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This take didn’t even have long enough to get room temperature!

Mr. Khan and me generating heat backstage and we, under-book beautiful women there’s a dozen to use Oh no no I’ll only book three I wanna be Verne Gagne but I don’t know why, and I don’t know And when everybody’s got heat aw, dad, it’s just about as stressful as it can be

I mean... RIPPA did ban Fat Spanish Waiter before.

However you can both start the sleaze thread and live long enough to contribute to it.

I don’t know if there was anything that showed Punk’s true character than when he took a shot at “EVPs not able to manage a Target.” What a piece of garbage, dismissive thing to say about retail work, especially from someone who openly compares himself to Joe Strummer. Also - managing a Target is hard as hell. There is absolutely no way Phil Brooks could manage a Target. Can you imagine how he’d act regarding a customer return issue? Let alone some of the very complicated and hard things that come up in managing an incredibly busy store that is a 24-hour operation? He would last one day and probably put the company in litigation.

Leave the singer from Counting Crows out of this

Lots of 6 year olds on the internet apparently.

I'm still on hiatus from these boards, but this is (to me anyway) too good not to share. Three wrestlers from Nepal: Himalayan Tiger, the first Nepalese pro wrestler, Unika, the first female wrestler from Nepal,and the staggeringly gorgeous Jureli, came to Osaka for the first time today. Cooger hosted the welcome party, and I along with my friends Kenji, Ji-sama, and Bodyguard,(and indy wrestler Moriya, from FUCK and AJPW and etc etc) were on the welcoming committee. It was fucking amazing. Cooger's friends and the Osaka Nepalese community coming together. Tiger, Unika, and Jureli are big celebrities in Nepal but they are totally down to earth and I think it was mind-blowing for the Nepalese folks to just hang with them at a rooftop BBQ party. For my part, I bonded hard with Unika and Jureli. I hung out speaking English and Japanese with the Osaka natives and Nepalese immigrants. I had the time of my fucking life. How I wish DEAN were still with us. I bet he knew who these wrestlers are! If there's anywhere in the world where someone might know, it's surely here... *puts up the secunda caida signal* Gonna post, like, 20 pictures. Hang on, it'll take a while.

This show was absolutely amazing. Having never been to any type of stadium show before, it really was an experience like no other. Have lost my voice now after so much shouting, as has my 11 year old, who has picked up Will Ospreay as his new favorite wrestler over the past couple of weeks. It was brilliant to see Joe-Punk in-person again, 18 years after I last saw them at the Skydome in Coventry. It speaks volumes how far they've come on since then. From where we were, it sounded like the crowd were mostly against Punk, but we were cheering him. Thought the Funk tribute was brilliant, having just watched Funk do the same stick in the main event of No Way Out 1998! The Omega and friends match was solid. Crowd really wanted Omega etc to win and he was over like a God. Ibushi seemed better than his first appearance. Robinson and White are phenomenal live. Callis got incredible heat whenever he appeared on screen. The Stampede match seemed bonkers. Brilliant to see Eddie live. Will be rewatching this show on TV primarily to see how this match came off, as there was so much going on that we couldn't see. FTR - Bucks was just outstanding. I don't think anyone saw FTR retaining and we were jumping out of our seats when they did. Bucks were definite heels from where we were. Didn't get the Queen reference! Women's match was predictable. Don't how it came off on TV but it seemed a very mixed reaction for Saraya. The Sting/Darby match was exactly what I thought it would be. Just amazing to see Sting go at this stage of his career, and I think Jericho needs to call Darby and have a word like he did with Ospreay, the guy's a lunatic out there! My wife is a bigger Metallica fan than a wrestling fan, so loved the Seek and Destroy entrance. Ospreay- Jericho was fantastic. Having seen Ospreay at Rev Pro the night before, it is absolutely crazy what this guy does on a day in day out basis. The Jericho entrance was perfect. Jericho must have ticked off a bucket list item there. Again, we went ballistic when Ospreay won, which was absolutely the right result for the crowd. How was it played on TV, as they had Callis managing Ospreay, so he was presented as a heel? The Acclaimed match was nothing special, but it was brilliant to do the scissoring stuff etc. Almost wish they could have kept the Gunn return for the night itself, rather than having it take place on the previous Dynamite. The main event was perfect. I don't think I've ever seen a match with such a brilliant story running throughout. No one turning just felt right. The double clothesline spot and restart was amazing. Strong played his role to perfection. Who would hsve imagined these three headlining the biggest paid attendance ever just a few years ago??! Already looking forward to next year. Here's a photo, hope my son's language didn't offend anyone. He's autistic and had the time of his life, we agreed 'what happens in Wembley stays in Wembley' He certainly enjoyed joining in with the chants and heckling! https://ibb.co/BGLBdQq

