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If we're gonna drag Lars, let's drag him for the racism and homophobia, not the past as a sex worker or whatever conflicted feelings he may have about his sexuality.

It’s unfortunate that this doesn’t go without saying.

What New Breed Time Travel wackiness is this?

Miami going on the road to keep New England from the first round bye is peak level Fitzmagic.

Cincy with that "We won't lose the #1 seed so lets fuck up our chief rival" day

Wouldn't this be the first time they've ever won away at Celtic? ?

Wasn't a match but it was still fun seeing Umaga beat the Jackass crew up.

Not the best, but Cena vs Federline is worth a shout. And Kaufman/Lawler.

I recommend the "Russian" category. The things those people can do in a sketchy looking apartment... *chef's kiss* Oh wait, you were probably talking about Lars, and not speaking generally. Never mind.

I never had any doubt that Miami would pull it off in Foxboro(ugh)! Holy shit... Chiefs with that bye. Beautiful, beautiful!

Put Ryan Fitzpatrick in the hall of fame, you cowards.

Tigers are definitely gonna win. Take that to the bank.

The main event was an absolute corker: GAINA & HUB defending their tag titles against the indy dream team of Gamma & Super Shisa. It was also really cool to see Buffalo & Tsubasa back together working heel as Infinity in their black outfits. The best thing, though, was to share something I love with some new friends, (and also to have my new friends meet my old friends, and also just to see so many old friends again). There were a lot of new faces in the small crowd, but also a lot of people I hadn't seen for about five years and in every case the reunion was a very happy one. There was even one Osaka Pro fan who knew Chizuki from her English events, a very nice young woman named Mie: We all got packages of Wakame (a strong-tasting, in this case dried, seaweed that is quite nice with sake) and after the show (after Kenji and I helped break down the decorations while everyone else waited) we all went to a very nice Mexican restaurant in the Fukushima area of Osaka, a nice 18-minute walk from Noda Citizen's Hall (where the show was held). That was a pretty cool meal, with Japanese, English, Spanish, and French all being spoken at various times by various people (Gorge speaks French fluently. I cracked he and Esteve up with my basic Canadian high school French). The food was excellent, the conversation even better. I caught one of the last trains home.

Josh Allen's pre-game look today > Anybody else's

Eventual partnership between NJPW & AEW would be great for the fans...and hopefully for the wrestlers.

This sucks for the Steelers chances but to be honest they wouldn't have a chance to begin with if the Ravens didn't bench all their starters today

Your 2019 Match of the Year: OTT giving it away for free.

I was there live. It was the tail end of an epic weekend in which I woke up Friday morning in Miami and didn't sleep until Sunday night after Wrestlemania in Orlando. It was also fitting that I partied "Horsemen Style" leading up to Ric's retirement. Trust me, I made him proud the prior 2 days and nights lol.

Receiver fell down, didn't he?

Allie Kat looked pretty fucked up after her match too. Indie wrestling really kind of sucks now for the most part. Amazing with how hot it was just a couple of years ago. It's going to take a long time to build up some star caliber talent. edit: Long doesn't always equal good but for the best storytellers you need time. However, we could all use more Giant vs. Meng type kaiju battles that are sub five minutes. And when a top guy is in there with a JTTS, you don't need to go 10+.

My nephew loves The New Day and the shirt I got him for Christmas.

Is Britt far enough in the back for everyone?

So, uh, I just saw that Luke Gallows got married to a girl from my neck of the woods in GA last weekend. In a semi-related story, Luke Gallows and I are eskimo brothers now.

I shared the original trilogy with my dad, growing up. I was able to share this new trilogy with both my dad and my daughter, as of this afternoon. I liked it. No one wanted to tell me about how bad my daughter might would want a Babu Frik toy now, though? You assholes left me to hang.

I don't think it's going to be a really illustrious list because the combo of PFL running the Hulu Theater (fka the Felt Forum and the Theater at Madison Square Garden) every year and Bellator now running MSG owned properties (at same point they will do a card at the Theater just like they currently do at the big room in MSG and the Forum in Inglewood) will have people slip through the cracks. Like the first NYE show at Hulu Theater PFL did before they were PFL and still WSOF had Yushin Okami and Luiz Buscape who are on the list. Liz Carmouche fought Katlyn Chookagian in a fight a lot people likely don't even remember in the first ever UFC fight at the Garden. If she fought at SSA due to the Bellator/Rizin partnership, I don't think people will be running out into the streets in jubilation. It's going to be the lesser names who will get cut from an org and move around a little bit more freely.

Those Global Wars shows that came through Toronto every spring were great. I got to see Tanahashi wrestle live and in his prime in a minor league hockey arena, only Ring of Honor did that. It truly is a shame they've long since eaten up the good will from those times because they had a solid shot at being a #2 for a second there.

