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"D-Von...get the door!" - Mama Dudley, when the doorbell rang

How long can they keep this roll going? We are sitting at a solid week plus one hour of non-stop very good stuff. That card looks like it should keep the momentum going. I I figure they'll open with Wardlow vs Scorp and finish with Mox vs King. Which would be fine by me. Watching Wardlow's coronation would be a fine way to start the day before I eff off to work. And I guess we'll see if the whole "MJF stole Wardlow's heat" talking point holds any water today, as well. I'm expecting Road Warrior pops for his entrance and for his victory. We'll see soon enough. And then, with Mox vs King and whichever out of the Thunderstorm tag and/or Penta vs Roosh gets saved for the second hour, I will have something to look forward to this evening. I've also got the last episode of We Own This City on deck, so maybe I'll get some popcorn (and some pineapple or watermelon popsicles) on the way home. Man, I like having stuff to look forward to, and also having friends with similar obsessions to discuss the details with afterward.

FUCK YES!

Ok, I know I'm a little turn crazy lately, but the framing of the Rampage tag as "if TBE wins, then a member of TBE gets to challenge Gresham at the PPV" as opposed to it being "Brian Cage gets to challenge..." makes me think Lee's going to turn on Gresham in the tag match and join TBE to get the shot at the PPV.

Thoughts on Greed Jason Jett showed high-flying skills and ring smarts in his win over Kwee Wee. He looked like the future of WCW, but there was no such thing. Rey Misterio Jr. and Kidman looked like a lock to be the first WCW Cruiserweight tag team champs, but Elix Skipper & Kid Romeo scored the upset. The 26-year-old Romeo did not look like a kid. WCW tried to pump up Shawn Stasiak with Stacey Keiber in his corner as well as two nicknames (The Star, The Mecca of Manhood). He beat Bam Bam Bigelow with the help of Stacy's HAIRSPRAY OF DOOM. Shane Helms (with his own dance team, the Sugar Babies) cashed in on his second opportunity and won the Cruiserweight title from Chavo Jr. Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire destroyed Lex Luger & Buff Bagwell to earn the MVP award. They looked like they would dominate the WCW tag team scene, but, you know ... Booker T won the US title from Rick Steiner and knocked off Scott Steiner for the World title on the final Nitro. Steiner won the final WCW PPV main event by beating DDP. Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair wrestled each other for the first time on PPV on WCW's last PPV. Their Starrcade title matches took place before the company's pay-per-view era. Flair lost the fall to Dustin Rhodes in a tag team match. This meant Flair was supposed to get a Stinkface from Dusty, but Jarrett took the bullet instead. Dusty's behind was Jarrett's Kryptonite. Now that I've watched every WCW pay-per-view, it's time to write my WCW history book, "King of Atlanta." Thanks for all your feedback and to DVDVR for providing this forum. Hope you are enjoying the WWF book, "King of New York!"

I like Gresham well enough, but his size and look scream “tax preparer is really into CrossFit” to me.

Holy fuck. I know he’s supposed to be biting his ass but it absolutely looks like Piper’s tossing his salad and giving him a reach around. Which is a pretty big 180 for a guy who wouldn’t even job.

That fucking RULED. Highlight of the show was Eddie's Mob Deep/Sick Of It All shirt. Most heartbreaking point was Daddy Ass refusing the scissor. Really though, what a fucking spectacular show! Rampage looks incredible as well, and they're already building up next week to be kind of the blockbuster. This company fucking rules.

