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It's okay I already let it slip that he was really Super Dragon you don't have to.

But I post a Meltzer tweet is it really the truth

I'm not going to believe it until Rippa posts the tweets. ?

It depends on how you think of wrestling really. I consider wrestling to be akin to comic books where there is an interior logic behind it that does not make sense in the real world. A pair of glasses makes it so people can't recognize Clark Kent is Superman or if I throw you into the ropes, you will keep running. However, that underlying narrative logic is still a logic and if you break it, the audience is left in a place where they can no longer believe in the admittedly fictional world. So if Game of Thrones is a world where there are dragons and snow zombies, it is fine but when The Hound suddenly pulls out a machine gun, there's a issue. Its a spectrum of ludicrous nonsense, don't get me wrong and if you like 'anything can happen' wildness, I have nothing against you. Its just not where I would want wrestling to be.

Also, any dislike of Orange Cassidy for any reason gets you on my future shame list. It doesn't matter who you are. I will spare no mild annoyance at you!

PCO on his way to becoming not human

Since complaining about Joey Ryan is now passe, do we have a resident "I don't care for Orange Cassidy" person yet? If not, I volunteer. I thought I like funny wrestling, but I cannot handle that much ironic detachment. I feel like I'm Bruno Kirby talking about music in Good Morning Vietnam and recommending a nice polka or some Perry Como over the Beach Boys.

Oh the G1 is a thing? I thought it died a horrible death because MINORU SUZUKI ISN'T IN IT AND THEY CAN EAT MY SHIT. ALL OF MY SHIT.

I enjoy the hell out of comedy wrestling, myself. As a result, I've seen a number of Orange Cassidy matches as of late. I still miss the Florida Brothers.

Good recommendation. It's the farthest thing from an "everyone playing along with the joke" match. Starr is a mean bastard who brooks no bullshit, and OC is convincingly sympathetic underneath. Starr takes him lightly and gets carried away once and slips on a banana peel once, but doesn't look proper stupid. And the finish played into something earlier in the match and made sense. I watched expecting to be turned off at some point and got sucked into the whole 25 minutes. Really entertaining stuff. Thanks for that.

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On Orange: Hey look more people I have on ignore hate Orange Cassidy than people I don't have on ignore. Will you look at that? I like Orange Cassidy. I don't give two shits about the integrity of professional wrestling. Guy is a super talented worker and I'd call the gimmick smart but that no hands dive isn't really smart (but it's awesome, fuck it). He makes me laugh. I have a good time when I'm laughing. On Aerostar: LEARN TO SAY NO YOU STUPID DUMMY Chessman used to be the guy you trusted to catch you on those spots and he was wayyyyyyy out of place, but when someone is that high up it's really hard to not Big Bubba them, sunglasses or not. Monster Clown got completely fucking murdered on that catch but pretty much saved Aerostar's life (though that landing was not good at all). It's like, look dude. You're 34 and you've been doing this shit for 15 or 16 years at this point. It has never, EVER given you any sort of a push that has lasted more than 1-2 big shows, then you're back on the lower mid card at best. Clearly, doing stupid dives isn't the answer. I'm all for awesome shit in wrestling but that wasn't awesome, it was just a fucked up spot that almost killed somebody.

1. I'm fine with Claudio not becoming a pathological liar who says racist shit while being filmed fucking his friend's wife. 2. I'm not sure if Claudio can grow his hair out. I think he shaved it because he was going bald.

Crazy to think that PCO was considered to be at the end of his career in the WCW run

I am a dad! My wife and I adopted our beautiful and amazing son about six weeks ago. We had been waiting to adopt for about two years. We got a phone call at 10 pm on a Sunday night. We brought our son home the next evening. We became parents with about 16 hours notice. But he is the best and being a dad is amazing.

But that's hiding your star attraction in the undercard in a tag match. They need to move tickets. Unless Moxley's deal with NJPW prohibits him for working singles matches in America for whatever reason (unlikely), then there's no viable excuse. Fudge the blocks, start with B Block, or have him be an exception.

