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You get old enough, you get good at taking a breath and just backspacing the sentence you were starting to write away.

He goes by Dropkick Matthews now.

I deleted all of my social media a year or so ago because I got tired of the massive scope of it all, and the thought of how people's behaviors were grating on me. Whenever I read something like "I want to read X from you, not Y", it's like... okay, but you don't have to read them at all. That's their life. They can live it how they choose. And in the same capacity, I can step away from it. I think I mentioned before that I had a decent amount of followers on social media due to my past life, and it was untenable for me. Once you hit five digits on the follower count, it's absolutely unworkable. "Don't tweet about this, tweet about that!" Like because you watched me on a thing, you're entitled to tell me what to talk about? So weird. I had friends who said it was more difficult to keep track of me without social media, but my phone doesn't just work when I text them, they can initiate the conversation. And if you didn't have my number, hey, you must not have been that close with me in the first place. It really helped to narrow who actually was interested in/important to my life and who was just there out of convenience/clout for said past life. Nowadays I have a locked Twitter account that I use just to follow my niche interests, I don't respond to anything, I block engagement farmers and paid shills, and aside from my private discord for friends and family and a couple of group chats, that's all I really use. And, real talk? Never been happier with my internet usage.

Be it wrestling boards or other places online, ithink cultivating your feeds is the key to how horrible your experience will be. Life’s too short to deal with abuse or people you can’t stand.

Villanova University is just two letters away from “Villano University,” which I’m sure is a much better institution.

That reliable Villanova education being put to work.

The nickname H2O for a guy with the last name Waterman is one of the most delightfully-stupid nicknames ever.

I know you won't disagree with me here, but I really wish that Danielson would beat Ospreay. For a few reasons. Danielson needs a big win occasionally in these "dream" matches he does, even if he doesn't want to win a title he needs victories occasionally in his big matches or they just become special attractions. I also think it would set up a good story for Ospreay. What does he still need to improve? How does Callis react? Is he really as good as he thinks he is? And on top of that, it would be a surprise since most people will assume Ospreay is winning. I don't believe in a "swerve for the sake of a swerve" but a surprise win now and then is good for the show and its not something that would hurt Ospreay long term. Small added side effect, if they want to keep him out of the title picture for awhile it will give Ospreay a "L" for their rankings. I don't think it would happen, but I do think Ospreay losing would open up more booking options then him winning.

I imagine the timeline will work a little like Danielson. He was a face for his first feud and then right into bullying the Dark Order to get at Hangman Page. They'll have a couple of months of celebratory Mercedes and then things will work their way naturally.

See also:

TK mentioned DVDVR during the panel he, Danielson and Britt Baker did at SXSW a few days ago. It was in reference to Danielson not thinking people thought he was the best wrestler in the world in 2004, and TK said this board did, because he was there. Trevor Dame assumes this is in reference to the DVD 500. Another fun tidbit from that panel was that Vince apparently asked Bryan, when he was doing creative before he left, what AEW was doing that WWE wasn’t. So Bryan went and watched something like 6-8 weeks of TV in one weekend and came back, “they’re doing a lot”.

oh yeah, there's also a Bagwell family method to slapping people, which sounds like somebody describing their madeup martial art before they get wiped out in under 2 minutes at UFC4

I just watched the John Tenta episode and Haku laughing over The Shockmaster debut put the biggest smile on my face.

Everything is fixed Nothing is fixed

Oh yeah and give Julia a bonus for making Moné's finisher look crisp, I feel like that's potentially the most awkward moment of a debut and they stuck the landing so well.

I like Bullet Club Gold being heels again. Hopefully, now we can get the trios titles unified.

They’re overplayed but I love that recently they went out of their way to tell any racist/alt-right/fascists to fuck off, they don’t want them as fans.

There's at least five Villanos that have worked in pro wrestling, haven't seen any Villanovas. The math checks out.

I would have gone with Mighty Mighty Bo$$Time. *I like their music. I don't share the same views as Dickey Barrett.

