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Lemme tellya somethin' Mean Tony! The Moxter has a great idea for getting all the young wrestlers in AEW over, BROTHER! Yeah! Get 'em all over like Grover driving a Range Rover through a field of sweet clover, Mean Tony! First, see, you strap up the Moxter, put that title right around my waist. Then me and Brother Claudi, see, we murder the most talented and beloved wrestler on the roster, right in the middle of the ring. Because this right here is the future of wrestling! You can call this The Mox World Order! Then The Moxter gets his win back from that jabroni Orange Cassidy. Yeah. This is where the power lies! Meanwhile, up and down the card, have bad guys constantly cheating to win, and any good guy who gets a win gets beaten down immediately. And EVERY tag team starts to develop trust issues and everyone who has a friend betrays them. Week in and week out for months! Because that's what the world NEEDS right now, BROTHER! More of that bullshit Vince McMahon/Ayn Rand "Strong Men Stand Alone and True Friendship Doesn't Exist" storytelling, BROTHER! Positivity and Moxamania, two things that don't go together, BROTHER! That's how you set it up. Then, BOOM! Fast forward 30 years later to Double Or Nothing in the Silverdome! Whatcha gonna do? And to all my little Moxamaniacs out there: Keep saying your curse words and eating your potato chip sandwiches!

Is it all right with everyone if I turn this into the AEW Overthinking And Also Big Japan Thread? Something really extremely neato happened today. In a Secret Santo in 2022, @John E. Dynamite gave me a match from an IWA East Coast card at Pumpkin Park in West Virginia where Yuko Miyamoto and Mad Man Pondo fought for the BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title. With Terry Funk as the guest referee. And it was glorious. The neato thing that happened today was that I got to chat about that match with Madman Motherfucking Pondo. I'll edit this post tomorrow to elaborate and tie it in to AEW. But I really wanted to post that pic and tell that story before collapsing in bed and passing out. Because there are a couple of people here who will absolutely get just how neato that is. Goodnight for now. Enjoy the Premium Live Event tomorrow! EDIT ONE: Yeah, Pondo is 200% a likable dude. You can legitimately feel the humanity and warmth radiating from him. His partner in 'Bakka Gaijin" (the current Big Japan Tag Champs) is also a very friendly person. Dale Patricks (the guy bleeding in the pic). They were both just LOVING being in Japan and touring around having crazy fights. The guy in the red Big Japan jersey is Jacob Crane, from Poland. He easily switched back and forth between English and Japanese chatting with me and my friend Michi. Obviously a very clever young man and also obviously living his dream fighting in Japan That giant light tube anime sword made such an insane IMax level sound when Yuko shattered it over Abby's head. And the shower of glass was damn near beautiful. There was so much joy and connection in Sumiyoshi yesterday. It was all about the love of wrestling. My friend Bodyguard was on the show, and we did a little fist bump and pointing bit and we got my whole section chanting for him... But (and I don't want to make too big a point of it but) my friend Yuki and I did a little bit with Fuminori Abe during his match, and I got to the point where I used to expect that at Osaka Pro shows back when I was going almost every week, but I was VERY tickled that I already have a little special fan/wrestler connection with a guy in a national touring company. It's really a small thing but it means the world to me. And I had a whole bunch of ways to connect that to AEW Mainly that there was a time when AEW managed to thread the needle of being a massive company that gave the fans a similar sense of joy and connection (and that's why the shift to being polished and professional and bringing in wrestlers with "star power" just about killed me) and also how Pondo vs Yuko in WV was "face vs face" but somehow the crowd was still able to get REALLY into it (and how the shift in AEW into almost every match needing to be obviously "face vs heel" is just killing me and also almost never works as intended) BUT: I somehow woke up early today after the 10+ hour wrestling/yakitori/karaoke party yesterday and I caught the Zero Hour and... I did NOT expect to be saying this, BUT: That Jersey YouTuber match was all about Joy and Connection! There is nothing more joyful in wrestling than a sincere You Still Got It! chant And I am 59. The whole idea of YouTubers confuses and frightens me. But that guy was doing little bits with the crowd! I assume that, in person, you could literally feel the love of pro wrestling radiating out of him. Hey AEW! YOU STILL GOT IT (It being the ability to thread the needle w/r/t joy and connection). More of that please! Perhaps in exchange for a little less Betrayal And Death.

