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Oh man, now I can’t stop imagining Waco coverage conducted through Vince-isms. “David Koresh compromised himself to a permanent end. Word is many of his followers have been taken to a local medical facility.”

More likely we’ll get some truly historic goalpost moving. Probably something along the lines of, “I was beholden to a company and shareholders and had to succeed in that framework, while Khan has free rein to spend daddy’s money indefinitely!”

Well he had experience demanding people to suck it

Now I'm getting flashbacks to certain corners of the online wrestling community losing their shit over how much offense Omega gave Alan Angels back in the day.

Weekend beers! Finished the last two beers from my DC Brau 12 pack. The pilsner (Brau Pils) is really tasty, almost peppery. The hazy IPA (Joint Resolution) was just okay. Not bad or anything, but not especially flavorful. Kind of plain. It was okay but definitely the least of the four beers in the pack. The fresh six pack I bought was Lagunitas IPA. I have along relationship with Lagunitas that I've mentioned here in passing. I started drinking their beers probably like 15 years ago. They used to have a really wide selection of beers. I'd joke that they all tasted like west coast IPAs, but honestly, there were differences, some subtle, some more disparate, that made each of their beers a real treat. They'd also make an amazing Christmas beer called Brown Shugga -- someone in this thread mentioned in a little while ago -- that was so amazingly tasty. One year, they ruined the batch and released a simpler, still very good, knockoff of it called Lagunitas Sucks. That became another regular for them. Unfortunately, they were purchased by Heiniken and their line of beers was drastically cut. That's capitalism, my friends. Go with what's safe, what sells the most. Be risk averse. Maximize profit and minimize your outlay. If 75% of your consumers drink 2-3 of your beers while the rest of your selection is consumed by the remaining 25%, you don't need that 25%. I'll try to make this the last time I complain about this topic here. Just remember the wise words of Cinderella. You don't know what you got til it's gone. Enjoy your funky small craft brewers while you can before some vulture buys them up in order to extract all that sweet sweet profit. Nowadays, I can still find the IPA and their LIttle Sumpin Sumpin wheat IPA, and sometimes tallboys of Maximus, but that's all. Everything else is just Lagunitas chasing trends like non alcoholic IPAs, hop water, and "session" IPA. Session IPA tastes like someone mixed half IPA and half water. Fuck session IPAs. Next they'll make a vodka soda and we'll know the soul is has truly left the body. Anyway, Lagunitas IPA is still surprisingly very good. Just exemplary of a west coast IPA. I say "surprisingly" because I expected the quality to suffer but it seems like it has not. I'll continue to drink it in a pinch because the non mom & pop place closest to me has shitty selection but good prices, and sometimes I'm in a hurry, and sometimes you drink a beer you used to love just to reminisce.

I signed up for Max again last year for Last of Us season 1 and White Lotus, but kept it just on the idea that they'd eventually sign an AEW deal. I had Triller and VPN in the meantime, but I'm lazy and launching two separate apps to watch AEW, and casting to the TV if I wanted to, was a pain. I don't need the extra ad break wrestling that bad.

If the Toni/Bayne battle doesn't climax in both of them falling down an ornate mansion-style staircase, we riot.

Athena should end Mercedes' reign. She's been ROH champion forever and this would be the perfect way to bring her up. Jobbing your two plus year ROH champion would be ridiculous.

WHILE HOSTING A SHOW CALLED "POWERSLAP." Jesus tapdancing Christ. If the political state of this country isn't enough to show you we're living in a post-shame age, then that is.

Thanks! Ditto Thunder Rosa and Kevin Owens’ package powerbombs. You’ve already got them set for a package piledriver! WTF!

But…but I thought everything was fine now that bad man gone

Dude, they had a celebrity front and center, in their biggest angle of the year, who let fans die instead of stopping a concert. At some rate it has to become clear that WWE doesn't care what their consumers think re: dealings with awful people. They passed the rubicon of Jamal Khashoggi. Why do comedians and rappers matter?

