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Road Dogg never left. He's been doing Double J's work the whole time, and Jarrett was taking the credit for it.

I am so happy Johnny Gargano signed with WWE. Huge W. ?

Nick Bockwinkel was pretty goddamned cool.

Not sure when it's going to happen, or if it's every day of Gamescom, but AEW are doing exhibition matches in Germany at the event (that starts today in about 30 minutes). The video game is playable on the convention floor, too. So I'm sure we'll see footage of it in action pretty soon.

I'll do ONE.

Can't see any problems with this plan.

The AI is remarkably good at Neiman paintings.

Dusty Rhodes as the Undertaker

Mark Jindrak sighting on BTE this week...is Marco Corleone going to be ALL ELITE???

*Willem Dafoe’s dick sitting solemnly in an empty AMC theater* ”Heartbreak feels good in this place. Our heroes become the best versions of ourselves…”

I hope Road Dogg is ready for this, as I hear he's going to spend a lot of his days working hard on the go with the hands on the clock ticking too slow.

Can someone make A_K's user title "Dupree!" and then three years from now we'll look at it and try to figure out what the hell it means.

Not to sugarcoat NXT getting battered by AEW, or go too hard on defending Gargano, but I still think the problem with NXT during that run wasn't the wrestlers, it was the stagnation. For years pre AEW, there were two main hooks - who will win a title, and who will transcend winning a title to get called up to the main roster? At a certain point they drastically reduced the number of call ups and the pushes of those called up, a lot of the main names had already won and lost the title, and on a meta level it started being a story about former indie stars fighting forever in purgatory. Titles in NXT used to be like a Money In The Bank briefcase where you had to lose them to someone else to cash in the prize of getting called up and getting a substantial push. As soon as they started presenting them as an end in themselves, and having wrestlers express their wish to win them multiple times, the whole machine was fucked up. Wanting your favourites to lose so they could get ascended to the big leagues wasn't ideal, but at least it was compelling, and leant itself to constant regeneration and novelty. AEW would have beaten NXT anyway, but to make it closer WWE either needed to double down on making it a third brand, with bigger stars and no developmental aspect, or turn the intrigue of who would get promoted to the big shows into its main hook.

I’ve gone too far

Doug Furnas

Prompt: The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts) appearing on Sesame Street in a skit.

Prompt: Old Dutch Master oil painting of Ted DiBiase laughing.

Bob Holly?

They could call it the ATM because it's money and in no way something you should not have to worry about putting a safe search on if you search certain sites gentlemen (perhaps of the Kentucky variety) may peruse.

A story in two acts. Act I: Act II:

GLEAT have a show live on YouTube tomorrow where the first tag champs will be crowned,and DOUKI challenges Lindaman for the G-REX which should rule. 6:30pm Japan time.

I swear I thought I heard Excalibur call it "Sweet cheek music" her past couple matches. BUT assuming I was either mistaken or she's thinking to change it up my answer would be "Let them eat cake"

Banshee's fight scenes might be some of the most brutally violent things I've seen on screen that didn't come out of Indonesia.

I hope Athena can repair her gear; take those broken wings and learn to fly again, you might say.

Winner is clearly the sound the move makes: PAWG!

