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Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of The Wyatt Family, Wyld Samurai, at least it's an ethos.

The more I see Bray tweeting like Matt the more I hate it. I'd love if he went back to his Waylon Mercy character.

Poor Conrad.

I for one am shocked that the engagement Cena was forced into by his boss has ended.

We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We're takingturns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week-- But all the decisions *of* that officer 'ave to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting-- By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs-- But by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major--

It's what you get for returning Piers Morgan to us instead of blasting him into space.

Undertaker, secret best bro...

He made a terrible Wild Samoans pun one week that was like, "You may Sika this title, but you still won't have it Afa Wrestlemania." Paul's preoccupation with Reigns's Samoan heritage always gets weird. It's like he creeps toward the precipice of phrenology and backs off.

This is Sanity! They are here to have crazy fun!

So "Proud SquaredCircle Warrior" is another term for Incel right?

The problem with this is that there is a catch-22 there if the fans ARE clued in by Dave, because honestly it ties into a bigger issue than "Is Rusev going to get a push": The fans have just given up on their heroes ever getting pushed in WWE, and this is paradoxically the reason they WON'T be pushed. Sometimes in all of entertainment, you have to break the fans' hearts to make them want something THAT MUCH MORE when they do get it, and it's that fact that makes entertainment in any form. There's a world of difference between if WWE gave Daniel Bryan the WWE Title at Summerslam 2013 (when he was a cult hero, popular, but still a tag guy) and Wrestlemania 30 (when he became a force of nature and the fans NEEDED him to win). Unfortunately, the fans have had their heart broken so many times that it's never going to mend again...and that leads to two big things to kill that: On WWE's side, they know only true love can break your heart, and so if the fans give up on their favorite ever making it to the top the second they get a little adversity, then WWE will just think "They didn't REALLY love them, we can put them on the backburner". On the fans' side, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy- since the fans have had their hearts broken so much that even if WWE DOESN'T give their hero adversity, it'd just be "Whoop-dee-damn-doo, they're prancing around with a pwetty title with their logo on it. Whatever- they're just going to lose it to Roman Reigns/to a blonde anyway, they didn't REALLY go all-in with them."

Finally! Somebody gets it.

That would've been great for PowerPoint Gulak

Sanity would be fine on the main roster with a few vignettes and an interview with Eric Young explaining their beliefs and mission in WWE. However, this is WWE, so we wouldn't get any explanation beyond Michael Cole repeatedly calling them crazy. I'm not asking for Chikara-level storytelling, but a little more than half-assed effort would be nice.

Re: Sanity They're not a cult. They're anarcho-nihilists. They don't care about anyone or anything. They just want to break down social norms and cause as much mayhem as possible. You saw that play out in War Games. Speaking of which - God bless Alexander Wolfe. I love that big ugly bastard.

Tie: Matt and Nick Jackson. Poll could do with some spicing up, both in terms of timeframe and geography. Not everyone here is too lazy to watch some Pat O'Connor. Of the options, I suppose I most enjoy the stories told by Bret during his peak. And there's also something to be said for being the one among the three who wrestled the style least conducive to brain damage, regardless of how his career ended. So what's the deal with this account? Are you the DVDVR version of those Facebook quizzes that are collecting everyone's data?

That was probably one of the best SmackDown endings ever!

Marty and Sweetster.

I don't know, Jonestown had some massive turnover.

Catching up on the main event and holy shit, this is everything I thought we'd see with Gaethje in the UFC. Just porous, shit defence matched with an iron skull. Poirier hit Gaethje with an absurd amount of shots to Gaethje's dome. Gaethje is just so wild in everything BUT his leg kicks, which are next level, and a decent but inconsistent jab. What an awesome fight! One of the best and it exceeded the hype. It's almost like trading 3-5 significant head shots for one leg strike doesn't work out most of the time.

That was such a great, great fight! You really could see Casey's shortcomings and strengths all in one fight. Waterson needs that atomweight division badly. Way too much size to give up even though she's become a really good wrestler all things considering, taking down Casey and Torres in her last two fights. And that kick that sent Casey backwards at the end of round 2. Perfection.

Michelle Waterson is still undersized for 115 and she doesn't respond well getting hit by the bigger fighters but she is able to make up for that in heart. Incredible fight.

Which feels like a terrible idea on multiple levels. Bray turning again so quick would suck, and Sanity doesn't need him. Although if he does turn again, I guess he does need a cult since him without one really sucked.

Pets are wonderful. As dumb as it may sound to some, my cats have kept me from seriously hurting myself because I can't fathom not being there to care for them.

Damn, Jim Neidhart looks different.

He'll always be Robin Hood with an English accent to me.

For those that loved the Gresham vs. Lethal match from two months ago tonight they topped it with a even better match.

Joe is way more of a bulldozer than Roman. Roman is like a Samoan pick-up truck.

It's tongue-in-cheek gory horror that definitely doesn't take itself seriously. It's a good time. There's much worse out there. I'll never forget when I first saw it, in a sold out theater with no air conditioning in the middle of August on one of the hottest days of summer. Snack bar was verging on selling out of anything cold.

Grim Dawn is a lot of fun. However, it will also cheerfully kick your ass over and over again. Got a Commando (Demolitionist/Soldier) through the base story with as much luck and spamming heal pots as any real skill. That showed up to bite me in the ass when I started the "Ashes of Malmouth" expansion. Then even trying to go back and clean up some bounties got frustrating, because my toon was level 46/47 and everything seemed to scale up to 50+, even quests that I had picked up 10 levels before. So I finally said fuck it and started a couple of new toons. One is a melee Shaman/Arcanist (Druid), and one is a ranged Inquisitor/Demolitionist (Purifier). Not sure which I prefer yet.

Probably not in a convincing way.. Sanity isn't really a cult and I think they work best as all members being equal. They can have a mouth piece or front man but not Bray, I think Eric Young is perfectly fine for the role.

I know it's a minor change but War Raiders...meh. Still I greatly look forward to Hanson and Dozer in a hoss fight. Oh yeah Rowe and Knight will be involved as well. I know NXT doesn't need another stable, but I kinda want to see Moss/Sabbatelli team up with EC3. Seems like a perfect fit.

I saw Joe Cole (yes, THAT Joe Cole) play for the Tampa Bay Rowdies today vs Red Bulls II in USL action at Red Bull Arena in front of about 100 fans (game kicked off an hour after the MLS match ended). His team lost 5-0.

Bray is still vanity searching. He is one shitty super kick from being the third Young Buck.

I think that if you know the ending of Far Cray 5 is really fucking weird no matter what you do (and IT IS), and you can accept that, it's not something that should really tip the scales. I say this as a man still mad that Mass Effect 3 made me feel like no matter what I chose your friends start dying, so clearly I do not hold grudges at all.

Dug this one deep out of the twitter archives: I'm torn between listing out all the names and instead letting people go "wait, is that?" so I'll split the difference and put the names in a spoiler:

This.

Pitbull?

God's career never recovered from that tag match at Backlash, did it?

For those who missed it: LOL they even screencapped it with first time referee Mike Chioda treating the briefcase like it's the Arc of the Covenant.

No.

As bad as everything was, at least Sumie Sakai didn't win a title on this show.

They shouldn't have changed the name of the Moolah battle royale, because that thing set back women's wrestling almost as much as Moolah did.

Puma design department going all out this year