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Sounds like one of the main reasons Bandido chose AEW over wwe is he didn’t want to move his family to Florida so he could go to the PC. That’s the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard. Every adult decision I’ve ever made is made partially to avoid having to move to Florida…

Sorry I'm a little late. One of the kittens is awake, walked across my keyboard and it actually posted what I was typing EARLY so I had to delete it. Little scamp! Anyway, I was opining about how Jungle Boy needs to be feuding with Rush and Bandido already. I stated that Brian Cage is underrated. Cage sets up a cool Suplex on the floor spot and then Maude the Kitten walked across my keyboard. I dig Cage because he has a pretty great looking heel offense, and he can sell all the highflying spectacularness of Dante Martin. Martin lays in the elbows to Cage's noggin! Oh man, Dante Martin's Springboard Splash to the floor is so spectacular. Fun nearfall by Cage on a Full Nelson Flatliner! WEAPON X for the win! That was good. I'm digging this little run by Brian Cage. Whoa! Lee Moriarty versus Hook will be good. HOUSE OF BLACK! HOUSE OF BLACK! HOUSE OF BLACK! RUSH! BANDIDO! YESSSSS! RUSH IS SO FUCKING AWESOME! Rush will beat the shit out of folks. I remember when Rush first debuted on EMLL TV and he was a pretty boy technico and everybody HATED him. So he just digested the hate and became one of the greatest rudos ever. He is everything great about Lucha Libre. OH MAN! I am so excited about the tomorrow's International Feed as they are beating the crap out of each other in picture in picture. Bandido hits a zillion highspots in the tiny screen! The Boston crowd is awesome. Rush and Bandido MILK IT FOR ALL THE HEAT THEY CAN GET! John Silver saves Bandido's mask! Bandido gets the flash pin! That was fun. A little sloppy in parts but I don't give a fuck. This is the wrestling I want to see. WRESTLE 57 MORE TIMES ON MY TV! Nyla is so fucking great, making fun of Jade Cargill's in ring mannerisms. I loved that. Big Shotty Lee Johnson! Does his push begin now? JANE! I hope this leads to Big Shotty versus Danhausen feuding like Tommy Rich versus Raging Bull Manny Fernandez. Cole Karter distracts Cassidy and allows Big Shotty to go on offense. NICKY BOY! HE CHEATS! QT PILEDRIVES DANHAUSEN ON THE STEEL STEPS! I figured this match would involve the myriad of people accompanying both combatants. Big Shotty beats on Cassidy as we wait for the commercials to end. So Boston crowds are the best crowds. NICKY BOY drives CHUCK TAYLOR INTO THE RINGPOST! BLUE THUNDER BOMB BY BIG SHOTTY! NICKY BOY GETS SPEARED BY TRENT! CHUCK HITS A TOPE CON HILO! BEACH BREAK! That is how you book a match ten ways to Sunday. That was a hoot. Orange Cassidy is a miracle worker. I am very excited for the Danhausen versus the Factory feud. AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD.

Fucking stunned to come home and find Kevin Conroy has passed away aged 66. Laura broke the news to me and I'm heartbroken. I love Bruce Wayne/Batman and when I think of Batman, it's Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995). Whenever I think of Batman's voice, it's always the voice of Kevin Conroy. Always. Kevin Conroy went on to voice Batman in the aforementioned Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), The New Batman Adventures (1997-1999), Batman of the Future (1999-2001), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2002), Justice League (2001-2004), many animated movies, Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009), Batman: Arkham City (2011) and Batman: Arkham Knight (2015). If I could have ever met three famous people, Conway was the one in three. "I am vengeance, I am the knight, "I am Batman". My thoughts go out to Kevin Conroy's family and friends at this toughest of times. Thank you, Kevin Conroy for all you did xxx.

