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Pretty sure Terry Fuck works in a different profession than wrestling

The problem with the perception of lucha today is that it’s Kommander or Vikingo hitting a billion spots with the only thought going into how long it takes to set them up. Rocky v Mistico was great, the most authentic lucha presentation on US tv I can recall in years. If slow means letting the match breathe, sign me up, this was the lucha I love.

New wrestling crossword!

You may be cool but you will never be this cool as Chavo rocking a Ramones inspired tribute to his uncles

I'd be happy with Rampage being a matchup of international talents doing wrestling for the sake of wrestling, main evented by the women, with the occasional squash in there. This was pretty much what I want out of rampage every week that is realistic.

@Gordlow, that was Daniel Bryan. Different dude.

It was basically a modern CMLL title match on AEW TV. Maybe the balance could have been a little different and been even more genuine (shorter segunda; more near falls and laying around -these are not necessarily a good thing) but I can’t think of any match on US tv ever that tried to do what this match did.

Few things better in life than Menard's weekly effort to get Renee to break in interviews.

Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the best movies I've ever seen. Thank God it rained last night so I was unable to set any tire fires in the parking lot. I did hurl my car keys when I got into the house. Now I have to patch the hole in the dry wall.

THOUGH IT FOREVER BE TNA

For all the shit that AEW gets, it's all absolved by the fact that Big Bill and Jeff Jarrett are currently appointment viewing.

I can see him chiding you in good nature. "Now, Mr. Octopus, that's a bad word. Didn't your momma teach you right?"

Looking at the AEW and NJPW roster, need these Bryan Danielson matches that are yet to happen in either: Bryan Danielson vs. Claudio Castagnoli. Bryan Danielson vs. Darby Allin. Bryan Danielson vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi. Bryan Danielson vs. Tetsuya Naito. Bryan Danielson vs. Cash Wheeler. Bryan Danielson vs. Samoa Joe. Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay. Bryan Danielson vs. Penta El Zero Miedo so Danielson can take Penta's hands when he does that fucking taunt and do some joint manipulation on them. Fucker will still do it anyway. Grrr. Bryan Danielson vs. Jay White. Bryan Danielson vs. Lance Archer. Bryan Danielson vs. Orange Cassidy. Bryan Danielson vs. Yano. At the start of the year, Kazuchika Okada and Zack Sabre Jr were here but luckily I got to cross them off.

Sounds like a curse to me!

"those matches were Daniel Bryan vs Andrade Almas, this match is the first ever match between Bryan Danielson and Andrade El Idolo"

This is why we need more super over kangaroo kicks and less yawn-inducing tornillos.

She's out of surgery and in recovery. Surgeon removed "an impressive amount" of disc material that was "basically wrapped around her nerve", hence the ridiculous pain she's been experiencing. I am very relieved.

That's what we lose with no Elevation. Like the FTR match where they just totally fooled their opponents. It works with enhancement guys (or, you know, Griff).

What about Danielson vs Jarrett? We need to see Jeff’s version of the Yes!

For those who missed it: Victor Henry was kicked in the balls so bad that it fucking shut him down, and the physician came in and suggested that he was fine and that it wasn't a low blow. Anik then updated us that Henry was vomiting in the back and being taken to a hospital. That physician should probably get a talking too. His job isn't to make sure the fight keeps going, it's to protect people's health.

"I MAKE the curses, I don't get them!" (a la the guy in Snatch: "I MAKE the bodies, I don't erase them")

That was maybe my greatest typo. I will not correct it because I feel like Terry would crack up about it after beating me up.

Yeah, he sells Immortal Hulkamaniac THC vape pens online.

I still want a poster made from the scene in that movie where Fulci (making a cameo in his own movie as a hitman) opens fire with the machine gun during the big ambush. It is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I've ever seen on film. That and when Luca's friend gets his head blown apart from the assassin's Walther that magically fires explosive bullets. How the "theatrical release" avoided an X rating baffles me. It was hella violent for even back then.

