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Normally I would feel bad for the person sitting behind Omos but they go to Duke so I don't

Dang. Hats off to Jarrett for going out there and working a fun match today. I didn't take a bathroom break this time. Dude gets a day off from me... But not from Caster! If I ever have to fight Mox I'm definitely gonna request a first blood match. It was refreshing to see so much classic chain wrestling in that tag match. (I hope I'm the first one to make that joke). Was that Jungle Boy's second best Cage match in AEW? Looks like he is gonna have another one soon. I was more stoked for Dark than for Dynamite this week (TAKESHITA vs BRONSON!!) but this show was an absolute blast. Uno's suit might have been THE highlight. Just fun match after fun match capped off by a VERY fun main event with CREATIVE use of the spray paint. I LOVE that the story is that we don't know where Ruby will end up. Like, as if her destination is yet to be determined.

Anthony Bowens and Jay Lethal are fun in the ring together. Orange Cassidy comes in and all kinds of fucking around happens. Billy Gunn is ISOLATED~! The Ass Boys are here! A bereaving Jeff Jarrett is as always a TOTAL HEAT MACHINE! They do a PREPOSTEROUS delayed Shiver Me Timbers section that was hilariously elaborate. Bravo. Well, we go from goofy fun to crazed ass beating. OH YEAH! HERE WE GO! Preston Vance is taking an ass beating like a MAN. Oh man, RUSH is getting some HEAT! Vance is doing good in this. Picture in picture means MOX BLEEDS! RUSH and MOX beat the hell out of each other. CLAUDIO GOES INSANE! VANCE IS AT 3/4 RUBY! (My daughter is here! With her boyfriend! I'll finish this later.)

Ruby Soho main event winner! I’m pumped about this like I was that one time Butcher and Blade won a Dynamite main event. And oh man BCC / DO+Page is the big ass six man I didn’t realize I want but really, really want Rampage is stacked!

The deal with Joe is I want him working with smaller guys so he can maximize the bully factor. The Darby stuff drove that home. He should probably be working with Jungle Boy next.

Oh fuck right off with your ableist bullshit already.

I don't know who is brainstorming Saraya/Storm spots but someone needs a filter here. Apparently Toni Storm's ass has to smell different to maximize the impact of her running butt attack.

things I remember from this episode of Dynamite Jeff Jarrett honors the memory of his father by working as a heel a day after his dad dies. Lots of jolly bullshit spots with Singh/Cassidy then Singh tagging out, then Cassidy tagging out, then getting Billy Gunn vs Jeff Jarrett. The faces win after the world's longest scissor spot. Moxley bleeds like crazy yet again. Preston Vance also bleeds because yeah sure. JR looks old talking to Wardlow. Also Babyface Adam Cole talked to Renee in another segment. I think Josh Woods is dominating on the shows i'm not watching because he had some wins but I didn't remember who he was. Then he lost to Mark Briscoe. Jesse the Body mode ON I can't believe that Christopher Daniels, Gorilla. MJF gave him some money to make sure he could find Laredo, and Daniels thinks it was a bribe. That Christopher Daniels should be thankful that he was given a chance to get on TV but he chooses to bash MJF. MJF gave that ingrate Daniels what he deserved, Gorilla Jesse the Body mode OFF Jack Perry kinda-sorta pins Brian Cage. Then Christian Cage shows up, maces Jungle Boy, and his arm heals just in time to hit the Unprettier. Hopefully more than one Cage is allowed to get TV time at any one time around here, for the sake of Brian Cage's TV time. Also, we got multiple battle royals to set up a four way match that needed to happen instead of a straight up Acclaimed/Gunns rematch. We had some sort of backstage suspense for Adam Page vs Kip Sabian for some reason, then Page won, and Moxley came out and pretty much acted like a heel. Then the Dark Order showed up because Adam Page has the dorkiest backup friends in a promotion that has Butcher/Blade on TV. Then we get a Texas Death Match where Moxley will start bleeding during his entrance. Stokely got Hook suspended. We got all six members of the Jericho Appreciation Society in an interview. You almost need a score card to figure out who is in what faction from week to week. Saraya and Storm attacked a stunt fan pre-match. Apparently spraying Toni Storm's ass with spraypaint pre-ass smash is a spot now. That main event was weird. I guess Rubi Soho won but everybody was mad at her. Toni Storm vs Ruby Soho is a feud with origins in a Spencers Gifts at the Mall.

