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I want a 20 minute THE DEMON KING entrance and Brock F5's him in 5 seconds for a clean pin.

"Vince screaming at Graves to call him a hillbilly" is what I think you meant there.

I never watched TNA religiously but I did turn it on from time to time, so my experience with Jarrett there was limited. I do remember seeing Jarret doing an in-ring promo with whatever faction he was running at the time and all the smart marks kept chanting "drop the belt!" Jarrett slyly smirked and let it slide off his shoulder and fall to the mat. That was fucking great. The guy gets a pass in my book.

I sometimes forget that Zero1 is around, but I saw puro twitter freaking out over Sato/Sekimoto, and... yeah. It’s a really smart match; it’s got a couple really stupid headbutt spots. I get why people are reacting so (let’s be generous and say) diversely. On one hand it’s a simple heavyweight title match built around who can hit a German suplex first, with plenty of black trunks/hard men physicality. I see why people like that kind of thing—I like that kind of thing—especially in an era of increasingly choreographed and melodramatic main events (which I also like). And I’m not even surprised there are those who revel in the “he didn’t slap his leg!” of it all. I guess this is where I should say why it’s problematic and unnecessary, because it’s both. But it’s just not a fun conversation. Kai did it against Kento; Kenoh did it several times last year; it is what it is, I guess. And I watch Shibata/Okada probably once a month, and I think it’s essentially perfect, so I don’t have any high ground to claim. Anyway, I liked the match. People who like that kind of thing, etc. You can find it on the usual streaming site that ought not be named, if you want. For brevity’s sake, here’s Mutoh trying to operates his own twitter, as only the truly great can:

news just in: Low Ki vs. Court Bauer best of 21 series just announced

This is going to take some beating when it comes to Batista Fashion Watch™ A velvet blazer, turtle neck, red scarf and matching glasses? C'moooooon

Fun bugs I’ve seen recently: saw an alligator clone itself four times. I shot all five of em some asshole tried to shoot me at the St Denis post office as I was picking up ammo. When I got done my horse was locked inside the caged off part of the post office with the mailman, standing on the counter and shitting all over it

This is WWE's most viewed YouTube clip at 37 million views. Scarlett Bordeaux's Impact clips get 10 times more views than anything else. Never doubt the depravity of creeps and perverts.

The last time I went to Baltimore, we stayed in a nice hotel around The Inner Harbor and Ubered anywhere we needed to go. Driving in Baltimore is precarious for many reasons, but the complete disregard for traffic that all pedestrians in Baltimore seem to have has to be #1 on that list. On top of that, no one wanted to be the designated driver so Uber was a wise choice. Eventually, we decide to hit up Chap's Pit Beef, which is a go to anytime I'm in Baltimore, and call an Uber. The ride between the hotel and Chap's was like a sightseeing tour for housing projects. About halfway to Chap's we see a crowd gathering on a corner, and my hood instincts kick in and I'm 100% sure I'm about to see a dead body. We finally get to the corner, and we see a pedestrian, pinned under a car. I didn't see the accident, we were probably 2 minutes too late, but I'd bet all the money in my pocket that the poor man pinned under that car just randomly walked across the street and just assumed that traffic would stop. As a Cleveland Indians fan, I was ready to give up my fandom when they said, "yeah our logo is racist as fuck, so instead of just removing it, we're going to phase it out." Sports teams change uniforms and logos all the time, you don't have to phase that shit out you can just change it.

Jim Ross in NWA, WWF, etc: BAH GAWD DID YOU KNOW (wrestler x) PLAYED FOOTBAW?!?!? Jim Ross in NJPW: BAH GAWD (Japanese wrestler x who I am absolutely unfamiliar with) REMINDS ME OF (American wrestler y)!

All opinion, of course but wasn't the 'mania XX main event better as a 3-way than it would have been with just Benoit vs Hunter? I think Benoit going through both members of DX made for a better match and a more emphatic moment than a straight singles would have done, especially since a whole lot of people thought that either Michaels was gonna win the belt or HHH was going to retain and set up a longer chase. To a lesser extent, at 30, Bryan going through both Orton and Batista was better in theory than a one-on-one singles would have been. However, bigger issue is I'm pretty sure there is very little chance Rousey doesn't walk out the winner in a women's main event. So, a three-way is probably better protection for everyone involved as you can avoid a straight one-on-one loss for any of these people.

It didn't even lead to a bad joke, or anything. It was terrible and served no purpose.

Give me Rollins versus Balor at WrestleMania for the title and I'll never complain about WWE ever again. That'll make some oldheads and Rollins haters brains' explode, but I'd love it.

Sure. But Big E or Kofi winning the Rumble are the only sensible options and I’ll hear nothing to the contrary!

Daniel Bryan vs. Rey Mysterio.

https://www.wwe.com/shows/eliminationchamber/article/elimination-chamber-to-crown-first-womens-tag-team-champions Close up of the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. I like them.

Because Holly was a hell of a lot better at portraying character and emotion in his matches instead of just getting his stuff in and hitting it clean in between planking instagram posts? Nah, I'm kidding. There's value in going with Balor because they need someone, anyone, that's over, but this is a placeholder appeasement spot, and I think you guys are nuts if you think they're going to go with him over Brock at the Rumble. It's a twelve minute mid-card match before the Rumbles. Afterwards he's shunted into either a workrate attraction match or a multi-man for Mania. If they really wanted to go with Balor, he'd be in the Rumble and winning it.

