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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.

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"?

I forgot to mention 1991. Cheers.

Yeah, when I saw Thief recently, it recalled back to me Sorcerer as well. I'll probably be getting the 4K of Thief on Criterion ASAP now. Thanks.

Dammit. That reminds me that I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN ALL OF BLOODY SORCERER. The first time I heard of that movie was as an actual child in Stephen King's Danse Macabre, where he said he liked it because he liked scenes of guys working on heavy machinery -- so basically that scene haha. I thought you were gonna put in the assassination scene from the beginning. This clip/section reminds me explicitly of the bank robbery scene in Thief.

I've got to give a nod to the first one with Chono and Mutoh because it was so emotional, and Chono wasn't just a series of Yakuza Kicks yet. (But then, the one where he WAS that, against Takayama, was just about as emotional, to see the older and broken down guy run into a meat grinder who was having the best year of his career and coming out alive.)

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!

I know its poor form to post random plays from your favorite team but this is one of those throws that fans talk about for awhile: I know the base runner didn't slide and he'd have been safe if he did but he didn't slide because that throw is made 1% of the time at best and probably isn't even tried most of the time. Acuna's arm is underrated since he's so good at everything else. I know the Braves won't re-sign him in a couple years so I have to enjoy him while I can (stay healthy!).

As much as that Fatu and Solo police segment pretty much the whole show was campy at best, we did get Fatu saying "Punk Ass police" which popped me Putting on tin foil hat here but the whole Cena not being at Summerslam because of his Netflix commitment and "being emotionally drained" kind of feels like a shot at McAfee

Yeah, cops were pulling over Henry Fonda for it in LA.

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.

