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If Amazon buys them ,Would Alexa be the Anonymous General Manager of RAW

Welcome to the 2030 Wrestling Draft. Representing WWE its Alexa. Representing AEW it’s Siri …and representing Impact wrestling, it’s Cortana!

All AEW Originals. All AEW Champions.

Mark and Jay working for TNA in 2002 -- they were 17 and 18 at the time and looked like mini-X Pacs.

I don't want to admit how long I thought the apter mags were legit. . .

JLowe's pretty much right. Look at Taker's first face turn logic. "Even an evil zombie demon wrestler from Hell like me wouldn't hit Miss Elizabeth with a chair! Oh, btw, forget dominating the WWF, now I just want to waste several years of my career safeguarding the fed from the freakishly tall and morbidly obese, basically anyone who's too big for me to hit my cool finisher on."

Right by Madame Tussauds and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Truly the Branson of the Empire State

Aw, shit. We're getting Darby/Kushida on this show!

Underground Kingz will forever be an appropriate name for Bun B and Pimp C. Bun B is your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper, unless your favorite rapper is a tattooed face TikTok trapper.

Better gimmick for her than the current one.

Awesome main event. Maybe not quite as great as the TayJay/BunnyPenelope match but still very good. I love TayJay coming off as deathmatch specialists with these matches. Figured Ruby & Willow had to get their revenge here from losing the last match, but otherwise I would've loved TayJay going over after Tay's epic table piledriver off the apron, that ruled. Thought the Paul Walter Hauser segment was some great chaos, always dig the celebs that are obvious fans getting involved like this.

HOLY SHIT!!! THE CRAZY SON OF BITCHES DID IT!!!!

I'm 20 minutes late! DISHES~! SHOWERING~! CUPCAKES~! It's Daddy Magic! It's JOHNNY ROBBIE! That's Robbie Rocket in WOW! It's VIPRESS! It's the CWFH crew! Marina Shafir vs NYLA could be good. I don't think I've ever seen Zyra. Awesome! KEVIN BLACKWOOD! It's Daniel Garcia's bud from Buffalo! They lay it in like two best friends will do. Garcia is a HEAT MACHINE! Blackwood looks fucking great in this. GNARLY DDT by Garcia! That was good. Ari Daivari and Zach Clayton and Ruiz Something! Ari riles up the rubes! Ari Daivari has the greatest pants in the history of wrestling! The Dark Order are fun. Alex Reynolds assumes the role of our babyface in peril. The crowd turns on NEW JERSEY! Neato double teams by the Dark Order! No John Silver running around the ring but that was still fine. I think we heading towards Kenny Omega putting over Konosuke Takeshita. Whoa! Misterioso gets squashed! And unmasked! BRANDON CUTLER! BRANDON CUTLER! BRANDON CUTLER! The Firm are now COMPLETELY AWESOME! I love Ethan Page's face turn! JUKIN'! To hell with grumpy Isaiah Cassidy! PRETTY PETER AVALON! Such an unfortunate haircut. There is a lot of groinular undulating! AIRPLANE! Cassidy KILLS EVERYBODY! Ryan Nemeth takes a cray ass bump to the floor and Cassidy hits the JUVENTUD GUERRERA TOPE! So fucking crazy! ETHAN PAGE GETS THE PIN! GOOD GUYS WIN! GOOD GUYS WIN! GOOD GUYS WIN! It's WILLIE MACK! It's BRIAN CAGE! At the Kia Forum! NICE EXPLOIDER by Willie! DADDY MAGIC CALLS IT THE GIANT BUTT IN THE FACE! Mack sells the Forward Powerbomb thingy like a FREAK! This match is great. Brian Cage is on a fucking ROLL. This match is great! The crowd is WAY behind Willie Mack. Mack SURGES! Cage cuts him off and finally gets the pin! Brian Cage is fucking awesome. It's Zeda Zhang! More CWFH crew! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! This lasts a little longer than most ATHENA matches. YUKA SAKAZAKI! FOR THE SAVE! Goddamit, I'm going to have to order another fucking ROH PPV. It's MAIN EVENT of a weird ass THREE WAY TAG MATCH! It;s the Butcher and the Blade! It's TOP FLIGHT! The BLACKPOOL COMBAT CLUB! They are doing basketball drills! STARTING OFF HOT! Top Flight are laying it in, to my DELIGHT! Blade hits some nice Laraits! The Butcher lays it in on Wheeler Yuta! Yuta German Suplexes to taqg Claudio Castagnoli! Claudio slaughterizes the Blade! GIANT SWING ON THE BUTCHER! Darius Martin is the secret all-star of the match! Dante Martin GETS THE PIN! Cagematch.net was WRONG! YES! That was a wacky episode. Willie Mack versus Brian Cage was our PINNACLE. YUKA! YUKA! YUKA! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA!

