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Tony gets booker of the year for turning me into a Jarrett fan.

[Facendavoice] held in check all afternoon and in serious danger of being shut out, but the referees, like all great players, save their best efforts for the biggest moments [/Facendavoice]

Can't do gin anymore. The worst drunk I've ever been was after a night of drinking exclusively gin. I threw up in a washing machine. I did find a whole baked potato in my jacket pocket when I got home, so the night wasn't a total wash. But if I smell gin now, I am instantly transported to standing over that washing machine. I stick with whiskey, Caesers, beer, and fun fruity drinks now.

One thing Khan did say in the last 24 hours or so is that the Bloomberg Businessweek article that came out last week has led to a spur of interest from sponsors/business partners, etc. So we'll see if we get a Pitch Black match in AEW too.

Rush is so great. Dear lord that was awesome.

it pains me to post this: the official Tecmo Super Bowl 2023 prediction. the Chiefs absolutely demolished the Eagles. just ate their lunch, and came back for dinner too. i've never seen such a one-sided affair. Chiefs effectively used a combination of running and passing to rack up the points, while their defense absolutely just stifled the Eagles. shout out to Neil Smith, who had 11 sacks! this is one time i hope the prediction is wildly wrong.

With respect to any 12-steppers or edgers, GIN IS WIN. Tbh even a Gordons and Schweppes can be decent. Adding some cocktail bitters can make a difference when working with a lower-quality gin. I favour Bitter Truth's Tonic Bitters but a lot of things work. Personally I've got a bottle of Bulldog on the go - flying between UK and EU regularly gives you access to some cheap bots. (I tried Seattle's Big Gin a few years ago, it hit the spot) Tequila...yeah it's been a while. There's actually a 'Listening Bar' specialising in mezcal near where I stay when in Budapest and the prices are borderline sensible so yeah maybe I'll try that soon.

Just finished Andor. Loved it as much as most others seem to. Stories of the early rebellion are particularly interesting to me, Rebels for instance is one of my favourite Star Wars stories. Reading back on the comments here, I was surprised by the dislike of Syril. The mother was a bit much at times, but I liked seeing someone from the Empire from that view. They're pretty much always just portrayed as the uniform they wear. Give me more mundane officers dealing with demotions, I guess. Plus, him and Dedra gave me Kirtan Loor and Ysanne Isard vibes

beef!

Toradol is the real MVP of the game.

"Okay, you can have completions with one foot inbounds if we take away the QB sneak push play again"

If that catch in the first half wasn't a catch, no way was that anything other than an incompletion. Consistency!

Awesome! Jeff Jarrett is a weirdo.

We don't have a ton of Froelich and a lot of what we have are little clips from 67 Australia with bad VQ but you can really get a sense of how good he was at moving in the ring from this 81 PNW match with Borne, even though he was into his 40s:

RIP Eric Froelich. He was probably the first technical/European-style wrestler I ever saw, at the Vancouver All Star showsxtaped at BCTV studios when I was a little kid. By all accounts he was a guy with legit skills and an even better person than he was a wrestler . https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2023/02/11/eric-froelich-dead-at-85/

I'd suggest staying well rid of tequila. Gin I got into during our trips to Edinburgh, but that will need a proper tonic to go with it. But neither are something your life will be richer for, after having tasted. Not lying though when I say that Gin and Tonic has made more than a few Dynamites last year seem even more enjoyable than they probably were.

Preshow was fun, Natalia Markova is a showstealer every time no matter where she is on the card. Kerry/Taylor ended up very good. Kratos with an insane bladejob, that was nuts, but really put over this match as a bigger grudge match with that kind of visual. Legit shocked to see The Renegade Twins become champs! They looked great as usual. Cool moment, thought this would be a foregone conclusion loss coming off them winning on Powerrr to get the shot here so that was unexpected. Both teams are awesome. EC3/Kiley was rather disappointing. Was hyped to see Kiley back as he was one of my absolute favs in his WWE run 10+ years ago, but this didn't live up to much. Kiley wrestling in generic street clothes was weird and made him look a lot older, his entrance was strangely subdued. Was shocked that he attempted an over the top dive that didn't go too well. Still hope he can get back in the mix over time. Adonis/Murdoch was short and solid, surprised but glad to see Adonis get the clean win. Kamille's matches are almost always my favorite on these shows, this was a fun brawl with a great finish, also popped for her hitting the Coast to Coast. I love Kamille's epic title run and happy to see it keep going. Kamille coming dressed for a street fight was a nice touch. Main event was a fun cluster of interference and ref bumps. Tyrus working babyface fighting from underneath was different and surprising to actually hear the crowd behind him in the end. NWA Nuff Said PPV full results

