The Man Known as Dan

Basically this. I also think the sad truth is I think Bray is a fantastic brawler in the limited times we’ve seen it, but WWE brawling in the modern era is just setting up garbage spots and it fucking sucks.

Just gonna talk about the main event, because being legit I couldn't give half a shit about anything about Omega & Young Bucks related at this point. I'm here for Eddie Kingston. The main event brawl was everything I wish more wrestling was like now a days. It was a BRAWL. It was hate filled, it wasn't them just trying to set up spots constantly, and it was exactly what I wanted it to be. And unlike when Orange lost the first match to Jericho and I was pissy about it, I have complete confidence that all Kingston needs to be the most over guy on any given week is one good promo.

All this debate on Michigan and I’m just prepping for TOP 10 INDIANA MOTHER FUCKERS

I mean, is he wrong? There are no DQ's in triple threat matches. What is the ref gonna do?

CLIMB THE LADDER MILES, MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS!

I’m just pleased Spider-Verse got here. It felt like it would, and it is easily the best super hero movie made this decade to me. But I was worried after the giant Marvel drop there were just too many anti-Superhero movie folks for it to break this high. But top 10 is a pretty incredible achievement for an animated super hero movie, even if it was the best animated movie of the decade.

Super interesting that Ragnarok is gonna finish as the top Marvel movie (I don’t think any of the others stand a chance to surpass any of the last 5 or 6 mentioned unless someone is much higher on the Ant-Man franchise then I thought.), and I think it’s pretty likely none finish in the top 20 now. Legit wouldn’t surprise me if Thor is next. It has made me much less optimistic about Spiderverses chance though. I’m questing if even top 10 will go down.

As an IU fan let me just say: hahahahahagagahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA Go fuck yourself Penn State.

Kinda awkward when my best friend is a Leafs fan and my least favorite team is “Whatever team Joe Thornton is on”

Since this is still early access I’ll count this as Upcoming? If anyone wants to move it to current, that’s fine. But Baldur’s Gate 3 is my jam. It’s like if Baldur’s Gate 2 and Dragon Age Origins had a baby, that somehow ended up turn based. If that sounds like your jam, get pumped.

for the record, I hate it for a multitude of reasons.

I’m cool with random issues, can send feedback to the devs, who I trust. I’m gonna jump into single player tonight, and after that run would be up for a multiplayer run through for the early game.

Would anyone else want a Baldur’s Gate 3 thread when it goes into EA in *checks clock* a half hour? Not sure how much interest there would be.

Just for guessing sake, I’ll take a stab that 3 Marvel movies didn’t make the list, and they are Thor 2, Ironman 2, and Ant-Man 2 (which is a movie I enjoy but have seen nobody else be really high on). I am also regretting not making a ballot, even though I am woefully behind in most movie watching this decade, just to make sure Into the Spiderverse got a 1 vote.

Last community update before Baldur’s Gate 3 before early access dropped on character creation, and I wanted to share. https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/1086940/view/2868188053546850136

The best part is you know he’s ranting somewhere about how unjust it is that he god banned and not Metal.

Also, they just had a flood in there main office, so that might be pushed back as well. Fingers crossed it isn’t.

Out of curiosity, is anyone else gonna be jumping on the Baldur’s Gate early access train? I’m more curious if it will justify its own thread on here next week.

This isn't proper context. They were up 16 points with 7 minutes left then allowed 21 points in less then 5 minutes.

Boy Atalnta sure is Atlantaing hard.

No matter what I'm gonna respect the shit out of the Nuggets after this post-season. You just sense they aren't gonna make this easy on the Lakers.

Coincidentally, Unseld is now being viewed by some for the Bulls coaching gig, which, yes please.

I’ll be blunt in saying this upgrade actually does feel like an upgrade and both DarkVelvet and Navy Nights are awesome skins. VaporRun is an awesome skin in a hilarious way.