For the record, I do not have any kind of details about what happened with Mr. Punk and Mr. Boy, but I am *really* fucking glad I banned that idiot earlier this month.

Cosmic karma is alive and well, when one insane troll get's Cash'd a new one will appear and fill the power vacuum. Let's see what you got you weird angry man lol

Terry Funk Terry Funk Terry Funk

And let's give respect to the person who this show was truly all about, who unfortunately couldn't be there tonight The man who stared impossible odds in the face and dared to dream anyway. The man who made this whole show possible. Thank you, Jungle Boy.

What pisses me off the most is all the missed opportunities Punk could have taken advantage of if he was willing to play ball. When they ran Punk v Eddie and Kingston hit the back first to open the match my brain instantly booked Kingston winning in 5 seconds and then Punk having to work for a rematch. Give Punk a hurdle in AEW in the form of the "skinny fat line cook" looking guy. When Punk was cutting promos sitting cross legged, I was imagining the lights going out and Malakai Black appearing in the ring, sitting cross legged, in front of him. Punk v HOB would have been great. Punk v Hangman. Punk v Omega Punk v Danielson So many possibilities, and instead they feed his ego, steamroll him to the title, and then give him his own show with the roster of his choice. He became everything he hated about the part timers like Rock and Goldberg. In hindsight he didn't hate them, he was just jealous. Punk in name. Punk in nature. Fuck that guy.

Nobody has backstage fighting bonafides like Edge. That one Wrestlemania I watched him brawl with Randy back there for what must’ve been seven hours.

Watching Tenryu vs Hashimoto with lil Octopus before bed.

I’m glad Punk isn’t lurking. He’d lunge at you guys violently for spending the last ten pages not talking about him.

The title of this thread is stellar. That is all.

I hope that he comes out and confronts Ricky Starks, not to defend Ricky Steamboat but because he thinks that Starks is the son of John Starks from the Knicks and Rodman has heat with him.

As an invertebrate, I take offense to these “spineless” remarks.

People could be making up some of these NXT names and I would not know the difference.

Starks and Bill should add a third member of their group. And for the purpose of maximum befuddlement, the third member should be Billie Starkz.

Justin Roberts

This is one of those cultural differences where 'safely' means something different in the UK, right?

Finding out this morning that it’s really difficult to explain to a 6-year-old who still believes wrestling is real that a wrestler got fired for fighting with another wrestler backstage when he sees that happen every week.

I dunno, I feel like he was not very Punk at all. It kinda felt, and I'm armchair mindreading here, like he thought he could show up in AEW and be all of the things he thought he should've been in WWE. The locker room leader, the guy who draws the house, and teaches the youngsters how to "do business the right way." I'd say in this case AEW was "Punk" and Punk was the guy who thought he was punk but really just wanted to be the establishment. But what do I know. I don't know these people. I've heard the locker room was pretty toxic before he ever got there, and some of the folks being labeled as "hard to work with" are victims of clique bullshit. So maybe they're all lame balls and there is no hero in this story.

Hear me out: a six-month Eddie Kingston vs RUSH feud.

I dunno, guys. As someone who started a new job a few months back, the first thing I told management was to get their shit together cause my previous employer was much better. It endeared me to a lot of people to say the least.

I got to moon Reagan in '85 or '86 when his motorcade was going down East River Drive after speaking there.

alternatively, i hope @Sammo~! roots against Danielson. Just to show that he has.....

