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FUUUUUUUUCK, FUCK FUCK! JUST GO THE FUCK AWAY YOU PIECE OF.SHIT!

So you're the mother fucker with the Monkey's Paw.

And my Peacock subscription is cancelled.

Here is how this story goes: 1) Punk does shoot-y style promos and they are irritating because the WWE doesn’t really do that right now and it hasn’t missed a beat. There are quickly diminishing returns but people pretend to like it anyways. 2) Punk gets hurt in about six weeks. 3) Punk comes back and some drama happens and he’s gone by SummerSlam.

guess you can't use weirdos stalking airports to spoil debuts if the guy lives in the city where the show is happening

Jesus J.D. McDonaugh must have balls of steel to agree to take that move in that spot.

Great Seltzer and IPA selection though

Live from Ghana with Nana

i don't know if anybody else cares about this, but i was watching an old episode of TNA Impact this morning and who do i see? future UFC champ Daniel Cormier. They brought out a couple people from the 2004 Olympic wrestling team. No promo or anything like that (or even a chyron), but i bet DC got a big kick out of it since he was a big pro wrestling fan. https://youtu.be/8XvOs6sCLgU

Why not both? I mean both screaming at each other that the other ruined their perfect plan, until they both stop, stare at one another and then start making out in frustration would be pretty funny.

I just fell to my knees in the middle of Wal-Mart. guess I’m watching WWE again.

He's the cousin who is REALLY into cryptocurrency even though he himself doesn't fully understand it yet. He also overuses the word "mid".

I agree, but to repeat a frequent complaint: War Games and Hell in a Cell shouldn't be gimmick PPVs. They should pop up when a storyline calls for them. Then just make sure the men and women get about the same number in the long run and you're fine.

So has Britt. I can actually see a scenario where the devil pulls the mask off to reveal it is Britt, and then Adam Cole nails MJF from behind, and we find out it was the two of them working together all along. Maybe the other two ninjas are Perry & KOR? That would set the stage for Strong/Bennett/Taven vs Cole/Perry/KOR matches.

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1728627055976124796 Truly the biggest and most important return tonight

No.

If Pepsi Phil was one of those five guys in-ring and Taker, Rock, Austin or Goldberg were coming out to interrupt just in time for Mania season...

Fucking deal with it. I'm so hyped right now.

LOOK OUT, HE'S GOT A MUFFIN!

Ugh. But what a pop i suppose. The men's wargames match was full of fun spots. Good story telling and generally good action.

Brody is very well protected, but Kingston is one of hte 2 favorites in his block in a booking perspective. It's also 100% the right call to put him behind early. Makes the Kingston/Danielson match being next really interesting, my gut says that one might be a draw.

Just to be clear: The bald guy flexing for the camera during Lady Frost vs Julia Hat was NOT me. I have a ton of thoughts and a zillion crappy dad jokes. For example: ALWAYS great to see Rocky! SO much *WRESTLING* on this show! (Hook, Shibata, Garcia, Wheerler...) And so many good big meaty men (Dutch, Brody King, Big Bill, Limitless...) The return of Malakai's perfect sing-a-long theme!!! Yes!!! GNARGNFRZT!!! BLARGENFRSAT!!! or Now we know what killed off the dinosaurs! It was CHAIRS! The Two Knee Storm! (From Buddy & Black, the new Killer Bs) etc etc etc BUT I am just SO HAPPY we got our Week One Upset. I was SURE Garcia was going to get it, because they were learning so hard into him being the underdog (and because Claudio is very giving) and when Garcia lost I felt like, "I guess we are just going chalk all the way. Oh well, at least we'll get a bunch of excellent fights." But, of course, Mad King is also Bryan-level giving in the ring. And him having to claw back from being one down is PERFECT booking. And Brody King getting the first upset win is also perfect, because Brody King is awesome. Way to go, AEW! Way to respect tradition. It's like Ned Stark getting killed at the end of season one. Now we KNOW anyone can go down for three at any time. Oh boy am I ever STOKED now!!!!! BRYAN vs KINGSTON!!! SWERVE vs SWITCHBLADE!!! CLAUDIO vs BRODY KING!!!! CHICKEN vs ROOOOOSH!!!!! F'n BRYAN DANIELSON vs EDDIE KINGSTON!!! And Kingston almost HAS TO win to stay in contention!!! . Edit: Speaking of freaking out: I just checked and there isn't one single match from today's three-hour show or Thanksgiving Dynamite that we can play on Fight Forever using the in-game roster! We can, however, do: And at least Orange vs Mox and Jericho & Kenny vs The Young Bucks are possible!

