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Would you rather sign one 50-year-old Bobby Lashley, or 50 one-year-old Bobby Lashleys?

Call me crazy, but I'm beginning to think this business doesn't attract a lot of forward-thinkers with sound decision-making skills.

That very same DiBiase bump for Savage’s great “jump over the top rope neck-snap” was the best:

New name alert Harlem Bravado - Andre Chase Drew Kasper - Brutus Creed Jacob Kasper - Julius Creed Avery Taylor - Jacy Jayne I am amused that they are already setting up the Kaspers turning on each other

One of my all time favourite videos. Fuck Hogan. Enjoy!

Jungle Boy HAS to win his next match like this, right? Similar to when Darby finally won it, you can’t go to the “amazing outing but come up just short” well again with him.

Really felt like the right time to put the title on Jungle Boy, even if for just a short reign. I mean, it always feels like the right time to take a belt off Kenny Omega, therefore making him less of a focal point, but this REALLY felt like the right time. All this "end the show with heat" gets repetitive. Would've been a good idea to have the fans go home happy, especially since there's no way Miro is losing to Pillman Jr next week. This was another really solid show, with the weakness being the same as it always is; the EVP's being allowed to book themselves over everyone for reasons. I don't dislike them because they're doing good heel work. I dislike them because they make every show they're on worse with their shooty insider bullshit and their "Mormon kid after one day of detention" wanna be tough guy acts. They could all disappear off the face of the earth and the show would be a thousand times better. That isn't heel heat. That's the definition of "go away" heat.

I think that was the most I have enjoyed Kenny in the ring since Dominion 6/9/18. They match up about as well as we were all expecting. That crowd was great all night, at least from what I saw (my wife has night shift so I was looking after the girls,but they kindly let me watch the whole main event match without interruption, which I appreciated). Looking forward to watching the replay more closely, but for me at least that championship match totally lived up to my high expectations. I loved seeing Jungle Boy's family's reactions as well.

That might be an improvement.

You know... I'm starting to think that the WCW Saturday Night call in to vote for the main event wasn't on the up n up

Chop chop chop

How did Kona Reeves survive another round of cuts???

At the very least, I think WarnerMedia/TNT are doing some great promos with A+ graphics to promote Rampage: Like these promos are on par with WWE production values. For many years on Spike, I never really felt like TNA was stepping up the graphics and production values game. TNA would often look, sound, feel bush league. Like small, miniature little league wrestling.

Heading to Denny's to smoke cloves, drink coffee, and not leave a tip

It's just really frustrating because almost everything on this show that doesn't involve the Elite is so good. Even Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page, who I normally don't vibe on, were really good tonight. But ugh, Omega and the Bucks were just even more insufferable than usual tonight. Particularly the Bucks, who once again come off as Hall and Nash, if Hall and Nash were 5'8 and looked like Guitar Center employees...

Miro with another great promo.

Damn good show, but I gotta put over Hobbs who wisely avoided a "Scott Steiner slams Christian Cage's head into the steps"-level potential botch. Dude's got endless potential, as do so many others on the roster. Miro fucken rules.

This nails my problem with the Elite: it smacks so hard of the NWO, and brings me right back to 1997. They have the same kind of heat with me to where it's on the verge of change the channel. These pricks gotta lose sometime and to the right people because if they drag it on any longer then it won't just be me upset, but the fanbase, and that won't be good.

Damn, that show delivered. That main event was probably the best Omega singles match I've seen in AEW. Jungle Boy was great out there. The Konan/Tully interview segment also ruled, the Bunny/Statlander match was quite good, and Hobbs/Page gave me exactly what I wanted. Real good show, this. Not even Vicky Guerrero could kill it.

Well he (Konnan) was strong enough to take a piledriver tonight! His mic work was best of all though. I thought he was doing good in Impact as LAX's mouthpiece on their last go-round but this was straight fire. "You're from North Carolina, where the men are men and the sheep are afraid", "That's Spanish, you might wanna learn it so you can communicate with your grandchildren", it's not often you get someone who can go over the top of Tully fucking Blanchard but he did it. This was my first time seeing Hobbs in singles and he looks strong, though the humidity was clearly wearing everyone out quick until later. Kris Statlander also looked real good, as did Ethan Page who is gonna be a blast working a coffin match. Miro saying "thank you God for keeping my hot wife flexible" was third best line of the night. And hey guess what, Kenny Omega is tolerable if you slow him down! That was probably the best match/my favorite match I've ever seen him in, and yes I've seen all the New Japan stuff. Jungle Boy is gonna be a big big star for them.

You shouldn't listen to Russo and his bitch boy Billi Bhatti. Bhatti is a scumbag of the highest order.

The last time they did that I turned the WWE off for 15 years.

