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Haven't posted in a bit, took a bit of a social media and online break after I hurt my ankle back at the start of the year and was feeling depressed, especially after I was laid up on the couch wearing a walking boot. Good news is that I got the boot off last week and I'm doing well!

It's funny that Haku looks like such a kindly grandpa now when he could, no doubt, still rip your face off.

This Wrestle-1 show has: -Terry Funk and Mil Mascaras having a very fun legends match with Honma/Nakajima -AJ Styles and Kaz Hayashi doing the most -Murakami trying to kill Tenryu with a broken bottle -Sasaki and Choshu going at it -Shibata and Akiyama trying to kill each other with their bare hands. Like the man used to say: you want ALL of this. OK, maybe not the Predator match. https://archive.org/details/wrestle-1-2005.08.04-wrestle-1-grand-prix-first-round

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XGy50Hsx2Mw Funniest thing you'll see all day.

“We’re told that the company has been hoping and at least tentatively planning for Kazuchika Okada to be in the fold by the March 6 episode of Dynamite.” -Fightful Select Happy birthday to me.

The long lost cousin Jimmy Jack Earp.

Terry as Denzel's friend

Visiting a close friend in NC for the weekend and we got to talking about wrestling (he isn't a huge fan). Long story short, him, my daughter, his girlfriend and myself will all be attending AEW Revolution. It will be my daughters first wrestling show ever and she'll be getting to see Sting's final match. She's so excited.

that's the most Arn Anderson promo eulogy he could have given

March sees Sting's last wrestling match at AEW Revolution, my last birthday in my 30s next Wednesday, NJPW 52nd Anniversary Show and the build towards WWE WrestleMania XL. The first quarter of 2024 comes to an end, gone quick.

"Liked" just for the Suzie Greene reference. I assumed it was a Julie Winters tribute but I also admit that's probably too deep a reference. Note to Americans, "getting pissed with the missus" means something different in the UK. I need to rewatch the Austin Powers "let's speak English English" scene to get ready for Will's run. Other notes: God damn, The Bang Bang Scissor Gang is a waste of everyone involved, which is a tremendous accomplishment in mediocrity. Its only saving grace would be if it ends in a blood feud where Billy Gun is forcibly retired and the belts are unified. When did FTR changed the name of their finish back to "Shatter Machine?" They had been calling it "The Big Rig" in tribute to Brodie Lee. "40 extra black bats" is in Sting's rider with every venue.

I haven’t read Ole’s book. Here’s part of the review from Bill at DDTDigest:

It's too bad the Good Brosephs are over on NXT now, they could be screwing up the tag scene over here too EDIT: Shamefully, The Wrestler was exiled to ROH after he became ALL ELITE instead of getting the spot Moneybags is gonna have. Good job boys. EDIT II: You know, the American Triple Crown actually wouldn't be a bad secondary World title for all these guys to be fighting over, if you want to keep Smo Joe and MJeff and Bad Hair Day and Hungmin and Who's House and Bladefreak in the running for the actual one. (I'm leaving out Storytime, he sucks.)

I think the strangest moment I've had with meeting an athlete was when I met Clinton Portis. I remember looking at him and thinking, "were about the same size," then I looked at his forearm while he was signing something and it looked like the muscles in his forearm were replaced by steel cables. I'm about 5'7 and can be in damn good shape at about 200 lbs. I'm not tall, but I'm a big strong guy. Portis looked like he could ball me up and shoot me like a fake jumpshot.

For anyone who wants to gauge whether they want to snag the Coffin Joe set or not, he's got three movies on Shudder (so maybe Prime too) this month: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (the first two in the initial Ze do Caixao trilogy) and The Strange World of Coffin Joe. And also they got Perdita Durango which you should see if you haven't because it's among the most bonkers shit to ever hit celluloid.

He hasn't been seen or mentioned since he lost the rematch with Oba Femi at V-Day, and if he's injured I haven't heard about it. I've been wondering what happened too.

Magnus should come out like the Polish band that is his namesake

I did Pilates. Enjoyed that. Cancelled my appointment with Dr Chadwick and the doctor I don't like for next week. Not happy with Dr Chadwick for that or the mental health nurse either when I said I'll think about it. Will wait to get put on the Trazodone 50mg with Dr Eldridge. Shame it's a fortnight away.

Short answer: check the lucha folder for recommendations and YT links for folks like Hechicero.

Stupid sexy Kojima

I wonder if the outpouring of people who talk about how great he was and how much they respected him, will cause an uptick in votes and get him into the WON HOF. I have to say that it'd be pretty funny for him to get in after he passes. Considering that his reaction to getting passed over 20 years ago was basically "I don't give two shits about this goddamn hall of fame!"

I like Ricky Morton’s even better…”Ole would be mad eating ice cream.”

