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ABADON vs. Kiera Hogan added to Collision tonight! 2 of my favs, always glad to see both on TV

update from December 1981 Florida: JJ Dillon looking like he talks to the customers so that the engineers don't have to. I thought JJ was slumming it a tad in JCP before he dropped all his randos and went in with the Horsemen. But it's possible that JJ has like a 5 year progression where he went from looking like a dumpy office worker who steals from his employer to looking like a corrupt elected official. In other words, that mustache.. I'm hoping that was merely a short-term thing.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world her mildly critical tweet doesn't exist.

Not to mention Regal's "knee trembler" (still can't get over him using that name ).

I was hoping Malaki would mist in Dax’s and he’s start dressing like Judas Priest

Early this morning TK tweeted a 2 hour, 46 minute video recapping the entire Athena-Billie Starkz angle. (Fully out of the loop on ROH, but I'm going to try to watch it!) Anyway, due to the length of the video, I just saw someone refer to it as "Killers of the Ember Moon"

See, every time I think of Flair’s suits I think, “What can I say about that suit that hasn’t already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed out and depleted.”

New wrestling crossword! Hey, the tweet embedded properly, look at that.

I think the best response I saw online for Flair's suits is that he looks like a fancy brunch menu.

Settle down, Collettietico ;).

The 11 year old has been sick so she’s working her way through the Capaldi episodes. Heaven Sent remains a top 5 modern Who episode.

Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston II and Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brody King tonight, well tomorrow morning 1am UK time.

Ah, fuck it, I’m in.

My wife fell back in January, breaking her knee and rupturing a tendon in her knee. So with that, two leg surgeries, and some other related health problems I've basically been doing caretaking all year since she's been laid up. Needless to say it's been a stressful as all hell. But! My wife is finally recovered enough that I get to take lil' road trip on my own this weekend to go watch some wrasslin. I get to see Masaaki Mochizuki and then starfish myself in the middle of a king sized hotel bed and I cannot fuckin' wait.

AEW Pro Wrestler Kota Ibushi vs NOAH Player Naomichi Marufuji is set for NOAH's The New Year show on 2024, 1, 2.

Killer Kelly rules. Her and Jody Threat had a great match that was built around Kelly trying to kiss Jody, between which they had a wild brawl around ringside. Finish came when Jody caught Kelly off-guard by kissing her and then hitting her finisher. That was the main event of the WPW show. Honestly one of their better cards ever. Match of the night was the tag team championship between champion Sammy Peppers of Red Hot Summer and Moses the Deliverer (filling in for Sammy's sick partner) against Fresh Air. I've never seen Fresh Air or even heard of them before, but they were fun as fuck. Have an 80s B-Boy gimmick with lots of fun tandem moves. Hope they get booked again. The other big stand out match was Warhorse beating Kevin O'Doyle and Charlie Hubley. Didn't expect much out of it but all three meshed really well and the crowd went banana over it. Other matches: WPW Men's Champion Tyler Colton d. Mo Jabari by DQ (former champ Bobby Schink kept running in and attacking Tyler) Vanna Black d. Tootie Lynn Rahim de la Suede d. Chad Daniels AJ Sanchez d. a dude who's name I can never remember (who's doing a rich boy gimmick) Josh Holiday d. Michael Allen Richard Clark James Roth d. Shaun Moore

I still can't quite wrap my head around the fact that this will be a Big Ten game next year.

Swerve is winning the whole tournament, beating Danielson in the finals, and then he's becoming world champion.

Canada's title.

This was a damn good two hours of wrestling. Brody/Claudio were two guys whaling on eachother and making it seem like they were both actually struggling with eachother. Abbadon shows up and actually wins, plus there's an indication of a Julia Hart Program which should be great. The Iron Savages are there too and I would have much rather have heard them do one of their tribute promos to coked up 80s hosses than Roddy's attempts at comedy. The HOB match was your average JTTS match, but the setup of a program with FTR is all kinds of awesome. Toni Storm is still awesome. I thought Garcia might get an upset victory here, but nah. Match was fine though. Danielson and Eddie predictably beat the piss out of eachother for all our enjoyment. If he turns but Wheeler doesn't, does he rebrand the team as FTR, Inc?

Great show! Great company! Great main event!!!!

As a kid I thought it was fairly bold of Lex Luger to be around mirrors so much considering how Marty Jannetty whacked Sensational Sherri with one, but then I figured Luger would just shove the referee in the way or something.

HIS NAME IS JEROME! Also, didn't we have like two back-to-back mirror related gimmicks with early Heartbreak Kid Shawn and Sherri and then the Narcissist? I am guessing they had an overstock of mirrors in Stamford.

