Captain Kronos

Given her lineage as a Hart, it only makes sense that she takes the industry and herself way too seriously. Bret was the same way -- just read his excellent but revealing book -- and I'll bet it made him annoying to the people around him frequently, too. It does make her entertaining, for sure.

I just did a google image search for her, and I can't disagree with her amazing face and body. Her character made me nuts watching last night. But I can't deny that there's a "what-will-she-do-to-piss-me-off-next?" thing going on that will bring me back next week.

Same here. Yesterday was my first time watching it. Trash TV. But before yesterday, I didn't care one bit about the Bellas beyond enjoying their hotness. Now I find myself interested in them.

supreme, your writeups are fantastic. I thought the battle royal was an embarrasing waste of my time. I liked the rest of the show a lot, though. How could you not?

Classics on demand was only available via certain cable companies Yeah it was never available in my area. Also, the cheapest cable tv in my area was still around $30, and then another 8 or 10 for WWE 24/7. But you can't get that basic cable when for only a few dollars more you can get channels I will actually watch. And a few dollars more because the favorites are in the top tier. So every time I got cable, I would get 24/7 -- but the whole concept seemed to cost me $100 or more. So I would usually cancel the whole package after a few months. Wasn't worth it.

Okay, so I thought I would give Lockdown a try, since I haven't seen any TNA in almost two years. I made it 90 seconds into the first match: a 6-man tag inside a steel cage. Once Sabin and the blonde Japanese guy started going all Dragon Gate dancing choreography, I turned it off. I think I will go on YT and watch 1984 WWF instead. . .

I would buy that conflict between the Bellas, and I think it would be logical and awesome. "Can't believe she even has to get carried at being emotional." -- so, so true. More Summer next week, please.

It does kind of remind me of Sam Jackson's Bad Motherfucker wallet.

And that's why Dusty's face looks like the South Dakota Badlands. New policy, for all we complain, is why Paige will never look like that. And neither will Ambrose, since he seems to have escaped CZW before the same fate befell him.

I wouldn't buy this because I am not, you know, 14. But secretly I think it's pretty cool. Especially for $8.

Okay, let me try to defuse the heat I inadvertantly created by my liking AJ. I shall change the subject. . . So, um, rasslin is kind of cool, eh?

For me, E's family should have had my sympathy because she's such a lying-liar who treated them and her douche-guy so badly. But by the end of the episode, I decided I hated her and her family, and I cheered douche-guy for standing up and telling them all to go to hell. That was his Crowning Moment of Awesome and his total face turn for me. I am now Team Douche-Guy. (honestly, I don't even know his name) The stream I was watching had a chat, and we all lost our shit over Nikki's inability to pronounce "mercury". We kept saying things like, "Is Cena going to invite her to meer creek?" Also, how awesome was Jimmy Uso in his 30 seconds of screen time? Amongst all the stupid, he came across as super-cool.

Craig, when you recover from the stroke, I want to tell you that it's a beautiful post. The phrase "siphoning-of-heat segment" needs to catch on, big-time.

These days I am totally out of touch with joshi and with the US indie scene (SHIMMER, SHINE, etc). There's probably very good work being done in those places, as a lot of the usual faces from 5 or 8 years ago are still active. But the CMLL luchadoras tend to put on entertaining matches week in and week out, if lucha is your thing. If it's not, it should be. They have some good chick rasslers.

Perhaps. But I like AJ.

As a 12 yr old in the mid-80s, I was soooooooooo in lust over Markie P. Good find, fellas.

"Terry Gordy Memorial 6-Man" wouldn't hurt my feelings. Also, didn't know Punk is sexing up AJ. Now I either hate him or want to high five him.

He's happy now because someone smartened him up to the business of tv - now he knows those actors aren't really dead.

May I contribute some young Ivory, rapping her own entrance music? Her hair reminds me of prime era wank-bait Markie Post, too.

I will vow to keep up with all the new and classic rasslin, post like a maniac for a month, and then disappear for 11 months.

As far as you know. . .

Yup! It's awesome, especially when they call Dusty. I was walking to the corner store last night around midnight, and I was laughing like crazy walking home. Also, it's pretty informative. The Rhodes family are cool.

That reminds me of the Rene Young podcast with Dustin and Cody. Dustin is talking about he and Terri going to Fredericks on Sunset, and he said, "Do you think Vince would let me wear lingerie at Mania?" So he "went to the fat girl section", tried some on, and bought it. Rene says something like, "I'm trying to picture how that went down. Did you and Terri just decide you'd spend the afternoon lingerie shopping?" That podcast ep is great.

TNA would give him the belt because they want to swerve all the people who expect them not to give it to him. But then they would decide not to because we figured they might decide to give him the belt to foil our expectations of them not giving them the belt. Then at the last minute, they would run a staph infection angle and keep him off the PPV completely. TNA-style booking would swerve things by having HHH beat Daniel Bryan clean, giving us six more months of Randy Orton as champion, and trying to turn Daniel Bryan before Orton loses the belt, and sidelining him in an extended feud with Kane . I hate TNA so much. I really do. The last thing from them I enjoyed was The Beautiful People (with Cute Kip, pre-Madison) and Beer Money. And that's what, 5 years ago?

He doesn't look very happy there, does he? It's gotta be hard to leave the rasslin world where every week 20,000 people hang on your every word and gesture -- and go into the real world, where no one knows who you are and no one cares. It's no wonder Flair and Foley keep coming back. And Jericho, for that matter.