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Keep living the dream, Vinnie Vincent.

Holy shit, we've found Vinnie Vincent's socko account! Nobody mention how Mark Slaughter & Dana Strum's subsequent band was far more popular!

When Queen were one of the biggest bands in the world, Brian May used to drive a tiny, old clapped out car. People would see him driving it, and do the mental maths "Well, that looks like the guitar player from Queen, only everyone in Queen is a Millionaire and that car looks like shit, so it's obviously just a bloke who looks like him". It's the 'People not realising Clark Kent is Superman, because there's no reason to expect Superman would have a secret identity' thing.

D'Amore booked Bully Ray vs Raj Dhesi (the former Jinder Mahal) for his indie promotion. Keep him the fuck away from AEW.

WWE has always played the "Bad Man Gone" card. In 1991, they were all 'Mel Phillips doesn't work here any more, Pat Patterson doesn't work here'. Same shit with NXT QAnon, they fired Drake Younger, but the shit went on without him. Vince may not be in power in the WWE, but he's still the majority shareholder getting the biggest dividends, and most of his enablers are still actively working there.

Dane DeHaan?

The Garfield Spider-Mans were supposed to be building to a Sinister Six thing, but they stopped after two movies because... well Tom Holland's Spider-Man is just a better character in better movies, isn't he?

Does Thunderbolts mean they'll never do anything like the Masters of Evil? The Villain team thing, that's only really happened in the X-Verse movies.

EXCUSE ME? Oh wait, it means something else in America. Never mind. Also, Trent? and Will Hobbs are members of the Don Callis family. But they've not been around due to injuries and stuff.

He's a wrestler in his 40s, what do you expect? It's not a business that teaches it's workers how to develop maturity. Shit, how many times do you think Lawler has offered to help train the young women at the PC?

I mean, they aren't wrong, exactly. Ant Man Quantumania did a lot to set up Kang as the next villain, but it didn't do great business or great buzz. Loki season two, that seemed far less of a big deal than season one had. The fact that Johnathon Majors then also had his legal problems, and they'd done a ton to associate that actor specifically with the role, they were going into the Kang arc cold. And let's face it, Doom is an iconic Marvel antagonist in a way that Kang simply isn't. Going with Kang as a major BBEG made sense from a "What have we got on the table" perspective when the Fox properties weren't available. Once they were, you've got a straight choice between a tarnished B-Tier villain whose early pushed has largely failed, or DOCTOR FUCKING DOOM. Can't blame them, can you? Now casting Downey as Doom, that I'm less pleased with.

I mean, look at other sports. Lots of great players turn into shit coaches/managers. Lots of the greatest coaches/ managers of all time had mediocre playing careers. Very rare that an all-time great player also becomes a great coach.

Having now watched The Acolyte, I can confidently say, it's OK. 6.5/10. Some of the best action sequences Star Wars telly shows have had. The criticism that it's uninvolving and the characters aren't sympathetic, well, they're Jedi. They suppress their emotions, or are supposed to. People screaming about it messing with Lore and not fitting with canon... since when has Star Wars canon been untouchable? George Lucas rewrote the canon all of the time. JJ Abrams took years worth of canon and said "Fuck all that, never happened" and replaced it with shite. How can a Star Wars fan be so attached to canon, when Ahsoka's name never came up in episode 3?

Too many wrestlers want to be the Misawa of their division, too few people accept that they should be the Yoshinari Ogawa of their division. Wrestling needs more ratboys (and ratgirls, and ratenbys).

I excuse Jeff Jarrett yelling about making the cover after the second rope backflip Russian Legsweep, because his finish is also a Side Russian that lands in a facedown bump. Them putting ove the Statlander and Kamille staredown as building up the battle of the powerhouses was interesting, after the other women's match (Two women's matches on Dynamite!) featured Nyla, Jamie and Willow really brought to attention how powerhouse-heavy the Women's division is getting. Like Riho and Yuka are the only small ones, and they aren't often around. As far as their opponents go, both Saraya and Mercedes really flourished in a WWE environment where the "This is the best women's wrestling has ever been" could take hold. AEW existing in a world where all other wrestling history also exists, and Dump Matsumoto vs the Crush Gals is part of existing history, and Akira Hokuto and Aja Kong's careers are things that happened... selling Saraya and Mercedes as among the best wrestlers of all time just looks silly. And both of them look very out of place working a dominant style in AEW. Mercedes controlling most of the match with Emi really dragged it out down from what it could have been. Emi's match with Hayter (right after Jamie won the AEW Women's title) was way better. Mercedes should have been an opportunistic weasel in that match, not going 60/40.

Jinder Mahal, innit.

The Anthony Henry vs Gabe Kidd match was held at an ROH taping though.

I mean, it's better than a guy getting a World title shot on the back of having been off TV for months, and on a ten+ match losing streak.

I mean, post-title Nyla has been in the Kane spot for like 4 years. Every champion faces her in their first defence to legitimise themselves as Champion because she's really good in that role. But sooner or later, someone has to win either of the Women's championships, go to defend against Nyla on TV a week later, and lose in her first defence. Because whilst Nyla is a really good Kane, she's not at the level of 'overexposed spare part that has somehow retained credibility despite losing every big match' that Kane was, when he was put in the Kane spot.

If you're going to try and make the Wrestling unpredictable, when there's a number one contender's match the week of the PPV, that should end by anything other than the Champion running and and forcing the DQ/No Contest, then celebrating that they've avoided having to defend the belt... only for the babyface authority figure to announce that now both contenders will be challenging, in a three-way title match! The champ can lose the belt without being involved in the decision, oh my, how unprecedented. Willow should just, like, win.

In 2021.

Why would Rock get elected President of TKO, and then bring back the WCW PPV known for it's three-ring Battle Royal?

Someone needs to tell Aaron Rodgers that he's supposed to the throwing the ball to the guys in the white shirts. Now it looks like the guys in purple are a bit better at actually catching the ball and not dropping it, but still. Those ain't your guys, man.

That one was in the NJPW BosJ. You won't be finding that one anywhere but NJPW World, most likely. Possibly Billibilli or Rutube, but even then it's unlikely. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=111&nr=8872&page=2 Is a list of most of them. But then, are you really a wrestling fan, if you haven't watched (or attended) at least several shows that aren't on Cagematch?

Oh, and for anyone wondering about previous Ospreay vs Ricochet matches from before Ricochet signed to the Fed, I posted half a dozen of them in the "Wrestling on the Internet not from the Now" thread on Wednesday morning. The first one they had got a lot of buzz in a lot of places, and neither guy was signed, so it became an indie touring match of sorts for a while there.