Good goddamn do I wanna live in a world where wrestlers have names like that again...

Looking forward already to Eddie Kingston vs. Kazuchika Okada and Christian Cage vs. Adam Copeland on AEW Dynamite next week, especially Kingston/Okada.

Great, now he's gonna claim he invented Wikipedia vandalism.

Is Villano University where Mike Tenay was a professor at?

Here's a face book tip. Let's say you have a crazy uncle frank who just won't shut up about vaccine conspiracies. There's an option to unfollow him but keep him in your friends list so his nonsense doesn't show up in your feed and lead to arguments

Yo Coach Tony, please let Okada do the Rainmaker pose = camera zoom out everytime Penta does his stupid hand gimmick.

They think that wrestlers are their friends now?

There's still like a 2% chance she shows up in April to put Bayley over the top. Until she's on TV, she's not officially in. And hoo boy do I regret Googling Mr. Barrett. But I guess giving up his friends and bandmates over something, like that, is his idea of being punk or at least that's the impression that I get.

I eagerly await the eventual Bowens singles push.

I think you just grew up is all. I've been on wrestling boards for over twenty years and am not the same person I was then. It happens. My main haunt has maybe five percent of the activity it had in 2002 when I found it because we all kinda aged out of flame wars and live commentary threads. Younger people haven't.

Things I Remember From the Buff Bagwell episode of Dark Side of the Ring: Judy Bagwell ran a business! Boy, that kinda puts a different light on the wrestling dudes crapping on Buff for letting Judy handle his business (well.. just wait) Buff's dad really really looks like a retired stockcar driver. The whole situation around them is "rednecks who happened to find money" (remember that Marietta was a pretty rich Atlanta suburb). Buff shot his dad and his dad said "it was my fault" Buff was working as a stripper before wrestling, and then Missy Hyatt found him, because of course she did. Buff had tag team partners, one after the other. Scorp is a hilarious interview. Also, he got calf implants and that went badly. And he did Cinemax-quality movies. And Buff's mom was shaving his balls. So anyways, he turns heel and breaks out after years as a candyass babyface. Then he breaks his neck, and WCW burns money by not keeping him as a face for longer. But this was WCW in 1998 and they were burning money on a variety of bad ideas. Then his mom keeps making appearances on WCW TV. The Buff/Booker match being in Tacoma really was somebody trying to fuck them over from the start. Also, Buff was outrednecked by trying to fight Shane Helms and Helms unleashing a frozen water bottle on Buff's head. After 2001, things go array in a variety of ways. Then Buff goes on a Gigolos show and doesn't realize that he's not supposed to fuck a woman on the show. Although to be fair, he didn't get it up so it was achhhh-tingggg. Then he becomes a real gigolo. I should note that Buff's 2nd or 3rd wife, I think his 3rd, has the same name as his mom. Anyways, one of his gigolo clients falls in love with him and that destroys his marriage Buff really is like Tiger King without the acumen to keep zoo animals alive. Also his mom died of dementia. So anyways, they found Scotty Riggs and things might be sorta moving in the right direction. But it's Buff, so who really knows. I get the sense that you could simultaneously hate and love Buff Bagwell. If he had been born a county or two to the west, south, or north of Cobb County, he would have been sort of a local legend, the town's dumb redneck who didn't realize that Mt. Dew doesn't cause infertility as he knocked up a random girl. There's probably a certain amount of what Buff says that is actually total bullshit but he tells it well enough that you can believe it.

Bowens is basically the most likable guy in the company.

Okay fine... ...and workin' over time... work out.... *Bachman guitar solo* Also, if someone debuts, as expected... next week's title is already decided.

But seriously, Villano University sounds like one of those non conference opponents that a SWAC basketball program would schedule like when the Grambling women's team beat the College of Biblical Studies 159 to 18 earlier this year. It could be a school or a money laundering scheme.

