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The more the news won't let go of the concert affair kiss cam story, the more I realize the weirdest thing about the whole situation is that we're still using "viral" and "Coldplay concert" in the same sentence in 2025.

Jack Tunney was the perfect wrestling authority figure. Incompetent,impotent, and slightly corrupt. Neither a face or heel. Not shady enough to blatantly help the heels, but useless for the faces.

I think that’s Jack Brisco. Looks more like him. Also, Dory didn’t beat Harley for the title. He beat Gene Kiniski.

I don't know about that. Young tbarrie never saw Tunney as corrupt, and thought he was clearly on the good guys' side, even if he didn't do as much as he should. I do vaguely recall Hogan referring to him as "'On the take' Jack Tunney" but Hogan was a whiny asshole.

You mean his best match as Daniel Bryan, right?

Alex Windsor IS All Elite, officially. Killer new theme music, which Mikey Rukus said he drew inspiration from Nakamura's classic NJPW theme, and she looked good here. Running Windsor/Athena next week on Collision for the ROH title, as a rematch from earlier this year and on Collision has me wondering if a title change could be coming with Athena officially moving onto chasing the AEW women's world title. Megan Bayne vs Tay Melo was also delivering pretty good here. Thekla is also officially ALL Elite, with Tony explaining that he had her on a 45 day probation due to her storyline exit from Stardom and attacking the President there, great little bit of continuity. Nice angle with the Deathriders taking out Cabana. I thought Colt on commentary was just a random fill in for the week but made sense there was a reason for it.

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'?

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.

Eh? Why would AJ care? Was she even in TNA?

In another post where I discuss how underrated I believe Sting was: I'm watching his match with Muta from GAB '89 again and I had forgot; to begin the match Sting runs, leaps and CLEARS both sets of ring ropes (War Games setup) with EASE and hits Muta with a wild crossbody. Sting was the perfect combination of power and agility.

Wow.

This is what they did for 'ALL IN' everyone came out of nowhere. Place exploded when Bryan got in the ring.

I'd love to see AEW run-ins allow for the sound of the crowd. Cueing up theme music for the save often feels extremely cliched. Hearing the sudden excitement of seeing somebody running down the aisle, or through the crowd, is more than enough. At least, for most occasions.

Time for some Sunday Afternoon World Wide Wrestling (7/20/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCAXSSXknlg the 4WrestlingFans upload of this episode ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1USUQ2d3M ) is 1:33 instead of 48 minutes long because they go to the 7/27/85 Worldwide but the final shot of the episode is on the 4WF upload but not the Classic Wrestling Stuff upload:

Is that what Dragon Balls do? I feel kind of ambivalent about knowing that, honestly. ...are they actually dragon testicles? Wait, don't tell me. I remember watching this match, and thinking halfway through it "Man, I hope they don't have this little douche beat Aerostar". Then I took a step back, and realized that if I was having that reaction, Jack Evans must be pretty good at his job. I've been a fan ever since. So yeah, I guess I liked the match. But I'm generally softer on flippy nonsense than you are. Marty's sanity and sense of good taste seem like they'd be easy to defeat. There's not much to either of them.

The best meme I saw was the shot of Leatherface grabbing whats-her-name in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from the doorway of the house

I like Excalibur but I agree with you on the bad name.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaHDnMvpjg WWE's added John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan from SummerSlam 2013. Cena's best match ever. Bryan's best match ever. *****. I've always rated it more than Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk on the same show. Same goes for Owen Hart vs. Bret Hart, ***** at WrestleMania X to Razor Ramon vs. Shawn Michaels. Who's with me?

Holloway Poirier great fight and moment to end a career on. great that Max finally got that W over Dustin. Max's post-fight interview was fantastic. good vibes all around.

I bought All In on Amazon as well as Revolution & Double or Nothing all have the replay available to play.

I feel like wrestling needs to back to the President Tunney , where he's not there every week, just pops in now and again to deliver a ruling or pronouncement

TK has money and a private jet. He can fly Turkish Sy Sperling here!