I assume him along with everyone else not booked for the show will be used as seat fillers so the place doesn't look so empty.

Good angle, but sort of wasted it because he just lost to Cena, and then that was sort of it. He never sniffed the top again after that. I mean he did have title matches on TV, but no more real major PPV angles.

Its one of those things that is so common now where guys group up to be a living crash pad that really bothers me. In the fantasy world where I have any control over anything, I would have matches ending on dives to the outside either getting count outs or rolling people into the ring for immediate pins (like the dive was the last move you saw in the match). Like I've seen lots of cool shit and dives and I wish it would be treated like the ending finale instead of filler.

Six years ago we all got worked

But then you can do World War 3 matches.

I'm at the parade. It is BANANA!

RIPPA has Lone Wolf on ignore. ?

Half of the Orange Cassidy spots people are freaking out about are old Kikutaro/Ebessan and Kuishinbo Kamen spots anyway, motherfuckers are ten years too late with these arguments.

Well that kid's screwed.

In honor of Sho Kosugi's birthday I will watch Ninja Sentai Kakuranger episodes 28-29 just to see him get killed by his own son! Also in honor of Sho Kosugi'sBirthday here is a picture of the Ninja Master himself James

First off, waydowntown is amazing. Probably still one of my top films. Maybe the only Canadian movie I like more is Leolo. As for Winnipeg, lots of stuff has been shot here. Not a lot of big budget things, but lots of genre movies (2 Wishmasters! The Cult of Chucky! And many many Hallmark movies). Probably the most famous movie to be completely shot here was Capote. K-19: The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford shot partly here and partly up in Gimli, I believe. Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and JLo was shot here. Parts of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as well, tho I think the majority of filming was done in Alberta. Goon was shot here, but I don't think its sequel was. John Cho just finished up filming the remake of The Grudge here. My favourite movies that have been shot here are The Lookout, with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Jeff Daniels and You Kill Me, with Ben Motherfucking Kingsley as a neurotic, alcoholic hitman. As for what represents Winnipeg? Well, it would have to be the work of Guy Maddin. His films, especially his Winnipeg-centric ones, My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music in the World, are about the anxiety of living here while also capturing, not necessarily literally but definitely in feeling, why we all stay. I also quite love Heater, a movie about 2 homeless men who, in the middle of winter, come across a space heater in a box and attempt to take it to a suburban mall to return it for cash. It's sweet and heartbreaking and not an uncommon story. Finally a special shoutout to Death By Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets, a found footage art film about the original Jets, especially their playoff failures and leaving for Phoenix. The name of the film derives from a box of popcorn thrown on the ice during the 1990 playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers. A series the Jets were leading 3-1 before losing 3 straight, which the film blames on the popcorn. It's a fantastically edited, funny, deep dive into local Winnipeg TV of the 80s and 90s. A must watch, even if you're a fan of the hated Oilers.... @Death From Above

This idea that Dave doesn't like WWE and is completely in the bag for AEW is pretty funny. I mean, have any of you actually read the Observer or regularly listened to WOR? I'm guessing for many it's no and you just see others report on what was said on WOR. If you did regularly listen to WOR and read the Observer, you'd know how Dave frustratingly defends WWE constantly. Alvarez is the one who really doesn't like WWE and Dave is always arguing with him about it. Even when Dave tries to compare WWE to WCW, he still winds up defending it, sometimes in the same breath. Regarding AEW, Dave is always bearish on their success. He didn't think All In would be an immediate sell out, thought that DoN wouldn't sell out immediately and said it would probably do 7000 to 8000 seats the first day, he predicted a much lower buyrate for that show, and he again thought All Out would only do 7000 or 8000 seats the first day. Even on Friday he couldn't flat out say that this company is selling out like they are because they're that good or people want it. It's always couched with a statement like "a lot of these people aren't WWE fans so I don't know how they're doing it" or "scalpers will probably make up 2000 of the seat buys." He's also been realistic about how they're probably not going to do this when they're putting on a show each week. I will say that yes, Dave is more excited for AEW and he probably sees that as the better promotion, but damn, it would be fucking weird to not say that. AEW is doing almost everything right while WWE is sitting the bed more and more each week. If one of my duties is to review the product, I don't see how you could heap that much praise on WWE lately, but even then Dave still tries to comment on something good or tries to defend a booking decision or whatever.

