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As much as I love Hangman, Moxley is the wrestler of the year. His in ring and character work has been outstanding. I also don’t think enough credit has been given for how the whole DR storyline has unfolded or is now collapsing. The nWo comparison shouldn’t be made, but this is really like how the nWo should have ended. Chipping away at Hogan until he fires up against someone that exposes him for the shook bitch he is and then he unravels more and more until everyone around him realizes “WTF are we even doing here anymore?”

As stated elsewhere let me say that I feel like a real idiot for giving Sarah Stock the benefit of the doubt when this all started, I like to assume the best of people when there isn't a ton out there and... well sometimes people really are just awful. Y'all had that one sniffed out much quicker than I did.

I'm so sick of AEW going to their viewer's homes before PPVs and tying them up and forcing them to watch these violent spectacles and then holding a gun to their head and forcing them to go online and comment about how they hate it and only old wrestling is good and shitting on everything TK does because they're bitter old smarks who need something to say between their vaguely racist and sexist comments. Or better yet, they actually haven't watched any new wrestling in a while but still feel the need to shit on TK and AEW for some reason. God, I wish AEW would just stop FORCING people to watch this sick stuff. This shit is fucking stupid. If you don't like death matches (which I wouldn't even begin to classify Darby/Mox as) turn the shit off. IF YOU DON'T EVEN WATCH FUCKING WRESTLING ANYMORE WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BITCHING ABOUT IT????

Alberto del Río: “I was John Cena’s favorite opponent, he asked for me all the time.” “We’d go out there and wrestle, Cena and I. I mean, I was his favorite rival. When I was the face of the company, everyone would line up saying, ‘When do I get to face Alberto Del Río?’ Everyone wanted to, because I was the only one who loved being the villain. Uuuu, me I love being the villain. I was the only one people actually believed in; they really thought I was a bad guy. That’s why everyone enjoyed wrestling me it was easy. They’d say, ‘When do I get to face Alberto?’ John, who was the pillar of the company, would ask for me all the time.” — Alberto Del Río on La Granja Vip.

The Lion does not concern himself with the thoughts of Dances With Dudley

...you tell me Joe isn't on this board.

So let me just say that I feel like a real idiot for giving Sarah Stock the benefit of the doubt when this all started and anyone who called me out on it you were right and I was wrong. What a fucking bozo.

I detest Twitter, but this is great:

Enter keyword "TIAGO" for a free bet on if he makes it to the 2026-27 season as a coach

Netflix has announced they have acquired the rights to the Catan games. They say they will be creating movies and TV shows based around the games that your friends force you to play when they don't want to actually talk to you any more.

Kudos to you, man. As I mentioned, nowadays you see doubling down on bad takes far more than you see stuff like,"hey, you know what, that was wrong."

So is it fair to say that, in promotions that have a Deathmatch Championship, two guys who have no personal issue having a Deathmatch is fine, because they’re trying to get wins in the division and move closer to a title shot?

Vince could've put them with these guys.

I wouldn't put Mox/Darby in the same category as "deathmatch wrestling." As @J.H. mentioned, "deathmatch wrestling" is more related to these feds where guys are using all manner of crazy plunder with no story or build. Just violence for violence's sake, no story. It's like having dessert for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Mox/Darby escalated an actually booked program into a violent conclusion. There's no difference between this and stuff Crockett was doing in the 80s with the exception of their choice of foreign object. And if a feud culminates in one skewer spot, a taser, and simulated threats of drowning, that's still better and safer than, say, a scaffold match. Between grifters with an axe to grind and old heads who just don't like AEW, there's a lot of bad faith arguments and assumptions happening here. Eddie Gilbert hit Jerry Lawler with a fucking car. Barry Windham was jumped and had his hand slammed in a car door. Why is what AEW is doing so far beyond the pale? People need to chill with this bullshit.

Abdullah is the Abe Vigoda of wrestling…I could have sworn he was already dead.

I'm worried about my insurance because I have to take a written and visual test (and my eyes are, well, shot) before my birthday in December, so I feel you Mike. If anyone's been worried about my absence, I have one friend with mental issues (disassociative disorder and alcoholism, among other things) in touch with me that I had an argument with, and -- the big one -- a friend that just had a brain tumor removed at the local hospital. He told me that the doctors said he had a 3% chance of survival. Three. Everything sounded good, I was talking to him all day yesterday via text, but he hasn't responded since. He didn't say anything about his diagnosis until the very last minute before surgery, on Facebook, so I had no clue. He willed his wife and 13 year old kid all his possessions. He's a very private person, but I've known him for 20 years. This is just hard. I'm trying to deal, and you know what that entails. I'll get back around soon, sooner than later hopefully.

I'm guessing it was Manson that actually shut down the meeting when he heard Vince might be around. He probably couldn't handle being around that big a psycho.

INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006) IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES Selected by Lawful Jr Reviewed by @Curt McGirt INLAND EMPIRE (2006) How does the old saying go? I'm gonna have to paraphrase and adopt it: Writing about David Lynch is like dancing about architecture. Especially this film. So I'm gonna take a break here at the two hour mark and detail some things. First off, I watched part of this -- the coherent part -- a long time ago on HBO or Showtime or something. I probably didn't finish it because it's three fucking hours long. Which doesn't bother me really; I love David, I'm up for a challenge, and I want to see everything he's done, which I'm woefully behind on, considering I've never watched Twin Peaks (any of them). So, downloaded 'er off Soulseek, found time in my oh-so-busy schedule to watch, and decided to start. I soon found that I could multi-task while watching this! I played a little bass, read a little, watched a little bit of Toxic Avenger III on TV at the same time (I'm sure Mr. Lynch would find that particularly amusing). But I could do that because the film is, how you say... dreamlike? Let's just put it that way. Languid. Not... a lot... going... on. But also a metric ton. We start with an old record playing, saying its gonna tell some old story. And then we have three people with rabbit heads in a room. And then we segue into an actual story. Laura Dern is an actress living in some Hollywood Hills mansion or something (I mean he's placed his stories there before, might as well be). The great Grace Zabriskie, with a thick eastern European accent, shows up to introduce herself as a new neighbor and congratulate Laura on scoring a part she doesn't know she's gotten yet. She ends with a parable about evil, or something. Anyway this is a big part and Laura has needed it or something and her opposing lead and love interest in the movie (Justin Theroux) is some kind of ladies man/starfucker who's warned by his agent to keep his dick in his pants. The director is Jeremy Irons, his assistant is Harry Dean Stanton, and we get some scenes of them going through lines and talking amongst themselves (Stanton plays "Lynch Creepy" better than anyone ever in the space of one single monologue). They even film a little and the movie appears to be about a love affair between a Southern belle (reminding that Laura's momma Diane shows up for a minute as a talk show host, btw) and Theroux. They are warned that the movie was previously tried to be made, but was canned after somebody got murdered -- which they weren't told before production already started. And then reality loosens, and lets go. There's just all kinds of shit. David likes to throw in jump-scare screams and bright lights and people running at the camera for no reason other than it's dead still and silent. At some points (like an apparent sex scene between Dern and Theroux) you can barely see anything. Laura appears in some scenes to be a battered prostitute being interviewed by a dumpy dude that may or may not be a cop who just stares impassively; she's got bruises on her face and describes violently defending herself from rape and assault attempts in the past. There are random scenes of people speaking some eastern European language that I believe due to the credits is Polish? (this is a theme of some sort). They show up a lot, completely out of context, like there's a second story we can't understand. Laura cries in a lot of scenes. She shows up in a room full of hookers, who talk amongst themselves and then literally Do the Locomotion before vanishing into thin air. They reappear constantly through the movie. You know, normal David Lynch stuff. This is at the two hour mark. I will continue in a moment (ha!) with the finish. --------------------------------- I stopped right before a point where Dern runs directly at the camera screaming. Of course. The room with the three bunny-people (two sitting on a couch, one is ironing in the corner) keeps showing up; there's a laugh track when the ironing one says something. Laura keeps showing up in scenes where she either can't respond to the action she's witnessing, or the characters won't communicate with her; there's a guy sucking on a lightbulb at one part (?!) who says nothing, stares at her, and disappears. We get a scene where a group of people speaking Polish or whatever mention that someone was there then left, with the impression this person did something bad; they hand a guy a gun and tell him to leave because it's after midnight. And then a bunch more shit happens that I'll just leave to your imagination. You better have a big one. And guess what? YOU CAN'T EVEN LEAVE DURING THE CREDITS. David has a totally badass dance sequence and the monkey he grilled like it was a criminal in that short film to show you still. And a guy sawing a log. ... Depending on your nature, you will find this a horror film, a murder mystery, possibly a comedy, or even all of the above. What you won't be able to do is understand it. I'm gonna go look online for all kinds of interpretations and maybe somebody's cracked the code, but I think it was intentionally impenetrable, at least to some extent. It's Lynch playing meta, showing the filming process, turning story inside out, and all kinds of mad stuff, that to the layman will just look like bat-shittery. Which it is. Laura Dern: For Your Consideration.

Should note, the press conference mentioned the gambling extended to the "Toronto Rangers", so the Mounties may want to get on that part of the investigation.

I thought it was just Shibata being his usual stoic asskicker self. He’s not there to entertain. He’s there to fuck someone up.

We're getting old, brother!! I've come to accept that I'll be rewatching on Thursday. Harley and her puppet really had me dying. The way they shot that segment was great too. Hobbs had me rolling during the post match promo by Joe. I'm kinda saddened by the high possibility of Stat losing her title already. When Darby was walking out I had a sinking feeling he was turning. I'm glad he didn't. I love Darby, even if his entrance music is garbage. That Conglomeration entrance video is so great. Everyone plays their role perfectly. Women's 4way tag was fun. Polished? No but it was fun. I don't need a wrestling match to be this perfectly executed dance, especially if I get caught up and this match had a lot of my favorites in AEW. Really solid night. Need to rewatch the main though.

Does he look like he's married?

