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His head is head sized. It's the rest of him that's disproportionately undersized. They could play that up if they wanted, accentuate that the 205 lb champion only weighs 180 and has to battle the odds even in the small man division. Apparently Shawn Michaels loves Devlin and wants him to defend across all 3 (4?) brands. Same source said H is obsessed with Ilja Dragunov.

The thing about Adam Driver is, he's a big guy. You see him in a movie, he's a big guy. You see him on TV, he's a big guy. You see him in real life, he's a big guy. And the Joker, traditionally, he's not a guy who gets it done with physicality. If Robert Pattinson is to be our Batman, we need a weedy guy to be his Joker (or just stay away from the character for a bit). Driver would work as Affleck's Joker, maybe, but he already has Leto. But that's the right sort of size disparity they should go for. Besides which, going from Star Wars to playing THE Batman villain has already been done, far more impressively than I reckon Driver is up to.

Beyond Championship Wrestling (which is Beyond Wrestling rebranding since they're finally crowning their first champion March 1st, on the TV pilot) have shown the plates of the belt on twitter. Can't link from phone, but there's a seahorse, a Pegasus and a Gryphon on there. Because when you're World champion, you're champion of Land, Sea and Air. They have not yet revealed the strap, so it might possibly be pink and green tiger striped leather. But probably black or white, most likely.

That being said, Liverpool should also go all in for the Champions League, as the Premier League Title win came ages ago. It depends whether, once the league title is 100% secured they want to keep using the first teamers and push for the record breaking (most wins, most points, fewest draws, highest GD et cetera) season, or give the youth players a bit of a run and some big game experience. There's merit to both ideas.

Osi Umeniyora: "This is the best Super Bowl I've ever watched. I've played in one better than this, but this is the best one I've watched."

It's like when Katy Perry played, and accidentally made it really obvious that she's only got one and a half good songs.

Early 90s AJPW Tag Leagues, where Misawa and Kawada have to sell for Giant Baba's old man offence.

Fat Ass Masa isn't on Being the Elite any more?

Harley Race vs Haku

You'd think, if the idea was for Seth and Roman to be the biggest stars and carrying the company, they would both have Mania wins over at least two of Cena, Orton, Batista, Taker, Triple H or Lesnar. But where is Cena anyway? He did the Rock feud with the whole "I'm not going anywhere" promo, and he's been disappeared for ages. He was attempting to give the rub to younger talent towards the end there, but the two guys he really put over were Punk and Bryan, which didn't do much for the company long term.

I'm not sure WWE has a tradition of the former ace sticking around as a support act to a younger headliner. Backlund going on before Hogan, maybe. But... When they were going from the Superstars era to New Generation, Hogan jobbed to Yokozuna once and vanished, without Jobbing to Bret. Savage was commentating, Piper was out of the business, Orndorff was WCW tag champ. Arguably Taker was made by beating Hogan, but not much torch passing between generations. When it went from New Generation to Attitude Era, Bret went 50/50 with Austin and jobbed to Michaels (who eventually did job to Austin too), but no old timer passed a main event torch to Rock or Hunter. It was basically them both killing Foley, and Austin working even with them. A case could be made that we should remember the last 5-7 years for how the Shield guys, Wyatt fam and Prince Balor were beating Taker, Brock, Sting, HHH, Jericho, Show and Angle on all the major events, but it seems like the vets really wanted to mainly just work each other on the bigger stages. Completely different subject: If you don't follow WARHORSE on twitter (@jpWarhorse), give his feed a look. Last night he was uploading in-character promos about literally anything anyone asked him to. Promoting random pixel art makers and telling people's kids it was bedtime.

And momentum usually works in reverse anyway. The more momentum you have going in to your PPV title shot, the lower the chance that you win the belt. If the champ already put you over in the build, he gets his heat back once the stakes are highest.

I don't want AEW to succeed because of what that would mean for WWE. I want AEW to succeed because of what that would mean for AEW. It's an odd aspect of wrestling fan mentality, if hypothetically someone in AEW catches fire and becomes the generational wrestling star of this era, Dynamite starts drawing more viewers than Raw and Smackdown combined, they're drawing 50-100,000 sellouts everywhere they go, more kids own Jurassic Express lunch boxes than Peppa Pig ones... and some Wrestling fans would still spend more mental energy wondering how Vince will respond to that, than enjoying the boom and loving that they can say "In 2013, that kid wrestled in front of a crowd of 3 people and a dog. And I bought the dog".

Not most of us, not any more. Raw and Smackdown threads top out at two pages now, not five or six.

New AEW shirts: Jungle Boy, Marko Stunt and Wardlow have new shirts too.

Vince isn't actual a fan of the NFL, or the Gridiron sport as a whole. He probably thinks John Cena is a bigger Bostonian hero than Tom Brady. Also, whether you have to change your name or not is purely a function of what the policy is when you sign there, not how big of a star you were before you went.

Kickboxing is hard to judge because, you know how in Boxing there used to be one World Champion per weight class, but now there's like five or six World titles in every weight class? Kickboxing is like that, only with triple figures of belts. There are kickboxing World Champions who are the best kickboxers in the world, and there are kickboxing World Champions who might as well be backyard wrestlers.

Well, if you're going to be a Floridian, Terry Funk has some words of advice for you:

That Fatal 4 way tag had some really sloppy moments. Otis came in house of fire* and managed to bodyslam one of the Revival without using his arms. * Is it House Of Fire, or House Afire? I mean, they mean the same thing anyway, it doesn't matter.

What else is this month? Another WWE Saudi show (27th) and AEW Revolution (29th). Oh, and Bizzaro Lucha presents A Cold Dead Body In the Woods on the 9th. CZW's 21st Anniversary show is this month too.

Not a fan of AEW Dark, then? Shanna's been on that quite a bit. So has Swole. Sadie Gibbs hasn't been, though.

This is the set of tapings where Eddie Dennis got injured, so he had to vacate the Progress title, isn't it? Don't see how it could have happened in his little post promo scuffle with Billy Two Rivers on this episode. They seem to tape a whole load of episodes in one bunch with this brand. The upcoming shows there announced it's two (back to back) days in March, two in April and two in June. And no house shows, so no wonder they still let these lads do Britwres indies. EDIT: That release German Suplex on Flash Morgan Webster was fucking murderous.

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