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Now I'm picturing him telling you you're getting a $1,683 refund like this:

Its game day! Let's get hyped

Cheers, @John from Cincinnati. Thanks also for @Eivion, @Custos, @Dolfan in NYC and @christopher.annino. Hope I haven't forgotten anyone.

There Is nothing wrong with Riho's size. If you bought Rey Mysterio Jr. all of these years, you can give Riho a pass.

AEW have trademarked Captain Insano for video games and digital media usage.

Apologies if already posted.

Britt Baker's new dental practice partner?

He went to Harvard?!? Seems like someone should've mentioned that during one of his games.

JD Drake is a fantastic pro wrestler. I can't imagine he doesn't end up somewhere after this nice run of Dark matches.

Fitzpatrick has one of the greatest careers. You can talk shit about his interceptions and lack of playoff wins, and you'd be right. He's not elite. But there are a lot of young QBs who might not be starters after last season who are praying they have the career Fitzpatrick had.

If Mox doesn't do this wholesale, I'm gonna be upset.

Apparently Justin Barrasso has seen the street fight tag match already, or bits of it at least. He's describing it as a huge success and "WWE's loss is AEW's gain when it comes to Sting" - pre-tape allows Sting to work in a safe environment, Darby applies his film school background/does insane shit, and Starks and Cage have some "star making" moments too.

No, Hurricane was a mild-mannered reporter. Oh shit, I think I just gave away his secret identity. Forget you read that!

It really speaks to what a tremendous heel Gary Hart was. Body half destroyed and blinded in one eye for the rest of his life from a horrific accident that made national headlines... and he STILL got his heat back.

I skimmed through Dark tonight, and some people will be entirely too happy to know that Chuck Taylor is wearing a singlet top with his pants now.

There's no way you can blame him for not continuing. Zero. Even if he had wanted to, the ref's should have stepped in at that point. I'm with Jaedmc - the real loser here is Sandhagen. Sterling will probably be out 6 months then they will run the fight again.

Says the woman who couldn't sell a serious bump for more than three seconds without adjusting her outfit.

Hey, I'm sure the NoI had accountants, too. They should have had a dude in the Nation of Domination that was just around to hawk bean pies.

Since we were discussing Jim Ross the other day, I already have said I watched the Raw where Shawn and Austin beat Owen and Davey Boy for the tag team titles. Well D'Lo is on the show against Bob Holly and this was when D'Lo was just a guy in the NoD. He was suppose to be this bad ass militant black dude. First thing out of Jim's mouth? D'Lo being a CPA and where he went to school. Nothing beats Billy Gunn and going to Sam Houston State on a RODEO scholarship. They got like 4 or 5 of years out of that on commentary.

Kane would make me the saddest of any name mentioned.

Not a lawyer but always a wonderful fact, D'Lo Brown is also a CPA and would do taxes for fellow talent. Such a wholesome thing, along with him being a very solid talent in the ring.

If I recommended one match for lapsed fan or a non wrestling fan to watch from the Modern era, it would be the Smackdown Mens Elimination Chamber match from 2019 with Kofi and Bryan at the end. It had everyone on the edge of their seat actively rooting for Kofi to win. It was like watching a high stakes football game with your favorite team. It wasn't about work rate even though you had Bryan in there. It was one of the few times that you could genuinely lose yourself in match like that in this era. The WrestleMania match vs Bryan was dope too and I'd recommend that match to along with Cody vs

I’m not expecting this at all, but it would be awesome if Kenny wins and leaves Moxley for dead in the ring, only for Eddie to run down and save him from the bomb.

I'm the opposite: this is the first AEW PPV I have been motivated to watch and it is 95% because of the Exploding Barbed Wire Triple Hell Deathmatch. There is a lot of wrestling that can be a foregone conclusion, but it's what they do along the way and how they get there that makes it exiting. I wanna see some long-ass entrances and selling of the BW gimmick and juice and maybe even thee "destroying your opponent so he can't escape the explosion but then running back to cover his prone body with yours bushidowarriorspiritrespect" finish and the bloody gladiators emerging from the smoke into th

The Buy-In is already worth it.

Now I really want it to be Sabu.

I am actually going to a Cinemark theater about 5 miles away. Never watched wrestling at the movies before. I would say it is cheaper than PPV but depends on what I eat and drink

Listened to Coach Tony on the AEW podcast, and it definitely seems like they’re setting up Darby to lose the belt on Wednesday, with the mandate that he MUST defend the belt, regardless of what kind of shape he’s in from the street fight, or forfeit the title.

I mean if Tony Khan can afford Tarzan Boy he should be able to get the version of Wild Thing from Major League

It was better when they said a wrestler was thrown out of Sport X for being too violent or such, adding to the heel gimmick. Heel Duggan for spearing in football and then that became his finish.

I was watching Starrcade 83 last night because I'd never seen it and I had forgotten how much Gordon Solie loved not only talking about wrestlers' college football careers, but about the scholarship offers they got out of high school. Also there was a lot more stabbing in the opening matches than I had anticipated.

Foley as guest ref for the deathmatch? Then again, the last few times I've seen him he didn't look mobile enough to keep up with the action.

This fight has not been great to watch. I don't know what I expected but I guess I should not be surprised. Anyway, Happy Birthday @The Natural! Hope you can get some sleep in after this.

Israel wins cause he is coming out to Kool and the Gang's Summer Madness.

Give Aspen Ladd a gun.

They have to start booking Nunes in gauntlet matches or something.

You have to run the Schevchenko rematch if she fucks up Andrade like I think she will. That's it. Nothing else.

Petr Yan with a fucking Kamigoye.

I believe in Mexico they go with QEPD* "que en paz descansa" as their version of RIP *Got ripped several new assholes by many tios and tias in my youth for "getting it wrong" and being disprectful to la raza I'd wager they just ripped me a new asshole for being such a shithead as a kid, but I see tons of QEPD posts on my feed with the passing of luchadors and celebs from MX so mebbe they're right?? on topic about thigh slaps, its not anything I've noticed, even with watching tons of early RoH when the kick pad era was supposed to be in full force. I think maybe I'm lucky to not

They'll put Nick Gage and Maki Itoh together and have promos that are voiced over by Ed Ferrara.

Dredd has just been added to Epix On Demand and should be in heavy rotation. Yeah, it's still really really good.

Suzuki smashing face:

Apparently the new AEW signee was photographed at run throughs today.

So apparently there are "stories" that the WWE is going to fine wrestlers for slapping their legs on kick. In other news 65% of the NXT roster will be on Dynamite in the next month

He scored a goal today, leave him alone. Erik Karlsson's contract is completely untradeable. 11.5 million a year cap hit until 2026-27.