Brandon Bones

IIRC

Honestly, I’d probably look forward to it if it were just about every week. Those two could do the same shit a dozen different ways in each match. Bring it.

I’m looking forward to wondering why Beef Stroganoff is in the Dynamite Zone.

I’m pretty sure Heyman was in the crowd on one of Bill Hicks stand up records. Don’t ask me to back that up with anything. But I recall it for some reason.

Yeah. Not everybody has the same amount of tread on the tire.

Wow. I might have to pull some strings to see if I can get out there. It’ll be a long shot. But the board is kind of my home on the internuts and Dean~! was always cool to me over the years.

Over the years it has depended on who you ask. Some people can’t decide if the last match of night 1 is a “Main” Event or not.

I’m pretty sure that after Fenix kicked the thingy Grande Americano put in his mask. He grabbed the wrong leg when he followed up with the ankle lock.

I didn’t care for much of this largely (I’d assume) is my having no investment in the product or it’s current roster of characters. For instance if there were any inference in the moves or reactions? It’s over my head. Not the shows fault. So in a vacuum it was a decent at best show that went a bit too long. Yep. Sounds like WrestleMania. Roman/Punk/Rollins is basically a turd in the punch bowl of booking. Brandon repellent. Sprayed in my face. Punching my face. I used my method of making Revolution the greatest PPV of all time by going to bed before the main event.

Yep

You bastids is making me laff today. Kudos. Loved the Mox promo. Put Joe over strong by making his jumping the challenge as notsomuch being brave as being painted into a corner. Claudio needs a wellness check. Nick Wayne’s Mom needs my phone number. Liked the on-stage recap from Nigel. Made Wednesday seem even bigger by putting it so deservingly over. It may be shoveling sand against the tide to try considering this weeks newsfeed is going to be flooded. Fuck it. Put your money on the table. Toni Storm is a treasure. This act/character is so uniquely tailored with WWF wacky thread. I honestly believe she could surpass every other act in the company to become the face of it. She is so sharp and creative. There’s a reason folks around here campaign for her matches to be show carrying main events. Loved the outfit. Stat could use some character development to go along with how hard they put over her strength. Bring on the Hayter match.

Well hot diggity dig diggity dog. I looked into going to these shows but there weren’t seats available that I’d drive down from Cow Hampshire to get. Hopefully the loop next time comes back to ManchVegas. This was fantastic. I guess I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that seemingly AEW is in a better overall spot than I perceived them to be in recently. The poorly attended events in large venues and some of the reactions to the shows never seemed to kill the spirits for those who enjoy the alternative. Even with the looming shadow and bile left behind when back stage steps in front of the stage. Yuck all day. Stepping back to view from the macro level. There are a LOT of “characters” on this show that’s supposed to hang its hat solely on match quality. This makes me happy. Like say being able to anticipate Sheldon’s reaction and also understand why HE makes the choice he eventually does. I wonder what would make him change his mind now that the Hoe Train and a free watch has failed? MJF: Sex Trafficker. Not a good look. I could see MJF taking some Andrew Tates on-line courses. So it checks out. Not sure how I can handle all these awesome matches on TV. Let that not go unsaid. Liked seeing the champ get choked out on TV.

I’m not booking Swerve to go over before the stadium show and short him on a title run to end so soon in Texas. Just can’t do it. Don’t do it. I can wait a bit longer for this. Moxley may not have upped his credit limit on this run but IMO he still has a lot to spend as champion. I wasn’t kidding last time that my going to bed early and missing the main event made it “the greatest PPV evaaah”! This show was very good but not quite reaching some of AEWs high water marks. Though old man Bones was crawling in bed and finished watching the ME on my phone. I suppose highlighting that, after an hours long show…. I was still thinking about how good AR Fox is doing right now (being so early in the show) at all is also a backhanded dig at the show. This wasn’t an episode of the rasslin’ that was designed to pay much off. So if the ultimate goal was to give a bunch of underserved talent a shot on the big stage? I believe they largely succeeded in both getting them there AND the matches were very good to somewhat overachieving. I’m patient enough to make allowances to let those things play out. For Knight it was an absolute home run. While some talents like Julia, Cole, and Garcia could use some character work. Even the Hurt Syndicate is still an evolving act. Also understand that I’m not even measuring the success rate by how over they are. They all got great responses from the crowd. I’m just surprised by how vocal they got for acts I’m not particularly invested in. Which this show had a bunch of. Moné continues to dominate and I’m excited for the Texas match with Toni. Tickets are 25 bucks for All-In? This I’m paying attention to. Mostly because when AEW was announced as a thing. I recall them highlighting all these progressive ideas they had. Such as finding ways bring the shows to say the hearing impaired. There had been some talk about making tickets more generally affordable. I haven’t heard much about that in the last few years. This is a great lesson I’m hoping might make that pricing more consistent. Especially if it helped fill in that stadium I’m kind of worried about. Toni Storm is the best act in wrestling. THE MEG really delivered a career making match. More than held up her end. I had a few thoughts throughout the show about one critique that often used to get applied that AEW is luckily avoiding. The one about former WWE washouts slumming it in a different Fed being something to highlight. The entire Death Rider act is made from this. But there is nothing “WWE” about it that has carried over so nobody seems to go there. It used to be by default. So hopefully that stays dead. Or I just don’t run in the salty circles of E fandom. That being said Edge vs. Mox is more than Cope vs. Mox in name value. So there are pluses and minuses. Yep. Still love AEW. Still rules the motherfucking world. Still not going back.

My semi review of 2k25. Of course my criteria is much different than most because I’ll hardly play the game AT ALL. For me getting a decent simulator is the metric. 2k24 isn’t it. Of the bunch, 2k19 has been the best of the bunch since restarting my league a few years ago. Good AI producing quality matches (though that doesn’t necessarily mean epic 5stars each time out). Plus robust creation options both in characters and match making, and entrances. The appropriateness of how it plays out is soooooo much better. 2k22 was really good in producing good matches but creations stuff was very limited. At the time, stability was a bit more of a gifted blessing considering what a clusterfluck 2k20 was. Thankfully I dodged that forcing me to crutch on 19 that much longer. 25 does have a very expansive creator suite and so far the matches have been surprisingly great. Imagine if you will and match going back and forth and seems to be building toward something only for a three count after a simple kick to the leg. Yeah. No. That’s 2k18 and 24 for you. So between the AI being much more intuitive and my experiences with these games schooling me on adjusting those sliders both in characters and in the options menu. This has me thinking 2k25 might be the most bang for my buck. A few headaches remain. Titantron video creator is still very unstable. They changed the set up for sims in contrast to how it’s been historically. Which had me growling at the sky. Community Creations is a bit different with only Most Downloaded and Most Upvoted as search categories and it’s very annoying. Arranging it under new uploads kept me up to date on newer things to find. I’m betting this is probably over the ridiculous amount of porn that’s you can find in the images. Yeah. That’s what my next arena needs. People covered in jizz. 2k24s one saving grace was the introduction of the manual camera. Love it. Adding it to entrances doesn’t do much for me since entrances are back to being custom again. But I’ll mess with it eventually. Fuck The Island.

That Cena/Cody promo battle was fire. Cathartic too. I’ll peek in for this match for the sake of continuity. Especially since I was pretty invested in the old “Cena is the wrong choice” arguments. Let’s have it out.