Gordi the former AEW fan
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3 hours ago, zendragon said:
Your close friends share there extreme bedroom adventures with you?
Your's DON'T?
Edit: All joking aside, when I wrote that I was thinking of a specific very close friend who is a key person in a very specific scene in my old hometown. I am not in any way trying to be funny when I compare her to Eddie Kingston in the sense that she found a thing she loves and she's good at and followed that dream all the way.
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To prepare for Forbidden Door, I'm re-watching the 2022 iteration. Just the pre-show was quite a trip down memory lane. I had forgotten it was in the United Centre, that Kevin Kelly joined in on commentary, that Bishamon opened the show, that the NJPW ring announcer was there...
Just finished the main card opener. Mad King, Shooter, and Wheeler vs Suzuki, Jericho, and Sammy. The action, the storytelling, and THE CROWD were just SO GREAT.
Can't help but thinking that if someone had told me in, like, 2018, that in 2023 there would be a show in Canada with a bunch of New Japan wrestlers facing a bunch of indie and ex-ROH guys (and, like, an ex-CZW guy and Corazón de León) and it would be an instant sell out in a huge arena with a white hot crowd and an insane level of heat and anticipation and expectations of being card of the year *again* - That would 100% have sounded way too good to be true.
And, while I'm feeling and being positive: I am also unreasonably happy about Eddie Kingston being in the G1 this year (though I am bummed he won't have a tournament match in Osaka). It's such a gruelling ordeal, but it's a dream come true for him. And he's earned the right to live it. The closest I can come to imagining that is maybe building up to a landmark kind of weight in the clean and press or deadlift, knowing it's gonna hurt and take a long time to recover from, but hitting it. Or working on a difficult piece of music until you can confidently perform it in front of a crowd. Or, thinking about some of my close friends, earning a black belt, completing a triathlon, fighting a death match, doing very extreme consensual bedroom stuff... Even, in a way, moving to another country with a wildly different language and culture. Don't know if it makes sense to anyone else, but it's that feeling of setting a very difficult goal for yourself, knowing that achieving it means pushing through difficulties, and earning the right to give it a try. To me, it's a peak human experience. It's, in a certain way, what being alive is all about. And competing in the G1 is SUCH a high level of that.
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Such a nice variety of big pops tonight:
Big one for FTR
HYUGE one for Punk
Big heart-warming one for the Shibata hot tag
HYUGE one for Okada
etc etc
I may not agree with the Chicago crowd on every point, but they sure enjoy their wrestling, and thereby make it easier for me to enjoy it, too.
Speaking of, today marks two (2) Jarrett matches in a row that I didn't hate. Pleasant surprise. Though, a lot of that was on the commentary. "One of the biggest cheaters of all time" and the stuff about condiments making the floor slippery, in particular.
Probably best not to compare the match to the actual Tupelo brawls, as well.
Still: Enjoyed it.
Loved ALL of the stuff building to Forbidden Door!
Couldn't be happier that we're getting Suzuki, Shibata, and Ishii.
Has to be a Dudes With Attitudes reunion too, right? So Shingo! Just need Cobb to complete my personal bingo card.
And we are getting Punk vs Kojima! Nice! That Owen bracket looks crazy. I hope the crowd gets 100% behind Cozy.
Generally I don't get as into the memberberries bullshit as many others do... But Bay Bay and Friedman being teamed up was PERFECT Russo-era bullshit. And that whole segment was darned effective.
"SHUT UP, SCHIAVONE!" popped me.
Speaking of, they've really been nailing those "end the show on an out of control brawl with different dudes showing up" segments recently.
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(Hang on. Will append thoughts shortly. Need to switch browsers. Firefox for posting videos. Chrome for typing words).
OK. Here come the words:
Thought of posting a "Homer buying monkey paw/frogurt" gif here. Because, for me, this is a pretty f'n "That's bad/that's good" show.
Ahead of Sunday's Forbidden Door, Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara and Minoru Suzuki team up to face Action Andretti & Darius Martin & AR Fox. Arghh! So good! Minoru F. Suzuki in AEW! O, How I love thee, Forbidden Door season! And Andretti to a certain extent and Fox abso-f'n-lutely prove that AEW is still able to take wrestlers fron "who?" to " hoo-ray! " in a,surprisingly short amount of time. They are going to use speed and agility to avoid MiSu. Which will MAKE HIM ANGRY. I can hardly wait.
Concession Stand Brawl: Jeff Jarrett vs Mark Briscoe.Maybe it's unkind of me to think this, buI hope Jarrett gets a glass jar of mustard busted on his ear, and it really stings.
