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There was an audible Lets go Cena, Cena Sucks duel chant in a match not involving John Cena if that answers your question.

Jack Evans did the Drunken Master thing at BOLA 2015 against Angelico and it was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in 30 plus years of being a pro wrestling fan. Fucking @Robert put something in that beer.

That is the one promo I can recite word for word from memory. It's my favorite promo of all time. The other one that comes close is the "You treat me like a dog and expect me to smile, you remind me of a jackass!" promo. The Austin 3:16 part isn't even the best part to me. That would be the "all he's gotta do is buy him a cheap bottle of Thunderbird and get back some of that courage he had in his prime!"

I think if you act like "innit" is a word, or belongs at the end of any sentence, you forfeit your right to discuss others way of speaking. ?

This might be one of the best themes for a mediocre wrestler ever:

One of the coolest...

Meng getting a blowie from a ref while getting maced by a dude in a mullet wig is the weirdest image posted here in a while.

There are a lot of American people here, but at least one person appreciates you drawing a parallel between Alexa Bliss and Saido Berahino. Good work.

Jack still owes me $8.

Now for the Jacques Rougeau trifecta:

Spud remains one their top 3 signings of the last 5 years

A historic promo:

I don't want to tip-shame anyone, but the next time you eat out, keep in mind that here in 'Merica, the standard hourly wage for servers is $2.13 an hour, and has been for literally decades. And you never know what extenuating circumstances the server you have on any particular night may be going through. I've waited tables in a couple of different restaurants, and at one point, I was constantly dealing with the fact that at least one of my parents had cancer. So I may have been a little on edge. (I mean, I'm also kind of a misanthrope, so I'm not going to pretend like rainbows and unicorns were shooting out of my ass normally.) So please keep in mind how important tips are to a server's ability to make a living wage.

Meanwhile, things are perfectly normal in Mets-land.

Hopefully, Alexa gets a goal more often.

Sorry for the temptation, Eddie.

Writers?? At this point I'm just 100% convinced Drake and Truth are booking the whole division themselves.

He's been great on the mic when he isn't scripted - he was one of the standouts on Talking Smack.

Only if he joins them as a surprise mystery partner.

Has to make you wonder about Sasha’s mood at Mania. *runs away*

what do the British know aboot the English language anyway? ya'll add too many u's to words like flavor and color

Mr. Small Package!

She hasn't. Alexa's match with Bayley tonight was solid. Sasha had a significantly better match with Rousey at Royal Rumble. Those matches are the best either has looked this year.

What in sweet hell was that Ali video?

If you ever wanted to see Jon Moxley doing a New Zealand Militia gimmick in Puerto Rico in 2007, this is for you: Also here's Ray Gonzalez vs Doink The clown from Aniversario 1993 in WWC. I beileve Doink is Steve Keirn here:

I will forever love that on one of the first indie dates he did after he got let go the first time from WWE - for IWA Mid-South - that when he came out to "Assman" and circled around the ring greeting everyone, whoever was doing commentary with Dave Prazak just started busting up laughing and remarking "I'm sorry, I have never actually heard the entire song before!"

At this point, I'd be disappointed if a M:I movie didn't have at least five convoluted double crosses and fakeouts. It's part of the fun. The last three M:I movies blow the last three Bond movies out of the water. Yes, even Skyfall.

TNA's best theme.

Promos you can recite in full,from memory? OK. "I like you as an announcer, you know why? I just had an announcer... in Atlanta, Georgia, take away my constitutional rights. I have been fired... by Eric Bischoff? Bischoff, you can't take away my constitutional rights because I'm in Philadelphia, where the cons... (drowned out by cheering) Where the constitution was written! (no pop) Bischoff, or should I say Jerkoff, you are a piece of..." I'm not going to type the whole thing. But I could, if I wanted.

Didn't see this posted, but WON is saying that the reason there were so many 2 out of 3 falls stips this week is because of the newest Vince edict that there will be no more wrestling during commercial breaks. Sure.

Poor Vlad, he sure was trying.

Yep, that's how you come back from a pretty startling defeat. Knock someone the fuck out in less than a minute.

That's the joke innit.