Look, I know I said I was stepping away from this discussion, but COME ON! They are hitting some VERY specific nWo beats VERY hard. The obvious example: I was joking with a couple of my wrestling nerd friends about how my predictions for the next few weeks were 1) Claudio lawn darting a luchadore through the side of a truck and 2) Darby descending from the rafters during a mWo post-match beat-down... I was JOKING. Like, haha, as if AEW would rip off those obvious nWo beats that blatantly But both the guys I was joking about that with messaged me to let me know that they ACTUALLY, LITERALLY had Darby descending from the rafters during an mWo post-match beat down on Dynamite. So, please. Kiss the baby on this take. I mean, if you want to argue that it's GOOD that AEW is hammering on nWo nostalgia beats then go right ahead. Obviously, from this thread, there are people who were DELIGHTED to see Darby doing the Sting thing. It's not for me, at all, but I don't begrudge anybody else really enjoying it. I appreciate the value of nostalgia in pro wrestling. I marked out HARD to see Tatsumi Fujinami live and in person a little while ago, for example. But, really, come on, please. You cannot possibly try to argue that there isn't an obvious connection between Darby and Sting. You cannot possibly try to argue that Sting coming down from the rafters, etc etc, is NOT a clear and OBVIOUS nWo beat. Unless both of my friends (and the people who posted about it in this thread) were elaborately swerving me about Darby on Dynamite, there's no reasonable way to pretend that was anything but nWo-era-WCW nostalgia booking.

I appreciate you trying to engage in discussion, but at the moment I can not work up any enthusiasm to get into it. My basic take remains unchanged. I loved what AEW used to be. The current form (SESE, or Some Elite Sports Entertainment) is just not for me. More details, spoilered because It's just me repeating myself: One, and only one specific recent example: That Kyle Fletcher promo left me zero percent more excited for the Fletcher vs Ospreay match. A simple graphic would have had me 100% stoked. I just don't need the guys to pretend like "This time, it's personal!" Adds nothing, from my perspective. Anyway, I think we'll all be happier if I just sit out the next little while while the MWO storyline plays itself out. I don't think I will have anything positive to contribute to the discussion, and I really don't want to piss on the parade of people who are happy and excited about Kyle being good on the stick now, or whatever. To be honest, it was EVIL vs Tana as the first WK match announced for this year that was the straw that broke the back.of the proverbial camel that represents me paying close attention to any big time pro wrestling company for the near future. If what i want from my wrestling is goofy weird indie stuff and a sense of community... Well, that's easy enough to find in my neck.of the woods. I'll likely drop in to do Road Reports on, like, Big Japan shows and Cooger's Year End Party... But otherwise, barring something unforseen, I am gonna take a bit of a break until the New Year. Cheers to all y'all for the enjoyable discussion this year!

Fuck. it's not "Stop the Moxunaga" It's "Mox World Order" Gonna start every show with a recap of what the MWO did last week. Gonna end every show with the MWO running in and standing tall.

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I'll say this nicely, the first time: Shut up and fuck off, you stupid hateful douchebag.

So, EVERY AEW champion is a heel now, and the vast majority are involved in "shocking betrayal" storylines in one way or another. This post-2004 WWE/NWO era of WCW type of storytelling is not for me, personally. But it's clear a lot of my friends here and elsewhere are really enjoying it. The upside is it sets up lots of interesting chases. I won't bother belabouring my take on the downsides. You can probably guess my take on how the PPV ended. It's pretty likely the "all the good guys band together" part of the story will win me back. I'm not quite ready to give up on AEW just yet. And it's certainly cool in my book to see Okada and Takeshita holding gold in AEW. Who could have predicted that, back in 2019?

I would keep all current belts and add: AEW Women's Tag Titles AEW, ROH, AEW Women's, and ROH Women's Quatros Titles AEW Battle Royal Champion AEW Women's Battle Royal Champion AEW Tournament Champion AEW and ROH Men's and Women's Battle Royale Tournament Champion Men's TBS Champ Women's TNT Champ Whatever Streaming Service Title Cruiserweight Tag and Trios Champs BMMSM Title BMMSM Tag Titles BMWSM Belt First Blood Brass Knux Title UWF Style Match Champions Belt 24/7 Title, which is defended 24 hours per week, seven months a year and AEW Osaka Championship Belt which has to be defended in Osaka, Kyoto, or Nara once a month.