Matt & Jeff Hardy vs Gunns
Not everything on every show is going to be booked specifically to my particular tastes. And. That's O. K.
Orange Cassidy & Shibata vs Daniel Garcia & Zack Sabre Jr
Certain things on virtually every show are going to be booked exactly in accordance with my particular tastes. And, from where I am sitting, that is f'n spectacular!!!
Kris Statlander vs. Taya Valkyrie for the TBS Title
I am SO glad Stat is back. HOWEVER. There are very few women on the AEW roster I would less rather see Statlander fight than Taya. She does nothing for me, and I will always, unfairly, blame Taya for the way that the GREAT Nicole Matthews was treated as a joke to set up the VERY MEDIOCRE Taya's debut.
Blind Eliminator Tournament for a shot at the AEW Tag Team Titles
NO idea. BUT Gordlow LOVES tournaments.
- Adam Cole speaks
- No Jacksons, no Kenny, so maybe Punk shows up
- The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
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7 hours ago, Infinit said:
Forbidden Door related:
So, in addition to the five (5!) Incredible matches already announced, we can pretty much count on seeing MiSu and Ibushi, based on them being at the meet and greet (which makes me happy, obviously)(particularly given that MiSu is a freelance fighter now so there was no guarantee he'd be part of this) and also presumably Shibata (considering that he (like Suzuki) has a match on Dynamite in less than 24 hours).
Yowza.
Plus probably gonna set up something for Mad King on Dynamite, as well.
Potentially setting up something with him on one side and MiSu, Ishii, and/or Shibata on the other.
Or: Something like Eddie & Ishii vs Mox & Shooter, maybe? That would be pretty great.
Pretty likely FD gonna be Show of the Year two years running. Possibly this year's edition will surpass last year's.
Once again I'll be at work while it's airing, so I need to spend my Monday avoiding spoilers until I can catch up. That's actually kind of a fun way to spend a Monday.
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5 hours ago, Craig H said:
...lately your attitude sucks. ... try and not be a snarky dick.
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Pictured below: just a dude.
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2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Now I'm interested in what the other answers might have been.
Face in Canada, heel in America.
Face in Chicago, heel in the west, tweener everywhere else.
I am a heel but I keep acting like a face because it gets me more heel heat.
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I think that makes it three for three this week.
Great crowd.
I disagreed with two things Punk said:
1) Pro wrestling is TOTALLY a popularity contest.
2) If you are insinuating that Eddie Kingston is softer than me, you are lying RIGHT NOW.
Putting a title on a DINOSAUR?!?! Further proof that AEW does not understand that the only way to make money is to be CUTTING EDGE.
(That intro was fantastic, by the way).
HE'S THE AYATOLLAH OF DINOSAURA!
Loved the matching ring gear in the ladies' match.
I was JUST joking that Tony Neese should do a modern Rick Rude gimmick!
Miro should be billed from Bulge-area.
Andrade did NOT seem rusty to me! That was a hell of a match.
That pop when Joe tagged in!
Saturday Night's Alright for LIGHTING!
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Cobb yeeting dudes is right up there with my very favourite things in all of pro wrestling. Also: Keith Lee and Lance Archer yeeting dudes. Dudes getting yeeted in general, I suppose. But by Cobb in particular.
I would have preferred watching Nicole Matthews v Trish Adora personally. Perhaps all of us might have preferred Nicole cutting a promo on Stat. Although some of us seem to have been distracted during that segment.
Jericho was also a precocious 8-year-old! What a freaky coincidence that was.
I will admit it: Jarrett and Lethal stooging for Papa was good stuff.
This is NOT a complaint: The bulk of the main event was surprisingly straightforward and non-flashy.
Agree with zendragon: 2 for 2 so far this week.
Can they make it 3 for 3 tomorrow?
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3 hours ago, JLowe said:
... Just handing tons of young talent to the competition, in exchange for bitter, toxic guys.
Meanwhile you’re alienating your old-school fans with shitty treatment of (wrestlers the promotion was built around), and then you completely fuck-up the payoff of 18-months of angle building.
Lord help me tor thinking this, but that sounds SO MUCH like the worst-case possible outcome of Punk returning to AEW
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27 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:
That's a canny and couth answer. Another Elton John song comes to mind...
Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word?
Someone Saved My Life Tonight?
Don't Go Chopping My Face (with Kiki Dee)?
Phil-edelphia Freedom?
oh. right.
it actually really fits!
"Raising Cain, I spit in your eye" and in particular, "Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact"!
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I am going to have to work through this now, otherwise I am going to spend at least half of Collision thinking about it.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released two days before my 8th birthday. I got it as a present. It was the first LP I ever owned (and it was a double LP) (The first recording I ever owned was an 8-track tape of Madman Across the Water).
