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Clearly Hangman didn't protect his neck. Sorry, just keeping with the theme of the last bunch of posts.

I don't give a single solitary fuck if AEW ever "beats" WWE. I just want to see good wrestling in perpetuity. If AEW goes on forever and I am the only one watching, so be it.

Report from his daughter that Jim Ross had a successful procedure done this morning to drain fluid from his head and the expectation is he'll be home by the end of the week.

Worked the show tonight and saw some of the crew milling about the building, which was cool. Some of 'em looked kinda lost, and I don't blame 'em. That place is a fucking labyrinth. Been workin' there for almost two years and I still get lost. Watched the show after I got home and it is so cool seeing the building and its surroundings on TV. You can't see it, but the Death Riders/Will Ospreay bit was shot over by where I park my car. It was cool seeing some of coworkers on screen, though. That was an awesome crowd and it wasn't just in the theater. Everyone was really, really nice and in a great mood. Really positive energy in the whole building tonight. Detroit loves Willow. God damn. Also, Jamie Hayter, respectfully.

This whole time Mox has been telling Will, "don't trust Kenny" and "you are going to have to go for the kill to win at Wembley" What happened last night proved that. Will wasn't willing to go far enough on Nick Jackson, he hesitated and they lost. He wasn't willing to take out Kenny and Kenny turned around and nailed him with the OWA. Kenny didn't turn so much as he said "dude, were you gonna really use the plastic bag on ME? fuck you" There's a lot of subtleties to storytelling in AEW that is better to me then them hitting you over the head with talking points constantly or having an announcer yell at you "pay attention to this!" I have loved the Ospreay working with the Deathriders story and I'm interested to see where it goes.

