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All three fights are in a 2 1/2 month span. Shit, "Pretty" Paul don't need no training camp. But yeah, after fight one, they got some dudes who weren't particularly skilled at boxing probably or some hijinks took place. Looking at the cards he fought on, he got to be on the same bills as "Poison" Junior Jones, Marvin Hagler's brother Robbie Sims, "Iceman" John Scully, Zora Folley's son Robert Folley, Buster Drayton, and noted journeyman Melvin Wynn. That ain't exactly fighting on the same card as some weekend warriors. He had to know someone. Still not as wild as Archie Moore's last pro fight being Mike DiBiase.

Okay so I was tracking down some random shit on Friday night as I usually do, and I came across this on eBay. Say what now? I am guessing based on the result, this wasn't one of those Mark Gastineau works.

That early Zero One roster was the most ragtag group of motherfuckers you could ever conjure up. PRIDE era Hirotaka Yokoi and Kintaro Kanemura. Same roster. I loved it. Bonus:

Bruce is like Kissinger or Rumsfeld. He is there until his heart just gives out at the age of 115.

It doesn't really damn them. If someone calls the Boston Celtics a racist franchise, that ain't a shot at Bill Russell or Cornbread Maxwell or Rajon Rondo. That's a shot at the city of Boston, their fans, and how the organization was/is ran. The WWE has or past tense, had a toxic culture. That part is indisputable. Whether that all ties into Vince and some mavericks, who knows? However, Vince is synonymous with WWE like Al Davis is with the Raiders. One and the same even if he is gone. Nobody thinks Vince McMahon.....and random office person #4572.

024/vince-mcmahon-selling-last-tko-shares-1234777031/ Apparently, Twitter is abuzz about the Nick Khan part of this article. It could be a big nothing, but it won't stop the full on Brian Windhorst meme inspired "...Now why is that?" feeling going around that will cause rampant speculation.

I dunno if that makes him a hypocrite considering none of those people he hired were involved directly in what Vince is currently going through as far as we know. WWE doesn't exclusively own those wrestlers. They're "independent contractors". They also don't own staff members or personnel. Tony is in the NFL. A good portion of the people who work for the Jags have worked with other NFL franchises. In sports and entertainment, it's always been about how "our" culture is better than theirs even if it ain't true. Shit, Levesque trots out that fairly often. They're not going to have a media fight in the middle of a major lawsuit. That would be idiotic and disastrous. They been at this too long to do that.

The one walkout thing w/ a wrestler I do remember is Rey Jr. and Konnan walking out with Jhonny Gonzalez (the former Sexy Star's husband and the same guy who almost got into it with a drunk Jeff Jarrett the night Sexy Star went off script at TripleMania) the week after Perro Aguayo Jr. died. I just remember thinking, "Man...this is going to be even sadder cause Gary Russell Jr. is about to beat Jhonny's ass". And that's EXACTLY what happened. That was extremely depressing. I felt bad for those dudes.

I do remember Hunter walking out with Floyd (w/ Bieber), but I totally wasn't paying attention to that aspect. Maybe it's because as I mentioned before here, there are like 6,000 people in the ring before and after a fight and 99% of them don't belong there.

When the Russians turned on Don Kernodle, Kernodle was bed ridden and in a halo afterwards. Wheel his ass around the arena in a bed.

Maybe it's time for Dariush to hang em up. And I've never been a big "X needs to retire" person. However, it's weird for a coach to be this honest and even say his fighter got KO'd in the gym. Then again, Cordeiro was one of the head coaches at Chute Boxe where guys use to get KO'd routinely in sparring cause everyone was going 100% all the time.

I mean sometimes you got to embellish a few things on the resume to get the job.

By "dirty work", you mean walking up and down several aisles aimlessly at Home Depot and then hopping on a computer to watch hardcore pornography when they should be working? If so, that would be a yes.

Damn, people find any reason not to support small businesses. One week it's "man, I dunno if I really have much use for an old timey coffin". The next week it's, "Didn't you try to embalm someone who was still among the living?" This man clearly needs money to pay for a staff. And real staff unlike the one he would have later on. I mean Gangrel is probably only good to make runs to Starbucks. Honest, hard-working (dead) Americans can't catch a break.

I feel like Taker is the one friend who begs you to let him make you something so he can get his "business" off the ground. And always overpromises and underdelivers. "So yeah, is my coffin ready..." "Oh shit dude, you needed it THIS week?!" Also, can dead people take out SBA loans? I feel like that's a scam waiting to happen.

...We had a wrestling garbageman. Why was there never a wrestling carpenter? Was Taker technically a carpenter since he handmade coffins? And why did it take him like three months to make one coffin? Wait...what was Hard Work Bobby Walker's occupation*? *Besides blowing high spots...