I think what you’re saying here speaks to the general confusion I see about what a “bottle episode” is these days. And I think a lot of that confusion comes from the term itself—people think that a bottle episode is when the show is being “bottled up,” being confined to smaller space/time/etc., literally making the show smaller for an episode. But that’s not at all what the term refers to! It actually refers to the exact opposite phenomenon—making an episode feel just as full as a “regular” episode despite significant constraints (smaller budget, core cast/sets only). It’s a reference to it being like a magic trick, “pulling a genie out of a bottle.” Just think, if that guy had said that they “pulled a rabbit out of a hat” instead, they’d be called “hat episodes” and there would probably be a lot less confusion. And the idea that bottle episodes primarily serve a function as character development episodes is another misconception. You can absolutely propel a narrative forward in massive ways using only core cast/sets, and many actual bottle episodes do. The truth is—and I’m going to sound like a pro wrestler scolding smart marks for using insider terms here—there’s no way to tell if something is a bottle episode unless you can see the budget and know the intent of the show runner. For instance, “Leslie and Ron” from the final season of PARKS & REC certainly looks like a bottle episode on the surface (it’s focused on two main characters who are locked in a single space over night), but in actuality it was one of the first stories conceived for that season and is intended to be the emotional heart of that season’s/the series’ story. They’re locked in together because that was the best way to resolve those characters’ conflict and put an exclamation point on the show’s overall theme, not because the show NEEDED to get smaller for that episode. Words have to mean something! And, really, the people to blame here are a certain generation of TV bloggers, who don’t actually know how the TV business works, incorrectly using a term they don’t understand to the point that it trains the general public to use it the wrong way, too. I’ve seen people at major publications (LOOKING AT YOU, RINGER) try to say that stuff like “International Assassin” and “Blackwater” and “Teddy Perkins” are bottle episodes, and I’m just like…what? Y’all are journalists? Anyway, yes, “Lamentis” is not a bottle episode. It’s just a regular ol’ episode of TV that happens to focus on two of the main characters going off on an adventure away from the main action. And a very good one, at that!

Lance picked apart the Pillman doc rather easily because, yeah, the stories I remember hearing back then about Pillman indicated he liked a good time and would f*** anything that moved. I thought Dark Side of the Ring treated him with kid gloves when it came to the topic of his infidelity. As Lance points out, Pillman was married and supposedly happy when he saw photos of Melanie in Penthouse, and decided he wanted to meet/sleep with/marry her. I mean, that says a lot about how he viewed his wife and kids, and relationships in general.

Yeah. D-Von used to do the seizure sell as well.

Writing for the WWE isn't all that different than any other serial drama but it's harder because it's live. You have to write within certain time limits because of live commercials. On top of it, you also have performers who have to also make sure they nail their cues and have to pause and react to an audience. And some of the performers may have just wrestled and have an injury or are just winded. Or some of the performers suck at performing or go into business for themselves and don't care about time constraints or where they're supposed to stand. Or a wrestler will get injured in the 6th minute of a 14 minute match. The only other show that's anything like the WWE in its format is Saturday Night Live. I really don't think wrestling fans appreciate just how fucking insane it is for the WWE to have consistently had live shows for this many years. It's always a huge deal if they miss a pinfall or something on camera. That's because their production is so ridiculously good that any mistakes really stand out. That's not to say that everything Kevin Dunn does works. But it's just nuts how they are able to pull together a few hours of live shows a week, especially factoring in all of the variables that can happen.

"Those responsible for sacking the people who have been sacked, have been sacked." And then replaced by llamas.

I wouldn't overthink it, Endgame broke it's own time travel rules with Old Cap.

Nobody can ever say he didn't pull his weight (of 48lbs?) in the team after that spot. Please don't tell me that got a two count, though! ...It got a two count, didn't it?

Hoping to get one with Tay Conti, Ikaru Shida, Thunder Ross and Dr. Britt Baker in AEW. Be funny to get training vignettes of Baker's preparation for such a thing. Hayabusa had a great look, great theme song and creator of two of my favourite moves, the Falcon Arrow and Phoenix Splash. Tragic what happened to him.

Here's the TNA one: Oh, TNA.

Any EWR players will know that if you played as another company on a real world mod, then your first 6-7 days WWE would cut like a 100 wrestlers and staff. 2021 is the real world equivalent of that.

It is very corporate to fire the person telling people that she had no knowledge of the product then firing the person who thought hiring someone with no wrestling experience was a great idea

A unique match and event, torrential rain.

I always wondered why they were called Sags and Knobbs, but thought it was best not to ask.

Johnny Valentne. Jack Brisco. 1975. NWA World Championship.

If Miss Minutes doesn't end up being Mephisto I'll have one of those head canon riots!

I have a sibling who is allegedly going to be on Parks and Rec on Thursday. I never made an attempt to get into Parks and Rec past the first episode. I need to rectify that.