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

I am a compulsive list maker and so am sharing my list. It's probably more Punk-era heavy than most but I still see that period as when the company really had a balance between the wanky spotfest stuff Omega & co. were known for and the scrappier Bret-infused style Punk, MJF and FTR were holding strong to. I also have seen barely anything from the pre-Punk years and my list will clearly reflect that. I'm only listing snowflakes for matches I have at ****1/2 or higher. 1. CM Punk vs. Eddie Kingston (Full Gear 2021) ***** 2. CM Punk vs. MJF (Dog Collar Match; Revolution 2022) ****3/4 3. AEW Tag Team Championship: Young Bucks (c) vs Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston (Double or Nothing 2021) ****3/4 4. AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley,(c) vs Hangman Adam Page (All In 2025) ****1/2 5. AEW World Championship: Hangman Adam Page (c) vs. Bryan Danielson (60 minute draw, Dynamite Winter Is Coming 2021) ****1/2 6. AEW Tag Team Championship: FTR (c) vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson (2/3 falls, Collison) ****1/2 7. Tay Conti & Anna Jay vs. Penelope Ford & the Bunny (Rampage, January 31, 2021) 8. Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson (30 minute draw, Dynamite Grand Slam) 9. AEW Women's Championship; Toni Storm (c) vs. Mercedes Mone (All In 2025) 10. AEW Tag Team Championship: Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee (c) vs. the Acclaimed (All Out 2022) 11. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker (Unsanctioned Lights Out Match, Dynamite Grand Slam, March 17, 2021) 12. AEW Tag Team Championship: Young Bucks (c) vs. Lucha Brothers (Steel Cage Match, All Out 2021) 13. Willow Nightingale & Ruby Soho vs. Tay Conti & Anna Jay (Rampage, January 13, 2023) 14. Hangman Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland ( Unsanctioned Lights Out Steel Cage Match, All Out 2024) 15. Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Eddie Kingston, Mike Santana, Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard & Angelo Parker (Anarchy in the Arena, Double or Nothing 2022) 16. AEW Women's Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Serena Deeb (Double or Nothing 2022) 17. AEW Tag Team Championship: Sting & Darby Allin (c) vs. the Young Bucks (Revolution 2024) 18. ROH and AAA Tag Team Championships: FTR (c) vs. Young Bucks (Dynamite, April 6, 2022) 19. MJF vs. Darby Allin (Full Gear 2021) 20 . CM Punk, Sting & Darby Allin vs. MJF & FTR (Dynamite 2022)

Wouldn't surprise me. Dragons are notoriously fancy creatures. (Come to think of it, I wasn't even previously aware that Dragon Ball Zeta involved Dragon BallS, plural. I sort of assumed there was at most one.) Fair. Me, I still find seeing people flip around the ring fun. A match isn't going to make it past "decent" in my estimation unless it makes some narrative sense, but I can still turn my brain off and enjoy a silly spectacle match. To a certain extent.

Scream Factory unearthed the original film elements for Day of the Dead and are doing a 4K of it.

Dory Funk Jr after winning the NWA title off of Harley Race (when it seemed every man alive was born looking 45)

Dario's office is kind alike Jerry's apartment in that from time to time its kayfabe location in the temple doesn't seem to match physical reality

