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Trent Beretta as a singles heel on this AEW roster sounds like a good way to end up like Ortiz, right down to losing the blowoff match on Rampage. He's a million times more relevant and useful to the brand as a competent workhorse tag guy. Even if Chuck can't come back, Beretta/Romero is a perfectly fine low-card team with OC as the "big brother" who can help them punch above their weight from time to time.

Bring the Bunny back and let her teach Skye how to blade.

God dammit thanks for putting that song in my head.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJCTtOxXkAA2iDq?format=jpg&name=900x900 This official poster for Eddie Kingston vs. Kazuchika Okada is one of the best AEW's ever done.

Ah, what a week for All Elite. The return of the Lionheart! Eddie Kingston got a challenger! And the tag team tournament! WOW! Here's what's on tap for this week! Also, some rearrangement in the AEW corporate structure? Eh, whatever, I'll be over here vibin'...

Agreed huge - I almost didn't want to address it because I feel like folks are probably getting tired of me complaining about it, but yeah, this needs to be dealt with swiftly. Rankings returning were a good step, but it's still too damn muddy. If I had the pencil tomorrow, the move is: 1) ROH belt back to ROH and my God, only ROH 2) Bring Hacksaw in for a cameo, and throw that Strong belt right in the f'n garbage (Just kidding... send it back to your partners in a respectful and constructive manner. Probably DHL) 3) Continental title and International title are unified into the AEW Intercontinental title. 4) I go back to complaining about the white ropes instead

Repeat after me guys, there is no Triple Crown. It’s only that because Eddie has three titles. It’s not a singular championship comprised of multiple titles, like how it was in All Japan. Put anyone in Eddie’s place in the tournament last year, and someone would still win the Continental title. I still think it was a mistake to make that entire tournament for a title in addition to a trophy. It should’ve been a trophy + #1 contender status for the World title.

Would "dreading" not be the more appropriate verb?

My theory is that they reintroduced the rankings before they realized that Dark and Elevation were load-bearing for those to work.

The tournament wasn't for the Triple Crown. It was for the Continental Championship. Kingston threw the other two belts, that he already held, into the mix. So, it wasn't ever a unification thing. It was more akin to when Omega won a bunch of belts a couple years ago. It let Kingston have his Kawada moment, and now they're probably going to break them up.

Finally saw THE IRON CLAW. Enjoyed it, but DEWEY COX so thoroughly deconstructed the biopic genre, I couldn’t help but think of the Tim Meadows/drug bit every time Kevin had a heart to heart with his brothers prior to them meeting their fate. DON’T GO TO JAPAN, DAVID! BE CAREFUL ON YOUR BIKE, KERRY!

A Pebbles song? Aging Yourself 101 by Dolfan.

Hook over here channelling '80s Glenn Danzig

SUPER PUMPED for tonight!

Enjoy Infinit and HarryArchieGus watching live in person. Look forward to your reviews!

I'm liking Rampage following Dynamite. I know it's because of the NCAA tournament, but I wouldn't mind more back to back Dynamite/Rampage.

I kept expecting CRITICAL to flash on the screen after any one of Hook’s suplexes.

Winning through the power of friendship is almost literally the ethos of this entire promotion. Like, it’s called All Friends Wrestling online for a reason.

it was a tough year of Ippei betting overs on Iowa CFB games

Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Re: the Continental Title Eddie got to take a pic posing like Kawada so it was all worth it(?)

Maybe Okada can win the belt, then throw it in the trash to discredit Eddie's legacy.

The other option for this week was taken by AEW themselves, so, you can blame them for this not being "Mo Moné, Mo Problems"

Right! Killing it off three months after it was unified is ridiculous. Maybe every year, the three champions will put their belts in the pile for the Continental Classic. So AEW has the four men's singles belts on their TV, not counting the ROH belts. World TNT International Continental Worse, it's not like any of them are "gimmick" belts like Pure, Hardcore, UWFI Rules, whatever. What is the point of the Continental title as opposed to the International title? I love AEW but this is a shitshow. EDIT: @Casey thanks for the clarification. While the Eddie thing made for a great storyline for the tournament, it really muddied everything regarding what the tournament was actually for. And I completely agree that it didn't need to be for an actual new championship.

