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The bottom 10 of Cagematch is not the only list that Chasyn Rance is on.

New wrestling crossword: https://bsky.app/profile/avalanchestyle.bsky.social/post/3lud5wfkja22o

NJPW is in the gutter, that's my take on it.

But hear me out. What if he lost his hair to Mistico on a Saturday, flew to Turkey the next day, and showed up with a glorious mane Wednesday? Top tier heel work. And bonus points if it’s a broccoli cut.

Amen. Can we somehow band together and WILL the super fun and off brand Pointer Sisters back into the theme slot. I'm tired of starting Dynamite episodes on mute. When Limp Bizkit is your go to in response, can you be sure the problem is 'new music'?

Let's look at the clues. 1. Ultraman is a Superman clone created by Lex Luthor. 2. Said clone is, "Even stupider" than Superman. 3. Clone gets tossed into the alternate weird rift that was all kinds of squares forming something . 4. Post credits, Supes and Terrific were talking about the rift, with Supes saying he could be a jerk sometimes. 5. Bizarro.

Still accessible as of now.

I just checked and it’s still available at the moment.

Or MJF shows up to All Out with a wig looking like Kurt Angle in 2002.

Yeah watch that. I'm with a 5/5 Scarecrow review. You may also wanna check out the Schatzberg-Pacino collab from two years earlier called Panic in Needle Park (if you haven't seen it already). I suspect it'd be in your wheelhouse. It's Al on the junk.

Hardbody Harrison's Nitro Match with Sullivan was aired a few weeks ago, so he's in the realm of people with crimes who are obscure enough wondering which matchup happened with the lowest average CageMatch rating of the participants in a match. 62 wrestlers have a lower rating than Buck Zumhofe's 1.66 the bottom 10 are Bubba the Love Sponge, Gable Steveson, One Warrior Nation, Kurt Lauderdale, Ed Ferrara, Chasyn Rance, Jenna Morasca, Rob Black, Invader 1, and Joji Otani

Movies today... Easy Rider (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 5/5 stars Tchoupitoulas (Mubi, leaving on 7/31) - 3.5/5 stars Incredible But True (Mubi, leaving on 7/31) - 3/5 stars

FWIW, on CMLL's weekly press conference show Informa, MJF sent in a promo calling out CMLL Semicompleto Champion Averno - Mistico's eternal rival. He said he wanted to take the title from Averno, so that Mistico would have to challenge him for the title. CMLL's anniversary show is right around the corner (Sept 19th I think), and the speculation is that we're getting Mistico vs MJF on that show. The fact that a main event level apuesta match hasn't been announced yet, so the door is open to them in a mask vs hair match. Just to be clear, CMLL is on an absolute tear right now. They are selling out Arena Mexico almost every Friday, and selling out Arena Coliseo DF often on Saturdays, which is almost unheard of. The ticket prices announced for Anniversario are higher than ever, so everyone is expecting a massive apuesta match to headline that show. My point here is that, if MJF is getting his head shaved in CMLL in September, any program with Hangman is going to be short-term.

I wonder what the reverse Tom Magee v Bret Hart Match that they would most want to bury? Did Buck ever wrestle Jimmy Snuka?

Fat Lip is the only song I ever played on Guitar Hero without missing a note. I like that and In Too Deep, but I also wouldn’t want to get in too deep to their catalog. I find most wrestling music awful, I can’t stand nu-metal or the generic radio hard rock or rap. I loved the Chaka Khan cover at All In.

If it's your thing, the estimates for 'ALL IN' buys currently sit at ~175,000 and could potentially go up. It would be the 4th highest in company history and it sounds like the merchandise numbers at the event were great as well.

I was at a co-workers party one time (Have never been a party guy) and was introduced to said co-worker's boyfriend who trained in MMA, he asked me about PRIDE and I'd never heard of it so he ran out to his car and got his VHS tapes and was showing me them and explaining everything and his GF got SO mad that we had turned this work outing into a bunch of dudes watching MMA party. 20+ years later, my dad has knee surgery and one of the guys helping him with his physio was said former co-worker's (now ex) boyfriend! The world is a weird, small place sometimes.

I feel like I'm preaching to the choir here, but the WWE Vault youtube channel is absolutely unreal. Check it out.

Movies today....thanks for the remarks about Easy Rider review. I would love to put my reviews into a book one day - I've noticed there's been a progression from when I started writing reviews to now. Phases of Matter (Mubi, leaving on 7/31) - 3/5 stars Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight (saw in the theaters) - 4/5 stars Anatolian Trip (Mubi, leaving on 7/31) - 2/5 stars On The Waterfront (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 4.5/5 stars

In my experience, the cards are big revenue drivers which can help keep cash flowing in a turnkey way but have god awful margins for the most part (especially once you go outside TCGs into sports cards and other collectible cards). My shop the other year did more than double the revenue on sports cards that we did on new comics but made slightly more profit (in dollars, not just as a percentage) from the comics than we did the cards. It's all a piece of the puzzle and helps keep things stable. But I also talk with other owners locally (as a retailer, so they'll gab business a little deeper) and I can honestly say that every shop in my area has different stuff doing best for them. My store is doing great on new Marvel/DC, but we've also got less shelf copies as we try to get closer to sell through on anything that isn't a bigger #1 or onboarding point. At a 50% margin, every unsold copy is offsetting any profit from a sold copy so you really need 70%+ sell through to make anything and if you're not doing 20+ copies, that break even doesn't leave much to buy off the shelf after a week or two. Thankfully, Universal orders are on a 3-4 week turnaround so it's much easier to adjust on the fly than it was when everything was with Diamond.

