Ryback Hates Bullies

An interesting choice, but I guess he thinks he has a decent singles run in him elsewhere. Seems like the kind of guy who would have looked after his money. Probably could be a good hand in AEW, not likely to be a prima donna, but I doubt that is what's happening.

https://x.com/KDCunliffe/status/1990901958157148672 What scenes.

I remember when Bugenhagen started implicitly blaming Trips for his push stalling, and he later implied on Chris Van Vliet that he got told to stop doing that - I don't think he cared about a 1 year no compete, he was clearly never going to regularly wrestle ever again and never has, but he clearly wanted his 90 days. Tbh the 1 year no compete is begging to be laughed out of court, but in the current political climate lawyers might not be that into it.

I pointed out the Weeknd cosplay years ago and noone sold it.

Congrats to @Technico Support - almost 100lbs down. So I have become an official bench bro. On Thursday, I hit 3 x 10 with 100kg on super close-grip bench (pinkies bout 1 cm from the smooth). I had 10 reps even on close-grip before, but not multiple sets. This is a few weeks after doing a 3 x 5 on thumbs length a few weeks ago - the first time I did 2 plates for straight sets. Tbh it took a lot out of me recovery wise. I might have gone to the local old-school iron gym for a long workout but I could tell yesterday it wasn't going to work out. I'm going to use a free trial at another place tomorrow - which is generally very specialised in classes and 'hyrox' etc. Will probably not vibe with it but they seem to have decent equipment and I'm going to be in the area anyhow. My lower body training has been mid due to nagging issues, but I did buy a set of squat shoes from Temu and.....they are interesting. Even using them in my back garden with modest weights yields a larger than expected quad stimulus....will be doing that in a bit after some more coffee, a bit later will probably walk over to the bike/skate track where they have some bars for some inverted rows and L-sits - I'm doing most of my back volume that way so I can focus on bench in my gym sessons. I want that 3 plate bench, though annoyingly my actual 1RM remains at 120kg. I was going to aim for a 1RM pr last week, but the warm up sets didn't click and it wasn't on. My first reps are still challenging - there are ways to mitigate that a bit (just the right amount of bicep and back warmup, too much and I have fatigue) but I think I will now try and progress pinkies just inside the rings and see if I can peak that.

She was at her most over when not wrestling at all, plus her main in-ring run was as a heel. And the feud with Paige/Saraya never really clicked in the ring - and Paige was a relatively strong worker. She had bette matches with Kaitlyn but they were like proper buddies so that doesn't really count. She's still got ridiculous charisma tho, and her husband has a pretty good grasp on things, so I suspect it will just about work out. It's pretty hard rn to see matches like Tiffany vs AJ really working though idk.

Sami kicked out of 2 FUs and a GTS, which basically puts him over as a main-event guy.

I don't recall seeing anyone eating a pickled egg in a pub. I'm not doubting it use to be a thing, and might be somewhere, but lol no. They're sometimes sold at chippies, but you don't see them ordered much. I've had one - they're not outright terrible, but they ain't anything you need to concern yourself with. Saveloys are slightly better, but again not sure they are part of many orders these days. I grew up on Pickled Onion Monster Munch though.

This topic started with Casey sayng basically that. But the point is - does he even need to bother? AEW fans wouldn't want him back, and he just seems perfect for current WWE - that's the point really.

I hope he goes to WWE - it might annoy CM Punk or something. In all seriousness, I could see him having a big run as NXT Champion and maybe even in TNA. He'd probably love to do AAA. It seems like a better fit. I very much doubt Paul Levesque gives two shits about any heat he did or didn't have with Jericho. Back before the Learning Tree, the botched angle with Don Callis and then the Y2NDA stuff basically killed him as any kind of babyface in AEW - but then, he was only really over as a babyface when he was feuding with MJF anyway.

Nigel beats ZSJ, then he beats Takeshita with HoT interference and becomes their new leader. You know it makes sense.

Apparently WWE remain high on the guy. Noone will care that he jobbed to Ron Killings if he's on a push. There was obviously a trust issue in AEW - every bit of it we'll probably never know, but it was somewhere between the injuries, the Collision politics, and a willingness to try to 'ptotect his character' which he wouldn't even think about trying in WWE. You can say the same about Miro, who I honestly think would have been AEW World Champ if he'd played ball. Yeah, he's racked up some wins on Raw, but noone cares.

I will say, I felt like they telegraphed the upset Dustin win by mentioning a couple of times on commentary how Fletcher was the odds-on favourite. I mean, are you really the favourite when you have 3 opponents, 2 are in a tag team, and all 3 hate your guts? Also, I mean, are they really going to put Dustin in another match when he's just done 2 matches in 24 hours unless he's going over? But I still thought it worked out well, and also obviously seeded the inevitable Sammy Guevara turn. And I like the surprise finish - I mean, that's exactly how you should be trying to win a multi-person match.....don't get me started on that. But more importantly than that, a wrong was righted tonight - a wrong from over 3 years ago. Putting the title on Punk was the right thing on paper, but it was spiritually the wrong thing to do. Which seems like a weird thing to say, but there it is. It's been a journey, but AEW looks vindicated - not really in a 'we win' way, but just more in a 'Brooks belonged on that other show' way. I think Mox doesn't really get enough credit for being the garbage man that could. Was never the chosen one, but became 'that guy' anyway.....and then bet on himself and pro-wrestling to join AEW. Honestly think he's underrated because we live in an era where stuff doesn't get rewatched in the same way as previous eras. Hope he gets a nice long holiday with Renee and...well I hope we see him back before too long in whichever way.

Yeah I feel bad for Adam Cole. My guess is that this one of those things where he's maybe not done done, but he's going to be an occasional performer at best. I think, in all honesty, that he had been shuffled way down the card anyway - noone thought he wasn't dropping the belt tonight. So I think we were on a wind-down trajectory anyway. I think he'll be ok, but yeah it sucks even if I've never been as high on him as some.

I dunno, it looks Statlander might outweigh him thesedays. But yeah I made the initial error; I don't think that's a mistake anyone would have made 2 years ago. Tbf that's probably partly a reflection of the actual TBS belt being one of many in Mone's collection. Tbf it's also a reflection of the TNT belt becoming largely a Collision belt since Garcia won it.