DangerMark

You're an absolute degenerate wrestling nerd though. And I mean that in a good way.

Pretty sure it was Sasuke.

This is exactly why I love it.

Eww, golf. I thought cricket was supposed to be for people too rich to bother with making money and for gifted amateur thieves, not bureaucratic administratiors squeezing every possible penny out of their sport and their players. (don't worry, I know that the true purpose of Cricket is to give the British a sport that they can occasionally beat the Aussies at in heroic fashion.)

I managed to work out that Ben Stokes was pretty good on my own, thank you very much. Then again, I suppose coming up with these rankings keeps them busy enough that they don't have the time to experiment with a three day test.

Hang on, there's a World Test Championship? Jeez, that hardly seems worth it when only twelve countries even play tests. Any fewer and they might as well do the American thing and name the winners of a domestic competition "world champions."

What the hell kind of idiot wants a four day test?

Not sure I agree with this. Obviously, betting against a healthy Hakuho is a mug's game but there are plenty of worn down vets out there who haven't had such a long rest in ages. Takayasu is one, Tochinoshin for two, maybe Okinoumi, but him for a yusho is a stretch. Takakeisho was looking a bit banged up last time out. Hakuho does get to take a rest whenever he likes without having to worry about his ranking beyond the rumblings of whether or not he'll have to retire, but since he's won a million billion yusho, I imagine the Association have approximately zero power to make him do anything he doesn't want to do. Kakuryu gets this to a lesser extent, and he's pulled out already, so it's entirely possible that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I'm convinced.

I think that I remember the username of the guy who pissed off Mrs. Norton on the puroresufan boards. Was it Troy? I also remember @Eivion having a surname at one point. Put me down as someone who occasionally lets DEANisms into their regular speech.

Does that referee have Aldo in his Dead Pool or something? Jeez.

Norton would have actually put up a better fight than the house.

I remember some NJPW then young guys, Kojima, Tenzan, Liger and a few others having a match against a house one time.

What if the umpires go within six feet of a player to argue? Seriously, MLB Umpires are the most argumentative officials in all of sports.

Count me in.

What's the tenth match look like?!

Refresh my memory, this must have been before he mailed his half of the tag titles back to AJPW? As I recall he held with Nagata, but they didn't get two out of the four belts back until after the decision match for the new champions, so the new champions had to get one belt each.

Who needs drugs when you had an avatar of the snake god running round mind controlling everyone?

MIKAMI's just gutted that his ladder got more over than he did.

I would buy all the DEATH RHOMBUS merch there is, though..

You might have a point. Could always update the shape to the number of people, but Death Square is a stupid kid's game and Death Pentagon would just be confusing.

That article is from 2011, so I figured I've have a look what he was up to these days. Welp.

Some kind of daffy joke match is probably the only way they can climb down from this without losing too much face when it sucks; which would require more self awareness than anyone involved has ever showed.

I love the intent behind the rule, but so far it seems like it has let teams keep the pressure on the defenders and run away with games. I saw Thursday and Friday's matches and they started close and turned into panellings by the end, and the only team who deserved it was Gold Coast. Hopefully teams will adjust and we can get some close games.

I cannot imagine any sort of Attitude Era happening that involves Johnny Saint.