NOAH coined NOAH-Ism few years ago. They always tried to avoid the Royal Road term. Since CyberFight there is some Inoki-ism and old elements of Strong Style in NOAH and some of those old elements that not even current NJPW uses. The style and booking recently somewhat changed again these past few months. Another term they used was Misawa-ism during the last decade before the previous buy out. DDT was using the term the Main Road, so the basic Royal Road mixed up with the DDT's previous indy style. Some in DDT reject the Main Road and are less of it in kayfabe too. NJPW, AJP, NOAH, DDT and more all share the Royal Road match build or build to the bigger moves over time passed. The old Showa fight like build that NJPW kept for longer died out many years ago. NJPW however still does the spottier spots of NJPW 90's.

Pretty classic NWA traveling champ booking tonigt. Islam wins the decision. Volk finishes the fight on top. Now we got some heat for Yair/Volk. Islam vs. Poirier doesn"t interest me at all. I honestly don't know what does.

I DEMAND FIVE MORE ROUNDS!

Heyyyy Yair Rodriguez is pretty fun to watch.

After reading in that article about his rivalry with Brady and how Brady was regularly a dick to him, this makes me feel better:

Man, this would be a dull game if it weren't for Philly unforced errors.

Nice to know I can continue ignoring the NWA. I just signed up for Sling, so I'll finally be able to watch Impact each week though so I'm kinda stoked about that.

If you still wondering why this fat untalented mess is the NWA World champion, he was on a commercial during the Super Bowl for some awful Greg Gutfield talk show on Fox News.

Prediction: halftime will be fine, but I won't love it a quarter much as last year's.

He's easily the best 1 color guy, with aikman a distant second, romo even farther than that in third, and collinsworth. . . So it's faint praise. He's listenable at least.

Does Babyface have L7 on his guitar? Hell yeah, Shitlist ruled

Bitter Truth are lovely. Their Jerry Thomas Bitters in particular woo me with every whiff. Sounds like a few people here need to make themselves a Tequila & Tonic. Preferably with Fever Tree Lemon Tonic if you can find it. But what will you do with the leftover gin? Use it for your Bloody Marys, silly. And what of the vodka? You can look at it from across the room, or serve it to your simpler guests.

Funny that no one mentions Yuta Down the line, having him finally get a victory over Moxley would be a great springboard for a face push

Kudos to Volk surviving on the ground and the submission attempts like that. Very few if anybody else would.

I had it same though I wasn't drinking, I'm tired as fuck is my caveat. I want to see an immediate rematch between the #1 and #2 P4P mixed martial artists.

It might not matter much for the game itself, but AEW makes deals with other advertisers so managing their overall image so that they aren't seen as too "mature" for some of these companies to work with is something they do have to worry about.

I just need a gif of Jay white flashing his abs and the immediate cut to tanahashi who was nodding approvingly.

His last match in Kyushu Pro. The whole show is on their youtube channel but since it was a "near live" each match is a separate video. Main was the Mentai Kid taking the title from TAJIRI.

With you 100% on zip ups - I mention this because I grabbed an AEW pullover at a TV we went to, and I like a big hoodie so I got an XXL, and it's actually surprisingly snug -- so if they do a non-zip up Danielson one and you scoop it, just keep in the back of your head they run small

It's like if The Warlord had Big Bully Busick's gimmick.

I like my hoodies preferring zip up hoodies to pullover ones. Still waiting on AEW to do the former for Bryan Danielson when others have them. Frustrating.

Holy shit! ADAM COLE!

isn’t Wakanda Forever the end of Phase 4? That’s what Feige said at ComicCon when they announced shit like Secret Wars.

I dig the Nese/Woods pairing a lot more now than I did initially after their first couple outings now that I'm more familiarized with what Woods brings to the table, but I know Nese/Ariya tagged a bunch back in the 205 Live days, so it's possible they might've requested it (or maybe it was just a safe bet from an agenting standpoint 'familiarity wise')

That Miami Sweet Heat vs Big Rig Betty/ Holly Swag was maybe the best match in the history of WOW.

Social media reviews are out there for Quantumania and the overall vibe is it's weird, it's uneven, Kang rules and this is a proper start to the next phase.

It does. I have the game on pre-order anyway, because Yakuza/Like A Dragon games are my crack. Although the requirements for a Platinum require becoming a master at mahjong and shogi.

"Her father is the District Attorney." Let's see how many people remember that old DVDVR meme.

His shitty politics aside, absolutely nothing about Tyrus makes me want to spend money. I am honestly stumped why Corgan has him as champ when several other good options are right there.