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"Look at him Tony. Just look at him. Dominating the other man. Just look at him."

They look ready to kick the living shit out of Jem and the Holograms.

Some of ya'lls hate boner for Khan winning Booker of the Year in a dirtsheet awards poll is really sad.

It looks like I'll be bidding farewell to my part time weekend side gig come July. My wife is currently a teaching assistant, but has made it clear to the Principal that she'd like to be working in the LIbrary, which is a position that has needed filling for quite a while now. She had her meeting with the Principal on Tuesday, and she was told that they need to post the job opening and wait 30 days for people to apply. However (read between the lines here), it's up to the Principal who gets the job, and it's based on not just qualificatons but also who is clearly passionate about it, as well as who she feels is the right fit for the school. And this comes with a huge bump in pay. She'd already told my wife that she can expect a hefty raise, and when she put some numbers on the table, hefty is actually an understatement........

Solid officiating:

Cornette, to me, reminds me of the former players that do TV and radio for baseball now. These washed up goofs can't stop talking about how much better their sports were when they were involved, all the while deriding far better athletes for their inability to do the things that made for a successful wrestler/hitter 30 years ago. Which would be fine, if it were thirty years ago. It isn't. At the end of the day, they're all bitter old men yelling into the void about a sport that has passed them by.

I gotta be honest, I bet kids do. I can still recite billed heights, weights, and places of birth off of random '90s WWF wrestlers who I loved as a kid. Razor Ramon, 6'7, 287 from Miami, Florida. Bret Hart, 6'1, 235 from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Undertaker, 6'10 and 1/2, 328 from Death Valley. I think stating the size of a wrestler really does add to that larger-than-life feel that the company is going for. EDIT: For example, I just saw @Matt D's post and immediately had Howard Finkel's voice in my head: "weighing in at 303 pounds, from Venice Beach, California...Huuuuullllllk HOOOOOgan."

Not specifically a crash pad but...

As if undersized muscle man and Darby are occupying the same space.

1/2/90: Bulldogs vs Nakano/Tiger Mask: Breaking my Bulldogs rule (which I'll be more lax on in 90, probably) because this is my first chance to see Misawa since he went down in March. He was ok. Still lacking some presence. The kicks looked fine with some looking pretty snazzy actually. His first move was a big sweeping twisting headscissors takeover and it didn't quite work so that was a shame. Match was a little bit of a blur and ended abruptly with Davey taking over on Nakano with a headbutt and pulling him to the corner for a superplex. Dynamite was harmless, though he amusingly took some stuff just so he could kick out at one. 1/2/90: Randy Rose/Abby/Ivan Koloff vs Taue/Akio Sato/Takano: Just 6 minutes or so. Come on Taue, start being Taue already! Weak strikes abound. Takano was three years older than Taue but he definitely felt like more of a future player at this point. It was cool to see Sato and he was mostly matched up with Rose. Rose was there to lose the advantage and take stuff, so that was a little disappointing. Koloff didn't do much but everything he did was hugely credible. He's looked very good in tag settings in this run so far. There are a couple of singles matches and I'm curious how they'll go. Abby was Abby, with the first rope assisted headbutt and the elbow (on Sato of course) to end it. This was fine. Bonus match: Arashi (Isao Takagi) vs Kawada: 3/22/02: I wanted to see how the Takagi story ends and it ends with him as Arashi. This was a fun six minute Kawada vs hefty guy match. Arashi looked pretty solid here, though I'm not convinced he could be so in a match twice this long. My favorite bit was Kawada pulling Arashi's shirt over his head to try for the Power Bomb (it didn't work). And the big transition point where Arashi just ran headlong into a forearm. Most of the other Arashi matches out there seem like big multi-mans and I've no time for that, so I'm happy with the small look I got.

Sounds like you're looking for some vintage Shane.

