Captain Kronos

What is an "Australian Type" match? What territory had Waco?

Such a die-early business. Glad to see some guys from back in the day still out and about, looking happy. Tugboat should wear Shockmaster shirts to these kinds of events (I assume they're all together for a convention/event). Might as well embrace it now. People will love him all the more for having a sense of humor about it all.

I’m watching the Reputation concert on Netflix. It’s really good - better than any previous concert footage I’ve seen from her. She’s currently doing “All Too Well” with just her guitar. It’s one of my favorite of her songs. Maybe my favorite, and this version is great.

White/Okada was terrific. It really helps when the crowd is behind everything that the guys are doing and responding just as they should (booing the heel, getting caught up in nearfalls, etc). Reminds me why it’s so hard to watch something like 205 Live, where the guys will pull off some really cool spots - and the crowd will just sit on their hands or surf their cell phones. Jericho/Naito hype vid over. (Is Naito a coolass mofo, or what?) *checks time* 1h38m left for two matches!

I will say that after having been burned out on women’s wrestling for months, I watched the Elimination Chamber match last night for the first time and had my spark relit. Everyone did great (Mickie looked more fired up than I’ve seen her in years), and Mandy Rose played plenty of part of making things entertaining. If Vince wants to push her for a bit, I’m good with it.

I just finished the young bucks tag, so I’m cruising right along through the show. I’ve seen some good stuff in this match and in some of the matches before it. But I will say that I didn’t even realize that I would get my money’s worth just by seeing Nagata and Suzuki stand in the middle of the ring and slap TF out of each other. I could’ve turned the show off right then following that, and I would’ve been happy. I probably would have fast forwarded the Cody Rhodes match anyway, but I cheated and read a couple of pages in this thread. So I think I’ll go ahead and skip it for sure.

Video, not GIF, but too awesome not to post here.

Cena's surprise entrance at #30 may be my favorite chills-inducing Rumble moment, depending on the day.

I have stayed out of this thread because I won't start watching the show until this evening. But I wanted to come here and mention the Cornette kerfuffle on twitter. It amuses me. I listen to both of Corny's podcasts most weeks. But I always have to remember that if one hated everything about rasslin as much as he seems to, it would make for a sad fan-life of watching nothing but the same MX matches over and over and over.

I have not read it. Once I heard that Harley was able to outfight and outthink the Big Three all at once, I lost interest. I like Harley a lot. But c’mon...

That seems silly. This is a great opportunity to add a little bit of backstory to those paper-thin characters. I wanted to care about them more than the movie offered me.

The Qui-Gonn one felt kind of thin, but it's always nice to get a story about him. I liked his conversation with Yoda. I have not read the Obi-Wan issue yet. Looks like they're doing weekly one-shots this year. Could be good, especially if they do issues on the Rogue One characters.

I came to this thread to post this video. Classic!

stupid me not knowing stuff - please ignore

Nice shot of Nikki and Charlotte.

I am impressed he can still crouch down that low.

Is Don West still alive?

You mean it’s JCP doing it? Annoying, but I feel better about it, then.

Was watching an early MidAtlantic show the other night. Abby runs in and starts forking TF on Wahoo’s head. Every time the camera angle would have shown blood, the footage changed to some kind of scribbled animation. It was seriously annoying. Is that what WWE is doing now? We have to trade between barely watchable ancient and tape rips from a 30 yr old trading community or else this propagandized Disney version? Ugh.