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Late to the party but ended up buying a front row ticket to Collision on Stubhub the day before the show. $140.. not too bad. Anyways, I was seated literally right behind Dasha and Doc Sampson. Really fun show. Danielson/Eddie was one of my favorite matches I've ever seen live. Bobby Cruise put over my Gorilla Monsoon shirt. Plus this happened right after we were DESPERATELY OUT OF TIME following Collision...

Found out today that my nephew will be kicking for Jacksonville State in the Bowl He is a freshman and hadn't played all season but the starting kicker entered the portal as a graduate transfer so here we are

I got tickets to collision 12/23 for Lawful Jr for Christmas but we are hopelessly behind (we haven’t seen All Out yet). Anything we need to know catchup on storyline wise?

Here is the official version I approve of the use of Tom Petty

Too good for the Lucha thread.

will AEW be holding a Festivus Battle Royal this month where the winner gets them to actually do something about their grievance?

I threw up a little bit reading that

That just got me thinking of a fun gimmick, where a wrestlers match keeps getting bumped for time (think Jimmy Kimmel always bumping Matt Damons appearance on his show to next week) complete with backstage footage of his reaction to getting his match moved as he was preparing to go out to the ring. The wrestler gets more and more frustrated, until he runs in on a match and attacks both competitors and stages a sit-in until he gets some respect.

Plaque better have a fucking cigarette in his mouth

I know who the Devil is now...dammit I hate spoilers.

Daniel "The Brian" Dragonboat

Herbstreit on the selection show was praising how BRAVE the committee was for putting in Bama over FSU, and basically laid the Noles' exclusion as exclusively the fault of Jordan Travis. Because, if he hadn't broken his leg, they get in. I swear to god, Kirk must really, really love his job. Because no one on earth is that sycophantic without some sort of incentive. Booger looked like he was ready to jump through the screen to choke him to death.

BRANIEL DYANSON

Oh man. That is a GREAT pro wrestling match. It tells three stories, really well. The first is the story of the match itself. As I suspected, there is a CLEAR senpai/kouhai structure here. Bison is Aja's right hand, and Grizzly is Bull's. Aja beats on Grizzly, Bull beats on Bison, and for a major chunk of the match Grizzly and Bison just beat the absolute crap out of each other. Right near the end, Grizzly finally gets to lay it in on Aja for a bit, after Bull has softened Aja up for her. Then Bison gets to save Aja's ass for a change, after Aja had been bailing her out all match long. Then, finally, the end of the match comes down to the two junior partners battling in the ring while Bull and Aja brawl on the outside. The match gets out of control IMMEDIATELY when the bell rings. Bison gets busted open right away. Grizzly gets busted open about half way through. They tease Aja vs Bull at the ten-minute mark but they don't actually fight for another five minutes. It's super-effective and very dramatic. But at first Bull pretty much dominates Aja. More on that, later. The actual ending of the match might seem anticlimactic after the INSANE violence that made up the body of the match. But the in-ring ending isn't actually the end of the story being told here. Aja and Bull keep on fighting after the bell, and then there is a long emotional confrontation between them, with tears and screaming, as real as any Eddie Kingston promo. And this, the setting up of a future match/rivalry, is the second story being told. But. It is the third story, the one maybe being told between the lines, that to me makes this match GREAT. Probably the most memorable section of the match is when Kong and Kimura are hitting Nakano with kendo sticks, and Bull just stands there no-selling, then rips the sticks away and absolutely hammers everyone, including the ref, with furious blows that break the kendo sticks into pieces and drop Aja to her knees. Then, and only then, Aja unleashes her rage and is able to finally gain the upper hand. I really get the sense that Aja Kong was still pretty green here while Bull Nakano was firmly established as THE top monster heel. And the third, perhaps most important, story being told (so well) in this match is Bull being all "Good. Let the hatred flow through you" with Aja. "Your hate will make you powerful. Now fulfil your destiny." So this is a damned good match in and of itself that also set up a huge singles match/rivalry, but it's probably also the birth of Aja Kong as the next great monster heel. Damn, Curt. Pretty good way to start this one off. Thanks for this!