Film: THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Hong Kong, 1979) Shaw Brothers Picked by: J.H. "Man picking just one Shaw epic or even Sonny Chiba film is so tough! In the end I think I'm just going to go ahead and pick Kid With the Golden Arm because it just my absolute fave" Reviewed by: Curt McGirt Whew, where to begin? First of all, this feels like a practical joke. I'm probably the biggest (admitted) alcoholic on this board and I end up getting the movie about a drunk kung fu fighter. And I get it while already drinking. Go figure. Second... goddamn, this isn't something you want to have to review after you've been drinking. The plot of this film is basically, a pile of gold is going to be sent off on horseback to a bunch of villagers beset by a famine, but a bunch of people want to steal it. These people comprise the famous Venom Mob of actors, but all are of their own interests and talents. Things from that point on get murky for me. As with all the Venom Mob films, everyone has their individual skill -- sword, staff, traditional kung fu, etc. -- and all get their own individual battle, of which there are TONS in this film. If you aren't familiar with the classic Shaw Brothers fight, it is musically silent, punctuated only by the grunts and groans of its combatants, as they fly through a baffling and incredible exchange of sparring, until one of the opponents dies in a blood-spraying grisly demise. It is the coolest shit you will see in your entire life. So, there are a lot of plot twists, your anti-hero drinking a lot of wine and kicking a lot of ass, and some genuinely nasty bits involving booby traps that are unexpected. In the annals of the Shaw Bros. catalog I think this might be below Executioners from Shaolin, Five Deadly Venoms, or the incomparable 36th Chamber of Shaolin, but it's still an admirable piece of work, albeit a bit long in the tooth. I wish I could say more, but that's all I got. Curt Bob says check it out.

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

Dallas Eakins is the Ducks new HC

Jesus! Tam Nakano is really busting her ass.

Happy birthday, to Lucio Fulci (RIP). There is a bit of gore in this video (duh!) so it's N quite SFW.

I love Orange Cassidy. It’s like Jughead Jones, The Fonz, and Ryan Gosling all wrapped up into one wrestling gimmick. But it’s blown up so much in the past two months, that it’s about to become a tired act(Even though he’s been doing it for awhile). I can still see him do this for a bit longer on a bigger stage trying out the old bits on a different audience, but it might be time for him to blend it more into a less comedic version of the character. Which he has done.

I think Aerostar finally fucking killed himself tonight live on Twitch after doing his scaffolding spot.

Gamushara is based in Kitakyushu/Moji, the top part of Kyushu Island, so they are relatively close to where I am. They also have their own izakaya that I haven't been to yet. I've been to their shows a few times and you'd see them at Hakata Star Lane shows because I think they were supplying or at least setting up the ring for the bigger groups. They have several different stables with their own nWo style shirts, Loss of Control the Reckless is an Los Ingobernables knock-off and Michiko Omukai, who lives in Yamaguchi will drop by although not to wrestle. There are masked comedy wrestlers and knock-off lucha guys and they bring in All Mighty Inoue who I can only describe as a 100 yen store Tenryu. In general, it's a good time.

Honestly, I think the mistake made was having Kairi end Shayna's first reign too early. Evolution or even War Games would have worked better with Shayna exiting NXT afterwards. I never thought Bianca was going to end it. She was too much a heel/tweener even with the love from the fans. Io really should have ended Shayna's second reign already. Kind of figured that might not happen though when they chose to build a 4-way over Io/Shayna for Takeover New York.

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

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