I'm a big believer that your top singles title and tag titles should both carry the same weight and gravitas, where both should regularly main event shows. So I would have no issue putting my tag champs over

I mostly tuned out on them after Joshua Tree and definitely after Achtung Baby but their first couple albums when they were a young, hungry band who wrote ringing melodic rock songs and some sharp political anthems were amazing. “I Will Follow” makes my arm hair stand in end still. And the martial snare beat to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is perfect. I just about wore through my cassette of Under a Blood Red Sky (never saw them live, really wish I had back in those days although really Joshua Tree was the first tour I probably would have been allowed to go to if I could’ve afforded it). My first college girlfriend made me a really great, eclectic mix tape and “All I Want is You” was on there and I hadn’t thought about that tape of that song in years but yeah, it’s way up there. Has the heart of the early stuff but the epic anthemic tone of Mark II without drifting into the eventual self-indulgence. Man, I am going to have to listen to some early U2 tomorrow!

On the flip side, we can fantasy book Terry into movies from 1984 onward. Terry Funk in Unforgiven. Terry Funk in Con Air. Etc etc

I'm a big believer in the (Bill Watts?) philosophy that a regular tag team should always defeat two regular singles competitors thrown together in a one-off. Conversely, when a guy that regularly works tag matches works a singles match against a regular singles competitor, the tag guy should lose. Booking logic.

"Mr. Rogowski, we appreciate your opposition to the War but our group doesn't agree with all the slurs you used to describe certain people"

Reading the WrestlingClassics Ole thread and one poster mentions that David Crockett said Ole Anderson's favorite publication was Mother Jones.. which is certainly a little bit of a surprise Let me attach the Wikipedia description of Mother Jones for the unaware: There's no shortage of crabby people who could potentially be MoJo readers. Just remembered that the title of Ole's book could have been a hint... that book being titled "Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling". Yeah, I can imagine Ole's perpetual ball of anger being focused on rich fucks that were a pain in his ass when he worked with Turner/TBS.

Henry Rollins on U2 and Sting. Yes, I'm baised. I'm a huge Henry Rollins fan. https://www.tiktok.com/@thejonheimer/video/7172580206581026094

HAKU watches the Shockmaster debut for the first time ever: https://twitter.com/DarkSideOfRing/status/1763293822555947064

We're getting back into those glory days of "I have no idea what he's saying but I understand what's happening" now that Will Osprey is here.

Tana needs to go full NJPW dad and start working tags only if he wants to keep going in the ring, maybe the occasional singles for special occasions

I feel like they won't go the multiman match way other than maybe to decide who challenges Gunther. Right now they are just putting forward multiple names to keep people guessing.

Guys can you believe we actually booked this match?

This month sees the first AEW PPV of the year, Revolution this weekend featuring Sting's last match. There's talk Kazuchika Omega and Mercedes Mone are All Elite too. We shall soon see!

There are other clips edited in like Dave LaGreca you can skip, not sure if that would save you much time. About 9 min in is when he sort of explains why Cody gave him the shot, around 14 min is when he starts to dig in on Seth but 18 min on is the final run. I like that he got in some old school live date promotion in at the end

Slight chance that "Fuck your story" becomes a 2024 motto/chant.

SummerSlam will be announced soon. The rumour millz says it will be in Cleveland, Ohio.

and, if i'm remembering the story correctly, someone (i think Jericho?) convinced Juvi to put it on his tights as a rib

The only benches that are itemized are the Chocobo Stops, which only unlock after you catch the region's wild Chocobo. There are still regular benches that are unlimited use. So, thoughts 5 hours in: I think the intro is just telling us how fucked the timelines are right now after whatever occured during the ending of Remake. I loved Remake so I'll just finish this before I say anything about the story. So I wasted about a hour looking around at stuff before progressing through the first 3 stops post Calm and unlocking the Chocobo and Chadley's stuff, and now the game is wide open and there's a fuckton to do. I do know that all Chadley's shit is region specific so I'm going to clear it out a region at a time, so it's going to take me a while to get out of teh Grasslands and move onto the Mythril Cave and Junon. I can see this game taking forever. I'm ok with the crafting as it seems a cheaper alternative to get stuff (possibly better than store stuff?) given the abundance of materials and how quickly they and other fiends respawn. I do like how regular stuff are in yellow chests and equipment are purple. It also looks like the Folio is doubling as Remake's Weapon upgrade stuff, as it looks and acts like the Sphere Grid from 10, which given some other theories and how the Fiends "die", makes a lot of sense depending on how you feel about the "7 and 10 are in the same universe" theory. I do like the Weapons' unique abilties go quickly. Also, that non-active party members also get XP and Materia levels as you go, although I'm guessing there's some issue with Synergy if you don't swap around when needed.

Would it be okay if Juicey Boy came back from injury to challenge Knife Pervert for custody of Ass Boys? Would that possibly be SOMETHING interesting for them to do that isn't this horseshit?

To tie this back around, I have tomorrow off work so I want to watch some wrestling. Does anyone have any recommendations on the CMLL guys who are appearing on Rampage?

That Rumble match made me finally "get" the appeal of Greg Valentine.

Baby Terry

We’re gonna get a fucking Cerebro Lock from the man himself in the year of our lord 2024 on a show in honor of DEAN. What a world.

That’s how you end up with Action Andretti. but for real, they did that with Top Flight-Young Bucks, and it was basically the year-long storyline for Skye Blue.