I worked at a local video rental store. Still the best job I've ever had. After the store was closed, it wasn't unusual for those of us closing up to have a drink or smoke while shutting down. One night, the owner (a pretty eccentric dude) pulls up as we're closing. He drags in this big cooler full of beer. "You guys want this? I've been out on the lake all day and have a bunch left." We're all like, "Uh, we're not 21." He says, "Yeah, I know. I sign your paychecks. I know how old you all are. Do you want it or not?" Got hammered that night on him.

Uggggh. So we're going backwards with regard to having too many titles.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=88lJEv4ZoTg&pp=ygURTmFnYXRhIHZzLiBTYXNha2k%3D Yuji Nagata vs. Kensuke Sasaki NSFW video package.

I have zero knowledge of Pat McAfee except I see his show on the TVs at the gym sometimes. There's no sound but, hosting the show in a fucking tank top, he seems like a massive douchebag.

I'm surprised we didn't get Stat or Willow turning on one another tonight. I feel like it's coming and I can see reasons for either one to turn.

How the fuck was the tombstone->Blue Thunder not the finish for Takeshita/Romero? It would have been perfect, and having Romero kick out only to lose to something less impressive was silly. That's something you should either lose to or kick out of on the way to winning. There are at least 13 people furiously cranking the weasel over the close up of Statlander's back full of tacks, and I hope I never meet any of them.

RIP to legendary character actor M Emmett Walsh, who has died at age 88. DEAN once described his character from Blood Simple as looking like he had placed individual baked beans over each of his teeth and I could never see him without thinking of that.

Oh nooooo. This almost physically hurt me to read!! Respectfully but firmly disagreeing to the maximum degree possible. I had this thought too, but if you consider those two-ish hours having been made up with the advent of Collision, it's almost a lateral move (save for those wild long ones during the beginning of the pandemic, but that was a different animal for obvious reasons). At the end of the day, if there was a real commitment to the idea of them, and this was the problem, you could just start making ROH canon towards them or something, try your hand at a small house show circuit, or even just go with the ol' "Rio de Janiero" from time to time - there are a million different ways. Honestly, I cracked up at @Curt McGirtsaying they're just for PWI kids because this post and my belt post from earlier are totally exhibit A of that argument

I was going to do an addendum, but this is a good enough place to add what I was to add: 1. Apparently, this is going to be that spread over 10 years. None of that covers the lawyer fees, which will be massive. 2. None of that changes what was the primary goal and the crux of the lawsuit: changing the language in contracts, which favor the company and not at all beneficial to the fighter especially when the UFC was making a lot of money in 2014 and is now making an incredible amount of money in 2024. Those contracts where copied by everyone in the MMA space. So this settlement allows the UFC to keep doing business as they plan to do business and have been doing. I just saw the tweet from Nate Quarry and yeah, it seems like the fighters involved need the money and ten years was all they could hold out.

Rankings have never been anything more than an aesthetic twist that people who read a lot of PWI as kids are into. Betcha a million that Sasha has a clause in her contract that there is more federation-wide attention to be paid to women. Or at least a handshake agreement.

I don’t think there’s a rumored story but more of a “read between the lines” sort of story. His first match of the tour is July 16th, his final match is July 28th. He doesn’t work a single singles match. Working tags with Dr. Death, Richard Slinger, and a few shots with The Eagle and Kurt Beyer. After that, he never works All-Japan again. So it feels like they took a look without putting him in singles matches, and decided that it wasn’t gonna work with the talent they had then.

Marvin Harrison Jr has opted to not work out at the Ohio State Pro Day He also didn't work out at the combine He will now drop like a stone, end up in KC and we will all be enraged

TIMEUNDERTENSIONBRAH~! I mean in his defence, if he's doing 360+bar for reps even with sleeves and shitty ROM he's still fairly strong. Apparently people do wear knee sleeves at meets sometimes so idk. It might be worth asking him non-judgementally. I will update in a bit.

When he's on, Booker is fucking fantastic. When he's off, silence would be better. Tonight was entirely the latter. (Roxy trying to break Lyra's arm a couple weeks back was the best of both worlds--I hate his "shucky ducky quack quack" shit, but when he said it in that incredibly solemn voice it was perfect)

Oh my, those two episodes were just delightful. This is fantastic. Episode 2 was probably the best one, but the first was great too. That X-Men versus Sentinels & Master Mold fight was awesome, the entire X-Ecutioner at the UN fight scene (Psylocke! Colossus! I love Morph)…. My favorite little bit was Jean going into labor, saying “he’s here” and Wolverine being so dumb and thick and saying, “Who’s here?! Apocalypse???” Hahahaha. Rogue is still my favorite. The impending love triangle between Magneto, her and Gambit will be interesting. That can’t be the end of Storm on this show, surely. That’s crazy if so. I love this so much.