(Copleland brings out Spike) "Fuck I hate gimmick foreign objects like this, where you really can't hit someone with it the way you're supposed to because it will kill them, like HHH's sledgeOHHOLYFUUUUUUCK" Don Callis after the pin in the four way: "EVERYBODY CHEATED!!!!!" So great. I hate wrestling moves that set up for a more dangerous move, then flip into something less so. They make no sense in kayfabe. Mercedes' tombstone lung blower, for example. You've got her up for a tombstone, just do that! That being said, what a great match. I gasped at that No WInged Angel. I also had to look up how old Billie was when she started, because I was watching her on independentwrstling.tv four years ago. She started when she was 13! There's a line in her wikipedia entry about school officials seeing her bruises and such from training and asking about her home life. Shit, "oh no, I'm not abused at home, I'm a pro wrestler!" somehow doesn't sound much better for a child. Mark Davis' "grab the opponent by the feet and throw him into a piledriver" move is called "Close your eyes and count to fuck," named after the RTJ song. Davis' appearance on Hey Ew this past weekend was amazing. So fun and exactly what I want from that show -- the exact opposite of humorless, joyless wannabe tough guys taking themselves too seriously staying in character and acting like assholes (Hurt Business). AR Fox is awesome and I never noticed how much noise he makes when he wrestles. He's this generation's Iron Mike Sharpe. Bayne/Stat was awesome. Petition to name a future thread "Ladies is meats, too, go on brush your shoulders off."

Max's "your event will start soon" bumper is so chill

Since it’s hard to find and paste a tweet on my phone, I’ll just paraphrase: “some wrestlers are just fucking dumb, I don’t know what to tell you.” - Big Damo

Instead of hiring extras, he just had all his kids play the zombies

Nevermind, I misread your question.

Agreed. I loved Demolition, but they were roundly criticized in the magazines as Road Warrior ripoffs. To then hire the other Road Warrior ripoffs and keep that gimmick is crazy. The PoP quitting Crockett on the spot because "fuck you, we're not doing scaffold matches" is the most Crockett/NWA/WCW thing and one of my favorite wrestling stories.

Thank you for spelling this for me. I know zilch about boxing and every time I hear Meltzer say his name, I think it's "Turkey a la Sheik," a Suadi version of chicken a la king.

Re: Halloween Havoc...they were so creatively bankrupt, with no other ideas and nobody else ready, that they booked the #2 guy in the Horsemen challenged for the world title. From their inception, the whole kayfabe purpose of the Horsemen was to make Flair champ and keep him champ. The #2 guy's role was always the U.S. title. Sid even thinking about challenging Sting should have gotten him kicked out. Not to mention that on the PPVs and Clashes before this show, Sid: Didn't wrestle, had a skit with Robocop (Capital Combat 90) Lost to Luger (Clash 11) Lost by DQ in a shitty six man featuring El Gigante (Bash 90) Didn't wrestle, just cut a promo (Clash 12) I need to find the chronology of WCW bookers because this whole period was crazy.

Just circling back again, I'm just dumbfounded at how, in the space of 22 months, Luger and Flair wrestled on five out of the company's nine PPVs in that timeframe and Luger didn't win a single one. And you wonder why the guy was only seen at a certain level. #justiceforlex

If you've been going to a bar that doesn't kick out nazis, then congrats, you've been going to a nazi bar. UFC platforms hate speech.

The DC Brau 12 pack from the weekend was very good. I have two left; I must be getting old. The 12 had three each of: a Pilsner, an IPA, a pale ale, and a hazy IPA. I’m not going all beeradvocate or whatever and discussing mouthfeel, lacing, and all that. I’ll say all four were damn tasty, though probably too pale ale heavy for some. One of the pales was a little too grapefruity but I can’t remember which. Anyhoo, check it out if you live in the area this brewer serves.

It’s weird how he still hasn’t found the time to work out with or, more importantly, apparently, post pics with, the young men of NXT. Maybe next week.

Oh man, we had a company Summer outing at the same stadium I mentioned before, and it was awesome. A lot of people complained about the drive but shit, playing softball on the minor league baseball field was so cool. Later that night I drove, buzzed and sunburned, to Virginia for a Styx/Foreigner double bill. What an exhausting but amazing day. I’d be inclined to say “absolutely,” but he’s been on his best behavior since being around people he’s too cowardly to FAFO with.