It's straight up lifting Columbo's howsolveit format. Glad this is the kind of stuff Rian Johnson is using his clout on.

https://twitter.com/WrestlePurists/status/1625941082277089281?s=20 Great news on the ROH front!

Here is a tweet featuring a beloved figure in Montreal and maybe all of Canada. And Sami Zayn

Part of the appeal is watching the first few minutes and figuring how she fits into the story, what incidental side moment is actually her.

I was going by the (possibly fabed) 40K number that's always been bandied about. I suppose they could always tarp half the stadium off like SummerSlam recently had, but i agree entirely, just fill Daily's next door or whatever the indoor arena is down there instead at that point. I'm a little butt hurt about the Mohegan thing, and here's why: that's actually one of my home arenas, I live about an hour from there, give or take - I've mentioned before, but the attendance at Rampage/Dark from there on Halloween weekend was downright embarrassing. This last Smackdown (which btw, I was told drew WWE's highest attendance in that building, ever) had two pretty hefty advantages IMO, beyond just being on Titan home turf: 1) Rampage was the Friday of Halloween weekend, so that cuts out a ton of your HS, college, and young adult fans who are out partying - tough to compare to do-nothing-ass January/February. The whole casino was dead that night 2) The week before Smackdown, there was a massive sold out show at the same arena (Exodus, Black Label Society, and headliners Anthrax celebrating 40 years together) - I was in attendance, obviously, and I am not kidding you, this show had exactly four ads on a loop for nearly the entire time between sets: Coke, Bud Light, Smackdown, Truly. Coke, Bud Light, Smackdown, Truly. Coke, Bud Light, Smackdown, Truly. Over and over again. Definitely a smart move to take advantage of both a) the obvious heavy metal/wrestling crossover, and b) what is basically a captive audience waiting for the next set. Really hoping that local advertising, coordinating with venues and local vendors, radio stations, newscasts etc. is an area that Jeff Jarrett can help them improve upon, and hopefully they can put together a good local promotion infrastructure in the future - I've said it before a bunch, but they really need like a Zane Bresloff-type figure

The Superdome is a BIG stadium and WCW always did barely enough where it looked impressive despite likely curtaining/tarping off about 3/4 of the stadium. You have to be at bare minimum 15k. However, at that point, just run the biggest indoor arena there and not the stadium. WWE just did Mohegan Sun the other week for TV. That's not a big arena. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt.

Jacob DeGrom felt tightness in his left side and is being shut down for a couple of days Baseball is back!

Didn't see it, but that's really, really shitty. Not my call to make at all, but 'I hear my train a-comin, it's rollin' 'round the bend...'

I wasn't going to reply to this but here I am. I cancelled a while ago, feel better for doing so. Of course I don't hate Zeb Wells' wife and kids, way to jump there. I don't wish Wells' ill will even though I don't like his writing. Welcome to ignore, asshole.

Which was a silly question and a silly answer because one logically leads to the other. Also annoying as I want there to constantly be something I'm watching on Disney+. There should always be some sort of Marvel or Star Wars (or Willow or Jeff Goldblum learning about LARPing) show every week. There are a billion characters and a billion subgenres. Screw the Zeitgeist. Ride the wave. They haven't even gotten to the X-Men yet. A show every two months!

Tonight's card: Texas Tornado Tag Team Match: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. RUSH & Preston Vance AEW World Champion MJF Fulfills His Contractual Obligation to Appear in Laredo Hangman Adam Page vs. Kip Sabian Wardlow Sit Down Interview w/ Jim Ross Brian Cage vs. “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry Mark Briscoe vs. Josh Woods Renee Paquette Speaks w/ Adam Cole Toni Storm vs. Ruby Soho vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed & “Daddy Ass” Billy Gunn vs. Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt RIP KIp Sabian.

I want a holiday video every day for dom and rhea. Including arbor day.

That agent needs to go even if you’re another unrelated client. Read the warning sign

Announcing the Super Bowl, getting rave reviews, favorable comparisons to the former Golden Child, and THEN demoted behind a rookie. Yeah, that agent needs to go.