As smart *as*

I would pay money to never hear that goddamn song again

It is tough to remember since Pac's whole deal is not liking anyone.

This was the only other thing in consideration. Also please remember, I do not like any of you.

Which is perfectly fine, because Mercedes excels as a heel and honestly their women’s division doesn’t have that huge heel. Toni is slowly turning face, and with this All About Eve story, will be face anyway before it’s over with. The biggest heel is… Julia & Skye? Saraya? That’s not good.

It reads to me more like they let themselves enjoy the show rather than be lost to analysis. There's something to be said for people who can be lost in the moment.

Being hit in the pelvis hurts no matter what's down there.

“Punk is about thinking for yourself, not being a sheep, and fuck the government!” leads to “There is a secret cabal trafficking children for Satan hiding in the deep state”

The Acclaimed are still a merch moving machine, every time they drop a new shirt you see like 5% of the audience wearing it, which is not Austin 3:16 but is respectable considering they have new shirts every 2-3 weeks right now. Once that cools, they’ll reboot.

I feel like that's a lot of aging Punks' idea of punk.

I'd pay good money to be in the same room with @Just Dave and @The Natural for the Penta & co. vs. Elite match tonight. It'd really make it fun if it was one of those rage rooms where they could break stuff as they match goes on. (Hope both fellas know I got nothing but love for them!)

Thank you all. Thought you'd like to see these. Me with my Dad and Sister on my 39th Birthday: https://ibb.co/MSzbH8h https://ibb.co/0yZcmhB https://ibb.co/DpYP0Nb The Batman: The Animated Series hoodie was a birthday present while the blue jumper is one of my most prized possessions as it was made by my much missed Mum for her Dad, my Grandad who was like a second Dad to me. The Spectacular Spider-Man sweatshirt was a birthday present. I had a good un despite teary moments. Went bowling with my Dad/Sister. Only my second time. We then went to see my Mum who unfortunately had tire tracks on her again so we've put another complaint in to the previous ones. For tea we had fish and chips. My favourite thing from my birthday was all three of us doing things together. Normally we don't. Thanks again. Love, Paul xxx.

I wish Willow would just destroy Riho in seconds. That could set up Statlander turning out of jealousy.

Jack didn't initiate it though, at least according to him. I believe this was in TNA. Knobbs showed up backstage one day, gathered up the boys like he's the locker room leader, and tried to give a speech saying everyone needs to be working harder. First off, that last part coming from Brian Knobbs is hilarious. Second, when New Jack who was (probably rightfully) not paying attention looking at his phone and laughing at a text he got from his significant other, Knobbs said, "...the hell you laughing at New Jack?! You can't wrestle anyway". Apparently, Knobbs thought Jack was intentionally being an asshole. Then, the rest is history and Knobbs ended up getting KO'd. So yeah, that tis but one part of the story. He didn't call himself Jack Brisco, but he knows for sure Knobbs cannot fucking wrestle at least enough to be trying give a speech like he is wrestling's Patton.

My fantasy booking is that The Acclaimed defend their trios titles against The Elite (Billy Gunn vs Okada!), lose and do a soft split. Caster can feud with Keith Lee or some other big guys, and work a loudmouth antagonist gimmick. Bowens can win a ton of matches and get a World title shot on PPV (against World Champ Swerve Strickland, because it would mean a lot to a lot of people to have a black World champion defend against a black challenger, and to have a gay man vying to be top dog in the company). And Billy Gunn can have a quiet few months or go back to his semi-retired manager gig that he had before the trios thing took off.

I was there with my dad and brother. My friends, Handsome Frank Stalletto and Beef Stew Lou Marconi were two of the Undertaker's druids. I hope I can be there this year.

I swear I can’t win. Was out doing some errands and my right rear tire popped! Luckily I made it to the tire shop but the left rear is bad too. So I’m sitting here and waiting as they put two new tires on. Ugh I asked them not to charge me an arm and a leg though. I don’t have a leg to spare!