HEY! If you'll allow me to speak on this and if people will stick with a longish post then this may be helpful to many of us as we're all FUCKING. OLD. and have parents that are obviously even older. So what I suspect JR has is Normal Pressure Hydrocephaly (NPH). It typically happens to the elderly and can be caused just naturally or from head trauma or some other factors, but what happens is cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) pools on the brain applying, well, pressure to that area. I'll get to the symptoms in a moment, but I know this because my mom went through the same thing and I suppose this is where the cautionary tale begins with the caveat that this is all probably meaningless if it's cancer. So it's 2014 and a drunk driver hits my mom's car and totals it. She said she didn't suffer any injuries, but who knows. That may have caused this but it may not have. Some time after that accident she starts having symptoms of Parkinsons. She was always worried about this tremor in her hands but she was also on 100 different medications so it was likely caused by that but old moms gonna mom. Then she starts having trouble with her gait with the main issue being she had a magnetic foot where one foot would be just stuck to the ground and that led to repeated falls. She starts using a walker and then a wheelchair. She becomes increasingly incontinent. She also becomes a little more paranoid. This all happens over the span of a few years. She goes to a neurologist and she's given a blanket diagnosis of having Parkinson's and they proceed to put her on medication for Parkinson's. Her conditions don't improve. In fact, they get worse. The neurologist changes up her meds but again she doesn't show any improvement to them. My mom continues taking them though because she thinks because the doctor said so that she has Parkinson's. I am not doctor or a scientist, but I am extremely paranoid about diseases and things like Parkinson's and so I've read enough books and articles on it. In addition, my now wife is an RN so she has a good reading on this stuff too and to both of us it didn't make sense that she would have Parkinson's. We start going into her appointments with the neurologist because my mom isn't the best self-advocate and also never presents the full story of what's happening to her because old parents gonna be old parents. They then say she has Parkinsonism, which means she has Parkinson's symptoms without having Parkinson's. While all this is happening her condition worsens and the hallucinations start. Those hallucinations were mostly brough on by one or two of the Parkinson's medications she kept taking. They stopped those and the hallucinations stopped, but the magnetic foot, incontinence, tremors, and plenty of other symptoms persisted or got worse. One night my wife and I go out to get buffalo wings and to tie this into wrestling this is one of the times that Dori Prange/Ruby Soho waits on us. We have a cool conversation about wrestling and what not because she mentioned my Samoa Joe shirt. I mention all of this because the entire moment and dinner is burned into my brain. My wife and I start talking about my mom and how puzzling it is and we both read various medical magazines or journals and as I'm browsing my phone I come across an article about NPH. Suddenly everything makes sense. Not once was NPH ever brought up or discussed. We didn't even think to get a second opinion for my mom beyond pushing back against her having Parkinson's. NPH can cause the elderly to present Parkinson's like symptoms that get progressively worse. So this time we got my mom in for an appointment with a neurosurgeon. He thinks everything sounds like NPH, but they need to do a scan of her brain to get a baseline reading because it had been years since her last scan and then they'd do a spinal tap to drain CSF, have her do some motor function type tests, and do another scan. The scan show a reduction in CSF on her brain. Now the neurosurgeon definitely thinks she's a candidate for a shunt. The shunt is essentially a tube that runs from your brain and down to somewhere else in your body, like your shoulder, stomach, wherever. The shunt drains CSF off the brain and they're able to make adjustments to just how much is drained off so you don't wind up with horrible headaches or other issues. And your body just absorbs the CSF so there are no issues there. My mom has the procedure done, which despite how extreme it sounds, it's relatively simple according to the surgeon. Following that her conditions actually begin improving. She's still incontinent, but not nearly as much. She isn't able to walk again because she had been bound to a wheelchair for so long, but she was able to make safer transitions from her wheelchair to the toilet or the couch to the wheelchair. The tremors lessen. In general, in improves her quality of life. Now sadly, this wouldn't last long. She didn't have the whole magnetic foot thing, but she still made careless mistakes with transitioning from one place to her wheelchair or vice versa, like pushing off a tv tray to stand up, and she would wind up having a few too many falls to the point where she had to go into a nursing home because she couldn't care for herself anymore. What stings the most is not knowing about NPH sooner (hur hur Neil Patrick Harris) because the wonder is always there if she would still be in her apartment today and would be more of a presence in her granddaughters lives. Now she has the start of dementia, which I think is partially brought on by her refusing to leave her one bed room at the nursing home and so she never goes out to talk to anyone except for anyone that visits her. She's basically confined to her room all the time and I can't imagine what that does to an elderly person's psyche. And it has caused her muscles to atrophy a ton. Anyway, I say all of this as a cautionary tale for all of you that if any of your parents get diagnosed with Parkinson's, but something doesn't seem on the up and up with it, push back and check into something like NPH. I sincerely hope that's what JR has and it's not something worse like cancer. The sooner a person that's a candidate for the shunt actually gets the shunt the better. If you wait too longer then there won't be enough of an improvement to warrant having the procedure done. Much love to you all and your folks.

WWE should respect history by replacing objectionable lines with a Big Red X graphic

AEW needs a tag league and I’m being serious

From what I hear, the best way Jared Leto could fight crime is to stay home and not interact with anyone.

Auntie vibes. Love em for 3-4 hours and okay now back to your real parents.

lol Thor using Mjolnir as two factor authentication!

Dave Meltzer doesn't need to do anything to make WWE look bad. WWE's business practices and the quality of their TV shows and PLEs makes WWE look bad.

It's a shame that they didn't have to call the Mounties to have him escorted from the building. It would've been the perfect endcap for his career.

That Foley/Divine Dominion segment:

With Busted Open Radio being rebranded to WWE Radio, does that mean we've seen the last of the loser motherfucker who buys front row AEW tickets just to hold up giant images of Bully Ray and co? I sure hope so!

Meltzer’s value at this point is as a wrestling historian. The minute that they started adding extra stars to a match made it all worthless.

If MJF gets wind of this he will absolutely start doing a heart punch finish called the Hebrew Poison Jab.

I speculate that all wrestling promotions should give us free ice cream.

If you are in a band, and you are hustling trying to get hugs at dive bars and such, my guess is that you are loading your own equipment in and out, doing your own sound check, etc. Wrestling is no different. All the guys working the show are the band, and the ring is the instrument. Setting up is part of the experience. For my own personal experiences, I worked over 600 Indy shows. I probably set the ring up 500 times. I was never a "name", no one ever "flew me in". But I worked a lot of main events where I was helping put away chairs while still dripping with sweat and in my trunks. I set the ring up at outdoor shows at fairs where after I got changed, I came out to help with tear down, and the same fans I just wrestled for watched me load out in my street clothes. it's part of the job.