Huge discovery! Equalizer mode: KARAOKE! Drops out commentary to a squeak level but retains the audience and action. Great to see the Gunns with a strong showing in the opener. I'd love more FTR v Swerve and Big Keith! But I’ll take an FTR v Gunns go-around. Amusingly bad spot in the opener with Caster clearly and poorly getting into a position of being leaned over in place for Big Keith to powerbomb Bowens on him. Ugh! The MJF promo was fucking excellent! Dig the podcast setting - I’m surprised I haven’t seen that before, or don't recall. Ethan Page v Eddie Kingston bout was on point. Eddie seemed to be making Page at every step – true Kingston fans will celebrate him in loss here. Page’s version of the Razor’s Edge has always looked brutal, and near deadly here. That was a highlight finish - thank you Eddie! Roosh Bag was a fun finish to this odd Dark Order/Jose-Rush promo. The 'compelling' 10-Rush/Jose courting angle is ready to wrapped up aond concluded. I’m a Trustbuster fan, but didn’t find the Ari Davari-Wardlow offer compelling television in the least. I loved Joe whacking big Wardy up side the head. Hobbs being out there felt like it stole a bit of thunder from the turn. Not that I don’t love seeing big Puh-Puh-Puh-Powerhouse! I’ll take a 3 way, I guess. Britt Baker was fucking awesome in that talk segment. I kinda forgot how capable the Doctor is on the mic. I feel the same Doc! I’ve never seen Saraya wrestle and I have some doubts. Nonetheless, I find myself interested in a Saraya-Baker match at the PPV. I wish for safety. Trent and Jay Lethal are both so consistently great! Might as well run that back with Rappongi/Best Friends v Jarrett/Lethal, yeah? Dutt’s enthusiasm and great introduction for Jarrett were the highlights of the post match. I'm having a good time with the Last Outlaw. I hope the crowd’s love for the Jungle Boy is never-ending. Big Jack’s okay in my books! Oh jeez, Renee is so great. Moxley too. Both he and MJF talked some ppl into the next PPV. I love a Jamie Hayter showcase! More of these please! The fact that somebody wants Alex Marvez on TV, at his poor acting level and ability, seems to suggest he's a really great guy behind the scenes. I said Goddamn-Goddamn Danielson-Guevara was just wonderful! As Dean mentioned the commercial break heeling by Guevera was outstanding. And the Best heat of the night. What a brutal piece of business there. Art! AEfuckinDUB delivering to my delight!

Ach, you beat me to it. I was going to say that Fetterman looks like the Midwest indy guy whose claim to fame is that he doubled for Big Show on the body caps for the new Midway arcade standup Wrestling Power Superstar Rumble. His promo 8x10s have him posing next to a WPSR machine. [RAF note: this was a coveted job for indy workers in the 90s in the Chicago area - posing for arcade & pinball graphics and getting filmed doing moves & bumps for wrestling games (the actual stars came in one day for art purposes). Punk club patrons also got recruited for cabinet art and photos. History!]

Zoogz Rift years ago said that when him and Herb Abrams met with Hogan in early 1994 he wanted $1 million for 3 matches So there's also the weird alternate reality where Hogan headlines UWF Blackjack Brawl and sells out MGM Grand for Herb Abrams in 1994

Same!

We’ve got a Movie with a capital M folks. Run do not walk to see this one. Coogler’s made a contemplative meditation on grief full of moral questions and wonder. I could see this sweeping the Oscars in a cakewalk. Bare minimum Angela Bassett will get a nod as far as performances go, but the entire ensemble is excellent. It’s a truly beautiful piece of filmmaking.

Had the chance to meet Conroy at a comic con several years back. They had to bring him out early to start his meet & greet because the line was so long it was starting to block access to other areas of the convention. I was like the 4th person in line and he was super nice. Gave me a couple autographs, posed for a photo and didn't charge a thing.

Speaking of When Worlds Collide... AAA and Conrad Thompson May Be Planning Wrestlemania-Week Event It's an outdoor tennis arena -

Kevin Conroy was the best Batman ever.

I once got kicked off a certain forum, won't mention the name but it had to do with huge CZW marks, when I said Tomko was a horrible wrestler, 20 minutes later I go to post and I had been banned for "causing a disturbance in a thread" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Fun thing, I saw this figure once while perusing Target and scooped it up. I honestly forgot he dressed up as Darby, so I thought it was going to be a decent collectors item

Kittens are back.

A disappointed Tyson Tomko.

I met Fetterman back when he was the Mayor of Braddock, the dude is legit 6'8" and had that "works the local independents and turned down WWE developmental at one point since he didn't want to move to Memphis or Louisville" look.

Not nearly enough gig marks, but no lie otherwise detected.