I've definitely spent the better part of a year agreeing with you on this, but now, I'm not so sure. Cody articulated some of my feelings about the All Out stuff better than I can. Let's be clear: Punk was the big fish. There are no more top tier FAs or old-timers left that are going to move the needle in any meaningful fashion (that would realistically come in - Cena or Batista ain't fumbling that Hollywood bag). Once All Out happens, AEW is no longer perceived as this wrestling-utopia, anti-machine. I agree with Cody huge on this - everything that had started at All In built to that moment, and they lost the spirit, right there. So again, not entirely disagreeing with you, but with the benefit of hindsight, I'd much rather have Cody on AEW's roster, and be in an eternal growth-state of 'Man, if we could just land...' The in-ring is as killer as it has been since day one, but I just don't get that same sense of 'We're building to X' anymore. I'm not an insane person; I'm not ready to say we're watching like, post-Hulk TNA of something... but without some direction, it could easily become that in a year or two. Here's a good comparison: Hangman's world title reign was a beautifully booked, wonderfully detailed two-year odyssey, with the absolute proper payoff - and what was the follow-up once the dog catches the bumper? Two amazing TV death matches with Archer and Cole, and... uhhh... pretty sure that was it. I just need some follow-up, man. I still love the show, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't worry they're getting a little too comfortable sometimes.

Sometimes, you stand up for your friend against their own wishes against a bully, even when you’re a dork and stand no chance and you know you’re a dork and stand no chance. Dark Order is so wholesome.

Did they fuck up and air two Rampages instead of one Dynamite?

The inverted detective story is I think it’s technical name.

Very good.

old school logic involved saying that guys who never made it off of practice squads were former NFL players, like Vader with the Rams, Neidhart with the Raiders, and so on, without acknowledging the truth about how little they really played. It was easier to go that route back in the old days when wrestlers pay was more or closer to NFL pay than these days, when it isn't.

They mentioned that shit all the time when he was in NXT. In fact, he had a gimmick where, as a legit athlete, he was tired of all the indy geeks, and he was going to send them all back to RoH, whether they'd actually wrestled there or not.

The last 20 or so years of comics is one big blur to me, a lot like the rasslin.

Carr is a few years to young for the Colts, isn't he?

Texas Tornado Tag Team Match: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. RUSH & Preston Vance: This is the draw, of course. Vance has channeled a bit more aggression as of late, but this is a bit of a high ask for him. He had a fairly good, fairly logical promo on the Road To where he recounted how Mox had abused him over the years, and it's a bit of a dissonant kind of thing where he's big and a bully but also whiny but I'm just not sure if it lands. People forget the really good RUSH vs Jon Moxley match from last year but that's obviously a natural match up. Hangman Adam Page vs. Kip Sabian: Kip has a lot of good ideas. Page has a lot of bad ideas. I imagine this will be more of a Page match than a Kip match. Brian Cage vs. “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry/Mark Briscoe vs. Josh Woods: Sometimes Tony runs drawing experiments and I think that's what we have here. It's impossible to know how Mark will do in a normal setting and putting him against Woods is about as normal as it gets. Likewise, JungleHook was drawing fairly well and while Perry's in line for a singles push, if this doesn't hit a rating, maybe it makes sense to go back to that sooner than later for now. For what it's worth, I think Mark has been just great so far. His backstage interview last week was really good and the Road To stuff was as well. He's just so comfortable in his own skill and brings something that's from a completely different direction than everything else on the show while still being matter-of-fact and self-aware and sort of speaking for the viewer. Renee Paquette Speaks w/ Adam Cole: Still think the way to go is a babyface push working with the Kingdom first. It'd be such a massive mistake to lean Cole heel or even cool here or even tweener. If they're not going to go that way then having him work up against Ethan Page, Big Bill, Moriarty could be a good idea too. Toni Storm vs. Ruby Soho vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.: We're still reeling from Sasha not showing up, right? And the Shida stuff feels weird. And pulling Britt from the last time they tried this was a setback. And the Beautiful People/NWO spraypainting seems so far away from what AEW's women's division has been for the last couple of years. Very WWE "catty females" syndrome. I blame Saraya. Anyway, wherever this is going, it really ought to get there soon. Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed & “Daddy Ass” Billy Gunn vs. Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt: My gut and/or hope says that this was building to Jarrett vs Cassidy at the PPV for the title. I'm not sure if Jeff still works tonight. Probably he does, right? Because that's the carny way. It's a lot of bodies and a weird spot on the card to get emotional though, so who knows.

