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  1. I had no idea you felt this way! Why haven't you said something?
    9 points
  2. I'd have to argue that Swerve is making a case for himself for at least being an alternate in most Top 5's. I've really come around on him.
    7 points
  3. Only if we can fit Darby in to the bazooka.
    6 points
  4. Sting shoots MJF with a bazooka fired from the rafters.
    6 points
  5. You say that as if I or any of the other oddly named people here can do anything about it. Your whinging accomplishes nothing.
    5 points
  6. "If that egg-suckin' dog dies, he dies!"
    5 points
  7. I’ll vote for the lumberjack match this week if they do the right thing.
    5 points
  8. AEW signings in 2022: Top 5: 5. Toni Storm. 4. Wheeler Yuta. 3. Claudio Castagnoli. 2. William Regal. 1. Konosuke Takeshita. Honourable mention to Renee Paquette, Samoa Joe and Keith Lee.
    5 points
  9. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that everyone who actually watches QT vs OC really, really enjoys it. OC had wonderful matches with Tony Nese, Ari Davari, Jack Hager, and Ethan Page this year. Of course QT is going to be a great foil for him.
    5 points
  10. IT'S RAMPAGE! Darby Allin takes on Cole Karter! Karter could be the new Buff Bagwell. JESUS! Allin hits craziest fucking TOPES on earth. Man, Karter is taking an assbeating. Karter crushes Allin's testicles on the toprope! We now move to the part of the match where Allin makes his opponent look like a total murderer. And he does. Allin is a budding Chris Jericho in that category. Karter is good at getting the crowd behind Darby Allin's STRUGGLE to escape the low-grade heel beating applied by Cole Karter. Karter needs to channel his inner douche more to become a TRUE HEAT MACHINE. Allin makes his comeback and hits a CODE RED! KARTER HITS A TOPROPE FALCON ARROW! So Cole Karter has the possibility of ruling soon. Karter misses on a 450. I'm digging Karter. Scorpion Deathdrop and Coffin Drop for the win. That was good. COLE KARTER! HOLY FUCK! SHANE TAYLOR! FUCK YEAH! Holy FUCK, Shane Taylor versus Keith Lee? Okay, now I gotta get this fucking PPV. The Acclaimed vs FTR would be good. The Bunny versus Hikaru Shida for the Pro Wrestling WAVE title? Sure. The Bunny is ratings, DADDY! It would be completely AWESOME if the Bunny becomes the WAVE champion. That would be a weird twist to this truly weird feud. Isiah Cassidy screams like a little girl! Jarrett and Lethal are a good old school heel tagteam, UNBELIEVABLY! Cassidy is our sympathetic babyface! Jarrett and Lethal are they new Hardliners. Marq Quen is the most SPECTACULAR Robert Gibson ever! Jarrett and Lethal do a very awkward finisher! That was fine. ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! Will she beat the shit out of someone? One can only hope. Hey! It's Dani Mo! She's awesome. HOLY SHIT! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! Athena is approaching a GUNTHER/IKEDA level of ass stomper. ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! So FUCKING AWESOME! HIT HER! HIT AUBREY! HIT EVERYBODY! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! Athena as the ROH champion and the Bunny as the WAVE champion is a future I want for AEW. Samoa Joe takes on Mr. Toni Storm! At Final Battle! Oh MAN! Darby Allin versus Samoa Joe? Jesus, that should be an assbeating. QT Marshall is a HEAT MACHINE! Orange Cassidy has taken the All-Atlantic Championship to a new, lunatic level. QT is backbreaker CRAZY! Ethan Page has a little subplot to the match, yelling at Matt Hardy! I wish it was 1999 so Matt Hardy could physically have a great match with Ethan Page. While we revel in picture in picture, the midcard and Dark Elevation all stars beat on Orange Cassidy, and Cassidy sells the back like a TOTAL champ. Hey! Brandon Cutler makes a cameo! Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford show up and causes a nearfall on a Diamond Cutter! Orange Punch to win! THE HOUSE OF BLACK! That was the greatest episode of Elevation EVER. AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD!
