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My friend has the same feelings about ketchup and chili sauce, if that helps.

All I can think of when it comes to Jay White is when a friend of mine said "aioli is just mayonnaise they want you to pay an extra dollar for". I will leave it to you, gentle reader, to decide whether Jay White is the aioli to Adam Cole's mayonnaise or vice versa (or to insult my friend's taste in emulsified condiments as I have on many an evening). That said, having watched both Jay White and Adam Cole for close to a decade I'd rather have guacamole.

Well, I respect your preferences but I'm afraid the best TNT can do for you is four straight episodes of Lucifer once Charmed and Supernatural are over.

Leave it on all day! Do you like Charmed and Supernatural reruns? Well my friend you're in luck!

Look, I realize I'm biased because I'm as big a fan of the Colonial Athletic Association as any other girl but you don't have to down Monmouth like that. ... okay Monmouth was trash last year. It's a fair shot.

How did we not talk about Sareee's produce show on 5/16? This thing's only got four matches but it's loaded. 1. Riko Kaiju vs. Yurika Ota 2. Miyuki Takase & Ibuki Hoshi vs. Arisa Nakajima & AKARI 3. Jaguar Yokota & Nanae Takahashi vs. Kaoru Ito & X 4. Sareee vs. Chihiro Hashimoto Matches 2 and 4 on paper should be great, and I'm really high on Riko Kaiju so I think the opener should be a bunch of fun too.

HOW COULD YOU

I went to pre-order Tears of the Kingdom today and was not aware that Nintendo is doing game vouchers for Switch Online members. Two games for $100, and Tears of the Kingdom is eligible for voucher usage. So much for that being a $70 game for me! ... now to wait for Friday. Oh the waiting.

It also seems like the number being floated because that was WWE's Peacock deal. Which I mean... not a bad one to mirror considering recent inflation, and if you need to give up PPV shares, but I dunno about the legitimacy. We'll see. That said, said ex-poster is probably due a crow sandwich either way.

Might work if you were an octopus. Or @Octopus. ... Heyyyyyy!

A metal clip that connects to a tensioned double hook that if tensioned properly should be up rigid, that connects to the ringpost. It's not the clip that would've gashed him. It's going through the clip and hitting the hook which has no give, which would have jammed the clip into his forehead. You don't need to add a gig to that. Even if WWE doesn't use the usual double hook structure of a turnbuckle, you're still basically ramming your head into a foot-long piece of rebar which will then drive another piece of metal into your skull. Which is more realistic? That a foot-long piece of metal had no give and drove what is tantamount to a carabiner into Brock's forehead, or that WWE welded a jagged piece of metal into the turnbuckle because Brock decided he wanted to juice? Apply Occam's razor. (Which is not a literal razor.)

Aw heck, does he know how to beat Kid Icarus?!

I used to post a lot on LiveJournal, so you'd think I'd be completely deprogrammed of feeling Internet shame, and even I feel shame looking at practically any wrestling-related Reddit.

On the contrary, I fully believe that a 280 pound man running head first full-speed at a hard metal object - polished and smooth or not - without energy dispensation to spread the point of impact, and not being able to slow down in enough time to prevent said impact, can create a cut far more than "they put a gig into the turnbuckle". I realize folks are beyond cynical when it comes to WWE's protection of its workers' health, but let's seriously think about the implications of suggesting that, no matter who's idea the latter would have been, that someone would have come up with "let's put a gig in the turnbuckle" and people thought "great idea! No notes! Let's go through with it! That can't end poorly whatsoever!" instead of Brock just not pulling up in time and smacking his head.

She's already listed on the roster. It was one of their weird anomalies from the start of the company, that she'd be listed as a roster member but would rarely show up. I guess this is just her finally making the move instead of being in an in-between state.

The heck with that, AKINO was putting on great matches within weeks of debut. One of my favorite Arsion tapes was Stardom '99, which has two of the best matches Arsion would have in their history on the same tape with Yoshida vs. AKINO and Yoshida vs. Yagi. AKINO was only six months into her career when her match against Yoshida was taped. Bless the Internet Archive.

@Elsalvajeloco Saved you a DVD dig unless the watermark is annoying.

Tanny Mouse and Tamura's YouTube is just a weirdly fascinating experience. I have no idea what Hot Shushu is going to be like but based on Tanny/Tamura's YouTube output and the digest of the show that was on the Ice Ribbon channel, it will be utterly bizarre. I look forward to it. Kind of like when Chigusa books a comedy match on Marvelous for the sheer sake of entertaining herself. I loved Arsion so much until it completely fell apart in 2001. The combination of the lucha and shootstyle, you'd think it wouldn't work, yet it somehow did. The random kickboxing, I could take or leave, but everything was so enjoyable. (By the way, can we have the time machine work in reverse and have Stephanie Vaquer in 1998 Arsion? My gosh.)

Really, Jamie Hayter against the late-1990s/early-2000s joshi all-stars would be a bunch of fun. I picked Jamie because she's a great base and works well against smaller wrestlers... as much as I love a good hoss fight, I really love the dynamic of power vs. speed or power vs. grappler. So in addition to your two picks, add the following to my wishlist: - 1998-era Candy Okutsu (before her back falls apart again) - Yumi Fukawa prior to the ARS'98 moonsault botches scrambling her brains (if you don't know what I'm talking about, dear lord don't look it up, it's gross) - pre-2000 Sugar Sato or Chikayo Nagashima - Hiromi Yagi of any era And if you need a slugfest, I always had a soft spot for Misae Genki...

I suppose it would have been asking too much of Savio Vega, pushing 60 years old, to give us one of his sweet as heck spinning heel kicks, so I'm just glad he got a payday.

Jamie Hayter vs. circa-1998 Mariko Yoshida or mid-1990s Hikari Fukuoka.

I think she just comes off as awkward more than anything, like she struggles with how to work with her height. I've also often wondered if she struggles with motivation issues because there are a lot of times where I get the vibe that she's going through the motions, and it's not her gimmick making her seem aloof.

I can't remember if there was ever a time when Tommy Rogers was a heel.

Kotaku, right? One of their editors threw a fairly big hissyfit about not getting a review copy.

Whatever happened to Cowboy Wayne? Is he still around?