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Yet another downside to the Peacock switchover, you cannot stream it through the Amazon Firestick and it’s also not available through the LG App Store. I haven’t tried the PlayStation store yet, but so far I can only watch it on my iPhone or iPad. Major downgrade from the Network.

I have absurdly began shouting “Yes boy!” At the end of Jiu-Jitsu classes, no one I train with watches NXT UK so no one knows what I am on about.

Really good episode of After the Bell this week. The show has gotten much better overall since the edition of Vic Joseph. This week’s guest was Cameron Grimes and I’m sure I’m not alone on here with loving his new character, plus his story is extremely heart wrenching.

I’m thinking MSK vs GYV

Thanks for the clarification on Devlin, I knew about Riddle but I thought Devlin had been totally cleared.

I’ve been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for over 12 years under Matt Serra and am one of his brown belts. Technique and leverage over everything, angles make strangles as I’ve been taught. I’m only 5’ 8” & 150 pounds and have been told mine is ridiculously tight. Strangles should be blocking or sealing off the carotid arteries and not the windpipe, temple, or jaw.

I had thought that it was revealed the charge against him was baseless?

I don’t think Escobar is winning, I think they are looking to move him out of the Cruiserweight division and on to other things. I don’t get all the Devlin hate.

That all depends on who’s applying the hold and how clean you get it on, my guillotine is extremely nasty. Arm out, arm in, mounted, one arm, chin strap, most of them (if hook them clean) get a very quick tap. And it is absolutely a strangle or blood choke. My RNC people are usually slower to tap to, even if it’s on super clean. Triangles are different because usually even when put on quick the person slapping it on will change their angle to tighten it up or pull down on the head as well. These are all strangles. Unless you’re a goon your RNC should be a straight up strangle and not on the wind pipe, if it is, it’s in wrong.

FRANKENSTEINER!!!!

Cattle Mutilation is still my favorite & I always loved shining wizard too. Or when Mauro called Balor’s drop kick the John Woo drop kick. Burning hammer is a ridiculously dope name for the MDK move that it is. Shooting Star Press may be the best name for a top rope move as it just sounds so graceful. Scorpion Death Drop was my favorite name for a move for ages. And I admit a huge fondness for the descriptive nature of GO 2 SLEEP! Also, Welcome to Chicago Mother Fucker.

Roman defending immediately afterwards would be the classic heel move to do and I fully expect them to go that route.

She was on the AEW Unrestricted podcast and I’m almost positive she has either never had a match or maybe had 1. She played college basketball and is I believe a child psychologist and a personal trainer. I remember listening to the podcast thinking, man, I hope she’s training her ass off because they’re giving one hell of a build to someone who has near zero experience let alone a run anywhere. She has an incredible look, that’s undeniable, her promos fall flat to me because she’s shown nothing to back up anything she says. Training BJJ for the last 12 years has taught me one thing above all else, lots of folks LOOK like they can fight, but they get lost really quick when it’s time to go. I’m not a big fan of the whole celebrities in wrestling thing, I feel like it demeans and undervalues the years of hard work these women and men put in to learn their craft and get where they are. So this whole thing isn’t my cup of tea. I just hope no one gets hurt and that Jade has been putting in the ring time.

The Escobar/Kross thing seems so pointless to me, why would he even be interested in Escobar? Especially after his mini confrontation with Edge? Shouldn’t he be more interested in Balor/Dunne/Cole?

It’s like a McConaughey gimmick right?

Two questions: 1. How in the hell does Pete Dunne not destroy your fingers when he does that? 2. Is Vic Joseph saying “deep cleaning” or “de-cleating?” The three way tandem of Beth, Barrett, and Joseph is really growing on me. Goddamn that main event was dope and MSK is tearing it up. I have to give a lot of love for GYV too. I think the NXT tag division is really starting to heat up again and I love it.

Apologies, edited my post, shouldn’t have gone there. It’s been a rough night.

See my post about Shotzi TryHard in the NXT thread, everything she does screams wannabe. Maybe I’m just a grumpy elder goth/punk but she just reverberates mall goth/hawt topic punk to me. Which is why teaming her with Ember Moon seems perfect to me with her dopey rubber werewolf head hood gimmick. They both come off like the worst kind of poser ever. No, really the liar guy was in a band before he started doing spoke word?! Tell me more?!

Did they intentionally lighten Sasha up a ton in this pic or is she going heavy on the tanner now? I recently rewatched all the TakeOvers and I don’t remember her skin tone radically changing like this?

I actually began watching every TakeOver when the pandemic began, if you do this you’ll have hella fun, believe me.

Just watched the first hour of the best of Daniel Bryan in WXW on the network. Good matches, bad commentary, horrible crowds. Still, in the first hour alone I watched him against Marufuji & Hero and the start of a match against Nigel. Reminds me of ROH era American Dragon.

I just finished the podcast a little while ago, such raw and heartbreaking stuff. Amanda Huber is an incredibly strong woman. I’m going over to the Violent Gentlemen site right now to order their Brodie tribute shirt.

Just finished AEW Unrestricted where they had Brodie’s widow Amanda Huber as the guest, that was some raw heartbreaking stuff. Just devastating.

Man it blows my mind sometimes that so many of us were at those same early ROH shows, could have sat right next to each other and not known it.

Watched 205 Live for the first time to catch the Dusty Cup matches and was pleasantly surprised to see Nigel on commentary! I’m such a fan of his in and out of the ring. I would prefer him to Barrett on NXT.