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They got the full card up on the English Language website. I’m going to be in attendance I’ve been toying with starting a thread for the show but fuck it here we are this kinda means I gotta write a road report but cool let’s do this! https://www.njpw1972.com/142769 Kickoff Show: Main Show:

Two very good matches and a lot of squashes for Elevation tonight. Highlight was Emi and Nyla vs. Skye Blue and Madison Rayne. Vickie was way over in El Paso, of course. Not a whole lot of the usual shenanigans in this one, it was more of the Emi who went blow for blow with Jayme Hayter, and now I really want to see Emi vs. Skye Blue getting some time on Dynamite or Rampage. If you only watch one match from tonight, it should be this one. Yuka Sakazaki vs. Vertvixen was the other good, semi-competitive match. Yuka has some surprising power for being so small, I guess she truly is a magical girl. Vertvixen has a lot of promise. The Big Bill squash is pretty fun, and there is a long, strange backstage segment with Ethan Page and Matt Hardy. Otherwise, nothing worth taking time to watch.

A couple years ago, when my son got into Star Wars, we watched everything. I was surprised that I actually liked the prequels more on re-watch than I remembered. I'd agree with your assessments of them, though. One thing that stuck out is the scene at the end of Ep. II where all of the Jedi show up. That scene should have been the big battle at the end of Endgame, but it comes off so rinky-dink. It's so anti-climatic. It just looks so cheap (which it definitely wasn't!). Initially, I was fine with Ep. 7 and 8. Rise of Skywalker might be the worst of all of the movies, IMO. The more I think about these three, the more I sour on them. I just don't like that they did such a reset. It's like the events of the original trilogy didn't matter at all. We just ended up with the exact same type of Empire running things.

I took a nap. The Dark Order are a total machine when it comes to hitting their finisher. Where is Matt Hardy headed with this? It's Gino Rodriguez! The new king of enhancement talent across all promotions. Big Bill tells a little story- "Gino is over because I tower over him. I will give him a few things and then chokeslam him from the stratosphere." It's that Delilah Doom gal that MJF is hanging around. Dulce Tormenta is good. Leila Grey showboats in front of Jade Cargill. Jade Cargill comes in and wins. I don't think I've seen Jastin Taylor before. Brian Cage would usually tell a little story. Instead he hits a thousand moves and wins. Emi Sakura and Nyla Rose take on Madison Rayne and Skye Blue. Nyla and Skye do a really cool wad of counters that ends up with Skye getting murderlized. EMI tags in! SPANKYBUTT! EMI hits a crossbody through the ropes! VICKIE WITH THE SPEAR! VICKIE IS OVER IN EL PASO! EMI works over Skye! EMI Crossbody Blocks on the floor! Nyla CRUSHES Rayne with a move! Yuka Sakazaki! We are in Texas so we have Vertvixen! They should go ahead and sign her. Vert gets a CLOSE nearfall! Wee Yuka with an Airplane Spin! Magical Girl Splash and that's that. ATHENA! BEATS ON YUKA! HEAT IT UP! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! It's Josh Woods! Sweet EVEREST GERMAN SUPLEX. This night is very much a Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals night of wrestling. Chuck Taylor and Trent Barretta take on Ayden Colt and Frank Stone. They get in a little and then they get destroyed by the DOUBLE FINISHERS of the Best Friends. That was a lot of squashes.

So Plane did well enough at the box office that it is getting a sequel. The sequel will be called - and I swear I am not making this up - Ship

Eagles fan checking in. disappointed with the result but it was a good game to cap off an overachieving season. was the holding call at the end bad? yeah. but that is hardly the reason the Eagles lost. it had a lot more to do with leaving receivers wide open multiple times, giving up an almost record length punt return, and not delivering on offense in the 2nd half.

His time on top in TNA did him no favors, but Jarrett has always been a fun and good worker. There were a few bright spots during that time in TNA, too. As far as character stuff goes, though, it’s always been more miss than hit, but his time in AEW so far is great. And he’s implementing house shows and gaining access to new markets, so that’s a plus as well. Net gain all around on AEW’s end when it comes to Jarrett.

