S.K.o.S.

"Nick Wayne's Mom," by the Fountains of Nick Wayne

Appreciate it! (Also I encourage Shartnado to at least take a look at them. I'm always trying to get the click count up)

New wrestling crossword! Some news on these: I'm switching from putting up one crossword per month, to putting up one crossword every 3 weeks. So that's good news if you like them! (but it's bad news if you greatly despise them)

Actually.... I gotta talk to Rippa about that. Right now I don't know if there is one!

Imagine if someone came in here back in April and said, "Barbie's going to make more money than any other movie in this thing. And you know what else? It's going to make $200 million more than the #2 movie."

UPDATE 15 OF 20 - through August 17 Standings 1 [- 1] The Z - 42 points (18/24, tiebreak 0.04) 2 [- 2] John from Cincinnati - 50 points (32/18, tiebreak 0.468) 3 [↑ 5] JRGoldman - 52 points (28/24, tiebreak 4.592) 4 [↓ 3] Phantom Lord - 54 points (26/28, tiebreak 0.631) 5 [↑ 6] The Natural - 56 points (38/18, tiebreak 0.435) 6 [↓ 4] Kuetsar - 56 points (36/20, tiebreak 0.523) 7 [- 7] S.K.o.S. - 60 points (26/34, tiebreak 0.272) 8 [- 8] Rippa - 64 points (40/24, tiebreak 0.305) 9 [↑ 11] J.T. - 68 points (32/36, tiebreak 0.435) 10 [- 10] DreamBroken - 70 points (26/44, tiebreak 0.41) 11 [↓ 9] Elsavajeloco - 70 points (26/44, tiebreak 0.646) 12 [- 12] Hail Sabin - 76 points (42/34, tiebreak 1.19) Box office 1 [- 1] Barbie - $545,782,865 (28 days) 2 [- 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - $328,371,821 (28 days) 3 [- 3] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - $312,511,454 (28 days) 4 [↑ 5] Oppenheimer - $274,631,735 (28 days) 5 [↓ 4] The Little Mermaid - $261,567,764 (28 days) 6 [- 6] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - $163,084,867 (28 days) 7 [- 7] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - $153,314,219 (28 days) 8 [- 8] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - $141,723,312 (28 days) 9 [- 9] Fast X - $140,383,585 (28 days) 10 [- 10] Elemental - $116,589,287 (28 days) 11 [- 11] The Flash - $106,086,978 (28 days) 12 [↑ 13] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $79,705,087 (16 days) 13 [↓ 12] Insidious: The Red Door - $79,530,087 (28 days) 14 [↑ 15] Meg 2: The Trench - $59,827,236 (14 days) 15 [↓ 14] Haunted Mansion - $55,832,155 (21 days) 16 [- 16] Asteroid City - $25,753,061 (28 days) 17 [- 17] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - $15,555,475 (28 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 199/206 = 97% (16 days) 2 [- 2] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 391/407 = 96% (28 days) 3 [- 3] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - 327/341 = 96% (28 days) 4 [- 4] Oppenheimer - 420/450 = 93% (28 days) 5 [- 5] Barbie - 393/447 = 88% (28 days) 6 [- 6] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - 297/363 = 82% (28 days) 7 [- 7] Elemental - 171/232 = 74% (28 days) 8 [- 8] Asteroid City - 214/291 = 74% (28 days) 9 [- 9] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 271/391 = 69% (28 days) 10 [- 10] The Little Mermaid - 210/314 = 67% (28 days) 11 [- 11] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 60/91 = 66% (28 days) 12 [- 12] The Flash - 226/352 = 64% (28 days) 13 [- 13] Fast X - 160/286 = 56% (28 days) 14 [- 14] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 112/210 = 53% (28 days) 15 [↑ 16] Insidious: The Red Door - 42/108 = 39% (28 days) 16 [↓ 15] Haunted Mansion - 86/226 = 38% (21 days) 17 [- 17] Meg 2: The Trench - 44/156 = 28% (14 days)

First thing that came to mind was the infamous Raven vs. Kaz Hayashi match... which, looking it up, I see was on WCW Worldwide.

I've seen multiple people who were there live saying that Rampage opener was great.

