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Ran 10km this morning, it took way more than an hour. Feels like dying. Spa yesterday was nice. Some water training, sauna, the cold pool (one sitting, maybe 45 seconds), stretching in the steam room, some very casual swimming. Yesterday also included a leisurely hike to the shoreline, like last year, but no running. The trip has been more active than I figured.

So did Rude and Dustin! And when was Dustin-Vader? '92 or '93, I guess '92?

@Elsalvajeloco I have always liked Paul Roma a lot, and remember being so stoked when my sister brought me a WCW-magazine in '93 that told me that Roma was now part of the Horsemen! I have seen his work in WCW and I find no problem with it!

Merry Xmas or any other Holiday any of DVDVR-crew celebrates from Finland! This year wasn't exactly awesome, but I had wonderful time here, as always! Have fun, stay safe! Everyone is awesome!

@StretchMediatedHypertrophy 75kg OHP is bad ass! Hoping to get there next year! Good luck with the 80kg, I'm sure it's there if you reach for it!

Ran for more than 50 minutes first thing this morning. Felt about the same as last time. Spa and sauna later on today, maybe some very light swimming in the pool. Resistance band later on. The spa had a new, tiny, cold water pool (at 6 degrees Celsius) I sat there twice for about half a minute. Must have done wonders for my circulation. Used the floaters for resistance work in the pool. Taking 2 flat floaters on top of one another and trying to keep them under water while keeping my toes touching the bottom of the pool was pretty good resistance workout. Now getting ready for Xmas Dinner.

As I joked previously, I got myself something nice for Xmas and got this PPV on Triller TV (formerly known as Twit... I mean FITE TV). So I will have something fun planned for some time in the new year's eve.

Watching Final Battle 2017. Started with Matt Taven vs Will Ospreay. Seeing Taven get a clean pin on Ospreay is something that probably will not happen again! The Addiction vs War Machine is a pretty cool dream match about two years before it became a dream match. Best Friends vs Motor City Machine Guns was really entertaining. 4-way elimination match for the TV title was Action packed between Shane Taylor, Kenny King, Punishment Martinez and Silas Young. Ok, so this is where The Last Real Man won the title. They have mentioned that on ROH TV. Hung Bucks vs Flip, Titan and Dragon Lee was crazy shit! I enjoyed The Briscoes vs Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer street fight a lot! Dalton Castle vs Cody Rhodes was very good match, weird to see pre-back injury Castle. He took a nasty bump on the stairs down the ramp. I wonder if that was what caused the injury in the first place? I have to say I prefer his I Want it All instrumental to the current Radio Ga-ga one. Yeah, really good show. I guess I'll work my way backwards to the more classic era, but wanted to check out The Elite/NJPW era before getting to 2005-7 stuff.

Yeah, can't see you very close to any sort of banning situation over here, so that must have been a weird moment for you! Good to know it was just a technical issue.

I did another resistance band workout yesterday morning and push-ups with the handles in the evening. We just came back from a run this morning and it didn't feel as good as it did the last time, not that it felt good then. But hey, at least it's done for today. I'll get the maintenance work in later on.

I think I saw one match that she wrestled in, but it definitely hasn't been very frequent. Maybe that is going to change after this?

In a tournament like this, I would think it would be imperative to make that match elimination-style. As far as Mox's lack of selling goes, at least RUSH limped around in every match. I guess it's easier to sell something when your leg is actually hurting, same with Bryan's face!

Damn, I knew it!