Season 1, Show 28: “Shoots and Ladders” or Getting Over It with Dario Cueto Recap: Hernandez and Puma are at each other’s throats as are Texano and Daivari. Marty “the Moth” Martinez is feuding with his own sanity and sense of good taste. Dario’s Crew had better manage to win the trios tag titles or they’re getting fed to Matanza Cueto, and I mean that both colloquially and also maybe literally in kayfabe. Sweet baby Jesus, this creep Marty Martinez flaps his arms and sniffs at Melissa Santos’s hair in between arm flaps. What the fuck, man? Prince Puma (w/Konnan) needs to get out here and beat the shit out of this dude already. The Moth is still fanboying and claps for Puma as Puma enters the ring [Editor's note: It's a ruse!]. Vampiro, after Konnan yells ORALE: “That’s not static, that’s not air pollution, that’s the voice of – unfortunately – Konnan.” His barbs at Konnan are generally quite funny. Konnan exhorts Puma: “This guy is a joke; treat him like a joke.” The Moth moves in for a hug and then tries to get a pre-match picture with Puma as Konnan exasperatedly tells Puma to maybe hit the dude in the face instead. I mean, taking a picture with your opps before kicking his ass is treating him like a joke, Konnan. In fact, Marty is the one to blindside Puma with a clothesline. Funny spot, but Puma probably should blow this dude away after that. He doesn’t do that much selling before taking over, but it’s too much. He also shouldn’t be trading counters with Marty in the middle of the ring. The Moth goes up, flaps his arms for about thirty seconds, and badly whiffs on a moonsault. Puma quickly capitalizes and puts him away with a 630 Senton Bomb. That was fun stuff and the Moth going from merely an unsettling goof to a complete fucking sicko is going to be a fun journey. The only quibble I have is that Puma should have taken more of this match and bulldozed this guy after initially letting his guard down. After the match, Hernandez appears at the top of the stairs; Konnan talks some shit to him and basically calls him soft, then tells him that Puma will beat him down right now. Puma definitely seems game for it, but Hernandez is only going to wrestle Puma on his schedule…or more accurately, Dario Cueto’s schedule since we know who runs this Temple. Adventures in Interviewing with Vampiro: Vamp spits hard-hitting questions at Johnny Mundo, who is boring as shit in his responses. Let’s see if Vampiro can help Mundo through this segment by being a provocative interviewer. Mundo is mostly dull with his responses, but maybe that’s by design and not just because Mundo is a dull speaker? Vampiro gets upset with Mundo’s boilerplate I’m the best in the world answers and needles Mundo, then asks Mundo if his attack on Alberto El Patrón last week was motivated by jealousy. Mundo seems to be annoyed that Alberto strolled in partway through the season and got a fat paycheck. Alas, he also makes reference to Alberto slapping dudes in WWE catering (I forgot about that) and does the whole indie I’m here because I want to be, but that other WWE castoff is only here for the money deal that I’ve heard and disliked before. Mundo sucks, man. There’s nothing wrong with just being the tag team specialist that you inherently are, y’know? Vampiro tried his best, though. Seedy backstage interstitial: Dario sits in his office (w/boarded up window) and tries to motivate his flunkies to victory tonight by describing the Aztec practice of human sacrifice, doing so not only as a way to tell them what they should be doing to Dysfunction Junction in the ladder match, but also as a way to warn them that they will be sacrificed to Matanza and the Aztec gods if they don’t make that happen. Maybe we’ll get that Delavar Daivari versus Texano match this week. Both these guys are solid workers, but this feud is devoid of heat. Daivari works Texano’s arm to start in what is a nondescript but sufficient little bout. They go back and forth. Man, Codebreakers and lungblowers are the favorite moves of guys in the Temple. Anyway, this match gets blown up when Big Ryck steps onto the apron and clubs Texano. I see Ryck’s got a new employer! Ryck makes the ref count three on Daivari's cover even though Daivari’s already been DQ’d. Seedy backstage interstitial: Dario Cueto peeks at Ryck and Daivari through his blinds, though shouldn’t that window be boarded up? There were boards on the window that Mundo tossed Alberto through. Maybe the rightmost window on that side is still intact. Anyway, someone touches the back of Dario’s neck and makes his hair stand up. You know who it is: that creepy-ass Catrina, who disappears when Dario turns to look, then reappears behind Dario after he sits down at his desk. She tells Dario that Mil Muertes is coming back and offers Mil up as the man who can