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Notes from watching the 86 Bash (7/5/86 Charlotte): More blood for the blood God.. I think some of these matches would fit in on the "Blood Sucking Freaks" thread..

What if they do something completely new and have Mox just beat Hangman clean?

Hot damn. I'm getting full from this buffet of 80s greatness. I wonder if this is one of the shows they had put up on WWE Network before Hidden Gems went to shit after the Peacock deal. I never got to watch a lot of that stuff. This is great.

I might be confusing it with another Marvel show from that time, but I don't think I am: it's a slight miracle that the OG series even turned out the way it did, because originally the pitch was for Stan Lee to be the narrator and it'd be a self-contained week to week show. I'm also pretty sure that FOX Kids didn't even want to do the series because they believed it would be a bomb since X-Men wasn't a proven commodity outside of the comics, like Batman was. That's also kind of nuts to me, as an adult - a network had a Marvel & DC animated show on their channel at the same time. Maybe I'm bias, but Fox Kids was, in my mind, definitely the "Marvel" channel even though the Batman cartoon was stupidly, massively popular. The coffee table book (Making of the Animated Series) is super interesting for little tidbits like that. Although I'm sure most of the stuff found in it is also in the book Previously on X-Men by Eric Lewald. The coffee table book has art designs and all that cool stuff, though. Which reminds me, I need the '97 version too. No, I'm not a huge fucking nerd for X-Men TAS, why do you ask??

Ending 'ALL IN' with Mox retaining would be the worst shit ever. Not to give Vince McMahon any credit but he knew once upon a time that you end your biggest show with the top babyface going over. They've already done the "Mox wins because of interference" shit a bunch of times. Hangman has been built up like crazy. It's time for it to end.

so, WrestlePurists are reporting that AEW believed Darby would be able to do the Owen tournament, but obviously that never happened and that's when he started the Mt. Everest trek. They go on to say that he's come back, unscathed, and could be ready to go right now if they call on him to return. And he's expected back "imminently". Every day we inch closer to All In, I'm becoming more skeptical that the plan is for Hangman to win next Saturday. I still think this story is designed to redeem him in kayfabe, but also give him another character trait of still not being able to move on and let go of the past and that it'll cost him. I can easily see a scenario where Swerve & Ospreay vanquish the Bucks and their EVP titles, and they both come out to counteract the Death Riders but Hangman won't accept Swerve's help and, boom, he loses. Darby returns in the Casino Gauntlet, wins, and thus starts the build to All Out (or Full Gear?) and the overdue payoff for all that from last year. I'm just not convinced, and I won't be until it happens. But if it does, it's not like I'll be mad. I love Hangman too. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think Ospreay/Mox and Hangman & Swerve versus the Bucks is what they should've went with.

Between this and like the Vince stuff I'm always kinda like "you have all this money and fame and influence, you can get women. what's with the rape?". I wonder does the money turn these people depraved or are they depraved from the get go and when they get the money they feel they can act on it? Chicken and the egg.

St. Ives - There are movies I go out of my way to see simply because the cast is intriguing. If the lead happens to be Charles Bronsson, then it is a movie I simply MUST watch it! The strength of any Charles Bronson movie is really based on how engaged Bronson is in it. Need example: Bronson was engaged onthe original Death Wish but less so in the sequels, especially as the series limped along after DW2. He's really engaged in Assassination, one of his last films, mostly because he and his actual wife, Jill Ireland, get to act opposite each other and they just crackle with electricity together despite the overall movie being just above "Ok". This is one of those Bronson movies where he seems really engag3d. He's working opposite Jacqueline Bissett, Maximilian Schell and a rather spry John Housemam. My lord, Houseman looks middle-aged here, which is odd because this is 5 years AFTER the movie adaptation of The Paper Chase and the same year as the TV series. Bronson is Charles St. Ives, retired cop turned crime reporter/novelist is hired by Abner Procane to retrieve journals that had been stolen from the latter's home safe. St. Ives gets the job done but pages are kissing, pages that outline the plans for a heist. Well now St. Ives is interested and things go from there! Did I mention the cast? It goes beyond the principles as a gaggle of "Hey! That guy!" Actors show up, not the of which are Jeff Goldblum and Robert Engl7nd as 2 hoods! But that's where the intrigue stops because the movie never takes off part the initial set-up. It's not a bad movie, just uninteresting one past it's set-up. It really is disappointing because our man Charles seems to legit interested and trying in this movie. It's like someone watched a good heist movie and thought "I can write a heist movie too!" and then wrote the dullest heist movie ever! It really is a shame, because with this lead and this cast, I shouldn't be wanting this thing to get on with it already, yet here I am writing this review. Not even an interested Charles Bronson can make this movie worth, save for a die hard Charles Bronson completist. James

They tried to hit a similar mark back then but got censored to hell and back. Its definitely more adult now with the shackles being massively loosened if not completely gone. The show picks up more or less a few months after the end of the original's series finale

Love Jensen Ackles, but he really doesn't strike me as Bruce in the slightest. He is more a Jason Todd type or maybe a younger Dick or Terry. And is he too old for all of them outside of voice acting.

I'm a live and let live type of person, and I'm definitely not someone who judges people on their bedroom habits, but the details in that case made me want to reconsider my whole stance on not judging people. I don't even want to know how some of that shit even crosses your mind, let alone spending the time, money, and influence to make these things happen. I haven't even been following the case that closely, but occasionally I'd come across a tweet or an instagram reel of someone breaking down the day in court and it was always insane. I'm not a prude in any sense and I'm all for casual sex, but I can't even imagine the complete lack of care he seemed to have for the victims in this case. Another thing that really grabbed me in this case is how little self-worth a lot of famous/well-known people have. I can't imagine anyone being able to talk me into any of this shit, but I'm also not chasing a lifestyle that is based on some sort of capitalist fantasy.