Terry Taylor comes in as a moneyed Greenwich snob (with a SC accent). They start as a team but he steals everything from an overconfident Dibiase, including Virgil and the million-dollar belt. Dibiase ends up on the streets and is befriended by Duggan and realizes the true worth of being a good person.

Is this because no matter what anyone does you can't ever seem to just uninstall the damn thing?

They started AEW, of course they are originals.

Hauser sold the quitar shot magnificently. Dropped like a sack of shit on impact and seemed knocked out cold. That was very good. And at least he got to slap Dutt before going down.

Lot of fatalities kicked out at 2.999999

Edge should have been Rated B for 'Based.' Happy MLK Day!

DAK! DAK! DAK!

He buys a well-known toy company and hands out free toys to kids at ringside before matches, shouting his new/updated catchphrase, “Everybody’s got a Fisher-Price!”

Might as well go for 2pts from now on lol

Hulk Hogan is at the game telling people about the time that he had to turn down a contract to play for the Buccaneers

The Nyla Marina storyline continues to develop,and THE QUEEN rightfully gets the pinfall win! Garcia vs Blackwood (who if I understand correctly was in the car with him when Garcia had his big accident)was a REALLY good YouTube match. Early favourite for DEAN's poll! HardyParty storyline is consistently amusing. HEYYYYY I'M LIVVVINNNNN'! Good Lord! Dark Order vs Trustbusters is the NEW early favourite! What a match! Don C doesn't know how to give a business card to a Japanese person. It's one of the first things I learned after moving here. They did too effective a job with the Preston Vance turns on Negative One story. When I see him now it just makes me sad. Wingmen & Chaos SAPs is a DREAM 8-man team up for me personally. Pretty Peter's reaction to Cutler coming out was SO GOOD. Apparently EVERY match is gonna be the new early favourite. So I'll hold off on saying it again. Oh! Big Meaty Men Getting Their Shit In! Postmodern wrestling! Cage vs Mack Best of Seven please! There is nothing in wrestling more enjoyable than an Athena YouTube match! Or, more specifically, the post-match beat-downs. MAGICAL GIRL!!!! Dark Order recruiting again is a very specific kind of nostalgia. OK. BCC vs Top Flight vs Butcher & Blade is DEFINITELY the early favourite for DEAN's poll. Or maybe the Brandon Cutler match. Bryan vs Band-aido, Storm vs Willow, and Darby vs Time Splitter got their work cut out for them. WHAT A SHOW! AEW YouTube is ON FIRE!

