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So apparently if (and only if) I use Firefox as the browser on my older tablet I can post pictures. Hooray! I will now post too many pictures! Start of the party: : End of the party: (Cooger's mask-free face blurred out): Meeting Yuka, who also got a mask: Yoshiki the promoter: : MMA guy Tetsu Kondo: . Dotonbori Pro wrestlers Kinron and Koyama: Back to work! I will prob. post several more in a few hours.

I always remember the Saturday Night episode with JR and Jason Hervey as the special guest calling the 2 out of 3 falls match between Big Josh and Arn Anderson because Hervey is being annoying as shit which eventually leads to JR asking Hervey if his cast mates like him as a person.

I made it through work OK yesterday but fell asleep immediately once I was done. No hangover yesterday, either! Got some nice messages from party hosts and attendees, apparently good times were had by all. I can post pictures on the site using Firefox, but I can't make paragraph breaks (?) So this'll be a wall of text followed by a(nother) bunch of (random) pictures. I'm gonna include a picture of Spel Delfin, cuz it illustrates the wrestling thing that was on my mind at the party. In that as much as Osaka Pro was a pro wrestling happy Camelot that I got to be part of there have been rifts and splits even in Osaka Pro's history. Some people there still harbour hard feelings toward Delfin. My friend Cooger/Kuuga split from the promotion. Camelots don't last forever. We are lucky if we get to experience their brief flourishing in person. Why am I thinking a lot about that this week in particular? Who knows. Also: Fuck CM Punk. But nothing is better than the atmosphere at a Kuuga party. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful park (Hamdera Koen, in Osaka). I got to see many friends that due to covid I haven't seen for over three years. And I got to make at least three new friends all of whom I will exchange big joyful greetings with the next time we meet. Maybe in December. It is very much an "if you are Cooger's friend then you are my friend" situation. I may very well be the only gaijin many of the 34 atendees and half a dozen hosts generally interact with. Maybe me and Quiet Storm. My Japanese is still the shits considering how long I have been here. Makes no difference. Everyone is so patient with me. 5 hours of non-stop drinking and eating and shooting the shit. Too much laughter. Many hugs and fist-bumps. I hope everyone has situations like this in their life. I remain utterly grateful that I can be part of this. What a gift. Speaking of: Oh boy is it hard to see while wearing that mask! I cannot believe Kuuga does his senton atomicos and other crazy stuff while visually impaired to that extent. Anything below knee level is basically invisible. While making my way to the convenience store to help with buying ice cream to be shared at the party, like everything everybody brought or bought was shared, I literally could not tell the difference between the mowed grass and the high grass until the high grass started tickling my shins. Did I wear the mask on the hour-plus train ride home? You know I did. I also wore it to the supermarket and the convenience store. I passed by an older man who was holding hands with (presumably) his tiny granddaughter. I almost plowed into her because I could barely see. Tragedy was avoided at the last moment. We both stopped. He whispered to the little girl. She bowed deeply and said "konnichiwa." I returned the courtesy. We all smiled and moved on.

Dudes, and I cannot stress this enough, rock.

Watching a 1992 episode of WCW Saturday Night and JR has gone off on how all tag title matches should be 2 out of 3 falls and said that Michael Hayes, a face in this match, was the only person in the country doing the moonwalk. Maybe he’s always been a grump.

Oh yeah! Now your talking!

Never liked Dan Wootton. Total twat.

Starting the new week a touch early with the news that GameDay will going to Boone, NC for Troy/App State Rece Davis flat out said they had planned on going to College Station for Miami/A&M So not only did App State win, they took the Aggies GameDay visit

From my mouth, to the great booker beyond's ears.

No matter how many times I look at it I can't make my brain view it as Country-Ass Boy only Country Ass-Boy making me think Gordy is somehow another one of Billy Gunn's relatives.