UPDATE 14 OF 20 - through August 10 Standings 1 [- 1] The Z - 46 points (22/24, tiebreak 0.04) 2 [- 2] John from Cincinnati - 50 points (32/18, tiebreak 0.468) 3 [↑ 4] Phantom Lord - 50 points (22/28, tiebreak 0.631) 4 [↑ 5] Kuetsar - 56 points (36/20, tiebreak 0.523) 5 [↓ 3] JRGoldman - 56 points (32/24, tiebreak 4.592) 6 [- 6] The Natural - 58 points (40/18, tiebreak 0.435) 7 [- 7] S.K.o.S. - 60 points (26/34, tiebreak 0.272) 8 [- 8] Rippa - 62 points (38/24, tiebreak 0.305) 9 [↑ 11] Elsavajeloco - 68 points (24/44, tiebreak 0.646) 10 [↓ 9] DreamBroken - 70 points (26/44, tiebreak 0.41) 11 [↓ 10] J.T. - 70 points (34/36, tiebreak 0.435) 12 [- 12] Hail Sabin - 74 points (40/34, tiebreak 2.161) Box office 1 [- 1] Barbie - $492,608,894 (21 days) 2 [- 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - $328,371,821 (28 days) 3 [- 3] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - $312,511,454 (28 days) 4 [- 4] The Little Mermaid - $261,567,764 (28 days) 5 [- 5] Oppenheimer - $245,469,475 (21 days) 6 [- 6] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - $163,084,867 (28 days) 7 [- 7] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - $153,314,219 (28 days) 8 [- 8] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - $141,723,312 (28 days) 9 [- 9] Fast X - $140,383,585 (28 days) 10 [- 10] Elemental - $116,589,287 (28 days) 11 [- 11] The Flash - $106,086,978 (28 days) 12 [- 12] Insidious: The Red Door - $79,530,087 (28 days) 13 [↑ 16] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $57,039,501 (9 days) 14 [↓ 13] Haunted Mansion - $47,257,146 (14 days) 15 [NEW] Meg 2: The Trench - $41,436,917 (7 days) 16 [↓ 14] Asteroid City - $25,753,061 (28 days) 17 [↓ 15] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - $15,555,475 (28 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [↑ 3] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 177/184 = 96% (9 days) 2 [↓ 1] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 391/407 = 96% (28 days) 3 [↓ 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - 327/341 = 96% (28 days) 4 [- 4] Oppenheimer - 416/446 = 93% (21 days) 5 [- 5] Barbie - 382/435 = 88% (21 days) 6 [- 6] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - 297/363 = 82% (28 days) 7 [- 7] Elemental - 171/232 = 74% (28 days) 8 [- 8] Asteroid City - 214/291 = 74% (28 days) 9 [- 9] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 271/391 = 69% (28 days) 10 [- 10] The Little Mermaid - 210/314 = 67% (28 days) 11 [- 11] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 60/91 = 66% (28 days) 12 [- 12] The Flash - 226/352 = 64% (28 days) 13 [- 13] Fast X - 160/286 = 56% (28 days) 14 [- 14] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 112/210 = 53% (28 days) 15 [- 15] Haunted Mansion - 79/201 = 39% (14 days) 16 [- 16] Insidious: The Red Door - 42/108 = 39% (28 days) 17 [NEW] Meg 2: The Trench - 39/140 = 28% (7 days)

Ohhhh wow, that's scary. Very glad no one was seriously hurt.

I also want to highlight that by saying that no one else currently has double-digit points resulting from the placement of any other single movie on a list. It's just TMNT on the RT list that's doing it. So you could say the excellent reviews for TMNT were an even bigger surprise for us than Barbie's box office performance was.

If I had to point to one thing, it would be the great reviews for the Turtles movie that almost no one expected. A lot of us were very happy to slap that movie right at the bottom of our RT list. Four people (including me!) now have double-digit points just from the RT placement of that movie alone. Meanwhile Natural, John from Cincy, Kuetsar, and Rippa - who are the ones making big jumps in the standings - all left TMNT off their RT list.

That's a lot of movement in the standings. Happy to answer any questions about why someone jumped up or dropped down!

