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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

Randy Orton entrance: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WMmUWjY20Kw

I was thinking about the Survival Shout match. I absolutely hate a lot of the AJW "tag" matches from the late 80s/early 90s post Crush Gals that don't honor the traditional Australian rules cause why call it a tag match when you never actually tag. You just jump in the ring whenever and there is no real smooth transition unlike the Michinoku Pro multi man matches from back in the day. However, that match between Aja/Bison vs. Bull/Grizzly is some next level shit in that smash mouth style you only really saw in the territories or the 70s/80s All Japan with all the big names from the Funks to Hansen and Brody. It's almost like they gave too much even if for example, that kendo stick or modified kendo stick that Grizzly used was gimmicked. They beat the holy mess out of each other. It's basically the female equivalent of Cactus/Maxx Payne vs. The Nasty Boys from Spring Stampede 1994 on the ridiculously violent scale even down to the inconsequential finish of Grizzly being pinned with a German Suplex while the fans cannot possibly process the chaos that just took place. It more than redeems not following the actual tag team rules. Moreover, for what amounts to a heel vs. heel match, it totally helped build on Bull Nakano kinda totally breaking away from the lineage that started when she joined Dump's army and becoming her own woman.

The CFB scriptwriters will finish 2nd to Tony Khan in the Wrestling Observer award voting for Booker Of The Year

only thing missing from the end of the Iron Bowl was Tommy Young waking up from a ref bump to get a touchdown reversed

those are both pretty great fights and get my official *twiztor seal of approval

He also had the rare achievement of being a player-owner! Played for the Phillies, owned the Mets. /rimshot

Meanwhile Mount Union is out of the D3 playoffs. Over to Brian for comment

Never Say Never Again, on the bright side, according to 14 year old me, has in particular order: the cool video game showdown, Rowan Atkinson, Bernie Casey and Kim Basinger.

friends, should I do this instead of Dynamite (if American Dragon isn’t announce)? Nick Cage sounds fun and I want a Timebomb Pro hat or shirt.

And the story mode is dumb

Agreed; had the same thought the other day. Danielson/Okada is probably the co-main, at worst would be third from the top of the card unless New Japan decides the Jr. Heavy and whatever the Ospreay/Mox/Finlay title match is would be more important. I realize that New Japan technically needs AEW more than AEW needs New Japan, but if I'm in charge at NJPW or Bushiroad, I'm at least a little peeved that AEW is potentially jeopardizing a marquee matchup in the biggest puroresu event of the year...that had already been announced. Unless the plan is for Danielson to win the tournament and the "American Triple Crown" and defend it (and probably lose it to) Okada, it doesn't make sense and is a huge gamble. It's almost too ridiculous to even consider.

You know who has been conspicuously absent since all this Devil nonsense? The bathing beauty Maria I hope we get a segment where Ruby and Ange are on a date being chaperoned by Daddy Magic and Sayraya

It's four corner survival night. The women's one was way short but everyone got a little bit of shine, the tag one was fun with Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs looking impressive despite being the only non-ROH team and not getting an entrance, almost looked like they could win but I'm glad to see the WorkHorsemen pick up a win. The men's 4 way shocked me with a nice Big Shotty win, thought for sure Willie Mack was winning that one. Shibata vs Trent made a solid opener along with the Ethan/Nese rematch and their feud continuing and Yuta/Moriarty in pure rules. Surreal to see Ronda Rousey on the Honor Club. I was sad they overdubbed her music though. Surprised they acknowledged/showed footage of the Revolver match, I thought that was a no contest but they said here DQ. Thought the match was an absolutely fantastic main event. Great back and forth all throughout. Ronda looked excellent and like she was having a blast the whole time, thought everyone here shined. Loved the double teams, thought Marina's slingshot into Ronda's piper's pit move could've been the finish and Billie/Athena's gory bomb into double knees looked good. Billie's Swanton while Ronda had Athena in the armbar ruled. Figured when Athena was going up that Billie was going to tag herself in and cost them the match, but a great finisher overall in leaving it open that Athena seemingly had Ronda beat with the O-Face originally. This was a lot of fun and I'm definitely down for more Ronda of Honor.

I'm sure there's some old monster movie actor who was taking multiple roles to save money. Luther could work as a Tor Johnson tribute act too. Luther did look eerily like a huge Terry Francona last night.

That is asking a lot of very old people to hang on for another full year.

Nah, that’s normal talk for birth lottery winners like him.