I think the logic of what lucha broke through in the US, at least in the 90s, was that the matwork guys weren’t gonna pop eyeballs but the highspots guys would. Either because American fans didn’t care about matwork or because our promotions already had guys that we considered matwork guys. Sorta like how some Japanese baseball players don’t break through to the American majors because they don’t have plus-velo or power despite being fundamentally good. Or how most of the American players that end up in NPB are power dudes filling a void in a Japanese team’s lineup. Matwork might be a little more over these days than the late 90s.

I’m still working on mine — my grandbaby got born this week and I’ve been out of town’s

Danielson vs Andrade is technically a dream match because the match will be a reproduction of a recent dream Bryan Danielson had

In 2000, if you believe this write-up, I'd say Sabu dodged a bullet when ECW fought his signing with WCW "In 2000, he was repackaged as The Dog when he formed a hardcore tag team managed by Fit Finlay with Brian Knobbs. His mannerisms in this gimmick were those of a stereotypical attack dog and would have habits not unlike dogs, including drinking from the toilet. He was a last minute replacement in their group for Sabu." https://bwwe.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dog

Being intentionally ambiguous with the timeline of my goals sure bit me in the ass. I said "do this and this before there's snow on the ground!" Now, obviously, I THOUGHT that meant at least a month from now. Well, there's ice that looks very much like snow on the ground now, so I missed the other target by mere days. One goal was to use the 88lb dumbells for sitting overhead press on the incline bench, which happened this week, before the fucking sleet/ice and the other was to do a complete single arm overhead press with 88 lbs on both sides. That happened yesterday, after my shift as I walked past the gym and thought "I need to get this fucking done!" as the ice/sleet didn't melt away overnight, as I had hoped. Before that, however, it was the trapbar day. I started out heavier than usual, so that may have affected the heavy shit negatively, but it is what it is. Off a deficit, without Versas, I did 5x239, 3x333,5, then from almost floor level 2x383, 2x427 and 1x478. Then, with Versas, off the big blocks 2x522, 2x589, 1x694, 1x738 (these two singles were off the best heights that I have ever gotten such weights up, but that took a lot out of me). Bigger weights than that didn't move even fro the shittiest possible distance, so I scaled it down. At 661, I did singles and twos until I hit 13 reps total. This took some 20 plus minutes. Then 3x587, 12x514 using rest pause. Then shrugs with 419, 324 and 184. So, that's it for this week, as Friday is an extra day off. My sports massage got cancelled, as the guy came down with a flu or something, so I need to just figure something out by myself. Stretching, foam rolling and massage hammer as well as sauna later on. This ended up being a really good week. If I'm able to keep the weight up and escape without the flu, by the end of the year a lot of my records should be looking completely different. So far, it looks pretty good.

I haven't watched much/any CMLL post-March 2020 but Volador Jr looked like such a dickhead that I feel like he would get over for at reason more than anything else.

Mistico v Romero gave good reason to check this show out. The hype was going to be difficult to live up to, but it was a nice solid bout. Eddie Kingston/Jay Lethal/Jarrett/etc Promo was excellent. Maybe the highlight of the show. Strange production angle made Kingston look like a Giant. Stoked for Kingston v Jarrett. I skimmed Kip Sabian v John Silver v Isaiah Kassidy. Enhancement talent batting it out for a title shot and the follow-up BOTB title fight are Whack Ass Dogshit booking. Terrible. Please do better AEW. Santana-Ortiz video was fine. It'd be nice to have one measley reason I could believe Ortiz might win. Bucks/Page promo was fine. I just couldn't muster enough interest in Skye Blue v Ruby to not skip to the end. Ugh, there I see Saraya completely miss Skye on the interference before another shit finish. Feel the Heat! Rampage baby! Oh man, so stoked for Andrade v Danielson! Fucking awesome!

Given the short notice, Usman fought pretty well. Dunno if it was 28-28, but you can argue that Usman fought better under adversity in a situation most people would have folded under.

