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They dragged out the break up for the Bloodline for like 2 years and have rushed the reunion and squashing of all the beefs into a month. And to overcome a group ran by a guy who’s never won anything of note. Feels like they really could have done way better with all of this but need to force their booking around the gimmick PPV as usual

One of us one of us we accept you we accept you one of us

“Sunny, we have an idea for you”

And then make a women's tag team title. And then have Willow and Stat be the first champions. GIVE ME WHAT I WANT, TONY

As a longtime DVDVR member, of course I’m partial to an old school piledriver angle. HOWEVER…can we all acknowledge that the piledriver absolutely sucked? If you’re gonna sell this as a heinous act, you gotta get Randy’s head closer than a foot from the ground.

Candice/Bayley was decent. PD/DIY was strange. Never expected Pretty Deadly to be squashed by a pissed off Ciampa. I enjoyed it though a part of me is disappointed to see Pretty Deadly used like this. Will be interesting to see how the crowd reacts if/when Ciampa and Gargano go full heel. I think MCMG are still a bit too new to most of the audience for them to be favored. Was not expecting piledrivers to be back on the menu. I like how they used it with the Orton/Owens feud. Bianca/Jade vs. Nia/Tiffany was pretty decent while it lasted. Finish could have been executed a bit better, but was fine for pushing the angle with Candice trying to replace Tiffany as Nia's buddy. MCMG vs. A-Town Down Under was good. Dug the later backstage scene setting up the Street Profits/MCMG for the tag titles next week. Ciampa trying to murder the Profits for his heel turn should get plenty of reaction. Even hearing the rumors about half a year ago I was still surprised to see the announcement of the United States Women's title. I want to be happy about it, but I feel the main roster is still struggling way too much beyond the made names to really make a new singles title worthwhile. Hopefully the booking catches up fast to make it work. Smackdown in particular still feels like it has too small a women's division. The opening and closing segments with the Bloodline took up more of the show than I would have liked, but were both good with the ending being one of the highlights of the show. It continues to impress me how they manage to build and pay aspects of the story off. Not a strong night match wise outside of MCMG vs. A-Town Down Under. Segment wise a bit better though the longer ones still run longer than I would like. Solid show storytelling wise though it could have been stronger as a whole.

Where's the joke here? I don't watch AEW as assiduously as I should, but I love Kip Sabian as a ludricous comedy midcarder. I have to psyche myself up to watch a lot of SRS BSNS stuff, y'all are not selling me on Adam Cole's return; but Kip Sabian's goofy ass is something I've always got a minute for. It helps of course, that I frequently don't need more than a minute for it.

Opening Bloodline segment felt a little weaker than a lot of recent ones but sold Roman's old habits being hard to break. Did like Jacob interrupting as it's nice to see him get to say more than "I love you Solo." Thought Bayley and Candice built into a good match as it shifted to Candice being in control and Bayley being able to work from under. The finish felt like it landed a bit flat as Candice's faking the injury seemed so obvious that Bayley didn't look particularly smart for not falling for it and Candice looked kinda dumb for trying it. I liked the idea of Owens piledriving Orton and it being treated like a big deal with the stretcher job/ambulance ride. It did feel like the weight given to the idea of the piledriver was coming out of no where but if they commit to the idea I feel like it could be a good story tool later on. I do feel like Cole and Graves handled it well on commentary. Interesting to see whether we get Johnny turning heel or a DIY split. That said if they split them up, I will riot if they replace "No One Will Survive" again. I enjoyed Jade/Bianca vs. Nia/Tiffy as they continue to do a really good job of getting over the Women's Tag Titles as being important. It's amazing that we're at a point where there are so many women that can tease/do strength spots with Nia as they had Bianca tease a KOD on Nia and had Jade reverse a suplex spot on her(with a bit of a rough landing for Nia.) With Indi being gone, I'm fine with working to put Candice with Nia. MCMG vs. A-Town Down seemed like it could have been a little shorter. There wasn't anything particularly bad about it, it was just a lot of Grayson and Theory in control with a crowd that really didn't care. Am looking forward to MCMG/Street Profits next week. A women's secondary title! Happy to see the Women's US Title being introduced since it will give a chance/storylines (hopefully) for a lot of women. Solo and Roman getting us to War Games felt a little wooden. Sami not being with Solo's Bloodline seemed pretty predictable but was still a cool moment with Sami hitting Solo with the Helluva Kick. Ending the show with the OG Bloodline being back with the 1's to the sky was a good closing moment. They did make sure to establish that War Games is 5-on-5, so guess we have a few weeks 2-3 weeks for them to set up the 5th man for both teams. Solid show but probably a bit of a step down from the previous weeks. Next week's episode with Nia/Naomi for the Women's Title and MCMG/Profits should hopefully be a bit better.

This is legit one of the greatest road reports ever. Can I just say, as an old head who recently smoked up after probably 30 years of laying off, but said "fuck it" because it was my bday and it's legal now where I live...today's shit is insane. I was on another planet in a very bad way. I still have one pre roll left and plan on doing a little at a time. Jesus Christ.