Balor is a perfectly acceptable Hardcore Holly in 2004.

Women's tags.

So did you guys hear about this new federation that the Young Bucks are making with the guy that owns the Jaguars? Yeah, it's a total shock to me too. I can't wait for the WWE to buy the tape library in... oh, let's say 2022. (Also, if y'all carry on the way you did in the last thread, there will be a lot more shocks too.) First show is 5/25 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

You know damn well if this was Attitude Era that segment would have played out with the Usos pulling "twin magic", the unmarried Uso sleeping with Mandy and then shaming her on Smackdown the next week. Not gonna lie, part of me though was secretly hoping that segment would be going with the camera inside the hotel room, theres a knock on the door, and it turns out he gave Dozer the key.

No one's said it yet, but fuck Seth Rollins for no-selling The Doomsday Device.

I have to think this is “exclusive to ROH in the US”, and he still works CMLL, right?

Settle down Dolfan NYCetico

This follows Shane Strickland/Killshot announcing he was a free agent early this morning, meaning his LU deal was done. LU was obviously willing to grant releases and write people out in this past season (Cobb is another one), so it is a little strange neither seems to have happened to Ivelisse. I still don't think this getting renewed - I don't think there's even much of a chance of it getting renewed, and the people making these decisions (who probably aren't most of the people who publically talk about the company) are just wasting people's time by pretending it's coming back. But, on the odd chance it does, the LU writers talking about how they saw Season 5 as the end of the stories they've been telling since season 1 had solid grasp of the big picture. Anyone who has a hope to do something else is going to be asking for their release as soon the machine starts moving again (or probably already has asked for their release.) Any Season 5 would either need to write out a dozen+ people, or just finish the show as we've known it. Even in the best (?) case, there's not much left of LU.

Family Guy is allegedly phasing out gay jokes. I'm confused. They've been phasing out jokes for 15 years, haven't they?

Did the pitcher then declare "That's two"?

So this was probably, what, mid-90s? Or a little earlier/later? That would have been exactly the stretch of time David Simon was writing about when writing The Wire. But, if you were walking 3 blocks from the Convention Center to a package store, I probably know the store you're talking about. If it was due north from the center, past the light rail stop, then yeah, that's one of the uglier blocks of the whole city, and I'm totally certain it's much better now than it was whenever you saw it. But that little stretch is still a shithole - a package store next to the closest thing to a classy strip club in the city (at least outside of Fells), with a sports bar over top of that and about 4 different types of ethnic "food" that would probably make you heave your guts out. It's also only a block at most from the 7-11 I was talking about. If the place you were talking about was in any other direction, they've probably bulldozed it by now, because I don't remember any other stores that close to the Convention Center. I can also vouch that Johnny's story sounds, if anything, like it's tame. I suppose that's marital bliss for you. I had little to no reason to ever visit the red light district - never been in a strip club in my life, not about to start, and my life's been fucked-up enough without ever doing drugs, so no, Tabe, I did not fly the guy to the planet with all the cocaine - but I had to go to a church nearby once for one of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society shows. I walked there, and, for whatever reason, I ended up taking Calvert St. up to the church, roughly around 7 PM for an 8 PM show. I hit Charles St, the east/west "main street", and some dude comes up to me instantly and says, "Hey brother, you're early!" I don't even think about it and say, "Yeah, I am", and I wonder, "How did he know?" Then one glance to my right tells me he's talking about something totally different. Oh, that.

God, so not only does Pete take his mask off on the regular, Mysterio debuts without his fish bowl and puts it on later. BOOOOOO~!! I'm going to go see it anyway. SO STOKED~! It looks pretty good, but I have a tough time believing it will be as good as Spider-Verse, which is my new measuring stick for all things Cinematic Spider-Man. The old measuring stick was Spidey 2.

Geez, you must really like sling blades.

Tony, and David Crockett is a surprisingly good team on World Championship Wrestling. Sure David sounds like a spaz at times, but he at least always sounds like he has real enthusiasm for the stuffing instead of potatoes. Although he sounds real turned on during these squash matches. I remember him whispering “He’s breaking his arm, Tony” during a Ron Garvin match.

I don't know about this Glacitus guy, but what I'm waiting for is Galactus.

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A giant cloud from a terrible movie?

I still think it should be Becky vs. Ronda one on one because even though a triple threat with Charlotte added would still be good, I don't recall anyone having a 'star-making' performance off a triple threat match and I think if Becky went over Ronda in that situation it still would not solidify her position as the BADDEST.

I felt JR and Heyman in both WCW and WWF was a very good team. Heyman was fantastic. JR and Schiavone was another great team.

The Sleaze Theead gets mentioned in another thread and, as if calling Tony Todd, ...

Nikki Cross

I'm Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties.

DDT is already the second biggest company in Japan and I think the VOW guys were talking about them potentially planning a Tokyo Dome show in the future. If they could work a deal out with AEW, the Dome would become viable immediately. Also:

"Little things used to mean so much to Shelly - I used to think they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial." Can't believe I forgot the following as it's the best scene in the movie: "I know you. I know you." "I knew I knew you, I knew I knew you. But you ain't you. You can't be you. We put you through the window. There ain't no coming back. This is the really real world, there ain't no coming back. We killed you dead, there ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back!"

"Move and you're dead!" "I say I'm dead and I move" "Mother is the word for God in the hearts and minds of all children"