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It’s not that hard, check the rubiks cubed sundial

Maybe a little more decisive of a finish would have been better, but this match was the most I’ve cared for Jungle Boy. The failed spinning lariat made the drop kick seem bigger. Jack plays a good underdog getting walloped. Have Rush take on all the young pillars.

I wonder what Dax thinks of all this

I was giving you gold earlier and I can’t even get a forum stable shout out?! I’m gonna Four Horsemen you guys so hard. Revolving members and sexual innuendo based references to rollercoasters and everything.

He’s gonna be drafted by Dynamite and will join the elite. He will tear it up in amazing segments with Nakazawa on Dark, but Dark will now literally be dark so no one will see it. We are in end times, people! Say your prayers and hope the hordes of Jericho show you mercy.

Every Jericho, both real and imagined, will be there.

I am no longer optimistic. We are inching towards death. No Rush for anyone. We all get our own personal long Jericho feud that will play on repeat until our final judgement.

That would be great but I want the world for my Rush

Hopefully this leads to a strong and mean La faccion Ingobernable. Matt will be mad, but a story of Hangman in enemy territory would be neat. We already saw him vs Punk, but maybe they can hurt each other’s feelings again and we somewhat get a Punk vs Elite vibe from it. Prob won’t happen though. I’m staying positive on this split (if the split is accurate). Maybe 2 locker rooms where everyone is best friends. Enough tv time where Hobbs, Starks, and others can get opportunities to shine.

I think the poster being red represents rage or lust. More anger from the talent or will this be a dating show?

If Dax took Road Dogg’s advice he’d be 3x World champion the current Tribal Chief

I think AEW is being sold to the Saudi government and Rampage will base its airing day on an oversized novelty wheel.

@The Natural will become so buff he’ll have to change his name to Big Poppa Paul!

Derp. Time for some shameful plugging. My film, Ode to the Whale of Christ, is officially available on YouTube! CLICK HERE for the link to the film, so I don’t bog down this site with a big 30 min embedded video This was the abstract silent film that was completed right before I created my film fest, Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festival (sheesh, I’m plug whoring hard). For a little over 2 years it had a fun run on the festival circuit. Now with the Octopus putting more focus on family (lil Octopus is now running around the house and climbing on the couch, future filmmaking endeavors (shooting the next film soon), and spending time highlighting independent Auteurs and unique filmmakers through the OctoMarqIFF, it is time to end the films run on the exclusivity festival circuit. If you’d like to watch this 30 minute experimental b&w silent film , please click the link provided above or CLICK RIGHT HERE. This was the film I posted here about the theater screening late last year. It can be really tough putting myself out there and for so long I’d never finish anything for that fear of failure and timidness to be front and center. But to hopefully make a living making the weird movies I imagine I have to be brave and active at working on my dreams. Here was pics of the screening from last year’s thread:

A very interesting use of AEW’s type of storytelling where a running narrative can be dipped back into as time passes. One of the company’s oldest feuds that can be reasonably revisited as the characters evolve over the years. You pointing this out has been the spark that has swayed me into loving BCC vs The Elite. Thanks bud!!!

I think the conversation of specific wrestling styles in terms of how an individuals move or operate in a match is a fair and potentially enlightening one. @Niners Fan in CT using the term “goofiness” to describe Mox is both commonly held (on Reddit and other sites joking about all the bleeding and his overall swagger) and ironic as @just drewpointed out (be it with questions verbiage that some of us learned from and talked about), given Omega’s criticism that some would label as “goofy” (Phil on Segunda Caida referenced the type of wrestling style as “2010s style CrossFit wrestling” in 2017 and has had pushback of silliness elsewhere). Neither are wrong and just sharing opinions. I like the idea of this discussion in preferred styles of wrestling beyond singular genre terms. What makes an Omega match different? What makes a Mox match different? How do they blend with others that have their own personal identities in their movements and match structure beyond the booking of character and plot? Assuming wrestlers are in an environment that allows them to not wrestle a singular style where the promotion is the style. Example: How are Komander, Hijo Del Vikingo, and Rey Fenix matches different? We see them all described as “lucha” style but beyond the genre, what specifically defines their matches. I like both and find that as one of the fun things about AEW. On the same show I can see a tense arm bar, a spectacular flip, a stooging heel, a bloody brawl, and a sprinted sequence all in different matches done in different ways from the previous weeks. I usually shy away when discussions get too negative so my online presence can be in specific areas. Usually here is good but can lead to a Stone Cold Stunner and Johnny Cash sighting like the other day.