It's 10:01. Let's see if I can make it to REAL TIME! Asuka and Alexa Bliss take on Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai! Asuka is all wacky, taunting Damage CTRL. Iyo Sky is actually IYO SKY according to cagematch.net. IYO SKY and Asuka are so many levels above the rest of the WWE Women's division, technically. Other ladies are better at putting together US pro style matches but none of them are better in the ring technically. They are giving this match a lot of time. IYO and Asuka are MAGIC in the ring together. IYO and Alexa are MAGIC in the ring. IYO is MAGIC. Damage CTRL are like PROMINENCE invading STARDOM. IYO would be the Suzu Suzuki in the ring while Bayley is the Suzu Suzuki angle-wise. The finish was fun. That was good wrestling. Finn Balor takes on the BattlARTS stylings of Dolph Ziggler! Ziggler eschews the sweet sweet BattlARTS and goes all US Pro Style and he suffers the results as Balor beats the crap out of him. Ziggler takes an Irish Whip harder than anyone EVER HAS! Ziggler sticks with his US Pro Style roots and gets the upper hand! Balor cuts him off and there are some fun nearfalls. Balor is not leaning into many dropkicks tonight. Fun nearfall on the FameASSer. They are definitely giving the matches time tonight. Another neato nearfall on the ZIGZAG! Both these guys throw good punches. Rhea Ripley with the assist for the Double Stomp win. That match was great for something that started so heatless and got heated as they told a fun little story that got the crowd behind the match before it was over. Kevin Owens! Versus Chad Gable! THIS should be good. Owens is OVER in Canada. This match is fucking great. They are beating the shit out of each other. GREAT fucking Exploider on the floor by Gable. Oh man, Owens DIES on the apron taking a German. Gable goes completely STEINER with the German Suplexes. Owens counters with a Released German Suplex with a Cannonball chaser! Great nearfall on an Owens Love Machine Splash. GREAT German Suplex with a Bridge by Gablke FOR TWO! GREAT nearfall on a Superplex! POP UP POWERBOMB! That match was COMPLETELY awesome. AEW is going to have a tough time topping that one. Postmatch, Otis GETS THEIR HEAT BACK! OR maybe they don't! Kevin Owens revels in his Canadianness! That was fucking great. Aliyah and Bayley HAVE to have an average match. There is no way they are going to have FOUR very good to GREAT matches in a row. Bayley is awesome by working the EAR of Aliyah. This is good. NOT very good! Okay, Aliyah is making this almost very good, yeah, ALMOST VERY GOOD! Jesus Christ, tonight RAW is loaded. Bobby Lashley and AJ Styles take on Ciampa and the Miz. Lashley is a ROBOT! That was an impressive Endless Lateral Suplex. The Miz and Ciampa are a fun heel tag team. Ciampa is great beating on AJ Styles to get the crowd into his STRUGGLE to escape Ciampa and the Miz's hard edged ass beating. Ciampa does a great Bulldog Choke on Styles. The Miz and Ciampa are fucking GREAT as Arn and Tully. Man, that is some quality heeling to keep Styles away from Lashley. Lashley is great lunatic after the HOT TAG! Great Orton DDT to cut off Lashley. Great nearfall on a Spear. Dexter Lumis drags Miz away and FINALLY a shitty WWE finish. That was a REALLY great tag match before it got ruined. Hey! It's Joey Gargano! I remember when he was a GREAT heel in Pro Wrestling Ohio back when I could afford DirecTV. It's Edge versus Damien Priest! I have fast forwarded through every second of Edge up until now. But he is in the ring so here we are. So Edge is 6'5"ish? Let me look it up. Oh 6'4" according to cagematch.net. Damien Priest is 6'7"! The Undertaker is 6'10"! Edge is from Canada so he is beloved. Priest is bumping like a psycho for Edge. This match is fine. It lacks the hellishness of three other matches on this show. Edge is STING-like with the Old Guy Coming Off the Top. Fun powerbomb through a table by Priest. This match is effective getting Priest over as a killer since a fired up, vengeful Edge can't take him out easily. Priest is actually beating the crud out of Edge so Judgement Day looks pretty strong. Fun nearfall on the KILLSWITCH by Priest. Another fun nearfall on a Black Cat DDT by Edge. I didn't buy the Chokeslam by Edge but it is professional wrestling. They do stuff with chairs, including a neat visual of Damien Priest becoming a HUMAN SKULL after being put in a Crossface. A Canadian Destroyer and a Spear! This is ALSO very good. That was almost great! That was like the best episode of RAW that I can remember. POSTMATCH! Judgement Day get their heat back! Beth Phoenix fights for her man! That was awesome. HHH! HHH! HHH!