    4 points
  11. I freaking loved that Ricochet/ Escobar main event. And Lacey 3.0 or 5.0, she's had a lot of changes, better be basically heel Slaughter. That'd work, because she can't be a babyface. It never takes.
    4 points
  12. It's Sheamus taking on Sami Zane! Sami goes back to assuming the roll of Terry Funk en lieu of El Generico. Sheamus is still the new Greg the Hammer Valentine, what with him beating the fuck out of folks. Sheamus is wrestling like this is the lowest rung on the ladder to climb to get to Roman Reigns. Sheamus isn't making like Sami is GUNTHER- so this isn't transcendent or anything. Fun reversal of a Toprope Air Raid Crash into a Powerbomb by Sami! FOR TWO! Air Raid Crash by Sheamus FOR TWO! Jimmy Uso CHEATS! BLUE POWER BOMB FOR TWO! Solo Sikoa Beats the fudge out of the ringside Brawling Brutes! Jay Uso Superkicks Sheamus and Sami rolls him up for the win! That was fun. Emma kisses Madcap Moss! OooooOooooo! And she gets beaten to death by Shayna Baszler! Emma sells the arm damage. NEARFALL on a Hanging Neckbreaker on Baszler! Emma with a Tarantula! Shayna randomly applies the Sleeper and Emma taps! That was quick. Shotzi runs down postmatch to also get beaten to death by Baszler! Raquel Rodriguez runs down and doesn't get beaten to death by Baszler. Lacy Evans 3.0! I dug 2.0. Jesus Christ, Kofi Kingston gets to get beaten to death by GUNTHER! GUNTHER sells a wad before cutting off Kofi with something hideous. Kaiser CHEATS! Braun Strowman shows up and Kofi gets a nearfall on a SOS! Kofi gets a bunch more offense. GUNTHER opts to start mauling Kingston. SUWA DROPKICK! GUNTHER beats him with an EMERALD FROZIEN~! I think that was an Emerald Frozien. That was good. Not a harrowing GUNTHER exercise in stiffness, but it was good. Tegan Knox is back! Liv Morgan is still hardcore and crazy! Santo Escobar and Ricochet wrestle to take on GUNTHER! The ref throws Legado del Fantasma out and the crowd doesn't really pop like freaks, which is strange. GREAT fucking Tope by Escobar. I give it 1/2 Dragon Lee. I give it a 1/3rd Ciclon Ramirez. The crowd are watching something to the left of the match. This is good. Kinda Dragon Gate. Needs a little stiffness and weight or some Strange Style to make me really dig it, but this is good. Gnarly Superplex by Ricochet. Ricochet and Escobar SHOWBOAT their freakish balance and Escobar hits a Rana to the floor! Man, the Buffalo crowd sucks ass. Ricochet does the Will Ospreay Landing On His Feet From A Toprope Rana! Escobar gets his Knees up for the Shooting Star Press! Toprope Poison Rana by Ricochet! Ricochet hits a 2 Cold Scorpio Tumbleweed for the win! That was good! That was a good little episode of Smackdown.
    4 points
  13. Tony needs to go the Impact route of killing anyone leaving on-screen. MJF's contract is up and Mox snaps his neck on the next Dynamite.
    4 points
  14. Bottom 5: 5. Paige Van Zant 4. Saraya 3. Jeff Jarrett 2. Jeff Jarrett 1. Jeff Jarrett
    4 points
  15. NIFTY YOUNG MEN VERSUS THE FACTORY SPECTACULAR EDITION OF RAMPAGE!! Orangey Boy Cassidy vs Cutie Marshall: a nonchalantly agreed upon lumberjack match! To see who rules the Atlantic. Darby Allin vs Cole Carter: I want to say that if Bryan vs Bald doesn't win DEAN's Poll this week, I will eat a hat. But. I would have said that about Kingston vs Akiyama last week. So who knows? Anyway, both of the AEW Nifty Guys vs Factory Stooges matches have massive sleeper potential. Athena vs Former Ohio Valley Wrestling Women's Champion "Dynamite" Dani Mo. I am gonna go way out on a limb and predict an Athena win here. Hopefully she continues her YouTube tradition of "being" unprofessionally violent in the ring. It's really fun when she does that! Plus fucking Jeff Jarrett in the fucking ring again and fucking Saraya on the mic again. Will either of them win me over? I suppose there's a non-zero chance. I think it is more likely that Danielson vs Harwood gets zero votes this week than that I enjoy those particular segments. Still very very likely I will enjoy the show as a whole, though. It's also possible, perhaps even likely, that Elevation will be Gordlow's favourite pro wrestling show next week. While this edition of Rampage is, like, 60% aimed at my sweet spot (on paper), Elevation is pertmuch 100% Gordlownip. Can't wait!