My thoughts on the entire card since I couldn't watch it live: - Deron Winn is really mini DC, but constantly facing a height (and reach) disadvantage is going to limit him tremendously. I thought he decisively beat Tom Lawlor in his last fight, but you gotta believe if he was 5'11" or maybe 6'0", Winn would have won by a landslide. Here, he's facing a tall, pure grappler in Eric Spicely who is not awful striking but still coming in on short notice. Winn had no real option but to just walk in and windmill. In the opening round, he got caught frequently but really wasn't hurt too bad. So his chin is similar to DC as well. Then, Spicely started looking like someone who just took a fight on 48 hours notice. Maybe he was training for a fight in CES, but I doubt he was training to fight a tiny, squat bulldozer. Winn just wore on him. It was a fun, sloppy brawl, but if Winn was the average size of a middleweight by today's standards, he would have never fought Spicely that way. He would smash him on the feet or worst case scenario, took him down when there was very little threat of a submission and pounded him out on the ground. Spicely is a decent fighter, but he is a high level fringe fighter whereas Winn despite giving up size is a durable powerhouse wrestler. - I dunno what fight Bisping was watching, but Lipski vs. McCann wasn't close at all. I thought the judges got it right with McCann winning all three rounds convincingly. I will give Lipski this. When she throws her techniques, they look beautiful. The problem with this though is she doesn't do it often enough and she is way, way too predictable and sometimes too robotic. McCann must have landed two dozen left hooks and right straights in round one. Lipski's head was like a Pez dispenser. I think Lipski is too trapped in a Brazilian muay thai rhythm. This isn't a muay thai fight. You have to be able to cut the Octagon off, and she just let McCann dictate everything. It looked like for a minute halfway through round 2 that McCann was slowly down after keeping a frantic pace in round 1, but she got her second wind. What helped that was Lipski had no sense of urgency. I dunno if she thought it was a five round fight, but she should have knew she dropped round 1 and round 2 at that point was probably McCann slightly ahead. McCann's volume was great and the diversity was good considering McCann is thought as a head down type of brawler. But damn, Lipski just looked out of her depth. She changed levels at one point in round three for a takedown attempt and as soon as Lipski got close, McCann grabbed a plum and kneed the crap out of her. How does that happen to a supposed national muay thai champion? Anyway, McCann cut a fiery babyface promo post fight like Winn in the previous bout. - Jairzinho Rozenstruik hits like a goddamn Mack truck. He isn't a very dynamic fighter, but if you get touched by him, you're at risk of losing. Crowder gave Greg Hardy fits (which shows you how stupid that matchmaking was given what Hardy has shown so far), but Jairzinho drops him with a jab and pummels into unconsciousness. Rozenstruik vs. Derrick Lewis should be the endgame here. - I really like Luis Pena as a prospect. As far as lightweight comparisons, I think he is a little bit more Cerrone than James Vick. And probably WEC/early UFC Cerrone too. I think with Pena, he is at the opposite end of the spectrum from his AKA teammate and roommate Deron Winn. Pena has to make people fear trying to take him down because his physique is kinda spindly. He isn't too skinny, but you can tell he is every bit of 6'3". His hands aren't at the level of a Cerrone yet but using another comparison, I don't think he is a one and done type of boxer like a Michael Johnson. I think one of Michael's problem also is he is little bit too wild. Pena throws everything short and tight despite being so big. However, again, he has to give his opponents a reason not to take him down. However, against Wiman, he did just that. He made Wiman look super old and absolutely dominated him everywhere. This was a great showing for him, and one I think he really needed to stand out. - Yoder vs. Kondo was just overmatched striker vs. someone who could just run game on said striker on the ground. This was likely Kondo's UFC swan song, and I really don't see how she made it even this far. I vaguely remember the Chan Mi Jeon fight, but from what I do remember, it wasn't a fight that made believe either woman had a chance in the UFC. If that fight was in JEWELS or Road FC, I would understand. But in the UFC, it made no sense. Then, Kondo went out there and got cooked by Poliana Botelho. She probably should have been gone after the Xiaonan Yan fight. In this fight, it was evident Yoder was just a much better fighter. - I keep forgetting Dan Ige isn't your conventional Hawaiian fighter (his Xtreme Couture teammate, fellow Hawaiian, and protege Punahele Soriano is very much one as he showed on DWTNCS this past week despite being a wrestler as well). This was all the more evident when he fought Kevin Aguilar. If Winn is mini DC, then Aguilar is mini Paul Buentello. I was hesitant picking Aguilar coming into this fight because he never really impressed me in LFA all that much. His record on paper doesn't line with who he is as a fighter. Up against someone who technically is solid, Aguilar looks like someone who is only three months into training kickboxing for the first time. Ige just knocked him all over the place. If you thought someone was 17-1 coming this fight, you would certainly think it was Ige. Aguilar is tough is hell, but you cannot really make in the featherweight division off toughness. You can't be a Leonard Garcia in this era of MMA. It is just too many guys who are more than talented enough to put the screws to you. - Kevin Holland is someone I believe could be a superstar if everything came together. From watching this fight, he relies so much on doing everything in short explosive bursts. You have someone built like Jon Jones trying to fight like Rumble Johnson. It doesn't mesh well because he isn't a big time puncher. Does he have the talent to stop people with strikes? Probably. Should that be his MO in every fight? Certainly not. He fought someone in Alessio Di Chirico who is a tough out and doesn't fall down easily. Granted, Holland got hurt on a takedown and had only one good shoulder to work with. He