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

Season 1, Show 26: “The Best in the Business” or Will of Iron, Knees of Jell-O Trips and new games: I’m not going to finish all four seasons by autumn of this year, am I? Recap: Johnny Mundo and Alberto El Patrón bore me to death in a whole different promotion than they used to. OK, I did enjoy both guys reasonably well in their roles in the Dub, but here, not so much. Meanwhile, whose side will Konnan take in the Hernandez versus Prince Puma world title match that will be coming at one point, and how long will the team of Dysfunction Junction be able to keep the titles? Will they keep them for long enough to get Dario’s Crew slaughtered at the hands of Matanza Cueto? All these questions and more will be answered tonight! Maybe! Seedy backstage interstitial: Johnny Mundo and Alberto El Patrón barge into Dario Cueto’s office to demand LU Championship matches for themselves and to argue that they’re better than Hernandez and should get his title shot. These chumps think that since they’re “the best in the business” in Dario’s words, they should jump a guy who won a title contendership match over two other men who were at one point number one contenders themselves. Dario books Mundo and El Patrón against one another tonight, with the winner facing Hernandez for a title shot that Hernandez straight up won already. These two doofuses are mega-heels in this household. Fuck outta here with that “Hernandez doesn’t deserve it because we were in WWE and he was slumming it in TNA” meta-text. Mundo even called that man “Fernandez,” and Dario had to correct him. Dario! He was the guy who corrected someone for being careless! Just turn Mundo heel already! Ivelisse Velez is on crutches at ringside to watch Son of Havoc and Angelico face off against Cortez Castro and Cisco (w/Bael). I like Havoc and all, but he’s so theatrical in a very obvious, choreographed way sometimes. Actually, he’s that way a lot of the time. This match is okay enough, but the wrestling was never going to be more than adequate considering the competitors in the ring. The interest is really in the finish. Ivelisse yells invective at Havoc as he plays FIP (“Do I have to do everything around here?!”), and I guess that inspires Havoc to make a hot tag to Angelico. Cortez wriggles out of a Fall of the Angels, but gets double-stomped and then tumbles to the floor on a rope run. Havoc dives onto one flunky at ringside; Angelico dives onto the other two flunkies on the other side of the ring. The match reforms and then breaks down again, going on a touch too long for my tastes before the finish, in which Cortez and Cisco dump Angelico and land a Shatter Machine on Havoc for the victory. Ivelisse looks disappointed at ringside, to say the least! Mediocre stuff; I wish they’d have just had the rematch for the trios titles here instead. Seedy backstage interstitial: Daivari is too distracted by his phone to pay any attention to Dario Cueto. Dario is pissed at the disrespect, but Daivari is moneyed, so Dario puts up with it. Daivari says (in an unconvincing manner) that he prefers to inflict violence rather than merely watching it, so Dario books him against Texano for his debut match tonight. More seediness, more backstage areas, more interstitials: Puma and Hernandez are unhappy with one another. Konnan dresses down Hernandez for getting involved in Puma’s title match against Drago last week and accuses him of trying to hurt Puma; Hernandez indicates his firm plans to hurt Puma in their upcoming title match and threatens Konnan. Dario Cueto, who has a radar for this sort of thing and is a living magnet for human anguish and suffering, apparently left his office after booking Daivari against Texano and beelined to the locker room just in time to excitedly stir the pot by booking Puma and Hernandez against Cage and Cuerno in a tag match, then magnanimously (though completely disingenuously in said magnanimity) claiming that if anyone can get Puma and Hernandez on the same page, it’d be Coach Konnan. I feel like having to put up with Daivari’s rudeness made Dario try extra hard to ruin someone else’s day to make up for it. Daivari’s got a new first name in LU: Delavar Daivari is what he’s called. He louges on the ropes and finishes his drink while Melissa Santos makes me chuckle by cutting off her introduction of Texano with a muttered “Oh shit” as Texano rushes the ring with his bullrope. Santos bails, the men have a weak punchup, Daivari hits Texano with a mic, and the match is thrown out. Yikes. Daivari is playing a character that I do not buy whatsoever, by the way. Alright, next up is King Cuerno and Brian Cage versus Prince Puma and Hernandez. Konnan is at ringside trying to direct traffic and calm his charges down like an exasperated first-grade teacher (“Puma, can we work together?”). Matt Striker cracks me up by saying that we’re so used to running and flips that this brawling style between Cage and Hernandez is refreshing…as both men go on the run before Hernandez leaps outside and then back inside to the ring on a slingshot shoulderblock. Poor guy, he just had incredibly poor timing with that comment. I was looking up more about King Cuerno and found out he’s in the Dub now. Shit, everyone gets there at one point or another if they were on television in America, huh? Puma got there, too. I guess Hernandez nearly broke too many necks to get a call from the company, though. Puma ends up as FIP, but only briefly. Hernandez comes in and does a bunch of power stuff, then leaps over the top and to the floor to take out his opps. Hernandez gets on the apron and struts after that dive. In fact, he struts right in front of Puma as Puma tries to follow up with a dive of his own. Vampiro