I believe it was the Counting Crows who wrote a song about old Freight Train, was it not?

Yeah, SD has been gone for a hot minute. In heaven, Special Delivery wins all his matches.

Easy. Show up as the Midnight Rider or Stagger Lee or The BT Express or the Bullet or the Tennessee Stud or Charlie Brown from Outta Town or....nevermind, you get the point.

Moving to welterweight is probably the smartest move physically, but I think he would had a much easier time adding to his resume he could have made 135 and 140. That and most of the young name are in those divisions.

Here is the template for this week: EVENT #39 Cage Warriors 171: Bungard vs. Girlean (04/20/2024) - Glasgow, Scotland (Braehead Arena) Chris Bungard vs. Dumitru Girlean - Bungard, DEC Reece McEwan vs. Cameron Else - McEwan, DEC Sean Clancy Jr. vs. Lucas Rodrigues - Clancy Jr., TKO, R1 Aidan Stephen vs. Gianluca Scottoli - Stephen, DEC Scott Malone vs. Nicolas Leblond - Leblond, SUB, R2 Keir Harvie vs. Kaique Modesto - Harvie, DEC EVENT #40 Haney vs. Garcia (04/20/2024) - Brooklyn, NY (Barclays Center) WBC Super Lightweight Championship(*): Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia - Haney, DEC Arnold Barboza Jr. vs. Sean McComb - Barboza Jr., DEC Bektemir Melikuziev vs. Pierre Hubert Dibombe - Melikuziev, TKO, R4 Interim WBA World Super Flyweight Championship: John Ramirez vs. David Jimenez - Ramirez, DEC Charles Conwell vs. Nathaniel Gallimore - Conwell, TKO, R3 Sergiy Derevyanchenko vs. Vaughn Alexander - Derevyanchenko, TKO, R5 Darius Fulghum vs. Cristian Olivas - Fulghum, TKO, R5 Johnny Canas vs. Markus Bowes - Canas, TKO, R4 Amari Jones vs. Armel Mbumba - Jones, TKO, R2 Shamar Canal vs. Pedro Penunuri - Canal, DEC Kevin Newman II vs. Eric Robles - Newman II, TKO, R2 *Title only on the line for Haney as Ryan Garcia missed weight. The Event #39 deadline is Saturday, April 20, 2:45 p.m. CT. The Event #40 deadline is Saturday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. CT.

Totally understood. I mean I am not completely anti government regulation. It pretty much saved MMA in the United States (positive or negative depending on where you sit on the fence). It also has saved a few lives when abnormalities came up on blood work and brain scans. It also gave the boxing world one of the most hilarious fight card cancelations back in 1998 when the Holyfield vs. Henry Akinwande card was called off in New York cause Akinwande came up as Hep B positive, a fighter on the card was 21 weeks pregnant, and Ray Mercer couldn't get medically cleared. So the world was spared a 36 minute clinch fest stinker. However, stuff like that is few and far between. When it comes to pro wrestling, usually it's something like Chris Cruise being an utter rat and snitching to the Maryland commission over blood. Nothing that can be considered halfway useful.

I've watched maybe several dozen combat sports events emanating from the state of Oklahoma. This may be the first time I've heard of them having a commission. Maybe it's probably because everyone purposely avoids it and tries running casinos on a reservation (they have the third best Miami behind Florida and Ohio). Now that said, the only thing I would disagree with is paying any type of fine. On that, I would tell them to fuck off because AEW didn't try to sneak it by you. Yes, commission forms are commission forms. However, it ain't drug testing. The promotion knew they had a trans wrestler. You know who also knew? Literally everybody who follows pro wrestling. They didn't sneak it by you. So yeah, you weren't paying attention. Thus, that doesn't justify any punishment. I think this was a few years ago now, but when Patricio Manuel (formerly Patricia Manuel) chose to turn pro after a very lengthy amateur career as a female, Andy Foster didn't put out a press release or any form of communication as the commissioner for California, And you can say, well that's California. Except Andy Foster is from Georgia and as southern as one could get by his accent. Hell, it's probably why out of all the commissions, California has the least shittiest one out of all of them and been the most progressive in terms of fighter safety and necessary rule changes. This is purely driven by, "who can we embarrass and how?" The commissions survive purely off money from other entities. The only way to force change is freezing them out. Continuing to run there is just going to embolden them. I think one of the worst things Tony could do is subject his talent to that anywhere on the globe they run.

If the conversation (pun not intended) regarding Gene Hackman last week is any indication, reclusive cat man Vince is going to be fodder for a lot of wild takes centered around aging. This goes especially since Vince looked rough in recent years.

I love how everyone's headshot is tough but Konami is ready to shoot the cover for her latest alternative album.