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  1. 2 hours ago, EVA said:

    I don’t think they’ve given up on Jack. His heel run was just taking off before All In. They’ve just got him laying low until the heat dies off. Sending him to NJPW for a while where he can remind people how good he is without CM Punk chants is a smart move.

    I’d bet anything he’s back on AEW TV with the Bucks by this summer.

    Jack Perry is probably not even a top 20 talent in AEW currently

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    The first botch was definitely Dante's fault; he hit his feet on the rope doing a tope suicida. But I mean that happens and thankfully he didn't hit it that hard and stop that short (or just faceplant).

    Multiple people hit the ropes on topes last night.

  3. I said it on Discord...I don’t give AF sometimes I just want to see big, athletic, creative dudes doing MOVEZ~! and Ospreay-Lard Lad was that x1000. I hope Will is okay it I suspect he’s passing blood and might have a lacerated kidney after that nasty corner botch. But they were beating the absolute shit out of each other with knees and forearms up to that point.

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  4. 14 minutes ago, tbarrie said:

    So am I just high on emotion, or was that the best Young Bucks match ever?

    They’ve done such a good job of making everyone want to see them get the shit kicked out of them. And ironically, Sting and Darby took almost all the huge bumps in this match.

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  5. 49 minutes ago, tbarrie said:

    Fair. But still, if you bring in a legend who's near retirement, you'd think you'd want them to put somebody over before they retired.

    Of course, you'd want that somebody not to be a Young Buck, so...

    I’m on the record (in this thread I think) predicting that after they win the tag match, Sting is going to challenge Darby to a (short) singles match where he puts Darby over. 

  6. Just now, Go2Sleep said:

    Rampage was probably the dullest one ever, but Collision was a solid go-home show. Loved Mark Briscoe getting some shine against HOB and the chaotic brawl after the 8-man. I feel like they could've thrown some more people in to the Scramble segment instead of letting Jericho and Wardlow take all the time.

    I forgot about the mayhem with Mark Briscoe and threatening to burn Buddy alive!

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  7. That was a very go-home to PPV show. Way more about the angles than the wrestling, which is to be expected. I will say that Brian Cage is an excellent base.

    How did WWE not break the bank to get Mariah May? Poor Angelina Risk, she got the shit beaten out of her.

    Wiilow is so angry that she actually swore!

    Really excited for the PPV tonight.

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  8. 1 hour ago, tbarrie said:

    My only qualm with that is that, on paper, letting a sexagenarian go completely undefeated over your roster for a couple of years is odd booking. 

    But then, it's Sting and everybody loves him, so why not?

    All in tags/multi-man matches though.

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  9. I tried watching Rampage live last night while drunk and couldn’t hold my interest.

    Claudio-Rugido went 15 minutes. Why? At least towards the end he got to look dominant, but this should’ve been maybe 10. I did like Claudio paying tribute to lucha tradition and doing a Gotch-style flapjack instead of a piledriver. Also the foul after the match.

    I FFWD through the trios. Can’t stand Archer, can’t stand Vincent.

    I was not particularly excited to see Riho back but was very pleasantly surprised by the match with Trish Adora. The size difference was really played up, and Riho was straight up ragdolled at times and struggled to get the win. They should let The Virtuosa do the same to Riho but also go over.

    Matt Sydal in the main event was unexpected. This was almost a reverse from the opener, in that Magnus was more of a base for Sydal’s high flying. Ok match, and I guess they needed to throw CMLL a bone.

    Poor Ange and Ruby.

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  10. 4 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

    I think of U2 in 4 main eras:  

    1) Ascendant/Overtly Political - Boy thru Unforgettable Fire

    2) Spiritual/Maturing - Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum

    3) Mature/Experimental - Achtung Baby thru All That You Can't Leave Behind

    4) OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED. - Everything after...

    NYD is probably the quintessential song from U2 Mark I.  Very angry, very righteous, very, very good.  I tend to play it as the first song I listen to on the morning of 1/1. 

    Mark II for me, and this may be a hot take... but "All I Want Is You" may be the most perfect song they have ever done.

    Mark III is "One".  This is not up for debate.

    And the less said about Mark IV the better. Gun to my head... "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own".    I knew it was over when Bono said "Uno Dos Tres Catorce" and did the "I'm crazy" sign language. 

    (This is a rabbit hole, I have a lot of thoughts about Bono & The Edge...) 🙂

    I mostly tuned out on them after Joshua Tree and definitely after Achtung Baby but their first couple albums when they were a young, hungry band who wrote ringing melodic rock songs and some sharp political anthems were amazing. “I Will Follow” makes my arm hair stand in end still. And the martial snare beat to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is perfect. I just about wore through my cassette of Under a Blood Red Sky (never saw them live, really wish I had back in those days although really Joshua Tree was the first tour I probably would have been allowed to go to if I could’ve afforded it).

    My first college girlfriend made me a really great, eclectic mix tape and “All I Want is You” was on there and I hadn’t thought about that tape of that song in years but yeah, it’s way up there. Has the heart of the early stuff but the epic anthemic tone of Mark II without drifting into the eventual self-indulgence.

    Man, I am going to have to listen to some early U2 tomorrow!

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  11. 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Okay goddammit you gotta pull that out now (heh)

    And PWG is dead, for reals? Did Super Dragon totally retire? I know what the Bucks are up to now obviously.

    EDIT: "Not enough Day of the Jackal, bullet-in-the-crosshairs-finding-the-mark for me." Good lord Rollins tell us how you really feel haha

    EDIT II: DEAN liked all kinds of shit. I think the only time I posted on the green board (it was set up incomprehensibly so I left) was about the Cure and he said "Just Like Heaven" was the best pop song ever. But he grew up in the NVA hardcore scene and said Dinosaur Jr. was the loudest concert he'd ever been to and played in a country band (I think). All those song quotes at the end of the DVDVRs there for awhile, those had to be his picks, and they were all over the place. Man had multitudes.

    Hey, Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine is also the loudest concert I’ve ever been to! And Sugar was actually the second loudest, which leads me to DEAN’s punk/HC days and the fact he saw Husker Du live.

    Dean was probably the one who kept the music board going for a while, a lot of the traditional pinned threads are ones he started long ago.

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  12. 15 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    Yeah it's understandably difficult not to have the thought, but the apparatus they had him in appeared to be super secure at least on TV, it was like a full upper-body vest (as opposed to poor Owen who was basically hanging by a keychain). I have no doubt they tested, re-tested, and tested again

    I commented similar on FB, the Owen tragedy was entirely avoidable if WWF hasn’t taken a number of shortcuts.

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