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I hope the angle is just a way to write off Tony Khan as Tony Khan and in a few months Luis Fernandez-Gil returns as Tony Khan...

Oh My God! They killed TK! You bastards!

The only way they could have they made that last segment funnier is if they had a graphic with Tony's photo that read "Tony Khan Was All Elite 1982 - 2024" followed by some Sarah McLachlan. What really cracked me up is that of all the wrestlers to come out and check on him, they had to be careful not to show anyone important, so it was basically "send out the luchadores and Christopher Daniels!" I actually like obliviously uncool Chris Jericho's new role/group. I'd like to see him surrounded by some real young guy and have Jericho try to talk about Stryper with them. Also he should say "Lol" ( but actually pronounce it) and maybe create a Tiktok account where he unironically dances and sings duets. Swerve's first post-win appearance was kind of weak. Almost like they didn't trust him with a microphone. Prince Nana got to talk but Swerve just had a too competitive match with a guy way below him in the hierarchy. It was weird. Liked the gauntlet casino match. Komander hitting that move on Archer then staring back in disbelief was great. I would like to see them run this match again and have #1 roll up #2 for the win and cut to backstage where 47 guys are standing around waiting and someone just says "Dude..." and they cut to the next match. Jack Perry with a beard talking tough would be like The Miz showing up with a beard talking tough.

We did the same thing with the Punk drama thread didn't we? Wanna make a Naked Mideon joke but I got nothing. I did just watch Dennis Knight in IWA Japan, however. He was not nude. *crickets* EDIT: I hate to say this and I may be cursing it all, but that was when the Punk thread ran out of steam. Let us hope this case doesn't do the same.

A&C were also the most popular entertainers in the English speaking world during WWII, though the monster movies are the ones that kinda revived both their career and the monster franchise when both seemingly had ran their course.

Ok, so I have now missed a week's worth of workouts due to the flu, but have been riding the bike to work, as usual. Work has been hectic, so I haven't eaten as much or as often as I usually try to. Still, I was shocked that my weight had come down so rapidly. On Sunday evening, I think I saw 198 on the scale, briefly. This morning, it was 188. That's a whole bunch of fluids getting the hell outta dodge. I guess the brief backlash of winter that we are experiencing over here, made the biking that much harder? Today, I'm supposed to go back to the gym. You can expect it to be resistance band and light curl based "taking it easy" kind of an outing.

Very sports entertainment-y show, but I honestly didn't hate it. I don't think serious, violent Trent is a long-term thing, but him killing Chuck in a parking lot should be fun. Swerve/Fletcher was a good Swerve showcase and sets up the Callis Family break-up since new heel stables are moving in. Willow/Mercedes segment was good. I love that they aren't forcing any face or heel roles here, just let the women be themselves and the crowd can do what they want with it. Mina/Anna was a nice little match. Toni and Mariah as tweeners is working and there's plenty left in that well before the break-up. The casino clusterfuck was ridiculous, but it was set up perfectly to keep the crowd hot and there were some good sequences in there (particularly Ospreay/KOR). Interesting to have Will go after Roddy which seems beneath him, but will be a great match. Roddy seems way beneath Will at this point, but the story of whether Will has lost his killer instinct evens it up a bit. I know I'm totally in the minority, but I love Jericho's new gimmick. Totally leaning into to all the online criticism and playing it straight. The Learning Tree is such a wonderfully stupid and self-indulgent nickname. I died when he used the phrase "Jericho vortex." Bill as the muscle works great. Only problem is no more White Zombie. Mox/Hobbs was there. Shame about Hobbs getting hurt, but man, Callis was a fucking pro heel there. "I'm more concerned about the loss." The closing segment was one of the most WWE-ish things AEW has ever done, but it wasn't terrible. Whoever said New Elite vs. Team Tony in BnG is probably dead right. The timing of Kenny coming back seems just right for him to lead the charge. Extrapolating a little further, Hangman coming back as the 5th for the Elite seems right since his heel run got cut short. Kenny, Ospreay, Swerve, and FTR feels good for the face team.

