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I’m just going to be blunt: Penta fucking sucked in that match. It wasn’t a good match in general but lord the only spots Penta hit were his taunt. I FFWD through Spears-Boulder. Soho-Riho was mostly there until the last 3 minutes. Riho is a fantastic wrestler but she really can’t do facial expressions other than happy. She did wrestle the heel part of the match incredibly well, made Ruby’s finisher look like a million bucks. Kaz-Scorp was a really great match. Post-match was really not.

I wouldn’t go that far but Lethal was definitely doing most of the work. Flair can still hit a couple of his signature spots, but I also never want to see him in an actual wrestling match again.

Or how much they want to be able to trademark.

I got the first PPV when they were doing it that way, and watched some on Spike TV, but I truly could not stand that 6-sided ring.

You're probably right about that, I just know it's been mentioned a lot and not just by Taz. I know it's occasionally brought up that Anthony Bowens played college baseball at Seton Hall.

I've lost count out of how many times they mention that Hook had a lacrosse scholarship to a Division 1 school.

If I were a meme/photoshop person, I would make a tub of plain yogurt with abs and a beard and call it Tony Nese.

On Dark/Elevation...and matches at the Orlando tapings.

"Max, Tony here. If you don't cut out the 2024 shit, well, let's just say that at some point Serpentico is going to win a match"

I'm fairly certain that exact same dude has been front row center with shitloads of bad signs on other shows. I HAD THESE EXACT SAME THOUGHTS AND IDEAS LAST NIGHT!! Have Tony K himself roll out during the first commercial break, give the guy his money back, have him escorted to the upper deck where his ticket is switched with someone excited to watch some wrestling.

So his 2024 reference was about himself, which is what I was thinking, and not about whatever weird Cody Rhodes reference he was making? I hate shooty stuff.

It benefits the big movers and shakers in the Power 5 so they won't say anything. NCAA is trying to keep them happy because they see the writing on the wall of their irrelevancy, and fast approaching.

Get ready for the next step in Tier 1 college football becoming a paid NFL minor league. NIL, followed by being able to sign/drop as many players a year as you want as long as you have your 85-man roster by the start of the season.

What kind of great twist would that be for Wardlow to lose by spearing Spears through the cage and losing because Spears touched the ground first.

Opener was great but still fuck Adam Cole, and the fact he’s going to win this thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the tournament. CM Punk is old school like a territorial guy. He can be a baby face, and then go to a different town and be the heel. Either way, he’s going to make his opponent look like a million bucks. Didn’t expect this match buildup to be so heated. Hookhausen made me not hate Hook. Danhausen’s intro is pretty good but leans a little too much into Munsters, instead of a cheesy spooky late night horror movie show theme. MJF/Wardlow segment was gold. The video opener with Barry fucking Horowitz really set the tone. Whatever happens at Double or Nothing, this feud is just getting started. And boy howdy do I want to see Wardlow run Spears face across the cage. Starks-Jungle Boy was very good, Starks is a star. Jungle Boy threw in a couple of new twists. Looking forward to where they go with Team Taz, JE, and StrickLee Business. JAS segment: congrats for making me like 2.0. Once again, Jake Hager looks like a kid who went through a growth spurt but didn’t get new clothes. I’m personally a fan of BCC coming out, they can be on Kingston’s side as an anti-sports entertainment group without being their own faction. I think too many people were building up some outside guys coming in (and of course, that can still happen). Storm-Hayter was sufficiently violent and hurty. I was somewhat expecting Hayter to go over and set up a showdown with Britt. And tangentiallyL they’re teasing Shida being replaced, since it’s against Red Velvet would it be Hirsch, or more likely Stat? Hard to call the main event a match, it was a stunt show. The number of times I yelled “no, no, don’t” at the TV: 3. number of times they did it anyway: 2. Number of broken ribs from that match: several. That was a 12-foot-tall ladder. I get nervous with spots on the ring steps that aren’t the usual “throw into the side”. The spot with Darby diving over the steps and then Jeff hitting a sweet diving clothesline was the non-stunt spot of the match. Post-match is intriguing. I thought Cole winning would ruin the whole show but the match quality and non-wrestling segments were too great. Just a little less PiP in the future, please.

MJF can have some cringe misses but he was like 98% tonight and that line was the piece de resistance.

Toni paid her back in ring later in the match. I want a best of 7 from them.

The Target near us has gotten in a few shipments of Amiibo cards recently, including series 1, 2, and 3 in addition to 5 and more of the Sanrio cards.

The 2022 Riot Fest lineup dropped today (and tickets went on sale). It's a really solid lineup, especially Friday and Saturday. https://riotfest.org/chicago/lineup/ ACL Fest dropped yesterday and is fucking awful, no surprise there.

I'd say that's more likely Roman's future than being the next Rock/Cena/Batista

Needs the sound. As (I think) Taz said, "I've never heard anyone actually saying 'hiii-yah' before doing a karate chop"

I thought he was just making a bunch of shit up the way that Paul Wight does for Luther.

Elevation was a top 10 all time episode of Worldwide minus the opening Dark Order squash. Abadon-Emi was the best match in GLOW and WOW history combined, well wrestled and also fun as hell. My favorite part was Abadon’s growl after each part of We Will Chop You. Kiss-Avalon was another easy full Worldwide point, fun match, good storytelling, looking forward to Kiss getting revenge against Nemeth. Silver-Deppen was fine but lacked heart and heat, let’s give it .75 Worldwide. I think Silver needs a better finisher. Main event was a showcase for Comoroto both on offense and taking moves, Strickland had a little bit too much of his weird embellishments tonight but Lee picked up Comoroto like he was nothing. Full point and StrickLee Business for tag champs! Dark was a bit of a slog at times, Taz and Excalibur were hamming it up way too fucking much. I enjoyed the in-show angles, especially the Factory-NJPW dojo. The Keira Hogan-Skye Blue match was a good one and raised my blood pressure a few points. JLowetico wants a Skye Blue-Vicky Dreamboat tag team. Main event was shockingly competitive and solid. Also surprisingly competitive was Serpentico-Shawn Dean. So we had Jora Johl doing a bilingual promo and a match (meh), Rohit Raju with a squash where the enhancement dude clearly took a bad bump, Dutt and Singh in the opener with Singh doing the big boot and choke slam. If it wasn’t obvious before... I want to like Shotty Lee and Brock Anderson, they had been looking ok, but this match was rough.

Tonight was the rope bump from the jobber against Rohit Raju, looked awful and Taz had an immediate reaction. Dude looked like he got his bell ring bad and was shaking his arm after the match like he had a stinger. Brock Anderson’s finisher was messy too and I’m not entirely convinced the Brick City guy was selling being out.

It's such a weird, tremendous gimmick. I really wish they would have done more of a run with him and Gunn Club but Hookhausen is making me care about Taz's sprog.