    4 points
  16. Best wrestling Twitter going.
    4 points
  17. Not that anything outside WWE and a potentially profitable AEW isn't a money pit, it's that boxing is the ultimate boom or bust business. And not even like an audible boom you can show off. More closer to a very low roar. If I have an investors call, the last thing I would tell them is I'm going into boxing. Even if they wanted to go the Tyson Fury route, he is already splitting the pie with Top Rank on the US side and Frank Warren on the UK side. It would be silly for him to hand out another portion to someone else when he himself isn't a huge draw. If they wanted to do it with Logan Paul, that celebrity boxing interest is dissipating fast. We're having big name ex NFL players fight and either no one knows the fights are happening or the people who do know just don't give a shit cause the fights suck. Granted, it started off with way more interest than the original run of celebrity fights 15 years ago. However, it's cooled off tremendously. I mean they probably could be the third wheel co promoter when he fights some Youtuber, but that's a weird way to piss away money when the last several years they've been risk averse. If they try to go all in where they try to build around one huge star (none out there really so yeah), the America Presents promotional model 20+ years ago proves that ain't going to work. They (a combo of businessman Mat Tinley and late boxing promoter/hustler Dan Goossen of the famed Goossen boxing family) were able to woo Mike Tyson for a handful of fights in his final years of relevancy as a fighter in the hopes of luring away a potential megastar in the making. At the time, they said as much themselves saying they were looking for the next Mike Tyson. Guess what? Almost two and a half decades later, folks are still in search for the next Mike Tyson. America Presents lasted 3 or 4 years and then went away quickly as they appeared. We're talking about a time in boxing where the landscape was much more open and friendly to promoters that weren't Bob Arum or Don King. You had the aforementioned America Presents, you had Cedric Kushner Promotions which had Sugar Shane Mosley and Virgil Hill, you had Square Ring promoting Roy Jones Jr., you had the revival of Forum Boxing that Jerry Buss started which had Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson and a bunch of great Mexican boxers like Juan Manuel Marquez and Marco Antonio Barrera, you had Main Events which promoted Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Vernon Forrest, and Arturo Gatti, and a few other notable promotions. Now? It's Bob Arum, Eddie Hearn, and Al Haymon with De La Hoya's promotion Golden Boy barely hanging on. If you're not with those first three especially, good luck trying to be a star or running a show that makes ANY money. That monopoly is so strong it absolutely ended an American premium cable staple in HBO boxing, which was around for decades. No one is going to break that monopoly. 50 Cent didn't do it. Jay Z didn't do it. Triller certainly hasn't done it. As already mentioned, Dana White didn't even get out of the starting blocks. He got so frustrated he just decided to fucking promote slap boxing instead and get it legalized as an actual sport in Nevada. If Dana White the most equipped person for something like that (even with all his shortcomings) doesn't want the smoke, Nick Khan and Paul Levesque definitely don't want that smoke.
    4 points
  18. Enjoyed the Darby and Athena matches, Nate Webb and Kevin Thorn were fun easter eggs, and they got me to bite on a QT nearfall. A worthwhile Rampage imo. I'm much more excited about Joe vs. Darby than I am about Joe vs. Juice.
