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Great show, loved the Jericho angle, will be a bit disappointed with every episode until Claudio appears though, preferably with Chris Hero (while we're willing things into existence and acting under the assumption that Coach Tony somehow has time to read the board still). Haven't seen anyone else mention the possibility of Pac as the next challenger to Hangman, which seems to me like the easiest explanation for his random match with Yuta out of nowhere. Bolster his record for a few weeks while they finish the Cole angle, have him challenge Hangman to reestablish him as someone who's competitive at a main event level, then some House Of Black involvement to set up a blowoff match with Malakai. (Then Malakai beats him, challenges Hangman, wins the title at the next PPV, but that's the biased take of someone who wants a guy who once came out to an Agoraphobic Nosebleed song to reign over everybody.)

They definitely have been in the past as I remember watching some of the 2019 shows, I was just concerned as the GCW stuff is already available to order, and theirs isn't. If Timothy Thatcher and Ishii cave each others' ribs in and only Texans get to see it, did it truly even happen? A day's delay I can deal with, it'll be a perfect palate cleanser after enduring Wrestlemania itself, as long as it doesn't fall outside that weekend.

Just saw this, and Busick vs Suzuki, while desperately trying to find any information on whether the Wrestlecon shows will be streamable. They're not up on Fite yet, and the official website is full of minutiae about different tiers of photo opportunity, but nothing I can find about watching shows from my couch on the four day Mania weekend I've booked off work. They'll be on Fite, right?

Another Jewpinion chipping in here. MJF's character as a whole has always made me a biiiit uncomfortable, what with leaning into his background as part of his character, while that character is also a rich, conniving manipulator. I wouldn't want him not to be a heel when he's so natural at it, or be open about his heritage when he's proud of it. But also, I've known real life MJF's who had overly lavish Bar Mitzvahs, were brash and obnoxious and were massive bullies, so him doing such a good job of embodying an unpleasant anti semitic stereotype I have actually encountered, isn't exactly fun wrestling escapism a lot of the time. And again, to clarify, I'm Jewish, so hopefully that gives me some leeway to have resented fellow Jews who made my life miserable growing up, and whose worst qualities MJF has turned into a compelling heel persona. A bit of a different perspective from those of you who experienced direct anti semitism from non Jews, which I never have, outside of my actual friends parroting Cartman lines at me and such, and possible unspoken motivations lurking in the subconscious of non-friends who were picking on me anyway because I had red hair and liked Warhammer. All that being said, the main thing that bothered me about Wednesday's promo was the crowd reaction. 'Do we have any Jews in the house?' definitely seemed to get some boos, and I hope it's just a wrestling crowd conditioned to boo because a heel says a thing, I may even have heard what I feared hearing rather than the actual noise those people made, but these days it's tough not to expect the worst. Again, it's hard to put too much blame on MJF. I didn't like it, but nobody, whatever character they play on TV, should feel like they shouldn't be vocal about who they are because it might get the bigots riled up, so I suppose on reflection I'm not against any of MJF's choices.

I think that's about the size of it. People get excited for debuts and surprises, moreso than matches. I know I do. I can't imagine not bothering with a show because of a lack of those things, but if forced to choose, it's the show with a new guy turning up every time.

Yes fucking please.

Wait, we could all be missing the big story here. Didn't Cody have a hand in training Hook? If Hook leaves AEW that could be curtains for them.

On the one hand, it appears Cody has used AEW to boost his profile and wrangle a bigger money, presumably main event gig from WWE. On the other hand, 'use' in this case covers helping create a viable, billionaire funded, wrestling fan friendly dream promotion that has saved the wrestling industry, brought back CM Punk, given Eddie Kingston a shot at stardom and gifted us hour long Bryan Danielson TV matches. I'm even a bit excited to see what he'll do in WWE, although his promos will miss a lot of the morbid curiosity factor once he's back on a script.

Was it just the camera angle, or did Tay Conti come very close to decapitating herself on the ring apron during that moonsault? Total lunatic.

Yeah, I played it pretty compulsively for the fifteen hours it took me to beat, loved it for most of that time but felt it lacked enemy variety and the combat was very basic for how many options it gives you. Also, disappointed how the upper half of the map is actually quite a bit smaller than the bottom half. Still, it's an easy recommendation for anyone who likes action RPGs, and if you have Gamepass it'd be crazy not to give it a go.

Going back to someone saying Johnny B Badd confused a lot of people, I genuinely thought Macho Man Randy Savage was black from the ages of 5 when I started watching to around 18 or 19 when I read that he was actually of Jewish and Italian heritage. The Jay Lethal Black Machismo gimmick was a bit after that, but even at that point, part of my brain rejected the idea that a 'Randy Savage, but African American' gimmick was any less redundant that 'White Stone Cold Steve Austin', or 'Yokozuna, but fat!' I don't think I was a stupid child by any means, but, y'know, maybe I was?

