For Great Justice

Darby taking ownership of the baseball bat going forward as a literal passing of the…bat…and the way it sort of went unspoken but understood was just perfect. That’s great.

NXT is such a different wrestling show than anything else and I dig it for that reason, corny as it may be Always good to see Regal and I’m curious what he’s going to do with the Blackpool Not-That Club

Re: the IC title, I think the move is somehow Sami and Nakamura costing each other the match and starting an issue, leading to Gable winning. Then you get a two-fer, as I can’t think of better opening matches for each night than Sami/Shinsuke and Gunther/Gable (where the REAL story could be finished)

Oh yeah, Rock/Roman are totally winning night one and then the night two main event is the biggest sports entertainment spectacle you’ll ever see (and I mean that in the best way). Austin is definitely going to show up to clean house WCW Babyface Turn style and it all sets up so much shit for later on. WWE is at its best doing this kind of shit (Jackass match, Austin/Owens last year) and it’s going to rule.

If you can’t smile when Sting comes down from the rafters while Schiavone marks out, I can’t help you. Just a giant bigass smile on my face.

The Battlebowl team we never got because, let’s be honest, we didn’t deserve it RIP. Loved both guys.

One of the best promos in wrestling history. Probably the most underrated when we talk about the all timers at that part of the job.

In this week’s edition of TK Still Lurks, hey that backwards hat does wonders for Wardlow

Feels like The Acclaimed have fallen into that trap of getting comfortable and forgetting what brought them to the dance. When’s the last time they did a YouTube freestyle video? They need a hot feud and need to get back in the lab.

Remembering when Big Show lost that tables match by accidentally stepping through one. Tag rope and closed fist are also good ones. Was it Dax that said that in the WWE rule book there’s actually a rule about a maximum number of pin breakups in tag matches (I want to say 2?)? Has that ever been called?

There’s no way this isn’t on Danielson’s to-do list, even if not in AEW.

A lot of things have happened for Wardlow to cool off as much as he has, but I am trying to think of another case where a haircut played this much of a role. It seems all of his aura was in the man bun. My man looks like a hamandegger that heard about this wrestling thing and showed up at the Power Plant.

The John Cena remake of The Invisible Man

Mox/Dax (brawl), Edge/Garcia (technical), Bucks/Flight (flying), OC/Taven (weapons), Toni being Toni (comedy), is a really nice three ring circus of a card

In that WWE animated film Rumble from a few years ago, SAS himself played the heel color commentary role and was great. Given his ability to keep kayfabe while giving hot takes on stuff like who the Piston Cup GOAT is, that isn’t surprising. Lambert I could totally see in that role, for sure. Jericho has the chops and the credibility aspect we talked about with Heenan, but he seems to go with more of the David Crocket / Booker T “mark out for stuff” vibe as an announcer.

I don’t think the heel commentator is a thing of the past, in general. I’d argue that the heel commentator is more relevant in the mainstream than ever before (Skip Bayless, and before a recent babyface turn Stephen A Smith). I think the Bayless vibe is what Corey Graves goes for, but it misses the mark for me. And like Heenan, Bayless has decades of skins on the wall as a legitimate journalist before doing his current shtick Maybe these current guys just aren’t that talented at it. Because I think a hot take heel Bayless act in wrestling would work.

Agreed. I got Brain, Terry Funk, Eddie Guerrero and Bryan Danielson on that list, and I think if we had more extensive footage of Heenan as a worker there would be a lot of concensus of him as the GOAT.

I also think with Heenan we had the advantage of years and years and years of understanding his worldview before he went on commentary. We knew The Brain, so when he was in the booth, it was all just things that character would naturally say. The audience doesn’t know Graves or Nigel like that. And yeah he’s arguably the most talented person in any role in pro wrestling, ever, so there’s that.

Oh man, Dwayne’s “Rick Dalton post-Bounty Law” phase is going to be electric, when he finally gets that Emmy as a lead heel monster of the week in whatever prestige television series 10 years from now

How this era of Hollywood hasn’t made a spinoff of The Other Guys simply called The Guys with Rock and SLJ beats me. Would the gag hold up for 90 minutes? No. Would it make a truck ton of money? Yes. Aim for the bushes

Dude lucked into DD, in my opinion. I present as evidence the Director’s Cut, wherein Kelly removes all mystery about what’s going on by introducing the book cut-ins or whatever and boy howdy the movie suffers. Anyway, Ken Kennedy was wrestling’s Richard Kelly. Came out strong. Revealed as a mirage. Hurt a lot of people’s careers.

Pain and Gain is a good time, if only because Mark Wahlberg is the most underrated comedic actor of his generation.

Vince never had Moana. Everything else on the Rock’s end of that comparison is gravy.

Julia Hart just straight up shoot stabbing dudes in the head on national television

Oh also, I think I’ve been the low man on Punk on here for 20 years, but color commentator Punk RULES. Best use of him. He’s got some Ventura in him in the role.