Alright, where to begin? RUSH vs Swerve was very bad-ass, with RUSH making a few errors in judgment, showing off and messing his leg for the rest of the match, letting Swerve eventually cut him down. Samoa Joe learning from the last time and accusing MJF of being the Devil after all. MJF counters with solid points. The Devil counters with the whole locker room under a mask. Ok, that's enough to be two peoples' separate goon squads or then just hired help from various indies that are never going to be a part of the stable. But there are two people under those hoods who are interested enough to challenge for the ROH tag titles! Jay Lethal vs Mark Briscoe was very good and it took a goddamned Burning Hammer and a Jay Driller to hammer and drill Jay for the 3 count. Glad to see Mark win something and after the big ROH win, he is back on the right track. I don't think that's exactly what Rocky Romero had in mind there, OC, but at least he gets an opportunity to get more gold around his waist. OC would probably defend against Statlander, if she would ask for a title match! Riho with a big win over Saraya and also had no time for Toni's bullshit and started wailing away at her instead of an intense stare down. Mariah had to make the save. Does Mariah have time to make her in-ring debut againts Riho next week, or will that happen after the PPV (against whomever)? Roddy beats Kommander in a nice Dean Malenko vs Random masked luchadore on Nitro -tribute match and used what spare time he had left to spout his misinformation (or disinformation) about MJF. I have no idea about where will Roddy eventually land in this whole thing, but it still seems like The Kingdom are honestly worried about his neck health and not just playing their part in a ruse. However, The Kingdom would definitely have their eyes on the ROH tag titles, right? Maybe next week? Hmmm. I have a feeling that Mox's luck with this tournament just ran out with the victory over Swerve. With White coming up with a win here and forcing a three way semi-finals, I don't see Mox in the finals. You don't force a three way just to have the guy who gets in last, lose. Unless that's the only reason he got there in the first place. Ok, so maybe it isn't so cut and dry, after all? Just seems like Swerve will face Lee on the PPV, while Mox and White have no on going issues besides the tournament. So, is the Golden Showers vs Absolute Big Assholes completely off the PPV, or will Jericho get to look for a new partner or do Starks and Bill get new challengers for the title? Yeah, looking forward to Lee vs Cage, but it's probably going to be totally different from the match I saw between them on Youtube. Fun epidode and now I will take advantage of watching more random big events of earlier ROH to hold me over until Rampage and Collision, which I probably won't see until after christmas, anyway.

Had the sports massage yesterday and it felt good. Pretty much pain-free at the moment in the lower back region and that's very cool. I did a brief resistance band workout in the morning before getting there and also did one this afternoon along with elevated push-ups (50+30) using the handles. This routine will most likely continue every day at least at some point.

I was thinking an Elon Musk-esque character, but a super terrible neck tat would be icing on that shit sundae!

Speaking of African Dream, has there ever been an African Nightmare? If not, wouldn't it be like a high time for one?

The GOOD one! ...maybe I should go with The BEST one.

@Sparkleface recently wanted to know if Jessica Love of Fight Club Finland-fame was doing OK. Apparently, she just recently returned to action in FCF, so now I can let you know that she seems to be doing fine!

Decided to get more out of Honor Club and randomly chose Best in the World 2018 and started watching. Let's see where this goes? Getting Hangman vs Damien Priest and Bucks vs Briscoes is enough to get my attention! So far both of those matches definitely delivered and Austin Aries vs Kenny King as well as Jay Lethal vs Kushida were very entertaining too! Matt Jackson kicked out of Jay Driller on a steel chair... c'mon! But Super Red Neck Boogie was enough to put him down.

They force you to do the stupid dance. The stupid dance gets very over. They job you out for doing the stupid dance! I like it! Which company was I watching, again?

Someone already suggested those two being the only draw in the tournament, because that would rob them even of the "at least one of us won something" moment. But I was under the impression that this wasn't the company whose only agenda is "taking smiles off peoples' faces", so maybe that won't happen? I say Mark wins and Lethal understands that he has become totally dependent on the interference of Jarrett & Co. He then has to do some serious soul searching and decides to become even closer friends with Jarrett, Dutt, Satham and Karen so they will continue interfering on his behalf even more.

@Gordi the former AEW fan I certainly remember Inside Pulse! It was one of the many wonderful sites that destroyed my academic career, since I spent all the time reading them, instead of really studying (until I absolutely had to). So, given how things worked out, Inside Pulse and 411, Scoops, MiCasa and WrestlingClassics very much affected the person I ended up becoming outside of wrestling fandom. While there was a short while where it felt like it was a bad thing, those sites indirectly made me choose a different path that has so far worked out surprisingly well. So thank you very much! And yeah, Hyatte was something else! Good times! 25 years, where the F did you go?

Yeah, I wouldn't mind owning some IP that someone would be willing to pay a few million bucks for. Ideally, they would come to me and say "Look, we'd really like to own this IP so we are willing to make you rich if you just sign it over and walk away forever." WITHOUT any nasty litigation preceeding it. And I'd be like "Where do I sign? Hell, I have this other piece of IP I'm not really using for anything lying around, you can have that one for free!"

But if Abadon were to team up with someone, it would probably be someone hailing from the Cemetaries, right?