BTW, between Georgia last month and KC tonight, I am officially sick and tired of teams that were in the top two or three pre-season favorites talking about nobody believing in them/"put some respect on our name."

Jeff Jarrett doing MMA to a group of kids was the highlight of his entire career.

Cherry RC is my favorite cherry flavored cola. not really relevant, but i rarely get an opportunity to mention it.

I've got to imagine we're going to transition to Yuta and Takeshita competing for Bryan's love (or, alternatively, a Takeshita/Danielson vs Yuta/Claudio tag program, with a conflicted Mox caught in the middle

right back to when you were kids and had an odd number of friends so one kid was assigned "Permanent QB"

Malia Hosaka manages Exile? I'm in.

Nice, I’ll be there as well.

People have been using A.I. voice mimicking technology to make short, comedic videos, and two of the ones that have been popular are an argument between 'Roman' and 'Dave' about star ratings, and another series which imagines what a Gorilla Monsoon-hosted podcast would sound like. Warning: very NSFW language! Reigns v Meltzer: The Gorilla Pod (look up Joe Marotta's Twitter to see the rest, I think there's ~7-8 of them in total):

Okay, why don't we wait until day of to open the show thread unless there's something massive happening.

My favorite assumption here are that Rodgers is going to play for both the Jets and the Packers, apparently.

What a great call by the ref there! We all know why we watch the Super Bowl! To see the ref make the game winning call! Pure fucking garbage for the Chiefs to be the beneficiary of controversial last minute plays that essentially hand them the game AGAIN. Let them fucking play. You can’t make that call.

Looks more like beer, but with japan you never know whats in the can.

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

beef!

HOLY FUCK!

It's the Street Profits versus Damien Priest and Finn Balor? Yes. Finn Balor. Once again Damien Priest is really good. He is our weekly RAW MVP. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins whup up on the Judgement Day during picture in picture until they get back in the ring and Dominick CHEATS after they get Ford in a situation! Balor and Priest are a great tagteam! Ford counters the Toprope Lateral Suplex! Dawkins makes the hot tag! NEARFALLS! Giant Buff Blockbuster! FOR TWO! GIGANTIC TOPE CON HILO BY FORD! Dominick gets pulled into the match which allows Balor to get the win! That was good. It's Piper Niven! It's Michin Mia Yim! Niven looks like she is maybe shooting for the VADER spot on RAW since Rhea Ripley is going in another direction. That was fast. Cody assumes the role of Dustin! Baron Corbin assumes the role of Shane Strickland! Cody beats Corbin a lot more than Dustin will beat on Swerve. There you go. Is Raquel Rodriguez RAW or SMACKDOWN? She is the VADER of her brand. Ah she is Team Smackdown- that makes sense. Piper Niven is still eligible to the VADER of RAW women. Nikki Cross is all wacky during picture in picture. Asuka looks awesome in this. Asuke attacks EVERYBODY and taps out uncrazy Liv Morgan. Bronson Reed and Mustafa Ali have at it. Reed uses his pudge to beat on Ali. Ali uses his speed to get in a few things before Reed CRUSHES him off the apron. Ali bumps crazy into a chair! Ali gets in a Rolling DDT! For ONE! Reed smashes Ali with a Tsunami! Rick Boogs takes on the MIZ! Boogs is very strong. The Miz has been through may things that I fast forwarded through so he gets squashed. Bayley takes on Big Time Becks and Bianca Belair. Becky Lynch look awesome in this. Bayley is all evil and calculating and she and Belair look good in the ring together. So this is to showcase who the real contenders are instead of the Elimination Chamber contenders. Damage Control beats on Becks and Bianca! This is pretty good for a Triple Threat match. They OPT to book this nine ways to Sunday as everybody shows up on the outside! Belair throws IYO SKY onto everybody at ringside. Bianca throws Becks onto Bayley and pin Bayley! That was good. With the remote control, that was a fricking episode of RAMPAGE. That was some quality professional wrestling. HHH! HHH! HHH!