So the announcement will happen on TNT or the subject matter will be about TNT?

Or he introduces a new faction, Don Callis’s Callous Dawn

That’s how I set up the Octopus Stretch

This reminds me when I was 10 and missed a majority of Raw but showed up just in time for a sweet Stone Cold moment or the Rock doing the eyebrow. Btw, fantastic Steve Austin spit take in that gif!

The Billy Robinson tribute episode of Brisco and Bradshaw got awkward and I wish covered more about Robinson and less about one of the guests going on about his attempt at a shoot style company and Bradshaw saying you can’t argue with successful people. That’s an over simplification on my part, but still not enough Robinson talk.

No sleep lost, @John E. Dynamite. One of many silly misfortunes of a Mn Sports fan. Most rambling and a bit to joke on parallels. But to continue on it, Steph stated he didn’t want to come here and didn’t train here during scouting, so it never was going to happen and is way overplayed. Maybe a draft and trade but the team isn’t that savvy. You from Mn?

I agree and disagree. I will say, the twitter picture of them having fun behind the scenes gets a bit overplayed when the company was basically founded on Indy wrestlers goofing off backstage and traveling on YouTube. For no rational reason other than sheer repeated elbows and the aesthetic, BCC was my favorite thing in wrestling at that time and maybe even personal favorite stable. But the booking was clunky on occasion. I loved a lot about the JAS feud but key moments weren’t capitalized on. The Kingston dynamic with the group was a missed opportunity. Friends with Mox but hated Claudio. Kingston almost burns Danielson with the gasoline at Anarchy in the Arena but not really capitalized on. We get a who is Garcia’s dad feud instead with Jericho when Dragon returns from injury. Claudio beats Maynard(?) before Kingston can beat Jericho, but that isn’t continued with. We get a convoluted gimmick match with Kingston and Jericho instead of treating Blood and Guys like a blowoff. We could have seen Kingston against Claudio with a split Mox who is respecting his friends fighting, but it’s spun off into a Guevara feud that turned into more BS backstage drama. Regal leaves and they awkwardly didn’t know what or how to do it. He turns on them, he gets betrayed, then he knew he would get betrayed so it’s all cool. Maybe in a longer time frame it could work but so many of those steps seemed awkward. Regal being a father figure to Danielson it makes sense for that to be the lead in to Danielson vs MJF (a feud that you could point to as things could have been different but I think was top quality AEW style storytelling). But, it was glaring throughout that Danielson and the rest of the BCC was separate for this portion. Maybe it was addressed but I don’t recall it. With Mox the clumsy Regal exit felt somewhat awkwardly blown off and I’m sure he was just in a F this let’s go to the next thing. The Hangman feud was interesting and it was cool seeing Mox’s tweener presence get more aggressive and heel-like. Now we got the Dillionless Four Elbowmen back together to face the Elite. I was excited with the Danielson’s return but I haven’t been feeling this feud. Maybe I’m burned out. @John from Cincinnati pointed out that it hasn’t had the crazy match ups yet like we see in these AEW feuds. Maybe that’ll be this week with Omega and Mox. A lot of backstage assaults and segments. I want a story to be told through continuation of in match moments. I feel that goes into @Gordlow’s Sports Entertainment points. This feels like a vehicle for more of the Elite friend drama, which a few years ago was the best storyline in wrestling. It might be external factors in my life that’s just making me less excited towards something I might like in a better place, it could be the awkward Brawl Out news continuation that makes me less excited to cheer a storyline where the Elite get sympathy being beaten up backstage, could be booking decisions being more segmenty then matchy, I don’t know. At almost every turn in the BCC existence I have been both blown away and also underwhelmed. Very human and it happens. My issue with AEW and WWE can often be my own fault where I imagine what all could