My actual birthday is not until October 7th, but Dragon/Rainmaker Bruv/Ricochet DMD/Deeb and Hangman/Juice sure feels like the best present I'm likely to get this year. Unless maybe one of my daughters or one of my students gets me my favourite pickled plum flavoured gummy candies (Otoko Ume). Then Dynamite will maybe be #2. And... AEW don't even realise they are giving it to me! Either way, best present or second-best present, I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb and predict we get some good pro wrestling tomorrow. Claudio has new entrance music! His old theme was based on Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and the new one mixes in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Which makes it more minor key and dark. Which is suitable for his new character, which is "Swiss muscleman who approves of murdering your friends with plastic bags." To be honest, I have always felt that Claudio should use Hocus Pocus by Focus as his theme music: (Insert video here) The lyrics are: Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA! Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO! Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA! Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO! umdub-adaoh-segel-ungucur-ungetu-hungetur-hupreyu undubea-unpedurl-humpelilly-luptodoro-licktetor-ulumpadero umbader-lickatine-lupator-lackatera batickatheplalera theblumpalumpadera ho? ho ho ha haaaa! Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA! Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO! Bom bom bom bom Bom bom bom Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom Bom bom bom Bom bom bom Bom bom bom bom bom bom Bac bac bac bac bac backaaaaa! Yeeeeha! ba um um um um um ba um um um um um ba oooohhboooobooboboboooo! Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA! Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO! Yeaah! Whoooo! So you can see why I think it would be a good fit for him.

I am going to go ahead an assume that Bryan vs Okada is intended specifically as a birthday present for me. And, for the record, I appreciate it.

In a recent Ranmaru Fest show, there was a spot where they used a weapon in what struck me as a near-perfect way. (Also, arguably, the best turn-things-around punch since Sangre Chicana vs MS-1). Keep in mind: This is coming from a guy who is on record as having been put off by the plastic bag/cinder block/hypodermic needle stuff... I'll put it in spoiler tags for those who are at work, or sensitive to ultraviolence: Hopefully we can all agree that clip points the way forward for AEW. Also, seriously: AEW should DEFINITELY bring Irie in for a run. I'll edit in my brief Collision thoughts: The BEST POSSIBLE GUY answered Jungle Full Grown Man's open challenge! The finish was lame. The post-match was PERFECT. Nice job using the strap match to set up Juice vs (literal) Hangman without being too obvious about it! Rick-a-boney spending MINUTES of commentary time trying to get the rest of the team to agree with him that Sammy needs to use his speed because Okada is not used to fighting high-flying wrestler (like, say, I dunno, oh, how about... Omega, Ospreay, Ibushi...) was INSANE. Then he absolutely capped it off perfectly by using Tanahashi as an example of the kind of grounded power wrestler that Okada is used to fighting. It must have been awkward a.f. for Tony and Daddy Magic because obviously the unwritten rule is you should always agree with and support your fellow commentators. Yet another in a long string of overall enjoyable shows... including at least one thing I can enjoy bitching about.

Bryan vs Nigel was great. Beautiful pro wrestling. Everything I love about AEW. The rest of the show had some spectacular wrestling. Darby winning the Rumble to get a shot at Bryan only to drop that shot to Jon "Cena" Moxley is the worst sort of bullshit. Seriously bums me out. Hurt Business coming in is exciting and will lead to a lot of good matches. It also means the upper card is going to be clogged up even further, making it that much harder for home grown talent and indie wrestlers to climb the ladder. The rise of Orange, of Darby, of Hayter, of Swerve... To me, the MOST compelling thing about AEW... Hopefully Swerve won't be the last one we see make it to the top of the ladder without having previously been a "big name" in WWE or NJPW. I'm still excited for "Stop the Moxunaga" though. Maybe slightly less so, but still... Hopefully he doesn't "That doesn't work for me, brother" his way out of putting someone deserving over at the end of the story. Darby, for example. That would be a pretty sweet pay-off.