Allright! Let's watch the pro wrestling. It's been a good week for wrestling so far. RAW was good, Elevation was perfectly fine, Dark was very good and NXT was great! Let's see what AEW serves up, shall we? LET'S WATCH! And I see that we are starting with Wardlow getting the belt. Wardlow is channeling a cross between Scott Steiner and Scott Norton! Dan Lambert is a HEAT MACHINE and Team America Top Team Top beats on Wardlow after Lambert distracts Wardlow! CHEATING! BUT IT'S ALL LEGAL! Scorpio beats some heat onto our babyface and Wardlow has a few comebacks and we go back to a regular screen and Wardlow is hitting a BEAUTIFUL SWANTON! Wardlow beats on America Top Team and a couple of guys have been working on taking bumps and they did great. Powerbombs! More Powerbombs! NEW TNT CHAMPION! Wardlow versus Andrade already! Smart Mark Sterling is setting up Tony Nese versus Shane Strickland? Sure. That'll be good. It's Christian Cage! It's.... Matt Hardy? CHRISTIAN IS AWESOME! Who is MJF? Christian is so fucking great. Oh my God! Oh, I thought Hardy was going to bleed. Matt Hardy goes through a table! I don't know where this is going- Hardy/Jungle Boy versus Christian/Luchasaurus, I guess? That'll be fine. Needed Hardy to bleed. Oh man, Claudio versus Jake Hagar will be good. KEITH LEE! SHANE STRICKLAND! BUTCHER! BLADE! This isn't the smoothest match. Strickland is working the bulk of the match and Lee is doing his ponderous power offense. Keith Lee is the best possible Satnam Singh! I'm glad the Bunny is back and hopefully healthy. Butcher beats the life out of Strickland and I assume it will look awesome tomorrow morning on the INTERNATIONAL FEED! Lee crushes Strickland! A lot of stuff goes on! The CROWD GETS BEHIND THE BUTCHER AND THE BLADE'S NEARFALL! Lee and Strickland crush Blade! They set up a three way between Hobbs/Starks vs Swerve/Lee and the Young Bucks! That would be great if it wasn't a three way! That match was a wreck. AWESOME! RUBY SOHO vs TAY CONTI! HEAT IT UP! (I don't really understand why Ruby didn't move out of the way. I guess it was all about PRO WRESTLING!) DARK ORDER IS FOREVER! They beat up QT Marshall! Why didn't the Factory join him? It's PENTA versus Rush! Rey Fenix is dressed like me when I was in college! HUSKER DU! RUSH has a great mask. RUSH gets his shirt off! Rush is soooo fucking awesome. THIS is the Lucha Libre that is BEST. TOPE CON HILO by PENTA! Alex Abrahantes- WHO WAS TRAINED IN THE FUCKING HART DUNGEON- takes out Jose! Jose still has his shirt on! Oh man, this feud is already fucking great. Rush is a motherfucking heat machine in the tiny screen. He unstrings the mask and yells at the Rochester rubes! Rush is so fucking good. A German Suplex, a chop, and Buzz Sawyer Powerslam! I love that JR is digging that they are beating the fuck out of each other. Oh MAN, THIS MATCH IS FUCKING GREAT! Beautiful Toprope SUWA DROPKICK by Rush! RUSH CHEATS TO WIN! SO FUCKNG GREAT! SO FUCKING LUCHA! YAAAAAY! FEUD FOREVER! RUSH! RUSH! RUSH! Bring in DRAGON LEE! AUSTIN GUNN is a HEAT MACHINE by taking the mic from Max Caster! HEY! Anthony Bowen is back in the ring! Leon Ruffin! Bear Bronson gets in some offense! Austin steals the pin from Max Caster! BILLY ASS TURNS ON THE ACCLAIMED! WE HAVE A FACE TURN FOR THE ACCLAIMED! Okay, I can get waaay into Miro versus Malakai Black. It's THUNDERSTORM! It's Nyla Rose and Marina Shafir! Marina Shafir takes a beating SHINING UP THE BABYFACES! Toni Storm foreshadows her FLYING HIP ATTACK by hitting Shafir with her butt in the middle of the ring! Storm and Shafir beat the living crap out of each other and this match got good quick. NYLA USES AN UMBRELLA TO CHEAT and Toni is our face in peril as we go to picture in picture. Storm is great at taking Nyla's offense. Storm is also really good at making Shafir's offense look deadly. I will wait for tomorrow to see if the INTERNATIONAL FEED reveals if the crowd is behind Storm STRUGGLE to be free of the tag team ass beating. We go to Big Screen and we get a hot tag! Nyla takes the Pyramid DDT like RVD! Thunder and Storm make with the smacky butts! FLYING HIP ATTACK! The second best of month! Toni Storm assists Thunder's Air Raid Crash and THUNDERSTORM WINS! That was good. Marina Shafir needs to wrestling Toni Storm everyday for six months to get her offense over. IT'S LEILA GREY! AWESOME! HOLY SHIT! KONOSUKE TAKESHITA VERSUS EDDIE KINGSTON! RAMPAGE SOUNDS TERRIFYINGLY GREAT SUDDENLY! Hey! Daniel Garcia versus Wheeler Yuta at the ROH PPV! Maybe... we'll see if they pull the trigger on FTR vs Aussie Open or the Briscoes. WHOA! I see that it's the Briscoes! Okay. BRODIE KING! JON MOXLEY! I love that Mox enters the ring right as Billy Zoom starts his guitar solo. Oh shit, this is gonna be awesome. JESUS! King is fucking laying it in. King beats Mox's ass all along the guardrail. Mox works the leg. We go to picture in picture and IATIF. King misses the Cannonball! Nice superplex after a sweet backrake! NICE LARIAT BY KING! LAWLER PILEDRIVER FOR TWO! KING HITS THE CANNONBALL! These two need to go 35 minutes. Nice DDT by Mox! King breaks the Sleeper by crushing Mox with his fat! Mox springs up and reapplies the Sleeper and It's OVER! That was good. They got a GREAT 30 minute match in them. That was a wild night of wrestling. AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD!