Watching Rampage and the 3 way match just made me think about Marq Quen. He got some kind of surgery 6 months ago but hasn't updated his IG since then. He's gotta be close right?

7:35. My brain froze a couple of times.

Forgot all about 30 Coins. I wasn't much of a fan of his Accion Mutante or The Day of the Beast, but completely forgot he did the completely insane Perdita Durango.

The correct answer for 35-across is clearly "Vince". Please edit your crossword so it works.

IWTV decided to put together a cinematic Death Match, and then decided to make the build to it be a low budget horror movie. And an actual horror movie website noticed: https://ihorror.com/the-death-of-when-wrestling-meets-horror-in-a-death-match-cinematic-spectacle/ Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXo_4VEbds

There is a marathon of 30 Coins S1 today on HBO2 from Noon EST until around 9PM EST. S2 starts on 23 October.

9:55, but I had to brute force two letters at the end. Thanks for doing these.

Mike Breeden probably got himself 50K for going full DAWG in the third round, proving that age old adage: "Everyone's got a plan until your opponent starts barking like a dog."

Tsukina Umino's leave of absence will end after one month; she announced she will return at Ice Ribbon's 11/3 show at Tokyo Dome City Prism Hall. It appears her return match will be against Chanyota from PPP. Whoever wins tomorrow's 1111/Ibuki Hoshi & Kaho Matsushita International Ribbon Tag Title match have already received their first challenger, as QUEEN VALKYRIE (YuuRI & Ancham) have challenged. Ice Ribbon also announced that there will be a third Tokyo Dome City Prism Hall show from 11/3 to 11/5, with the H!Fly Produce show now becoming a doubleheader with a Samurai TV anniversary show. Three trios matches and two talk segments were announced to go along with it. - Kyusei Sakura Hirota, Ayako Sato, and Hamuko Hoshi vs. Ibuki Hoshi, Arisa Shinose, and Kizuna Tanaka - Aja Kong, Hiroyo Matsumoto, and Aya Mizunami vs. YuuRI, Kaho Matsushita, and Yukari Hosokawa - Arisa Nakajima, SAKI, and Haruka Umesaki vs. Unagi Sayaka, Maya Yukihi, and Riko Kaiju The two talk segments are Masahiro Chono and Shota Umino, and Keiji Muto and Kaito Kiyomiya. So uh, that was out of nowhere!

