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He also needs to change up his gear. Don't want to be Ricky Morton in the York Foundation still wearing his RnR Express gear.

Goddammit.

Why does he need to be out at all? Bob Orton wrestled with a fractured arm for years.

There's always a part of me that wants to say something to those guys. In hindsight, I wish someone would've done that for me when I was their age. It would've sent me on such a better path lifting than the one I was on forever. On the other hand, if some random "old" dude had come up to me at the gym when I was that age to tell me what I was doing wrong, I probably would've hated it and brushed him off. I'm glad I have a gym at home now. My son is starting to show interest in working out. He's only 6, so I'm not putting him under any weight for a while, but I'm encouraging him. He likes to do bodyweight stuff and I let him use the light resistance bands a little. Along with some heavy bag boxing, it's a nice little workout for him. When he's ready, I'm glad I'll be able to start him working out smarter than I did.

Also finished S2 of The Bear this weekend, and I pretty much echo everything @Craig H said. The line about "sorry, but daddy just needs a break from Taylor Swift" was SUPER relatable for me. I really feel like this show is just operating on a higher level artistically than just about anything else on tv right now. The acting, writing, shooting, editing, music choices, directing, everything is just firing on all cylinders. And while episode 6 will (justifiably) get all the talk. My favorites were probably 5 and 7. Between the two, you really get what I'd call the "emotional thesis" for this show. It's just so heartening for me to see something so beautiful that a group of people came together to make. I don't know what else to say except that it just made me so happy watching this show.

No. They need to nuke the Barbie house.

Is it weird that I think Powerhouse Hobbes and Johnny TV would be an interesting tag team? It’s is weird, isn’t it? I’m sorry. I’ll stop. But, maybe? Nah! You’re right. It’s weird. Never mind.

Fuckin’-a, Douki.

It's kind of cool that it changes based on the champ, though. Like, Mox just wants to fight all the time, so he's got no problem defending it all the time. MJF, on the other hand, just wants to get paid for fighting as little as possible. So, he's happy to defend it the bare minimum. It fits their character and seems like what they'd do in "real life".

Well, Shibata did have to have his brain removed* after a match with Okada, so the brain drippage could happen. *I have no clue what actually happened with Shibata, but the reporting that his brain was taken out of his head will always crack me up. Wait, someone really reported that, right?!?! Did I make that up in my own brain? Is my brain leaking out of my ear. I gotta go.

I think by that point he'd gone back into the battle royal he was having with my old WWF LJN wrestlers (Andre ALWAYS wins). He tends to watch the entrances, and if it's someone he's into (Lucha Bros, Orange Cassidy, Mox, Adam Cole(!)), he'll keep watching. If not, he's usually putting on his own matches.

Ok, so I'm sorry, but I'm going to dredge up the recent talk of how looks play into a wrestler's presentation, etc. Watching Dynamite this week, Suzuki comes out. I explain to my son that he is a super-tough guy that people are really scared of. He tells me, "He looks like an old man. He's not scary. I bet you could beat him up." So, to the eye of the casual fan (my son) I am much more imposing than Minoru Suzuki. That being established, obviously TK (and really the whole of pro wrestling) is making a huge mistake by not pushing me more.

I usually try not to engage with this shit, but this is the problem right here. People spouting off like they know something. You know jack shit about how anyone involved in this feels about anything. You know jack shit about who said what in any of this. Just stop.

So he both literally and figuratively showed his ass? It's sad that the two guys who most seemed to have the potential to be real breakout stars in that time period of NXT both turned out to be pieces of shit. The other is Velveteen Dream, of course.

Have their actually been any confirmed reports that Punk and the Elite are refusing to be in the building at the same time? I mean, I know it certainly looks that way with the Elite taped stuff Wednesday, etc. But, I see so much talk like its fact, but I haven't seen confirmation of this. There were a lot of people talking about a brand split as fact, too, and that turned out to be speculation and nothing more. I don't keep up super-closely with the news, so it is entirely possible that I missed it.

Strange Brew was HUGE with me and my friends around late-junior high/early high school. One of my buddies named his dog Hosehead.

What are you even talking about? Didn’t Stephanie McMahon invent women’s wrestling just like 7 years ago?

I think you are probably right. They said something about it being someone Jericho had issues with in the past. He had that feud with Naito in NJPW a few years back.

Pretty sure it was Ishii.

I'm kind of hoping Jericho gets a little to bossy with Suzuki tonight and pisses him off. Some kind of tag or six-man with them on opposite sides would be fun at FD. I'm also hoping that the OC/ZSJ tag leads to a singles match between them.

I seem to remember the Herc/Billy Jack feud being fairly featured in the lead-up to WMIII, wasn't it? Herc's match with Hogan on the November, 86 SNME was a pretty big deal to me. Herc had him in the torture rack and it appeared that Hogan may have submitted. Of course, Ventura and Heenan were sure he had and Vince didn't see it. I remember watching that when it aired very clearly. Hogan was so dominant at the time, and I really thought he may have lost. Then, the next SNME had Hogan and Orndorff in a cage with another controversial finish. That shit was so shocking to me back then.

Has Ibushi been wrestling anywhere since he left New Japan?

What’s a Blind Eliminatior Tournament?

That SNME battle royal also reminded me that the Killer Bees beat the Young Bucks to wearing cool Nikes instead of wrestling boots by a couple decades.

My son is very obsessed with Andre right now, so we've been watching some 80's WWF. He wanted to see a battle royal with Andre, so I played him the one from before WMIII on SNME where Andre eliminates Hogan. The craziest thing about it to me was that every single elimination bump looked super dangerous! Dudes were flying out of the ring at weird angles and hitting the apron and stuff. And not just one or two of them! Damn near every elimination made me wince.