I love AEW because you really aren't always sure what the end result is going to be, and even when you do - like with Mox/King - you know the match will very likely kick serious ass ?

Adrenaline In my soul Nice hoodie but sleeves gotta go

The ass beating Darby Allin took from Miro before the bell even sounded was *chefs kiss* and they STILL made you think Darby had a shot to win without lessening the impact of Miro's offense. Underrated match.

100% Agreed. Wardlow taking the belt and murdering people with powerbombs for a while would be amazing. One thing I always loved about the TNT title was that it wasn't necessarily the better man won when the reigning champ lost, it was almost like fatigue set in from so many defenses. At least that is how I read it.

As much as I like Scorpio Sky, I want Wardlow to run roughshod over him and try to recapture the magic of his push....before MJF had a temper tantrum and all of the focus went from Wardlow to him. Wardlow reminds people who he is tonight, fingers crossed.

Tony, and also Nyla and Marina, if you're reading this, thank you for calling the one team in your women's tag match tonight Thunderstorm, but also you could and should call the other one Beast Problems. You're welcome.

Most looking forward to Christian Cage as two weeks running, he's cut the two best promos this year. The first after his heel turn was tremendous, actually getting "Shut the fuck up!" chants.

WASHINGTON STATE! DUKE! YOUR 2025 ACC-PAC 12 ALLIANCE BOWL!

Man, Gresham is such a black hole of a charisma. I really don't even know how you fix it. Fucking Dean Malenko was one of my favorite wrestlers and maybe my favorite wrestler when he was killing it as a Cruiserweight and US champion in WCW. He never said a word. He did have this sort of physical charisma though that just made him so compelling to watch. I have tried thinking of Gresham in that way and he just doesn't have it. He's a great technician, but he has a total inability to be remotely compelling. Him talking only makes it worse. Someone compared him to a dude that does your taxes. More than anything he just reminds me of the plethora of UFC guys that are horribly, horribly bland and that would get owned at pre fight press conferences.

This fucking guy is an absolute stallion.

I misread the last part of that sentence as “….like when you had a chubby in kindergarten” and, boy howdy, was I confused. I was about to ask what kind of kindergarten zendragon went to ‘cause I am fairly certain my kindergarten didn’t have a boner circle. For a second, I thought this was one of those public school things I missed out on since my parents sent me to a private school for grades k-12.

Andre the Giant as Bigfoot on The Six Million Dollar Man

Can't believe we got to watch the first couple of minutes of Kingston vs Takeshita two days early.

Oh yeah!

Holy shit.

Christian is over here making a mid-year WOTY push without even wrestling a match

King of Extreme: Who was the MVP of ECW?

Cosplay is one word. And if you have to split it, it’s Cos-Play (as in, Costumed Play), not Co-Splay. The Acclaimed’s scissor taunt is a co-splay.

Hereby move to change the name of the Carolina Panthers to the Carolina Pokemon, since they're collecting everyone else's discarded QBs.

I just watched Liv's promo. It was an A effort in my eyes. It was really so much different than a lot of the "first time champion" promos we've seen through the years. There are usually some tears (real or not) and there have been some fantastic moments of genuine emotion, like The New Day after KofiMania. But like what was said above, Liv's jumping up and down and laughing really stood out as a moment of pure joy. Her connection with the crowd is absolutely earned. When she first debuted in NXT, she was really green and bad. I didn't think she'd last. Her Jersey Girl character was really stupid and looked like a knock-off Staten Island Princess Carmella. I don't remember her actually doing any promos in NXT, either. I was really surprised when she got called up for The Riot Squad, but they broke out and Liv's weirdness was a big reason why. In all of their off-air segments, they were really goofy and silly and especially Liv. She was used really well in tags and six-mans. I don't think she was the most graceful of workers, but she didn't screw anything up. There's nothing wrong with that. I also remember some kind of shoot-y interview with Ruby saying that Liz was one of the "heart-and-soul" people at NXT and worked really hard. Heyman at one point also talked her up as someone with a ton of potential. I haven't watched WWE in a really long time. But the last I saw Liv, she became a pretty good worker but really shined with her character work. Not everyone is going to be at the level of talent The Horsewomen or Asuka or now Bianca. That's just true in any wrestling promotion and in any division. But if you can find your "voice" and learn how to stand out, you'll go a really long way. You can also see that so many of her colleagues also really love her and appreciate what she's become as a performer. Ruby said in one shoot-y interview that Liv was one of the "heart-and-soul" people at NXT when she was there and worked harder than anyone and really set an example. I know Heyman talked her up at one point as someone he'd love to work with and see pushed. I think we can see why in her victory promo. She's become someone the fans really connect. She's a great example of someone "getting it" and figuring out who she is as a performer who obviously worked incredibly hard to get to where she is.