The character is temporarily locked after every three matches

Good call, I like the idea of having their CC match on the PPV - I think having a tourney match with AEW main show/title implications would be a great way to build interest for the ROH show. With their match at Grand Slam having been so great too, I could see them picking up a handful of extra last minute buys based on the match being a "proven commodity" to the AEW TV audience.

I'm fine with it if they then call Ilja up to the main roster to beat Gunther for the IC Title at Wrestlemania.

i got very worried on where this was going when i was reading this one-two punch of comments.

Even better than when they tried to redo it in the Loki finale.

Prince Nana's dance is the fucking best. Don't know how Swerve Strickland doesn't corpse while making his entrance.

I understood that reference!

Bader vs. Ngannou is probably the biggest fight PFL could do at the moment Warrior Spirit (2021) - UFC Champ Nicco Montano Documentary - Official Teaser - YouTube just watched this on TUBI , really worth a watch goes into her disastrous weight cut and extreme weight cutting in general

Butch/Lashley was good. Lashley dominated like one would expect, but Dunne got a pretty nice showcase with him caught Lashley off guard various time and showing passion. Santos/Wilde was a solid showcase for Wilde. Logan Paul's segment was solid and served as a good lead into KO/Waller which was another solid match. The tournament to decide who challenge Paul first should be good. Very curious to see what NXT name shows up. If they hadn't built the idea of KO/Logan so strongly I would say this would be the perfect spot for Hayes or Bron to show up and win. Bianca/Kairi was a bit off at times but still came together well enough by the end to be something pretty decent. The story of the night was mostly on Bayley clearly not being on the same wavelength of the rest of the group. Kind of surprised they didn't pull the DC murders Bayley trigger here. Audience was good enough that it probably would have went over rather well. Skipped around the final segment until Heyman showed up. Dug those parts, especially with Knight making the save when Kimmy and solo attacked. Solid show with enjoyable matches and segments. The no. 1 contender's tournament for the US title should provide some good matches for the rest of the month. Its also good to see Roman's next big feud set up. I'm curious if they wait till the Rumble for Orton/Roman or do it as a big Smackdown episode. Damage Ctrl still feel sliek a decent threat, but that is going to end fast if they don't start getting some regular victories. That was kind of how HHH screwed the group before. Hopefully he isn't making the same mistake though the focus on doing Bianca/Io again and how to get there makes me think otherwise.

re: AEW's Triple Crown i like that it is made up of titles from three companies (albeit two of those owned by the same man), but i kinda wish they could have appropriated a belt from AAA or CMLL to make it from the big three wrestling countries as well (sorry Canada).

Man, reading Flair's tweet 75% of it is noise to me but I kind of like his self awareness at the end. If it was legit anybody else I would almost feel sorry for somebody who's in a generation that's very different than the one that he thrived in. But it's Flair and he frankly should only have been there for a couple appearances at most where he's reined in. He is right in wanting to be there for Sting's retirement and he should. But this is what happens when you have a multi year contract and have to use him somehow. Since he's contracted I still think he's best doing backstage promos where they can edit out whatever. But if he goes out there I hope they now know he needs to be on a short leash with a live mic. Oh, and I don't post much in the AEW section anymore because of folks like Vileone. And it saddens me to see Gordlow not as interested as he was before. But I still love AEW to pieces and keep up on the news items on here. I just prefer to watch the shows without looking as much on here before and after. Plus with Dean gone the level of positivity he brought to the threads is very much missed. When people are talking shit it can be a bummer as it's not as well balanced out by his lovely wall of text. I'm not saying it's related to what any one person says about AEW (aside from Vile) It's more just a general vibe more than anything.

To be totally clear, it's the bell-to-bell that turns me off on those, nothing graphically - I kinda dig the vintage look, really. My 'timing' is just absolutely horrendous, the control scheme is just too much of a shift for me from the grapple-based system that's been used basically from the WCW games up to 2K19. It sure is. Why the hell am I getting a history of the cheesesteak?! Let me go fight a guy in the dressing room or something. The Smackdown/SVR games might have been a better inspiration here than the older stuff - even the goofy bullshit was really fun. I remember one from high school where Undertaker uses his powers to turn your male character into a lady in order to fight for the women's title - I mean, cmon. That's awesome outside the box type stuff. This story mode sucks so bad that when I started reading @Logw's post, I legitimately thought at first when describing cashing in the wellness credits, that it was part of the story I missed. Like yeah, I've already gotta go out to eat and to the gym, why wouldn't I get points for my doctor visits, workouts, checkups...

I'll echo not ever getting what fans saw in Donna. She always annoyed me. She annoyed me in the first episode too, but maybe less so than in the past.

We need Steiner Maths!

