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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!

I feel like the prequels would be looked back at more positively if they were less reliant on CG. Not take CG out completely, but use a lot more practical effects. Think of something like Lord of the Rings, which had lots of CG but it was all built off a skeleton of practical effects. Then compare LOTR to the Hobbit, where the rushed schedule and Jackson just being over the whole thing, used comparatively little practical effects and way more CG and looks 10x worse than the movies that came before it. I rewatched the prequels again a couple years ago and was surprised by how much I enjoyed them. Stiff, clunky dialogue? Sure, but every Star Wars movie has that. I'd still put it as the weakest of the 3 trilogies, but think it may be different if they didn't look so much like a cut-scene. Way back when I hated that Phantom Menace was primarily driven by a trade dispute, but as I've gotten older and the world is *waves hand*, it makes sense to me that fascism would use such a mundane thing, that most people wouldn't care about, to gain a foothold. The stories just needed a 2nd hand to give a pass over Lucas' script and ideas.

The cheeseburger comment only works in that context if he doesn't insult Reid first.

I got up hung over one Saturday in September and threw up on everything I could find. My car, a mailbox, the sidewalk, a water fountain. Finally staggered into a park and barfed into the river. Kinda wish I had chosen a spot that wasn’t a few yards from a family reunion, but you know what they say about beggars and choosers. That was September 18, 1991. I remember the date because that was the date my fiancée decided she was calling off our wedding even though the ceremony was only three weeks away. It was also the date I realized I was full of shit and attended my first AA meeting. Good times, lol. i drank way too much gin back then, but really it would take less time to list the adult beverages I wasn’t overindulging in college than the ones I was. edit: I should mention thwt the wedding was postponed, not canceled. We’ll celebrate our 31st anniversary in June.

Guess which match Phil dug! Bryan Danielson Endures Rush’s Bloody Onslaught - The Ringer

It's early still. The Carmello Hayes/ JD McDonagh match is getting some love before it's over.

21 votes, and it’s 16-2-2-1. And the top 3 were all on Dynamite (with the one vote match being in Rampage). Usually a WWE match gets the odd vote here or there, but not this time, not so far.

It feels to me a way to rationalize deviating from the rules at all, which is a bit flimsy. It's ok for things in a match to break down and a ref to lose control for the finishing stretch. That's not the same as guys coming in and out to hit spots for the last ten minutes of a match like modern WWE Usos style.

I have tickets for Saturday. I'm going up to JMU to treat my daughter to lunch and a movie, which will probably turn into dinner and a shopping spree at WalMart and Target because college kids always need stuff and my kid barely asks for anything. I thought I was going to have to treat my daughter's posse to movie and pizza, but my child has decided to be selfish with my time. I am flattered.

Eh, I don't care enough to figure out why hell I can't embed.

From looking at Joe Bob's FB page, seems many people did not like the choice of Nekromantik as part of last week's show. Never seen it but reading the summary make for uneasy reading.

The Chiefs backup QB spot might be wide open this offseason for any QBs wanting stable employment with minimal game action. Ok, the Chiefs will probably bring Chase Daniel in to handle that job.

Once again, for me, it's the inconsistency. There was a significantly more blatant hold in the third quarter that didn't get called, for instance. It's not a completely unjustifiable call, but they hadn't been calling it that tight all night, and the situation...

https://twitter.com/MonthlyPuroresu/status/1624812005369724929?t=-Zofb4yeGgNaUkuE9pCA6A&s=19 @DEAN

CMLL! STREAMING! IWRG! STREAMING! IWA-PR! STREAMING!

I really like Olsen on color.

That's The Joke

No.

Nice to see two of my favorite teams go at it. Love both the Heavy Metal Sisters and Chantilly/Foxxy. Decent opener. Another great match between Tormenta and Vivian. Definitely would have loved a few more minutes between the two of them. Enjoyed the main. Exile and the Tonga Twins played well off of each other. Cool to see Tiki get involved too to continue last week's shenanigans. Sent from my iPhone

I think Dax maybe tougher than I am, but I very much relate to him and find him endearing. I’m cheering for him on his personal journey. I really connected with his talk on anxiety and making it clear that he was addressing his mindset and mental state at the time when he was feeling bitter and what he was dealing with in his personal life. A miscarriage is absolutely heartbreaking and I hope their family is doing alright. I understand the headspace of feeling you’re overlooked. I’m not a wrestler but I’ve felt like that at work. Feeling under appreciated, true or not, can be caused by anxiety in a competitive environment. I agree with Dax that the fallout of the Young Bucks match could have been better for FTR. Retrospective fantasy booking you give them a promo and have them work through other teams to get their groove back, etc. Also have the announcers point out the going out of their element and losing because of it would have been a nice touch. I respect that Dax takes responsibility for that and not pointing out he wanted that. I disagree with Dax that the post match angle diminished the match. Going to the next storyline (especially what became a great one for the company) was the right move to make. Flair vs Steamboat wasn’t hurt by switching to Flair vs Funk. Also, the amount of other titles they held, they were clearly on par with the Bucks as the 1a - 1b teams. The issue might be there was no payoff, but that’s a different point to argue. I really think Matt is an instigator in these situations and sadly Dax can be easy to get going. He does have a tough job to bring these topics up, I just think he can be leading a bit at times. I’m really pulling for Dax and will keep listening to him. —— I miss Regal. Give us a monthly Fireside Chat w/ Regal pod. But instead of a cohost you have a rookie ask him a question like how to do a headlock. Hour later we learn the history of British wrestling an a couple of fun anecdotes.

Watching now. Mark Briscoe's eyes bugging out of his skull whenever he got interrupted was hilarious. Interrupted promos being par for the course in AEW just makes his reaction even funnier.

Yeah.....that's what that stands for

Punk winning the belt fucked this company for months on so many levels.

Mark not showing up with a Cool Whip container will suck and we'll probably all end up crying but it'll be good to see him say something. I'm totally down for the women's, six-man, and the Orange Oddity Match (because all of his mismatches -- because nobody can really match him after all -- rule). This should be a great episode.

“Oh yeah, well that’s like your opinion, man.” - Old movie quote.

He just does not get it. I want to see the kid succeed, but the day I saw MJF call his mother everything short of a whore, Pillman Jr. runs to the ring only to do the “why I oughta” pantomime. Clueless on instincts.

Cyndi Lauper is long overdue. Hopefully this is the year.

This episode is GREAT! Willie Mack, Shawn Dean, Bad Dude Tito and Joey Janelli are wasted in a four way, But it has the WAR booking of Alex Hammerstone versus Ortiz, which was really odd but perfectly fine, AND Eddie Fuckin KINGSTON versus Danny Limelight! That match is Eddie channelling Tenryu and Limelight channelling Ultimo! It is great! The finish is crappy, but what else you gonna do?