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting was my (younger) brother's favourite song on the album. I, personally, preferred Bennie and the Jets and Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.
I got the appeal of Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting but there were two lines that bothered me.
The first was "A couple of the sounds that I really like/are the sound of a switchblade and a motorbike"
I had just watched a documentary about 1950s teensploitation movies and there was a big focus on a scene with Brando on a motorbike brandishing a switchblade!
(Insert image here later)
I figured that Bernie Taupin had taken that image and made it into a lyric.
The second was "I'm a juvenile product of the working class/whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass"
The second half of that line is GREAT. I remember talking with my fourth-grade friends Brian and Dave about what that meant. Dave, who had a motorcycle-riding teenaged older brother explained. Pretty cool.
But the first half of that couplet! What actual delinquent would describe themself that way?
The song was *obviously* not written by a teenager who went out looking for trouble on Saturday nights, but by an adult trying to appeal to that crowd (which in 1973, was significant) and to children like my brother who aspired to some day be teen delinquents. I felt like my brother was being taken in.
i suppose I was a pretty precocious 8-year-old. My elder daughter was pretty precocious at 8, as well. So it tracks, I guess.
Currently, I am delighted that the song has a "switchblade" reference and Jay White is fighting on the debut episode.
Anyway, I had to get that out of my head now or it would have really distracted me tomorrow.
(Insert YouTube video here).
Edit: It also seems at least conceivable that Jericho's sparkly mauve high heeled shoes were inspired by the cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. If so: Awesome reference.
(Insert image here). (Turned out to be unnecessary because of the YouTube video image).
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This possibility justifies all the drama. Certainly the best thing to come out of it, thus far.
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Takeashit and Bandaido are two guys that I was aware of and liked watching before they came to AEW but since arriving they have become two guys I LOVE watching. Two guys I am always STOKED to watch. So I am PARTICULARLY STOKED to watch them fight each other.
Jeff Jarrett is a dude I irrationally despise and I dearly wish he'd never shown up in AEW and I have enjoyed NOTHING that he has done in AEW so far and I am BAFFLED that so many people seem to unironically find him entertaining. HOWEVER I am NOT going to pretend here: Lethal and Jarrett and Karen Angle vs Papa Briscoe and Mark Bricoe and Referee Aubrey Edwards is so utterly bonkers that even I, an unrepentant incorrigible hater, am very interested to see what happens here. I kind of hope Aubrey either pins Jarrett or makes Jarrett tap out clean and if that happens... I'll still probably go straight back to hating him. Irrational is as irrational does. Just because I put Drew on ignore does not mean that I have no Drew in my soul.
I don't give a fuck about Taya. Don't hate her in any way, just don't care. I sincerely wish AEW had hired Nicole Matthews instead. Nicole Matthews is fucking great.
CHAOS vs United Empire in an AEW ring on an AEW show! Oh. Hell. Yeah. Presumably the bessfrenz version of CHAOS, but still. (But still? But: AWESOME)
I mark out every time Rocky shows up in AEW and if Jeff Cobb shows up on the other side I'll f'n lose it.
(I'm going to lose it).
(About time I lost it, particularly considering I am in my late 50s and the father of two wonderful daughters).
Bout a million times more stoked for this nutzoid hour of wrestling than for the day after tomorrow's debut of The CM Punk Show. Personally. I'm more curious for that one than I am stoked.
I am kind of hoping Punk comes out all humble and apologises for everything. I won't know WHAT to do if that happens.
Jeff Cobb yeeting Rocky is going to be SO AWESOME! Young Konosuke gonna spend a full minute upside-down. Pro wrestling sure can be great sometimes. Sometimes meaning several times a week every single week, lately.
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I don't wanna be the first person to rain negativity on this thread...
BUT...
That FUCKING IDIOT with the "2.5" sign! Not even well-informed enough to understand it's 2.999.
Also the Punk promo actually made me LESS excited for the Collision debut, but that's almost certainly a Gordlow thing only.
Otherwise, LOVED the show.
Forbidden Door is going to be INSANE
WHAT WILL HEADLINE?!?!
I LOVED Friedman consistently overpowering Cole. Actual body-based storytelling. Like they were responding to the complainy grandpas!
Also all the subtle references to how Cole has influenced MJF. What an opener! Which 30 minutes flew by faster? This or Kenny vs Bryan? Which was the better opener? This, Kenny vs Bryan, or Orange vs Swerve?
LOVED the 8-man tag! Everything I'd hoped for. CHOAD WARRIOR!
