Matt D

She's officially doing the Victoria show. Do we know that she's leaving? If there's no Doctor Who next year, for instance, that gives her plenty of time to do an 8-Episode mini series. EDIT: ah she confirmed it as well. Nevermind.

I would be all for an Edgar Wright helmed Gambit.

It's a poor man's Adventures of Captain America from the 90s.

In retrospect, I kind of wish Vince had hired Adrian Street to be Adonis' partner.

I hate that CW isn't on demand on Verizon.

I was going to write paragraphs about Sting, about how he's a symbol of something from my youth that is gone and can't ever come back, how he was far more relatable both as a character and a person than Hogan, how he stood up for his beliefs even if they weren't my beliefs and how he became a good person through them, etc. But my bus was 30 minutes late so I'm not going to do that. What I will say is that all accounts has 2015 Sting as a good guy, more Real Estate Steve than some egomaniac. He's someone who probably underestimated the sheer amount of good that WWE could allow him to do. I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical or jaded about WWE's charity work. Frigging Steph tweeting how much of a manipulative business interest it was for them was probably a bad call, for instance. But you hear about all the good Cena does and how so much of it is unreported, and you see the articles when someone like Bray Wyatt or Jack Swagger does their first Make-A-Wish, or the heartbreaking thing Nattie posted the other day about her make-a-wish kid dying, and the wrestlers, whether pressured into the situations or not, usually step up. Sting is a guy whose history of the last twenty years (after he grew out of being the person he was an into the person he is), by all indication, says that he wants to do good work. And on Monday night, he watched Cena, sort of in awe, and he hung back, followed behind, and then asked him if he could get in there and give her something, just on the spot. He asked Cena instead of imposing, instead of making it about him, and it's amazing that Cena has the sort of authority to answer that question. And Cena said yes, and Sting gave her his gloves and when he said that they were the ones he punched the giant with, he wasn't calling Wight by his WCW name, he was putting it in perspective for the girl. They were the gloves that he used to stand up to a giant. It's the sort of thing Sting can get away with because he's larger than life and the sort of thing he'd still do because he has that perspective. It's not my favorite wrestling moment of the year, because Bayley, but him interacting with Cena there, riding shotgun with him, and then wanting to be a part of it and, completely unplanned, knowing exactly what to do and what to say to a kid who probably didn't have a great sense of who he was, because he's probably waited fifteen years for the chance to be able to do that sort of thing again... that's number two for me.

Freakazoid being a great segue. He's taken some abuse this week from the general collective but it's Brian Fowler's birthday, and since he's a swell guy, that's swell news.

STEPH dance party (spoiled because there are apparently 50,000 gifs of Steph dancing on the internet. What the hell?):

Remember when we all used to bitch about WWE banning certain movez.

Rollins running into Sting's fist and pretending to be Honky Tonk Man would make for the best Rollins match in six months.

Got run over by a bus?

Guys, Ramsey dissed Snuffelupagus two pages ago and you all have let him get away with it. Sorry, I don't have HBO.

You're the closest to Charlie Brown I've ever met.

I am continuously confused by the existence of Lantern City. I think if they release press releases enough, they think someone is going to believe them or something.

That's a big problem that I've touched on before. Everyone has to do all of their moves in every match. Again, taking away anything organic that the company does. A suicide dive should be a desperation move, not an every match move. The stupid springboard stunner should be a once in a while "he did WHAT?" move. There is no sense of suspense or desperation in a WWE match, because you know it's not over until everyone hits all their shit. That's part of what made Christian so great. He was so good at 1) having a bunch of stuff but 2) varying how he went in and out of it in his matches.

Not so bad between Kana and the ironman match? They had Dana and Carmella then too.

Glad you landed on your feet.

What staggers me (and I know it shouldn't) is that they aren't even trying to replace them with anything even vaguely interesting. Shift things around a bit. Put on another hair or mask match or at least a title match or an atomicos match or anything. But that's just now how they operate. The thought probably never even crossed their mind. That they thought to bring Park and Wagner in to begin with (for something other than to hype an indy show or a postage stamp or something) was far more a deviation.

Fool CMLL once, shame on you.

Dana Brooke is basically the robot from Small Wonder.

I'm okay with it if she ends up in armor. I still think not making her Jackpot was a mistake.

It's Kane until they give us some reason to believe otherwise.

My favorite wrestling stable ever: