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Shit, @Curt McGirt that sound awful. Why does it always have to pour, when it rains? Hope things don't go worse from here. Hang in there!

A lot to unpack here, and I'll edit it in later, but I just have to point out one highlight: I burst out laughing when Skye Blue went "Since I'm here, I might as well kick Rebel in the face", proceeded to do that and Rebel dropped like a sack of shit, despite only peacefully existing a mere second prior. That was glorious. And a lot of other awesome shit happened too. More on that later. ...I tried to edit a bunch of stuff in, but the page froze and I lost all of it. Not typing it again. I'll just say Danielson finally proving he's a great wrestler by hitting a poison rana in a match was cathartic. I guess him actually winning in the end was, too!

Well, it's "something that tastes good" in Finnish. That makes it kinda funny for me, as well.

As I was about to start to watch Elevation and noticed Final Battle had become available to pre-order, so I made it official and got mine as early as possible. Here's to hoping the card ends up being worth the wait.

Started this week early, going in on Sunday evening, despite deciding against it on Friday. It was a bench workout with a flipped rep to set ratio trying for 8x4x270. Well, I did end up doing 6x4x270, but the last reps on most sets were rubbish. I also did 6x154, 3x242, 2x253, 1x259, 1x264 prior to the main sets and 4x264, 4x259, 4×253, 5×242 and 20×154 after. I did lat pull downs, light push downs and 5-7 reps per arm with a 30lb dumbell between sets and two long sets of shrugs with the pairs of plates(44's and 55's, respectively) while unloading the weights. The workout was Ok, but I obviously wasn't fully recovered yet from last week, so tonight it will be an extra day off before the night shift. Maybe Tuesday night I will feel better.

Holy crap what a week. Actually, the work week was rather nice for a change. Workout was beast mode, full 5, ending in trapbar today. Monday I was supposed to do 4x8x264 on bench, well that didn't work out, obviously. I started with 2x220, 2x242, 1x253 and 1x259, then got like 6 reps on the first set, probably more like 5, then 2 partials. After that, it got worse, but I ended up doing 7 sets with 264, still not getting near the 32 reps overall, but 20+ anyway. Then 4x253, 6x242, 6x220 and 22x132. There were latpulls and some chest flies with the resistance bands between those sets. Tuesday was more upper body stuff with nothing too heavy or consequential happening. Nice pump, concentrating more on the upper back. Wednesday was squat machine and calves. I did 4 sets of squats, 3 sets were 12 reps, deep, stopping at the bottom on most reps (175, 260, 350) then going down and doing half and quarter reps there with 420, going up to something like 15 "reps". Then the same weights for calves, but in reverse, with 3 sets with 420, with 2 or 3 different foot positions within sets, then one set with each lighter weight. Thursday was going apeshit on the arms and shoulders again with 83 on the EZ bar, 100 on the squatmachine's rack and 74,5 on two dumbells. Same as last week, I did 3 rounds of 12 reps of curls with EZ bar, 15 reps behind the neck OHP with it, then 6, 5 and 5 reps with the squatmachine rack for narrow grip OHP (that felt too hard from the get-go, so after the 3 rounds, I took it back down to 88, like last week), then 10 reps of incline dumbell bench press with the 2x74,5 each round and shrugs with those straight after. After 3 rounds of that I changed it up to hammer curl (12 reps each arm with the 74,5's), EZ Bar with reverse grip for forearms followed by the 15 reps of behind the neck OHP, then 7 reps with 88 narrow grip and did all that for 3 rounds as well. After taking weights off the dumbells, I did one more longer set of incline bench with a pair of 30's and the a set of curls with them as well. Then, it was trapbar. I didn't lift anything standing on th platform this week. I started with 12x140, 7x196, 5x306, 3x416 (without Versas, it may be a record, or close to it), then 2x515, 1x526, 1x537, 1x548 and then off the 4cm platforms, 1, 2, 2 and 1x559 (I failed it off the floor before these). Then shrugs. A set of 8 reps with 438 (which has to be a record for me), then 20+ reps with 328, some 50 reps with both 295 and 218, then close to similar range with the plates while unloading them. I have no idea how much I need to eat and sleep in order to recover from all this, but I'll be going to town on calories, like a middle-aged, mini-Wardlow, starting tonight.

Here to help, always!

Absolutely not. That's what makes it such a huge deal. From a health standpoint, someone must have cleared him to do so, but obviously, it is not in his best interest.

