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Doc apparently revealed that Dame has an Achilles' injury, while simultaneously telling the Pacers they no longer have to defend him.

She even stopped a second time at the energy drinks and replaced them in a nice order on the desks. Right then is when it became obvious.

Yeah that's a flat back bump Gastineau looks like that's a guy who's had an interesting life. Too bad he's a scab. Married Brigitte Nielson, as my friend King might write, "WHEWWWWWWWW"

As it stands Bradford City miss out on the League 2 playoffs by once place. Too little, too late. Fuck.

Sorry, AxB.

Speed matches have time limits. Nice spoiler though.

Basically, yeah. Dukes got beat in 12 seconds by knockout. https://twitter.com/ActionNetworkHQ/status/1270099762474356737 You can see Dukes take a bump on the "knockout".

The teams were just added as Associate Nations in 2021, and the men's and women's teams are 0-10 so far in official ICC play (all T20's) Speaking of T20, Johnny Bairstow with a 48 ball 108 as part of the highest run chase ever in a T20 (in the IPL) https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cg3918gn0y1o

Finally watching the pre-Dynasty Rampage. The way that Emi stooged at ringside while they checked on Yuka and let her try and walk off the ankle injury was genius. Grabbing an action figure and pretending to throw it to the audience, only to fake it out and cackle. Doing the same with the energy drinks, except looking in the camera, shaking her finger saying “Nooooo”. And then the match slows down, giving Emi a sustained heel control segment where Yuka could still hit an occasional hope spot, ending with her out of the blue through the ropes suplex for the pin. It’s always a joy to see Emi but this really showed just how great she is.

Be careful keeping your mouth shut while running, though. I once spent a whole weekend with mouth pain that made me think my root canals had re-infected. Turns out I ran 5 miles that Friday with my mouth shut, and all the impact had traveled up to my teeth.

Turned out they didn't need it, but Cambridge United secure safety with a goalless draw against already relegated Port Vale. So they'll be playing Wrexham next season..

What is the Speed belt now? Lightning Matches? Light Heavyweight Redux? EDIT: Nevermind. It's a Being Ricochet Belt (almost wrote "Richochet" like every goddamnbody else) and a "social media title" at that... that's somehow even lower than I imagined. FTW title?

Can somebody give me a shorthand about Dukes and Gastineau because I don't want to Google all these sites I see. Dukes is wrestler, takes a fall for Gastineau in boxing match, big uproar?

He has a spreadsheet, of course he knows what he's doing. If what he's doing is not working, that's a whole another thing altogether!

Is Jericho just where AEW feuds go to die when they start petering out? "And here it lay, at home in its grave, at the feet of the reaper... the Widowmaker..."

From what appears to be a January SmackDown taping ... Cedric Alexander vs. Gable Steveson (Dark Match) (youtube.com)

1947 was independence and the partition, and Pakistan and Bangladesh were the same country for a while after that.

The KOPW match was thoroughly engaging from start to finish due to Great O-Khan going above and beyond to make it so. Don't believe me? Fair enough. Tire-based offense! O-Khan, master of lemons! Considering how bizarre it all was, Uemura certainly earned it.

I really liked the presentation of everything tonight with the look at draft rooms, the NXT celebration, etc. The show was a lot of fun, if nothing else. That is a good thing. But one thing that jumps out at me is how incredibly lame Karrion Kross is. I know I am not breaking anything here. Dude is somehow even cornier than he was in previous incarnations. I like AOP a lot as bruising henchmen screaming madness but this stable is lame.

Mayu - Sareee was great. Not sure it quite hit the heights, maybe there will be a rematch, but still very good. Will have to rewatch the Mayu-Syuri match to compare. 4 way tag was super fun as well, just non-stop throughout. Meltear bumped their absolute asses off, not quite sure what it really accomplishes but it went better than I thought. Oh and Hanan did very well vs Saori. I was a little worried as the crowd were burnt out but she showed real poise just letting the match play out and allowing them to come back into it. Impressive for someone so young (IMO, anyway)

Replacing Kraven with Blink Twice. I appreciate the release date news!

Tony Khan has always wanted to be one of the boys. That’s why he can’t function as a leader.

Oh jeez. The Gastineau/Derrick Dukes fight still had effects in Virginia at least 15 years later. Okay! So in 2006, I was at a show as a guest. In Virginia, wrestling is regulated by the Department of Professional Occupational Regulation (which absorbed the State Athletic Commission sometime in the 1990s), but it's rare that the commission reps actually come to the show. You send them their cut, they occasionally threaten you with fines for something they didn't see, ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on. This show, though, was in the afternoon and close enough of a drive to Richmond that they could be home at a reasonable hour, so sure enough, the commissioner was actually there. This group had a guy doing a MMA gimmick (it's 2006, UFC was red hot, makes sense, but he had credentials to pull it off), and he won his match with a rear naked choke. Easy peasy. No big deal. Except the commissioner FLIPS OUT and threatens to shut the show down. Why? Two reasons. 1) At the time - and I don't know if this is still the case or not - licensing for MMA was way more expensive than it was for wrestling, like ten times as much, and he didn't want people either thinking that they were coming to wrestling shows and getting MMA or MMA promoters licensing their fighters as pro wrestlers and claiming their MMA show was a pro wrestling show to have cheaper licensing. 2) The commissioner was the assistant to the commissioner alllllll the way back in the early-1990s when the Gastineau/Dukes fight happened, and remembered the uproar that happened. He didn't want wrestlers licensing themselves as MMA fighters and having fixed fights. So somehow that would have been prevented by pro wrestlers not using chokes or armbars in their matches, and by eliminating tapouts. Seriously, that was the solution the commission pitched; no chokes, no armbars, matches ending by submission couldn't be done by a tapout. Then WWE came to down like a month later and there were at least three matches that ended via submission, a tapout submission at that, and sure enough the commission backed off. But needless to say, that was a weird month. Damn you Derrick Dukes.

Cornette's podcast is the only wrestling related pod I listen to,anymore. I'm guessing Brian Last has given up on the 605 Superpodcast, since a new one hasn't been dropped in over a year. A real shame, cause I enjoyed those a lot. I guess we'll never find out the true identity of Yomamba the Jungle Savage. I used to enjoy Between the Sheets, but Bixenspan is insufferable and just miserable to listen to. Zellner is cool, though.

The Chris Colt episode was a real revelation. I wasn't even all that familiar with him,but damn, what an unhinged character.