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Yeah, this is more like "your job description inside the company has changed" than a retirement! But hey, 61 isn't anywhere near a retirement age for regular folks, either, so by all means!

Inclined to agree, if the current MAGATaker wasn't a thing...

Giulia is awesome and it is sad how she has been handled since the end of her NXT run. Waller's promo was very nice and he has gotten into a terrific shape (and still looks like my little brother, who recently became a father, by the way) and all that will lead to is he being the first victim of Montana Cruz and probably nothing more. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that Austin Theory has ever been as over as he was as Johnny Wrestling's son in The Way, however!

I'm slightly self-aware enough to see how this is me being very self-indulgent but since the month changed and there may yet be people who didn't see my wrestling training music video yet (and thanks very much to everyone who did) l will put it here, as well. It's kinda big deal for me to finally cross off something I never even thought possible off my 40-year bucket list! So, here: https://youtu.be/x28MIGoLgM0?is=toO3Ay8g9kZsv-7a

Thankfully, it wasn't cobble stone throughout, but certainly enough for me! Traffic everywhere in Italy was scary af, especially considering there were comparatively little walking lanes (and zero biking lanes that I saw) over there.

It was pretty unique. The mat was soft (as in padded) but had very little give, so the thud was very real. And as I said in the Fitness Thread, before the last two sessions, I practically warmed up and stretched the whole damn morning before the practice. So I was about as limber, flexible and warmed up as I was going to get. Therefore, I was able to escape without injuries, although I may have banged up my right heel in one (very loud bump that shook the ring so much that my water bottle fell from the apron to the floor). It's still sore, but since I didn't feel anything wrong with until several days later, so it may also could have come from running on cobble stones in Rome? Anyway, I was so hopped on adrenaline during the thing that while I definitely felt everything, I wasn't sore until the next morning. Thanks for watching and commenting. And I'll tell Hanger and King you said Hi...I mean what are you talking about?

Since we're here, @Technico Support this time around I was able to provide you with some of the bumps you wanted to see me try in the music video version of my wrestling training. How did you feel about them?

Not so many years removed from a toddler for real, since Netflix has apparently changed the age suggestion to WWE programming from 10+ to 7+, which is probably one of the reasons why Bron's bleeding eye was blurred in the cage match. In comparison to the delightful bloodbath between Ospreay and Swerve in the Owen Finals, that move is definitely not where I wish things were going over there.

I remember a quote from Apter mags from the mid 90's that implied that the New Generation era made '87 WWF look like Japan in comparison. We may very well be approaching a moment in time where the goddamned New Generation-era looks like Japan in comparison to what is going on today. Not quite yet, but it will be possible soon if shit don't improve!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one!

No. Ordinary, love.

I'm sure Naraku can be pretty easily moved back into contention after the title eventually changes hands. I could totally see Montana becoming the champ and feuding with Naraku and Rook among others, once D'Angelo is main roster bound (whenever that is). And yeah, making those videos was really cool. We had the 1 hour + training session and then used the remaining time in the end for filming some material for my videos. The last session was maybe 45 minutes of general training and 45 minutes of coming up with stuff for the final match. Trainer wanted to "protect my finish" so I "got so hyped up after hitting the choke slam that I forgot to cover him quickly and only got two". The guys were pretty impressed with my kip ups and handsprings, so I obviously wanted to work those in as much as I could, too!

Yeah, there was a mention of Meta-four when Lash and her partner were the Meta-Girls. I wondered what that was about, but now I know!

Tell me isn't so! I wish there was this thing called sarcasm, but alas...

I'm sure you don't mean broken NECK unicorn! Right? RIGHT?!??

Yeah, I have no clue where this is going

How does @DreamBroken feel about Mike Santana becoming Montana Cruz in NXT? (Also, what did you think of my wrestling video, since you were among those who checked it out?)

I've kept up with my home workout regimen during my summer vacation with spamming push ups, calf raises and resistance band stuff throughout the day most of the time. I have had maybe one day completely off during these four weeks. During the Italian trip before the wrestling lessons, I did a workout, a whole bunch of bodyweight squats, stretching and walked 5 kilometers to the school, so those particular days were very active. I bought two small(ish) containers of creatine and a bigger one of Essential Amino Acids during my stay and I'm going through them at an increased pace, trying to load up on creatine before work starts up again. Weight has gone up to 185 lbs and during the last 7 days I have started to look softer than I would like to, but I won't give a shit about that for a few days yet!

I'm SO much behind on my AEW, I'm only on the episode where Kenny regained the AEW Men's World title, but just wanted to say that apparently most of my troubles with MyAEW.com was due to my old ass tablet. It seems to run much more smoothly mirrored from our laptop. And from the said laptop it actually functions with our secure browser (well, more secure than standard Chrome, anyway), so I just want to say it that it was mostly due to my own incompetence that the viewing experience was the absolute shits from the beginning. I don't love the hassle of mirroring the laptop, because it's more complicated than mirroring the tablet, but the difference is like night and day, so obviously I'm gonna have to. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

Serves him right, too!

That's actually pretty interesting point and it may actually have something to it. Never made the connection before. Of course, I didn't recall that Penn's character was called Spicolli in Fast Times, either!

I think it's always a betrayal, when you attack the good guys! (100% sarcasm and I also think I need a shower after getting that one out).

Not these days, but I remember Gorilla using that reference all the time when someone attacked or tried to attack someone from behind! "What a Dec 7 1941-job!" was his standby reference for that rather consistently, especially on Colosseum Video tapes.

Would Benedict Arnold be at number 3, or is there someone else more well known for backstabbing/ being a turncoat? I think Gorilla Monsoon used him as an example more often than the other two!

Going back to the training, by the end of it I have now worked some mat wrestling sequences, tried some (missing) running sentons, standing leg drops, shotgun dropkick attempts (just aiming at the trainers' extended palm at shoulder/chest level). I also tried a second rope senton (and a flipping senton) onto a crash pad. I really couldn't get the face bump right, but regular back bump and a flipping back bump started going pretty good by the third session. Once I started doing the front handsprings in the ring , the trainer said "That's very nice to look at" and that he doesn't have many students this advanced after only three sessions. Of course , I have been doing front handsprings since I was 12. I asked the camera guy/ref voice if I should continue with this when I'm back in Finland and he said "Athletically, you are very good" which is to say, probably not, but I'm taking the compliment where I can. My elbow got bruised again but no mat burns on the second or third time. My lower back was pretty sore the next day so not all of the bumps went cleanly, especially the dropkick attempts, but overall, this ended up being really awesome. Something to cross off the bucket list, for sure!