I forgot all about that Misawa match which I LOVED when I first saw it, long long ago. This is it right, the '91 match? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9clhS4ucy0

WrestleWar '92 notes: Wrestling in the background really helps me get work get done, strangely. Kinda like music without lyrics does, but weirdly I guess Tony S. or Jim Ross yammering on is somehow as soothing and focusing as Chopin or [insert random Youtuber who does lofi remixes of video game OSTs] here. There are four announcers for this show for some reason. Only two (Jesse and JR) get much burn, though. I can't believe anyone found the Freebirds to be cool and/or awesome as babyfaces. The off-beat clapping to their own music is shameful. Hayes and Garvin are always mega-heels in my house. They're wrestling Terry Taylor and Greg Valentine, so I'm pretty much in hell. The early spot with all the dropdowns was contrived, and it didn't get better for me from there. This is obviously not my kind of match. I thought Taylor won it with the Flying Steak Wrap, but no, the match unmercifully continued. After about fifteen years of "action," Garvin hooks Taylor, backdrops a charging Valentine, and drops Taylor with a DDT for the win and the U.S. Tag Championships. I think they're the penultimate champs, if I recall correctly. There really aren't enough tag teams in the company to carry these titles, especially considering that Watts is now running the show and will try to re-establish the NWA Tag Championships as well. Tracy Smothers/Johnny B. Badd is kind of a WCW-ass WCW matchup. Badd isn't any good(d) yet since it's still only 1992. Ventura thinks that the way Badd acts, he would like to wear a pretty dress, so Ross points out that Ventura liked to wear boas. Take that, tiny little box that people try to shove others into! Badd is quite over as a babyface with this crowd. There's a surprising amount of squeeing from the ladies. I am somewhat surprised that a bunch of Southern ladies are into Badd, who is both passing as black and is presented as, um, fluid of sexual orientation. I think it speaks to Mero's natural charisma that he's somehow over as a babyface in 1992 WCW with those characteristics. This match isn't very good, either - I am somewhat lower on Tracy Smothers than most DVDVR readers, I would guess. Smothers is a man of dualities. He hits a terrible, goofy double-thrust that he learned from the Stan Lane school of martial arts, but then he goes up top and hits a gorgeous diving back elbow. Whenever I see Smothers, he comes across as just a bit too goofy for me, specifically when he's not in a position where goofiness is called for. But at least this match is shorter, and the Kiss that Don't Miss is a nice worked punch, so I was ultimately okay with it. No, please don't let the Freebirds cut a victory promo. Aw, they let the Freebirds cut a victory promo. There is absolutely nothing likeable about Michael Hayes, and I am baffled that anyone would ever let him be a babyface. Honestly, even just Dok Hendrix hitting a WEEEEEELLLLLLL is a punchable offense. Raven vs. Buff Daddy Scotty Flamingo vs. Marcus Alexander Bagwell seems like it could be good because I am extremely high on Flamingo as a worker. I am less high on Bagwell, but it's okay. Ross and Jesse bickering on commentary is excellent because both guys are pretty quick thinkers and Ross can hang with Ventura. Flamingo and Bagwell just stand there and slap each other at one point, so that's cool. I think they do a decent job of making things feel a little heated. The rest of the match is a little boilerplate, and I'm not sure Bagwell was ever better than adequate as a singles worker, but I didn't hate it. Anyway, Flamingo cheats his way to a flash pinfall victory. JYD and Ron Simmons vs. Mr. Hughes and Cactus Jack is definitely a WCW-ass WCW matchup. JYD is physically cooked, so of course Cactus does whatever he has to do to make this match work. Or the pre-match, as it were, because before the bell even rings, Foley eats some punches, but runs the Dog into the side of the ramp and then drops a Cactus Elbow from the ramp to the concrete. It was as awesome as it reads. Dellinger's useless ass is out here. Sorry, there aren't any nWo members around to push through your ineffectively-led security, and you're not a paramedic, so hit the bricks, Dellinger. I think that's Chris Benoit out here working security, though, so maybe they'd actually be effective for once. The Dog gets led out and Ron Simmons wrestles this as a handicap match. Big Cat is worthless; could we not have just had JYD and Hughes second their partners, who are actually good workers in 1992, for a singles match instead? Even worse, this match actually is a singles match, but the officials decide that Hughes will be the one to wrestle it, with Foley on the outside. Come on, now. Well, at least Foley doesn't have to kill himself tonight. Simmons finagles a win by hitting a spinebuster, shoulderblocking an interfering Cactus, and then, um, clipping Hughes's knee for three. Simmons should have reversed the last and first moves in that sequence. Todd Champion vs. Super Invader is the epitome of a cooldown match. I