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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).

RE: Tony Khan's involvement with TV. From the newest WON

I think the Janela/Sabian not being featured has more to do with TV time availability. They were around not too long ago. However, if something needed to be axed for space, I'm pretty sure that would be the first to go especially now they have Britt Baker having her own segments or other people like Nyla cutting promos that usually just wrestle. As for Tony Khan, I'm pretty sure he has always been around when he is available. Cornette made it sound like he was some rich, old invalid with Alzheimer's or sequestered away somewhere like Ted Turner. Whether he is the head guy or not, he knows what's going on with his company and likely even contributing his own ideas.

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.

You guys do know the monster losing doesn't mean its the end of the character in wrestling, right?

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.

Weren't there reports that they'd intentionally tried to make the Raw after Mania less of an event, and more like a standard weekly show, to reeducate fans not to go all boisterous and Bizarro Land on them? There was a while there where it was like a yearly apology for the seven hours of lowest common denominator bullshit and heavily telegraphed Moments they were serving up the night before, but the last couple have been non events in comparison. Sure, the beachball dickheads and the misogynous chants can fuck off forever, but the overall vibe of 'tonight we're going to do the cool shit you wish we did the rest of the year', complete with big debuts, returns, exciting vignettes and maybe a title change or two, was something to look forward to. If they've decided to move away from that on purpose, it serves them right that they're selling fewer tickets.

Now that's a Championship belt. Great design.

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

...what the hell are you talking about?

For real. I don't even think it's once he gets hit. He starts any of his remotely competitive fights with both hands way up and a cautious look on his face. He doesn't move around much, but instead creeps his way forward (tonight it was uncharacteristically backwards). It looks like he has a stick up his ass, he's so stiff. Then he loosens up once his opponent feels his power and becomes more tentative. The left hand drops gradually through the middle rounds and in the first Fury fight it was hanging down at his waist, Hearns style. He is way lighter on his feet and far more fluid. It's as if there's comfort switch with him and everything plays off of that. He never got to that relaxed Wilder stage tonight. A change of trainers may (hopefully!) change that. We shall see if he does that. He seems like an incredibly loyal guy and I would hope he'd see the sense in the towel being thrown in. If he leaves it should be because he needs to grow and not because of the towel call.

If you're a stationary target, Fury will hit you. The Tom Schwarz fight is proof of that. I think going from Davison to SugarHill Steward was only a slight step forward at best, but Fury's work looked much cleaner than usual and he called Deontay's opening round bluff. Usually when guys try to pressure Deontay early, they let him rest and reload between exchanges. Fury to his credit didn't do that. He kept Deontay on his back foot most of the time. Also, Deontay early on does tend to push his punches. For him, those are arm punches. There are exceptions were Deontay is trying to get people out of there earlier, but it's usually lesser opposition. Wilder was so compromised by the middle rounds in what turned out to be the end of the fight that there was no chance of him putting together this miraculous turnaround that he typically does. With that said, I wish Breland and Deas would have acted a bit sooner. Deontay has way too much heart and wasn't going to quit. They could have said after round 5 that we're going to give you one more round and that's it if you don't do anything. Once your balance is gone, any attempt to deliver punches is just futile. Look at the first fight between David Haye and Tony Bellew. I know Deontay doesn't want to leave Tuscaloosa and leave his family and is super loyal to Breland and Deas, but as I said awhile back, I don't see Wilder improving to the point where he fight outside his usual tactics. I got nothing against those two particularly, but for this fight, they shit the bed big time. I would love to see Wilder with a Freddie Roach, Abel Sanchez, Barry Hunter, or Andre Rozier. I mean Alabama ain't that far from Texas so Ronnie Shields would be a great option as well. He needs someone who can bring a new dimension to his game.

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'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.

NJPW Dads vs Aces and Goto was a fun way to send Nakanashi into retirement. Loved him "turning" on Nagata with the backbreaker. Sakaguchi coming out to honor him afterwards was a surprise and reminded me how catchy his old theme was (it somehow managed to sneak through US customs).

1957:

Martel was the greatest I-C Champ that never happened.

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.