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SOCIAL Media was a mistake indeed. We are at a point where Internet may have been one, too! Hell, the jury's still out on whether Media altogether was one, or not?

I'm also envisioning some sort of tag team move where they grab their opponent and repeatedly do a backbreaker/gutbuster combo between the two of them but targeting somewhat lower than usual so the opponents lose due to crushed pelvises.

I'm about to start watching this week's NXT, but have already seen a certain spoiler clip on Reddit. Needless to say, I'm not happy about this! Goddammit Zaria, I thought we already talked about this!?!

So you really need to grab El Clon-o's head when trying to spike it, or he'll just bounce out of it. The opener was a bit odd, but really good, too! The women's tag match got sidetracked by injury and when I saw the moonsault I was like "they weren't anywhere near in position to catch her" so that was unfortunate. Gabe vs OC was really good action and it made Kidd look really strong by countering The Orange Punch by casually cold-cocking OC (and also punching him in the face). Let's do violence in the rematch with Darby, please! Brody vs Davis was the kind of big man match that keeps my interest throughout. It was cool how Davis' hurt hand came into play many times in the match. Getting Brody vs Swerve and Andrade vs Bandido should be worth the price of the PPV by themselves. Main event was crazy and had tons of wonderful spots. MJF brought this all on himself, but I do have a feeling he will try to scheme his way through this so Hangman will be SOL permanently. I mean he won't lose to him on 3 different PPV's, right?

Ended up doing 2 12-hour shifts and a regular 8 hours on the third day, but didn't have anything left to stay for the gym after that, either. I had very productive work days, though, so I'm feeling good about that. So, now I'll just eat and rest for 4 days. My sports massage session was cancelled once again just before I was about to start biking over there, so that kinda sucked. Well, could have been worse, I could have been already on my way! Went to the scale last night, and if the evening weight was at 199, then the trend has moved downwards this week. Well, I was busting my ass at work and only had a warm meal on Tuesday, so not exactly shocking, even if I don't even recall being all that hungry during work and I did have bunch of other stuff to eat. The way this week went, it means I kinda have two day-shift weeks in a row, so with any luck I may settle into a rythym just in time for the night shift week!

Do you, though? Do you really? But with MJF's touch of class, I'm sure it would be fine.

People have been talking about supposedly divisive wrestlers in AEW, so I might as well... Ospreay: PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. I have plenty of favorites, but this one ticks every box, aside from physique, and he has good legs. Insane matches, one of the best themes, passionate face promo, emoting during matches, can sell for a moment if threatened at gunpoint. I have read here that he is a very stupid person, but so what? He is in a very stupid profession. The Young Bucks: Early on in my AEW tenure, every one of my favorite tag team matches seemed to have them in it. They have the same match every time, but if they have opponents who can work with that, the end result is always at least entertaining. Even newer stuff like vs Ospreay/Fletcher, Ospreay/Swerve and JurassicPerry Express have been batshit to watch. Mercedes Mone: Sasha was a huge favorite of mine in early NXT. It took her a good while to find her groove in AEW, but by the time she started losing (and dropping belts) she was pretty much on fire. There's still a bunch of people she hasn't faced, so there are interesting matches on the table with her yet. Ciampa. Liked him quite a bit in NXT, saw very little of him in the main roster, was intriqued by the idea of him vs Dragunov. Anyway, there's just something about really, really REALLY old people who are still in amazing shape! That really speaks to me, I don't know what it is? Yeah, I'm painfully aware that Tommaso must be way younger than me, but he certainly doesn't look it. Anyway, I hope he will find a decent spot on the roster and get to have interesting matches with new opponents. MJF: Very good matches when it counts and has an intelligent sense of humor. I appreciate that. FTR: Much like the Young Bucks, always the same match, but if the opponents can work with that, the end result will be magic. Have been awful dicks during their current heel run and seem to be enjoying it. Stoke has finally something to do, but now he can't walk. Well, you win some you lose some, I guess? Fletcher: Character-wise not too interesting, but in-ring, fantastic. I thought his theme was good, too, but after listening to it on Spotify, I don't think that's true anymore. Stat: Always good to great matches, not much of a character, has had good themes at times. Relocating to New York from Andromeda (sp?) has made her much less fun. But that would happen to anyone, really! Omega: Past his peak, but with the right opponent(s) he can still bring magic. Not much of a promo, but has one of the best themes, when he decides to use it. Every other theme has been awful. Gabe Kidd: With the right opponent, can be wonderful. The Darby match was so delightfully unsettling. If they get another go with a violent stipulation it could be amazing, but there's only that many Darby's and OC's on the roster. Mox: Didn't enjoy his world title reigns all that much, but every time he is in the ring, the match will most likely be worth your time. Winning the CC3 after tapping to KOR on the previous PPV was WTF, but ok. The current feud with DCF is a decent use for him. Needs to win the tag title at some point.

Rest of the week went with a heavy Seal Row pyramid, a solid leg day and a bench, dumbell incline bench and EZ Bar Curl on the Scott bench -combo, sprinkled with resistance band chest flies and body weight reverse shrugs. Then deadlift last night. Improved the "without Versas" lifts with 374 (double overhand with thumb lock) and 479 (over/underhand) but failed a couple of attempts at 501 with Versas. Did a few lighter lifts after that, but nothing noteworthy. Next week I'm doing 3 12-hour shifts at work and then have the rest of the week off, so most likely I take the whole week off from the gym. I have been going full 5 workouts for the past 5 weeks, and heavy ones at that, so this is probably for the best.