Yeah but I think that ref should probably go to jail for aiding and abetting Holy Shit what was that not stopping the fight until Bobby Green was paste

I saw some old 70s result recently where a wrestler was using the “Rooster Coburn” gimmick name.

Went to the library. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country - Patricia Evangelista I had to return this. The jacket basically said it would shock the unshockable and I immediately took that as a challenge. It won. I got through the intro and the first chapter or two. It started with detailing the murder of the parents of a young now-orphan and her memories of it. Then they just started listing people and what their murders were described as. They were all extrajudicial killings by the military of Rodrigo Dutarte, who was on a mission to kill every drug user or dealer in the Phillipines. It was such a bummer it just went back to the new arrivals rack for some other poor sod to pick up. The Last Yakuza - Jake Adelstein I've read Adelstein's brilliant and fascinating memoir of being a reporter in Japan, Tokyo Vice, more than once so as soon as I saw his name on the book I snagged it and walked right to the checkout. Still starting this one, it's the story of an actual yakuza where some elements have been combined or fudged but it's autobiographical in general. No doubt it is very, very good. Too Late to Stop Now: More Rock 'n' Roll War Stories - Allan Jones This is by a British guy who wrote about rock bands back in the '70s and '80s. Haven't broke it open yet but the jacket said he got set on fire once by the Damned so... yeah, right up my alley.

It's good to see you talk about all this stuff, Curt, cause no small part of it is dead-on where I'm at right now. Guilt, bad psychiatrists, nasal drip nonsense... I put every aspect of my personal and professional life in the same place. I'm the center and I'm not holding. I let an addiction that I've romanticized (shit, professionalized) and a deeply negative personality define my entire adult life and I've been sitting around clueless how to act on it because all of my emotional resources either drifted away or up-and-left. And this withdrawal stuff is stupid - I don't know how to articulate the physical aspect of it properly. Psychologically is probably worse. Sober, I just stare at walls. Maybe doomscroll. With my baseline of 10 standard drinks then every game on my shelf becomes fun, every longform internet video is insightful, food tastes good, I can text people, at least. I can't regularly watch pro wrestling sober. It's why I dropped the poll I tried to keep running after DEAN passed. I'd skim IMPACT and NJPW on the DVR, indies and lucha on YouTube, figure out which AEW matches I could barely remember, and sort em all up while getting loaded every time. I stopped doing that months ago as an attempt to tone it down but it wasn't enough. To make a long story short last month I ran the biggest bender of my life and blew well past a fifth-a-day, every day for over two weeks. Called out of work. No outside contact. Some people just live like that, and there is no way I want to be that kind of person. But that's where it's been going for over half my life (and I am not that old) so I guess I'll do something about it. A much better set of professionals are in front of me then whatever the fuck I was grasping at over the summer. I have purpose and a plan. But I don't really know how I'm supposed to deal with the boredom, loneliness and anxiety. And the guilt/shame/loathing? I don't have any idea how to overcome it. But we move forward regardless.

this aired tonight, if you happen to catch it. (Replays on AXS at 2 AM EST)

As I was watching Swerve and Jay White doing their things against each other, headlining Dynamite as part of a mini-G1, I thought “damn, DEAN~! would really be loving this shit” Good stuff throughout. I had successfully avoided the Dante injury until now, and wish I still had. I thought he looked good while still not ready to go full on Dante. Emi saved Julia’s pretty face tonight. Up until that point it was a really solid match. Rush-Briscoe was even stiffer than I expected, and they did a great job adjusting to Rush’s leg. Sting-Flair-Tony was goofy shit that I loved. Christian-Copeland was excellent stuff that really made me care about the feud. And MJF’s promo more than made up for last week’s dud, and put Joe and AEW over big time. Like others, I’m worried the Devil angle is going to disappoint, and I’m ready for it to end soon. I also think the original intention of the original Cole-MJF angle was for Cole to turn on him, but now I’m not sure they can do that.

I’m down! Let’s do it! Side note: End of December could potentially be a bit messy with my work schedule but if anything comes up, I’ll let you know!

I'm in!

I'm in. I still owe Porksweats a review of the Most Depressing 6-Man he assigned me last time out.

I’m already working on a strategy for NG2.i will do Crimson Fleet and also finally do a lot of the Ship Skill Upgrades I’ve skipped. I’ve been finally doing Botany and Zoology and which ever skill lets you scan planets. And maybe NG2 is when I start doing outposts. And maybe I’ll be doing NG2 when they release the creator kit,

Another Great Muta's daughter video https://youtu.be/c0TgX8iwnSM?si=ktaLcq5lsbntMHGc I'm not sure who she is, only she's smaller than Nagisa Nozaki, so below five foot 5..