Curt McGirt

I still haven't watched it! It's just sitting there on my DVR tormenting me. I need a day for Good Things, like taking a walk, reading, and catching up with movies, so I'll put that on the list and let you know what I think after.

So... Karate Man. Too bad he's in the other promotion now. There's a joke about Maxwell with an afro in all this but I am loathe to summon it from the depths of bad taste

Anything would be better than another fucking F5

Funny, last night I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and there was something from a wrestling page where they were doing an interview with Max and asking if he actually liked anyone else in AEW and (he was working I imagine) he said "No... well, I tolerate Taz", saying he "says he's from Red Hook but he's a Long Island dude, he's been in Long Island longer than in Red Hook" and that they commiserated about delis and diners and such.

Johnny Knoxville's career is meant for roles like that, where he just pops up as a character in a wig or something and you just have to laugh that you're looking at Knoxville out of nowhere.

I agree, they kinda have to have a blowoff now, especially since they honestly couldn't do it at the PPV. They just couldn't: they need blood and two matches already gave the crowd more blood than they could possibly stomach, and both those matches work-wise blew anything they could throw at them for the finale out of the water. Look at it this way, it could be a mercy killing. This depends on what they do with the Riders of course. In any case everybody needs to go away for a hot minute and give everything room to breathe.

https://www.wwe.com/videos/scott-norton-vs-ernest-the-cat-miller-nitro-feb-1-1999 "Cat's callin' you out!" Steiner running in off camera fuelled by a massive amount of steroids to yell at Norton and demand he go to the ring is the cherry on top.

It makes me miss Ernest the Cat Miller is who it makes me miss. "You people make me sick!"

Going back and watching the matches:

It really does make me wonder... is he coming back?

Ouch. Too true. Tony K coming in and reading that post:

"Bad cobbles" I have to admit: I dug the jacket. The epaulets were cool. And his hair is less a mullet and more an insane grown out mohawk style mullet, so in other words, totally pro wrestling. Very Nasty Boys. Didn't pay a lot of attention, but one thing that came to mind during the match was that it must be hard coming into a fed where a lot of the stuff you can do can already be done by many of the luchadors there, and in a way already has. Or Ricochet.

Dralistico deserved to get pinned after those flubs. It almost looked like him and Hobbs weren't getting along at the end. For all the post-PPV story progression tonight I think everything was done really well. I mean there were two MJF segments and both were good. The second time, he cut an intense promo that I liked. That does not happen often. (The spray tanner though... jeez dude, don't ask somebody if you missed a spot, ask them if you should do it at all next time.) Granted, I did miss the first half hour of this, so I'm gonna have to go do another run-through.

They always come in threes RIP Simon Greenham, original singer of Chaos UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUnUKoUmSeU

Man they were on different planets then. Right before Johnny died they handed him a literal wad of $25,000 in cash to tour Europe and he wound up OD'ing on methadone after being hot-dosed with LSD in a New Orleans hotel room. Killer Kane was either at the bottom of the bottle right then or had already found Jesus, I'm not sure when that occurred. Johansen was doing Buster and acting (he was in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie btw, and was pretty good). Sylvain did his own shit and then became an NYC cab driver! And Jerry Nolan was in the London Cowboys, then died right after Thunders in January of '92. EDIT: That could have been $250,000, I'm not pulling out Please Kill Me right now. But that would be even crazier, because he was just walking around with the money in his jacket pocket.