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If you look really carefully, there are also birds, possibly seagulls, in that picture.

Pretty cool that they've hired Amanda to be on the Community Outreach team.

Well, we've seen the mountain top and boy is it glorious.

What interested me the most in the Danielson match was how Suzuki's bonkers masochism threw him from his sort of overbearing zen confidence and lightness for the first time all year. And that only interested me so much here because it just meant they hit each other some more and harder and that's not really what I want out of a Danielson match, but it was an awesome preview for what's going to happen when he has to face another guy who he won't be able to intimidate or shake or move in the least in Orange Cassidy. Now that'll be something way more interesting to watch than a couple of guys really hitting each other as hard as they can.

Suzuki/Danielson was fucking motherfucking fucking AWESOME.

Same sickness, different disease.

My God I needed to smoke a pack after Bryan / Suzuki and I don’t even smoke. Holy shit!

Once again, never trust anyone who says, "It isn't about race, it's about illegal immigration." Matter of fact, don't trust anyone who says, "It's not about race, it's about ______ (fill in the blank.).

Me, just arriving home, after eating 3 Carnitas Burritos.

if the Captain was openly gigging himself in that gif, it would be a depiction of how several Lou matches ended in the 70s/80s

You're soon going to do a write-up so convincing it forces me to genuinely reconsider Orange Cassidy and I'm scared. Keep up the good work.

Taz had it right during Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki: "If you are not watching this on YouTube you are a dumbass. Sorry. You're as dumb as a box of rocks."

I loved Bryan vs MiSu. Right up there with WALTER vs Dragunov and Ishii vs Moose in my personal MOTY list. For me, the best thing was that the crowd was not hot at all for the two opening matches (even though Fish v Moriarty was excellent and the always-wonderful Tay Conti was in the opener) but then Danielson and Suzuki drew them in 100 percent using only strike exchanges, mat work, and character work. I love that the knuckle-lock got a "this is awesome!" chant. I get that there are people who are philosophically opposed to strike exchanges on principle… but THAT is how they should be done. They were obviously dancing the dance and responding to the crowd, and they really worked those exchanges for all they were worth. Real, actual, pro wrestling in action right there. Loved it. Really enjoyed Sydal vs Punk and Bunny vs Soho as well. My nitpick of the week is that they followed up a “skin of his teeth” match with a “skin of her teeth match” which is a pretty minor nit. Safe to say the ring rust is off of Punk now? Bunny is a really good heel. It was funny that the worst aspect of Dos Santos in the ring was his punches. Presumably, he was being too careful to avoid actually hurting Jericho. I popped for how happy he looked just before hitting the powerslam. I’m still enjoying the ATT stuff, and the sing alongs… I think if someone doesn’t enjoy Lambert’s angry grandpa act, there’s a pretty good chance that they are an angry pro wrestling grandpa. Awesome two hours of pro wrestling action. Maybe the best thing, as @Matt D pointed out above, is how Suzuki drew something out of Bryan that we haven’t seen from him recently. That was great.

I have not seen two guys saunter into a ring and produce a classic like that with such effortless brutality in a long time, if ever. My God, man My balls feel like concrete. And then every second of the actual televised show overachieves. Junior Dos Santos looked like he was having the time of his life. Bountiful amount of pro wrestling joy. My Crockett Cup runneth over.

Not really. Speaking of Rampage in particular, getting the key demo to watch *anything* regularly at Friday nights at 10PM is a struggle. It's really about calibrated expectations. Ultimately you could make a case for trying to move it to Thursday down the line, but the fact that they got a second show on TNT so quickly is an achievement in itself. The bigger picture is you have arenas and TV companies who are *very happy* doing business with this upstart wrestling company.

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By the angle they're going with, he's Clubber Lang, about to invite Brandi back to his apartment to show her what a real man is like. HEY WOMAN! HEY WOMAN!

and it lives on among people who did some training with Robert Gibson

Please note that Jake Hagar is quietly awesome.

We have matches of the year, wrestlers of the year, whatever else. This is my leader in the clubhouse like fucking Secretariat for move of the year. The sound!

