Shartnado

I'd say that at least the very last 3 PPV's are all surprisingly good, especially if you have the late '99 and pretty much all of 2000 in mind when watching them. I never saw them when they happened, watching the a few years back, I was like "they sure got pretty good by the end of their run there "

Wow, I'm a shit friend, then! I had no clue!

Was it really the international Best Friends Day on Wednesday, or was Trent just making shit up? Another bad day for Trent, BTW, holy crap! Oh, and do any of you have friends, BTW? What's it like? ... ... Naah, just kidding, my friends are wonderful! In case they ever visit these pages...

I have watched only until the beginning of the Women's title match, but I'll say this: Tony, I got my match, you can have all the new title belts you want! I remember my wrestling RPG, I created SO many titles! It's fine, knock yourself out! Go wild! I'll put aside money so I can buy the PPV at the end of the month, as promised. Also, O'Reilly winning the battle royal was definitely a surprise! Was that some kind of monkey paw wish @The Natural made? We got anyone but Adam Cole, with the winner being the closest thing to Adam Cole (by proximity only, not style, or anything)? Funny. Also, they threw Osprey at you for good measure! They trolling you, or something? I could go for Page vs Okada, no problem! This was my first time seeing the Fit Kid. He looked very good in there!

Deciding to use a similar 4 (or so) move circuit like yesterday, I did calf raises on the machine (with around 220 lbs), one arm dumbell rows (using 70 lb kettlebell), chest flies with resistance bands and lat pull downs with the same bands. This was after 3 rounds of pull-ups, dips and reverse shrugs with 66lbs. After I had enough of those, I did bicep curls with the plates I unloaded from the calf/squat machine, did push downs with the resistance band and used the rack of the calf machine (plus 44 lbs) for two sets of overhead presses and two more with just the rack. This was punctuated with light weight burning sets of side delt raises and the ab work came at the very end as usual. As luck would have it, that's it for my workouts this week, as I said yes to a weekend of overtime. I'll be doing two extra night shifts before the actual night shift week, plus there would be a first aid course on Tuesday afternoon I'm supposed to attend. That won't be ideal, but I guess I'll get a workout in while I'm in the building and go for a walk instead of gym before leaving for work in the evening? Well, there will be some extra bike rides and walking during work, so the weekend should be relatively active, even if there won't be any actual jogs or workouts for a few days.

Thanks @NikoBaltimore , I won't actually see the match until later tonight, but there's hardly a chance that I won't enjoy it a lot! Some people say that the toughest battles are those you have with yourself, and watching my two avatars going head to head will definitely be worth it!

My life has been building up to this moment...

Tony, do NOT fuck me over on this one, you hear me?!? Do this for me, and I'll buy the Forbidden Door regardless of the card.

Dusty's stomach sploch has made a triumphant return on Cody's pec! Holy crap! Dude, you may have torn something there. Are you sure you're ok to do this shit? What, this? Naah, it's just my dead father's birthmark coming back to haunt me for good luck! Let's do this!

With not much difficulty, may I add.

Don't make me angry, because when I get angry, Mr Bigglesworth gets upset, and when Mr Bigglesworth gets upset...people...die!

Well, he was wearing an ass-load of kinesio-tape in his match against Joe, so I guess it caught up to him. I guess we will find out soon enough how serious it is? Shoulder injuries can be bad, bad things.

The workout week took a bit to start, as I did a double shift from Sunday night to Monday afternoon. I did go for a one hour jog/run before that, but obviously, no gym on Monday. Well, no gym on Tuesday either, but I did do a 45 min home workout in the evening after sleeping for a bit after a rather good-sized meal. Good pump, but not worthy of taking pics, let alone new profile pic. Today, I needed to get my shit it, so I went for circuit of four moves: Bench, Trapbar (using the padded platforms from the get-go), lat pull down (to the front) with shovel handle bar (?) and standing EZ bar bicep curl. I loaded the EZ bar with 64, lat pulldown machine with 88 + 2 resistance bands that should theoretically increase the load at the bottom of the move to 242, bench with 132 and trapbar with 185 for warm-up round and moved from one move to the next with as little rest as possible, but adding weights after each round (for the first few rounds anyway) did make the action stop for a bit in between. I tried to get 10 reps on the lat pull down, 12-15 with the EZ Bar, 5 on the bench and from 5 downwards to 1 on the trapbar. I ended up adding 22lbs on the lat pulldown machine, but that was definitely plenty, as I couldn't pull it anywhere near my chest (felt it on my lats, though), 22lbs at 11lbs intervals (so, two rounds) to the EZ Bar, up to 253 on bench (220, 231 and 242 prior to that) and 295, 405, 458, 515, and 568 on the trapbar. I did maybe 5 sets of lat pulldowns and dropped that off first, I'm guessing 6 or 7 sets with the EZ bar with going back down to 64 for the last couple of sets, then dropped that. Last two were dueling bench sets and heavy singles on the trapbar. Did 4 with 458, 2 with 515, then two singles with 568 then four more singles with 515. Bench, I did 3 sets of 5 with 253 (after a set of 5 with 220 and 231 each), then a set of 5 with 231, then sets of 7 and 9 with 220 and 3 sets of 26, 7, and 13 with 132. After this, it was shrugs with all the unloading plates as well as with 405 (just a few reps, though), 295 and 185. Then a bit of abs to finish off the damn 90 minute onslaught in an increasingly hot gym. Followed by a bike ride home, of course. Yeah, that was a good one. The weight is around 170-171 at the moment, probably not expecting it to go a whole lot lower, but I will push myself for a few more weeks. The cardio part has gone well, but my bike needs fixing, once again. I'll write more, if there is anything worth writing about.

