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The ultra stiff Noah style finally pays off lmao. So dumb.

I addressed the above in how you book the Elite to win while keeping money in Ospreay vs. Omega. Bucks have to carry Omega after Ospreay kicks his ass and they take out Aussie Open.

Even for celebrity boxing that was brutal to watch. Never mind that shyit, here comes Richard Torrez! Terrifying. Dude was out. What's beyond the astral planes?

She has very clearly called out people she's in the ring with on TV, so it's not shocking. I just looked up why Baker was trending and omg the reaction to her on there is hilarious. "FEMALE HULK HOGAN!" TOXIC!" "BURIES ANYBODY SHE SEES AS BEING PUSHED OVER HER!" Like, come on. I laughed at the one tweet joking Britt has shooters. ? Maybe Rosa would get more promo time if she wasn't average at best on the mic. I don't know what happened but she used to be the shits in the ring and incredible in backstage pre-tapes as Kobra Moon, then she improved in the ring and now she's regressed across the board. Even pre-taped promos aren't doing anything for me. Such a strange career trajectory. Maybe she comes back as the best wrestler in the world when she's healthy. Who the fuck knows at this point? As for All Out, I mean, I'd belt Hayter but that's not happening, so I guess you run with Hayter or Britt costing the other and Storm taking advantage. That sets up two programs with Hayter/Baker tension and Storm defending like Moxley did until Rosa comes back. AEW drama of the day.

Feel like Dark Order/Elite final was the likeliest outcome based on the Bucks/Hangmin interactions. They did a good job of planting some doubt with Page saying he's just supporting though. They're also doing a good job of playing up Omega's health questions. Bucks will have to carry him past the next round probably taking out one of the Aussie Open guys after Ospreay outduels not 100% Kenny. Black, Andrade, and Pac feel like they've been in their own little universe forever and now Miro joined the club after his TNT title run. It'd be cool if those four were featured more prominently. Black with his back issues I get it... Pac is still based out of Newcastle, right? The Atlantic title deal is a nice touch for that. But are there any travel issues still? Andrade's booking is, as previously stated, beyond me, and Miro has done jack shit since dropping the title. Let's get them big boys going! All four of them should be constantly in a title hunt of one kind or another. I haven't been watching whole episodes of Rampage and the reactions to this episode certainly aren't enticing me to even flip through it. Yikes. While I love Dustin, I haven't been a big fan of his recent outings the past 6 months or so. Hopefully this turn or whatever it is they're planning with him helps give him some juice for perhaps a final run.

Cole and KOR are, yeah. Fish is fine and keeping himself busy by milking dry his one good joke about shitty CM Punk kicks.

This Arsenal/Fulham match has been great.

That finish in the main event, wow.

Vince loved saying "feces" but pronounced "feeshies". Fucked fucker.

Update (read in the Gene Okerlund voice from WWF "UPDATE" segments of the late '80s/early '90s) on WBD and AEW: "Makes no negative waves" seems like a gross underselling of AEW delivering good ratings especially relative to other sports/wrestling tv contracts.

He takes multiple brutal bumps in that, gets injured, but still makes sure to take the lion tamer on top of the cage. Guy was a champ.

Don't think the signings from the last 6 months or so will be in. Id be surprised if anybody past All Out from last year makes it in before DLC starts dropping. Edit: free and paid DLC were confirmed during the stream. They said in the past that they didn't want this to be a yearly release so DLC was always likely to keep it at least somewhat updated. I wonder if they'll get real ambitious and add things like features and modes not originally included or if all that is saved for a sequel if that's viable.

Right up until X-Factor anyway. But he was awesome after that like his lil TNA run and WSX. Meltzer saying WBD is asking AEW to tone down the language. JUST AS WE ARE GETTING SPICY?! Fuck that!

Random question: Does anybody have a link to or know where I could find that classic Japanese wrestling music video set to Aerosmith's "Dream On" from back in the early 2000s? Thanks!

I don't agree with either of these takes but they're still funny. I'll put 'em in spoilers to avoid getting yelled at but they are safe for work.

Floodgates truly wide open now in terms of leaks. Baker said in the past that Omega would be brutally honest with her when asking for feedback. I imagine some people don't want or feel they need to hear such stuff.

I do want to see the match now more than I did two days ago. I don't think we are going to get it after reading that though.

Punch The Sammy Guevara Championship. You defend it 5 times successfully and you get to pop Sammy in the face one time, no suspension.

Fightful update on the Thunder Rosa situation: She was calling out Shida iirc during their first match on PPV saying something very audibly "are you going to work with me?!" out of frustration. Fast forward and she sandbags and stiffs people (and it's not like it even looks good outside of the dropkicks).

Building on what Dean is saying, I do feel like Khan has very recent experience in dealing with discord and chaos in both of his other sporting ventures. Fulham is off to a great start this season at least.

Nyu-nyu-nyuzu update! Latest on Kingston/Guevara: Again, Kingston did nothing wrong. This sounds like a scorpion and the frog scenario lmao.

I love his theme song. It suits him perfectly.

Just as Tony is telling wwe to fuck off for tampering. I think the Omega and Ospreay story plays on Kenny's bitterness towards njpw and if it's not that then I don't think he really cares. My guess is he loses to Ospreay at the Tokyo Dome and wins a rematch in the US later.

Make it make sense. How in kayfabe terms does Punk making a miraculous turnaround hold any water? Why should i be interested in that rematch right now? This feels like boxers with auto rematch clauses calling for an immediate rematch after getting demolished.

"Three men in the ring at the same time, huh?..." that shit cracks me up to this day.