Scarlet Centurion is a lot of letters to use in a tweet. Here's the longer blurb: After an eleventh-hour topic change* in honor of the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania movie, we look at the convoluted continuity of Kang the Conqueror, which sort of starts before his first appearance. Or does it? Let's discuss Kang, Rama Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, Immortus, Doctor Doom, Nathaniel Richards, Ravonna, the Council of Cross Time Kangs, the TIme Variance Authority, Mobius M. Mobius and ... Merlin the Magician? Is this one character biography or four? Or is it five? Let's try and figure this one out without once using the word multiverse. * - the last minute change was realizing the wedding of Hank and Jan is even too hot in 2023 for me to discuss on a pod.

I'm pretty non plussed about the whole game as I was hoping the Eagles would win and watching leave Kelce or JSS wide open over and over again was infuriating. The halftime show sucked. Not remotely close to how good last year was, which was up there with the Prince show for me. I also don't like halftime shows when it's just one star and one star only going through the motions through their catalog, like with the Weeknd. This was marginally better for the Weeknd. I think my biggest takeaway was she looked gorgeous pregnant and props to her for doing some of that shit on high up platforms while pregnant.

At least in college/high school (and I think it's the same in the NFL), 'catchable' only matters if you're making it a PI call. Otherwise, Holding/Illegal Contact is the right call to make. Replaying it, I see what the ref called. At the time, my thought was it was a ticky tack and with everything that's on the line there... me personally... I'd have kept my flag in my pocket. The counterargument to that though, and this is with the benefit of 12+ hours of hindsight... KC threw to the guy who'd been fouled. And I think that's the difference. Had he gone anywhere else, it's probably a no call, mainly because it wasn't super egregious. Like has been said many times before, you could literally call Defensive Holding/Illegal Contact/Pass Interference on almost every play. God, I think I'm talking myself into 'good call, ref.' But I'm not there yet.

This reminds me of another time at the Art, when they played the '68 Night of the Living Dead. This is a college town so we had students showing up for the late night stuff and you'd get mixed reactions -- Dead Alive was a roaring success, The Exorcist was hated. NOTLD was laughed at at first and then you could hear the crowd go silent. One sorority member moaned to her boyfriend "that was actually scaaaaary" after the credits started rolling and that might've been the best reaction I heard at a movie besides the guy at Jackass 2 who said "don't puke on me, man!" to his friend who was, indeed, puking on him.

Nekromantik is one of those movies that you watch just so you can say you've watched it and not have to lie about it. I don't mind watching horror films specifically designed to trigger an audience, but Nekromantik definitely pushes far past the envelope of good taste. It rivals Cannibal Holocaust. Joe has delved into the dank recesses of the exploitation vault before, but I don't think he's ever shown a film as dark as Nekromantik and I was there for the Ilsa the She Wolf double feature tribute to Dyanne Thorne after she passed away in 2020.

Hey, sometimes you gotta goose 'em One of the all-night horror fests we used to have at the Art played it one time, but that was a pretty hardcore audience. The fact that he bummed people out with that one gives me hope that sometimes horror can still shock.

I didn't watch the dumb Super Bowl anyway. Stupid Eagles and Chiefs. I went to see Infinity Pool last night and whoa.... So is it the most caustic fable ever about the excesses of the wealthy and the justice they are able to buy or is Brandon Cronenberg simply bugfuck crazy? Probably a little of A and a little of B.

There's no good way to make holding calls consistent. Holding pretty much happens on every play. It's like the fouls in basketball where more consistency probably makes the product worse.

to be honest, as a hater, a clear case of an official's call "deciding the game" in either direction is pretty much my ideal outcome for this

I've never seen Dante Leon, I don't think. He's really good. Everyone knows how good Bryan Keith is. ====================== Oh man! Los Traumas and the Cerebros have a really old school lucha libre match- with Cerebros and Traumas taking it to the mat for the first fall, beating on each other for the second fall, and knocking each other out for the third fall. So good. ================= Kodai Nozaki and Genkai battle it out for a shot at Tajiri's Kyushu Pro title.

Chuck Howley in SBV.