Is there a word for "cringing with awkward discomfort and overwhelming familiarity?" Because that's my feeling when I see Eddie being just absolutely visibly uncomfortable taking compliments.

On much better news, I am not sure there are two more people in wrestling where you see and don't care how long the video is then Eddie Kingston and Renee Paquette. That video could have been 3 hours long and wouldn't have complained. It is like listening to a brother and sister just talk shit

In just one weekend: Bas went to the restroom during the pay-per-view and was interviewed backstage when he came out of the restroom Bas and I sang along with Roxanne Modafferi's walkout music (Blvd. of Broken Dreams by Green Day) Bas told us that he did work as a pro wrestler in Japan, but he got hurt too much and his wife told him "You have to go back to real fighting"

Oh sure, no monetary cost, but what about the cost TO YOUR SOUL

"hey can our wrestling company go to Corcoran State Prison for an angle?"

You know yourself. Probably the right call. In fact, the only possible call, since nothing is worth injuring yourself over. Just enjoy the pump that comes from the longer sets!

Shibata is the straight man of the group. He has to be the moral compass to Joe's shenanigans.

I feel like these are all symptoms of the same disease. In reality, there is not much of a difference between selling crack and selling cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, or anything else addictive. We just decided one thing was illegal and the other ones are legal. Once you decide, I'm willing to get this crack, cigarette, alcohol, or gambling money, you go out there and get that money. In a world where companies that make record profits decide to lay off 30% of their staff because they want to make more money, you can't be surprised what people are willing to do to make more money. It's all the same thing. No matter how much money you have, the goal is to get more. Once you decide that profit is the only goal, you'll do damn near anything. Not all money is good money, especially when you have to compromise your morality.

One of my all time favorite MST gags is the two clowns slapping each other Joel: it’s a full contact version of Virginia Woolf. Crow: don’t talk our clown, Martha.

It’s been a good run but I think I’ve hit that age when lifting heavy (for me, minimum 5 reps, max 8 ) isn’t an option anymore. I had bad shoulder pain after lifting Sunday and Tuesday this week. Not regular lifting soreness, actual injury type pain. Same thing happened last time I went back to lifting heavy…shoulder pain after a few months. I don’t have this issue when lifting lighter (8-12) and it goes away after switching to light. I think it’s from sacrificing form and going faster. It sucks because lifting heavy burns more calories (still working on losing a little more weight) and I have a better feeling of accomplishment lifting heavy. Ah well, just need to work on the mindset. I’d rather burn 50-70 fewer calories and not feel as powerful vs injuring myself.

Well, we know now that the squat machine holds at least 584 lbs! 3 pretty laughable reps that went just barely below the safety bar but it was mostly for science. The set of 3x489 actually went pretty deep before that one. Other workouts have been an EZ Bar Curl pyramid and incline dumbell bench / hammer curl pyramids, on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

The best part about all this is I won my Fanduel prop bet on an NBA coach getting arrested for being part of an illegal gambling ring.

I don't think its happened to a professional coach before Its happened on the collegiate level (Chris Beard being the most recent example)

By the FBI, likely not. Arrested in general, let me check to see if they arrested Billy Martin for assaulting a marshmallow salesman

Second best thing from the show, Kazuchika Okada vs. Bandido in a MOTYC. It's between Konosuke Takeshita and Bandido for my WOTY.

And a young Tony Chimel!

Al Horford didn't sign with GS until about a nanosecond before the first game and played 20 minutes. Al Horford is not older than dirt. AL HORFORD NAMED IT DIRT. He played 20 minutes. I would say 'fuck the Knicks' but they still won anyway, so...DP the Knicks. Also, with Tatum injured and LeBron finally losing the battle to Father Time, I think we can safely say Wemby is now in the Top 5 in the league. And that's his *floor*. 40/15/3 blocks & zero turnovers with AD & Lively as the primary Dallas bigs. He's here. SA is my sneaky Western Conference pick - not to win it all, but to play a massive spoiler for someone and upend the conventional wisdom. Just saying it now.

Unfortunately, even the best got to know when to hang 'em up.

Have you read the comics they're based on? It's more the violent adulting.

Classic KRS is really hard to beat, especially the big hits. But at some point in the 00s he kinda just got to meta about being "the teacher", and the beats weren't as solid.

For everyone who wanted Robo-Umps, congratulations, you're getting your wish. And much like a genie, your wish is not always what it seems: That sound is your electric bill going up by $25 because Daniel Jones threw a pick to a defender who did not commit PI, but the machine says he did.

Play In 4 Life! At this point it's become kind of fascinating that over multiple years we can jettison our "best" players for the rebuild, and our end of season record will remain unchanged.

Nobody should be defending Vince, but I have no problems with people hating death match wrestling.

he's practically Baldar the Humanitarian

Movies today....end of Guy Ritchie-a-Thon. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Netflix, leaving on 10/31) - 3/5 stars Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992) (Peacock, leaving on 10/31) - 2.5/5 stars Save The Green Planet! (Kanopy, leaving on 10/31) - 4.5/5 stars

I’m actually below my driver’s license weight (230 vs 208) and I’m proud of that.