notes that Puma is distracted because he’s busy complaining to Konnan, which works as an observation because he notes that Puma is never distracted. Puma and Hernandez still beat down Cuerno even as they struggle to get on the same page for a couple of double-team maneuvers. The heels gain control after a bunch of move trading; Cuerno lands an Arrow From Hell on Puma after Hernandez yanks him in front to take the impact. Konnan and Cage yap at one another on the other side of the ring, so the coach is late to keep Puma from being booted and powerbombed into the apron by Hernandez. Striker makes a meta-comment about any long-time wrestling fan knows that this always happens with feuding teammates, and I find it unnecessary. Meanwhile, Puma eats another loss, this time to a Cage Weapon X. In isolation, that’s fine. Across the season’s worth of television, Puma continues to be the worst champion ever. Seedy secret location interstitial: Black Lotus has had enough of the training and the prayers and the vitamins and is off to finally kill Bill. No, wait, Matanza. She’s off to kill Matanza. El Dragon Azteca doesn’t think she’s ready, but Lotus is determined. Azteca says that if she can best him in combat, she can leave. She fails miserably at besting Azteca in combat and sadly unzips her duffel bag that she packed. Stop trying to take shortcuts to revenge, Lotus, you dummy! This mediocre episode of WWE Smackdown ends with an uninspiring Alberto Del Rio versus Johnny Nitro main event. Whoops, my bad. I keep getting mixed up. What I meant to type was that this mediocre episode of Lucha Underground ends with an uninspiring Alberto El Patrón versus Johnny Mundo main event. You’ll note that I haven’t spent a lot of time discussing the action inside the ring in this review, and that’s not changing for this perfectly acceptable and fairly dull match. Vampiro makes me chuckle when he calls a headlock takeover a “very authentic-lookin’ judo throw and sitdown.” See? Even Vamp knows that this match is whatever and that he needs to spice it up by making it sound better than it is. As I watch Alberto slap his thighs on a dropkick, I have a thought that I’ve had before, which is that I’m going to start surreptitiously slapping my thigh in real life whenever I hit or kick something with force. Alberto slaps his knee on an enzuigiri right after that, which only strengthens my resolve. Maybe the next time I punt a football, I’ll do it. It’ll only go about fifteen yards, but it’ll sound like it should have gone fifty-plus. I need to think of more everyday situations in which I can slap my thigh for emphasis, though. Mundo gets backdropped over the top and catches his leg on the ring steps coming down. That made the spot look nasty; the stairs have a crack in them now. If the stairs were gimmicked and the spot was planned, it sure looked real. I thought Mundo blew his knee out on that spot. Nasty stuff. That woke me up for a second. Then I mostly went back to sleep. Again, the match is cromulent, but I’m already excited for Alberto to head back to New York by way of Greenwich, Connecticut. He adds very little to this show. We get our requisite big spots and close counts, including an admittedly pretty neat second-rope gourdbuster from Alberto. Mundo hits an End of the World, forgets that he needs to hook Alberto’s near leg because Alberto’s going to rope break, and re-adjusts so that Alberto can easily reach the ropes with his far arm. Mundo tries to follow up, reaches down, and gets caught in a flash cross-arm breaker, then has to squirm until he can get a rope break with his legs. Who will win this match and how now that each man has used their finisher and failed to secure victory? It’s ALBERTO with the SUPERKICK AND REQUISITE THIGH SLAP in THE MIDDLE OF THE RING. I swear, if they put Alberto over Hernandez and then Puma in short order, I will, uh, um, uselessly complain on the internet! That's what I'll do! Seedy interstitial somewhere in the netherrealm: Catrina, wearing a mourning veil, walks up to the casket into which she and Fenix deposited Mil Muertes (Season One, Show Nineteen) and uses her mystical stone to reanimate him. Uh-oh, that seems like it could be trouble! I liked all the interstitials and was bored by all the matches. Although speaking of the interstitials, I must ask: Why are we giving Daivari TV time with this corny gimmick when Willie Mack is on the roster and could be getting Daivari's TV time instead? 2.5 LU-CHA chants out of 5.

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.

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."

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.

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.

I ended up with some pretty choice assignments anyway. Also had one of my solves broadcast over the stream, which is pretty cool. The competition was amazing, with one dramatic moment after another in the Finals of different events. 3x3 Finals was amazing, coming down to the last solve before being won with an average time of 4.23. The crowd exploded for it, 5000 people going nuts. Awesome. And a friend of mine, who I've been watching compete for 7 years, successfully defended his world title, competing in his hometown. Being the first to tell his parents he'd won (it's tough to follow from the audience if you're not tracking the times online, which they weren't) and hugging them was awesome. They are just about the nicest people ever. So, yeah, great stuff.

technically his 3rd. Back in April he went 144 when he was supposed to be going 25.

If it was possible to do a CTE check on a living person, Antonio Brown needs to be first on list. If he did commit murder in Miami, he should hope the cops find him before someone else does