Have considered putting this on a sign, possibly with "especially this one"

Everyone’s a lot angrier. Cancel social media before my kids are old enough to use it please.

This just reminded me how much PPVs miss theme music, and nu-metal specifically. It even lends gravitas to Eric Bischoff and Bill Kidman. Doesn't matter how stupid it is, wrestling is usually stupid. As most of us will agree, even Limp Bizkit can sound profound if you play it over footage of Stone Cold and The Rock giving each other a punch. No PPV music, like no PPV specific sets, makes everything seem very budget and low rent, when the sense of spectacle is one of the main things WWE should have going for it. This seems like an easy win for HHH, just chuck Code Orange and Poppy in a studio together for a few weeks and you'll have people feeling hyped up and emotional for that Karrion Kross vs Madcap Moss iron man main event in no time.

Oh my god I am sore today. Somehow it did not occur to me that a giant cast iron sink would be really heavy. Looks good, though: (please ignore the gap at the front I still have to put silicone down.

"Hungry bum" is a term I've never heard and it's cracking me up. (I'm nine years old)

Lex had it coming…all he had to do was let JJ win that night’s Bunkhouse Stampede…it was his dream to go down in the record book next to Dusty and Big Bubba, dadgummit!

Sorry, getting caught up on things. I plan to do this and last week by weeks end. ? My ham brethren, @porksweats. Here’s a zinger for you: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Kenoh, the 2021 N1 final

Guessing Dr. Sidney Basil features in that article.

Sandokan vs Rockystar- Panama- At some point in time: I don't know how much Panamanians hate Mexicans so I don't know if this is a Mexico vs Puerto Rico level of hate. I did notice some Panamanians weren't standing for the Mexican National Anthem and that every Panamanian knew the words to the Panamanian National Anthem. I'm assuming all this leads to the riot later. It's hard to tell if this is the 70s or 80s because everybody in Panama dresses like adults and nobody is wearing a Keep On Truckin' t-shirt or a Where's The Beef trucker hat. It is on film so I'm guessing 1975. Anyway, I assume Sandokan is a national treasure of pro wrestling and Rockystar is the scalp collector from Mexico. Rockystar takes the first fall pretty quickly with an impressive series of moves and procures a Romero Special for the submission win- and then goes total Ox Baker In Cleveland and starts Garnering Heat! Sandokan quickly takes the second fall in like 45 seconds by procuring a preposterous lucha submission after taking a couple of shoulder tackles. I assume things get crazy in the third fall. Sandokan starts the third fall off by working on the shoulder for a little bit. Rockystar works on Sandokan's skull with odd kicks and a neckbreaker. He does a lot of flapjacks. He beats a wad of heat on our babyface and hits a really neato Brainbuster. FOR TWO! Rockystar sinks in an Abdominal Stretch and the crowd is waiting for Sandokan to go on offense, as it seems that they are expecting Sandokan to fight back and win, as he isn't a sympathetic babyface but a dominant babyface who has let this Mexican get the best of him. I'm guessing. Sandokan makes his comeback with a roll-up counter out of a Gory Special variation and then another nearfall with a Victory Roll. Sandokan then hits a bunch of fun roll-ups for a batch of nearfalls and the crowd is suddenly WAY into it. Sandokan headbutts Rockystar out of the ring and hit a SWEET old school tope. The crowd is now all standing up and milling around. Rockystar kind of moves out of the way of a charging Sandokan and then CRUSHES Sandokan with a BEAUTIFUL Plancha off the top turnbuckle to Sandokan on the floor. Rockystar throws Sandokan to the floor again and hits a nice Cannonball Senton off the apron. The crowd is definitely turning into a mob by now. Rockystar feins a few UNE FOULEs and while the ref is talking to Sandokan, Rockystar grabs Sandokan's leg and lowblows the REF! THEN! He lowblows Sandokan while the ref is trying to come to grips with his own exploded groin. Rockystar get the pin and NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE IS HAPPY! Fights are breaking out in the audience as they presenting Rockystar with the belt and bowling trophy. You would think they would know enough to get the fuck out of the arena. THEN! ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AS THE AUDIENCE JUST STARTS BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER! At 25:15, the first chair flies! Rockystar and Sandokan yell at each other over the PA and things settle down for a few seconds, then another wave of mob hysteria kicks in and Rockystar makes his way to the back under an umbrella of chairs and Sandokan makes his way to the other entrance and the place GOES FUCKING INSANE! Dudes beat on each other with pipes and chairs while little boys run around in utter delight. This was more psychotic than the Ox Baker- Ernie Ladd riot because Sandokan and Rockystar didn't seem afraid of the mob. KAYFABE, DADDY! JILLION STARS!