really like Mid-South Hercules, but by this WCW run, he's not particularly good. After a lot of really dull work, Super Invader hits a powerbomb. Well, if they call Kevin Nash's Jackknife a "power drop," that's also what this Invader finishing move was. Ricky (excuse me, Richard) Morton vs. Big Josh is a confounding match in that I'm not sure why it would be on this show. I mean, it should be no worse than solid, but is this a PPV-quality matchup considering that we've also just seen Todd Champion vs. Super Invader? I guess it really is slim pickings for the WCW undercard. I always forget that '92 WCW took awhile to heat up. Still, this is pretty pacey, and Morton is able to control the match when he baits Josh into running and flying with him. It's too bad that Morton also does some bad, and occasionally immersion-breaking, arm work in there. When they're not running, things get positively dull. Josh eventually hits a sitdown splash for the win, but it's not even from the top rope or anything. It's so lame that it doesn't get a cool name like the top-rope version. Bombs Away? Cool. Whoopee Cushion? Cool. But this non-aerial version is called the Northern Exposure. I guess surreal-ish light dramas starring Janine Turner were hotter than I thought at this time. Brian Pillman is going to have to try and carry human melatonin supplement Tom Zenk to something fun next. Pillman got some gold and started to break bad, which is the story of this match. They do some uninspiring limb work. I get why it exists - so they can have heated exchanges in bursts to try and ramp up the intensity slowly until it ideally reaches a pitch, at which point Pillman does some scummy shit - but that doesn't mean it's worth watching [ed. note: They actually don't tell this story anyway, but at least the limb work was sort of sold eventually even if it didn't mean much]. Pillman does a ton of ineffective leg work that Zenk immediately ignores after Pillman finally misses a move. Wow, Pillman's bad at working a limb. The finishing run is decent enough, though. Zenk gets a close call or two and, hey, he sells the leg a bit. I guess Pillman's attack finally did some damage! Pillman takes a wild bump on a Zenk top-rope crossbody, but he kicks out at two. Pillman in general flops around like a fish out of water and bumps his way into something entertaining. Pillman dodges a Zenk missile dropkick and hits a quick bridge pin to eke out a three, no cheating necessary. The Steiner Brothers wrestle Tatsumi Fujinami and Takayuki Iizuka in a match that has a ton of promise. I can't even be mad at Scotty failing completely at doing his flipping powerslam on Fujinami early on. He's out here trying to do cool shit. This match is for the IWGP tag titles, by the way. Iizuka's aerial game is very pretty. This is just a bunch of dudes hitting dope offense and a few cool counters, is what it is. Iizuka is sporting a shiner and a bloody nose early. I mean, these fellas beat the ever-loving fuck out of one another. Did I ever mention that pro wrestling is great? It's funny because of course the EVIL FOREIGNER JAPANESE are supposed to be the bad guys or whatever, but IMO this match is worked in a way that makes them the sentimental favorites. The Steiners are as sympathetic as a pair of serial killers and Iizuka takes an ass-whipping and suffers through it to try and get a hot tag. I swear that I'm not just being a DVDVR contrarian here. Ventura is enjoying this on commentary, by the way. Fujinami boots Rick Steiner in the back of the head stiffly enough that he chuckles. At the point where Fujinami and Iizuka hit Scotty with a spike pikedriver, even I'm feeling physically fatigued. These dudes are killing one another; there's no way this match should go on much longer. And it doesn't! The Steiners take the titles after Rick belly-to-belly suplexes Iizuka off the top rope. It took a disconcerting amount of time to happen, but this was the first really good match of the show. Hey, it's time for War Games! Sting's Squadron (Sting, Nikita Koloff, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, and Ricky Steamboat) faces the Dangerous Alliance (Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Larry Zbyszko, Arn Anderson, and Bobby Eaton) in an all-time classic that I was inspired to watch again after the discussion of Steve Austin's best matches in the General Thread. Huh, everyone on the babyface side is still alive as of the time that I wrote this. Only Rude and Eaton have passed when it comes to all the workers in this thing. That's pretty damned good considering the match was 32 years ago. Bonus: Madusa and Heyman are also still alive and kicking. I thought War Games was supposed to be dangerous! (Just kidding.) Anyway, let's run it down: Barry Windham [SS1] and Steve Austin [DA1] begin the match. Now, you're not going to believe this, but Windham does a solid job of staying on top during the opening period, and his basic control over the match only ends because the heels win the coin toss. Austin is out here bumping wildly, desperately trying to convince someone out here that he's a long-term main eventer. Now, Austin starts bleeding about four minutes