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A loaded Dynamite this week! Hecechero! Speedball! Megan Bayne went for Timeless One, just as I predicted! The Prodigy found his balls and questioned Christian's stupid strategy and convoluted lies! The Opps are on the way to challenging for the Trios titles and that's gonna rule! MJF and MVP with an interesting back and forth. Also, Hangman and MJF aren't done yet! Awesome! This is like Tully and Magnum TA, if BOTH Tully and Magnum were actually good! Willow with her first win over Penelope. Stat really trying to get back to Willow's good graces but they BOTH got steamrolled by The Megasus! Billie Starkz vs Mercedes next week? Athena might show up due to this, you never know? Mox-Cope rematch? Yeah, they certainly could use the street fight as a crutch as they get a second chance to make a first impression. Remember Cena vs JBL at Wrestlemania 21? They had the match they should have had there at the following Judgment Day. So, this could be that. Of course, this will probably be overbooked to hell and back, hopefully in the good way. Bring on Kenny vs Ricochet and Ricochet vs Speedball! Bailey vs Mortos was a great way to debut Speedball because those two have great matches and it didn't burn through any of the "first time" matches available to Bailey in AEW! With Swerve, Christian, Cope, MJF, White, Jarrett (remember?), Hangman and now Ospreay gunning for the World title, you'd think Mox is about to be in deep shit one of these days, hopefully sooner than All In, but you never know...

That's who I thought Momo was, too!

Ok, I finished the show today. Kenny vs Takeshita was just amazing. I don't remember that much from their previous match, but it's hard to imagine that one was better than the one we got here. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of reign will Kenny have with this title? The cage match. OMG this was more insane than the Hollywood Ending. There were a bunch of really innovative ways to do sick shit to each other, even before the weapons came to play. Once Fletcher realized that it was over for him, at least he took the opportunity to tell Ospreay how fucking much he hates him. Gotta respect that. Then, he paid the price for doing that. Splat! Simply amazing, maybe a minute or two too long, but still, holy shitballs! Mox and Cope sure liked following that one, huh? This was a decent struggle, in no way a bad match, but going last after all of this must be rough as shit! Well, at least crowd was still with it by the end. Now, I don't necessarily like Mox winning, or Cope not winning, but I sure as hell loved Christian Cage losing! Bwahahaha! Fuck you! Eat shit, you're a terrible father and your strategy backfired spectacularly! You deserve all of this! Swerve staking his claim to the number one contendership after the match at least ended the night on a high note. In any case, totally insane PPV, I'll go for Zero Hour before going to bed.

Got around to the beginning of Omega V Takeshita. Everything was bad-ass so far. Opener was amazing. Does it stop here? Not sure if MJF wants any of that again? The tombstone on the non-collapsing chair was insane! Watanabe sure made Not Sasha earn this one! You know what they say: Mo' Momo, Mo' Nay fo Mone! I'm not sure if they say that, but I do! Let's see how Superstar Billie Starkz plays into this thing? Swerve-Prickochet was awesome. Finally the 630 and other good stuff from 'chet. The drama with Nana made me even suspect a turn on Swerve but fortunately it was not that day yet. OK, Swerve is the top contender now, as he probably should be. The tag title match was good and the underdog story made it better, but you had better give us (me, specifically) the Murder Machines vs Hurt Syndicate that was teased before! The Outrunners will have their day in the sun yet, I just hope it's not the 90's for them once that happens! Continental Title match was an 2-way ass kicking and definitely good enough by the end. Had to chuckle a bit when Excalibur went on about how Okada is still bringing it and is not taking it easy (in so many words). Dude, his repertoire is a clothesline and a dropkick. I've seen Roddy Piper do that for fuck's sake! In the 90's! Still, Brody kicked ass, as usual. The Hollywood Ending was one of the craziest things I have seen and it was superb! I wanted a real blow-off and this one exceeded all the expectations and then some! And this one wasn't a lights out match, so it actually counted! So eat shit, dentist! There is no way the main event can suck bad enough to make this event anything less than stellar, considering what's still to come before that.

That's probably more how I could see him seeing the situation, absolutely! He would definitely appreciate the absurdity of such an ending! It CAN be the other way around, yes, but this way it makes a lot more sense.

Yeah, it's just that Hammerstone hadn't exactly been in TNA for years as of yet. Where do you see him ending up next? I'm actually pretty stumped on that one. I mean both AEW and NXT are possible, I guess, but the run he had in TNA doesn't exactly make him out to be a hot free agent, or anything!

Sad, but this was one of the more underwhelming runs considering how hyped I was to see him come in. It seems like he was injured way more than he was active. Man, ease up on the steroids if you are constantly tearing one place or another. Well, there will always be those 3 matches with Josh Alexander, you can't take those away, although almost every other promoted matches he was supposed to be in, ended up not happening!

But the posthumous part, hopefully less than a few years!