As much as I hated Bryan's friends "shockingly" turning on him and (in particular) trying to nostalgically murder him with a plastic bag, and as much as I don't believe that obviously very nice guy Jon Moxley has suddenly become eeeevillll... I am 100% down for Stop the Moxunaga. 100%. It's obviously going to be tremendous. And as much as the way it started was NOT what I want out of AEW, I have all the faith that they will nail the rest of the story, including the ending. Speaking of "What I want from AEW: (Insert picture here later) OH BOY did I ever have fun at the Big Japan show in the small hall in Osaka yesterday. EVERY match was stiff and violent but also funny and clever. In particular, the Astronauts match and in particular how Fuminori Abe picked up on one lady in the crowd yelling out "Abe-chan!" and reacted to it in such a way that soon EVERYONE was chanting "ABE-CHAN! ABE-CHAN!" and then seamlessly worked that into his struggle with Aoki during the tag match, needing the crowd to pump him up with the chant every time Aoki gained the advantage. Later on, during the break, Abe saw my Stan Hansen t-shirt and asked me to take a picture of him with a fan who was struggling to take a selfie with him. Over the next few minutes, during which another fan took a picture of me with Astronauts doing the Stan Hansen pose, Abe referred to me as Stan Hansen about 20 times, just constantly coming up with reasons to say my name but saying Stan Hansen instead. So I 100% believe that Fuminori Abe is legit a clever and witty guy in addition to being one of the best pro wrestlers alive. And I just absolutely LOVE how that aspect of his personality got to shine in the tag match. Turns out Abe (and also Nakanoue) are friends with my new friend Yuki the karaoke bar mama-san. Either by very good luck or because they were waiting for me I ran into Yuki and her sister Michi at the train station in Shonai. We went shopping for snacks and drinks before the show. Yuki spent WAY more on gifts (snack pan bread and rice balls, mostly) for the wrestlers than she made off of Yoshiki and I combined, on Saturday. Just two big shopping bags full of snacks. She also remembered my favourite beer (Yebisu, becausd Ebissu) and that I love karaage, and surprised me with a present of both those nice things, which made me unreasonably happy. Then the folks working the door and taking photos at ringside were almost all old friends from the Osaka Pro family and it really struck me how these smaller BJW shows have a very similar sense of community. Particularly considering I was hauling in bags of nice little gifts for "the boys" like it's the most natural thing in the world. Even though Big Japan is a national promotion and not a local indie. Then the whole entire show was f'n AMAZINGLY entertaining. Literally every match. Every guy going HAM even though it's a tiny house show. And watching m'f'n DRAGON FUJINAMI from ringside seats in a tiny hall! And he was in amazing shape. It was 100% believable when he muscled Sekimoto into the ropes. And in a match with Daimonji, Hashimoto's kid, and a living Strong BJ legend and two death match legends, Fujinami was the stiffest f'n worker. Then after the match I think he literally shook hands with everyone in the building. Then I got to help stack the chairs. The atmosphere with just the young boys and my friends and I tearing down was so pleasant. I could feel a small part of things, which I love. Not a VIP, but an "insider." I got to cross an item off my bucket list by having a pose-down with Sekimoto, who could not have been nicer. What a f'n memory! Sekimoto also called me Stan Hansen. There was a guy whose post-show job was to tear the barbed wire off the boards and roll it up. I chose not to take a picture, but that was a VERY specific "ONLY in this particular time and place" kind of image if I ever saw one. Then we went for coffee to wait for 1) Yoshiki to finish up his backstage work and 2) the izakayas to open (show started at noon on the holiday Monday) and by chance Bother Yasshi was cooling down in there as well (he got the absolute shit knocked out of him in his match against the Brahmans). There's a guy whose in-ring character makes it seem like he might not be the nicest guy... But: Nope. Super friendly. The day went on and on in somehow increasingly enjoyable ways until finally I caught the last train home, exhausted but very happy. Anyway, I don't mean that I want to help tear down after AEW shows and do muscle posedowns and drink coffee with the wrestlers. Although of course, who wouldn't want to do that? But what I loved out of early-years AEW was (among other things) that they seemed to want to create a similar sense of community despite being a massive multinational pro wrestling company, and also that they used to put a huge emphasis on letting their wrestlers show bits of their real personalities in clever and amusing ways, particularly during the matches. i wouldn't argue that either of those elements have been ELIMINATED from AEW as it grows more polished and corporate and mainstream... But obviously they have been de-emphasised. And I think that's both a shame and a mistake. Viewer numbers and live crowds were both generally bigger when AEW was weirder and less corporate. The argument for being more professional and less indie is that it's the way to grow the company. But I sincerely believe that's a huge mistake. tl/dr: Really enjoyed the BJW show. Continue to persist in my sincere belief that AEW would be better off and more successful as a big indie rather than a secondary corporate monster. Also the Astronauts, Yasshi, and Sekimoto pictures are in the general September wrestling thread. Also, a full Road Report includes an accounting of food and drink, so: Pre-show and show: Yebisu beer, karaage, takana onigiri, cheese bacon snack pan. Post-show in Shonai: Ice coffee, draft Asahi super dry beer, Wakayama citrus sours, sashimi, grilled lemon pepper chicken, yakitori, dashimaki tamago, cabbage, etc Birthday party in Minamimorimachi: Umeshu, cheesecake, jasmine shochu

