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Hopefully he doesn't have to be admitted to a local medical facility.

My brain breaks when I see this and also see super cute pics of he and his husband.

No, holding large gatherings of unmasked people during this pandemic is intelligent. Nobody should point at them and say "Get a load of these assholes."

Years of CRZ have conditioned to me to always imagine its Nash.

Wrestling I watch weekly: AEW Dynamite Paradigm Pro's UWFI Rules contenders series After that, really just anything I come across on IWTV that might be good. Thank you @Greggulatorfor bringing attention to that thing you brought attention to. Just when I think that company and its adjacent pursuits couldn't dig lower, they hit a new subfloor of shit. I haven't watched anything from them in four years and see no reason to start up again now.

Jaguar Yokota vs Lioness Asuka JD' 4/14/1996

Love Rey's "Eh, what are you gonna do?" look while Konan is dealing with the cops

Taker selling the head slam for just a second before popping up like the caffeine just kicked in still makes me laugh.

The schedule: (I'M DOING THIS FOR ME AS MUCH AS FOR YOU) SATURDAY! 4:35pm 8:15pm SUNDAY! 3:05p 6:40pm

Rusev/Miro really needs to bust the dropkick out more often because it is a thing of beauty.

Kenta Kobashi and Keiji Muto, 2011. Kenta Kobashi and Keiji Muto, 2021.

I'm re-watching Captain Marvel right now and this movie really got way too much hate. It's not nearly as bad as people want to make it out to be. Bad as The Dark World or Iron Man 3? Absolutely not. Good as Winter Soldier or Iron Man 1 or whatever else? Probably not. It's mid-tier at best, but it's certainly not BAD. My only complaint is that the CGI when she puts on the mohawk helmet thing is kinda wonky. Infinity War had the same problem with certain things (Banner in the Hulkbuster armor, chiefly among them). Brie Larson can be a little wooden at times, but she's not anywhere as bad as, say, Keanu Reeves (sorry Keanu fans). I've never done this before, but I think I'm going to do Infinity War/Endgame back to back next.

ESPN: Lack of conversion attempt killed bettors who took the Bears at +11 Oh man, imagine that conversation on Nick. "Kids, you might be wondering why your dad just smashed the TV remote against the wall and kicked your dog..."

I got my vaccine via my frontline NHS job. Make sure you take the day off work the next day. Working an eleven and a half hour shift after that wasn’t a good idea. Also, our useless English government has to tighten restrictions again. Christ knows how given it’s a national lockdown, but who am I to question the logic of a Prime Minister who laughed at the idea of a two week lockdown before being forced into a four week lockdown and then a national lockdown a month or so after the four week lockdown ended. Seriously though, if there’s a way to try a Prime Minister as a criminal for sheer awfulness I’d love to hear it. Boris Johnson is an absolute wanker. ETA - and apparently he went for a seven mile bike ride. After telling everyone else to stay at home. The sheer hubris...

If nothing else, I will always respect this thread for being the irresistible honeypot that finally got Hustler of Culture banned.?

Triple H being "intense."

You’re right, I can’t help myself from pointing out how much of a fucking dumbass Ricochet is. Oh and he also still associates with people like Chasyn Rance and Marty Scurll.

Yeah, and I think the piling on of "you must have done something wrong" is a little unfair. People who don't leave their house except to get groceries or people who went to go visit their mother once in six months end up getting it, as well. A lot of it is kind of bad luck plus behavior. These wrestlers are, at least if we can believe the companies now, tested more than the average workforce so hopefully the Covid police don't come down too hard and hopefully everyone is fine.

Here's a pretty good reddit thread outlining all ants and their identities.

Honestly, I really don't understand why more wrestlers these days aren't watching stuff like French wrestling or European wrestling for ideas for spots, etc. Some of those pins and counters are way better than just some shitty roll-up we see thirty times a week on RAW.

To go one step further, I'll pass on seeing anyone extra in AEW right now. They have a big roster as is. Like, Jay White is the probably the crown jewel out there right now and he'd be an incredible hire, but how do you sign someone like that and not strap a jetpack to his back and shoot him into the World title picture? A World title held by a heel. I suppose having a Jay White is a nice problem to have and a problem TK wouldn't mind happening, but as a fan and viewer invested in current storylines, it all feels like shitty timing. I'd love to have Jay White, but I don't want to interupt ongoing storylines. As always, if this were an Io that were available, I'd say give her any amount of money she would want. Same goes for Sasha, Charlotte, Bayley, Rhea, Dakota, Storm, or Belair.

Not sure where this goes, but I'll put it here. The IWA: Mid South Tracey Smothers Riot, 15th June 2002:

Chris Hero being picked up and being an active roster member/trainer like Dustin Rhodes wouldn’t be a terrible idea.

When she said "I've been listening to Blink One Eight Two" I could not stop laughing.

Stardom's Queen's Quest "enjoying" a snowy photoshoot.

I feel the same way as you do about wanting to get away from it. But, on the other hand, I think it’s worth knowing that one of the owners of the biggest wrestling company in the world was partly responsible for that bullshit.

Well done, Ref Aubrey xxx.

I have a feeling he is asymptomatic at the moment otherwise there is no way they would put him on TV (via Zoom) tonight. Usual caveat that his symptoms can change AND that the WWE doesn't necessarily make the wisest decisions

The Bills game meme makes even more sense considering they just beat the Colts, "goodbye horses". . . . . ?

While I hope everyone gets well soon, I am very much looking forward to Goldberg building the Royal Rumble match by himself for the next 3 weeks.