R.I.P. Colonel Tigh

Expected Worse Friends instead got Worse EVPs. Weird show for sure, although I enjoyed the new gauntlet match and Ospreay being in it was a nice surprise. Oh and Kenny's back next week but he's still ill but not too ill to eat an EVP trigger I'm guessing we're heading towards AEW: Civil War.

Remember when a bunch of folks were saying how AEW was fucked because now people would chant Punk’s name each week? I gotta say, even though I thought it was dumb to show the All In footage, the storyline for showing it was fine, Perry is as over now than at the height of Jurassic Express, again - Jack Perry actually means something now so that’s a feat in and of itself, Kenny is returning next week, and who knows how this all shakes out. For all of the booking corners TK backs himself into, he has a pretty good track record of threading the needle to make things work. Sucks that Hobbs’ knee blew up mid match in maybe his biggest match. Awful timing. All in all a pretty fun AEW that reminded me of the more chaotic, crash tv lite days of the company.

Live look at this thread going off the rails:

Shad when asked about what happened to his son:

I loved all the chaos in the epic ending. Shit has hit the fan when big Shahid shows up! Mina/Anna ruled again. Thrilled to get Mina back so quick. Love Serena getting in the mix. Serena vs Toni and then Toni vs Mina works for me. thought the Willow/Mone segment was very good, nice mic work from Willow. the Casino Gauntlet was a blast. Dug the Learning Tree segment but I will miss Judas as Jericho moves on to "Spotlight" as his new Fozzy theme. Moxley/Hobbs was solid while it lasted to the abrupt finish. Fun show overall with the closing angle putting it over the top.

I mean sometimes you got to embellish a few things on the resume to get the job.

I’m watching Da Party play Uno and Claudio has a story of being at the airport and seeing a TSA Agent taking nunchucks out of Mox’s bag. Lololol

Well, I hated the All In footage being shown and it ended up being the greatest move in AEW history. So I’m willing to give this a chance.

Like a AAA team drafting someone off an MLB roster?

Back to getting the pool installed at Craven Cottage

Probably just doesn't really make sense with "Raw" and "Smackdown" being treated as being "called up" for NXT wrestlers. Like having Ava draft Randy Orton to NXT wouldn't be really equivalent to Trey Bearhill getting drafted to Smackdown.

the fucking NFL has an article up about TK taking the tombstone. What in the world. https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-tony-khan-takes-punch-piledriver-on-aew-dynamite-show

This might make it all worth it

The final angle was at least interesting. Heels With Authority angles are definitely played. But The Young Bucks have been hitting it out of the park with their EVP act. Okada looks like a million bucks as their ringer. I’m willing to run with that since they’ve been so great. But man, there was just so much bad blocking and set-up in the final segment. First, why is Jack Perry asking Tony Khan to come out to reinstate him? It felt like TK should be the one out first as the authority figure determining the fate of Jack Perry in his hands. TK looked like such a total goof during the segment, just smiling wide and accepting this without hesitation. It just made me ask why some villainous heels haven’t attacked TK already since he was ripe for the picking. Or why any of the babyfaces would feel so loyal as to run to his side when he was just such an obvious patsy? But the main part was so much of the staging was amateur hour — Jack Perry deciding to talk to the in-ring camera for no real reason a few times beyond Jack probably thinking it’s a cool thing to do as opposed to responding authentically to your scene partner. That’s just amateur hour stuff. But I don’t hate it as much as I traditionally would hate a shoot-y style angle like this.

I figured Big Vis was the one scooping out the guts. It’s the name, after all.

By "dirty work", you mean walking up and down several aisles aimlessly at Home Depot and then hopping on a computer to watch hardcore pornography when they should be working? If so, that would be a yes.

have a tab open on the BigTimeWrestling stream and always fun to switch over to 1987 World Championship Wrestling showing Winston Garland (during the 1987 NCAA Tournament) with Craig Sager behind him watching Brad Armstrong working a masked job guy also lots of 'probably can't do that now' fun of Jim Cornette suggesting Precious eat dog biscuits EDIT: Cornette followed it up later by saying Precious isn't there because she saw a "No Soliciting" sign on the front door of the Turner Studios... don't think you can say that one anymore