[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]

Show #90 - 26 May 1997 "The one where Kevin Greene vs. La Parka for the WCW World Championship is a money match, trust me" Hey, we get a regular-sized Nitro this week! Eric Bischoff comes out to start Nitro. He doubles our fun by motioning out and bowing to Hulk Hogan, who poses while I think about how nice it was when he was shooting a direct-to-video movie the last few weeks' worth of shows. Hogan cuts a terrible promo, uses the words "deep deep doo-doo," in fact, and I get that ideally he's supposed to be a corny, irritating lame, but I think actually that Hogan thinks this promo is legitimately good heel work. Bisch and Hogan talk about how scared Sting is of Hogan, you know the drill. Then, he poses some more. Theoretically, this is good heeling, but in practice, I just want it to stop. Get Vince Russo into the company to talk about Hogan's bald spot ASAP, please. Then (of course), immediately fire Russo. Out of a cannon. I'm not even watching SN or anything, but holding off on Hogan/Sting for eighteen months was ideal in theory, but terrible in practice. Luger is the only guy to break up the long Hogan reign, and it was only for a week. Hogan being champ for that long in 1996-1997 is a bad idea, actually. There's nothing fresh about Hogan holding onto the gold forever. That shit is over a decade old at this point. A heel turn isn't going to make it bearable for longer than about six months. I wonder if my foreknowledge of the terrible Starrcade '97 finish and the fact that the nWo would never quite go away, at least not until late into 2000, is the biggest factor in my tiring of all this stuff...but hey, I still enjoy Hall, Nash, and Syxx. Trios tag alert: THA JOOOOOOOCE, Super Calo, and Hector Garza tag up against Ciclope, La Parka (!!!), and Damien 666. Parka catches Juvy on a dive, does the PARKA SHUFFLE while carrying him to the other corner, and puts him up there for a move. La Parka rules, make him the champ. No, not the Cruiserweight Champ, the World Champ. I don't like the typical lucha trios style, so these matches depend on spots. And there is a WILD spot where, you guessed it, Calo almost murders himself and a bunch of guys in the crowd when he dives so fast and with such momentum that Ciclope can't catch him and he ends up legit in the third row. That was incredible. I replayed it a bunch. I think he might have kicked a kid (who no-sold it) in the head on his way in; that was dangerous and irresponsible and I loved it. Well, this match was a success no matter what else happens. They continue to splat each other a lot, and it's the equivalent of junk food - empty calories, but I don't regret them. I don't like when everyone stands around so the sixth guy can do a dive onto all of them - it's one of my most hated spots, actually - but it can't ruin this. Garza wins with a powerbomb and standing moonsault. The crowd was HOT for this, and rightly so. What a great way to start off a show hot. I mean, after you get Bisch and Hogan the fuck off the screen. Psicosis is out next to wrestle heel Alex Wright (w/ Alex Wright's one terrible dance move). Wait, he does the Rick Rude hip swivel as part of the dance, too. Two moves! He's been in the lab! Seriously, I'm glad he is a heel because that dance is fucking stupid, a perfect heelish thing to do, and it works so much better as a part of his act now. He spams the shit out of it, though. This match is not very good. Psicosis and Wright are sort of off, and Psicosis's offense looks weak in spots. He nearly misses Wright on a corkscrew, and Wright can't quite move over in time to properly catch him. I don't blame Wright because Psicosis is so far off on his dive that he ends up slamming against the guardrail. Anyway, Psicosis wins with a guillotine legdrop. Wright throws a tantrum in the ring. I am underwhelmed. Hey, it's a smug Sonny Onoo, who is with Gene Okerlund and is excited to get revenge on Masa Chono tonight. Onoo stops Psicosis as the latter heads back after the last match and initiates some sort of business deal with him. Onoo's excited about his business prospects, but he's suddenly interrupted by Madusa. I am so bummed out right now. She's a really awful promo, which was not always true, right? I feel like she was solid when she was running with Rick Rude. Anyway, Madusa will do anything to get a shot at the WCW Women's