IRS should have been DiBiase's sworn enemy instead of his tag partner. Never made a lick of sense. Vince originally wanted Mike Rotunda in his Michael Wallstreet gimmick, but like all WCW signees, Vince was ignorant that he couldn't just use WCW's trademarked characters. Jim Johnston even made an unused theme for Rotunda that ripped off Stewart Copeland's score for the movie Wall Street - he ended up finally using it on the 15th anniversary RAW:

I decided I wanted to watch more Impact Wrestling in 2023 so I subscribed to the Ultimate Insiders on YouTube and I’m already two weeks behind. We are in Pembroke Pines, Florida. I really liked the opening bout between Taylor Wilde and Masha Slamovich. I remember Taylor Wilde from the Awesome Kong matches and from working at Sunglass Hut. It’s nice to see her back in Impact. This was the first time I believe that I’ve seen Masha and I’m a fan I like her look I like her style. Wilde and Slamovich have great chemistry together. Hard hitting match,That stomp on the apron to Slamoviches head was. I enjoyed Deonna Purrazzo on commentary she played into the finish as Slamovich came out of the ring to talk shit then she goes back in the ring and gets Rolled up for the 3 the Slam gets her heat back but beating up the ring crew. Sami Callihan has issues with Cody Deaners crew he wants to join but Deaner is making him job through hoops. Why join a club that doesn’t seem to want you to join? Two weeks ago Steve Macklin and Rich Swann had a pull apart and now Swann challenges Macklin to match at Hard to Kill. I’m sure that match will be good once I get to it. Crazzy Steve Is in the ring and there’s a neon light on the ring and Steve looks like he got into Jeff Hardy’s paint and they brings out Black Tarus who is like a wrestling Minotaur. So Black Tarus is wrestling Anthony Greene who is debuting in Impact tonight. Greene gets some offense in early on actually he holds his own for a while even sends Tarus over the top rope to the outside of the ring. Green got a lot more in than I thought he would. Two segment match and a lot of it was Greene. Tarus had the size advantage but Greene had the speed. Green walked across the top rope and hit a cross body followed by a super kick. Tarus makes a comeback with a couple sling blades and a pop up Damian Drop which perks up the crowd. Backbreaker followed by a piledriver which Tarus calls The Destination Hellhole for the 3. Good match. Impressive outing from Green I was expecting a squash truth be told but we got a competitive match instead. After the match Trey Miguel hits Anthony Greene with his X Division Championship belt and sorry paints his back as Crazzy Steve yells things. I haven’t been following but Miguel must be in a program with Steve and Tarus. Kenny King is at Speedball Mike Baileys school in Montreal, Quebec but Speedballs not there so Kenny attacks his students and calls out Mike Bailey we go to break. Back from break back in Florida Mike Bailey storms through the backstage area looks directly into the camera and challenges Kenny King to a pit fight. We go back to the ring for match 3 both men are in the ring it’s Jonathan Gresham Vs Ernest R Anthony who looks like a dweeb. He proves to be a dweeb as he crackles as he gets Gresham in a headlock. “Ah ha”. Gresham takes control focuses on Ernest’s leg and stretches him out. Gresham has Ernest in a pretzel and pins him. Quick match what I thought Tarus Vs Greene would’ve been. This was a showcase for Gresham. Backstage Tasha Steelz and Savanna Evans are backstage and Giselle Shaw and a dude with a pony tail show up and there’s some bickering going on. They all have a common enemy in the Death Dolls and it looks like they will all be on the same page to take them out. Now we get a video package for Cody Deaner and The Design. next week on Impact: The Design cuts Sami Callihan’s hair. Video Package on Josh Alexander and his record breaking World Title Reign. Thought it was really good really well done. Puts Alexander over as a big deal. He comes out looking like The Man as he should he’s the Impact World Heavyweight Champion. Moose is in the ring looking business casual in his suit and Jordan’s. He cuts a promo on Joe Henry. They are wrestling at Hard to Kill. Moose gets some What chants during his promo. Moose is saying that life has been easy for