happen. As an Octopus I technically have 9 brains, so my imagination and ability to use logic is far superior to everyone else and I can create situations where others can’t reach the bar. With my 3 hearts I just care so much more, which is why I’m so compassionate and humble, but my hearts just get so wrapped up into what does and doesn’t happen. I’m at a weird spot in my wrestling enjoying life where maybe I’m just not in the right spot to enjoy things right. It’s not you, Tony. It’s me. But maybe not, I did love the MJF v Danielson feud and the Hangman v Mox series. Maybe I was better then? I don’t know why I’m still typing. I’m sure I didn’t actually make a point. I’m glad we got what we got with the BCC over an alternative of Mox and Danielson becoming Professor X and Magneto shaping the minds of young technical but needing to be more hard hitting wrestlers and eventually battling each other for the fate of professional wrestling: A group lead by a wild brawler that will fight anyone but also loves his family and will make the right choice for him to better himself when it is at an important point in his career vs a perfect wrestler who will stomp on heads, bend people, pick on larger wrestlers in the back, eat salads, and talk about flaccid penises. Oh shit, maybe that would have been sweet. BUT WAIT. You’re a Timberwolves fan, Octopus. Be unreasonably reasonable and logically identify my poor logic. We could have drafted Steph Curry. Twice! The Wolves got Johnny Flynn and Ricky Rubio. Rubio wouldn’t join the team for years because of playing in Spain yada yada yada. The reason we didn’t pick Curry, The GM, David Khan (yes, his fucking name was fucking Khan) said we needed a point guard. Fucking Minnesota’s Rasputin bullshit artist David fucking actual name fucking Khan and I Want to be the Zen Master but I’m Actually a Strip Mall Office Building Transcendental Meditation Hustler Curt I Think We Should Run the Triangle Offense Because MJ and Kobe Did It So it Must be The Right fucking Fit For Every Team Rambis thought that the guy that became one of the greatest point guards of all time and changed the landscape for how teams try to score couldn’t be a point guard. Even if we didn’t think he could be a point guard which in hindsight is like the caveman that thought trapezoid would be the more influential shape over Wheel, we didn’t have a good shooting guard. It was dumb not taking him and I was mad in Nate’s basement. We had chips though. Minnesota should have drafted Curry. But let’s be honest, we would have fucked him up. We would have had him in a shitty offense with less talented shooting coaches and a less able medical team that would have likely not been able to get him to ride through his early injury years. Mark Jackson had a soothing voice that kept him in his path. The Minnesota accent is draining when outsiders listen to us for too long. If we drafted Curry, the world would not have the Curry we know now. Mediocrity and occasionally bad decision making says “you’re welcome.” Lets not think about how if the BCC was recruiting more youngsters would be good, but what awkward misses and slightly off booking decisions could we have seen. Maybe a weird hazing segment? I like to imagine JD Drake as a spy for Jericho, which sounds great, but it actually would have been and while typing this I’ve disproven the point I stumbled into. Damn my 9 brains and their ability to book perfectly. In summation, Regal was cool. I like the mean streak the BCC have now but I had more fun watching them before. Maybe Regal yelling while Yuta pulls out each of Matt Jackson’s teeth would have been cool. Idk. I won’t spell check.

With ROH having its own streaming service, it’s smart to keep it going with good matches and roughly it’s own brand (Athena being a badass). If WBD is happy enough with Rampage becoming more like Velocity with a marquee main event, especially with the addition of a CM Punk lead show on a different night, that’ll likely work out well enough. AEW’s Dark branded matches will become literal dark matches or a rise of house shows to give the young guys reps. It’s also likely we see less Dark talents’ contracts not being renewed. Annnnnd/Orrrrr make deals with local feds to be the AEW farm league.