It's Cena. This was the year Cena was begging for a WM match, lost in the Rumble, 'used his position' to get into Elimination Chamber, lost again, and then called out Taker and got ghosted.

I think it's fascinating that a key change in all of pro wrestling happened when I was 7 years old watching Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. Johnny Valentine, Wahoo McDaniel, and the Super Destroyer basically created Strong Style. Make it look real, lay it in, be very big. It deeply affected my views of wrestling. God, watch this match. It is textbook Mid-Atlantic strong style.

Whether it's movies, tv, music, sports, etc., there's this constant promotion and hype of everything that is new. One day you realize it's far more entertaining to throw on a random WCW ppv or superstars versus trying to sit through a boring Raw you have no investment in. Which brings me to my next point. While Greg Valentine may have a visually unsettling bodytype, what a fun wrestler to watch.

I'd donate my entire year's salary to PBS if we got this.

I think that's right, so long as the motivations and attitudes make sense, AEW doesn't have to rely as heavily on standard face/heel delineation. However, I'd argue that the truly great matches in North America tend to come from solid good vs evil setups, or at least good dude vs jerk, that allow for some catharsis and AEW has robbed itself of some of these journeys by having things a little too nebulous. Take Cody's back and forth style over the course of 2020 that was so frustrating to me. He's wrestling for these big, emotional reactions but he doesn't want to do the proper leg work for them. I'm listening to him on Jericho's pod because I hate myself and he said he didn't want to appear on Dynamite between losing the TNT title to Brodie Lee and the dog collar match. Chris had to talk him into coming in earlier than that and showing that he had faced his failure and learned from it and was a more focussed and dangerous wrestler now through wrestling instead trying to convey that all with a dye job. He wants to be a sympathetic babyface then acts like a bully in matches, telling stories at cross purposes and negating both. So yes, they can get away from strict black and white rules but it's not that easy.

More Drapp vs Delaporte. Two interesting escapes, first out of a bearhug: Then a really worked for escape out of a leglock. Look at Delaporte's stooging.

This them? The WWF roster for February 1993 was as follows: Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, "The Brooklyn Steve Lombardi, Brett "Hitman" Hart, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Jim Powers, "The Birdman" Koko B. Ware, "The Model" Rick Martell, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase, Virgil, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggin, Shawn Michaels, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, Luke Williams, Butch Miller, Typhoon, The Undertaker, Brian Knobbs, Jerry Saggs, "The Mountie" Jauques Rougeau, Mike "I.R.S." Rotundo, Beau Beverly, Blake Beverly, "Skinner" Steve Keirn, "Tatanka" Chris Chavis, "The Rocket" Owen Hart, Barry Horowitz, Papa Shango, Crush, Fatu, Samu, Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall, Bob Backlund, Yokozuna, Matt "Doink the Clown" Borne, "Terrific" Terry Taylor, Damian Demento, Marty Jannette, Bam-Bam Bigelow, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, Jerry "The King" Lawler, "The Narcissist" Lex Luger, The Giant Gonzales, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake TOTAL ROSTER: 45 Cause let me tell you I have opinions on Damien Demento.

Ok, I think we have a bunch of week 3 doubles this time around, but that's where we are. You all know each other better or what not, so have it. People still seem into it so we'll plan to go for a couple more weeks at least. NikoBaltimore moribund Smelly McUgly Curt McGirt AxB Octopus El Gran Gordi Morganti Six String Orchestra Matt D @Six String Orchestra, I'll get you something today ideally. I got my eye on you after last time, pal.

Goodear, this was awesome.

THAT’S IT THATS THE LIST.

My personal philosophy is that baby faces people actually like are rarer than heels and so they have more value. AEW has Moxley and Page so they aren’t in a terrible face position but they’ve got a ton of heels already and Cody obviously has no issue working other baby faces.

Will Hobbs Or Powerhouse Hobbs if you run the AEW roster page constantly battling with the alphabet. Hobbs is a wrestling genius and no one noticed and should be given the goddamn keys to the goddamn kingdom. Get your 7 star matches out of here and give me the smartest wrestler in AEW. How smart is Hobbs? Let me give you several examples that you can find on your own. Example one: Ricky Starks vs Will Hobbs: watch this one for the finish where Hobbs gets up for the Rochambeau ala Ray Traylor taking the slingshot suplex for Tully Blanchard. Here’s a 300 pound guy taking a power finish from a much smaller guy with a secondary finish that would have worked fine. But not for Hobbs, his job is to get Ricky over and he gets up for the holy shit finish. Example 2: Hobbs vs Orange Cassidy. Will is still in ‘get these people over’ mode and how’s he do that with Cassidy? He takes one Orange punch and goes home for the night secure in the thought he just hammered the star over. Why? Cause that’s how you get people over! Example 3: Hobbs vs John Legacy (I think, whatever) Will’s time to get over and he doesn’t make the mistake of taking thinking he’s already over so he just cleanly dismantles his guy with some power offense, swatting the guy out of the air, forcing a tests of strength, three suplex variations in a row, clean decisive finish! That’s how you do it! You hit more than 2 moves in a row Brian Cage! Example 4: Hobbs and Starks vs Cody and Darby. An honest to god hot god damn tag where Darby barely escapes to tag out rather than the cold tags AEW guys do all the time where no one is there to even try to stop people. Hobbs works a rag doll bear hug! Hobbs is GREAT. Star in the making. Should be AEW champion after Hangman.

apparently today is Bull Nakano's birthday, which is something that it feels like should be on the official DVDVR liturgical calendar. in the meantime, post pictures and call it iconography I guess