The Natural

Hope you had a great time, @Yo-Yo's Roomie and @porksweats. Apologies if I missed somebody else who went in person.

Ditto. Nice. Cheers!

Fuck. It looked bad and so it's come to pass.

Thank you for the change. Common sense prevailed.

Robbie Lawler's a good guy.

Big for Liverpool.

Terminator calling Skynet to complain about gimmick infringement.

Cheers, lads. @Technico Support: I noticed the new profile picture but wondered about it. LOL. That's a keeper.

Jon Moxley at the post AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door press conference: TAFKA Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins vs. TAFKA Cesaro/Sheamus at No Mercy 2017. One of the best WWE matches that year. Cesaro getting through that is one of the toughest things I've ever seen since watching wrestling regularly as a five year old. So nasty.

For AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door PPV, I'd go: Suzuki/Jericho/Guevara vs. Kingston/Yuta/Umino: ****1/2. #FTR vs. Romero/Barretta vs. O'Khan/Cobb: ****1/4. PAC vs. Miro vs. Black vs. Connors: ****1/4. Sting/Allin/Takagi vs. M. Jackson/N. Jackson/Phantasmo: ****1/2. Rosa vs. Storm: ****. Ospreay vs. Cassidy: ****1/2. Castagnoli vs. Sabre Jr: ****1/2. White vs. Okada vs. Page vs. Cole: ****1/4. Moxley vs. Tanahashi: ****1/2.

Oxygen deprivation.

MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February 2022. 38:09.

MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February 2022. 38:09.

I like how AEW puts PPV level matches on TV, makes TV a bigger deal and the special edition episodes. Having only four PPVs a year, five this year allows for that. It's telling that in my Best AEW Matches countdown, most are TV matches. Been meaning to do the same for Best WWE Matches ever and very few if any TV matches would place.

Cheers, Jeffrey. When the 2022 Marvel Studios schedule came out, this was always the one I wanted to see the most as a fan of Christian Bale, Taika Waititi and Jason Aaron's Thor run.

Yay, @Gordlow picked the original AEW logo. We're in the camp preferring the grey border to the white replacement.

So Blood & Guts 2 is the second longest match in AEW history at 46:45 behind the 60 minute draw Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson at AEW Winter is Coming Dynamite. Do you count the start of the match with Claudio Castagnoli and Sammy Guevara or when Submit or Surrender begins? I'd go 46:45 myself.

I want Tony Khan to do a Vince McMahon voice over announcing the participants of the Royal Rampage.

We've reached the halfway mark of 2022, and to mark it, how about we dish out some awards? Mine: Wrestler of the Year: Bryan Danielson. Honourable mentions to Jon Moxley and CM Punk. Match of the Year. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynamite, 6th January. *****. Honourable mention to MJF vs. CM Punk on AEW Dynamite, 2nd February. ***** and the Dog Collar rematch on AEW Revolution, 6th March *****. Tag Team of the Year: #FTR. Easy pick. Card of the Year: AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door. Great top to bottom show. AEW Revolution had three better matches in Punk/MJF (*****), Moxley/Danielson and Kingston/Jericho but the former was more consistent across the board. Women's Wrestler of the Year: I'll think on. Between Jade Cargill, Dr. Britt Baker, Thunder Rosa and Serena Deeb.

As Money in the Bank is on Saturday, the early hours of Sunday morning UK time, here's Money in the Bank 2011. One of the best wrestling shows ever:

We enter a new month and so starts the second half of the year. What are your picks for Best of the Year so far? Mine: Wrestler of the Year: Bryan Danielson. Honourable mention to Jon Moxley and CM Punk. Match of the Year. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynamite, 6th January. *****. Honourable mention to MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February. ***** and Briscoes vs. #FTR from ROH Supercard of Honour, also *****. Tag Team of the Year: #FTR. Easy pick. Card of the Year: AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door. Great top to bottom show. AEW Revolution had three better matches in Punk/MJF (*****), Moxley/Danielson and Kingston/Jericho but the former was more consistent across the board. Promotion of the Year: AEW. Women's Wrestler of the Year:

Nope. Shinsuke Nakamura meets Magic Mike.