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Thank you, Pistol Pez, for stopping this dance party.

Still!?

The best thing about that cage match finish was how it actually protected Wardlow. Going in, everyone was wondering how do you keep the muscle looking strong when he's gonna lose his first televised match. Well, is the next guy who faces him going to be able to jump off a 15-foot cage?

So does "Let's build up this guy as an unbeatable monster so 53-year old part timer can be the one to slay him"

Rick Rubin produced classic albums from Slayer and Danzig. Rick Rubin > Jim Cornette

He'll look all the stronger for beating a Goldberg that didn't back down.

Some people really liked Aquaman, starring Khal Drogo as Jason Momoa. After season one and before season two, John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) bumped into Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon) in a pub in Manchester. They were asking each other if they had any other work lined up, and both said no. Bradley said "Still, if it's nothing but Game of Thrones, that's a pretty good year". Addy replied "If it's nothing but Game of Thrones, that's a pretty good career".

The best part is how he continued dancing for a second after he hit the ground.

He is spinning the PERFECT way.

Yano should, and will never lose his spot. He guarantees a crowd reaction, and an easy way to shave points off a wrestlers final G1 tally.

It's the one thing that Dave does that annoys the hell out of me. The perfect example is how he always shits on Yano in the G1 when he should be smart enough to understand that he is there because he has entertaining matches while working a very safe style and giving the WORKRATE~! guys an easy night instead of the usual killing themselves with high risk/stiff matches.

"In the past Fury has equated homosexuality and abortions with paedophilia, claimed “Zionist, Jewish people … own all the banks, all the papers, all the TV stations” and “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”." Good for him conquering depression and being a great boxer, he's still a piece of shit.

because Cornette was getting paid from JCP His tone would change if he were on AEW's payroll.

38 year old life long fan...I look forward to weekly AEW Dynamite. I could t care less about Mania.

Not to mention him kicking out of both being punched with the ring and taking the Cross Rhodes

I get the idea of holding off on big matches, but I really want the debut of FTR to be them just absolutely beating the everliving fuck out of the Bucks.

"Let's purposefully write a less compelling show to alienate whatever hardcore fans we have left" sounds totally on brand for WWE lol

Paul London is booked for the PVP show, though it seems he’s not wrestling. Still cool to see him back. Man, if he got to WWE, like, 3 years later, I think he has a very different career.

The "I love sushi" sticker is not fellatio, it's cunnilingus, but yes I've seen people with trashy bumper stickers blaring shit like Rush Limbaugh or Ben Shapiro. I can't really picture a Cornette fan driving such a vehicle, but then again I'm having a hard time imagining what his demographic base would look like/drive. If Jim could stop being so venomous and distasteful in describing what he doesn't like, and focus on what he likes? That'd be so much more enjoyable. I've really liked listening to him going off about things he loves, but as soon as he starts getting shitty about Omega or Jordynne Grace, it's all garbage. He's the kind of guy who could make a legitimate, educated, and logical criticism but then fucks it all up by being such a prick about it.

I like the shirt for the Jericho one. You can simulate the beer gut with some cotton balls underneath. Can’t do that with the standard one.

I was surprised they did the quick interview with Wilder as well but he was incredibly lucid all things considered, and once he got over the initial disappointment seemed to understand the towel was for the best. Meanwhile I stub my toe, can't put five words together without a couple expletives mixed in, and then blame it on the table. Still loving this HW scene revival. I'd actually prefer Fury-Wilder III at this point but really any combination of the top 3 will be amazing.

By all accounts, the dude could tote some lumber (at least late in his career).

Janela vs Sabian Falls Count Anywhere is on Dark this week.

It'd be sad if Yano wasn't in the G1. Hell, Yano had one of the most memorable G1 moments in years in this last one.

Yano is the mvp of g1.

When I read about The Revival asking for their releases in another thread my first thought was "the pop they get when they show up out of nowhere in AEW to beat down the Bucks is going to be insane".

What the hell? I might as well join in, so I can fry for eternity with the rest of you. Of course, Jesus and Joseph could both tote the lumber. They were carpenters, after all.

Moments. They make ‘moments.’ Long term booking be damned.

The timeless art of seduction

Creative will very likely gradually push him out of that mascot role and into the ring. Whether that be replacing Chuck Taylor (the guy who should long-term be JR's replacement himself - FU if u disagree) in a tag or performing as a singles act. They've had him do dives. They've had him pull off counters. Somebody who really grinds his gears in the midcard can eventually pull more from him and away you go. I don't think he'll be super duper star but he has tapped into the heart of (most) millennials with this routine and he's shown he can keep the essence of the sloth, 2 cool 4 skewl guy while wrestling on the indies. He could be a guy that slots in the upper midcard in the end and be one of the fanbase's darlings.

Yeah, @Nice Guy Eddie. Go with @gatling's idea, or... Just stay away from the triangles.

I would love to see The Revival save Cody (and Dustin) from a beatdown to a massive pop, just to see them align with Arn to beat down the brothers immediately after. They know they are the best team in the world, they know they will win the AEW Tag Titles in the near future, but first let's destroy the most sympathetic babyface and "boss" of the company just for the fun of it.

I get it that Wilder and his team have pride, and he's a warrior, and he may always have a puncher's chance, but christ, do you want him to die out there?

You ever been to a Florida Publix parking lot? You’d know if you lived here.

...what the hell are you talking about?

Dear lord - what's a long essay like? ?

I'm currently looking at my girlfriend (who never cared about wrestling before AEW) wearing her Orange Cassidy shirt, I'm not buying that casuals hate him for a second. Talking to people that don't follow current WWE but checked in to AEW, Orange Cassidy always comes up and it's always positive. I'm not denying or doubting that a casual could have a negative reaction to the gimmick, but speaking big-picture all my evidence is to the contrary.

I guess it's true, Mox really does have a 'third leg'.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the song in question, though the lyrics don't really fit the bill. Maybe Bret was reading into them. It was one of the songs off the Piledriver album because he referenced "Stand Back" and Vince dancing. Anyway, here's the performance, with its terrible lip synching. If you can sit through the whole thing, you deserve a hug and a push in the direction of anything better.

1957:

Everyone was so much bigger back then. When I was a kid, I thought DiBiase was scrawny. Now I realize he was actually really big dude, it’s just that everyone else was so jacked.