in after Windham launches him into the cage, and I see Austin surreptitiously blade and wonder why the heck Bret Hart made up the whole deal that Austin needed Bret to help gig him during the WM 13 match in the Hitman's book. As soon as I read that, it didn't sound right. That's because there's no way it's right. Windham bites Austin's bleeding wound. It's fucking gross. Also, it's the best. Tails never fails, and neither does the heel team in the coin toss of a War Games, so Rick Rude [DA2] is next to enter the match. This is a one-on-one match for a little while because Austin got his ass entirely beat during the opening five-minute period, but Austin finally makes his way up and helps Rude work Windham over. From a kayfabe perspective, would you rather have the advantage of the man advantage for four periods, or would you rather have the freshest man come in at the point where you can end the match entirely in the Match Beyond? I think it's probably better to lose the toss because wrestlers get second and third winds through the course of a match all the time, but having a fresh guy come in after everyone is bleeding and has used up their third wind, and when you can end the match with a submission immediately, seems like it's the most advantageous position to be in. Anyway, Ricky Steamboat [SS2] comes in and just cleans house to a mega-pop. Steamboat's out here DDT'ing dudes, that's how intense he is. Steamboat beats Rude's ass in the second ring, but Arn Anderson [DA3] is next in. Arn DDT's Windham, and then absolutely buries Steamboat on a spinebuster. Arn and Rude grab a leg apiece and put on a double Boston Crab, which is a cool move, man, that was neat. Austin looks like his forehead exploded. Rude hits Steamboat with a piledriver. Then, Rude tosses Steamboat over both sets of ropes and into the other ring. It's madness, basically. Dustin Rhodes [SS3] comes in at the next period and goes right at Arn. Austin tries to help, but he's been half-murdered and is little resistance. Dustin goes to help his partners in the other ring, but he sees that Steamboat has Rude in a Boston Crab and goes right back over to Austin and tries to pretty much end the guy. Windham chokes Anderson by putting Arn's head between the rings and pushing. You don't need me to tell you this, but this is the absolute best. Larry Z. [DA4] is next in, but Dustin is still fresh, so he meets the guy and beats the hell out of him. Madusa is entirely pressed about this, so - and bear with me, this is some WILD shit - she climbs the cell, which bends like Mick Foley and the Undertaker are standing on top of it, and drops Heyman's brick of a cell phone down to Arn so that Arn can clock Dustin with it and get the Rhodes boy to settle down, finally. Sting climbs up there and confronts Madusa, and the crowd loses their minds while Arn beats the shit out of everyone not in the Dangerous Alliance with the phone. Barry Windham has popped a gusher now. Rick Rude tries to tear Ricky Steamboat's nose off his face. Pro wrestling continues to be pretty great. Needing a big turnaround, Sting [SS4] enters the ring to try and turn the tide of the match once again. Sting's supposed to be maybe working a rib injury, but the man gorilla presses Rude into the top of the cage like ten times, so I think he's healed. Sting absolutely destroys everyone. It rules hard. Arn's bleeding now. Actually, it might be easier to note who isn't bleeding. Bobby Eaton [DA5] is the last man in for the Alliance, which is good for Rude because Sting and Steamboat do the apron choke thing to Rude, but they also pull on his legs and try to tear the poor bastard's nutsack in half. Everyone is tired enough that Eaton is a major force immediately. As time ticks down until the Match Beyond starts, Larry Z. and Rick Rude work on one of the buckle cables in one of the rings. This, of course, is going to turn out poorly for them. But in the meantime, they are dominating until Nikita Koloff [SS5] comes in and, contrary to any concerns that he wouldn't play nice with the champ, crushes Arn and then helps Sting up. Koloff saves Sting from an attack and then they high five, and the crowd pops huge while they beat down Arn and Austin. Now squarely in the Match Beyond, Sting hits Arn with a Stinger Splash and locks on a Scorpion Deathlock, but Arn hangs on until Eaton can save him. Eaton then goes after the broken turnbuckle to try and wrench it free. In the other ring, Rhodes tries to end the match with a leveraged Figure Four on Larry Z., but Rude is able to slip past Koloff and break that up. See, Koloff is very fresh and basically gives the Squadron a big advantage. However, he's a non-factor in the other ring when Eaton and Larry Z. try to sync up on a weapon attack. Larry Z. uses the steel pole to try and hit Sting, but Sting moves and Larry hits Eaton right in the arm. Sting jumps on Eaton, applies an armbar to multiply the damage, and gets a quick submission for the win. Paul E. is irate at Larry Z., but look, it was war. Sometimes you get caught by friendly fire. Now, that main event was magnificent. This is a two match show, but those were two pretty, pretty, prett-ay good matches.