    3 points
  19. Let's go #FTR. Make it so.
    3 points
  20. The weirdest thing with Cody was his AEW Unrestricted interview about the charity a week before he was gone.
    3 points
  21. Guys, can't we get BEYOND Thunderdome?! (I stole that joke from MST3K)
    3 points
  22. 3 points
  23. Conversely, the first company to actually electrocute Drew Brees will have my unending consumer loyalty.
    3 points
  24. Well said, (from the first few pages) it feels like it's being overlooked how well Friedman did making himself unlikeable again. At the very least offer some points for not being a cool heel. Further, it feels inconclusive in 2022 whether the 'X-Pac heat' is actually damaging. Or if it's actual go away heat in the case of Max Friedman. The turn on Regal and everything he did in this re-established himself Truly as a Heel. He also set-up a lot of potential matches. I heard the name Eddie Kingston and thought 'that's certainly a program I'd care to see'. I kinda liked him digging in on all his favorite topics. And I liked his flat out proclaiming himself to wrestle only on PPV, and on rare occasion! Bryan was so great selling the Regal shit. Goddamn am I ever sad to see William go... but... considering they were losing him, this felt like an incredibly fun exit for the Gentleman Villain. Regal in AEW, and the BCC, and what could have been? I've been watching everything on tape delay. And in preference. Early Thursday mornings for Dynamite. Wrestling over breakfast is a beautiful thing. This week's show at an hour 50 with a few skims was excellent - where maybe it didn't seem as such over the 2 hour duration, and without whatever that Acclaimed promo was. Watching this show with the ability to skim Willow-Anna and mostly ffwd the clearly terrible Jade segment made it inevitably a hit. I'm sold. I was initially amused by this song choice. Then on 3rd run I was thinking maybe less so. I don't know the Kansas catalog outside of the 2 songs that have repetitiously played on the radio since their 70 something release. When those songs come on the radio I change the channel. Always. But Wrestling certainly has a way with music! The Omega visual is the perfect sell. Re: 11/30/22 Dax Harwood v Bryan Danielson was 'fucking awesome!' I especially loved the somewhat unique (or fresh to me) work around the barricade. So fun! Similar thoughts on Joe v AR Fox. Just a perfect assbeating with enough thrills to come away better for it. Grumpy old man assbeater Joe is the best Joe! Bring on the slightly promoted Final Battle PPV. Which I'm fine with being a thrown together set of dream matches - one featuring the Briscoes. I'll happily take a 3rd round of FTR v Briscoes? Put a cage on it if you must. Omega/Bucks v Death Triangle still have a long way to 7 but thus far it's been an exceptional 'piece of business.' Note: all matches viewed with heavenly audio effect that brings the live crowd to the forefront (a good one in this instance) while making the commentary a background squeak. I love it so much!
    3 points
  25. What a great comparison. To take it a step further, I'd say Douglas and MJF both have a propensity to give into their worst instincts at times (MJF with the 'bidding war' stuff and going far too long, and Shane undermining some of his own otherwise great promos with less-than-necessary cussing and 'Dick Flair' stuff).
    3 points
  26. Makes sense as MJF is kind of a mash-up of Shane Douglas/Impact Player shootier stuff with some of Mick Foley's praising Eric Bischoff promos mixed in.
    3 points
  27. I wish I looked that good now, much less at 68. Damn.
    3 points
  28. I like the Nak took the time to not only take a cute picture of Imperium, but also to censor GUNTHER.
    3 points
  29. Yeah, this looks more like Harrison Ford in ROTJ let’s get this over with burnout than Love & Thunder where Pratt looked like he was watching Feige hold his family hostage right next to the camera lens.
    3 points
  30. 3 points
  31. Am I about to spend 35 american dollars to pre-order Andre the Giant in a teal sportscoat? You bet your ass.
    3 points
  32. PENTIMENT [4] A biggish budget Disco Elysium-like with a heavy emphasis on charm and art history headed by the person behind Fallout New Vegas, but also an EXTREMELY deft hand in how it reveals how your build effects what you see. Disco has the bold idea to show you options you can roll on even if your stats won't clear them, to plant more specific seeds about the kind of player you might like to try next time. Pentiment instead at no point reveals what's available for different builds, and those different builds can change on six different factors (so far! I'm only in act 2!). I am in constant awe of what they've done here. High marks, strong recommendation, probably #3 on my top 5 but I could see it passing SIGNALIS.