Championship, and Onoo is like, Sure, but if you lose the shot at Hokuto that I give you, you have to retire. Hey, I thought Onoo was the heel, but he's trying to get rid of Madusa. Madusa dawdles a bit, but accepts the stip. Onoo's like YOU'RE GONNA LOSE. GO HOME AND BE A FAMILY NURSE. Again, I thought he was supposed to be the heel. The desk talks about The Ayatollah Ernest Miller and shows him doing some kickboxing in slo-mo. I'm hyped. Wrath comes out for a match. I'm even more hyped. Brad Armstrong does his fiery fightin' babyface thing, but mostly gets killed. We get a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and a diving clothesline off the top and a DEATH PENALTY from Wrath. I love a good squash. It's a Villano! The IVth one. It's Konnan! The cholo version. Hugh Morrus is mad at Konnan because Konnan split with Morrus after a loss at the previous PPV. I'm not quite sure that a tough loss to the Steiners is indication that your team should break up immediately, but Konnan probably figured out that he really sticks out in the Dungeon of Doom and that maybe another stable would be more suitable for him. This match is a match that happens. Doug Dellinger cuts off Hugh Morrus before Morrus can get in the ring; WCW officials hold the Laughing Man back. In the ring, Konnan hits the cradle DDT and locks on the Tequila Sunrise for the win. Gene Okerlund talks to Konnan post-match, and I love that when Gene's like THIS IS AMERICA, SPEAK ENGLISH, Konnan's like "This isn't for you, white boy!" Finally, someone returned the disrespect! Then Konnan says "bitch" in carny. He was in the wrong company during this time, wasn't he? Also, I love his "1-8-7 On an Undercover Cop" knockoff theme. Hilarious. I guess Turner execs don't know what a 1-8-7 is. Sonny Onoo comes out and introduces THE GREAT MUTA YEAHHHHHHHH. I think I remember this angle, though. The crowd wants mist, so Muta spits some mist into the air. Larry Z. enlightens us about the "Japanese race." Thanks, Lar. Yeah, Muta finally puts on a weak headlock because he's not actually planning on fighting Chono. Then Muta mists Onoo and stomps him out. Hahaha, Chono holds Onoo up and yells about the nWo while Muta uses Onoo's instant camera to take pictures of Onoo's shame. So yeah, Muta's NEW NEW NEW NEW WORLD ORDER. This was pointless...except that I got to see Muta mist a fool. Barbarian is out to the ring to do a fun little TV match, probably. Jim Powers is fine and tries hard, so yeah, probably. I'm sure both men's managers, Jimmy Hart and Teddy Long respectively, will get involved somehow. You know what rules? A shoulderblock spot where the face tries to shoulderblock the monster heel, but they barely move and then just yell or laugh or whatever. We get that spot here, and Barb beats his chest and goes AWAOUGHAGAAHA, and yes, it rules. Anyway, I was right about this being a fun little TV thing. There's a good chopfest in there, and Barb catches a splash and turns it into a powerslam, which is a cool spot even if he doesn't quite grab him cleanly. I was wrong about the managers getting involved, though. Barbarian and Hart are prepping to cut an interview at ringside, but Benoit and Woman are down to cut them off. Benoit wants to *sigh* get Kevin Sullivan in the ring yet again. Jimmy Hart's like, If you can beat Barb, I guess you can fight Sullivan *sigh*. That one mixed tag brawl aside (which was TREEEEEEMENDOUS, in DVDVR parlance), this feud has to be one of the worst long-running feuds of the '90s. It's not quite Lex Luger/Tatanka, but it's not that far off. LE GEANT~ and Lex Luger come to the ring to lots of cheers and no music while Tony S. hypes a new major wrestling star coming to WCW in about a month at the MGM Grand, June 30th. I'm blanking out on who this might be. Don't spoil me, anyone who might happen to read this. So, the Giant fights Johnny Swinger, Rick Fuller, and Jerry Flynn in a one-on-three handicap match. Each one gets nothing going one-on-one against Giant, so they attack him all at once, and it rules. Giant hits a double back suplex and chokeslams these bums. Now, that's some good squashin'! Gene comes into the ring to interview Luger and Giant about title shots, Hogan, and Rodman. Luger wants to challenge Hogan and Rodman to a tag match, gets a little marble-mouthed as is his way, and kicks it over to the Giant. The Giant a) goes immediately to a strained