finally put Fenix down for good. Dario is rattled, but he offers Mil a shot at Fenix next week and lets Catrina pick the match type. Catrina demands a death match, then disappears. From the look on his face, Dario goes from “rattled” to “some mix of scehming and anticipatory” as soon as she evaporates. Seedy streets of Los Angeles interstitial: Black Lotus has finally busted up out of wherever El Dragon Azteca has been holding her. She voices over her final diary entry, which she has left for Azteca to read, in which she thanks him for his training, but has had about enough of it. Azteca reads the diary entry, but is interrupted by Chavo Guerrero Jr. (!!!), who tells Azteca, “If you don’t want her to die, you’re gonna need my help.” YEAH, CHAVO IS BACK ON MY TELEVISION! Seedy unmarked warehouse interstitial: Ah, I see! So, Chavo makes a deal with Azteca. Remember way back when Konnan told Chavo that all of Mexico was gunning for him and his family because of what he did to Blue Demon Jr. (Season One, Show Three)? Well, all of Mexico has apparently been doing so off-screen since then because Chavo feels the need to trade his protection of Black Lotus for Azteca “clearing his debts” with those in Mexico who have targeted the Guerrero Family for Chavo Jr.’s attack on Demon. Azteca agrees, but only if Chavo Jr. agrees to give his life for Lotus’s if necessary. Chavo assents – “like she’s familia” – and I sense that people are going to start being killed off for real and for true in the next few episodes. Dario’s Crew faces Dysfunction Junction in the main event LU Trios Tag Championships Ladder Match. Only Angelico and Son of Havoc brawl with the crew-slash-flunkies to start; Ivelisse, still in a leg cast, slowly hobbles down the stairs and toward the ring. Bael punches Ivelisse while the other four wrestlers do their thing, including Havoc launching Angelico over the top and into a ladder that Castro and Cisco are holding. Well, I’m just going to let you know when something both notable and logical happens and also when the finish occurs, even if the latter is only notable and not logical. I like that these ladders are grimy, obviously pulled from the back of this dingy-ass former warehouse that is now the temple, and Vampiro points it out and mentions the risk of infection from contacting one of these ladders with your open wounds. Otherwise, it’s a perfectly cromulent ladder match in which, yes, we see that the window that Dario peeked out of earlier is unbroken. That’s because Cisco moves past it to bounce Angelico’s head off the plywood covering the broken window. Dario is on his big red office phone as the plywood falls to the floor, and Matt Striker makes a comment that Dario must be talking to Commissioner Gordon. Who does Striker think he is, Kevin Nash? Cisco soon is tipped off a ladder and through the open window, tumbling into Dario’s office. Angelico prepares for another office dive, but Cisco cuts him off with a series of Singapore cane strikes to the back; meanwhile, Cisco hits a suicide dive through the open window. Dario cracks me up because he looks at the carnage after that dive and hastily tells the person on the other end of the phone, “I’ll call you back.” Those little Dario spots are so good. Actually, I wish we got more of Dario’s reaction to the proceedings. Mundo tossing Alberto through that window has been a spot that keeps on giving. Havoc tries an SSP on one of the flunkies and through a table, but the table doesn’t break and Havoc bounces off the flunky’s body. Nasty stuff. Maybe we don’t need dangerous table spots on top of all the dangerous ladder spots? I will say this, though: Castro gets up and tries to go up the ladder, but Angelico, who was slumped on the apron, hits what has got to be one of the best-looking spots I’ve ever seen in my life by landing a missile dropkick off the office that is perfectly placed. That was incredible. Ivelisse takes the chance to barely ascend the ladder; Cisco climbs after her, but she bites his hand when he grabs at her and then unstraps the belts while he’s dealing with the pain. That wasn’t a great ladder match, but it had some dope spots. By the way that Dario’s shoulders slump, I can tell that he’s very disappointed in the failure of his flunkies. But you know who won’t be disappointed? Matanza’s crazy, violent ass since he’s got three fresh dudes to murder. The wrestling on this show again wasn’t much, but it a) wasn’t terrible and b) produced some nice spots in the ladder match. Once again, Dario and Catrina (and Vampiro, sorta) carried this show. And I suppose so did Chavo and Azteca, and lest I forget, Marty “the Moth” Martinez, who is just an unsettling guy, man. I don’t like him at all (in kayfabe of course; his character work is brilliant). 3 LU-CHA chants out of 5.