Continuing Wrestlemania 5! The Hart Foundation vs The Proto Rhythm and Blues So just to get timelines straight, HTM & Valentine teamed here just as a makeshift team to further the Jimmy vs Harts feud. Then they split up to work with Snuka (HTM) and Garvin (Valentine). THEN late in the year, reunited as Rhythm and Blues. Whew. Bret has switched from Ray Bans to mylar shades. Really good sub-eight-minute match. Bret, Honky, and Valentine (in that descending order) are great at what they do, and don't sleep on Neidhart as a perfectly good powerhouse and hot tag. Honky out here selling atomic drops like he and Rude made a bet backstage. I know I say it every time, but god dammit everything Bret does is so fucking smooth. Finish is really out of nowhere. Anvil chases Jimmy on the outside. Jimmy leaves his megaphone on the apron. HTM goes for it but Anvil throws it to Bret, who gloms Honky with it for the win. Really unexpected and abrupt. Still, excellent match with some real top-notch pros out there showing what you can still do with limited time. I recommend it. Ultimate Warrior (c) vs Rick Rude First, they show a recap of the posedown from the Royal Rumble (which I FFWD'd in my Rumble viewing), where Rude attacked Warrior and then Warrior lost his shit on the refs & agents. I'm astounded by how careless Warrior is with the agents in the ring (including Nick Bockwinkel who must be thrilled to have to sell for this choad). He's really throwing dudes with little concern for their safety. A harbinger of things to come. FUUUUUUUCK. Is there anyone in wrestling who achieved greater heights with so little in-ring skill than Warrior? I didn't remember him being this terrible so maybe he gets better? He's so bad here. So bad. The entire babyface shine is just lazy, Muraco-style turnbuckle whips and bear hugs. Warrior gets on offense, whips Rude from one corner, to the other, back again, and back again, like 4-5 times. Then he bearhugs him. WUT. It's crazy: Rude cuts him off briefly, but then Warrior gets back on offense...only to go to another bearhug. Fuck me. God bless Rick Rude. He's just bumping, selling, and stooging his ass off in a yeoman's effort to make this watchable. He was so fucking good. I legit LOL'd when, after having his back worked over, he tried for a hip swivel and sold not being able to do it because of the beating. What a god damn showman. Rest in peace. I hope he's in the afterlife telling those fat, out of shape, Valhalla sweathogs to keep the noise down so he can show the seraphim what a real man looks like. I swore, even back then, that Rude's airbrushed cartoon Warrior design on his tights was from an issue of Mad Magazine. I know I remember seeing that. Warrior is so fucking careless, clumsy, and downright WEAK it's shameful. In one scary spot, he picks up Rude for a backbreaker and hits it. Then he tries to do another one, almost drops Rude (who grabs Warrior and physically lifts himself back up to save himself), then stumbles all the way across the ring into the ropes while barely holding Rude. That could have been bad. Those muscles were definitely for show, not for go. This shit legit had me Googling why bodybuilders aren't strong. Match ends when Warrior tries to suplex Rude back into the ring, Heenan hangs onto his leg, and Rude "falls on top of Warrior" for the pin. In reality, Warrior lost control of Rude AGAIN and shoot brain bustered the guy. FUCK. Rude was so lucky not to be injured there. Rude runs off with the belt while weak-ass Warrior struggles to press slam Heenan, though Heenan is fully cooperating, then drops Bobby all cattywompus and out of control, causing him to land right on his shoulder instead. Trump, at ringside, would go on to emulate Warrior's political views and eloquent promo style. Terrible match by a guy who had no business in the ring, except the size queen in charge is desperate for another sexy muscle boy to replace the current aging muscle boy. I need to shout out Jesse and GAH-RELLA (As Jesse says it) again here. They're so good on commentary, as somewhere in here they playfully snipe each other over their advanced age for like the 14th time on the show. Three matches to go! Lucky for my sanity, the last two undercard matches barely pass four minutes combined. Maybe I can knock it all out tonight.

This is why you go back and read old Segundas while eating pizza in front of the laptop

https://www.theringer.com/wwe/2022/9/12/23349440/daniel-garcia-wheeler-yuta-roh-pure-championship-best-matches Garcia vs Yuta, Sheamus & co vs WALTER & friends, Mascha vs Speedball! Ishii vs Kingston, leader in our poll, doesn't even get a passing mention, though CaesaROH vs Dax, Besties vs DT, Sammy vs Darby, and Dragon vs Hangman all (deservedly) do.

Cash's Dory shirt rules

Voted for Ishii/Kingston, but loved Garcia/Wheeler and the Brutes/Imperium six man. I'm curious of this Hangman/DO-Factory trios bout from Saturday Dark.

I feel like I've said this in the baseball thread and the basketball thread already, but this is why a don't need to turn sports into a complex math problem. I get it, I'd like stats that are 1-1 when it comes to what I see and what the math says, but if the dude who threw 5 TDs and only 9 incompletions is ranked 8th you should probably throw that stat away.

Because PFF is stupid and people who rely on their stats are stupid

Dallas is getting ready for the Cam Newton experience.

Jade didn’t take a job with WWE supposedly for a few reasons, but one of them being the schedule would take away from time spent with her family. I can’t really fault the woman if she doesn’t want to take indie bookings that further adds to her weekly travel schedule, just so she can get in-ring reps in that she’s not currently getting.

Dax's "I LUV THIS BUSINESS AND YOU BETTER NOT TAKE FOOD OUT OF MAH FAMLEE'S MOUTH" act is getting really tired, though. But his role as tag team main eventer who is also a singles JTTS guaranteed to give you a good singles match when you need him is interesting.