Every promotion should have its own thread on here titled “Wrestlers I Think Should Be in the Magneto Prison from X-Men” or something so we can move on.

Ok so I’ve been meaning to post but I’ve been busy as hell. I’ve been a contract academic for fucking ever. At worst, this means teaching on a course-by-course basis for like $5 grand a pop. At best, I’ve gotten 10-month contracts with some benefits. It has been a bad gig but really I have no other talents to pay the bills. Anyway, I got a fucking faculty job over the summer. I have a permanent position. No more applying for my job every four months. No more uncertainty. I have a good salary, and a pension plan, and spending accounts, and I’m now full-time member of a department. So I bought a goddamn house. I honestly never thought I’d have any of this stuff and I still haven’t wrapped my head around it.

Here are my thoughts from a fun night at Ring of Honor and AEW in Cleveland: "Tell us that story again, Grandpa Darby!" "One day, I was skateboarding to the ring, and I was attacked by a DINOSAUR~!" "Ooooohhhh....." Here's me talking to my daughter (age 20): (Dark Order shows up) "They're a happy cult." (Righteous shows up) "Are these guys another cult?" "Yeah, but they wear white." Speaking of cult leaders, "Keith Lee saying 'run' was a tribute to Swamp Guy." Her thoughts at the end of the night: "I'm not emotionally invested in pro wrestling, so I like the fact that the AEW matches aren't so long. The WWE matches just go on forever." My three biggest impressions of the night: 1. Cleveland is getting into AEW. For the last year's Dynamite, there were a lot of random wrestling shirts (Savage, Piper. DX). This year, there were a lot of AEW shirts, including guys who weren't scheduled to be there (Omega, MJF, Cole, Orange). 2. Collision (and AEW) will be just fine without Punk. It's cool in a way that Collision had one "star of the show" who is now gone, so everyone else can gun for that spot. Starks, Keith Lee, FTR came right out and said they want the spot. But think of the other candidates: Andrade (looked at a monitor), Swerve (wasn't even there), Jay White (getting over as an inanimate object). 3. Twenty years ago, I announced for Ring of Honor in community college gyms and county fairgrounds. Last night, I watched ROH in the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. That really meant a lot to me. ROH didn't go away; it exists as part of the No. 2 promotion in the country. Being a part of its early days feels even better than it does for Bleacher Report.

Chin up Tits out And watch for the shooooooe!

The Mad King's Claudio Sucks Eggs shirt is one of the best tributes I've seen AND pro wrestling as fuck.

Yeah I like CM PUNK Crazy Mexican Punching Undercarders, Not Khan

The fuck is anyone even typing about the possibility of AEW folding. Over this?! I would get people even uttering that if it was another slap on the wrist for Punk. That would be some WCW shit. Instead they did the right thing. This is just totally bizarre to even see people type about it. They just sold 81k tickets. Do you think Punk is the reason for that? No. Just like WWE, the letters AEW were the reason. The brand was the reason. Everything associated with the brand was the reason. Punk was stuck in no man’s land on what is a good show in Collision, but it’s on a fucking Saturday. The guy wasn’t even part of AEW for their first couple of years. He was then out for nearly a year. AEW has gone through plagues of injuries, a literal plague that deprived them of an actual audience, taping a bunch of shows in QT Marshall’s warehouse training center, and more all without Punk. That the dude was fired for attacking a worker, attacking the owner, and having a history of violence isn’t going to lead to any kind of exodus. If anything, I could see wrestlers protesting if nothing was done. But anyone thinking about even the possibility of AEW being in trouble needs to get real and stop thinking like fucking Cornette.

Current reports are saying CM Punk was yelling at Tony and being very harsh and saying he quit. This happened in Punk’s dressing room and was barely audible over Tony Khan chanting “CM PUNK CM PUNK!”

Guys, stuff is being lost in all this. I colored long hair on a picture of Tony and said it was his sister a page or two back.

Jay White has been kidnapped by ninjas are you a bad enough dude to rescue Jay White?