I’m ready to watch Suzuki vs Danielson and Punk vs Sydal on my brand new 4K TV I just bought yesterday. Let’s fuckin’ go.

I am so old I spent about ten seconds thinking "wow, a trade in-season with a division rival" before remembering the Cards and Eagles haven't been in the same division for almost two decades

It’s Friday, Friday, Gotta get down *with watching way too much wrestling* on Friday. - Rebecca Black, 2011

Dude, his entire tenure as the Football team president was a never ending string of him throwing everyone around the team under the bus. The NFL needs to get in front of any bullshit that he might be a part of, because he is shameless.

Pity Paul Wight with tunnels:

On the topic of Cody… ???

So looking forward to Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki. Hope it gets the required time. I can see Danielson/Suzuki going on first. Hot crowd and making sure the opener gets the required time as AEW's had some timing issues with things going long causing things to go short.

Beyond Good and Evil, innit? The owners of Arthur Ashe stadium took out a full page ad in the Sports Business Journal. So presumably, they really want AEW back (or WWE to come in).

They were saying Ryan Galeone was 6'7", and he does this.

Thank you, Bryan Danielson. Thank you, Minoru Suzuki.

So who had a match on AEW's B show pre show (say that 3 times fast) ending up on moty lists..... Feels like one of those times where AEW inadvertantly overshadows lots of other good stuff by having one thing be like... too awesome and I can't believe that's something that is even possible. Really liked Ruby and Bunny, wondering who Ruby is gonna get as a partner against Penelope and Allie down the road. Fish has been outstanding in his two outings since getting here. I popped hard for the Gunn Club joke during Dark Order's promo too. Man, Matt Sydal has these sneaky moments where he makes people remember how good he can be, he had that banger vs. Kenny earlier this year now this. Really liking how Punk adjusts based on his opponents too. I know the talk of him being "happy" for the first time ever but this is reminding me of modern Tanahashi where the experience is really shining through which is weird for a dude who was off for 7 years. And yes, because I'm sure we all shouted it, Kaze Ni Nare~

STIFF.

Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki was well worth losing sleep over. What a match that was!

Shaq and now Dos Santos. Aging and former athletes taking random table bumps rules ass. Someone go find out if Phil Mickelson likes wrestling!

It was better when the primary local entertainment people had was wrestling territories.

This is just Mr Lahey's Tinder photo

Cody named his daughter "Liberty," has a MURICA neck tattoo, drives a big pickup truck despite doing zero manual labor, and sort of intimated that he thinks racism is dead. I'd say he's Infowars' target demo and is just trying to throw us off the scent. ? Seriously, if Cody tweeted about Sandy Hook being a false flag, half of us wouldn't bat an eye and half of us would applaud him for continuing whatever Andy Kaufman-esque 4D chess work we suspect him of carrying out.

? He's just a sexy boy. Sexy BBBBOOOOOYYYYYY?

There I was last night, lying on the sofa minding my own business when suddenly Sandra Violet jumps of the armrest and lannds on me with a frickin Superfly Splash. I'm lying there gasping for air and I hear a tiny voice count out "ONE! TWO! TWEEE!!! I WIN!" Thus did begin Sandra Violet's 312th reign as Harris Family World Champion (formerly the Baby Wrestling world Championship) James

It's really starting to feel like the NFL's strategy is, "Let's just cover our shit in leaves, and hope no one comes sniffing around." Except now that people are sniffing, the smell is overwhelming.

Well, if Malakai Black is What, and Jim Neidhart is Who then what about How? Why? When?

We were talking about Mysterio/Guerrero from WCW Halloween Havoc 1997 at the start of the month. The degree of difficulty was so high and everything was nailed. A ***** match.

Lawful Good Heel vs Chaotic Evil Face (or even lawful good character who gets heel reactions vs chaotic evil character who gets cheers) is a genuinely fun pro wrestling idea, regardless of what the original intentions might have been. If this was the intention all along, it's straight-up genius.

TIL what TIL means

That's a hell of a trailer.