Will I be banned from this thread if I argue that grammatically it should be "Worst-Ass"?

Damn, that was a hell of a review for Easy Rider, man. You should be doing this professionally. I watched it as a kid. Hopper drove me nuts from his attitude and mannerisms, while Nicholson made me think he was cooler than ice. One of the best parts to me is still hiding the coke in the gas tank, which you don't think would work but does... and what do drug dealers do nowadays? They put fucking traps in vehicles to store the packages and their loot. They predated that by what, 60 years now? Amazing.

Yeah, Panic is good, not great, but definitely worth a watch. The scene with the dog is just devastating. This just reminded me of Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman which is superb. It's based on the true life story of career criminal Eddie Bunker and his book No Beast So Fierce, which is even better. You got Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, and our recently passed M. Emmet Walsh putting in a career performance as the scummiest and most vengeful parole officer ever.

You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for live action Bizarro! We are talking about the same thing, right?

I'm sure it will with AEW, NJPW, CMLL and STARDOM.

What I watched was Things Behind the Sun. It's...definitely good. And I love Kim Dickens, and this is about her best role. But...woof. It is harrowing. If you read the description, you'll have a pretty good idea of what it's about. Plus, she plays a raging alcoholic, so you may find other things about it bother you that didn't have as much of an effect on me. That said, the rest of the story is a "watch it once and never again" kind of deal. I don't remember the last time a movie messed me up to that degree. Requiem for a Dream, maybe? It probably doesn't help that I have a friend who resembles Kim Dickens superficially, and she and I have done some things together in the past that now make me wonder, "Is there a darker reason for this?", even though I'm fairly sure there isn't. But I digress.

The day after CMLL's Anniversario is All Out in Toronto. Though I suppose there's no guarantee MJF will be booked on the latter show. Still, I'd like to be in the audience for MJF's first match as a bald dude. Historic!

This is what I first thought of from Sorcerer: https://youtu.be/EGY5dzIuJLk?si=BKq37WUSlVibzm8F

I finally watched it and it's not so bloody, as much as a match where you fear for the participants getting CTE from the headbutts and chair shots. I don't think I've seen something that traumatic looking since that Fu-Ten tag match with Ikeda, Oba, the dude from NOAH I can't remember... anyway, that one had a LOT of headbutts. This was worse than that, and it's hard to say that about anything BattlARTS related. It definitely wasn't as good as the DEAN chain match but still shocking in its way. EDIT: The NOAH guy was Makoto Hashi! He had a headbutt-based offense, which was perfect for that match. I cannot recall who the fourth participant was. EDIT II: God, 2010 feels like a long time ago -- and for me personally, in terms of life, it definitely was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43lKfKR6E8&ab_channel=SegundaCaidaPhil EDIT III: (Wow, I haven't had this many edits in forever) I watched the entire 30 minutes of that match and it's like watching Street Trash or a Frank Henenlotter film, or combining peanut butter and an apple. It's two things that absolutely aren't supposed to go together, in theory, but they work perfectly. Comedy wrestling and the most harrowing of shootstyle should not work. At all. But this makes it work. I don't know how else to describe it; Phil already did a review (which I need to read after writing this), but it's something I think needs to be watched to understand. And yes, there is blood. More welts than blood though... https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2017/01/2010-match-of-year.html Eric did the other half of the review too, and they're both great. I fucking love pro wrestling.

I wish I could be a fan of anything the way you're a fan of Four Rooms. Didn't recall Allison Anders did one of the vignettes until I watched an absolutely brutal film of hers.

It happened on Nitro so it cannot be that secretive. Plus, I think everyone remembers that match prior to the implications of the parties involved. I think if there is a match the WWE doesn't want people to see, it's probably because of the quality and not the people necessarily involved. Some of the known repugnant people are kinda all over past events. Plus, if you're gonna leave Benoit in when he's all over ECW, WWE, WCW, and highly important historical events like the original When Worlds Collide, they're gonna leave everyone else in. They already kinda made that decision a long time ago. They just act like they're not there. God forbid some stuff come out in the Janel Grant suit regarding Vince. They might have to delete literally 90% of the WWE content.

