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Boring personal story time: my girlfriend played me a clip of this really overdramatic, overblown, obviously worked Total Divas episode where they're all on vacation fighting over who gets what bedrooms. Nattie, out of left field, after not even really being in the conversation just chimes in, deadpan: "Settle down, Lana." Became a little bit of an inside joke with us, and now that's her whole gimmick as far as my girlfriend's concerned. She chants "settle down" at the TV during her matches and always plays as Nattie in 2k19-- even put her character in a "Settle Down" t-shirt, and refers to the sharpshooter as "the Settler."

“Wait, I just bought tickets to a show headlined by “Wild” Bill Irwin Vs. Michael Hayes?!?”

YASSSSSSS WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!! FUUUUUUUCK THIS FEELS GOOD!!!!

This is Eric Moreland. His salary this season was $17k and played 5 games. Thanks to Toronto's victory, he's about to get a 2029% bonus. (All players on the winning roster earn a $345k bonus.)

I was just in the middle of the madness at Yonge and Dundas. At a loss for words. Just awesome. I can't stop smiling.

I heard about that but need to see how he's doing. He also has a sports podcast on F4W called "I left my heart in Greg Polanco" I listened to it a time or two and it seemed pretty neat. FWIW I can kind of relate. Years ago on the first season of Tough Enough one of the female tryouts was shown burping a lot and after each one would say "Diva". It was so stupid but my then-girlfriend-now-wife would adopt that for about a year. Sometimes it's the oddest random shit that will get people.

Overlooked part. Sid is wearing wrist tape.

I'm glad you guys don't have booking control over any companies.

I did not tell this as part of my write-up from the Richmond con: I was standing at the MX table talking to Cornette. I mentioned a very unPC promo Jim did once that ended with the phrase "happy ending." At which Stan raises his head up from signing and says "did someone say happy ending?"

b I don't remember him doing this move either but I guess he switched up his moveset when he was Black Tiger.

This is good.

Samoa Joe tells a similar story about Kobashi, who apparently thought he was being brought to ROH to work a 1980's style foreign heel gimmick, and feared he'd get no reaction otherwise. Anyway, Misawa was never my favorite guy in my favorite matches; but he was a guy without whom those matches could not have happened, the force to which my favorite performances reacted, or the rock they crashed themselves against. Harold Bloom has written extensively on literary influence, arguing essentially that everything is, to varying degrees, Shakespeare or not; but in either case there is influence, whether attractive or repulsive. I feel like there's a little bit of that with Misawa. So much of modern wrestling aesthetics can be traced back to his style, and so much of what is different is still different in relation to his style.

If Kawhi leaves he leaves A championship team A town that worships him 40 million dollars in potential earnings ON TOP of the over 30 he lost just leaving San Antonio. Just to live in LA? That would be like a 7 on the "Dave Chappelle Just Gave All that Money back to Comedy Central and Flew to Africa, So You Do You Scale".

I think I'm more terrified of what Jerry would do with the glove than Thanos.

Never forget, Vader is from Compton, and once came to the ring dressed like this.

WWF merch ca. 1983-84. WANT that "King of the Dropkick" shirt.

Revenge of the Ninja is pretty bad, but it is also campy in every best way possible.. I love the fights and I always make fun of Sho for wearing copious amounts of eye liner to accentuate his features when he's wearing a ninja hood. I nearly lost my shit when I saw that Sho was the bad guy in Ninja Assassin. I love that big dumb action movie and Sho as grizzled and cruel veteran ninja master villain is fucking metal. Five Element Ninja Is Number One And The Best.

The strangest part is Col. Robert Parker being so invested in his slave master gimmick that he's wearing a suit full suit on a Higgins Boat to a beach.

Oh my.

I just assumed that WWE and the Golden State Warriors share a medical team. ...too soon?

That doesn't make any sense. His injury is worse than expected so as a result he'll be on RAW? What?

ah, but Vince loathes to pay licensing fees ?

Allow me to clarify, a gimmick about being out would stink in Vince McMahon's WWE.

I'm just going to put this here because I feel like it and it amuses me but I think one of the women in one of the major US companies should be obsessed with Garfield. Maybe someone like Dana Brooke could go to catering and always demand lasagna, and she could also sleep in a box with a blanket and a teddy bear. She would then need to be woken up for her match. Her promos would also be just her thinking sarcastic things about her opponents, and she'd never actually speak with her mouth. Also, she'd refuse to work on RAW because she hates Mondays. That is all.