With the weekend approaching, it's time to go to the one wrestling show with College Football updates cut out of the Peacock version World Championship Wrestling (9/26/1987) David Crockett is at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit this week providing updates just in case something happens. Match 1: The Rock'N'Roll Express ve Tommy Angel and Mike Force. Ricky and Robert alternate on Tommy Angel for a few minutes until Mike Force tags in. Ricky pins Mike Force with a flying bodypress. The Rock'N'Roll Express have some words with Tony about how the Four Horsemen never go one-on-one, two-on-two. We see a recent match where Ricky Morton beats Tully by countout after their heads knock. Then Arn Anderson hits the Gourdbuster on Ricky. Tully belts Ricky's stomach as JJ and Arn hold him down. Match 2: Bugsy McGraw vs Gladiator #1. Well Bugsy sure has an outfit. The Gladiator can't get Bugsy up for a slam and doesn't really do much else. Bugsy wins with a splash after going through as much of his shtick as possible. Hey it's a postmatch interview with Bugsy McGraw. Always nice to have less coherent people than Jimmy Valiant around. Match 3: The Sheepherders vs Cougar Jay and Rocky King. The fans chant USA as Johnny Ace and the Sheepherders present the New Zealand flag. I'm just gonna imagine that Luke and Butch had one pair of camo pants and that's why they wore the same pants as the Sheepherders and the Bushwhackers. So how does one get to be called Cougar Jay? Johnny Ace with a union jack top like he's the frontman of a New Wave band whose best US hit reached #37. In theory, is "rubbing your opponent's eyes" on the top rope more or less lethal with cables than actual ropes? Butch pins Jay after a double stomachbuster. Always a little odd to see the Bushwhackers referred to by their last names. Postmatch interview with the Sheepherders. Johnny Ace looking like the lost member of the New Breed. The Sheepherders are challenging all the best so they namedrop all the other tag teams. The fun part about the Herders/Whackers is that you can't really figure out if there's a sane one on the team. Match 4: The Warlord vs Alan Martin. All the stars are here today. Paul Jones gets to talk during this one. Somehow Warlord avoided getting a Russian gimmick with his bald head and massive amount of (legal at the time) anabolic steroids. Warlord wins with a powerslam. Match 5: The Midnight Express vs Nikita Koloff and Barry Windham. We zoom to not Techwood to see this match joined in progress. Okay, the Apron says it's from The Pro. Stan Lane keeps preventing Nikita Koloff from entering the ring for awhile. Cornette joins the commentary to declare "You know how them Russians are about that vodka". Nikita is the face in peril for this one. A leapfrog and the MX collide to get the hot tag to Barry as the fans pop. Arn Anderson shows up to hit Barry with a chair through the ropes and the Midnights retain the US Tag Team Titles. We get some words from Dusty Rhodes. Horsemen got a big match with the Superpowers and Road Warriors in Greensboro tomorrow. Dusty promises to beat Lex Lugar with the Weaverlock. The hold that this world has on Dusty's hard is apparently equivalent to the Weaverlock. Paul Jones and the Warlord join us as Paul Jones proclaims it's Christmas and New Year's because he has signed The Mighty Wilbur to complete his army. He has signed him sight unseen. Red Bastien told Paul Jones that the Mighty Wilbur was the World's Most Dangerous Man Match 6: Kevin Sullivan vs Larry Stephens. Kevin's not about to fall to the mat performing that gutwrench suplex. He's not leaving his feet for this one. Nice mullet on Stephens. Sullivan wins with a double stomp in a match where he doesn't take anything remotely approaching a bump. Good day at the office. Kevin Sullivan joins Tony to namedrop some other guys because this is 1987 JCP. He declares himself to be the Omega Man and he's here to make some people extinct because extinction is forever. Well, that's a pledge. Match 7: Arn Anderson vs Art Pritts. Art Pritts is a fat boy and Arn beats him with the Gourdbuster. Pritts barely got up for that move and hit the mat knees first. Arn Anderson joins Tony. Man, he has a nice head of hair around this time. Arn has some words for Barry Windham. Match 8: Tully Blanchard vs The Menace. I guess the Menace is technically a babyface here. Tully wins quick with a Slingshot Suplex. Tully (and Arn) join Tony. Jim Crockett joins the interview to way that Tully Blanchard will wrestle at the Omni on the 18th in a match where the lumberjacks have belts. Tully reacts to this news with a pretty solid cocaine frenzy promo about this situation. Arn, who is now wearing his glasses, closes with "It's been your pleause as usual" Match 9: Mike Rotundo vs Dave Spearman. Rotunda quickly wins with an airplane spin. We cut to Joe Louis Arena as Ron Garvin is stomping Ric Flair in a steel cage. Garvin slams Flair off the top rope. Flair is bleeding as is required. Flair tries to roll away from an elbow drop but Garvin stops and just drops the elbow on him anyways. Flair/Garvin has to age pretty well from the "dudes beating the shit out of each other" angle. Flair tries to escape the cage but Garvin goes up with him. Flair crotches himself. Ron Garvin hits a Sunset Flip off the top to win the World Title. And that's the show folks! This episode of World Championship Wrestling was only 90 minutes as the San Francisco Giants played the Atlanta Braves at 7:35 Eastern time that evening. The 66-86 Braves started David Palmer against the Mike LaCoss and the 84-69 Giants. The game was neck and neck until the bottom the 6th when the Braves blew it open on Rick Reuschel and Craig Lefferts with an RBI double by Gerald Perry, RBI groundout by Graig Nettles, bases loaded walk by wrestling valet talent scout Ron Gant, and an RBI single by Dion James. Charlie Puleo got the win and Rick Reuschel the loss. Paul Assenmacher got the save. The other wrestling on TV in Kansas City that day: Championship Wrestling at 8am, Universal Wrestling Federation at 9am, Wild West Wrestling at 10am, NWA World Championship Super Bouts at 10am on TBS, World Class Championship Wrestling at 11am, GLOW at noon, Superstars of Wrestling at midnight after Saturday Night Live. Since we didn't get Tony throwing to Craig Sager for a College Football minute. #11 Tennessee tied #3 Auburn on TBS on this day. As for the rest of the day, #9 Clemson beat Georgia Tech, #6 Florida State beat Michigan State, #5 Miami blew out #10 Arkansas, #2 Nebraska beat #12 Arizona State, #8 Notre Dame beat Purdue, #7 Ohio State tied #4 LSU, #1 Oklahoma crushed Tulsa, and that's the day of College Football.