And I really like the hood-thingy he wears to the ring. I have one just like it, with the exception that it's made of reindeer leather, not whatever that shiny material of his is?

Now that is a surprise, but great for Cody. So far, so good!

This is not especially hard question, even though one would assume it was. PAC Buddy Matthews Jungle Boy Brian Cage (granted, I haven't seen anywhere near as much of his stuff as I would have liked). And the way the question was posed, it lets me leave Bushwhacker Pete Dunne out of the list. Which is just as well, since March of this year.

Did you mean Hall of Pain or just want to see him getting "Out of His Seat and Jump Around"?

History knows a few instances where one person had three matches in one special night. He could even lose to Finley and then bounce back by winning the Battle Royale and besting Mox in the end. I mean, there are several other options they could go with, but I can see that being among the discussion.

Tried to catch this right as the live feed ended, but fell back to sleep after the opener. That match tho! Yeah, I understand Bucks wanted to go all out in front of their crowd but this was still like to the Nth degree and then some! Through my sleep I heard commentators talking about Punk's announcement, but didn't hear the announcement itself. I saw the ending of the main event twice, but not the match itself yet.

So it looks like Miro came back at an exactly right and MJF "left" at an exactly wrong time, as suddenly there's a huge opportunity for so many guys here! Just like @Sammo~! pointed out, even with Punk out, there are still several completely feasible options to choose from. And if you ask a few people for a top 5 of suitable replacements, you're going to end up with way more than 5 totally acceptable answers. That's a deep F'n roster!

Wow. I sure hope you'll get your wish! That would be something else!

Wasn't Tom Zenk in one of the short-lived championship teams, as well? The last title he ended up holding in WCW (or anywhere, I guess)? I forget his partners, but maybe JYD and Dustin? Ricky Morton? Tommy Rich? No, the last two did hold them as heels, I think? Very random, regardless. I liked the idea of it, a lot, but haven't seen much of that material.

Chiming in on MJF thoughts, after what @S.K.o.S. said, about if he's so rich, why is he whining about what he's making. I just think it's a weird coincidence that he was paying Wardlow all this money, overpaying him by his own admission, and would have been fine paying him staying home. Now that this financial burden was lifted off of him, he's concerned about not being paid enough? Da fuq? Maybe you weren't as smart after all? I mean Spears does pretty much anything you tell him to do while AEW is footing the bill? You just had to go on some egomaniacal powertrip of "owning" a guy who (as we saw) could crush you if he wanted to. Now that backfired and all of a sudden you noticed "Hey, most of my money went to paying for my (now ex-) bodyguard and hiring a bunch of security to try and keep him away from me?!?" What's the point of anyone paying you "what you are worth" if you keep throwing that money away like a stupid, spoiled dipshit? If this is about lack of respect, sure, I get that aspect. I identify with it hard and you can easily tug on my heartstrings with that. But don't ever come talk to me about how much more you ought to be making, if your stupid ass keeps throwing the money away like that, anyway! Ok, so instead of a bodyguard, maybe you need a financial advisor that has some in-ring experience? Trying to mess up a big merger or attempting to put your company in a worse-off place after the said merger by giving them bad publicity, because you want more money and respect? Perhaps you should have ran those plans by Mark Sterling before opening your mouth? Once in a generation talent? Yes, at least once in a generation, someone gets so hyped up on their own press that they start believing that they are THAT GUY, but are overlooked unjustly. So, yes, for this generation, you just became that guy. Congratulations, dipshit. It would be a shame if this "revolution" ended up like the last few of your masterplans. For such a "smart guy", you really need to think things through a bit more. Now, if this is all a long-con to screw Punk out of his title and avenge your chain match loss at Revolution, then you have my attention and I will stand corrected.

That was so great that I'm fresh out of jokes!

One month to the day of the diet. I weighed 173 this morning. I've done runs or walks since Sunday and had two workouts so far. Monday's usual extra weight session went 3 sets with 88lbs, 1 with 66, 2 with 44, then one with 22 and bodyweight. Tuesday's bench was centered around 6 sets of 4 with 253 and a couple of sets with 242 and 220, then finishing with 132. I added a few pull-ups into the jogs, as there is a pull-up bar along my route and then one set of power wheel straight after the jog, as I have one at home. Today, I'll take a little walk before leaving for the gym and it's time for a trapbar again. I'll edit that in later. Haven't got around to the profile pics yet, perhaps over the weekend? ...Ok, so the trapbar! Firstly, the "little walk" I mentioned turned out to be an hour of walking and running, including the stairs. I jumped straight onto the bike again, trying to recover during the ride by using lighter gear when needed. I was thinking "maybe tomorrow is the trapbar day", but once I got there, I was like "fuck it, it's trapbar!" Started out with 220 or so, then 5x339, 3x392, 3x449, 1x502. I actually fell on my ass after this one, I felt so light-headed. Ok, so I figured I need to use the platforms after that and added some extra padding behind me on the floor, should I pass out for reals. I lifted 548, spent some time on my knees but no passing out. Then, I failed 601. I rested a bit, took my shoes off, tried again and fucking lifted it! 601, new record at 173lbs! Yeah! Then I put my shoes back on and did 3 singles with 548, only resting some 20 seconds or so between each rep. Then some shrugs. Didn't think that was going to happen today, but I'll take it!