Isn't fake William another Dolores/Hale pearl in a William body? I think my question here proves your point.

A24 needs to start their films with an animated logo like Marvel Studios has, but instead of a quick montage of super heroes, every shot is Willem Defoe's dick.

Didn't pay attention to everything due to multitasking attempts again, but this did seem like a much better show than last week. Io/Dakota vs. Asuka/Alexa was solid even with Asuka missing half her urakens. Io and Dakota looked so good during all of this. They will be good tag champs. What I caught of Ziggler/Finn seemed good, but tis just so hard for me to give a fuck about Ziggler in 2022. What I caught of Owens/Gable seemed solid-good as well. Missed much of Lashley/AJ vs. Miz/Ciampa though the bits I saw were fun. I did enjoy Lumis kidnaping Miz at the end. Gargano's segment with Theory was a nice return and well done. A part of me is sad we aren't getting the Way again just because they were so fun and its still easily the best Theory has been as a character. Still, its probably good that Gargano is starting off a face the audience can get behind. If they a smart they probably should have him win the briefcase off of Theory. Neither hsould win the belt, but Gargano/Roman sounds much better than Theory/Roman. Bayley/Aliyah was decent. It was nice to see them try to give Aliyah a showcase, but she is not super consistent. Bayley felt a bit rough as well with it being her first match back. Edge/Priest was good. Kind of surprising with the two working a PPV/PLE match for all intents and purposes. They went all out and busted out some nice surprises. Was also neat seeign it kept between the two until the post match segment which I dug. Beth fending off Judgement Day with a chair was neat.

The Yankees should have to forfeit the rest of the season so this isn’t inflicted on the rest of the world again.

Hmm

Hey! I already mocked JT about this earlier in the thread! Honestly - it makes me feel better since Destiny's new season starts tomorrow so I was feeling bad about not being able to start Saints Row right away. Now I can wait a little - I could give a fuck about the reviews for people complaining about what is or isn't in the game. I do care about the level of bugs that have occurred on streams I watch. Theoretically they can fix the bugs Also maybe it will show up on GamePass by the time I get to it

You know J.T. will make it a 100+ hour game for him, 80 of which will be spent in character customization.

Agreed 100%. My favorite era of PPV themes, watching that clip the whole card comes off epic... bring back the moving match graphics permanently too. From what I recall: -Reached out to AEW for a job, said on his pod he had been "begging" Tony for a job. -After seemingly not hearing back, started to rip on Dynamite online. -Went back to saying he still wants a job with AEW, believed he could help with their TV and promos -Went to Impact and sat in with the creative team for the last tapings -Back in WWE Agreed!

People are as angry as they always were. We just hear about it more often.

THE THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER!!!

Some stuff from Anton Tejero vs a Karate guy whose name I'm not 100% sure of (Jon-il Dong maybe?). Tomfoolery: That crazy twisting mare I've only ever seen once or twice in wrestling before. I think Naylor posted something like this recently? Dante needs to steal it.