Ok, I'm very glad Cage is advancing, and I was impressed by Martin's double bicep pose. Surprisingly nice arms on him. Jungle Boy needs revenge. Steel cage sounds like it is going to be very bad for his health, but Christian Cage isn't going to climb, erm, cage with one arm, right? Espesially with the left one, right? While I'm all in on Bandido, can what happened there with Rush be considered... a high-way robbery? OC having a mic on stand-by just to mess with Mark Henry is good stuff. Another active title defence, even if it came at the cost of one dead Danhausen. I can't believe the baddies didn't use that opportunity to steal the TBS title back for Jade. Not super competent. So, the House of Black is coming back, but this time they are EVIL? Where the hell are you guys gonna go from here? ...oh, that's exactly where.

It's the Usos and the New Day again. The kittens are back, and their only focus is walking across my keyboard. If it gets weird, it is Button or Maude expressing their teeny opinions on the professional wrestling. Kofi Kingston does a top turnbuckle TRUST FALL! This IS like the Packers and the Cowboys- with the Usos as the Packers and the New Day are the Cowboys continually in the playoffs. Kofi Kingston is Dez Bryant not having a pass reception called a pass reception. Button is walking in front of the screen and it is adorable. Anyway, we've seen this match like 90 times now. I remember getting tired of the Fantastics versus the Midnight Express but this is good. Fun nearfall on a LUNG BLOWER by Xavier Woods! Another fun nearfall after a Guillotine Legdrop by Woods. FUNNEST nearfall after Kingston hits an SOS! SUPER KICK PARTY! FUNNESTEST nearfall after a double Splash by the Usos! FUNNESTESTREST nearfall after a Midnight Hour by Kofi! MORE SUPERKICKS! Usos hit the 3-D for the win! That was great. It's Shinsuke Nakamura against Santos Escobar in the Smackdown World Cup! A puroresu legend and a luchadore meet at WWE pro style. This is good. All of Legado de Fantamo take turns distracting Nakamura. Gnarly finisher by Escobar, a toprope Michinoku Driver! That was good. SHOTZI IS DRIVING THE TANK! Raquel Rodriguez comes out. Oh geez, a six way. Wade Barrett calls this a clusterfuck pre-match and I admire his honesty. Let's see, shall we? I assume Sonya Deville is losing. It's hard to concentrate on what is going on because shit is happening in three different areas. I had totally forgotten about Lacey Evans. Sonya gets three quick nearfalls on three different gals. Actually, Xia Li is probably losing this one. It is her DESTINY! Actually, Shotzi could lose this. She's not getting a push to the title. Liv Morgan jumps on Raquel as she is trying to somehow put Deville through a table and I'm guessing someone was supposed to go through the table. HEY! Maybe they are pushing Shotzi to the title. Lacey Evans takes the loss as I assume her push is sitting at a restaurant table with Vince McMahon. It's Jinder Mahal! It's Braun Strowman! CONTROVERSIAL! No flips in this match! The kittens are asleep. I think they like high flying. Strowman will usually tell a little story in his match but that was a bear mauling. Sarah Logan is a cosplay of Max the Impaler, accompanying the Viking Raiders who beat up a bunch of folks. The tag match was great. The Nakamura/Escobar match was pretty good. The rest was kind of killing time, advancing a few storylines. I'll take it. SHEAMUS MIC DOESN'T WORK! Everybody beats up everybody!

Straight up Usos vs. New Day was an all-timer. Absolutely spectacular storytelling from four of the best to ever do it. Match of the Decade level work.

It was very shocking news. I had no idea he was sick or anything was wrong. I heard he we was still going to signings recently, and he was still working on the regular. Like he just voiced Batman again in Multiversus. I think you can debate in so many ways who is the best Batman, but Kevin Conroy was undeniably special. I still can't think of a better all-around performance for The Dark Knight in giving him the Batman personality but also making him a real human being. And I think it's pretty amazing he stuck with the character so long. And he got to other interpretations beyond just the Timm-Verse. He was an incredible talent and a tireless, diligent worker.

Kevin Conroy will always be my Batman. Simple as that.

The biggest fallout from this would be that Kurt Angle would have to get different theme music! No "You Suck! You Suck!". I don't want to live in this timeline.

just heard the news and raced here to check on you, Natural. like you said, Kevin Conroy is THE voice of Batman. i'm glad he got to play the live action role once too, in the Arrowverse version of Crisis. He seemed like a good dude all around. RIP.

The way I always thought Bret leaving should have gone was: Let Bischoff make the announcement that he was jumping to WCW. Since Bret was under contract with the WWF through the December IYH, you have him announce that he’s leaving in a month and taking the world title with him, unless someone can beat him before then. The month becomes a chase, with the entire roster temporarily turning face. And then he loses on the last night to Undertaker; he tries to walk out and the roster blocks him at the top of the aisle; usual stuff like that. Tombstone finishes him, then Taker drops the belt to Michaels at the Rumble in the casket match, and we're back on the same timeline without anyone being double-crossed, quitting, etc.