This is from 1974. When I was 8 years old, you had the Mid-Atlantic stars- Wahoo McDaniel, Johnny Valentine then Greg Valentine, the Anderson Brothers, Paul Jones, a face Ken Patera, Blackjack Mulligan, the Super Destroyer and Ric Flair. Then you had the ethereal champions realm of Jack Brisco, Harley Race and Terry Funk. You hardly ever saw them wrestle and if you did, it would be once a year from footage like this. You didn't know them, you just knew they were a tier above what you watched every week. I would wonder where they would wrestle. I found out later in life that they would wrestle in Florida and St Louis when they weren't splashed in blood across the cover of The Wrestler.

re: M. Night Shyamalan: i saw "6th Sense". thought it was pretty decent but saw the twist coming very early on. never saw "Unbreakable". saw "Signs". i thought it was OK but never really made it to "good" territory then some friends and i rented "The Village". it was plodding. the movie was so fucking boring that i said "i'm just going to pretend these people are Amish and that it's not actually set in 1600 or whatever." Lo and behold, that was the twist of the movie. It was at this time that i swore off all of this person's movies. I haven't seen any, and i won't, for as long as i live. @Brian Fowlerdescribed my reaction to seeing the "Devil" trailer perfectly. damn good trailer, had my interest, until they flashed the 'written by...' screen, at which point i rolled my eyes and promptly lost all interest.

Funny. When I think "old style," I think 1 switch every few years, not "only" a couple switches a year. ?

Depends on your standards. If we're talking old style, two title switches per year if we're feeling really frisky, then no Cesaro probably could stay in that "High as you can get without winning the big one" bracket next to Jake the Snake and Eddie Kingston without me raising an eyebrow. In a world - or should I say Universe? - where Jack Swagger, Jinder Mahal and Alberto del Rio are all former world champions (ie. the one we actually live in,) then he absolutely should have at least five.

That was tough to watch. Also, not excusing Melanie Pillman, but Brian Pillman himself was not blameless in that whole situation. Not to mention being left as the mother and sole provider after her husband died and also taking care of his other kids he had out of wedlock. I'm sorry, but both Pillman and Melanie came off like bad guys in that situation. I don't know much about Kim Woods, but I did just hear him on Wrestling Observer and I dunno. Something seemed off about him in this documentary. Like him not being so trustworthy. I get that Pillman was this tortured artist. I mean he was in WCW for 7 years and dude never got the respect or due he was deserved. He always over-performed in every role he was given, but he was never seen as anything above a midcard guy. At the same time, it seemed like he couldn't control himself when it came to women and substance. As bad as I feel for Pillman, I feel worse for the women and children in his life. And yes, I even feel bad for Melanie on some level, on a human level. I'm not saying Melanie is a good person, but she was likely vulnerable to vices just as Pillman was. I can somewhat respect that Pillman was willing to take care of and provide for his illegitimate children, but it's also hard for me to respect a guy who sees and treats women like this. Linda Pillman did come out looking the best out of all this and like a true surrogate parent to the whole Pillman family. I just hope Brian Jr. and the rest of his kids will have happy lives. I do worry about Brian Pillman Jr. I think he's decent, but I hope he doesn't spend his whole career chasing his father's shadow. This is a rough business as Dark Side clearly shows.

That was a good showing for Rodriguez, but she has a style that can be exploited. She kinda rock'em, sock'ems her way through fights. I don't see that working on a Rose Namajunas, who would have the ability to get inside on her. Waterson also landed a ton of a kicks on her as well including a some nasty ones to the body and legs. I think Marina Rodriguez can overwhelm most of her opponents with volume, but at the tippity top of the division, that's going to be much harder to do.

EDIT: I did a "too soon" thing so here's a different opinion On Limelight = Gambler (fuck yes Gambler) I'm legitimately curious how many of these year-long AEW Dark jobbers are gonna go back to their regional indies and all of a sudden command a little bit more pay + a lot more love at the merch stand. We're probably gonna see at least one major success story from somebody who got a lot of exposure on Dark, will stop being needed when the company goes back to touring, but parlays all of that into bigger things down the road.

