John E. Dynamite

We've got to keep level heads and look at all sides here. Who's to say this isn't a huge misunderstanding, and that the Oklahoma republicans weren't simply opressing Nyla for being Native American?

Boy, y'know who can't gameplan against Olypmic-medal level judo? Holly... ...Holm???

Compare Moicano's promo to the crickets Bobby Green got. You're going to get more of this feeling tonight, I gurantee it. The UFC, and I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, is an actively facist entity. Joe Rogan is a huge component.

Takes! I think Ospreay is the biggest HHH-wishlist guy that he's ever failed to get. I think he's going to try the global expansion/territorial NXT thing again. Not saying that Will wouldn't be a main roster guy but I think he factored into their broader European plans. Japan and Mexico have more talent to poach. I also think either A) they didn't know Will was this good of a promo and they're pissed about it, or, B) they knew Will was this good of a promo and they're pissed about it. I am the furthest thing from an Ospreay guy but his mic work is leaps and bounds better than I assumed it would be and it makes Will way more valuable than Okada and Mercedes right off the bat. Last take - Ospreay vs. Seth on Twitter was 90% a work, and WWE guys are gonna continue to start fake Twitter beef with potential future signees so they can score an early feud.

When I saw some early, middling reviews for the show I checked out cagematch and saw the matchtime for SHO vs. YOH and I literally thought they were running the same angle they did when KUSHIDA got squashed by Hiromu and then went on to win BOSJ -> the title. I don't know why I made that weird assumption. Fuck.

It's bad enough to have to tolerate iffy TV, but having to navigate a sea of scorching hot weirdo takes that insist on elevating "that sucked" to "(whatever the fuck this is)" makes everything so, so much worse.

I can barely have a civil, sensible conversation about AEW anywhere on the internet right now. Please God no more. Now we know what happened. Every child that already decided they were gonna scream WCW at this (despite not knowing what the fuck they were talking about) is going to for months and everyone that supports this company is going to have their joy eroded if they even bother to peek into the larger wrestling discourse. No mas. Please focus your energy on booking bigger matches when you have a presumed ratings bump. Please focus on giving Mariah May a microphone so she can explain to a live crowd who debuting wrestlers are. Please sequence matches and segments anything but randomly.

It's Marvel Movie Pro Wrestling. It's the most profitable way to do it right now and it certainly has longer legs than Jerry Springer Pro Wrestling.

Raphael Saadiq is in a constant state of doing it, I assume in every sense of the phrase.

No, Tony runs everything. Every single decision AEW has ever made was a unilateral decision by Tony, or at least the ones I don't like. Tony. TONY.

I was too busy noticing the ref's mismatched socks. To think he was hiding such a faux pas behind his oh-so-shined shoes.

That show couldn't have gone any better. DEAN RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD!

Blessed to have a good view of the plunder hiding under the ring. I'm gonna get blood on me.

Good lord if I can find anybody to go with me on a Thursday. This'll be a new experience.

Given the face/heel splits, I think Takeshita being the one to dethrone Copeland makes the most sense. Cope vs. Callis Family seems so easy and obvious, and they've got some other Canadian shows theyre running in May and I think the timing for it would be perfect. And since Callis Family in-fighting is an established scenario following Ospreay's matches, there's no reason you can't run a Hobbes-Wants-His-Belt-Back match as a Collision main or something.

Weirdly enough the Young Bucks have an uncanny ability to make Private Party seem important. I struggle to say this without grinding my teeth, but any haters and habitual fast-forwarders should keep an eye on what they're doing under their new gimmick.

Ospreay/Shibata awakened some classic DVDVR haterade within me. Nothing mattered and nobody cared who won. It made me want to shout at some kid on reddit about how Taue's better than Kobashi.

What's been lost in the AEW free agent talk is that they were bidding against a company owned by the most anti-worker entity in American pro sports. I think the number has been about 15% of the UFC's revenue goes to the fighters. Thr big four sports leagues are a hair under 50/50.

Oh yeah, nah, it's a battle for second. Nagata vs. Sasaki is gross.

from that weird, good Bridge of Dreams card Barbed Wire Board & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Bunkhouse Death Match Leatherface, Shoji Nakamaki & Terry Funk vs. The Headhunters (Headhunter A & Headhunter B) & Cactus Jack https://archive.org/details/bridge-of-dreams-dome-spring-full-bloom/1995.04.02g-IWAJ-Barbed+Wire+Board+Super+Scramble+Bunkhouse+6-Man+Tag+Death+Match-Funk%2C+Leatherface%2C+Nakamaki+VS+Cactus%2C+Headhunters.mp4

I too do not know why I liked the PS2 version. I think it might be on account of the fact that it trimmed some fat, but my better theory is that the framerate made me ditch sniper rifles and make that big blue fancy sword my main weapon, which wound up being a very fun way to play.

I like how it implied that Horner's opponent was always his husband and he was gonna murder him on account of all the cheatin'.

There's no reason we can't make the news again. I'm not gonna start the "Steve Maclin > Cody Rhodes" thread but I'll post in it.

Has the recent surge of WWE success led to an influx of children infilrating online wrestling discussion? Is the continued practice of less moderation inviting negative actors to create abad takes -> more arguments -> more clicks reaching a saturation point? Does the wrestling I like suck now? Am I just terribly depressed? Why does talking about wrestling on the internet suck more now that it ever has? This board doesn't even feel right. I just don't want to do it. I think of conversations worth starting, or matches worth sharing,, and then I consider the effort that it would take to post them *anywhere* and then I don't.

Ha. Ha ha ha.