metaphor, and b) calls himself the "shylark" who hasn't been paid. Ah, I see he's been reading The Marchant of Varnarce. Lee Marshall is in Dayton, Ohio, the HEARTLAND OF AMERICA, the location of the death of Hulkamania and the coronation of BRET HITG.O.A.T HART as King of the WWF. I'll stop before I wax poetic about the Nutter Center. Syxx would like to talk to the crowd now. He's still in denial about that last loss on PPV. Then, he's onto shitting on Flair, replaying that Outsiders' beatdown on Flair from last week, and generally acting like a dickhead. Hall and Nash join him on the ramp. Hall calls Flair an "old drag queen," and while I think Flair's robes are elaborate, I don't think old boy really has the style to pull off a full drag queen look. He's more of an old-baseball-cap-and-spittoon style, which I guess there might be a drag queen or two who adopt that style somewhere, but it's probably unlikely. Nash swears that the only way Piper could put him to sleep is by making him watch Piper's next movie. Nash has the better iMDB page, I must admit. Maybe that's a hot take. Hall and Nash want to fight Piper and Flair at some indeterminate point in the future, but probably actually the next PPV. We see video from last week's Nitro of Kevin Greene finally getting his revenge on Mongo. Remember when the Horsemen would jump anyone who attacked one of their members, no matter who it was? Now, Flair's palling around with Greene and just letting him beat the shit out of Mongo. The Horsemen are so washed. Mongo, along with Jeff Jarrett and Debra, come to the ring for a match against Harlem Heat. Basically, WCW's mid-card core is going to put up enjoyable TV matches as long as they're given a few minutes. Kevin Greene joins the desk and does a fantastic job. I feel like if this dude enters wrestling in like 1981, he becomes a pretty big star. He's got so much 'roidhead charisma. He reminds me, weirdly, of mid-aughts 'roid freak Kurt Angle or late-'90s 'roid freak Scott Steiner. I know all those guys are very different in execution, but they have, at their core, a sort of hopped-up, drug-fueled intensity that makes them believable. Greene is over there talking shit about Mongo in commentary and keeping up with Tony and Heenan, no problems at all. Heenan warns Greene that Mongo might be embarrassed enough to try to take him out and make him miss the NFL season, and Greene's like "In all honesty, I thought about it, and I don't care." I mean, come on, that's awesome. He put over a wrestling feud as more important than his NFL career. He goes on about thinking about getting Mongo back all year, "waking up in a cold sweat" thinking about it, and right now, you could convince me that Bisch should book Kevin Greene to be WCW Champ. Seriously, the tag match is solid, but it's worth watching just to listen to Greene kill it on commentary. He's fully hyped me up for their PPV match. Mongo gets a hot tag to Jarrett, but sees Greene at the desk and walks over to brawl with him. As they fight their way to the back, Harlem Heat and Sherri play the numbers game and get the win off a Booker T side kick. When is Jarrett going to finally get sick of Mongo's disrespect? Debra's sick of it for him. I started watching this Nitro a week ago, put it down for work, and now have been reminded that back at the beginning of this show, Hogan called Sting out. I didn't actually read over what I'd written a week ago before starting to write again and thus had totally forgotten. Anyway, Hogan and Bischoff are back out to end the show. Where will Sting pop up from now? Well, Fake Sting pops out from underneath the ring. Boy, they love the "Fake Sting pretends to be Real Sting and admits that he's worse than Hogan" thing. While they're going through this charade, Real Sting comes down from the rafters, Scorpion Death Drops Bisch, scares Hogan out of the ring, and Scorpion Death Drops Fake Sting. Hogan calls out the troops and then has a standoff with Sting, but Sting just ziplines back up into the rafters before the rest of the nWo can jump him. When I did re-read this whole thing, I immediately remembered how fun the trios tag was. Also Konnan being Konnan, Wrath killing a dude, and Muta showing up were things that happened that I liked. Combine my fond memory of those things and my general enjoyment of the second half of this show, and I give it 4 out of 5 Stinger Splashes.

