NikoBaltimore

MyRise is actually fun this year. Thank fuck, last couple years were too meandering and I lost interest. That plus some QoL improvements mean I don't regret my purchase.

Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in.

I didn't even know Dogfish got bought out. That's a shame though I do still love them. Had a Tropical Squall for the PPV that was pretty nice.

For the record myself and a friend of mine outside of the board voted for Dark Knight. Yet '89 and Returns had way more votes over DK which kind of and also not really surprised me at the same time.

I would blast this super loud when driving around doing Christmas shopping. Granted I would have ear plugs so my ears don't bleed but sometimes you just gotta take the piss out of the season.

One good thing about having people over is even if the match is bleh it doesn't matter in real time. Most people left and it was just one friend there for the main so we had a good time talking real life shit while laughing at how dumb Christian was. So for that I can't say it was a waste of my time. But if not for said friend I would have just turned it off after the cage match. That aside the show plus Zero Hour were shittons of fun. I was almost surprisingly highly entertained by the Big Boom tag match which had everybody around him doing their best to make him look good. He's fine for what he does but Boom does have a pretty nice powerbomb. All the other stuff was great with the obvious highlight being Toni/Mariah. As soon as they went all Taipei Death Match I commented that at least two or three people I know are going fucking nuts over this. This was validated by checking Discord in real time and seeing Curt lose his goddamn mind. Man, that shit ruled.

Yeah, I did for financial reasons despite loving ROH and the app. I'll likely subscribe for the next PPV but I found another way to watch.

I don't know either. Evolve worked out well enough but I remember when House of Hardcore had a show there it was obvious from the start this wasn't their usual crowd. When Dreamer was passing by after the show he had a look of disappointment and I couldn't blame him. So I'll be thinking about that when GCW comes to town.

I just found out that GCW is coming to Joppa, MD on May 17th. It's about 20 minutes from me which is awesome but there's a couple things wrong with this. One, it's in partnership with MCW which while a decent company is opposite of what GCW does. Two, it's in MD and the athletic commission sucks when it comes to blood. I know there's been GCW shows where there was little or no blood but the commission is going to be annoying as fuck about this. And three, the area is very much not a GCW crowd for many reasons so not sure what the turnout will be like. I hope there's enough people coming from Baltimore and other spots but the area itself can kicks rocks. I'll still go but I'll adjust expectations accordingly.

My wife is absolutely fine with cold pizza yet all my life no matter how drunk I was I just had to nuke it for a minute. Drunk or sober cold pizza never appealed to me.

Comoroto is engaged with a friend of a friend of a friend that lives not too far from me. So in the few times my friend talked with him Nick was not happy at all with AEW. A lot of times hanging out he would complain about what they were having him do and his ideas sounded a little far-fetched given what he's been doing. I'll miss some of the stuff he did but hopefully wherever he goes he's happier. Now Abadon leaving is a goddamn shame. I just love them to bits and it really sucks that more wasn't done to market the hell out of them. I get there was room to improve initially and Abadon's done a lot of that but while it was great seeing the ROH matches I can't help but wonder what could have been. I'm also more bummed because a couple years ago we met them at a convention and they were such a sweet person. I hope to see them around here if there's consideration of doing all the indies possible. EDIT: Also, I feel Godi's pain. Dark/Elevation was such a wonderful time and the people the people being used were lots of fun. I don't see it exactly the way as Gordi sees it but stuff like this bums me out.

Just wanted to chime in along with Barbero there was a ton of CMLL representation the past couple weeks on ROH. Last week was a full-on lucha episode and this week had Blue Panther/Blue Panther, Jr./Dark Panther against Euforia, Valiente and Gran Guerrero. I haven't seen much lucha the past few years but it's wild seeing Blue Panther still looking good at 64 years old. And I always got a kick out of Barbero but man that splash to the floor last week was insanity.

He was also at Comic Con when they showed the Shockmaster figure. It's been a few years but I recall a picture where he had a huge smile posing with the figure.

Man, it feels really good seeing Daredevil again. Charlie and Vincent are killing it as usual, the overall vibe feels right and I wish I could binge watch it for once instead of waiting weekly. As for the negative points I knew some things would be "weaker" or different from the Netflix show so I adjusted my expectations. It sucks about Foggy and Karen yet it didn't bother me like it maybe should have. They'll be missed yet I'm not hating the people that have come into Matt's life. He's leveled up in some ways and part of it was him ditching Daredevil for as long as he could. As for Fisk as mayor's parallel's to the orange one:

Man, that could have been used for the week of the Hobbs/Big Bill street fight they had. Oh, well.