Here are theCubsFan's thoughts on that, from today's update on Luchablog:

Beyond The Spider-Verse has been delayed to June 25. 2027 (This is only a 3 week delay)

It's what I went with, I did it as a backup in case there were was an issue with my wife and I going to Dave and Busters to see it, and there was. They had it listed on events that they'd be showing it, and we went and it wasnt on and they said they wouldn't be playing it, so we went across the parking lot to Trader Joe's and got some snacks and went home. We had only missed the first 2 matches at that point and Amazon let us rewind to the start (pre-show even!) but we skipped to the start of the main card. Don't know what I'll use the credit on yet, but I'm always excited to watch a movie.

Being intelligent is NOT knowing things. It's knowing that you don't and be willing to learn the things you don't know.

There was one night back when I was in college when my roommate Gavin, unprompted, said something like "you know, I'm of above average intelligence. I have the test scores to prove that. That scares me because I'm a goddamn moron."

I've been watching 80s tv a lot lately and AWA tv is probably the worst. It's not offensively bad. It's worse. It's mind numbingly boring a lot of the time.

It finally struck me. Gabe Kidd looks like every guy who does Gay For Pay porn movies.

the bartender at my local dive bar (when i was a regular patron. this was 15+ years ago) was a big MMA fan. we got to talking, and he mentioned that UFC nights always brought in a bunch of people. He wanted to have some sort of MMA night, or weekend, or something like that. I lent the bar my collection of PRIDE DVDs and got half price drinks for the whole time. and the bar was a pretty hopping place. definitely viewed it as a win/win!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WI7DIVKvoj0&pp=ygUETmpwdw%3D%3D The annual press conference. Wait till you see SANADA, 13:20. Zack Sabre Jr is very NSFW, drops a C bomb.

Hard to top this anytime soon for me. Been working on Robinson to talk Starman. I doubt it would happen, but I’d love to chat 70s/80s stuff with Bates or Conway or Maggin.

As much a people say that you should never pay a running back, a quality running back us a hugely important part of an offense. They touch the ball 20-25 times a game and are a vital part of pass protection. If you are a running back who is in the last year of your contract and the team doesn't want to pay you, maybe you get a hamstring injury or a concussion and don't play. So teams would either have to pay their running back or completely change everything about how the offense works. There is a very interesting clip from Saquon Barkley pretty much saying. "I don't want to fake an injury, but you aren't giving me much of a choice." He knows like all top level running backs know that they are the engine of their offense. Nobody with one of those guys built an offense that isn't built to use them in every way possible. Basically they're saying if you want to build an offense where I have to carry the ball 20 times, catch passes and protect the quarterback pay me or don't pay me and figure out some other way to do all of that. I'm kind of on their side. It's a job that uses your body like a battering ram, and I'm not doing that every Sunday for anyone who tries to tell me I'm not worth paying.

Rhys Darby as Termane was fantastic. Like the implication that Tremane is really a Q as well with his "father's" voice. Also unsure about Spock meeting Korby this early but at this point I'm pretty sure SNW is just a soft reboot of the franchise. I am finding Scotty's lack of confidence(and lack of drinking) amusing.

Now I am finally playing I just remembered that the Destiny 2 Team did tweet out that they have worked out a deal with the voice actors so all the VOs who weren't available at the time will be re-recording lines and they will get put in the game eventually This is all started because Ikora sounds so... wrong

Iyo Sky vs. Rhea Ripley, Evolution 7/13/2025 Iyo Sky vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Bianca Belair, WrestleMania 4/20/2025 Jey Uso vs. Gunther, Raw 6/09/2025 Jey Uso vs. Cody Rhodes, Raw 6/23/2025 Iyo Sky vs. Rhea Ripley, Raw 3/03/2025 Lyra Valkyria vs. Becky Lynch vs. Bayley, Evolution 7/13/2025 Lyra Valkyria vs. Becky Lynch, Money in the Bank 6/07/2025 Lyra Valkyria vs. Bayley, Raw 7/14/2025 Lyra Valkyria vs. Becky Lynch, Backlash 5/10/2025 Jordynne Grace vs. Giulia, NXT 5/06/2025 Could name a bunch of other stuff after no. 6, but Lyra has had a stupidly good past 2-3 months. Honestly, the women in general have been killing it this year even when their booking is off. There have been plenty of good matches from the men, but the women have been more memorable to me.

More awesome news for the next season of DD: Born Again...

The first new Swell Season album in 16 years dropped today. Between this and a couple of single releases they've made in the last couple of years, Marketa has grown into just a powerhouse of a singer when she lets it go. The end of "Pretty Stories" on this album is really good stuff. This will be a regular listen over the weekend. Speaking of powerful vocals and harmonies, I have the Remaster/Reissue of Civil Wars's "Barton Hollow" coming through Magnolia Records early next month. I'm excited to hear that on vinyl.

Re: Black Bart I (unknowingly, initially) worked with his wife. She discovered I was a professional wrestling fan, and mentioned her husband used to be a wrestler. I immediately knew who he was when she mentioned his name. Later, she told me about a convo they had: (Her) "My trainee is a wrestling fan, and he knows you" (Bart) "Yeah? Is he a mark?" Never got to meet him, but always heard nice things about him.