And speaking of Byf Yes the fact that Byf is only 26 makes me die a little inside

I think people excluded it because it was in December. And your not overrating it, my European Breakfast friend. It was good stuff. I sadly looked up Kingston vs Akiyama to check the date. Haha

Roman charging up the Superman punch to Dave’s “Noooooooooooooooooooo” kills me every damn time. Give me stars.

Dude. There's only 1 or 2 reviews for it even out. I'll also never understand the fascination with referring to tomato scores.

FINAL SUPERB OWL UPDATE~! Flaco remains uncaught. However! He has learned how to successfully hunt on his own, and is living in relative peace in the trees of Central Park. Flaco is elite! (I can't wait until he picks off someone's tiny dog.)

Guys... I think I miss Cody

This made me happy. Be happy too. Just like your wrestling pal Brandon Bones.

TARGETS is a nice choice, and a good cover.

You also could not see people's Wikipedia pages to see their real athletic careers in 1978 or 1985.

Make it your ringtone!

I've kept up with the story despite not playing because of goddamned Byf and his manic upload schedule.

MLW is now programmed into my DVR and I can watch it on my big boy TV! Willie Mack is everywhere lately- MLW, AEW, AAA, and CWFH. Calvin Tankman is a beast. They fuck around after Willie hits a Somersault Tope to the floor. GREAT Lariat by Mack! GREAT Back Elbow by Tankman. Mack hoists Tankman's gigantic body up for Samoan Drop! Tankman hits a Hidden Blade and K-Driller for the win. That was good. It's Zoey Skye! I've seen her a few times. TAYA! TAYA! TAYA! Valkerie gives her some stuff early and then CRUSHES her like a bug. Skye makes a comeback! Then Taya sends her to Valhalla! EVIL TAYA is the best TAYA! Hey! It's Billie Starkz! REAL1 and Mance Warner have a streetfight. REAL1 gets on the STICK and one hopes this match fucking starts already. Nice dropkick by REAL1. Warner bumps big early to get REAL1 over. They go to commercial and come back and have a few minutes of street fight and REAL1 wins with brass knuckles, which I assume would be legal in a street fight. That kinda limped across the finish line. Everything else was good.

Bring me your finest champagne and finest chicken fingers. perfection.

I really loved the Cody/Sami segment. I hated hated hated Cody's stuff last week. But this week was pretty great. It was such an awesome juxtaposition of the Cody and Sami characters. Cody is cool and new and confident. But he's self-aware enough to know that he's returned while an epic tale is unfolding, but his journey is what's most important to him. Sami's wearing a hoodie and anxious and looks like a mess. He has seen The Bloodline first-hand and watched (and helped) Roman wreck whoever has stepped in his path. Sami's not cool. He hasn't been a confident person (hence why he feels the need to find a family.) And him seeking a pep talk from someone like Cody while also warning Cody was spot on. And no matter what happens, Sami's the one who put the crack in the foundation and will always have that victory. I think this served an awesome purpose in tying in the two unfolding stories. It did so in a really artful way without being ham-fisted. We don't know how the stories will fully intertwine -- it could be a relay race where Sami loses and hands the baton off to Cody to finish the job against Roman. Or it could end up as a triple threat between the three men. And Cody believing in Sami also plants in the seeds for the audience that maybe, just maybe, Sami has a damn chance on Saturday. Man, I am friggin' pumped for Saturday. It's such a cliffhanger. Does Sami maybe do it? Does Jey leave Roman's grasp or does he go crawling back?. Does KO return to save Sami from The Bloodline's beatdown of Sami? Does Cody somehow find himself involved?

My sarcastic barb thrown at anti-diversity neckbeards was thrown in vain. Everyone takes me far too seriously.

Back in my day, all you needed to impress a woman was a '95 Plymouth Acclaim and a decent array of Hardyz merch