Ryback Hates Bullies

If it's all a work, that'll play. Otherwise you have Punk continuously malding, and it rubbing everyone wrong. Is he going to do a job? To Omega? Lol no. Omega isn't jobbing back. Even FTR doing the job would probably upset the apple cart. I'm just not seeing it.

The problem is you do the angle, but at what risk and to what long-term benefit? Matt Classic vs Garcia for the ROH Pure Title.

Max Caster rap is the way to go. I am almost serious.

I am inferring that's a dig at the Paradigm Shift aka Death Rider...and yeah, some of those have been overprotective of his opponent but tbh it's no longer an one-shot kill anyway.

FWIW, Corny's friend Brian Last has been tweeting, one suspects the source is not The Young Bucks or Kenny Omega:

It didn't look very impactful imo, that's why she stopped using it I think. Tyler Bate's generally looks better but even that's a struggle to really buy as a finish in 2022.

Storm has been using the Mickie James finish for a few weeks: I am guessing some women were struggling to take the snap piledriver (aka Storm Zero '22), so she just went with something pretty much anyone can take - I'm guessing people don't like taking the Storm One aka Ruby Cutter either.

Can you be straight-edge and still advertise Blue Chew? That's the question myself and Conrad are wondering right now.

To change the subject to Tony's other bestie Sammy Guevara, apologies if this has been posted but like yeah, nah...I don't see how you can justify another intergender match anytime soon. I don't really want to purely blame Guevara, Soho needs to learn to say no to stupid shit, and probably the agent needs a biting somewhere sensitive for agreeing that spot. It's possible Melo was supposed to do something else, but whatever this is no fucking good.

So I got a cheap 8kg kettlebell from Lidl today! I'm mostly just going to be using it for light work and conditioning on off-days, I think it will have diminishing returns naturally but I think there are some good delt, upper-back and forearm gains to be made if nothing else.

Obviously I'm not 100% buying into any of this but taking it at face value....... I'm probably someone who share's some of Punk's general dislike of people, but there's just a few too many stories about him being an oversensitive douche to really side with Punk easily. Obviously it's a matter of DVDVR record that Colt isn't exactly the nice-guy persona he presents to the public, but....well I've started rewatching Better Call Saul with my gf at the moment let's just say that. Also look...in the end, I personally see his MMA career as a sign that Punk's grip on reality is not necessarily 100%. Yeah ok, he was being paid to be there etc....but then if it's all about money for the guy, let's not pretend he's also some man of deep principles when he goes after money he didn't really need. He was an untalented MMA fighter who never should have been anywhere near a UFC card....I understand positive mental attitude etc but there comes a point where that crosses over into something a bit more like delusion. Also, look years ago I defended Punk as a crossover star to the likes of FSW - there's no doubt he's got a good record as a merch shifter etc. But let's take a step back here. He didn't build ROH. He might act like he did. But he didn't. Danielson, Daniels, Low-Ki, Homicide, Corino and Joe built ROH. He had a good run. He was often a highlight of WWE even when he was in the midcard, even if he was borderline subpar as a natural athlete. Did he really move the needle? Not really? He seized a moment, fairplay to him, but he became a star mostly because Vince ultimately decided to push him and because Cena kinda sorta put him over. What The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega achieved independently is way bigger than that. There's a strong 'he hates us 'cos he ain't us' energy there. There's no AEW without them. And whilst yeah ROH moved on from Low-Ki, lol, he's not going to win a battle for the fans with Omega and Hangman very easily. He probably knows that, but lol maybe not at this point who really knows?

Most definitely, though it leaves Adam Cole somewhat a man without a country.

Kyle O'Reilly has apparently had neck fusion surgery so he's not going to be around for a long time, which may well explain why there will be no Undisputed vs Elite feud.

It's public knowledge that Black has depression issues, though one could probably have inferred it anyway. That said, one of the problems with Black is that he is the one who changes people - he himself is not the one who changes. This is somewhat compounded by the fact that mid-card feuds are often not ended particularly decisively (HoB won pretty much all their matches with Death Triangle iirc, but Pac got the All-Atlantic Title and not Malakai), and that feuds can often be rendered a bit non-special by being packed onto imho somewhat overloaded supercards. Malakai signed a 5 year deal and Khan has been reasonably clear he isn't just letting go of people who made long-term commitments. It wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't do the whole 5, and retires and does something else. But I don't think it's sensible of internet wrestling fans to expect Khan just to let him go. Even on a mutually willing trade, I'm not sure who AEW would really want who WWE would even consider giving up (Alpha Academy maybe?).

Coming soon to Pro Wrestling Tees: The 'Bruv Gluv'.

I don't disagree 100%, agent needs a talking to about the music but I will say: 1) AEW commentary has always been pretty clear that referees have pretty blanket discretion when it comes to DQs. 2) It happened outside the ring, indeed the ring area - iirc that is a distinction that has been made by AEW commentators. I know this is open to the Ventura objection ('oh so I can just shoot a guy once he's outside the ring area'), but that only makes the point that the idea that the referee is supposed to have jurisdiction over what happens outside the ring is a modern innovation - and essentially a WWE innovation that AEW is not obliged to follow.

The real money is Negative One turning on Dark Order and siding with CM Punk.

Jamie Hayter is from Southampton; that's got to be the equivalent of half-a-dozen MMA fights.

I think it's one thing when you're going up from 16 to 20kg etc, but when the jump is 4kg to 8kg that's a bit harder to swallow. I'm already quite used to putting small dumbbells on cable stacks in order for my gf to progressive overload cable rmovements. I mean as a 'coach' I can work around that by building increased fatigue on prior movements, but some 6kg kettlebells would be useful and my gym does not have them. I am aware of magnet weights for this purpose, but they're quite expensive and then I'm carrying weights to the gym which I'm not mad keen on.

We tried some single racked dumbbell squats as well as some kettlebell swings for conditioning - it was at the end of the workout, and we had been putting the work in to try to get out quickly (Rebi needs her sleep) but these KICKED MY ASS!. One set of each for 20 and we were done - I mean we could have probably persevered but we train again Saturday and Sunday so have to manage recovery. We will try for 2 sets next time! Thursday is currently very machine-focussed otherwise though. Hamstring Curl first (a Mike Israetel idea to put hamstrings first), then abductor/adductor supersets with v. little rest, then leg press supersetted with calf - as I say, we then tried the kettlebell work. Oh dear. We finished up with the Candito Cable Crunch. Workout all wrapped up in just over 45 minutes. Could do with some more glute volume, but we've been hitting that pretty hard on Sundays so it's ok.

What's Samoa Joe up to? He can have a good match with Moxley right? Edit: If we're counting Dean Ambrose, then I think Joe may well be 1-0 against him (Raw, 12/11/2017).

I know this is a bit obscure, but I am guessing I am not the only Steve Wallis fan on DVDVR.....and well this fucking sucks.

There is actually a snarky reference by Uno to Cabana not being at AEW Dynamite tapings in the last few months towards the end of the stream (at least in the YouTube clip I saw).

Ditching the Heritage Cup is a mistake. Would have been a nice change of pace to have those matches in NXT.