Joe and life has been hard for Moose had to earn everything Joe had had everything handed to him. Moose also says he’s found his true calling, being a total scumbag which made me chuckle. What a thing to be proud of. The camera cuts to a guy in the crowd dressed like Travis Bickle who is not impressed by Moose. Moose says His Name and Joe Henry shows up with his Digital Media Championship and he wants to show the real Moose, let the moose loose and he has a new entrance theme for Moose. Crowd is into it. Henry’s gimmick is he’s a song and dance man he does his own theme song. I’ve seen him a couple times in ROH and Henry was in Impact a few years ago with Grado. Moose wasn’t impressed. Moose goes to leave calls for his music and Henry’s song for him plays. All and all not a bad segment. What a really well done Mickie James career retrospective video. Great use of old Asylum Era footage, they talk about WWE without showing any footage of course. Spans her entire career Hardcore Country and all. She evens talks about meeting Nick Aldis. This was really well done. Mickie James has a storied history with TNA/Impact and I think it’s cool that she’s wrapping her career up in this promotion. It got a little dusty in the room when I watched the Don West tribute video. We now go to match 4 which is Matt Cardona vs Chris Sabin in their first ever one on one match up. Match starts off pretty unevenly match we end up on the outside, Cardona goes for a powerbomb on the ramp Sabin reverses it into a back body drop. Cardona eats up on the receiving end of the ramp bump. We then go to break back from break they are back in the ring and Cardona is in control. Anytime the smaller faster Sabin tried to start speeding up with the high flying the bigger stronger Cardona would slow it down with holds. And the occasional clothesline. Sabin gets a quick kick in on Cardona’s left knee and starts to control the match. There’s one women in the crowd who’s 100% behind Sabin on the offense. You can hear here. Cardona sends Sabin into the turnbuckle. Reboot attempt and Sabin tosses Cardona out of the ring as we take another break. It’s a 3 segment match! We are back from real both men back in the ring. Cardona almost decapitates Sabin with a knee strike. Sabin dives to the outside onto both Matt Cardona and Brian Myers. Some more back and forth in the ring until Sabin hits the Cradle Shock which looks like a falcon arrow for the 3. Really good match that was given time. That was fun. Bully Ray interrupts the run down of the Hard to Kill rundown threatens the commentators and demands a microphone. Crowd chants “Bully’s a Bitch”. Bully Ray calls out Josh Alexander. Scott D’Amore gave both Bully and Josh the night off. Scott D’Amore comes out and he is not happy. Scott gets on Bully’s aaa for showing up. Bully is being a dick cuz he’s a dick. Scott tells Bully this run in Impact could be a redemption story or a cautionary tale. And Says Devon won’t be in the same room with Bully unless someone gives him a big bag of money. Now I want to see a vignette of Bully cutting a promo with Devon in the background counting money out of a big bag. Anthem give Devon a big bag of money let’s get a Team 3D heel run. Motor City is right there, Motor City kicking out of the 3D led to the break up of 3D in TNA so reunite 3D to exact revenge on Motor City for breaking them up. Bully Ray now talks and says he’s winning the Impact World Championship for a 3rd time come Hard to Kill. Says he doesn’t need Scott’s respect. Scott and Bully get heated like hella heated. The earnest Canadian against the brash New York bully. Scott punches Bully in the face to goons come out and hold Scott as Bully lays him out. Bully Piledrives Scott. The goons grab a table and there’s a pop. The crowd chants we want tables as a defenseless Scott D’Amore withers in pain in the ring. What is with wrestling crowds and tables? Scott D’Amore is powerbombed through the table. Bully Ray grabs the mic. he asks Scott if he knows who he is? Bully answers his own question saying he’s Bully Ray the next Impact World Champion and with that we go off the air. I enjoyed that segment more than I thought I would. Wasn’t a bad show the matches were good the two in ring segments were fine. The video packages were really well done and they had a steady build to Hard to Kill.