    3 points
  33. Antonio Brown, who is legitimately a hall of fame talent, played at Central Michigan. If you think that happened on accident, you don't understand how football works. There is not a football team on earth without at least 1 crazy person. The amount of crazy it takes to overwhelm his talent is outrageous. Just think how many people have to say, "nope, I'm not doing that," for him to get to Central Michigan. Also, do a Google image search of his team photos from Central Michigan, you won't be disappointed.
    3 points
  34. The Holiday special was super fun. Drax and Mantis are a wonderful chaotic duo.
    3 points
  35. Not to be confused with bringing a stadium show to a minor international market "For the first time ever, The WWE is going to Bahtoo Stadium in Mandelay, Myanmar"
    3 points
  36. I've never been happier to have named my old dog after Emi.
    3 points
  37. Already looking forward to next week's AEW Dynamite.
    2 points
  38. That's what we thought about Cody.
    2 points
  39. WHAT THE FUCK!!?!?!?! "I know we're in a lightning storm here, but please stand next to these metal poles and put this piece of electronic equipment on you."
    2 points
  40. While i believe you are right on your first point, but saying that Khan & Co. are "over-extended" because of ROH might be going a step too far. ROH has only run 3 stand alone shows. It's not like Khan is booking two ongoing weekly presentations. I think what overextended him was not only ROH, but the Forbidden Door show, the talent issues (most notably CM Punk and his gripebomb, but definitely not exclusive to him), the turnover in WWE and renewed rivalry, plus the ongoing TV contract negotiations. It definitely seems to be more than he was prepared for, but to put it all on ROH seems disingenuous. ROH having no value except the (history and) tape library? That i will agree with. Not that it can't change, but as it stands, in 2021 ROH was an essentially dead brand.
    2 points
  41. Apparently the rumors of Eric Young going back to the WWE are true because again it wouldn't be TNA/IMPACT without literally killing off a character. That is one thing this company does over the WWE. When someone is leaving they kill them.
    2 points
  42. 7-minute match in NXT (2017), 6-minute match in SHIMMER (2011), 7-minute match in SHIMMER (2011), and 14-minute match in SHIMMER (2012)
    2 points
  43. Opening segment worked. It was short and sweet and to the point. I think I hoped for half a second that the Briscoes would answer the challenge so that they could heat up the ROH PPV with some sort of dream match, but I'm glad Page is feeling better (even if I generally don't want to see him wrestle). Mox is one of the better opponents for him and they should have a pretty heated match that's more about them hitting each other than Page hitting springboard clotheslines or whatever. I'll write more about Dax vs Danielson on Monday, but it was very good. There were a few moments in the first third where Dax seemed to be almost stutter stepping heading into things and I don't know if that was nerves or what. It didn't negatively impact the match because it generally led to something that wasn't supposed to work (a series of counters) instead of something that was smoothly supposed to work, but it was a little jarring. Like the best part of the AEW house style, they had to work for things, which is good for Danielson because he has so many different things. Here it was just his kick, so that when he finally did hit it, even once, it was a viable near-fall. A lot of Dax being in control here, aggressively, but without major heat, so it made for a different sort of match than even some of the more neutral Danielson ones from the last year. Loved the fake out punch before the pile driver, as that was a different twist but it fit the match and the specific things they'd been doing/trying. I could live with the endless clotheslines, because again, it fit Danielson and was a different take on that idea. Best part of the whole thing might have been Dax faking out that he wasn't going to shake his hand post match. Enjoyed AR Fox vs Joe a lot too. Heel turn was a good thing for Joe as there are a lot of guys he can base for as a heel and I'll take a flyer vs a base over a flyer vs a flyer anyday. First walk away from Joe was about as gif worthy as you can get due to his facial expression. Second one directly led to the finish after Fox's really good flurry. Fox took all of Joe's stuff in the corner well. Post-match was a little rough. Joe's King of Television shtick