Remedy confirmed that Control 2 is being made.

I had like a month of feeling just overall "shitty". I figured I'd get back to working out once I felt better. Finally, said "fuck it" and worked out even though I wasn't 100%. Turns out, I felt shitty because I wasn't working out. Dammit.

Gotch bless Kanyon

I am as excited for Roosh vs Bandido as I can be for a TV wrestling match. Oh boy!

Sendai Girls finally bringing back the gaijin.

Hurricane Nicole, a cat 1, is hitting the Daytona Beach area today. This video should be a reminder. When, not if, a big one hits Central FL... the results are going to be catastrophic.

The worst part of this is that it's arguably the most boring timeline imaginable. I remember getting the internet the week this happened and people were going batshit over it. Imagine going back and tell yourself that Bret has this really mediocre run in WCW that peaks with a promo about El Dandy, Shawn retires a few months later, and nothing really happens until one is born again and the other stroke-fucked, and they legit hug it out. If you take this at face value, Imagine telling Vince that neither guy really matter anymore and this agonising decision is really all for naught. I want drug fucked Shawn going to WCW with all of the Clique there and having the run Jeff Hardy did in TNA in 2010, and I want that to just blow up dramatically against the likes of Hogan, Savage, Piper and Flair. I want WWF to basically become an Ed Whalen wet dream, booked by Jim Cornette and Jerry Jarrett to 1950s sensibilities. Bring back the Stomper to headline against Stone Cold. A show where you literally see ROCKABILLY. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. A renaissance of Smith Hart.

This isn't the time or place for this conversation, but the rehab -> church -> Q pipeline seems to have caught a lot of folks if Drake and Dogg's behavior is any indication

Fuck right off, Road Dogg.

Just hearing about this for the first time, crazy!

“When I won the championship at WRESTLEMANIA” was so freakin perfect. Totally opposite use.

David Santana and Carlos Ortiz

You simply can't see enough bad things happen to Portnoy and barstool.

Still feeling very pro-AEW even though I also thought the show kinda sucked and am eternally frustrated by the number of people on the roster, only because I think they have some real hot hands they aren't playing and are cooling off as a result. Glad we're getting Hobbs-Wardlow at Full Gear, but I worry for Pretty Ricky! Don't lose my boy in the shuffle! They really do need to start cementing some new people in the upper and upper-mid card at this point. I could do with less Jay Lethal, more Athena, and I think we are at the exact right amount of Orange Cassidy. The booking is all over the place, but the truth is, I would rather watch a show I mostly enjoy and then complain about what doesn't work for me on the internet (which is how it has always been, since time immemorial) than to watch something I mostly don't enjoy and then complain about how much I still don't like it. I think AEW is in a place in the cycle of fan consumption where of course the shine is off, and of course people are complaining more loudly than they have before, I think this would be the case even if it were a TV show about dragons or sad horse-men or whatever. If by this time next year, every Dynamite is as bad as this one and there is like 75% less Johnny Gargano in WWE, I am open to reconsidering. I thought the Colt Cabana thing was funny, at least. I like Punk and I really do think his presence will be missed (he and Bryan are what finally lured me into watching AEW), but I can understand people in the company feeling pretty salty about everything he brought into the locker room and it does put kind of a nice bookend on things, even if Colt almost killed Jericho (good catch, Daniel Garcia!). I have zero feelings about Jeff Jarrett, somehow, as long as he is on screen significantly less than, like, Wheeler Yuta and does not result in any King of the Mountain matches happening for any reason at all. As for the claims that this still very popular wrestling program is in a death spiral, I say only: ACCUSATIONS! FALSE ACCUSATIONS!

Against the World Series and the NBA, that is actually kind of an outstanding #

Casting Aubrey Plaza in a show about witches feels like a real no-brainer.

It looks like the Hollywood stunt man version. Ben Kinglsey is reprising his role as Travis Slattery for Wonder Man. Most likely the show will have Travis looking to make his comeback as an actor and cash in on his fame and goodwill following the events of Shang-Chi / Ten Rings. I await the rage and sadness of internet incels over the woke casting of a black man as Simon Williams. Their tears will taste delicious.