UPDATE 13 OF 20 - through August 3 Standings 1 [- 1] The Z - 42 points (22/20, tiebreak 0.04) 2 [↑ 8] John from Cincinnati - 44 points (26/18, tiebreak 0.557) 3 [↓ 2] JRGoldman - 44 points (32/12, tiebreak 4.592) 4 [↓ 3] Phantom Lord - 48 points (20/28, tiebreak 0.73) 5 [↑ 9] Kuetsar - 54 points (34/20, tiebreak 0.523) 6 [↑ 10] The Natural - 56 points (40/16, tiebreak 0.522) 7 [↓ 6] S.K.o.S. - 58 points (24/34, tiebreak 0.349) 8 [↑ 12] Rippa - 58 points (36/22, tiebreak 0.384) 9 [↓ 5] DreamBroken - 60 points (26/34, tiebreak 0.41) 10 [↑ 11] J.T. - 64 points (32/32, tiebreak 0.522) 11 [↓ 7] Elsavajeloco - 66 points (24/42, tiebreak 0.646) 12 [↓ 4] Hail Sabin - 66 points (36/30, tiebreak n/a) Box office 1 [↑ 4] Barbie - $406,381,413 (14 days) 2 [↓ 1] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - $328,371,821 (28 days) 3 [↓ 2] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - $312,511,454 (28 days) 4 [↓ 3] The Little Mermaid - $261,567,764 (28 days) 5 [↑ 9] Oppenheimer - $199,868,620 (14 days) 6 [↓ 5] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - $163,084,867 (28 days) 7 [↑ 8] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - $144,531,988 (23 days) 8 [↓ 6] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - $141,723,312 (28 days) 9 [↓ 7] Fast X - $140,383,585 (28 days) 10 [- 10] Elemental - $116,589,287 (28 days) 11 [- 11] The Flash - $106,086,978 (28 days) 12 [- 12] Insidious: The Red Door - $79,530,087 (28 days) 13 [NEW] Haunted Mansion - $33,049,808 (7 days) 14 [↓ 13] Asteroid City - $25,753,061 (28 days) 15 [↓ 14] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - $15,555,475 (28 days) 16 [NEW] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $15,073,468 (2 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 391/407 = 96% (23 days) 2 [- 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - 327/341 = 96% (28 days) 3 [NEW] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 158/165 = 96% (2 days) 4 [↓ 3] Oppenheimer - 395/424 = 93% (14 days) 5 [↓ 4] Barbie - 371/421 = 88% (14 days) 6 [↓ 5] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - 297/363 = 82% (28 days) 7 [↓ 6] Elemental - 171/232 = 74% (28 days) 8 [↓ 7] Asteroid City - 214/291 = 74% (28 days) 9 [↓ 8] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 271/391 = 69% (28 days) 10 [↓ 9] The Little Mermaid - 210/314 = 67% (28 days) 11 [↓ 10] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 60/91 = 66% (28 days) 12 [↓ 11] The Flash - 226/352 = 64% (28 days) 13 [↓ 12] Fast X - 160/286 = 56% (28 days) 14 [↓ 13] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 112/210 = 53% (28 days) 15 [NEW] Haunted Mansion - 74/190 = 39% (7 days) 16 [↓ 14] Insidious: The Red Door - 42/108 = 39% (28 days)

Appreciate the heads up! So now we're going to have 20 updates instead of 19, because now this contest is lasting 1 week longer.

UPDATE 12 OF 20 - through July 27 Standings 1 [↑ 4] The Z - 28 points (16/12, tiebreak 0.04) 2 [↓ 1] JRGoldman - 28 points (22/6, tiebreak 4.592) 3 [↓ 2] Phantom Lord - 38 points (22/16, tiebreak 0.945) 4 [↓ 3] Hail Sabin - 38 points (26/12, tiebreak n/a) 5 [- 5] DreamBroken - 42 points (18/24, tiebreak 0.41) 6 [↑ 7] S.K.o.S. - 42 points (24/18, tiebreak 0.517) 7 [↑ 11] Elsavajeloco - 46 points (22/24, tiebreak 0.646) 8 [↑ 9] John from Cincinnati - 46 points (28/18, tiebreak 0.751) 9 [↑ 10] Kuetsar - 52 points (32/20, tiebreak 0.523) 10 [↑ 12] The Natural - 54 points (38/16, tiebreak 0.712) 11 [↓ 6] J.T. - 54 points (36/18, tiebreak 0.712) 12 [↓ 8] Rippa - 56 points (34/22, tiebreak 0.556) Box office 1 [- 1] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - $328,371,821 (28 days) 2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - $312,511,454 (28 days) 3 [- 3] The Little Mermaid - $261,567,764 (28 days) 4 [NEW] Barbie - $258,402,851 (7 days) 5 [↓ 4] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - $163,084,867 (28 days) 6 [↓ 5] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - $141,723,312 (28 days) 7 [↓ 6] Fast X - $140,383,585 (28 days) 8 [↑ 9] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - $128,508,033 (16 days) 9 [NEW] Oppenheimer - $127,860,430 (7 days) 10 [↓ 7] Elemental - $116,589,287 (28 days) 11 [↓ 8] The Flash - $106,086,978 (28 days) 12 [↓ 10] Insidious: The Red Door - $74,906,584 (21 days) 13 [↓ 11] Asteroid City - $25,753,061 (28 days) 14 [↓ 12] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - $15,555,475 (28 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 381/397 = 96% (16 days) 2 [- 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - 327/341 = 96% (28 days) 3 [NEW] Oppenheimer - 362/385 = 94% (7 days) 4 [NEW] Barbie - 339/379 = 89% (7 days) 5 [↓ 3] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - 297/363 = 82% (28 days) 6 [↓ 4] Elemental - 171/232 = 74% (28 days) 7 [↓ 5] Asteroid City - 214/291 = 74% (28 days) 8 [↓ 6] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 271/391 = 69% (28 days) 9 [↓ 7] The Little Mermaid - 210/314 = 67% (28 days) 10 [↓ 8] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 60/91 = 66% (28 days) 11 [↓ 9] The Flash - 226/352 = 64% (28 days) 12 [↓ 10] Fast X - 160/286 = 56% (28 days) 13 [↓ 11] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 112/210 = 53% (28 days) 14 [↓ 12] Insidious: The Red Door - 39/104 = 38% (21 days)