Mortos is one of my fave AEW guys and even I can't pretend him having to act conflicted all match wasn't awful. I get that ultimately he's a guy with a goat head mask but not everything has to be so goofy, you know? Just let him be awesome, that was working fine.

Dude fuck yeah! If he can nail Dolemite he can nail George. The coke frenzy will be something else. I just hope they show the anecdote where they would have a softball-size rock of blow that they would just take a knife and shave chunks off of.

In news that probably only excite @supremebve, myself, and a couple other people, Eddie Murphy is set to play George Clinton in a biopic directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls, The Good Liar). It's going to be distributed by Amazon and MGM. They already have my money.

Nobody has any memories of Kip Sabian's TNA run because he's never had a single match there. He had an unmemorable WoS 2018 run, but so was everyone's WoS run. Ospreay's WoS run was unmemorble.

Didn't she start talking with a fake British accent after getting together with Guy Richie? https://resizing.flixster.com/-XZAfHZM39UwaGJIFWKAE8fS0ak=/v3/t/assets/p18265_v_v8_aa.jpg

The following sentence is a complete lie. Oh yeah, I was entirely confident the entire time that Brighton would come back and pull this out! /me breathes into a paper bag

The botch Nia and Bayley had in their last match was actually some weird hurricanrana attempt that I'm not sure why either thought it was a good idea. Bayley's actual powerbomb on Nia at Summerslam was more or less perfect and an insane showcase of power from Bayley.

Tony Todd was so great in everything I saw him in. Rest in peace.

Lio Rush vs. Komander Rampage series perfectly channels that Jimmy Yang vs. Paul London Velocity energy and I love it.

Quick note for @Death From Above that I hope comes off as encouraging… The first whatever number of pounds comes off quickly and relatively easily due to a lot of factors. It slows down and you may see times when you lose very little (fraction of a pound per week) or maybe even go up slightly. Just stick with it. The scale is a lagging indicator. How you feel, how you look, how your clothes fit, being able to lift more, run farther, get through 8 minute abs without wanting to die…all these mean more than the scale. As long as it’s trending down overall, you’re fine. Never let a scale number discourage you when you know you’re doing well otherwise. It’s going to take a long time but it’s worth it and we’re all here for you.

Good on ya, bud! Keep it up! Lol I remember the 8 Minute Abs tape!

Watched Conclave last night as a recovering Catholic (TM Stephanie Miller) these sorts of films fascinate me, I disagree that its a soap opera or overly self important or any of that. What it is , is a nice companion piece to Calvary a film that explores the ancient entity trying to find its place in the modern world. as Tobias Forge said "The catholic church is both beautiful and terrifying like The Alien" best not get too close

Did you know that Joel Deaton wrestled Kazunari fucking Murakami at a fairgrounds in Georgia in 99? Because he did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJpDGByaUSY&t=1607s

Down to 300 officially. 15 down, 30 to go. Trying to start some ab excercises. Jesus christ, you ever want a wake up call about where you're at, that's the ticket. Found this little 8 minute routine designed for people over 40 so it puts minimal stress on the lower back. Figured how hard can it be. lmao We gettin' there one day at a time.

RIP Kurn, son of Mogh.

Hugh Freeze just shit himself.

The powerbomb spot in Stranglemania 2 where they keep rewinding Combat Toyota getting her skull crushed is still one of the funniest things ever. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cJ9SrqYp5aQ

I went to Dynamite. I WOULD have had good seats if a third of the show wasn’t in the entrance aisle. I enjoyed the show eventually. Thing is? You go and buy tickets to something weeks in advance of the show with zero forecast of how you’ll feel about on the day. Day comes and I’m in a shitty mood, tired, and annoyed. To the surprise of no one. I proceed to hit the shitfuck outta my vapes and later a half dozen mini-bong rips once I got to my friends house in Manchester. Jeremy tells me that he has been seeing the AEW trucks coming into town since Monday. Which surprises me a bit since I figured a Dynamite set up in the arena would have been (at most) an overnight effort. In our pregame sesh I was bitching about the lack of exploitation of AEWs undercard when so many of their top tier guys are injured, elsewhere, and all fucked off for a reason (or no reason). Satnam Singh is RIGHT THERE! A legit GIANT that if booked carefully could be a huge draw. After all turning on the gravitas when you’re a giant is a mere flick of the switch. FFW to the show and Colt Cabanas out to take on Singh in the opener. I was pleased. I was fucking rrrrrrripped at this point experiencing not one but TWO highs. It was mostly comedy gaga that was fun but brief. They protected Satnam pretty well by keeping it short and decisive. But like I said. Make him mean. By the time the tag opener started. The crowd had got really loud and it was really fucking with me. Darby hit that post and he just kept spinning. Ran into a co-worker who moonlights as security at the arena. He is a few years older than me and came into wrestling during the Backlund era. He was pleased the Bucks weren’t on the show. Makes sense. He bonds immediately with Jeremy over this. Just Drew wept. Mox is a scary looking dude up close. I like this Hurt Syndicate group. Never saw the WWE stuff. Shelton hopefully will get his run. Place your bets on him taking another springboard into a super kick and THIS TIME he kicks out. Hayter may be bae. But she doesn’t seem to have her sea legs back yet. Seemed like the match was built to be more than it was. I thought the Cole/Black match was ok. But only because I’m baffled as to what is going on. It didn’t register well the whole “Warriors Death” finish with me or the people around me. I don’t have the same problems with Cole that some folks do. But it’s definitely a bad (and familiar) place to be for Cole to have that WWE flavored “fans ironically go against the grain” situation. Why isn’t Roddy screaming “ADAM” every time we see him? Wasn’t that over? Why is Omegas comeback happening in Japan? Now I’m off to watch the broadcast. I still love you AEW.

