Bonkers submission hold.

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"If it's almost a sport... we have it!" Some good ones too: Flat Track Roller Derby, 2 Types of Dodgeball (with and without trampolines), Hurling (the Irish sport), SUMO! and KABBADI!!!!! (an Indian Sport, the best way I can describe it as Competitive Tag on a volleyball court.) AND LIGHTSABER DUELING! The Saber Legion 2018: Awakening: The world’s biggest custom dueling organization founded in 2015 highlighting the best in high-level light saber combat. https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-brings-back-the-ocho-for-a-second-consecutive-year.html

Not counting Marlon Moraes' WSOF fight that happened on NYE the day after Cruz-Garbrandt, Moraes and Assuncao are a combined 7-1 the last time Cruz fought. That lone loss was a head to head fight BETWEEN Moraes and Assuncao in Marlon's UFC debut. We can't have all this "X should be getting the title shot instead of Y..MMA ain't a sport anymore" or "this is holding up the division" but people are fine with the guy who has been on the shelf for nineteen months getting a title shot over two guys who have been consistently winning fights over notable fighters. I love Dominick Cruz, but he needs a win after the layoff and not having a good night against Garbrandt. In addition, he still has to be cleared by a doctor after his arm surgery. I'm not fully amped about seeing Cruz get a title shot right now under the current circumstances.

He's the TV voice of games broadcast in Hell (John Sterling is the radio voice).

Yeah he was like I can deal with his power if it lands then that right came and changed everything.

We accept you, one of us

League One started yesterday and Bradford City won away at Shrewsbury Town, 0-1.

Proud of you T.O. a top 2-3 WR of all time, fuck the sports writers.

Yeah either Garbrandt is a good fighter who had ONE great night against Cruz or Dillashaw is just incredible even against the best. Starting to lean on the one great night camp.

Also, I thought the general consensus was that Vince’s type was just like HHH’s type...

They even got me, and I’ve been suggesting Ishii as the KOPW challenger since before the G1 started and certainly before he “needed” this win to keep block drama going. Two little reasons that were actually pretty big in making me feel that way, I think: 1) Kenny hit BOTH of his death v-triggers—into the ropes and the corner—which usually mean the OWA is coming very soon. (Only Okada really survives those, and even he’s fallen twice in a row, now.) 2) Ishii kicking out at one basically always means he’s right about to lose. It’s the classic “put him over right before he gets put down” spot.

I assume Roman was still booed.

I wanted you to as it was yours.

Hoping to see Teen Titans GO! To The Movies with my Sister when she's feeling better though she rarely watches films but likes the TV show.

I forget who said it, but someone made the argument that this whole time it was never Arnold who sold the Terminator franchise or made it work, it was Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. I think it probably has more to do with fucking shitty, I mean, just the shittiest scripts being picked for garbage like Salvation and Genisys, but I just want a good Terminator movie. It would almost be amusing that the missing key this whole time was Linda Hamilton. The bar is set so fucking low though. Their job is to make a movie better than Salvation and Genisys...GENISYS...LOOK AT THAT FUCKING SPELLING! Ugh, the only thing that Genisys did well was having our heroes travel through time, leaving Arnold behind, our heroes arrive in the future, and Arnold is still there. Except even that is fucked up because they had to workshop why a Terminator would look old. Christ. When you sit down to bullet point out everything fucked up or wrong about Salvation or Genisys you would start to wonder how those two didn't go straight to video. The most interesting thing to come out of Salvation was Christian Bale blowing up on set and then you have Genisys where Matt Smith is in the fucking thing for maybe 5 minutes, making the mistake of making the movie about the journey and not the destination, John Connor as a Terminator being spoiled in the 2nd trailer, and on and on. If this new entry can't be better than those, don't make any more Terminator movies.

Chris Chetti?

wtf

Oh that's good. Running in shadows and breaking boxes. You inspired me to find the instructional video for the Dragonstryke boardgame. My cousin and I probably watched this 30 minute EPIC more that we actually played the game

Have to disagree, the crowd are never right to try and ruin the show for other people. Whatever your opinions on Roman, he's still a guy with a huge fanbase, a big merch mover, and they will still want to see their guy try and win the world title, and they don't deserve to have a load of dicks ruining the match for them. Just go to the bar if you don't like it. I mean, I'd rather drown in a sea of vomit than watch Seth vs Ziggler, but I wouldn't sit there at the show braying about how bad the match is because I know lots of other people around me would probably be enjoying themselves, and don't need an obnoxious loud arsehole bellowing about how much their favourite sucks.