That stair Blackout was definitely incredibly dangerous, so many ways it could have gone wrong. It looked awesome, but I popped out of relief that Hangman was alive and seemed to retain full motor control of all his limbs more than excitement for the move itself.

My girlfriend's been asking me for the last, well, 90 days or so, when Keith Lee's going to turn up in AEW. Looking forward to hearing from her when she gets a chance to watch Dynamite later. Great show. One thing though, why the fuck is Sammy still carrying around the interim TNT title?! It was bad enough that they muddied up the lineage for the sake of a one week Cody absence, but Sammy won the actual belt, why does he need the 'IOU one title match' token now? Is he a magpie, does he just want to accumulate shiny things for their own sake? Does he explain this in his vlog? I will not watch it, so an explanation would be much appreciated. Absolutely maddening.

I love pineapple on pizza, but won't have a Hawaiian on account of the ham. Which oddly enough sort of brings this back to wrestling discussion, as I was raised to keep kosher, rebelled against doing so as a teenager and let loose on the pig meat, then came back around to not eating it a few years ago thanks in part to seeing videos of Alexa Bliss's pet pig (RIP Larry Steve) and deciding I could no longer eat such smart and adorable beasts. Also I read an article on the shit they put into bacon around the same time, which was another nail in the pork coffin.

As far as I know Sydal just thinks ayahuasca lets him control time. If he also believes that a coven of rabbis is trying to teleport puppies into the sun, he's kept quiet about it.

Yeah, Bix just posted a clip from 2011 of Kendrick chattering away about The Zionists sending helicopters full of 'Jewish medics' to harvest eyeballs from Haitian earthquake casualties. I was looking forward to his breezily enjoyable ten minute match with Moxley as much as anyone, but maybe it's preferable not to give this guy money to ply his trade on national TV, Tony, if you get a spare moment and are reading this?

Hobbs and Dante Martin at least do seem like they're seen as future stars of the promotion, alhough it's fair to question why that translates to losing records on TV for them, and undefeated streaks for Hook and Wardlow. Let's see what happens with Keith Lee though, if they sign him and he isn't Goldberging his way through the roster for the rest of the year, they have a problem.

I once saw them by accident when I intended to see Kylesa and had failed to grasp that the Islington Academy had two venues in one building. Decent show, but I was very confused for a lot of it.

I know, that was the joke I made in my previous post! I'd change it, but am choosing to trust that fifteen years or so of posting about once a month in a generally inoffensive manner are enough to have conveyed a general aura of ''not a Nazi'.

I think it's literally just that, for your typical non German speaker, their only association with that word is from an awareness of Mein Kampf being a thing. They don't know the meaning of the word in isolation, their brain just goes straight to 'bad Hitler book'.

I mean, Ring Kampf has a word from the title of the most infamous Nazi book in it, but I guess I can't throw stones at people using perfectly innocent German words and trusting that context will mean everyone knows they refute the principles of National Socialism that have sometimes been associated with those words.

That Brock vs Roman match was so weird. I expected a Roman hate fest, instead it was near silence and confusion for 20 minutes or three hours or however long that match lasted. The Roman Sucks manchildren and the actual children were all united in being too tired to care any more by that point.

I got one of those inferior AJ vs Shinsuke rematches at the only Wrestlemania I've been to (and probably will ever go to), 34. The match itself was disappointing, but I was much more disappointed that Nakamura didn't beat that flat earth fuckwit for the title.

If you like open world games, Days Gone is a great one. It's Sons Of Anarchy meets Walking Dead plot wise, but a bit less cynical and unpleasant than either of those. The plot is genuinely good, though it takes a long time to get anywhere, and the power curve from more than two zombies meaning certain death to taking on hordes is very satisfying. I also really love how when you have to take out a human camp, they are made up of a specific, realistic number of enemies, who don't respawn and summon reinforcements. Plus, if you're smart or lucky you can sic zombies on them and pick the bones when they're done.

I disagree, I think they need to keep signing as many wrestlers who can improve their roster as possible. The possibility of new people debuting is the thing that excites me most when I tune in. It doesn't even need to be a permanent signing every time, something like Samurai Del Sol or Matt Cardona or Jeff Cobb showing up for a one off, or a one month programme, keeps things fresh and unpredictable. Give me a bloated roster any day over an understaffed one, split in half and full of endless rematches. They need more TV time, but until then it won't hurt to upgrade the level of matches on the Youtube shows to something closer to last week's episode of Dark.