Imagine being so desperate that hiring a coach that has never won a playoff game with the Bengals is actually an upgrade I do like that the majority (small majority) are in Rippa thinking that Bruce isn't really leaving just changing the job title

Lots of talk in the Raw thread about Samoa Joe in WWE, and wishing he would have gone there sooner. Which I will disagree with. The way he joined WWE, as a player/ coach for NXT, getting over on his work and moving to the main roster because of it, that's the only way he gets to be Samoa Joe in WWE. Had he gone to WWE ten years earlier than he did, he's changing his name, painting his face, wearing a grass skirt and wrestling bare foot. Jobbing to Cena at Summerslam and joining his team by Survivor Series. And then getting released for not losing weight. "But think of all the great matches he would have had". He did have great matches, in TNA and sometimes Noah. And the great WWE matches he could have had, he still could. The thing holding him back from great matches in WWE isn't age and injuries (except for him being Injured right now, obviously), it's WWE house style and schedule. He might have lost half a step, but he has gained veteran timing with it. The man can still go.

The list is ok I guess. Dunne had my least favorite matches with WALTER out of British Strong Style. I'd have taken Bate's or Seven's matches over it. I'm not shocked it was named though since Dunne is the one from that group they want to sell. Honestly the NXTs kind of got screwed. The lack of Bate/WALTER is a noticeable snub to NXT UK. The lack of Rhea/Shayna or the women's War games is a noticeable snub to NXT's women's division. Those three matches were better than both of the Takeover New York matches included. Kind of shocked they didn't try to sneak in any of the Lee/Dijakovic matches. Rollins/AJ is an odd case of a forgettable great match. Like its easily an arguable top ten, but man was there a lot more from this year I would rather go out of my way to see. Like I probably enjoyed both of Brock matches more despite the AJ match probably being better. I wish they had chosen the Balor match as far as Brock matches go. Banks' matches with Rousey and Becky placing is good. The lack of Asuka/Becky is disappointing. Out of the great women's matches WWE had this year I think the WM triple threat was easily the weakest. War Games, Rhea/Shayna, Becky/Asuka, Becky/Sasha, & Sasha/Rousey were all better. MITB placing is probably the most egregious choice on the list. It really doesn't belong at all. Even Gargano/Cole had the epic deal behind though i'm mostly mixed on it. I at least appreciate that the chose the best of their three big matches.

Good stuff from Carmella/Mandy. I feel like they're leading to a four way match with Bayley/Sasha/Lacey/Carmella.

the concept of "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission" has it's limits. "A&W won't admit watching this, we're good"

Cool post by Bray Wyatt on Daniel Bryan, the Royal Rumble 2014 match and it's happening again at the 2020 Royal Rumble.

Well... I havent found anything yet on pr0nhub.

Bray Wyatt just tweeted that he forgave Kevin Spacey and everyone's blowing up about it. I hope this leads to an awful Bray/The Fiend vs Kevin Spacey/Frank Underwood split personality match at Mania, where we're supposed to suspend disbelief that House of Cards was real and the President just turned up on RAW.

Kevin Greene's matches in WCW were up there, particularly the 6 man where he teamed with Flair & Piper against Nash, Hall and Waltman.

Yet another semifinal blowout. And people still want to expand this field lol.

*opens Episode 90 during it's premiere* *Jacob Fatu dives to the outside within 30 seconds of me clicking* you'd think the WWE employs enough of his relatives to bring him aboard too

Well the answer at AEW is get Kenny to quit making grotesque faces for ten minutes of camera time and you've got it!

Those people were hanging from the rafters and I won't hear different.

CM Punk on Hulk Hogan: WWE Backstage personality and former Superstar CM Punk had no kind words for Hulk Hogan during a recent appearance on Windy City Live's 2 Minute Warning. 'The Voice Of The Voiceless' may not have loaned his takes to this week's FS1 sister show, but he had plenty to add to the Chicago-based short, much to the pleasure and surprise of host Ryan Chiaverini. 'The Hulkster came up during discussion of prior legends, with Punk noting that "I wasn't a Hogan guy. I've met him. I like him even less now". As the host jokingly suggested that Punk was "crushing his childhood dreams", the former WWE Champion retorted with the humorously curt "f*ck him! Fuck Hulk Hogan.

yeah, at least with Powerr it's a throwback presentation but the guys aren't literally pretending to be from a different time. These shows are basically end of summer camp plays. It's utterly asinine. It's GLOW-level camp

This may be a hot take but I REALLY REALLY hate the parody throwback shows that Impact just did and that PROGRESS does every year. There is literally nothing on-screen that exposes kayfabe like having a bunch of wrestlers play dress-up and perform a variety show as different characters. Like, how can that possibly be reconciled with the illusion that guys and gals are competing in a match filled with violence and with stakes?

Dare I say that fat, drunken, obnoxious Jericho is the best Jericho?

It's a shame with the A++ material that Marvel has, that they can't do something good that can sustain. SSM and A:EMH are both fairly fantastic. USM is bollocks and really AVASS really blows too so far.