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Miro and/or his apologists put it out there that he was fine with jobbing if Tony could tell him what was next for him. You believe that shit? "Hey boss, I'll lay down in this one, but you need to assure me you have big plans for after that!" TK should have told him, "my plan is to job you next week as well. I could go on if you like." Go ahead and reenact the scene in Kill Bill where the strip club owner is just laying into Budd as he takes him off every single day he's scheduled to work. "Let's go to the calendar. Calendar time for Miro! You winning next Wednesday? (scratches out booking sheet with Sharpie) I don't think so..."

THUS BEGINS TK FASHION WATCH

It’ll be Ricky Starks if he goes directly to the main roster. Rycky Styarkys or Purvis Gentry if he goes to NXT.

Exactly! That’s why I don’t get the logic of “so and so isn’t ’moving the needle’”. The implication is that if TK pays a lot for someone and then that person doesn’t instantly shoot numbers through the roof or whatever, then that was a waste of money. What’s the alternative? Never hire anyone new and hope the midcarders and ROH roster can carry the show? I think a lot of people are looking at wrestling through the old paradigm of “big star sets the territory on fire” and the reality is now “let’s add to the buffet for the fans.” You’re not going to get incredible business highs anymore, but your company is in less danger of crashing, too.

Shit yeah. He looks like he traded whatever PEDs his snake oil pal was peddling for straight up meth.

HHH's leather and skulls guy just went ahead and ordered a yacht

Apparently so. The guy who becomes the Sentry/Void ("Bob") is in the first trailer that came out. I know nothing about him aside from catching up via Wikipedia after I'd heard about his involvement in the film. He came out long long after I'd stopped reading the funnybooks.

Followup: I got the Peabody Heights Trashbuster Coffee Porter over the weekend and it was very good. As mentioned, I'm typically not a porter guy due to some weird aftertaste issues, but this was delicious!

Here's the new Thunderbolts* online trailer that was advertised during the Superb Owl last night.

LOL YES. For a brief moment, I thought they'd have Tanya pull some John Wick shit, defeat the bad guys, and escape. And then...nope!

Too many movies with similar, vague titles like this. For a second, I thought you were reviewing this film. You know what would be a fun theme night? Get Out, I'm Still Here, and You Should Have Left.

God yes. That three way six man was my kind of crazy match. Put the fucking belts on someone who can defend them, especially in matches like that. Make the six man titles great ag Build the belts' value back up already! I like that they're not adding new members. The NWO added new people seemingly every week, until they were adding guys like Ray Traylor and Virgil, and watered down the angle. Thank you. The whole concept of one guy coming in and "moving the needle" is a once a generation thing and is outdated in this era of "the brand is the draw." The idea that AEW, in retrospect, shouldn't have signed Ospreay, Okada, Ricochet, Cole, Copeland, etc. because they're not coming in and becoming Steve Austin is kind of ridiculous.

KC's O line was holding, sometimes egregiously, on damn near every play. Imagine if that shit was being called and they had to hold less. Mahomes wouldn't have made it. The rampant holding makes Philadelphia's D line performance even more amazing. It's the NFL...superstar QBs' O lines holding is a feature, not a bug. Gotta give them time to make the highlight plays. They only showed her that one time that I can recall. I'm assuming there's some agreement to only show her if they're winning...sad Tay Tay moping would be embarrassing. Hey, maybe there's an album in this loss? Another possibility is that she left after a while. There was a commercial for Thunderbolts, but it was a shorter commercial that prompted viewers to check online for the actual new trailer. I don't have an answer to, "well what else was he supposed to do?" BUT hitting a deep ball in garbage time against second stringers felt like some bullshit. Harrison Ford's dogwhistle MURICAAAAA Jeep commercial was a hell of a contrast to the halftime show. Saying we can all get along and our differences make us strong, while presenting nothing but old straight white male middle American iconography, is trash. Worse than showing ruuuuuude tittays for 85% of your commercial and then being like PSYCH! GET A MAMMOGRAM YALL.

Halfway through Clash of the Champions 11 and forgot where I left off, turned it in and thought Windham was wrestling Ron Simmons. To steal from RJ City, Doug Furnas’ tan was definitely bordering on appropriation that night.

That’s not a Costco thing, that’s a modern life thing. Everybody’s oblivious nowadays. I don’t know if social media is to blame or just how busy everyone is now, but everyone is in their own world. I almost got in two car accidents leaving my development because people tried to turn into the road I was driving on and they weren’t paying enough attention to realize I was coming.

That’s awesome. I absolutely thought it’d be delayed like GTA5 and RDR2.

I read “Jazmyn Nix” in another thread and almost vomited. Shawn’s hanging out in trailer parks or lurking /r/tragedeigh for name ideas.

In my lifetime, I’ve seen it swing from actors secretly shooting commercials in Japan in order to make extra cash without scandalizing themselves, to an actual Oscar winner shilling legalized gambling. Shit’s wild.

I don’t mind DQs once in a while. It’s pro wrestling. A DQ is just one narrative tool in the box. What I mind is when it’s obvious the company booked a match and then was like, “oh shit, how do we get out of this?” I guess I mean it’s okay to have DQs, BUT it’s equally okay to job someone. If you’re a good booker with good wrestlers, losing a match doesn’t kill anybody.

WWE would try to play up the musician gimmick, but they’d try too hard, fuck it up, and we’d have 2025 Van Hammer. I’m now lol’ing to myself at the thought of these fucking squares trying to explain the very concept of Brody King on their homogenized shit show. My god, hearing Cookie Monster death metal screeching over the speakers while Michael Cole yells, “here comes Brandyn Monark! He loves to have fun!” would be almost worth it.

Julia is in the front row with a ticket!

Hear me out…at a point in the match where things look dire for Buddy, Julia gives him a pep talk as tells him YOU CAN DO IT! Suddenly, Buddy uses the blinding mist himself for the first time, leading to the title win. Wholesome and evil.

They mentioned that the robe meant a lot to Nana but never mentioned Jimmy Rave. That’s some bullshit at worst, big missed opportunity at best.

Please never forget Lou Thesz thought Harley Race was a spot monkey and a blight on the business. Dave is getting a lot of shit here, some warranted, some not, but one thing he’s right about is that wrestling, like every other form of entertainment, changes. To me, if you don’t enjoy something new and just like the old stuff, cool, that’s your preference. But that’s all it is. It’s not objective fact. Was wrestling better 30, 40 whatever years ago? To you it was, but that’s all. Who cares? Constantly shitting on how things are different now is like a movie fan watching Sonic 3 or whatever and then lamenting the rise of talkies and how the silent era was better. You can be out of touch and only like old wrestling and it’s fine, but god damn, enough with the “everything today sucks” or “the Bucks are killing the biz” stuff. The Cornette echo chamber is up there with Fox News in the “keeping telling the marks what they want to hear and they’ll keep coming back” department.

YES. Kingston, Hangman, and Swerve killing the DR would rule. Imagine Sting, Luger, and Flair teaming in 98 to bounce the NWO for good.