This is Bruiser's Indianapolis promotion from 1974. Bobby Heenan is so awesome in the ring. He bleeds so much and bumps so much. You need Heenan in a match against Crusher and Bruiser because they aren't going to do anything. Heenan tags with the Blackjacks- and Heenan's nemesis, Little Bruiser, is the third to Bruiser and Crusher. Heenan bleeds a fucking bucket and gets pinned by a little person. The 70's. Then Ox Baker shows up covered in his own blood to give a great insight into how he does not give a fuck about you or the fans and that we should all be grateful that got rid of Bob Ellis and took his world title. Then they have lesser wrestling until Baron Von Raschke bumps all over the ring for Sailor Art Thomas until TV time runs out. Not that you really need to see how the Baron cheated to win or anything. You got to see him bump all over the ring which was 80% of what the Baron was about.

I've been using a 13 year old computer that somehow still works well enough to work from home. But deities forbid I try to play even a short video it sounds like it wants to orbit into space. So after having enough of it I went and bought a beast of a gaming PC that's coming in 5 days. I'm looking forward to playing tons of Fire Pro with mods again but not looking forward to my wife and I fighting over playing games on Steam. All I know is it'll be so nice to get back into it.

Can't wait to hear that they adopted a new dog or some shit...

Shit, I wouldn't wanna fall onto a king sized bed from that height and I'm way younger than Jericho...

Damn straight! Except for that mohawk guy, fuck him! ...just kidding, but still!

Happy 60th Birthday, Taue-san.

I have been in contact with Kathy. She sounds physically okay but I can tell it hasn't really sunk in yet. She has my cell phone number and I have told her to call me whenever she needs to.

This is the right comparison, this is the symptom of the worst human instinct people bring with them when they argue about the entertainment in front of them. It goes so far beyond Charles Barkley saying stupid shit about teams who rest their starters or Cornette hating anything that doesn't remind him of Watts or Crockett. The kneejerk thing that makes people feel that any new idea that emerges after your late twenties (and especially after you age beyond the "key demo") is somehow less valid than the entertainment that existed in your formative years - it's arbitrary, it's self-centered, it's dismissive, reductive, ignorant, a helpless yelp against your own mortality turned outward to a world who has their own shit to deal with. It's a (maybe the) cornerstone of socially conservative propaganda, fear-based political manipulation, predatory marketing tactics, whathefuckever. And it generates clicks. Corny and every other talking head that wallows in the muck of false, self-serving nostalgia are only able to do so because it's a proven commodity. If you agree with them, they make money. If you disagree and click on their pages to let them know, they make money. And that's the only thing that votes people like Cornette into the office of having a considered public opinion. If you say his name, you give him power. Ignore him. And don't ever be that guy who harps about how music or movies or wrestling was so much better when you were 12-to-25 years old, because every motherfucker you're arguing with just so happens to be arguing for their same thing.

Depending on when Steve traveled back to be with Peggy that actually could have made Agent Carter non-cannon. I want to say AoS wasn't considered cannon outside of maybe the first season even before now.

Limelight's going to get a full time contract either from AEW (and I think he's one of the signed but not publicly so guys), or NJPW, where he's also been killing it on strong. He's not going to be hurting when this is done. As for Dark success stories- we already have them: Powerhouse Hobbs, the Acclaimed, Bear Country, Tay Conti.

JC and Brian Last have compared him to Dusty booking himself as the center of the universe and shoe horning his giant entourage into everything. I love Cornette for his historical perspectives and think he has good perspectives on why things do or don't work but more and more he sounds like an old man yelling about "these kids today and their rock 'n' roll"

The great thing is he's probably gonna win that thing for at least the next five years. So I've got half a decade minimum of being able to pull that out as a petty insult every time he drops a steaming pile of dookie while Observer subscribers polish his knob. It's rad. Hate? Not at all. Long may he reign!

Butch cuts a screaming promo on Buddy Rose as Luke bleeds

They used one at WM17 when Undertaker threw HHH off a scaffold. The bump looked great when it happened but then for some reason they showed a replay that showed the crash pad. I'm sure they edited it off the DVD release/network version though.

Daisuke Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo & Soma Takao Vs Chris Brookes, Shunma Katsumata & MAO added to CYBERFIGHT FESTIVAL 2021. Battle Royal names, NOAH participants will be announced later.