Ran 6 kilometers this morning and later on in the day my quads were going "fuck you, we hate you and will totally stab you in the face while you sleep!" It's slightly better now, but all the sightseeing during the day in Milan took further toll. This apartment is on the third floor so stair climbing continues.

As the person on the board who has seen this film the most: Fuck. Yeah.

The part about Bagwell's dad handing out coke to Marc and his friends made me jealous for a second. I understand his line of thinking, they're going to do it anyway, might as well get from dad than some shady dealer on the streets.

Things I Remember From the Buff Bagwell episode of Dark Side of the Ring: Judy Bagwell ran a business! Boy, that kinda puts a different light on the wrestling dudes crapping on Buff for letting Judy handle his business (well.. just wait) Buff's dad really really looks like a retired stockcar driver. The whole situation around them is "rednecks who happened to find money" (remember that Marietta was a pretty rich Atlanta suburb). Buff shot his dad and his dad said "it was my fault" Buff was working as a stripper before wrestling, and then Missy Hyatt found him, because of course she did. Buff had tag team partners, one after the other. Scorp is a hilarious interview. Also, he got calf implants and that went badly. And he did Cinemax-quality movies. And Buff's mom was shaving his balls. So anyways, he turns heel and breaks out after years as a candyass babyface. Then he breaks his neck, and WCW burns money by not keeping him as a face for longer. But this was WCW in 1998 and they were burning money on a variety of bad ideas. Then his mom keeps making appearances on WCW TV. The Buff/Booker match being in Tacoma really was somebody trying to fuck them over from the start. Also, Buff was outrednecked by trying to fight Shane Helms and Helms unleashing a frozen water bottle on Buff's head. After 2001, things go array in a variety of ways. Then Buff goes on a Gigolos show and doesn't realize that he's not supposed to fuck a woman on the show. Although to be fair, he didn't get it up so it was achhhh-tingggg. Then he becomes a real gigolo. I should note that Buff's 2nd or 3rd wife, I think his 3rd, has the same name as his mom. Anyways, one of his gigolo clients falls in love with him and that destroys his marriage Buff really is like Tiger King without the acumen to keep zoo animals alive. Also his mom died of dementia. So anyways, they found Scotty Riggs and things might be sorta moving in the right direction. But it's Buff, so who really knows. I get the sense that you could simultaneously hate and love Buff Bagwell. If he had been born a county or two to the west, south, or north of Cobb County, he would have been sort of a local legend, the town's dumb redneck who didn't realize that Mt. Dew doesn't cause infertility as he knocked up a random girl. There's probably a certain amount of what Buff says that is actually total bullshit but he tells it well enough that you can believe it.

Kazuchika Okada vs. Eddie Kingston was my Match of the Night. Finishing sequence came too quick. Did like how the Rainmaker was a one and done like it used to be. Okada wins his first AEW Championship in no time. Kazuchika Omega vs. PAC. Yes, please. Adam Copeland vs. Christian Cage didn't grab me. Maybe because I was tired. Thought it'd be wilder with thumbtacks/fire. The match at World's End 2023 was better. The Women's Street Fight has become one of the matches I look forward to in AEW but Julia Hart/Skye Blue vs. Kris Statlander/Willow Nightingale was the weakest yet.

Calli was in 2016 and Cleo was last year. I still have Coco, who will be 8 this year, and Toula, who is 10 months.

I'M ON A MEXICAN RADIOOOOOOOO