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This reminded me how much I love those old school lumberjack matches where the heels get their licks in just because. Also, that shoe. ?

Fucking brilliant.

Archer really absorbed everything Suzuki taught him, and whatever he saw working with him. He really understands what it takes to be a believable intimidating, and ruthless heel. He’d be a great teacher if he wanted to be.

I swear to God I thought that was Dusty Rhodes for a second in the middle.

The Nuge looks like shit

If you want to make Archer look like a fucking monster, Marko is the man to put him in with. Dat vertical suplex.... Jericho's promos are the fucking MVP's of AEW. He is not afraid to play the fool or be obserd. Him in a hot tub in pants. RELEASING THE HOUNDS!

I lost my shit when Jericho's dogs all ran out and just kinda did their own thing, especially the chihuahua. That may go down as one of the funniest segments in pro wrestling history.

Based on the heavy lifting it had to do, That Thing You Do is a strong contender for best original song in a movie ever. It had to sound authentic to the period, be a legitimate ear worm, and be so good it didn’t overstay its welcome despite being played in at least half the scenes in the film. RIP

Maybe she’s morally opposed to eating at Chik Fil A?

I believe it. Savage vs. Dusty one-on-one at Mania would have been wild.

It's just so gross to consider that, while people are dying from a fucking pandemic, a bunch of management types and advertising execs held emergency meetings to figure out how to pivot (and you know those bullshit bingo experts said "pivot") their ads to more effectively sell you shiny bullshit "in these trying times."

I wonder why Jericho wore dress pants in his hot tub.

I'm choosing to ignore that it's obviously shots at Vince's weird quirks (which I don't mind, but doesn't make much of a gimmick), and just see the Brodie Lee character as a megalomaniac. Which is probably the intended impression you're supposed to come away with, but as it is right now, they're leaning way too hard into the McMahon shots.

Laughing out loud every time I see those dogs run out. What a perfect piece of cinema.

I literally spent 30 minutes going through Netflix and Amazon Prime looking at the things I should be watching. Ended up going back to YouTube and watched wrestlers play Uno. This is gonna be hard

People should be allowed negative votes for joker.

Went out for the weekly grocery trip. Rubber gloves just thrown on the ground everywhere. Like 5 feet away from garbage cans. The vitriol in my body will kill me before 'rona does.

Everytime I open this thread and see someone writing about "AC" I am thinking for a couple of seconds, if there has been a recent release of an Assassin's Creed game.

Two of the things that carnies/workers hate are people that believe their own work and folks who haven't paid their dues. Example for #1 would be, say, Hulk Hogan which doesn't matter because if you are working with him you are gonna make money, and that trumps all (carnies). A more negative example of that would be a fellow with a tough guy gimmick who isn't. If he doesn't show deference to a real shooter who may be doing the job for him, the real tough could legit get away with humbling the pushed man. Also, I saw vets convinced that they were the reason they drew those houses for Vince, and not the people they were working who didn't have a drug problem or weren't past their prime or didn't cause problems in the lockerroom. Even in my stunted career, I saw endless examples of the second instance. "I don't break down the ring, I gotta belt (in his backyard fed)" "(My trainer who nobody had heard of) told me I should be main eventing (after my check cleared)". You never try to work a worker, because if you do and the sucker believes it, it is the victim's fault: he is now a mark and has lost face.Wrestling attracts the damaged, and very often the people who may be used to lying to others (and themselves) and getting away with it, but when you take that weak mess to some real workers, it is a whole new world. brother. Kulas did both of those above things. I am not blaming him for what happened, but the scenario was perfectly set up for that shitshow. I understand that carny mentality that justifies it and even sympathize/agree with it still. Ima bit dizzy from talkin' so much jingo now, RAF

I like how the guy who got stabbed told Jack he wanted to do the Florida circuit like he's Dusty Rhodes working Pak Song for Eddie Graham. Was this motherfucker thinking about selling out every Days Inn across the Redneck Riviera? We don't need further evidence this is the most carnie profession ever.

D-Lo Brown looks like he's a sitcom dad now

His twitter feed is an essential service at this stage. He is all of us. See you (anxious millennial) cowboy.

International Incident.

HBO is streaming Midnight Special for free as a part of it's library unlock starting this weekend. That's one that some of you may want to consider for your ballots.

I'll go farther and add landlords to the equation Alright that's enough, before somebody hears us. I must've thought this was that meeting at the docks...

I was talking about Starrcade from 87. The ticket time snafu was the Bunkhouse Stampede the next year. So basically, when it rains it pours.

Side note, it's also hard to feel like we're all in this together living in a country predicated upon the belief that, all language to the opposite aside, it's really every man for himself. My only hope for anything coming out of this crisis is that people learn to stop being so selfish and see that they need to depend on each other. Okay, I'll stop now

Chris Jericho vs. Vanguard 1.

You could have said this shit about 3 years before any of us ever heard of COVID-19.

That clock likely began its countdown 2 months earlier at Starrcade 87 in Chicago when it was a) moved out Crockett territory, b) saw the a Warriors not win the belt in their “hometown” c) up against the Survivor Series on PpV.

Jim Crockett's credit cards would argue with the good news part of that statement.

You will never see a more lukewarm reaction than Dusty winning that Bunkhouse Stampede.

So I am an idiot and watched Bunkhouse Stampede 1988 after watching Starrcade 1987. I knew nothing about the show and I thought Eaton-N. Koloff and Flair-Hawk would be good. A dull draw, a Larry Zybysko match and average Flair-Hawk match later came the Bunkhouse Stampede, the most Dusty match ever. That show needs a warning label.

I hate the Brodie Lee videos so much. Call me a WWE bootlicker if you want but that was so TNA like. A few more weeks and it's going to become Voodo Kin Mafia like. It's a shame because Brodie is so good and I liked his match last week and the squash tag this week. I hope they continue with the masked guys until the Revival come in and unmask. Loved the Jericho video and Archer/Marko Marko was the prefect opponent for him.

That Archer/Marko squash was everything. Archer looked like he was legit murdering him, and Marko’s hope spots were really smart and didn’t hurt Archer at all. That chokeslam escape was breathtaking. I think the lack of a crowd even helped, because you could hear all of Archer’s ranting and Marko yells of pain. A+ debut.

That logo at the top of the Sting painting is sacrilege.

It's either going to be your last day in that promotion or one of your last days on Earth. Pick one.

The New Jack episode was the closest wrestling will ever get to “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories”. We were a beat away from Jack saying “Cocaines a hell of a drug”

Just had a thought: if all these car companies and insurance companies and food companies have the money to film new commercials to pimp their wares to us in the event that we (shock, horror) forget to give them money, maybe they could give it to hospitals and food banks instead. Just a thought... EDIT: And I know there are car companies, etc. helping out, it's just seeing all these commercials with voiceover and actors saying "we're still here" and to keep it together seems like such a waste of time/energy/cash

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the other day I saw people standing in queue along with cars around Taco Bell all the way to the street -- in the pouring rain. So not much has changed except people on foot

Or, and everyone hear me out on this, stop running shows.