Storm and Ruby's heel hairdos were GREAT!
Crap. Gotta go catch the train to work!
Great show!
So stoked! But I have to work Monday morning, so I won't be able to watch Forbidden Door live. I wonder if having a Saturday show means every PPV is going to be on Sunday now. Kind of fucking over all their fans in Japan and Europe who have to work Mondays. Cry us a f'n river.
Dammit, gotta go! TTYL!
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RIP Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian. All the Pretty Horses. The Road. No Country for Old Men. That is one hell of a legacy to leave behind. An all time great author. What a loss.
Edit: missed that there was a separate thread for this. Apologies.
What a shitty bit of news to wake up to.
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According to the FITE app: Adam Cole vs AEW World Champion MJF. Sting, Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy, and Keith Lee team up to face the Mogul Embassy.
The Young Bucks & Hangman Adam Page take on the Blackpool Combat Club. Skye Blue challenges Toni Storm for the AEW Women's World Title. Hang on. Gotta check what else has been announced and also type up some thoughts. Give me 15-25 minutes or thereabouts.'Kay. So:
Returning to Washington DC, site of the first Dynamite. Totally STACKED card to celebrate.
Eliminator: "Super Jacked Roid Beast" Adam Cole vs "Low Hanging Fruit" Friedman
This should be good, as should the subsequent re-match. But I REALLY hope they don't headline Forbidden Door with this. I don't think they can successfully follow Bryan vs Okada and Kenny vs Ospreay, and I'd prefer the PPV make an AEW vs NJPW match the main event, to fit with the theme.
TNT Title Match: Wardlow vs Hager
Was it my namesake that Hager fought in that MMA cage match? I think it was. I might have been the highest voter on that one. It would be easy to look it up but I'm a little pressed for time. Probably this will involve Luchasaurus interference anyway.
Ladies Title Match! Storm vs Skye
Needless to say, that's a natural match-up. Hopefully, and most likely, they will just lay it in. Should be pretty great. Also extremely callipygian.
Swerve, Gates, & An Actual Jacked Up Roid Beast vs Limitless, Sting, Darby, & Orange!!!
I'm most stoked for this one. Big Meaty Men Slapping Meat plus two great bumpers getting tossed around plus strange style. Yowza.
Also the discussion in last week's Dynamite thread (with the "new" poster I still kinda 15% suspect is Goodear in disguise) has me somehow even MORE stoked to see how Keith Lee fights here. I hope him and Brian Cage just do endless springboard flips. The reaction to that, on here, would be my garmonbozia.
BCC vs The Elite
Following up Anarchy with Mox Claudio Yuta vs Hung Bucks! Hell yeah!
Totally stacked show. Can't hardly wait.
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7 hours ago, Ingobernable said:
Chris Jericho vs Keith Lee
First up the really important stuff: Chris Jericho is only nine years younger than my dad so there’s a world in which they could hang but ultimately I don’t think there’d be any contest. Even without my dad’s arthritic ankles Jericho’s bringing a fireball and you can’t mess with that. Keith Lee is twenty years younger than my dad and looks like a boulder and you can’t mess with that either. The lads are two up on my dad. LEGIT wrestlers on the eye test.
We’re told that this match has happened because Lee wants to teach Jericho a lesson about respect and it’s wild that Jericho has got this far without being taught that lesson. I like Lee’s Big Cape and his big grey beard. He’s doing lots of little hops and skips after some of his offence and I start to feel a bit ungenerous but then he starts throwing hands and wins me over. The opening portion is just Lee slowly beating Jericho down and I like it. (As an aside I kind of hate what picture in picture does to matches like this – Jericho is on top during the break and Lee gets nothing. I think he’s selling too much but nobody sees it so it’s fine). They do a cool bit where Lee gets energised every time he gets chopped. I also love a sequence where he sprints through a clothesline and then just WIPES Jericho out with a tackle. Jericho has given Lee some of his best shots and it’s just helping him build momentum in response. I don’t hate the moonsault because spot with the knees is cute and it’s part of a much more BURLY approach. The finishing stretch holds the pace I’ve been enjoying and shenanigans are fine because it’s a TV main.
So yeah this is a cool TV main with plenty to enjoy. I really enjoyed the pacing (PIP aside) and there were some cute spots. A few things I’d nitpick about but I won’t labour them. If this was the first Keith Lee match I’d watched I’d be interested in more and I won’t let my attention get drawn elsewhere next time he’s on Dynamite.