I'm partial to the restaurant fight against the Axe Gang, as far as Drunken Master II goes. The Ken Lo fight is great but it follows what was by then JC formula where Jackie has to lose his mind in order to beat a superior foe and he did that better with Whang In-shik in The Young Master. Tough to pick the best ever but off the top of my head I can come up with a few favorites. The Gordon Liu-Wang Lung-wei alley fight from Martial Club, Yuen Biao and Frankie Chan tearing it up in The Prodigal Son, Michelle Yeoh using Rope-fu against sword in Magnificent Warriors, and Jackie vs Benny "The Jet" in Wheels on Meals. And honorable mention to the first of several screen smackdowns between Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima in Iron Angels. Too short to be great but just as brutal as anything from The Raid.

For those wonder - M.O.D.O.K (unsurprisingly) is not part of the MCU However, it is officially the Marvel Multiverse

HALSTON BODDY'S COASTLINE CLASH WEEK ONE~! Jordan Cruz loses a tooth and gains 100% charisma. Congrats to the NEW Hollywood Heritage Champion! I was actually surprised by how much I liked Slade vs. Cruz. I could tell that the title was going to change hands by how often Flex McCallum got wiped out during the match. This was all about McCallum's buffonery backfiring in a match where the challenger would not be denied and it was pretty good stuff. Jordan Cruz should not get an replacement cap. He should keep the hockey goon look. CeCe Chanel brings a two by four to her match with Viva Van. She is too pretty to be using Hacksaw Jim Duggan's playbook. Perhaps a chair painted in gold or a kendo stick with streamers? Viva Van has a tattoo of Ariel from The Little Mermaid on her left arm so I can only hate her so much. The match itself is pretty good, but the finish is a real clusterfuck: a million run ins, cheap shots with an international object, and Viva Van abandons her beautiful Ocean Cyclone Suplex for a suspect looking Heart Punch. The only saving grace is Jamie Iovine's glorious Universal Monsters t-shirt. Jordan Clearwater vs. Jack Banning is a last man standing match. This starts off as the least fighty LMS match but things get interesting when the trash can gets involved. The trash can lid assisted enziguri was a nice touch. The booking is smart enough to put in a spot where Clearwater's Midas Touch finisher is compromised early which is sure to come into play later on. Holy fuck, I think Banning just killed Clearwater, but the ref's deliberate count saves the action. At first I thought that the introduction of the [redacted you've got to see it for yourself to believe it] was going to be stupid, but somehow Banning and Clearwater made it work. Clearwater wins but the war rages on. I really really like this feud and this did not feel like a blow-off. I think they have one more violent match left in them.

Gregor Gillespie drowns opponents with his tempo and pressure. That was an incredible fight.

53 games to make 100 points. I have nothing I can possibly even begin to add. Given the context of how the NHL has changed in my lifetime this might be the greatest regular season I've ever watched.

It's... TWIIIIINS!

This will probably just be ok, but I swear Pepe is dressed like turtleneck Rock here:

Still have the VHS tape with that Raw on it. Steve Austin's immortal words on commentary: "Beat some ass and go to the beer store"!

Lol. No. Don't get me wrong, Cesaro should have got treated better over the years. But there's no way on Earth he should have been a multi-time world champion.

you don't have to like it, but you'd better learn to love it!

Stargirl and Superman are far and away the brightest spots in the DCTV lineup. I feel like all of these shows will always be at least loosely connected in a way, but the big event crossovers aren't coming back.

Nah. I’ll still double down on the production side of AEW dropping the ball. It isn’t the first time. However, it’s not a deal breaker or anything. I still need AEW in my life as the antidote to how disappointed I’ve been with WWE. When Tony Khan says that first Revolution show is the best PPV ever. I’m not that inclined to argue the point. It’s a phenomenal show that sets a high water mark for what is still a young company. So yeah. They could be doing better. But I think I’ll also enjoy watching them learn. I wonder how the reaction to the Wargames with Brian Pillman would have been received in this day and time. My understanding is that SIDs powerbomb getting caught up on the roof was a botch (along with some audibly called spots). A botch that definitely worked in the context of the match. But one where somebody got hurt out of it.