Really good way to spend a Saturday night watching three hours of AEW.

Surprised to see the Pure title change hands on Rampage, especially so close to Final Battle. the video promo from Yuta before it was really good and set the stage for the match nicely. liked Copeland's promo challenging Christian for Montreal next week. Malakai Black mentioned CM Punk and called Claudio "Cesaro" !! Dante Martin is BACK! Lee vs. Lee was fun. Great main event from Brody vs. Eddie. Good thing for Eddie it wasn't 'defending the titles in each of his matches' Next week we get Moxley/Lethal, White/Swerve, and Briscoe/Rush on Dynamite + Bryan/Kingston, Claudio/Brody, and Garcia/Andrade on Collision.

I tuned into Rampage before switching over to Survivor Series. Romero is still a great utility guy and had one of Hook's longer matches. Statlander/Diamante was really good and set up Kris' next program with Mercedes Martinez, which should be good. Yuta won the pure title again in a nice outing with Shibata so that's one BCC guy with gold.

He thinks he’s the cool cousin

https://twitter.com/MariaLKanellis/status/1725275205260423188 "The devil is in the details" Crossed my mind as well with the thought that her team formed in ROH, Cole Karter & Griff Garrison, could've been two of the others with Taven & Bennett

Seth Rollins isn't anybody's cool cousin.

Bobby Lashley drinking wine and watching wrestling in a full suit and sunglasses was very aspirational for me Women have main evented 4 out of the past 6 Smackdowns, you love to see it

They made a huge miscalculation when making this game (besides the dev time likely taking a year-plus longer than intended): they somewhat wisely realized they could only get the base of something worthwhile done for the first game; the issue is that they mistakenly believed they could deal with that as DLC and in truth they never will, the game needs a sequel and any effort spent on DLC for a dying (as a long tail experience) game is reducing the chance that said game ever gets made. Release some character packs but all real development needs to be spent on a full new release built entirely atop of what's been established, it is literally the only path to where everyone wants things to get.

Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori - April, 2 1993 Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs. Bull Nakano & Grizzly Iwamoto - August 19, 1990 Kairi Hojo vs. Meiko Satomura - Jun 14, 2015/July 26, 2015 This is what I get off the top of my head. I love plenty more from different eras and still have plenty I haven't seen yet. These are ones I think back to more often than others and know I love. Hokuto/Kandori is probably up there as one of my favorites in general.

oh no

I am glad we are at the time of year when The Miz reminds everyone why he has been here for 20 years and is really high on the list of best WWE performers in the company’s history. Dude’s career is absolutely remarkable.

That would depress the shit out of me, because then I'd have to pay attention to WWE's product.

Women's War Games was fun. There were plenty of neat spots and some brutal moments. Poor Shotzi taking those spinning trash can lids to the face in particular as nasty. Loved Io getting to hit a repeat of the Sasuke tribute in front such a large audience like she did in the first women's War Games in NXT. Charlotte and Becky coming together made for a nice moment, and I dug Bayley saving Kairi twice before losing the match for her team. Gunther/Miz was pretty good as I hoped. It didn't steal the show, but it was good seeing the Miz wrestle differently from his norm and showing that extra effort. Dug Gunther busting out a Lion Tamer for the win. Santos/Dragon was a good showcase for both guys with them dragging the crowd into a decent bit. Still can't help but think they could have gotten even more out of it in forn of a non PLE crowd. Rhea/Zoey was a nice showcase for both women. Men's War Games was good, probably MOTN. Thought the pacing was generally good. There was plenty of action. And they told some solid stories with Drew vs. Jey, Cody and Seth putting differences aside, Randy's return, and even a tease of his issues with Jey. I also love how much everyone continues to hate Dom. The man was getting booed a good minute before he even entered the match. Super fun match overall. Thought this was a good show with the big matches mostly delivering and the smaller stuff still being good fun. I missed the Punk return, but I can't really say I give much of a shit. Never been a fan and would prefer not see him, but it is what it is. I don't foresee him taking over wherever he ends up so I'm not super worried about him messing anything up.