I still want a Nightstalkers movie. EDIT: Hell, I looked it up and they were originally formed by Dr. Strange. They could slide them into whatever universe they're on now.

WWE's added John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan from SummerSlam 2013. Cena's best match ever. Bryan's best match ever. *****. I've always rated it more than Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk on the same show. Same goes for Owen Hart vs. Bret Hart, ***** at WrestleMania X to Razor Ramon vs. Shawn Michaels. Who's with me?

Well if are tired of basically anything involving Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, well they have a brand new boogeyman to attack as almost all of the WNBA all stars including Clark wore "Pay Us What you Owe Us" shirts on warm ups. Apparently all of the "protect women's sports" people got degrees in economics this year too

Hayes Code ruining movies once again!

That's a bad name. Lost four family to dementia. I don't like Excalibur on commentary either. Never have.

And I suspect it was a popular fan theory since the first episode of Next Generation (back in 1987).

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

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.

Looks like pretty much all the matched from The Wembley shows from 2023 and 2024 are up on youtube

Ari Aster said in an interview that after Midsommar and Hereditary, he was offered the chance to direct Morbius. He politely declined.

Great YouTube video titles: "Buzz Sawyer acting more insane than usual" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOHfZeKLOic

it's the Honor after Supercard! Atlantis Jr. over Lee Johnson in a solid quick opener. Diamante's back with a squash of Maya World in under 2 mins. her Code Red finish looked awesome. Jay Lethal over Michael Oku is a pretty good, quick match Hechicero/Angelico is a fun little main event. Hologram makes the post match save and that's it for this one.

I didn't remember that Marty showed up this early. Yes, he was awesome at getting heat in front of that crowd of smarks who just want to do their CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP THIS IS AWESOME bs. Although Stalker super-fan might be a bit too on the nose for a wrestling gimmick in hindsight. So before reading this I was watching Willow Nightengale (who I showed you hitting the Pounce!) & Ishii vs Kris Stratlander & Stokley Hathaway. And I feel that three and fourways should be used like mixed tags. As in sparingly. When you do one on seemingly every show you lose the novelty. I don't even have the distaste for them that you do but think back to how novel it seemed when ECW started doing them in the mid 90's. And I even think there have been some great ones (HHH/Foley/Austin and HHH/KBK/Benoit come to mind), but way over used

A History of Vioence is on the short list for Best Comic Book Movie, along with Road to Perdition.

There's a joke to be made about the Bucs busting out the '76 creamsicles against the Jets, but eh.

Was at his show in Toronto on Wednesday. Legitimately one of the best shows I've ever been to.

Orton/Drew was enjoyable and decent build for the Summerslam tag. Jimmy/Solo was pretty solid with some nice action and good energy form the crowd. Post match with Jacob coming for revenge was fun. Dug the Jade/Naomi brawl and Bianca as guest ref announcement. Seth/Knight was going pretty well until Seth's injury forced a quick finish. Always a shame to see someone hurt though I suppose they have time to wait given MITB. Gunther/Goldberg honestly overdelivered for me. Thought it ended up pretty fun. Goldberg was sold well as a beast and Gunther had some decent heeling from beginning to end with his actions and reactions. Goldberg doing the sleeper job was a nice surprise as well. I'm curious if this was the plan or a quick change after Seth's injury. Honestly I'm kind of pleased with how it turned out either way. Its nice to see Gunther get a big win like this and Goldberg get in a retirement moment in front of his city. I only wish the weird ass late commercial break didn't happen. Thought this ended up an enjoyable show. Everything was solid-good and we got a nice final touch for Evolution build that I wasn't expecting.

So from all signs Seth is legit hurt. Whether that is why Gunther made Goldberg tap out I don't know. Good thing about MITB is that you have 10 more months to recover and cash it later. Who had Chuck Zito, Doug Dillinger, Earnest the Cat Miller, and Josh Barnett appearing together on their bingo card

Good news everybody! My Employment Insurance claim was approved. I am now officially suckling on the nanny state's teat!

except Hogan got his routine from seeing Lawler do it in Memphis