The best part of the Palumbo/O'Haire squash was Buff and Luger laying motionless in the ring for like 5 minutes afterwards until right before the next match. Reminded me of The Giant having to pretend to be knocked out by a belt shot for what seemed to be an hour after losing the title at Hog Wild so that Hogan could cut a birthday promo and beat up The Booty Man.

I posted in one of the monthly threads that my great-aunt would always chastise 6 year old me and my uncle (who's really closer to being a cousin to me as he's not much older) for rooting for the "dirty men" like Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard and wondered why couldn't we just root for the clean men like Wahoo and Dusty? In this thread, we celebrate the dirty men of wrestling and their dirty deeds!

I just got back from watching it about an hour ago, I genuinely loved it, whether that's because this was my first Marvel cinema experience since Endgame, or that I love the source material in the comics, or maybe that it was a fun escape when we live in a world where fun things are more important than ever. Bits of it felt rushed in part and the switch from the silly to the point where the story needed to carry a bit more weight was a little rough, but I found it to be a very fun and very enjoyable watch. I liked that it basically became a full circle for the character of Thor himself, tying in with the quote at the end of Endgame of him having no path and then finding himself. The interaction between Hemsworth and Portman was the best of the movie and I wish we had more of that and a little less of the goofy bits, as fun as they are.

The TNT Championship really needs rebuilding after the Sammy Guevara/Scorpio Sky bullshit. When Cody, the late great Mr Brodie Lee, Darby Allin and Miro held it, it was the rare secondary championship that meant something. So tainted now.

Okay spoilers are back and the quoting system is working I reset the board's system caches - that may or may not have fixed it but I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth

Adrenaline in my soul I rock a wifebeater with a hood on it yo

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Cap on, hood up and headphones on. YOU'RE INDOORS CODY. Still working that heel gimmick as a face I see.

I think it’s pretty obvious that Phase 4 is just Phase 1 basically, but with a twist. It’s introducing all of these new characters (and expanding on the existing characters that are left) before assembling them for a team-up. Phase 4 and onwards will follow the blueprint set by 1-3. The real Marvel fatigue is people bringing up Marvel fatigue every few cycles of movies/shows. (Also, nobody is saying anyone needs to follow every show as it airs or go watch every movie. The shows exist on a streaming platform so it’s ripe for binging eventually if one wishes, and I personally haven’t seen an MCU movie in theaters since the original Iron Man ffs)

"Wanted: Rat Funk" is also my favorite Mandrill album.

Ok it wasn't pretty but I gave it a go tonight. I need to get better at my emergency shut off string management. I have no idea how far I went because it kept shutting off and resetting. ANYWAY... I'm skipping the end of that Pogo tag, because it's bad luck. I don't believe I wrote that stupid thing up when I was bleeding all over the place. Let's move on. 7/11/86: Maeda/Kido vs Kimura/Takano: Another look at Takano as Takano. The first few minutes of this were probably the best I've seen Kimura look on that mat, primarily against Kido. Some really good work here. I usually think of him as more of a scrapper down the stretch. This was fairly back and forth with Kimura and Takano having slightly better teamwork, though at any point Maeda or Kido could just drag someone back into their corner. I don't have strong opinions about Takano yet. He went up big for Maeda on throws. That's for sure. He didn't always feel like he belonged in there but he did more than he didn't which is saying something. I wouldn't call any of this less than good. Match got super heated towards the end. They had been double teaming Maeda abut he reversed a whip and just took Takano's head off with his spin kick in the corner. I thought that was going to be the end of the match but he made it back up and survived some kicks to make the tag. From there Kimura and Maeda had the start of a good finishing exchange but Kimura popped back up after the spin kick again and hit the Inzuma Leg Lariat and I really hate when they do that. It's 1986! Don't do that shit. You're fifteen years too early! Assholes. Anyway, it ended up on the floor and Takano was bloody and chairs got involved and the DQ for tossing over the rail felt sort of justified. Good stuff.

Maybe every wrestler has a designated spot like when you had a cubby in Kindergarten!

Does it get any grimier than these two?