I've been trying to think of the right way to word my response to the Hogan Bock thing for a bit, but first, Disc 3 results. 13. Crusher Blackwell vs. Da Crusher (No DQ) (2/26/84)- ½ star, 1.0 out of 10. OG Rating: 139th Holy Fuck what is this match. Fuck “Da Crusher” first off. No selling fucking everything, brings absolutely nothing to the table. Blackwell, god bless him, tries. He runs into the post so damned hard he moves the fucking ring. And the finish was legitimately pretty fun. But those 2 notes only give this a 1/4 of a star each, and, well, Fuuuuuuuuuck this match, and Fuck Da Crusher. 12. Crusher Blackwell & Ken Patera vs. Steve O & Buck Zumhofe (2/3 falls)- 2 ¾ stars, 5.5 out of 10.- OG Rating: 133rd This is more an angle then a match, but it was effective at what it was going for. Blackwell is distracted from a confrontation with the Blackjacks, and O and Hofe take adventage to score a quick fall. But since this was non title, Blackwell and Patera are just content that once they gain control, they are just gonna fucking destroy the babyfaces until the ref ends the match due to excessive violence. I liked It better then the last Steve O and partner match, as it’s a much better performance by the heels and a match that hit its points quicker. 11. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Billy Robinson (3/11/84)- 2 ¾ stars, 5.9 out of 10 OG Rating: 85th This is my first introduction to Jumbo in America and one of my very first matches watching Jumbo in a long time. And I came away from this match much more impressed with him then Robinson. And I’m almost pretty happy I’m almost done with Robinson at this point, because he’s such a frustrating worker for me on this set. He has amazing technical sequences that leave me eager to watch forward and then… completely stops working around that. Mostly because he’s playing babyface, I assume, and I would most likely much prefer him as a heel. But it does detract from this match a decent bit. Furthermore, for a guy as talented as Robinson, the choice of having his back getting worked on all match, and selling even basic movement as painful, and then hitting Gutwrench Suplexes. And heavy lifting inside out backbreakers is something I’d be super critical of Seth Rollins for doing on a WWE PPV, so I have to stick to my guns and be critical of it from Robinson. It doesn’t help that the move that set up the back issue is set off by a pretty harmless looking fall to the floor, and that the work on the back wasn’t super inventive, and even the positioning on the backbreaker wasn’t ideal as it was more over the butt. On top of that, there seems to be a noticable fast count on the finish which didn’t make any sense to me. Frustrating match. 10. Rick Martel vs. Brad Rheingans (9/9/84)- 3 stars, 6.3 out of 10 OG Rating: 74th This match had some work I liked a good deal, but between the camera cutting out at various points preventing us from getting a real feel for how the escapes were worked, in combination with the non-finish, I feel like I’m going to have to be lower on this match then I think it really was capable of. Incomplete match out of something that if we got a full version of I would be put higher. But I can’t be frustrated because this seemed to have just been shot by one random fan in 84 and that fan is a live saver. 9. Crusher Blackwell & Ken Patera vs. Blackjack Mulligan & Jerry Lawler- 3 ¼ stars, 6.8 out of 10. OG Rating: 57th Mulligan throws a really good punch and has good presence but adds just about nothing else to match. But Lawler is fucking GREAT in this match at every point, and Blackwell FINALLY having some really strong offense with the Samoan Drop and falling headbutts, and Patera giving an admirable performance. The finish is lacking and it and a frustrating performance keeps this from really taking it to the next level, but it has me actively craving a Blackwell/Lawler match. 8. Jim Brunzell vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (3/15/84)- 3 ¼ stars, 6.8 out of 10. OG Rating: 65th Fun match that kinda played it safe, which is a bit of a bummer, but also a match without any real flaws to point out. It’s just a rock solid story of a match worked safe that didn’t super play into Brunzell’s strengths, but showed that Brunzell can work in this style of match too. Crowd in Salt Lake was hot for him, and Jumbo worked what felt like was a standard match for him at this time (which is good). Not much more to add other then that everything. 7. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig (6/14/84)- 3 ¼ stars, 6.9 out of 10. OG Rating: 45th This match to me is a pretty basic baseline good match. Bock does play vet being surprised by the young babyface pretty well, but Hennig doesn’t have much to bring to the table here. I get he’s supposed to be underdog babyface, but he’s kind of a sloppy bumper at points during this, and his offense, save for the one armbreaker spot that was legit good and a couple cool uses of the ropes, felt completely uninspired to me compared to the Martel matches I just came off of. This also felt like a good Bockwinkel performance, but not one of the best of the set. 6. Nick Bockwinkel, Mr. Saito, & Bobby Heenan vs. Blackjack Lanza & The Fantastic Ones- 3 ½ stars, 7.2 out of 10. OG Rating: 63rd A pretty good though not as great spiritual sequal to the Heenan Family against the High Flyers and Hogan, this match felt like an exact clone stylistically, with actually a better heel team overall. But the babyfaces were not nearly to the tier as Hogan and the High Flyers to me, and the match was hindered by the AWA classic too early of a finish. Saito, Bock, and Heenan are a masterclass of what to do in a six man, and this is a masterclass. 5. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Rick Martel (12/8/83)- 3 ¾ stars , 7.6 out of 10. OG Rating: 66th A really fun little match with a really shitty finish. Martel might be the best guy I’ve seen ever at working a headlock in a meaningful way, and this might be the best babyface performance on this set in a singles match not by Wahoo, and maaaaybe Brunzell. If I have one negative it’s that it felt like it ended just as it was really starting to get good. 4. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Rick Martel (5/13/84)- 3 ¾ stars, 7.9 out of 10. OG Rating: 41st This is certainly the best Jumbo match of the set, as Martel is a great opponent, and the small stuff in this match all feels big, which is probably one of the biggest compliments I can give a wrestler overall. Martel is possibly the best wrestler ever at making basic holds look as painful as possible, as he goes full effort to make Headlocks and Hammerlocks look like high spots, and I love him for doing so. Jumbo is a game opponent here, and I came away from this match liking both more then I came in. My initial debate was if this match was quite 4 stars, and I ended up putting it just below that level due to a finish that could have been better 3. Crusher Blackwell & Shiek Adnan Al Kaissey vs. Da Crusher & Greg Gagne- 4 stars, 8.0 out of 10. OG Rating: 18th Wow, this really is a miracle match even more so then the Vachon match to me, though it’s 95% Gagne and Blackwell carrying this. Both are bumping like madmen, and Gagne spends almost ¼ of this match on the top rope looking for any way to hurt Blackwell. Great interference from Patera to get involved in any way possible, a fantastic hot tag from Gagne, and an awesome finish. Crusher’s punches are much sharper in this match, and Shiek is a trooper. It’s a match my gut said wasn’t 4 stars, but then I couldn’t come up with an actual argument against putting it there. 2. Rick Martel vs. Nick Bockwinkel (9/20/84)- 4 ¼ stars, 8.7 out of 10. OG Rating: 10th A pretty great followup to my current number 1, though it couldn’t quite make it to that tier for me. This match is worked more like a marathon, were both men are pushing with everything they have to gain the win, resulting in both men being absolutely dead tired and looking for pinfalls at any minor thing they could. It’s clearly a great great contest, with two fantastic workers doing there stuff, but it isn’t quite at my super top tier. 1. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Rick Martel- (8/16/84)- 4 ½ stars, 9.2 out of 10 OG Rating: 28th Fuuuuuuck yes. THIS was the clincher match for Martel for me. This is my fucking dude. Which isn’t to take anything away from Bock, who was great in this. But the biggest moment on this entire set to me so far 40 matches in was Martel getting pumped and basically telling Bockwinkel to fuck his King of the Mountain, you aren’t the King of this place anymore, I am now. Martel is the most full effort wrestler I’ve ever seen in the best way. He tries to make everything he does look big, and Bock is an amazing foil for anyone, let alone him. The finish isn’t amazing overall, but it’s not even close to a botched finish some of the others on this set has felt like to me. Overall, I loved this match, as it felt like the real changing of the guard from the Bockwinkel as King era to the Martel era, and I couldn’t be happier to, at the time of writing, to put it as my new No.1 match overall. Disc Ending Notes: This disc's description can come down to "Rick Martel was amazing". This is also been the best disc so far by a good deal imo.