I need an angle where AJ Styles goes to AEW and wins the Antarctica title but declines it because he doesn’t believe Antarctica exists.

It's refreshing to support a wrestling company where the owner just seems like a genuinely good person.

And that crowd! Such a great-looking venue.

DEAN~! used to put over Davina Rose as a great wrestler before she even signed for WWE and became Bayley. I'll take his word for it.

Due to me feeling negatively about stuff, I removed myself from this board for more than a month, but I did get some more wrestling training done during that time. I ended up not totally sucking after all, so I would like to share this video. And also apologise for being more negative than should have, and if any feelings were hurt, that was my fault and I'm sorry about that! Here is the video, if you are interested! I'm pretty proud of it myself: https://youtu.be/x28MIGoLgM0?is=toO3Ay8g9kZsv-7a

I just got back from taking my son and GF on a cruise. The boy, in particular, had an absolute ball. At one point I said "buddy, I think you're having more fun than anyone on this boat." He smiled and said, "dad, I'm having more fun than anyone on earth." That's how it feels watching Andrade right now. For a guy who's been a rumored longtime malcontent, he is an absolute joy to watch, and he looks like he's having a great time. I'm so happy for that dude.

Son of a fuck. I swear I fucking looked. This is like looking in the fridge for butter and not seeing it when it's right the fuck in front of you.

I really need a shortcut to the Big Damo meme at this rate. Real “I’m a military wife, you must address me by my husband’s rank” type shit. And how can Cody speak on this? If his point is "the children of wrestlers already paid their dues because their lives were hard because their wrestler parents were absent," come the fuck on. Dusty was pretty much retired and present as a dad for him, filling his head with nothing but big fish stories his whole life and turning him into the Dusty-worshipping goober he is today. It was Dustin who had an absentee father and got the rough life. In other words, Cody continues to be the worst. Shocking, I know.

Dashing Chelsea Green! The Gimmick writes it self, give her D'Lo's chest protector while we are at it!

Oh, yeah, so since Hangman can't challenge for the world title again I wonder if this means a full-time return of this.

Sometimes you don't ask questions because you don't want to know the answer. Sometimes you don't ask questions because you already know the answer.

What a horrible time to be literate

Hi! Perhaps you remember my wrestling crosswords. I'm still making them. I guess now I'm only posting about them when I put up one that I think is especially good - and the most recent one, from August 1, qualifies imo. https://allmylinks.com/avalanchestyle

/r/iamverybadass

Woop Woop, keep smiling. i think the segment last night and the crowd reaction to it is why you put Willow over Thekla.

He'd just wait for Alex Shelley to take the challenge and then copy whatever way he sold it.

*not for sale in Germany

This will be an emotional watch. We love you, Rebel.

I'm not y'all's mom!

Best reply I saw to this was "Wu Tang Confirmed!"

Wendy would have maid out with half of whatever money Ric has been making in recent years

DIVORCE LAWYERS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK: How Ric Flair avoided getting married again

Why should AEW be "beating" WWE? Is Smashburger beating McDonalds? AEW has been around for 7 years. WWE has been around since the 1950s. They were a multi billion dollar corporation before AEW even existed. The fact that AEW is selling 12-13k tickets for PPVs and will probably sell 40k for their big event in a month is an amazing feat for a secondary promotion. WCW at their peak wasn't fucking do that. AEW is getting 700k on TBS and more on HBO Max each week. They are probably doing better than SD! currently is if we're being serious about it. That's awesome for them. Alvarez is just as bad as Dave. Just in a different way.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that whatever the original name of the stadium/arena is, is what it should always be called by the people, regardless of what it gets changed to because of naming rights deals.

Styles' son should work a match where he teams with one or both Dudleys so they can do a spot where they say "AVERY! GET THE TABLES! And store them away in a sensible spot and maybe put away some chairs while you're at it. Thanks!"

Could we just wipe TNA itself from history?