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

Q1Q2 is a youtube channel with new Chinese releases with English subtitles. A mix of genres but they have a bunch of wuxia movies. Modern wuxia tends to feel kind of the same - everyone flies and lots of cgi in the mix. One movie I watched that had good non-wuxia action was the 18 Arhats of Shaolin Temple starring Xie Miao (or Miu Tse), who played Jet Li's son in the New Legend of Shaolin and My Father is a Hero. Oddly, Black Belt Magazine (yes, the same one that you used to see in the newsstands when you were picking up issues of PWI) has a youtube channel that puts up various action movies alongside martial arts instructional videos. They have the Five Deadly Venoms, Nine Deaths of the Ninja and Legend of the Eight Samurai there.

i spent some time yesterday reading opinions on the Star Wars trilogies, and how different age groups rank the trilogies against each other. How do you rank them? are there major factors that significantly contribute to your order? For me, best to worst: Original Trilogy (IV-VI) - grew up watching VHS copies of these endlessly. nostalgia rules every time. Sequel Trilogy (VII-IX) - not a fan of 7, but thought 8 was a crazy fun take on the mythos, and 9 reeled everything back in to a satisfactory conclusion Prequel Trilogy (I-III) - 1 is terrible. 2 is OK and 3 was honestly pretty good, but overall 1 is just SO uninteresting that it drags the whole set down

Or that other large thing.

That Dustin/Moguls promo was something else. Maybe I missed the set-up but was there any reason why Dustin, wearing half face-paint, was hanging around a commercial property development construction site? I thought “I like Doritos!” would be the quote of the night but… Then Moguls affiliates comes out are there. I love the wrestling ridiculousness behind it. Did they just follow Dustin around all day and then saw he was doing an interview in the future basement of a mixed use property and decide it was time to strike? Or were they already at the site because Swerve, as a mogul, has invested in future workspace opportunities, and saw Dustin and an AEW announcer wandering in and decided to lay The Natural out? Treach or whatever his name is also has a very steady hand holding a camera. Either way, Swerve wishing Dustin a “Happy Black History Month” was a great line. This was a great “let’s analyze wrestling logic” segment and man we are getting a Swerve versus Dustin Rhodes match, which is something I did not know I needed but man we need this more than anything in our troubled time.

Hey do you think Wheeler's emerald green and white/silver gear is meant as a tip of the hat to someone or something from pro wrestling's past? Like how Eddie Kingston's black and yellow gear is a nod to Toshiaki Kawada? I think It might be. Not sure who, though. Ooooo. Darby & Ortiz vs Mad King & ? YEAH! LET'S GO! I think the Impractical Jokers were actually talking about Jericho's penis. You might have missed that because it was so subt!e and clever. Swerve vs Dustin should be great. I think if I HAD TO choose one, I'd rather watch Dana White Presents Slapfighting over Impractical Jokers. Fortunately, I do not have to watch either. I CHOOSE PRO WRESTLING! I enjoyed Ruby's confused/conflicted facial expressions. Josh Woods vs Mark Briscoe should be great. "Swoleverine" is pretty funny, in my opinion. But so is "Gordlow" in my opinion. So, my opinion about what's funny might not count for much. Speaking of: "I ate his ass..." - Hangman Page. Nice pop for The AEW All Atlantic Champion. VERY fun main event with a couple of ROUGH-looking bumps. As always, hats off to Satnam's tailor.