Omega-Ospreay was incredible and easily my favorite match listed. I don't watch NJPW on AXS and watched that match on the Kingdom PPV so I disqualified it from my personal pick here. I went Danielson-Takeshita, but I also loved the Elite-Death Triangle. I'm gonna have a look at this El Lindeman match from GLEAT. I'm also going to check out that trios bout. I've only seen Quiet Storm a handful of times, but I always thought he had incredible movement in ring. I just watched Willie Mack-Fatu from the MLW show, and it's a nice solid piece of business. Willie Mack is such an underrated and underutilized talent. Is there a reason why Jacob Fatu isn't working for the Big 2?

Oh here we go!

They need to make the ROH women's division like this- which is like the IMPACT! Knock Outs division. Bring in Jordan Blade, Trish Adora, Max the Impaler, Davienne (if she is still wrestling) and Hyan- some ladies that will lay it in. Make it stiffer that the AEW division (except for Toni Storm and Jamie Hayter- which would be impossible).

Hot Damn this Dax Pod Ist fukkin Rad.

Clancy Brown’s pop culture legacy is so varied and amazing. lex Luthor, Mr Krabbs, the Kurrgan, Buckaroo Banzai, Shawshank, Lost, and much more

He's from lots of different places! My friend Breann is in her 30s and never seen Highlander despite the fact she is a HUGE Queen fan. When I rattled off the cast she had to pull over the car we were in and screamed "M ISTER KRABBS IS IN HIGHLANDER?!?" I love Clancy Brown and pray this isn't his overall legacy James

Hollywod Rock is by far the best version. By. Far.

Also known as doing a Penta.

I will die on the hill that those are the GOAT Canucks jerseys and that they should be their primaries. I also love the 80s V jerseys, so admittedly my tastes may be off

BK Rhythm/ Robbie Rocket vs Coach Campanelli/ Randi Rah Rah- WOW Engranaje Jack vs "El Emperador" Al Cold- CNL Alan Extreme/ Imposible/ Mr. Leo vs Gran Pandemoniu, Hijo De Pandemonium/ Pandemonium Jr- IWRG Penelope Pink/ Vickie Lynn McCoy vs Tiki Chamorra/ Leia Makoa- WOW Daniel Garcia vs Kevin Blackwood- AEW Elevation Brandon Cutler/ Isaiah Cassidy/ Matt Hardy/ Ethan Page vs Pretty Peter Avalon/ Ryan Nemeth/ El Serpentico/ Luther- AEW Elevation Brian Cage vs Willie Mack- AEW Elevation Athena vs Zeda Zhang- AEW Elevation The Butcher/ The Blade vs Dante Martin/ Darius Martin vs Wheeler Yuta/ Claudio Castagnoli- AEW Elevation

And a frequent subject of Bloom County jokes that I didn't get as a kid.

My mind is blown that they were just around 22 when they were wrestling Steen and Generico back in 2007, they definitely looked way ahead of their time. They were around Top Flight's current ages for some reference.

Not sarcastic, fuck that url. I also forgot we aren't supposed to do pics. This whole thing was a disaster.

Normally the Vikings win one playoff game before the embarrassing loss. Pleased to see them trying new things

Because old wrestling is astoundingly better than new wrestling and there's only one person in the world who can realistically give us years of Omni footage:

"I've worked countless bears in territories all over the world over the years, all of whom went out of their way to thank me afterwards for a great match, and allowing them to get home safely to their bear family. That was always something I took great pride in. You walk into any locker room, and you look up on the wall, and no matter which bear your name is listed next to, you know what you're going to get. I don't think any wrestler could say the same if they saw their name next to Bill Goldberg at the Summerslam for example"

The Dax podcast this week is great. All about the early days of The Revival in NXT. One fun fact: Their name came from Sami Zayn, who was at the gym with them and a CCR song played and said they should call themselves TTR instead. Got changed to The Revival in a much better move. A lot of putting HHH over with reasons why a lot of wrestlers love a dude that we all hated when he was a performer. But the breakdown at the end of how to make a hot tag work and how the drama of tag wrestling is not just with the result but is primarily in making a guy watch his best friend get the shit kicked out of him, often by duplicitous means, as he can do nothing but watch until the catharsis of the tag rules.

Awesome!

It’s a stacked show with Garcia vs his Indy partner and a triple threat tag.

can you really count former IWGP Champion Kenny Omega as an AEW original? how about former IWGP, 3x ROH, 4x PWG Tag Team champs the Young Bucks?