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Various thoughts since I have them: No audio issues on Triller! I dug Fletcher's Liger tribute tights. His hair, not so much. I fully agree we needed either a statement win or a statement statement from Swerve and we got neither. Shirakawa has charisma to burn. Sign her right now. Anna spent the second half of the match wrestling her top more than her opponent. Deeb's presentation was awesome. Good idea bringing her out to just be normal and above the bullshit in contrast to the goofiness and faux HLA happening in the ring. That multiman clusterfuck was fun but you NEED the announcer to explain the rules first. I was feeling for the fans in the arena who saw dudes thrown over the top rope and were probably wondering why they weren't eliminated. Is there a limit to the number of guys in the match or do we have infinite dudes back there hoping nobody gets pinned? Also, funny how entrances worked around the commercial breaks. No entrance for 3 minutes, then two in a span of a minute! Shit, if it was sudden death, sell it by having the match end during a break. Okay, maybe not. Ten years from now, you'll tell your grandkids where you were when Chuck was finally allowed to say "shit" on TV. Just kidding, but thinking him saying that overshadowed the angle is bubblicious, no offense to anybody. Mercedes continues to be marblemouthed and speaks like a Tiktoker, but she was miles better tonight than before and it's clear they're going heel with her. I feel bad for Hobbs. I was about to joke Saturday night that Takeshita's pants in the streetfight made him look like a MC Hammer backup dancer, and then last night dude shows up in full genie pants. Damn. I think (hope?) they're smarter than to go with any kind of a) onscreen character for Khan and b) heel authority figure gimmick for the Bucks. I think their EVP gimmick is a play on their real life status as guys with official titles but who lost a lot of stroke a long time ago. Like they THINK they're in charge but it's all bullshit. Anyway, I'm interested to see where it goes and won't say the sky is falling until it actually does.

Damn, I forgot to mention Lars Sullivan when discussing Vince McMahon's All Scumbags Wrestling (note: name is still begin workshopped). https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh9utbg57phwc1.jpeg

LOOOOOL We really needed a campaign to send Jack Perry a vote of confidence between that tape airing and last night. HTM's heel turn was weird as fuck.

Dick Murdoch and Bulldog Bob Brower?

I know AEW has no developmental, but maybe Jericho could hang out at ROH tapings, and take Insta pics ONLY with whatever unsigned and impressionable young female talents work the shows, to keep the Punk parody going.

Oh yeah, it’s absolutely an answer to Punk and all the “oh noes AEW is full of indy never-was guys who don’t listen to veterans” bad faith concern trolling.

Also needs to drop that affect-UH that you hear a lot-UH nowadays where any word that ends in s hard-UH consonant-UH has a UH at the end-UH. Anyway, I think TK has the self awareness to know he can’t act and is an awkward guy in general and can’t be a regular character on screen. I mean there’s a reason he had no lines last night.

When the show’s over, I do a bunch of gimmicks, then try to put my gimmick somewhere.

Yeah, for judging artists, athletes, whatever, for a lot of them it's a spectrum of "maybe questionable" ------------------> "irredeemable human being." You just need to pick where your own line is on a case by case basis. On the Hogan tip, if you watch any 80s wrestling PPV, I guarantee most of the people on that show have some racism knocking around in their heads. They just haven't yet been dumb enough to express it publicly. Anyway, you find your own personal line and you don't tell anyone what that line is

It's hard out here for a Poang

As far as wrestlers always using inside terms goes, I'm really enamored with the use of the word "gimmick" as a verb, adjective, adverb, noun, whatever, with multiple meanings. It's like "Smurf."

So this was passed along party lines (shocker) in the FTC. It's not something that was ratified by congress or anything like that, and could change based on the next elections. So it's a little shaky. Get out of your non-compete-based jobs while you can!

We need Jericho to start wearing a durag, carrying the FTW title, and cutting promos claiming Winnipeg and Manhasset are far tougher than Red Hook.

I’d guess the Chamber of Commerce represents businesses and their interests in this late stage capitalism hellhole. I’m frankly surprised any agency tried to pass a ruling that might harm The Job Creators (hallowed be thy names). Go after wrestling’s BS independent contractor shit next please and thank you.

Trevor Lee vs Skeletor vs Mr. Fuck You! Book it, James!

What I meant was that, apparently, Malakai himself is edging into Mil Mascaras “NO YOB!” territory.

I'd guess he's a surefire pickup for AEW or TNA. I put slightly better odds on TNA but I hope it's AEW, as I've missed the Carolina Caveman.

I was just going quick and dirty, looking at the history of Abbott & Costello films and how long/how many films it took them to get to their first monster movie (Abbott & Costello Meet Frankestein). This iMDB list says Universal was 59 deep before they went into comedy with A&C. Either way, it makes sense that it took a long time to get there, as "parody/comedy" is the last phase of a genre.

With his glasses on and that awful mustache, I always thought he looked like Terry Richardson, which is not a good thing.

Thanks! It's just crazy how the Marvel franchise had five films lay the groundwork for Avengers, four-ish years of releases to build up a universe that then kept on going, and a bunch of suits concerned with nothing but the next quarter directed DC to just jump from a Superman movie to "Dawn of Justice" with no separate films in between. They saw the blueprint right there but ignored it, ostensibly because that would take too long. "Marvel/Disney have that and it's making all that money! Why don't we have that!? Go do it!" It's like telling my kid to go build me a new car because my neighbor has one. They had 8 years and 21 films to build on before they joined the shared monsterverse.

But he'd have to lose them sometime

Need to compile a lit of shared universes that worked and were profitable vs all the attempted shared universes that shit the bed. All these bean counters and C-suite failing upwards fuckwads see is Marvel and Star Wars branching out with all kinds of content and making money (and, to be fair, those universes have had their share of crap) and they just direct their creatives to "go make that!," like it's that simple, with zero concept of how much real time and effort went into doing it in a way that created good films and shows that built a universe, engaged people, and made them want to buy in to those universes. Like how the DC universe skipped from step 2 to step 5 with nothing in between and then the studio lamented that nobody cared about the Justice League. These guys are just mining for expansive IP they can whore out with no concept of how to take your time and make it good. It's no wonder they think AI is the future of film; they have no concept of the creative process and likely have contempt for those pesky writers, directors, actors, etc.

Same! I just watched it last night and I was severely underwhelmed. Keeps faith in my hard and fast rule: when a movie starts with more than maybe four production company logos, you’re in trouble. I swear, this had eight or nine.

Rate their fits: Bunkhouse match edition Danielson: gets massive points for the classic “blue jeans with knee pads on the outside” look. Really, the only acceptable bunkhouse/street fight attire. Loses points for wearing his own merch instead of a gimme shirt from the local radio station. Claudio: black jeans and knee pads on the inside. Real fashion faux pas. Shirt came off and he ended up looking like a member of Too Sexy: A Loving Tribute to Right Said Fred. Takeshita: stereotypical gear made him look like a guy you’d dispose of in the first level of Kung Fu. I guess he didn’t want to straight up dress like a Yakuza since he does have to go home sometime. Fletcher: remember when MC Hammer dropped the “MC” and tried to make a comeback with some fake thug 3rd rate West Coast style shit? Fletcher looked like a 90s boy band member trying to get back on track with the same tactic with his yee yee ass haircut and bobo Tims.