Seems like women getting the main event match on Rampage has quietly become SOP, and that seems like a good decision. Seems like fuck finishes in the main events is also a thing now... I am less happy about that, personally. Rocky vs Mistico 2 outa 3 falls makes me extraordinarily happy just by existing. Orange's match tomorrow will be fun, for sure. Also, it will determine once and for all which is the superior colour Claudio & Wheeler really work well as a tandem now. That was a groovy showcase of their teamwork. Three more fun hours coming up tomorrow! Also, elsewhere, Ospreay vs Josh, Kento vs Aoyagi... I heard WALTER vs Jonah was really good... It's a non-stop river of excellent match-ups. Literally too much fun. Yikes! I am sure Bryan vs Andrade will be excellent... But... Didn't it already happen in WWE? I think that, technically, disqualifies it from "Dream Match" status, but I am willing to listen to arguments to the contrary. Did Tony K actually announce it? I somehow missed it if he did. (Edit: He was even wearing Seahawks-coloured gear for their match! That popped me). I worry sometimes that the neverending bounty of this buffet is going to spoil us. So we'll churlishly complain about, let's say, Edge getting pushed over JD Drake or Dragon vs Idolo not being a *true* dream match or too many fuck finishes. Hey... It *could* happen!

King of the Small Package, once I believe.

The biggest action movie of '91 was THE biggest movie of 1991: T2. That's the highest bar to possibly clear for a genre movie. Funny enough, also in the top ten was Hot Shots!.

Why were there so many Big Al's in WCW?! I knew Big Al with Tank Abbott and Big Al (911) were not the same person, but I always thought Big Al (911) was the same person as Big Al (Who became The Dog)! But it turns out Big Al Green who played The Dog was neither Big Al (911) nor Big Al (Tank's friend). So at some point WCW had three (!) different incarnations of Big Al, none of whom were the same person?! :hair-tearing out gif By the way, I hadn't seen it in years, but Big Al Green had one of the funniest vignettes in WCW history as The Dog when Brian Knobbs caught him drinking out of the toilet, then drove him out to the middle of nowhere and abandoned him, leaving Green to howl in sadness at being abandoned. I've never been sure, but I've always felt like someone was watching the Simpsons Barbershop Quarter episode when Homer was tasked with getting rid of Chief Wiggum who had his head out the window panting and saying "Where we going" before Homer abandoned him in the countryside leaving Wiggum to howl as he drove away. https://www.wwe.com/videos/brian-knobbs-catches-the-dog-drinking-out-of-the-toilet-and-then-ditches-him-in-the-desert

I’ve long said King of Comedy is Scorsese’s best movie, and might be best film of the 80s, over Raging Bull in both cases.

I think the best thing about The Green Knight is how it subverts everything we've learned in school about epic poems and all that stuff about the hero's journey.

I loved playing him in the Touken Retsuden games in the late 90s.