There is zero reason I would ever want to see a Barbie movie. I would've expected the large majority of straight men would feel the same way. But there seems to be this sentiment online where if you're going to Oppenheimer then OF COURSE you will also see Barbie that same day.

Barbie made $70.5 million on Friday, which is the biggest opening day for any movie this year. For comparison's sake, Guardians 3 had a $48.1m opening day and Across the Spider-Verse had a $51.8m opening day. Barbie could very well end up as the #1 box office movie in our contest. The highest anyone here ranked Barbie on their box office list was 5th. Lowest rank was 10th. Three of us left it off our box office list altogether.

UPDATE 10 OF 19 - through July 20 Standings 1 [- 1] JRGoldman - 16 points (12/4, tiebreak 4.592) 2 [- 2] Phantom Lord - 22 points (14/8, tiebreak 1.519) 3 [- 3] Hail Sabin - 22 points (16/6, tiebreak n/a) 4 [- 4] The Z - 26 points (16/10, tiebreak 0.04) 5 [↑ 6] DreamBroken - 28 points (14/14, tiebreak 0.41) 6 [↓ 5] J.T. - 32 points (22/10, tiebreak 1.217) 7 [↑ 8] S.K.o.S. - 36 points (22/14, tiebreak 0.965) 8 [↓ 7] Rippa - 38 points (24/14, tiebreak 1.015) 9 [↑ 12] John from Cincinnati - 38 points (24/14, tiebreak 1.267) 10 [↓ 9] Kuetsar - 40 points (26/14, tiebreak 0.523) 11 [↓ 10] Elsavajeloco - 40 points (18/22, tiebreak 0.762) 12 [↓ 11] The Natural - 44 points (28/16, tiebreak 1.217) Box office 1 [- 1] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - $328,371,821 (28 days) 2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - $312,511,454 (28 days) 3 [- 3] The Little Mermaid - $261,567,764 (28 days) 4 [↑ 6] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - $152,318,862 (21 days) 5 [↓ 4] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - $141,723,312 (28 days) 6 [↓ 5] Fast X - $140,383,585 (28 days) 7 [- 7] Elemental - $116,589,287 (28 days) 8 [- 8] The Flash - $106,086,978 (28 days) 9 [↑ 11] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - $99,253,469 (9 days) 10 [↓ 9] Insidious: The Red Door - $64,501,673 (14 days) 11 [↓ 10] Asteroid City - $25,753,061 (28 days) 12 [- 12] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - $15,237,500 (21 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 365/380 = 96% (9 days) 2 [- 2] Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - 327/341 = 96% (28 days) 3 [- 3] Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - 297/363 = 82% (28 days) 4 [- 4] Elemental - 171/232 = 74% (28 days) 5 [- 5] Asteroid City - 214/291 = 74% (28 days) 6 [- 6] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 260/377 = 69% (21 days) 7 [- 7] The Little Mermaid - 210/314 = 67% (28 days) 8 [- 8] Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 58/88 = 66% (21 days) 9 [- 9] The Flash - 226/352 = 64% (28 days) 10 [- 10] Fast X - 160/286 = 56% (28 days) 11 [- 11] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 112/210 = 53% (28 days) 12 [- 12] Insidious: The Red Door - 38/99 = 38% (14 days)

At least it's better than Ruby Gillman!

Yes, I meant to post it here. I was thinking about what would happen if everyone stopped going to movies and Barbie made $0.

What if people stop going to movies for the rest of the year to show support for SAG-AFTRA? (Would that even make sense? Maybe it'd hurt the theaters more than the studios.)

Kind of glad this ppv has negative buzz, because I've got my hands full just keeping up with AEW and the G1. And I acknowledge the ROH show will likely be much, much better than any G1 show so far.

2 shows in a row with scary head drops now. Gabe Kidd was the unlucky recipient of the latest one.