is good. Wardlow's World really needs to be rethought. Going back to a bunch of old ROH matches for the PPV is probably a bad idea. I'm ok seeing Yuta vs Garcia again, but the progression has been unstable to say the least. MJF thing is still best described as a shame. I do hope this isn't it for Regal. The idea of Regal lost and confused on who he's supposed to be and what he's supposed to represent in 2022 is kind of fascinating but I'm not sure he'd be interested in exploring that. The perfect place for that to lead him would be to Adam Page or Eddie Kingston, actually, but it's kind of moot to go too deep into that when most likely scenario has him leaving. Starks should have probably said something on the mic on the way out to register what just happened, something about how MJF may not respect wrestling/the company/etc., but he'd damn well learn to respect him in two week's time. That sort of thing. Davari jobbing so much and showing so much ass makes it look worse when he actually does well elsewhere. They should protect him at least a little and use Slim J or Sonny Kiss or JVSK in that spot. Hardy made the most of his ten seconds there. I'd say that the Hardy/Page stuff is the second or third best storyline over the last month or two in AEW (up there with Athena), but a lot of people aren't even seeing it. Willow was super over. I'm with DEAN on the idea that she's over enough to challenge Hayter, but only on the idea that she loses to set up her win against Athena later. One thing I liked about the Anna match was how the idea that she went to a chinlock when she was behind Willow during the PIP instead of the Queenslayer was validated by how easily Willow crushed her when she put the Queenslayer on later. Obviously someone as strong as Willow had to be sufficiently worn down first. Ruby's appearance post match probably would have worked better as a save with Tay and Anna beating down Willow, right? I think I blinked and I missed the Jade thing but it's leading to Kiera Hogan vs Jade, right? Match 3 of 9: Nick Bockwinkel (c) vs Jumbo Tsuruta 6/22/80: This was in AWA territory and Baba was in to commentate for Japanese TV. That means, Heenan was there, Mean Gene did the Ring Announcing ("Tommy" Jumbo Tsuruta) and Verne said before the match he'd wrestle the winner. Heenan then shoved him for no good reason and Verne clocked him, which made Heenan sort of a non-factor for much of the match. Match itself was very good. They worked the entry point much differently than the last two, more of the format of Bockwinkel trying to abuse Jumbo and then Jumbo firing back tit-for-tat. If Bock would get an arm drag and slam him then Jumbo would get the spots as revenge and show him up. Bock took over with some real chippy stuff, just a double leg that looked like they were shooting and hard, hard shots onto the arm. He was trying to contain Jumbo but Jumbo hit the jumping knee and started to meanly work over the back. Bock may have unlocked grumpy Jumbo years early with how hard they were going at it. Less long holds here, but definite focus to try to set up the double underhook suplex and abdominal stretch. Bockwinkel would try to figure up from underneath but Jumbo stayed on him. When they finally got to the hold, Bock was able to push them out of the ring. He came back in with a bunch of headlock cheapshots to the throat. Two of the things I tend to give Bock credit for are his total engagement and full body selling as the match goes on. The cross-section of the two is how he just throws his entire body into everything he does. If he throws a punch, he'll sort of recoil back with it. There's a spot here where he goes for a pile driver, can't get it, and Jumbo gets one shortly thereafter, and as he's up, he's just flailing his feet perfectly. But he does that with almost everything. It's just this amazing performance presence in the moment that almost not other wrestler can live up to (Terry Funk and... maybe Negro Casas and Buddy Rose and I'm not even sure who else?). Jumbo kept coming back with the crowd definitely behind him, with Bock trying to slow him down, including with a King of the Mountain. Ultimately, they ended back up in the stretch, but Bock was able to hiptoss Jumbo right into the ref. Great ref bump but the follow up was muddled. Heenan took too long to blatantly interfere. They couldn't get the ref in the right place soon enough, etc. Shame as the match itself was great. So three matches, three different feels and structures, all good stuff.
    2 points
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