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Fuck, I wish they would have kept Wardlow off until he grew his hair all the way out. He looks like a 3rd string linebacker at Pepperdine, not Mr Mayhem. Also he should stop doing Jeff Hardy shit when he's a heel. Good match otherwise. Joe is great at getting taken to his limit but barely holding on. Willow/Riho was good shit even if they pooched the camera angle on the pounce. The deadlift doctor bomb looked sick as hell. I've only seen Mone wrestle once so I have no real frame of reference for her but I can tell I'm going to get sick of the dancing real quick.

Imagine being his big age and the only interesting thing about you being where you went to college. Sad world. On the wrestling tip: I have memories as a kid of WCW starting to set up a Nikita Koloff/Stan Hansen Russian Sickkle vs Lariat feud, but there is nothing about this online. Did I make this up? Was it some Apter mag shit that got stuck in my brain?

It is tough to remember since Pac's whole deal is not liking anyone.

Wrong team: Pac was on the BCC side and walked out on them for Claudio trying to big-time him. He should be coming back for revenge on Claudio for injuring him the ROH title match.

Miro seems like a pill but seeing the way AEW has continually fumbled other upper-mid card monsters like Hobbs and Wardlow does bring to mind that Oscar Wilde quote about losing parents.

That first boss fight was the one everyone hated so much that they overhauled it significantly in one of the patches so this is even the (theoretically) better version. Been playing 40K Inquisitor again because destroying waves of enemies as a big stompy space marine is always satisfying.

Might just be a case of differing priorities. WB wants them announced ahead of time because all they care about is selling ad time. TK wants them to be surprises because it's wrestling tradition and it creates a memorable moment you can play off of.

The most realistic angle AEW has ever run is Angelo Parker getting a new punk rock girlfriend and just immediately ditching all his own friends. "Sorry I couldn't help out when Killswitch was beating your asses, Ruby asked me to work the door at her friend's basement show"

My debit card got compromised and got some unauthorized charges, which is actually the less annoying part of the story. The annoying part is that their new debit card design is printed upside-down from every other card on the planet: the mag stripe is on the bottom and the chip is on the right. I had no idea how much muscle memory goes into pulling out and swiping my debit card until I was doing it backwards every time.

Coming after Ricky Bones, who is not only universally beloved but also the guy they wanted to give the job to in the first place, is such a dumbass move. How'd you think that would go? That said his actual posts seemed pretty tame so this feels like an "everybody's tired of his shit" thing.

Angelico TV match!

I found out this week that my wife both a) has a favorite unreleased Oingo Boingo song and b) has never heard Weird Science and did not know Danny Elfman was in the band. She is fascinating.

Daniel Makabe announced his retirement match will be July 12th on the first night of the Scenic City Invitational.

There are only so many story archetypes you can tell: man vs nature, man vs technology, man vs man, and cat vs Mondays.

Have them cut a promo after every loss about how they were secretly injured but didn't tell anyone so the loss doesn't really count.

I still have a twitter account because there are like 3 people on there I want to keep up with. But I refuse to use the desktop version since they nuked tweetdeck and my not-updated-in-two-years phone app won't do much anymore so that's pretty much winding down. I do like Bluesky, which is annoying but in different ways from twitter.

Happy Birthday, Paul!

Yeah, Luchasaurus is a great hot tag guy and below replacement level on pretty much everything else.

As I recall Scorp got injured again right after his comeback.

The Dartmouth men's basketball team has voted 13-2 to unionize.

I saw him wrestle Bryan Keith on a Revolver show last year and he really whipped ass. Everything looked crisp an he was really connecting with the crowd. I don't know if he's a better small-room guy or if a change of scenery did him good but I think he still has his fastball when he wants to. Re: the split I don't think Santana was wrong but I do think he was unrealistic about what his prospects are as a singles wrestler.

The weirdly obsessive Tom Zenk blog I got the transcript from says 2000

I ruined my search history to find a transcript:

My recollection is that after the interview it came out that it might have been somebody trolling Meltz pretending to be Zenk but I wasn't paying close attention to wrestling then so I don't know what the outcome was.

That was Tom Zenk (or maybe it wasn't actually Tom Zenk, I don't remember how all that shook out).