I think when most people talk about weeping tears of joy it means more than when I talk about it. Because I cry a happy tear or two about twice a month, on average. Because my life is awesome. Last time I actually wept for joy was in Jan or Feb of 2019, coming home on the train from the Shinnenkai (start of the year party) with Cooger/Kuuga/Asian Cooger/Cougar etc etc and our many mutual friends. I had to bury my face in a towel. I was howling with joy. I was also hilariously drunk. Last time I wept with sadness was unexpectedly hearing Ol' 55 while riding the train. I bet I have cried hard on trains more than most people (three times). And I also drank hard and non-stop for over five hours today. So I might get vulgar, telling today's tale. Today - drunk as I was (very) - it was just a couple of tears. That's more usual, for me. But. Fuckity fucking fuck, listen to this: Cooger gave me one of his old masks. It is mine now. I am, forevermore and officially, The Gaijin Cooger now. A nice young lady named Yuka, who was one of maybe half a dozen people at the BBQ with whom I did not already have a connection (but with whom I am now inextricably connected forever) also got one. A mask, that is. fucking fuckity fuck it fucking sucks that I can't post pictures on this site any more. Oh boy do I have some nice pictures from the puroresu party. With Cooger, with my old friend Kenji, with Yoshiki the promoter who hooked me up with tix to Big Japan and to Jaguar Yokota's joshi promotion with MMA promoter Tetsu Kondo who very nearly convinced me to take one last submission grappling match a few years back... with old friends and indie wrestlers, hanging out and cooking and laughing and so on. If Natch or Octo or someone wants to post pics from my Facebook, feel free. Some folks like seeing those. I will post a bunch. I am Gaijin Cooger! Holy fucking hell am I happy right now.

I'll catch the rest tomorrow but holy smokes (tm Daddy Magic) was Athena vs Emi ever good.

Fuck, now all I can think of is "I'm dyin' in this country ass motherfucker."

Mexican death matches sometimes have windshields!

That tweet has huge Nate Silver "My model is hyper-accurate, it's the polls that were wrong" energy.

Matt Berry and my all time favourite TV personality, Mr Bob Mortimer are very good friends and in Mortimer's book he describes Berry as a wholly unpretentious gem of a man who giggles like a big cuddly baby when amused and that the two along with Reece Shearsmith will meet for drinks occasionally with the sole purpose of gossiping about which of their comedy contemporaries are currently sitting around the dining table of 'The Lucky Club' with Berry being particularly hilariously ruthless in his assessments. To be a fly on the wall... Berry's increasingly ridiculous pronunciations of New York City in Shadows cracks me the fuck up every single time too but he's just one of those dudes that could read the phone book (they still produce phone books? I have no idea) out loud and be hilarious. That Go Flip Yourself episode was a billion trillion stars. Speaking of Mortimer, the new series of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing started at the weekend, I posted about it before in the TV shows not from the States thread but, if you can watch it, please do. It's hilarious, life affirming and one of the most perfect TV shows ever made.

Someone at SNY was really having fun at their job yesterday:

I had to put this here Now I should note that Spirit Halloween sent the family a second doll because they didn't want Chloe to be alone so when the portal to hell opens, y'all know who to blame

I remembered the password to the DVDVR Youtube account (again) so I found things that @DEANwould be interested in (and possibly has already watched) Gangrel/John Skyler vs. The Revolt (Caleb Konley/Zane Riley) FOR THE STRAPS~! (OSCW 07-10-22) Logan Easton Laroux vs. Bobby Shields Logan Easton Laroux vs. Tim Spriggs

This man is clearly from a mirror universe. You have to kill him to preserve the integrity of our universe before things begin to unravel. Or, he has already caused things to unravel so killing him should stop things as they are.

Sami > *

Or "One Track Lover" from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Not having a downfield threat will be right in Cam's wheelhouse of already checking down.

Given all the games played this Sunday, you might have to be more specific, Brian.

He doesn't want us to know how much better it would be without him.

I like that idea a lot. When WCW blew up with the nWo angle they would still go out and tape WCW Saturday Night episodes in C markets with just the C level workers of the time. AEW should consider something similar. You don't false advertise any stars. Just market it as AEW Dark tapings on the road. Run the smallest arenas you can. 3,000 seaters. Set them up to max out at 1,000. Try to break even on ticket sales. It's not about making money tho, it's a loss leader to get experience for the younger roster and pet projects. Could be really helpful in the long run. Almost like a more upscale version of the NXT coconut loop.

HARDCORE IS PUNK NOT METAL JESUS

If you told me the Texans would be tied for first place in the AFC South yesterday I wouldn't have believed you. But look, we're really tied for first place Tied. for first place. Tied.

Chozen being both the baddest motherfucker and the comic relief is so fantastic.

I think it is obvious after today that the Sun Belt Conference is a Power 5 ?

It's extremely amusing to me that Cornette somehow thinks Rollins is a great pro wrestler and Omega is the worst to ever do it, at the same time

They look to be about the same size. But Roman is every inch a Heavyweight, and Leon is World Champion at Welterweight (170 lbs in the UFC; Welterweight is 147 in Boxing).

Baby Waltman with some real Steiner Brothers-ass tights training with Boris Malenko

Like the Anna Jay, Adam Cole and Abadon suggestions. I'd suggest Penta so he can't fucking annoy me any more with his spamming taint ability. I'm keeping that autocorrect in.