Here’s the thing though. While this experiment shows me my specific Keith Lee take is out-of-date, it’s actually sort of added weight to my original position. I find this Keith Lee - big burly shitkicker with a moonsault – much more entertaining than earlier iterations of Keith Lee. My point was never intended to be about Keith Lee, who someone else had brought up in the context of a big dude with a sprinty style (not a claim I’d make on the evidence of this match). It was about how there should be a place in wrestling for people with all sorts of body types, but it certainly helps me to engage with their matches if they’re not wrestling a style that feels incongruous to their look. I don’t think that means the same as something like “all wrestlers should be jacked” or “all slim wrestlers should just do flips”.
"I was completely wrong, but if you think about it that actually proves that I was right all aling" is a genuinely amusing conclusion for you to have reached. That being said, thanks for the review. I'm pleased to see that I likely won't have to add a fifth poster to my ignore list.
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2 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
Both sides of what coin? I'm not taking any sides in anything other than I don't wanna have to read the same tired rant every single week. You seem to have picked a side in some... imaginary battle? Maybe there's some between the lines context going over my head here. But then again you're the king of bad faith posters so I probably shouldn't even have engaged.
There's a pretty easy way to deal with consistently bad-faith posters, spam bots, and dudes who literally cannot help but post the sane negative thoughts again and again and again. That way the s not,unfortunately, engaging with them and hoping they respond positively to reason and logic. I resisted for the longest time, myself, but k st four simple additions to the ignore list made spending time on here 50% more enjoyable and about 85% less frustrating. Everyone's choices will vary, of course, but I think my four would make a great starting point for many people here. Also, if you want to type in DZ's new name (which just saves a lot of scrolling past unattributed newz posts rather than eliminating bad-faith arguments) you need to add a Japanese keyboard and type in "akaiiryuu" (or red dragon).
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3 hours ago, Ingobernable said:
I knew that jumping in on this sort of discussion as a new poster might open me up to this sort of pushback but I am my own guy, albeit one who might share a bad take with someone else. I only mentioned Keith Lee because he'd already been brought up by someone else as an example of a wrestler who doesn't work a style consistent with their look but in a different way to Cole.
In the interest of GOOD VIBES I would be happy to concede that my Keith Lee opinion (which I did try to turn into a more general point because I wanted to make it less about specific guys) could be out-of-date and that I've not paid enough attention to his more recent stuff because of that pre-formed view. I would also, if you wanted to propose a match, watch and review any recent Keith Lee match you'd like to propose. In good faith, of course.
That sounds just great. If you are prepared to check and see whether your take still holds water, then I'll prepare myself to stand corrected, issue a retraction, roll out the red carpet, and possibly engage in some spirited discussion about why I feel it is a good thing that pro wrestling has moved beyond the comforting but overly-restrictive cliches of the 1980s and wrestlers can now be allowed a greater degree of creative freedom and self-expression. I am sincerely looking forward to reading your review. And I am pleased to see that my friend Matt has already recommended Keith Lee vs Chris Jericho, Dynamite #184 12.04.2023 from Milwaukee. An excellent choice if you're interested in seeing how Keith Lee works these days. Edit: this also makes the multi-person tag that Lee is fighting in on Dynamite this week just a little bit more intriguing. I am, now, slighly more interested in seeing what he does there. And I was plenty interested already.
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14 minutes ago, Sparkleface said:
Shh, we've moved on to fighting children and/or Serpentico. Which do you think you can take?
Serpentico would absolutely kick my (big, muscular) ass all over the ring.
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AEW TV - 6/21 - 6/26/2023
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR RAMPAGE, BABY!
MJF makes Rampage debut.
I wanna say "probably others will enjoy this more than me" and reiterate that I prefer Friedman as a wrestler rather than as a talker... But I thought his thing with Cole was really well done and I have allowed myself to be spoiled w/r/t what this segment is likely setting up, and I am STOKED for things to maybe get filthy here.
Owen Hart Foundation Tournament begins with Anna Jay vs Sky Blue and Jungle Boy vs Douki.
according to the FITE app. Another preview I consulted seemed to believe that only Anna vs Sky is an Owen match.
DOUKI is the LAST guy I imagined popping over for FD season, but it's definitely going to be fun to see what he and Jungle Boy can do in there. Likewise with the young ladies. LOVE the Owen!
Swerve Strickland & United Empire vs CHAOS.
Speaking of things Gordlow loves: Jeff Cobb! Rocky Romero! Presumably! Love watching both of those guys fight, for almost opposite reasons. I have probably already recently mentioned that I love Forbidden Door season. This is non-stop mark-out material for me.
The Acclaimed in action.
I was SHOCKED by how young Max Caster looked when I did my 2022 FD pre-show re-watch. Not sure how that's even possible, considering it was only a year ago.