New CM Punk Shirt https://shop.wwe.com/en/mens-black-cm-punk-survivor-series-2023-return-of-cm-punk-t-shirt/p-130011042333285050+z-99-1060949718?_ref=p-DLP:m-GRID:i-r0c2:po-2

I had a feeling that would end disastrously given that Milroe had enough time to walk the Earth like Caine on Kung Fu, watch every season of Bonanza, take up advanced archery lessons, read War and Peace, come back to Jordan Hare, and still have about 4 hours to throw the ball to a somehow completely open Isaiah Bond in the endzone.

3-hour Rampllision again today! Far as I know, only Wheeler Yuta vs Shibata Pure Title Match has been announced for Rampage (going on first, in an hour). That's enough for me! Two guys on my "Dream 12" who didn't make the Tournament list, beating the semi shoot style hell out ofvone another. Yes, please! Two Tournament matches announced for Collision: Claudio vs Garcia! Eddie Kingston vs Brody King!!!!!!! Also yes, please. For both of those. The Dance vs The Giant Swing. King on King violence! Potential regicide! Also apparently these were added as I slept: * FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) * Keith Lee vs. Lee Moriarty * Tony Schiavone interviews Ricky Starks & Big Bill * We’ll hear from Adam Copeland * The House of Black (Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black) vs. Komander & Gravity Sure, why not? To most of that. Lee on Lee violence! You could never get that match in WWE, because the names would confuse The Universe overmuch. (Speaking of Wrestking Vincents who are not my cup of tea): Looking forward to watching Dutch fighting Cash & Dax. Zero women's matches announced so far? Will we get Skye Blue again? Julia Hart? Yuka Sakazaki vs Abadon, please! Deeb and/or Willow vs Emi and/or Athena? Edit 1: Oh! Willow and Sakazaki should form The World's Happiest and Friendliest Team after Willow's story with Hart and Skye is concluded. Then win the Woman's Tag Title Tournament! Or lose in the finals to Athena and Billie Starkz. The main thing is: More belts, and more tournaments. Edit 2: See Bull Nakano's post below. Unnecessary Edit #3: half an hour now.

Another great entrance from Full Gear: https://youtu.be/-FQs_3AMRMs?si=KVl626dePDUZfU_d

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_xYubUJFo&t=4s You need to see this official tribute to Doctor Who for the 60th Anniversary. Speaking of need, more Paul McGann as the Doctor.

Street Profits vs. Judgement Day was pretty solid. Profits lost kind of clean in the end. Was not happy with this result. The Street Profits either needed the win or needed to not be in this match. The Waller Effect leading into Grayson/Theory vs. Owens/Knight was all pretty fun. Carlito's segment and the subsequent brawl with Santos was nice and probably the perfect length. Dug the further attack after the commercial with Dragon lee making the save. Not big on them cutting out a match match just a day before a PLE/PPV, but Dragon Lee is a welcome upgrade over Carlito. The match with Santos should be good, jus tnot sure who gets the win. Pretty Deadly vs. Brawling Brutes was nice while it lasted, but it served mostly as a moment for Ridge to break away from Dunne. Still don't think either have great prospects on their own on the main roster, but I am curious to see what they at least try to do with the two. Dug the story of the night being Becky and Charlotte's rocky relationship. Bianca playing peacekeeper with Becky was nice, but I kind of dug Shotzi going for the more emotional touch in trying to get Charlotte to understand Becky's feelings. Becky/Charlotte vs. Bayley/Asuka was solid and played well into the potential issues of Bianca's team with the accidental screw up from Charlotte at the end. The wrestling was solid and fun. The segment s were pretty nice and did well building up Survivor Series for tomorrow and continuing general Smackdown stories.

Ultramantis Black rarely wrestles anymore or leaves the East Coast for shows, that would be a must attend for me. Timebomb put on a really fun no ring deathmatch/hardcore band show here in the summer. Badger Briggs is cool as fuck.

J E S T JEST JEST JEST

Only the Jets can try turn a Hail Mary into a Pick 6.

It's Serpentico's time

Christian should christen Nick Comoroto as Luchasaurus II.

I don’t think that Chase Utley gets voted in immediately, but I think he will get there within a few years.

They're ba-ack