AEW's locker room, it's not very leaky. Like, we don't know what goes on backstage there. Brodie Lee got sick, nobody knew, nobody talked about it. Which does mean that sometimes certain narratives can take hold, and become widely believed and clung on to, even though there's no way to know if they're actually true or not. Malakai Black is injured or retiring or going back to WWE, Chris Jericho attempted something icky with Kylie Rae, Something happened backstage with Kris Statlander and Stokely Hathaway. None of these are things we know. They are things we have heard speculation about. They might be true, they might be lies, they might be more complicated than that. We don't know. But by the gods a lot of people seem to think these stories are nailed to the House of Lords.

"man there sure are a lot of fans who sound like they ripped their commentary style off of ICP's JCW commentary"

That's a case where I'd be way more interested in hearing the ones that didn't win than the one that does.

After the US set back democracy 60 years last night, I thought I'd dress appropriately.

Lord, a Capra-esque movie about the modern Catholic church... It's A Wonderful Pope? James

Today was my last Saturday delivering for the current job. All restaurant deliveries cease after next Saturday and all deliveries to retail stores are done Thanksgiving week. In the past month I placed five applications. I interviewed for two, one told me I wasn't classy enough to haul trash and two never replied back at all. It had been over a week since the last interview(at a job fair) when I got a call from that company asking if I was still interested. I told them I was. I filled out paperwork on Tuesday morning, had a physical/drug test on Wednesday and got a curious call from them on Friday asking me about when the doctor wanted me to do a sleep study(for sleep apnea). I told them that nothing had been said about taking the sleep study. They asked if I'd been given a medical card(basically you don't get a DOT medical card if you fail a physical), I said yes and they said they'd probably conflated my results with someone else's. They gave me an "Oops, my bad!" and said they'd get with the hiring manager to setup an orientation date. As soon as I get a start date I'm giving notice at the current place. A lack of communication at the current job has been a recurring theme. I've found out more info from my customers than I have from the management where I work. It is what it is.

Never RevPro. A big reason they’re still around.

I've wrestled with whether or not the story of Conclave ends up being a bit too idealistic. Was it earned? Regardless, I really liked the performances and every production detail. Maybe Berger was attempting his very own Capra? I like that idea, and in comparison to the legendary auteur, I think the film was successful.

It didn't end up mattering, but Miami calling a timeout after the "two minute timeout" and before a punt has to be pretty high on the "bad timeout management" scale. I guess he was afraid they would run a fake but they had the whole timeout to talk about it.

I think he could handle being drunk while wearing a hawaiian shirt

Gravediggaz for life!

Zack Sabre Jr deserves to be there but this is the weakest Wrestle Kingdom main event in my time. Started with Wrestle Kingdom 6-present day. Hell yeah to Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shingo Takagi at Wrestle Kingdom 19. I'd look forward to that more than anything announced so far. You can't have Yota Tsuji lose two nights running to David Finlay and Jack Perry.

Examples

I’ve always loved the story about Tony negotiating a $1000 bonus per individual bee sting for Candyman and walking away with an extra $26k.

I read somewhere that since it’s not a period piece, the screenwriter approached it like he was writing a reboot of the Thanksgiving from Grindhouse. It references the trailer quite a bit, but tonally it’s less of an exploitation movie and more like a modern neo-slasher.

Thank you for the road report! I thought about going, but I hate parking for the Verizon (fuck SNHU) and few things get me to leave the comforts of my house in Weare.

Finished off the week with two lifting days, chest-shoulers-triceps yesterday and back-biceps-legs today. Decided to switch it up and do all drop sets today (one light warmup, then six sets of decreasing weight with no breaks) and it went really well. Tired and sore now, ready for a day off.

Oh like calling him Dragonfruit Mango Refresher isn't a cooler name. smdh

The WWE Vault page on YouTube just keeps having fun with things:

Man, ZSJ/Shota is at least something fresh, but that has to be the softest WK main event since…ever? Can we vote for DOUKI/Desperado to main event?

One.of the best to ever do it. In the GOAT conversation.

I’m pretty sure Olive Garden’s slogan is: ”Olive Garden - come for the bread sticks, stay due to the debilitating diarrhea.”

Orange you glad I made it to Applebees? I know I am. Where I’m here, I’m family! speaking of Orange, Blue Moon on tap. What a refreshing way to end the day with a late night meal. Check your local Applebees for their fantastic tap selection. Don’t want beer? Tons of margarita and liquor options. As well as tasty pops and juices. Wow, what a great restaurant.