Ok, I got my Cage vs Joe. So, Hobbs vs Wardlow at Full Gear? With the Under Armour top on, Jarrett looked to be in decent shape still. Other than that, we shall see. I didn't have a problem with Jeff, since I didn't get to see his reigns of terror in TNA that much. OC is the most active champion in AEW, despite Mox and Jericho being very much in that game as well. That's a shocker, but with his whatever-attitude, I guess he might as well put it on the line constantly! Yay for Jungle Boy pushing Luchasaurus' shit back in! Big rematch at Full Gear? The Acclaimed's presents to Billy were nice enough in a "Dad, I made you a portrait out of macaroni"-kinda way, but let's face it, Donkey Club's present really sucked! "We got you W. Morrissey kicking you in the face!" You really shouldn't have. I really mean it. Swerve with no reprocussions from last week? Get the fuck outta here! Keith Lee needs to keep better company. Saraya is going to wait until next week to tell if she's cleared to wrestle? What if it's going to be "Well, actually I'm not"? Hayter vs Storm. Good. Was it Tony who said that Storm is in a tough spot for facing Hayter with all this momentum on Hayters' side? She may indeed walk out with the title. No MJF this week. So The House of Black is dead, or not dead but dreaming? Who's putting out these Delete Elite vingettes? I mean TK, probably, but I guess I'm asking "Why?" PAC constantly wanting it to be Hammer Time and Fenix going "I can't touch this" is gonna to lead them losing the trios belts, yet. Maybe back to The Elite? Cabana coming out to face Jericho was like *Captain America saying I get that reference*. The match was good for what it was. Will it be Ocho vs Claudio at Full Gear, or Final Battle? The Jericho run has so much more mileage left, I'd hate to see Claudio just regaining the title this soon. Shibata was something you don't see every day. Quite the Rampage coming up.

Brodus Clay was The FunkaSAURUS, at least, Ligerbusa flew over the top of my head like whooosh, but maybe others are clued in?

How close could they get to a Jurassic Park logo for a flag without getting sued?

I'd do it! Bring it on! But yeah, like @JLowe pointed out, looks like huge pancakes, actually.

So, that's like a literal "breakfast of champions"?

I'm pretty sure you shall get that match in due time, but seems like Wardlow is next on Hobbs' menu!

Just to get me to get it early, too! Ok, Tony, deal's a deal! Damn, went looking for it yesterday on FITE, but it's not up for pre-order as of yet. Well, as soon as it becomes available, I'm on it!

Yeah, that would not fly. But they do have to get way around this somehow, because they have not ventured to this territory previously, to my knowledge, and it's really stupid. It should only happen in that other place I don't watch at the moment. Of course, every sneak attack that happens backstage outside of an official match, is essentially an assault, but this was still cut from a different cloth, so to speak. Well, they can always say made a small but painful cut in flesh of his buttock, just as you suggested.

So, he Scissored Daddy Ass' ass? Well, that would make sense. It had to be less serious than was implied, because there's no coming back from that. You filmed yourself committing a number of crimes and broadcast it on national television. How are you going to go and casually challenge for the tag titles after that? You'll be doing community service for weeks after a thing like that! No matter what Chris Jericho tells you, this is Pro Wrestling, not Sports Entertainment and here crimes should have consequences, unless Billy is too much of a *ahem* badass to press any charges and want The Acclaimed to settle it in the ring again? Where's TK in all this? There's an investigation and people fired and suspended over a shitty locker room brawl of one punch and biting all the while you let this go on air on a taped show? You censored one of The Acclaimed's earlier raps once, so don't tell me your hands were tied, or something, because that was Billy, not you!

THE SAME!

Yeah! He still gives it, PR or not. You don't hear about my donations for example. There's a really good reason for it. There's nothing to tell.

At NWA? Probably at least one.

Ok, give me Samoa Joe vs Brian Cage for the ROH TV title at Final Battle and I'll buy the damn PPV right now!

Any clue on this "Old Friend" of Darby's? Is it one of the Turtles? I hope it's not Sting! That would be a shocking turn of events, though!

I swear to god if Swerve just ruined Billy's Birthday Bash next week...

No way! Did not see that one coming. I wonder what kind of rock "Newest Rock" entails, this time around?

Dammit! But thank you for the info all the same. I guess he won't be Jericho's mystery challenger next week, then.