Re: HOOK. I think it is pretty obvious that the greatest 2nd generation wrestler BS is supposed to be absurdly heelish hyperbole. You can't help but to either boo or laugh at a statement like that. What I am not sure of, however, is that DID Joe actually put HOOK in charge of things or has he decided to go rogue in Joe's absence? It would be funny if Shibata comes back from Japan with a couple of killers and HOOK recruits a couple of douches and Joe eventually comes back doesn't have a clue what's going on!

Goddammit I'm doing the best I... nevermind.

I believe it's a "championship" in that case.

But that definitely was their gimmick as well. Obviously, Cass was the talented one for real, too, but it was the way they were portrayed.

This is true as far as injuries go. If you feel like you didn't get enough ROI for someone who turned out to be injury-prone, by all means don't renew their contract the next time but once the deal is signed there HAS to be some accountability as far as risks are concerned (in the employer's case, financial risks). Someone gets injured, you are still liable to pay them, without extending the contract past its initial expiry date. Now, if someone is still getting paid while they go out and pretend to be a musician for months on end, that's another story.

I think that the "International title" should only be defended outside US while, obviously as you said, the United States title is defended within USA. World title can obviously be defended anywhere on the planet and Universal title wouldn't even have that restriction. Now, when it comes to the difference between the National title and the US-title, that's where I'm stumped and that's why NWA ended up unifying the two.

I wouldn't do that... I mean he'd never do that, but I was surprised that the ending of the World title match was that clean with no actual interference and so on.

Dammit, Dragon already posted further proof/info, but I was about to say "What makes you doubt that? He's surrounded by pussy as we speak!" But now I'm not going to do that!

Completed the 24 minutes of bicep/tricep combo with 53 lb dumbell and it was brutal. Probably will need to go back to 48,5, because I couldn't really do proper behind the neck skullcrushers with 53, they were more like OHP's. Finished the shit with push downs and chest flies and a bunch of reverse shrugs. The pump was gnarly. Nice start to the night shift week. On Saturday evening before bed the scale was up to 205, so with any more push and I'll go over the cruiserweight limit once again!

New Deadlift records again today. Yesterday was a bench pyramid day but no rows, just lat pull downs. Today, my new PR's were 363 lbs double overhand grip, no Versas, 473,5 lbs (overhand/underhand grip, no Versas) and with Versas 495,5 lbs. Damn, I'm 4,5 lbs away from clearing 500 lbs on a conventional deadlift. At the end I did 3x528,5 off the full blocks and then shrugs with 440,5 and 352 and one set of bent over rows with 242. Yesterday evening before going to bed my evening weight was at 203, but obviously, evening weight, so probably still around 198-200 in the morning. Abs weren't looking exactly great, but given the weight, it could be much worse at the moment, so yay!

Yeah, learned the actual type after writing this one, so it WAS unintentional, but I'm obviously keeping that in.

That was a hell of an episode! Well, the opening talk segment was whatever but they did go through the table off the ramp at the end, so there was that. That's probably it for Kenny's "feeling better than in years", as well! The opener had DR's biggest guns and DCF's more credible combos, albeit not the biggest possible team and the end result reflects that. Everyone on the DCF team would make an amazing opponent for PAC in a singles match, by the way ! The TNT-title match was top notch but only served a purpose of setting up the ladder match, which should be pretty insane as well! The OC/Strong vs Connors/Garcia had Strong saying FTS and Cassidy winning anyway. Mina's extensions getting sacrificed by "the most annoying little shit" Yuta upped the ante for next week. Oh, and Mox referred to Yuta as a naturally beautiful newly born baby deer on Collision. If I saw that a deer popped out something like that, my instinct would be to shove it back into the oven until it's done cooking! Super Kick Party vs Reefer Party vs Private Party was quite the spectacle but will this lead to a 4th reign by the Bucks? Is there enough new teams to make that interesting? Holy shit that strap match! I mean there had to be times when both of them were thinking "We could be having milk and cookies right now!!!" but Thekla's plan fucking worked! Stat bled a bucket and when I said that Thekla had to win the title pretty soon, even I didn't think it would be THIS soon! Good for her, though. There goes my theory of Marina challenging for the title next, though!

I just read that James Van Der Beek has died. That's fucking awful, if true. We are/were the same age. Cancer sucks ass!

Wait, does this make Tommaso a "Transitional Ciampa?"

Not even that, maybe get modestly comfortable slow scheme, at best? Well, that is the best one can hope for in this economy (goes double, at least, for the people in US)!

Yesterday I did a steeper but also lighter incline dumbell bench (almost an overhead press) for 4 sets and one Arnold press with a pair of 66's for 4 reps. The idea of doing more triceps after Monday's combo was stupid but I had a rather heavy meal too close to the workout, so leg day was not happening. So, it moved up to today and I did a squat machine pyramid with the heaviest sets being 3x392, 4x489, 4x584, 4x489 and 4x392. Then 3 sets of calf raises (and there were 3 lighter sets of 5 reps of squats before the actual work sets. These were the weights I used for the calves as well). Don't know about tomorrow, but I guess it should be bench and row? Friday is Deadlift, that's a given.

Thekla screwed things up by attacking Stat before she could announce the milk and cookies eating contest stipulation for Dynamite and now she has to go through a strap match in order to become the champion! Of course, she's pretty tiny, so the milk and cookies might not have turned out so well for, either!