ELEVEN (11) HOURS of Nigel in ROH. It's no secret that I think Nigel bullying Tony S and relentlessly ladling out heel cliches and misusing five-dollar words on commentary is the absolute dirt f'n worst and I hate it so much that I basically can't even watch Collision most weeks. On the other hand, I LOVE watching him fight and this is an absolute f'n treasure trove. Good Lord, it's excellent of them to put this up on YT for free. It's not like most of us here need to get MORE hyped for Nigel vs Bryan... But if anyone needs reminding of their truly great ring chemistry, there is PLENTY of that here.

Wrong thread. I saw Fujinami and Hashimoto's kid tonight. So:

She was very nice to me, both times I met her. She looked like a pleasant, chubby grandmother without the makeup on. When she put the makeup on, though, she was still absolutely terrifying.

Edit: though, to be fair, I agree they are playing it up some. But I also think there's more than a degree of aggrieved egos and jealousy involved as well.

So, here's what I did tonight: There's a guy named Yoshiki. He's Cooger's friend. Therefore, Yoshiki and I are also friends. He's an extremely warm-hearted person and we have always gotten along very well. He also does promotion, set-up, tear-down, etc etc for Big Japan, Marvellous, and I think other indie promotions. Sometimes I get free tickets. From him, because we are friends. Sometimes I also get to help with teardown or promotion, which I sincerely get a kick out of. He lives in a lovely quiet area of Osaka called Minamimorimachi. Masakatsu Funaki is one of his neighbours, more or less. Takes me an hour to get to Minamimorimachi from my place but it's well worth it because there are a ton of really good little restaurants and bars and even on a Saturday you don't have to wait in line to get a table because it is a quiet area and tourists don't go there. Tonight, Yoshiki and I went for very delicious ramen and karaage with two very nice lads from Mexico City (Oscar and Gabriel) who have (among other things) been to shows at Arena Mexico. I speak a little Japanese and fluent English, Yoshiki speaks pretty good English and fluent Japanese, Oscar and Gabriel both speak a little English and fluent Spanish. It was slightly challenging and very fun communicating about wrestling, travel, slang, food, etc etc. Then we went to Yuki's karaoke bar. It's Yoshiki's local. Yuki and Yoshiki are old friends. The other customers were all in their 70s and all obviously regular customers, except for one guy's daughter who was in town for two weeks from Florence, Italy, where she now lives. I'd guess she's in her early 50s. Anyway, they were super friendly and welcoming, probably because we came in with Yoshiki. Yoshiki and I stayed there drinking and singing after everyone else had gone home, not leaving until I had to go catch the last train. The bill was ridiculously reasonable. There's no way Yuki made any money off of us tonight. But she's a fellow wrestling fan. There were Big Japan posters outside, and a calendar on the wall. I'm Cooger's old friend therefore I am Yoshiki's friend and therefore I am now also Yuki's friend and will apparently never pay full price if I go to her bar. She's coming to the show on Monday and, after teardown, we're all going drinking together. Probably in Kyobashi. Maybe in Shonai. We're all stoked up because we get to see Fujinami in a small hall. I really really enjoy being a pro wrestling fan living in Japan. ANYWAY. My point is: Stuff like this happens to me ALL THE TIME. Friendship and connection and nice things and good times all flowing out of being a fan of professional wrestling. And my navel gaze on the train home was about how in, say, 2021, AEW seemed to frequently reflect that experience (what with the kayfabe good guy wrestlers having friends who they could count on and who had their backs in kayfabe and also, like, Being The Elite showing "the boys backstage" playing Uno and whatnot and it seeming genuinely happy and fun) and to quote myself from this here thread in 2021, "the move in AEW away from broad caricatures of machismo and masculinity and towards more nuanced, vulnerable, damaged, and otherwise relatable characters (which in my opinion) is a genuine change for the better." Anyway, I really miss that and really wish that they'd bring joy and friendship more to the forefront again. And for sure a huge part of that is because I FIND THAT REALLY RELATABLE!! IT REFLECTS MY OWN PERSONAL PRO WRESTLING EXPERIENCE!! Like, for example, what I did this evening. And presumably what I am going to do on Monday. And: I personally don't find fiends constantly turning on each other and stabbing each other in the back relatable. I do, however, find it tired and cliche. I don't find myself more excited, at all, ever, for matches that have an OMG! THEY USED TO BE FRIENDS BUT NOW THEY ARE BITTER ENEMIES, DUE TO BETRAYAL build. Particularly when SEVERAL matches have that same build. The Barbershop Window Incident, for example, was shocking to me at the time. Since then, I think that whole deal has been warmed over rather too often. I honestly feel that doing a take on it once every couple of years might be WAAAAAAYYYY more effective than doing it a couple of times a week, almost every week. My other navel gaze is that I sincerely hope that the people who think AEW's storytelling is better now than it was in 2021 think so because you place a very very very high value on nostalgia (e.g. "It's good that he tried to murder his friend with a plastic bag because it reminds me of when Terry Funk did a similar thing") rather than because it more accurately reflects your own life experience as a fan of professional wrestling living wherever you do (e.g "Yeah,that's just like how my friends always try to murder me! I can totally relate to that situation!")

