NikoBaltimore

I don't know what need there is to bring up Sammy's transgressions again. We know what was done and the consequences so if they don't re-sign him then such is life. But I just don't see a point to it. Also, my hope is that with him being a father it truly has changed him for the better. It doesn't excuse anything.

Crazy that it's been 15 years. I remember being at a friend's house and they all had those smark-filled opinions. For some reason after all that they got up and gave the TV a standing ovation then proceeded to record something for a no-name podcast in excitement. It's almost cringe-worthy thinking about it now but considering we were so certain they'd find a way to fuck up that night when they didn't it felt like this cathartic elation that we had. With how much of an influence ROH/the indies have had on wrestling since then there's no way this could ever be properly recreated. But on that night it worked.

I am not down at all on Willow. I love her to bits and hate that people are down on her. It's just that looking at All In Mercedes/Thekla is the more interesting matchup and Thekla deserves that spotlight. Not that Willow doesn't but it's just that she's been having the TBS title for so long and there's been no real quest for the most part for the world title. The whole thing feels so abrupt that her losing would help get the quest into high gear. Maybe for Revolution they could consider her winning it then since I imagine Mercedes winning the world at All In and you'd want her to have time with the belt.

Some immediate takeaways: For the longest time seeing the Bellas it was always to me "Nikki's the better wrestler but Brie is the person I like more". Time has changed and I don't watch WWE but I am curious after seeing this if Brie has improved as a wrestler. If so I'd like to see match that's online showing how much she has improved if any. I would hope with that Bryan as coach she has and in this video it gives a good idea of how he does things. Now that Bryan is done wrestling though still against doing much online (which I fully support) I wonder what it would take for him to post a tiny bit more with coaching and wrestling tips. The guy has shittons of knowledge that I know he passes on to AEW talent. But it would be a great service to wrestling in general if he was able to put what he could out there. The bit about watching a match a day and writing ideas down in cursive is such a neat thing to do that wrestlers should consider adopting that right away. It's also great hearing how he takes applied his brains to other facets of life leading to him being a great father and husband. He should be commended for that.

This is for purely selfish reasons but I'd love to see the All Star Game come to Baltimore. I won't be shocked if it's not due to the Olympics or some shit but there's a lot pride here in Oriole Park being as nice as it is and it'd be great for them to be host.

Hey, let's not say things we can't take back! BTW I'll have you know in our WWF/E theme song tournament "Broken Dreams" won his first round pretty easily and so far is ahead in the second round. If you're up for taking part here you go. https://discord.gg/7JpPyHKUw6

I'd much rather chill with him for a few days than some guy going through a mid life crisis like Jericho is. But you're not wrong. For real though I love the pup and he is fun to be with. It's just a pain when I'm trying to watch some rasslin and he's got other plans.

It would make no sense for Willow to win even with her history and with the matches with Mercedes. That rivalry from what I see is done and there's no need to have it at All In. Mercedes/Thekla is the more interesting matchup so it should be Thekla that takes it. Plus, Thekla's proven to be one helluva champion that people like so it'd be unfair for her to not go to Wembley. The rest of the card is fine and I love Willow but if she wins I will be pretty annoyed. EDIT: I realized a day after posting I didn't like the negative tone I had. I have better thoughts on it down below.

That was my favorite part of the whole thing. They knew in advance the crowd would have that level of response and they were right. I might have to share that clip with a friend of mine.

He's a Shih Tsu named Aries. He's gonna be a year in September. My parents love him but with them out and me watching for the week he's been a needy little pain in the ass. Really cute and all, but I realized this week I'm not sure about watching puppies again.

Need to watch the whole show in full as I was distracted by my Mom's dog running me ragged for most of the time. Why I agreed to watch him for a week who knows. What I did catch though was fun. Omega's celebration had a lot of neat story beats but I wonder if it's too soon to sow doubt into Kevin's turn. He practically just joined DCF and if you're going to do this I'd have given it at least another two months. Also really loved seeing Brodido and Boston doing that chant. I swear after feeling ragged for a while that chant lifted my spirits so much I was good for the rest of the night. And that was a fun tag title defense for Cope/Cage. Them as older vets playing off of the house style from younger talents is really nice to watch. Plus, it's fucking Christian, I love seeing him on TV. My only knocks from what I saw are the Brawling Birds trying WAY too hard to appeal to Boston. They got the energy for it but the pandering got a bit much after a bit. And FFS why Darby loves finding a way to try and kill himself on the lowest-consequential matches I don't know. I can see the argument for doing it on bigger matches but not one like this. Foley is right for trying to talk sense into him.

For years Jeff wasn't somebody that I thought too favorably of. All I had to go off of was what was on TV and internet heresy. But the past year or so especially of him in AEW plus this has been one helluva redemption story. I'm glad he seems to have finally found a sense of peace and seems like he's in a great place. EDIT: I should clarify I am not referring to whatever he claims is true or not about TNA's business or whatever. I'll leave that to others to discuss. I'm just referring to him as a person. I don't think Dixie declining interviews led to it being a hit piece on her. I think part of her realizes how much damage she did to the company and no matter how much of a mask she might put on as the years go on she's had to live with that realization. She should at least be thankful that they didn't mention her sending an email to the wrong person leading to them getting kicked off Spike. If they really wanted to spite her declining interviews they could have found a few minutes to mention that. And for once I can say I agree with Vince Russo. I feel kind of dirty saying that but aside from him going all "I named it TNA! Hahahaha!" I think he was relatively fine.

The way they were talking over made me wonder how well this went with them. Was it a sign from the jump going "Shit, she's drunk for real, be careful" or were they just not prepared and it was a hit in the back. I don't see much middle ground but you never know.

Here you go. https://discord.gg/eECEfXvhqQ

If you all haven't done so yet please get in on Discord with the song tournament. Aly has put shittons of effort to make this one helluva tournament and it's been pretty awesome so far.