It's the Blackpool Combat Club! It's Kip Sabian! I can contemplate who is getting pinned. Sabian and Yuta are a hoot in the ring together! The Butcher looks 1920's INSANE now, which I love. B+B+KS are interesting beating the fudge out of Wheeler! MOX is fucking great as the hot tag, as Sabian was at Yuta's level and MOX is way above Sabian's level and Sabian takes an ass beating. Blade is closer to MOX's level so he and Butcher beat on him until Sabian tags in lets MOX tag in Claudio! The finish MORPHS into a Young Bucks 6 man- CRAMMING of just all kinds of stuff into a match. That was fun! Sabian escaped unpinned! Starks vs Garcia should be great if last week was any indication. Ruby Soho takes on Marina Shafir. I can't see this working. ATHENA is the only gal who beat a good match out of Shafir, but let's watch, shall we? This is good. Ruby is laying it in. Shafir is using her KARATE~! to try to get the advantage. Soho starts taking a beating in picture in picture, as she is better working underneath. GREAT DANGEROUS BACKDROP by Soho! This was good. Not ATHENA good, but that was good. POSTMATCH is AWESOME! ALL THE GALS ARE BEATING EACH OTHER UP! Mark Briscoe vs Josh Woods will RULE. Jack Perry puts in an appearance against Ryan Nemeth. I'm confused by the whole Eddie Kingston/House of Black/Ortiz stuff but I'm assuming it leading to Brodie King and Eddie so I'm riding this out. It's Lee Moriarty! It's Orange Cassidy! They fuck around early. They continue fucking around as OC does the hand in the pockets thingy. Lee assumes the role of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew and starts mangling the arm of OC. Cassidy makes Moriarty look like a killer. Michinoku Driver by OC! FOR TWO! Moriarty looks great in this. The finish was good, countering out of a submission into a roll-up! PEE! GORDLOW! PEE! That was kind of an unnecessary gob of wrestling, but it was all good. AEW RULES THE MOTHERIFKKING WORLD!!

At least 2 wrestling references during tonight’s Joe Bob special. no spoilers

Amitriptyline and Trazodone are the anti-depressants. Trazodone works great the first two weeks, shame you can't bottle that up for the rest. Amitriptyline been decreased giving me headaches. Thank you for opening up about your mental health, I so can identify with what you said. Further thanks for the much love and well-deserved peace, I hope to find that. Thanks to JL Sigman, gatling, you, twiztor, NikoBaltimore and Shartnado liking my post. Conscious too that I don't sound like on repeat detailing my mental/physical difficulties with the Cerebral Palsy when everyone here has their own things going on, not needing mine alongside. It's been difficult this week which is why I haven't replied sooner sorting out Mum's belongings properly since losing her nine years this June giving some of her clothes to charity. Really emotional. Years ago I got rid of some jumpers Mum knit as they were too big for me having lost all the weight I had. I wasn't to know what was to happen to Mum. Hindsight is so not a wonderful thing. It's a right bitch. Regretted it ever since and always will. I've found two cardigans my Mum knit her Dad, my Grandad today. My Grandad was like a second Dad to me which fit me so that was a most moving moment. Been talking to a new counselor called Deborah the last few weeks. Hope it doesn't go tits up like the last who really upset and let me down. Mental illness is really difficult, depression and fighting your mind, your thoughts daily. The self-harme and suicidal thoughts. Just have to cancel out the downers and carry on fighting the good fight. We can be our own harshest critic. I can identify with Robin Williams: "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that". There's two quotes I go by, the first by far from my late great Mum who said: "As long as you try your best, that's all that counts." The second: "When there's love, there's hope but a little luck wouldn't hurt" from Batman: The Animated Series. Thanks for reading and the support. This community is the best. Paul xxx.

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Ru Paul's Drag Race is back to 90 minute episodes starting March 10th and thank goodness for that because WAY too much is being left out of this current season.

Honestly, I've never cared which way. I grab it and whichever way it happens to be facing that's the way I hang it.

RIP Leaping Lanny. Around 2005-6 I was on the phone talking to someone when I got a beep on the other line. I excused myself to check it out and when I did I was stunned. ”Hello, this is Lanny Poffo for VISA.” There was no mistaking that voice. Me: “Lanny Poffo… the fucking wrestler?” Once a Masshole always a Masshole. He chuckled a bit and said “Wellllll… I’m over 50 now so I don’t leap so high anymore and I work for VISA so I’m not a Genius. But yes sir, it’s me”. I was just tripping out on how convinced I was it was him because THAT VOICE! He later mentioned working for VISA on some podcast a few years later. We talked for 10 minutes or so about wrestling. Never once mentioned Macho. Then when we said our goodbyes. He thanked me for remembering him and never even tried to sell me a credit card. Peace brother.