We saw it yesterday and while the original will always be my favorite this is the best Godzilla movie they've done. For one it's just a really fucking great movie where the focus is much more on the humans than Godzilla itself. Shikishima's PTSD about being a kamikaze pilot was really fucking compelling and his quest for redemption had us hooked the whole way through. With how they did it for him and Noriko when Godzilla was around instead of the "Fuck yeah!" reactions I tend to have there was a real sense of dread and hope that they make it out alive. And I can't believe I'm saying this for a Godzilla movie but we cried a few times and it wasn't just us. But in that we were rooting so hard for them and it was all just fucking wonderful. I don't know if I want this going forward but this movie it really worked. I don't know about going as far as saying it deserves award recognition. But if award committees could look beyond it being a kaiju movie I feel it should at least be considered in some way. Which again is not something I would typically say about a Godzilla movie but it really was that good.

RKO is the ducked-Superman Punch follow-up. Spear goes into Powerslam. Meanwhile, on LVL UP: Von Wagner beats Luca Crusifino Elektra Lopez beats Brinley Reese in a pretty good (but basic) outing Gulak over Tavion Heights, also worth watching.

Philly having a "security" guy on the sidelines who starts fights with key players of the other team is the most Philly thing ever.

Alright, new week... But first a note from the weekend: The Creeds take on Dirty Dom & JD McPunchableFace and Seth Rollins defends the World Heavyweight Championship against Jey Uso in a "100% Chance of Outside Interference" Match. Plus, the other guy who showed up at Survivor Series will be on Smackdown THIS FRIDAY!

Dang, that looks purty. The amount of stuff happening on screen at one time is insane. I waited 10 years, I can wait 2, or 3, more for the next. Then we get the band back together. We just swap two beer with the night shift for Ensure and early bedtimes.

I was watching the Monday Night NFL game on Channel 5. Pre-game they were showing a live look at the stadium, and I could hear Swerve's music playing in the background.

Alright I got one for ya! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycb4R_dQkWQ

THIS company loves tournaments?

Well shit. I'm not gonna tell my mom it's out then, because she'll want me to take her and I'm not gonna sit there next to her crying.

So apparently this means a full trailer won't happen for like another 6 months. No way this is coming out in 2024

There also have been A LOT of QBs who went down for the season (or missed a lot of times) and teams weren't prepared

Does the winner get a bumper sticker like when you run in a marathon? Is that correct? If Brody and Danielson win another match, then lose their next two, then they'd both end up 3-2. And if Eddie won the rest of his matches, he'd end up 3-2. Unless I'm missing something or the matches remaining make that impossible. Has anyone mentioned tiebreakers in each league? Also, why are they called the blue and gold leagues when "Dynamite League" and "Collision League" would have been better? I wanted to see Eddie win with a sneaky backfist to Danielson's blind side, but we just can't have nice things.

That's actually how I hope they deal with Danielson later on, where he wants to retire but he's either chasing the belt before he does or he has it and refuses to let go and it's like the siren song as part of his odyssey.

MJF is Baggins, holder of the 'ring', and Adam Cole is Samwise Gamgee with Samoa Joe as a cross between Boromir and Aragorn. The Eye of Sauron is 'The Devil'.

I saw him on the Danzig III tour in a tiny club that didn’t have a stage just a barricade between the crowd and him and he was barely taller then the barricade and he lost his voice on the first song and someone put their cigarette out on my back good times

And especially useful when you have two guys with big matches at Wrestle Kingdom (Naito and Despy) who can go and get surgery and still have some time to rest up before January hits.

If there is, Claudio better be wearing it for his tourney match against Eddie.

I did go to rmthe movies by myself once. I saw the first 15 minutes of Paul Blart: Mall Cop before walking out. James

And speaking of which:

Not sure what's greater: the celebration itself, or the idea that they did it against the original Fun Bunch.

Please prepare your fainting couch for this news, as it is, to put it mildly... Shocking. Ian Rapaport is reporting that it is "unlikely" that Aaron Rodgers will play again this season. Again, I rupaulogize if you were unable to get to a safe place before you saw this. Try to have a good day.

It's hard to look at that image and not hear A Flock of Seagulls playing in my head.

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.

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.

Did they? I didn't realize that. That gives Eddie a lot more options if they want to do the come-from-behind victory.

Well, that guy wasn't suing anybody unless it was pro bono. This part cracked me up If they really had to drop the price to 50 cents, they would change the recipe.

Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryanson

And Eddie brings out the gas can again.

Kingston losing next week to Claudio would be cruelly heartbreaking and I’m all for the calamity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1

Jacoby Brissett has finally seen the field

The second two Capaldi seasons are quite good, I think, after a pretty mixed bag/ultimately disappointing first season. Capaldi is also kind of a weird actor, in that he’s more limited than some of the other Doctors, but also is way more capable of subtlety of emotion than most of them.

World War II was an early stoppage compared to that fight