There was a whole lotta spectacular pro wrestling on this TV program today. Really enjoyed that. Pretty crazy when the roster is so stacked you can jerk the curtain with Orange vs Tree! Got a good Beavis and Butthead/Celebrity Jeopardy laugh out of "J Dink" (Note: I am 58 years old) Private Party wanted a title SHOT SHOT SHOT but got a hammer SHOT SHOT SHOT Who do AEW think they are fooling with this false "will Bryan show up to fight Nigel?" drama. That being said, I hope it pays off with a MASSIVE pop. Also: Grand Slam is NEXT WEEK?!?!?! No time to take a breath here. Speaking of: Ospreay vs Takeshita, Takeshita vs Okada, and Okada vs Ospreay ALL incoming. Good Lord. And Ospreay vs Ricochet May being the worst tag partner was really amusing. I wouldn't mind Mina vs Sakazaki at some point. Mortos and Ricochet had pretty good ring chemistry considering it was a first time match up. Speaking of: Main event tag in the GLEAT show in Osaka involves BOTH Ricochet and Vikingo!!! (and CIMA!) Day before my birthday! (i am going to be 59 years old). Plus Funaki vs Nakajimmy in a UWF rules match!! Plus: PARKER BOUDREAUX! In a title match!! I wonder if his buddy White Umaga will accompany him. I am legit stoked for all of this. Somehow it will be my first GLEAT show. Also my drinking buddy Yoshiki has (free) tix for a BJPW show in a tiny hall (176 Box in the Shonai neighbourhood in Osaka) with special guest FUJINAMI!!! That is one seriously WAR-ass looking six man! I am f'n STOKED! Tatsumi Fujinami fighting Ryuji Itou is NOT a thing I ever expected to witness! It's Sekimoto's Anniversary Tour. I'm assuming Fujinami is one of his heroes. So, cool. So cool. Seeing a legend like Dragon Fujinami in a tiny hall is going to be a real treat. Plus Abe and Nomura in a tag match! I think I may have mentioned this before, but I am one lucky prick.

Dang. Found something we can agree on! Although sometimes I go out drinking on Thursdays, too. (Pics from this past Sunday. More pics and details in the September general wrestling thread) Having friends is the best! Pro wrestling should reflect that more.

Why does Brody King love Pantera?