I can't remember Eddy ever doing this exact move any other time. (And it did finish the match, thank you very much)

Dude... the Raiders can hear you

There's so much stuff in this video that you have to strain to make sense of in kayfabe. Joey Janela talking about WWE promos being written by 24-year-olds from NYU; Cody calling Shawn Spears a "good hand"; even Darby Allin saying he was attracted to wrestling as a way of expressing himself and saying his goal is to be accepted by the audience, which makes perfect sense if he's talking about a kind of performance art and much less if he's talking about fighting. I seem to out of step with most wrestling fans on this. The idea seems to be that since everyone knows wrestling is fake, the way to make it seem real is to acknowledge that it's fake while also hyping the matches as though they're real, within the same promo and sometimes within the same sentence. Or something. Jericho did it in his post-match promo at Double or Nothing: first he called the fans marks, then he said he only beat Omega by the skin of his teeth. To me that sort of thing interferes with suspension of disbelief, but I'm clearly swimming against the current here.

3/4/15 We start with Riley in Regal's office demanding a match with Kevin Owens. Regal says he's an announcer now, and that he can't do both. Riley, quite rightly, points out that Regal did just that, and Regal replied that he did, but that resulted in the end of his career. He says you can't prepare to be a wrestler while you have the responsibilities of an announcer, and that Riley has to make a choice. I really liked this. Good fire from Riley, who acted exactly like you'd expect a real person to act in this scenario, and good attention to detail bringing up Regal's history and the potential pitfalls of what Riley is requesting. Stuff like this is why NXT is so good. Tyler Breeze Vs Adam Rose: Rose is back on NXT to do a quick job to Breeze. Alexa Bliss cuts a promo in the back saying she's recovered from her broken nose at the hands of Sasha Banks, and is coming after Banks to show who's really in charge. I barely noticed she was gone. Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy Vs Angelo Dawkins and Sawyer Fulton: How come they never did anything with this Fulton chap? He's massive and has amateur credentials. Standard win for the tag champs. There's a backstage bit with Bayley and Emma. Bayley is all happy to see Emma, but Emma kinda makes fun of her, and says being nice didn't get her anywhere. This looks like the start of heel Emma. I'm looking forward to this. Baron Corbin Vs Tony Briggs: It doesn't look like Briggs really achieved much in wrestling. The standard quick win for Corbin here. Kevin Owens comes out and is trying to intimidate Riley by staring at him. Riley tries to no sell it, so Owens pours water over his head. This time Riley jumps up and has to be held back by Albert. Another good segment here. Owens is great in the bully role, and Riley is showing good fire. Shortly after this, Riley storms into Regal's office, and quits as an announcer. CJ Parker is with Regal, and laughs at Riley. Regal says Riley has to prove himself before he gets a match with Owens, so Riley asks for one with Parker instead. I guess that's next week. Sami Zayn has sent in a promo from the streets of Montreal. He talks about how NXT seems to have changed since he's been gone, with new champions and new number one contenders, but he'll be back soon, and he can't describe what he's going to do to Kevin Owens. Solomon Crowe Vs Bull Dempsey: Crowe's in-ring debut. The guy just looks weird. Stupid hair, his face is a different colour from the rest of his body, he looks like a midget who's been kind of stretched to full size, and the singlet isn't doing him any favours either. Just essentially having him come out as a normal guy having normal matches doesn't help. They should have worked with the gimmick a bit more. And he gets mostly dominated by Bull before putting him away. Not the right opponent. So, pretty much a failure all around I'm afraid. Sasha Banks Vs Charlotte: Sasha's first title defense is a good one. Sasha is pretty much the MVP of the show whenever she's on these days. Dueling chants from the fans for these two. Finish has Charlotte going for the super Natural Selection she used to beat her in their first match, but Banks holds onto the ropes, and then pins Charlotte with her feet on the ropes. Good stuff. Episode MVP: Sasha Banks. 3 star match: Sasha Banks Vs Charlotte.

My favorite part is all the folks on my timeline who think that if this happens - the Wizards will win the title in two years

Yep, should have done the same with Ember Moon, rather than just giving her the title after Asuka was done with it.

As much as I want to get the Dungeons & Dragons titles that are coming out later in the year from Skybound, I can't justify the $50 price tags. A $59.99 collection with them all would have been more palatable. And for those not in the know the titles are Baldur's Gate I & II, Planescape Torment & Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights. All are enhanced editions.

That suplex counter where he just elbows Hansen is awesome.

Let's be honest, WWE as a whole trying to glom onto Pride is unpleasant. They've literally never pushed an out LGBT superstar.

Banana Splits Movie trailer.

Back and to the left. ...had to

spoilered for size

Yuka's theme sounds like a DDR stage that kills you when you play it.

No way this isn't a bad rib. SMH.

“Now”?

"Why will no one come and fight me???" I don't know, Aleister. Maybe because you stay locked in a back room instead of going to the ring like everyone else. Just a thought.