should have been focused on grinding Di Chirico down, getting it to the floor, and going from there. Di Chirico was looking to counter and was fairly successful. I think what caused Di Chirico to lose a contentious decision is while he was waiting to counter, he let Holland's ineffective bursts look like real activity when it wasn't. TBH Holland being less explosion dependent post injury probably made Di Chirico less effective because the bout slowed to a crawl. There was very little for Di Chirico to counter. So Holland's one or two punches landed and some weak low kicks made it looked like he was doing something to Di Chirico's something bordering on nothing. Holland cut a hilarious promo after Di Chirico stormed out when the decision was read by Joe Martinez. It feels like Holland is an eighth of where he needs to be. The big question is how is going to get the rest of what he needs? If this was Bellator or PFL, he would have time to work on stuff. He is 3-0 since that short notice Thiago Santos fight. Di Chirico is a solid test, but there are bigger tests to come. He was fortunate here that Di Chirico's strategy wasn't the greatest either, and the judges saw it that way as well. - De La Rosa vs. KGB Lee was a very fun scrap. Even though IMO Lee is still just one tier below where she needs to be to fight Valentina, it's hard not like her poise. She is well rounded, but she is legit confident everywhere the fights goes (unlike roughly 90% of fighters who say the same thing). De La Rosa took her down and it looked like it was just another day at the office. Lee calmly worked her way up and went back to work. You can't say enough about her offense. It's diverse and she brings the same cleanness that Lipski brought earlier on the card. The obvious differences are Lee can land in combination, and Lee is hard to time. That can throw you off. Whereas someone like Alexa Grasso can do that with her hands at her best as we saw two weeks ago in Chicago, KGB can do that with elbows, knees, and kicks. We were this close to getting another big women's MMA KO in 2019 after Bernardo vs. Araujo and obviously Shevchenko vs. Eye because Lee was so close with those head kicks and De La Rosa was already exhausted and hurt. If Lee landed one of those just a little cleaner, it would have been night night. With that being said and with all the optimism in the world, Lee at best is still one or two fights away at least. She is by far the front runner in terms of women's flyweight contenders no matter what though. - I wasn't too overly impressed by Andre Ewell in his past UFC appearances, but he let it fly in this fight with Rafael dos Anjos meets Rony Jason combo doppelganger Anderson dos Santos. Ewell was landing the sharper and harder punches. I dunno what this means for his performances against other solid bantamweights, but he looks like someone who belongs in the UFC. Anderson dos Santos...probably less deserving of that claim, but he gave an okay account of himself as a moving punching bag who occasionally landed punches. - I think there comes a time in every perpetual tough out/high level gatekeeper's career where there is not enough tread on the tire to make it to the desired destination. If it wasn't tonight for Bryan Barberena, it's getting damn close after the Luque beating and then Randy Brown just unleashing hellacious offense on him. Inconsistency has been Randy Brown's problem. You never know what guy will show up from fight to fight. Will it be a dynamic offensive fighter or someone who randomly gets knocked out while in top position? This fight was kinda both, but it played out as Brown clearly winning round one. Then, he went down a gear while Barberena tried to come on. The initial problem here for Barberena is if this was a year or so ago, Barberena would have taken over and it would have been over consequently. This version of Randy Brown versus this version of Bryan Barberena is simply a lamb being led to slaughter. Even Bisping was smart enough to point out that neither was landing anything early in round two. The second problem for Barberena here is if he doesn't take over fights by pressure and volume, he is a sitting duck and one that doesn't produce anything to keep someone off of him. It's like a roleplayer in the NBA who is a sharpshooter from beyond the arch and has no mid range game to speak of, can't drive to the lane, and can't guard a soul at the other end. If he isn't hitting threes at will, he is useless. That's what Barberena was here and to a large extent in the Luque fight. He is a punching bag with arms and legs if he isn't landing anything. The final and most detrimental problem here for Barberena is there is no chin or amount of grittiness that can you get you through that. It was a matter of time because Brown was going to start landing again even he was just a wee bit fatigued. Still a decent win for Brown, and hopefully this leads to him being more consistent. - Prop to Moicano coming out to Steel Pulse's "Your House". That's about all that went well for him here. Got caught cold while standing straight up with a big overhand right followed with a short left hook, and it was a done deal. CSJ did what he needed to do to get back into contention. I would love a quick turnaround from CSJ because why not keep up the momentum?

Luke Gallows is still under contract. after all, it worked so well the first time...

That Guitar Vader made me feel like I was thrown into some kind of strange '90s time warp/tornado. Might as well get these out of the way

So Alexa spent most of the year yelling at people on Twitter about how she wasn't injured and the "sheets" got it wrong and now there will be a special about how she's been injured?

AEW isn’t getting its Luger... https://www.f4wonline.com/daily-updates/daily-update-mojo-rawley-slammiversary-xvii-sean-omalley-286446

at the same time?

I don’t think I ever remember “The Dumpster” winning clean.

I was bored earlier and just thought of tag teams I would like to see, the main ones were Cesaro & Drew Gulak Walter and Brock Lesnar Drake Maverick and Braun Strowman EC3 and Bobby Roode Also would like a modern Dangerous Alliance with Drake as the mouthpiece, Bobby Roode, EC3, Braun and Dana Brooks as the Madusa character. Anyone thought of 2 guys they can put together as a decent tag team?

Coy & Vance were the original Fake Diesel and Fake Razor.