I dunno, it looks Statlander might outweigh him thesedays. But yeah I made the initial error; I don't think that's a mistake anyone would have made 2 years ago. Tbf that's probably partly a reflection of the actual TBS belt being one of many in Mone's collection. Tbf it's also a reflection of the TNT belt becoming largely a Collision belt since Garcia won it.

Small little matter but the NBA and Spurs agreed to adjust Pops coaching record since he ended up never coming back to the team Mitch Johnson will now get credit for all 77 games he coached last season Pops coaching record will now officially be 1,390-824

Lou Thesz vs. Ray Gunkel 2/3 falls for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. MAY. 30, 1951. - YouTube

wCw 2000 Bash at the Beach Goldberg vs. Kevin Nash https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hXRzq9Z8v8E&pp=0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv

**a finger on the monkey's paw curls**

Some people say Dusty stole his act from Siki but they likely would have never been in the same place at the same time. (He more likely "borrowed from Thunderbolt Patterson)

Maybe it’s a bad idea to work on a game for seven years and not have much to show for it? I mean, the development cost for PD had to be exorbitant and Xbox just deciding to cancel it most likely means it had a long way (and a lot of cash) to go. i’m actually curious about what the Initiative was actually doing. They don’t seem to have had any other projects greenlit and a lot of PD’s development was supposedly being farmed out to Crystal Dynamics, so… Xbox seems aimless right now. Third-party publishing seems like a short-term solution, but they need more than that if they’re going to try to stick as a hardware maker. I’m scratching my head over the “add Steam to our next gen consoles and handhelds” stuff. Sounds cool, but if I can can get Steam on my Xbox, what is my incentive to buy games from Xbox? For that matter, what is the incentive of third-party publishers to publish games for Xox consoles. Why not just train Xbox customers to download the PC version via Steam? LOL, if you take that idea far enough, what is Xbox’s incentive going to be to keep publishing games for their next console when they could just sell people the PC version? Play Anywhere seems like a good idea, but unless people can play all/most of their libraries anywhere, it probably won’t be a draw. We seem a long way away from being able to play all of our Xbox libraries anywhere.

I really don't follow hip hop so all the deviant stuff was kinda news to me. I mean I can imagine that a rap star would have sex and drugs at parties but I would have assumed you normal rap/rock star stuff

A friend's fiance had a contract job working on Perfect Dark (after getting laid off from Raven in a previous round of cuts) and was just telling us a couple of weeks ago that he was pretty sure he'd get a permanent gig out of it. Man, fuck Microsoft.

Indianapolis's only real strength is location. It's the perfect city for everybody in the Midwest to congregate. Which is why it's a convention town more than anything else.

yeah this was the Flair/Morton match in the first Phil "Way of the Blade"

Here's some Roy Lucier finds that Segunda did reviews of Karloff Lagarde Jr/Mr Cóndor/Perro Silva vs Brillante/Diamante/Zafiro (AAA May 21st, 1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBz7UUdDfNE&ab_channel=RoyLucierAAALuchaLibre Opens with a textbook, totally one-sided rudo beatdown with the techs getting jumped before the ring entrances. Mr. Condor is wearing the ugliest top and is strangling people from the jump. There are some really reckless powerbombs and the rudos win the fall with a nasty spot where they cross Brilliante (I guess?)'s arms across his neck in opposite directions, and just pull while he's there on his knees, it's simple and brutal. It looks like the rudos are gonna continue to dominate but we get a turnaround despite some mask ripping and Mr. Condor gets posted, he walks off openly blading, and works the rest of the match with those yellow straps and the rest of him soaked in blood. "Muchos sangre por Meester Condor!" as one of the commentators yells -- then the poor dude eats an open kick right in the nuts. Ouch. So much for a tercera! No wonder Condor double-legs the guy who fouled him after he recovers a bit. Antifaz del Norte/Pantera del Ring/Volador/Winners vs Arandú/Jerry Estrada/Misterioso/Psicosis (AAA 5/21/95) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Qzs9qnsXA&ab_channel=RoyLucierAAALuchaLibre This is just wonderful; it's everything you want from the new AAA gang, and I guess the faces are all Monterrey. It starts out pretty chippy between the rudos and tecnicos, the latter actually seem stand-offish and a little arrogant. Antifaz and Jerry clearly have some beef where on the floor they keep teasing someone stepping to the other, with this hilarious Estrada "move away, buddy" flap of the hand that alllllmost has Antifaz come at him. It's all this neat little tension building until they start with the bumping, Arandu taking some biggies and we get some neat avoidances and hanging-from-the-ropes bumps. But THEN, Jerry pulls out a fork and starts mutilating Antifaz. We don't see a lot of blood at all, but this is a BLOOD SUCKING FREAKS MATCH because Jerry wipes blood all over his face and LICKS AND PUTS THE FORK IN HIS MOUTH. YES. And after everyone brawls and we get a bunch of hyper speedy work (and the rudos almost beating each other up) we end with one of the biggest dive trains ever. Jerry further proves that he is A#1 and The Best by taking a flying bump head-over-heels all the way into the rows of chairs. Great finish too, one of the clearest unmaskings ever. So, not a lot of blood, but shows the importance of doing it right. Oh, and this is 1995 Psicosis. You know what it is.

the Public Enemy promo from 1995 on the WWF Slam Jam set ( https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gHJJ6hMfGLQ?si=XuEvM0iqGjgVmdyt ) making me realize that Rocco Rock and Marc Mero really never overlapped in the same spot aside from the last months of Johnny B Badd in WCW

Have seen knockoff Bullet Club/Pink Pony Club mashup t-shirts, and it's the closest I've come to buying a wrestling adjacent t-shirt.