And an awesome thing at that!

https://youtu.be/bdOEOiDd15M Judging by the near complete lack interest in these, this seems rather futile, but here's the video from this week. I have been a huge Danzig fan ever since he became way less popular after the first 4 albums and remain one to this day. You may question if Devil's Plaything is a great workout song (probably not) but I think it works just fine for this montage and it has been one of the very top Danzig tracks ever, despite me preferring the newer material over the classic 4 albums. After like 7 years, I'm back to doing (ugly) dumbell curls with 88's on the Scott bench. Hopefully in a few weeks it will get better but it's nice to get back the early 40's form with this move as well. We'll, the right arm is at 66 lbs, so that still has ways to go, but I'm hoping to get to that in the upcoming months.

So as long as Allin crashes the car just after Christian has cashed in his contract but not yet won the title. Drive straight into the ringpost so the ring collapses and the event has to be halted. Sorry, Christian, seems like you're SOL.

Sure, but since no one ended up dying, those three ended up as failed attempts anyway. This one could have damaged property if a burning Hangman starts running all over the place and we can't have that. I mean the building itself, not equipment etc, that gets damaged all the time.

There's a '90 match (on a Colosseum Video, maybe Supertape or Wrestlefest) with Bret vs Martel, from back when Martel was the one with the bigger push. That one at least was terrific little match that went to a time limit draw. In '92 they would be already on so different levels of push that no one would think Martel could win, so the possibility of a boring, heatless match rises significantly.

Thanks! That's unfortunate.

Why not both? Probably feud first, then team later, because Bayne is hanging around Ford right now. But yes, now that Bayne faced Stat already, Hayter is very logical future opponent for her!

A lot of good stuff this week, as well as Collision before that. Can anyone tell me the name of the artist on that Outrunners' "You're Not Alone"? This wasn't Karla DeVito's "You Are Not Alone" from The Breakfast Club Soundtrack, but there's a bunch of songs by that name so finding it on Spotify is a hassle without the actual artist's name. The Switchblade now had that perfect match against Max Caster that I hoped he would have had against PAC (or was it Wheeler?) a while back. First move, Blade Runner! BAM! Pin. Awesome! Toni Storm's promo and the look she had on her face during it was priceless, or timeless, whatever. But she'll be running into Megan Bayne pretty soon, one way or another. Their interaction for the first time should be something else. When Hangman got backstage or outside after MJF's attack, I sure hope there were no people smoking near by. That would have been something. Get saved by swarming refs so you won't be set on fire and then one of them is stressed out that they light a cigarette at the first possible opportunity and WHOOSH! It's Burning (Hang)Man! Very good show, Revolution should rule, for the most part.

Sol Ruca and Zaria are a wonderful team and a terrific take on the traditional odd couple pairing. This is the most awesome version of this since The BROserweights before COVID ruined that one. Roadblock is filling up nicely. Fraxiom vs Hardys is a weird dream match, but it should be pretty interesting. It's odd and nice to see Ethan Page actually get to do stuff and Shawn Spears actually winning a title. Good on both of them. Tony D'Angelo got screwed here, but will it be a Family Feud between those two factions from here on out? Ridge Holland beefing with Saints now? Man, don't start shit with him yet, wait until they've gotten the initial newcomer push out of the way. This will probably end badly for you! Moose vs Oba Femi will be pretty interesting but as long as this guy is the champ, the real main event will always be the Women's title. So is Giulia headed to the main roster after Wrestlemania? Roxanne and Trick certainly are. How badly did Cora get hurt? Will she still face Masha on Impact!?

Welcome to the 4-0 club @The Natural! Glad to see you here before I'll be too old to be a member in a few more years! Hopefully you are getting over the chest cold. Feel better soon, my man! And if you're still feeling under the weather, you know you can always slightly postpone the celebrations and have the cake once you are back feeling decent. That's totally fine now, it's one of the many perks of being a member of the big 4-0 club!

Vince pissed himself when Austin threatened him with a prank gun, but other than that I can't recall one right off the bat.

Or a guy constantly wetting himself, but still Ok with it, Justin Cont(in)ent!

They had a good run, until COVID and then, basically nothing!

Damn. But depending on if she has a shot at getting into WWE, there is a chance that she could team up with Ivy Nyle! Not a big chance, but I'm taking any chance at it, which may be available.

That's on Youtube, right? That'll probably work as well!

I have only briefly checked out what is available on Netflix. PPV's at least, it seems. Here's the dilemma. I'm about to go to spend the day and evening with 2 of my co-workers and along with drinking and sauna (we are all on our Winter break/holiday this week) we're supposed to watch WWE from Netflix. What should we watch from the past two years, which is all new to me as well? Unfortunately, something like Wrestlemania 40 is probably too long. Last time we watched something it was 3 matches from NXT/ NXT UK Takeovers: Tyler Bate vs WALTER WALTER vs Tomaso Ciampa Ilja Dragunov vs WALTER II All these were well received. Suggestions?

Nothing wrong with liking the theme, I just think that how much The Steiners kicked ass in the ring, none of their themes really reflected that! Did I understand correctly that they actually used Welcome to the Jungle some other time than their brief ECW stint before returning to WCW in '96? That would be a step in the right direction, yet still not enough, since they'd need something akin to Creeping Death, instead.