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Bear Country are a comedy act just now, not a couple of brawny brutish thugs. But then, they're only one angle away from being those beefy bastards again.

Raven was jacked as hell though. Tommy Dreamer, ECW fans hated him when he'd wrestle shirtless with the suspenders, but as soon as he started wearing a shirt, suddenly they accepted him.

There's a time honoured tradition in Wrestling, of using promo photos of veterans that are as old as possible. Joey Janela managed by Missy Hyatt from 1986 apparently.

So Stephanie, she knew. We know she knew, it's a matter of record. But Paul, he said he didn't know. So are they still married, or what?

Why has nobody ever made a mashup of 99 Red Balloons and Mr Brightside. The only two songs ever to include the lyric Open Up My Eager Eye.

No, but Max Caster has.

He was Ramses in Nacho Libre, so... yes?

Dr Wagner junior is only Dr Wagner junior because his older brother refused to be. But then his older brother was Silver King, so it worked out pretty well for everyone involved.

CJ had to take time off to deal with a serious infection, and that delayed it, to the point that Andrade's deal expired. So it didn't reach a satisfactory conclusion, no.

It's 2024, I think we can all accept that Shawn Michaels was the Jannetty of The Rockers.

He isn't back on the roster page, though. He was never removed from the roster page.

For all of his long, long WWE run, Chris Jericho was unique in that he liked to change things up. Not only would he change his look and character from time to time, but he'd change his catchphrases, even his speaking cadence in interviews. And any time something he was doing got properly over, he would then stop doing it before it got played out. So it's a bit frustrating that in AEW for the last five years, he's been on his Greatest Hits tour. Whenever he changes things up, it's "We could bring back the Painmaker" or "We could bring back Lionheart*". Never anything fresh and new, other than the fact that his finishing move has a back elbow since 2019 (and that's a real "I need a move I can do when I'm 70" thing). Of course, the other thing that kept him fresh was that he would disappear for months at a time to go and be a singer (or work in other forms of non-wrestling entertainment), whilst he's never been away from AEW for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Then again, he's now the second oldest Wrestler on the roster, and Billy Gunn is unlikely to get upgraded into the Sting 'Living Legend' spot. So perhaps he thinks that if he sticks around, at some point he's getting that treatment. Which, I can see his retirement tour being good, but at the moment he's a bit... in WWE, in the scripted entertainment era, he always seemed a little more real and less plastic than most of the boys. But in AEW where everyone seems real, he's the most plastic person there. If he hadn't signed for AEW in 2019, but got cast in a TV show or something, and then he returned to wrestling in 2024, he would get that legend returns deal. * If he's returning to his CMLL days, his name should be in Spanish. He was Corazon De Leon in Mexico, he was only Lionheart in Japan and USA/Canada.

I saw someone saying that really Leo should have been playing the character De Niro played. Because he's 50 but you could buy him as a 1920s 40 year old. Not sure who you would get to play an age accurate version of Leo's character. Hollywood's top two Youthful Men (Tom Holland and Tim Chalomet) are 27 and 28.

https://twitter.com/RobViper/status/1766648202227241323 He doesn't look huge. Possibly he was big by the standards of 90s Lucha.

You know how Lucha gimmicks tend to be passed on, from one Wrestler to another? Chris Jericho's CMLL debut was: Best Two Out Of Three Falls: Ciclon Ramirez, Corazon de Leon & Lazer Tron defeat Felino, Javier Cruz & Titan

TJPW as part of the GCW Collective, full line-up.

You can say product now. And apparently there are a total of FOUR different videos for Relax. Todd is the Shadows did it for One Hit Wonderland the other week.

Anyone in Northern California and want to meet Chigusa Nagayo or Dump Matsumoto? https://twitter.com/WCProOfficial/status/1766493483244679414

A streamed game, in which everyone plays a Kobold. And not in the sense of having to take it as their race/heritage and then choosing their class. They're playing the base 1/8 CR Kobolds (with infinite respawns) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdhz52wrDw

Schiavone still loves the Full Armdrag and Twist though.

He should wear matching gear with the Bucks, for the heel heat.

I have reached the first Boss Fight in Deus Ex: HR. It's fucking murderous. Like, in a game with controls that make sense, it would be very difficult. But this game has controls that don't make sense. Allow me to explain. It's a First Person Shooter, but you aren't a Bullet Sponge, so you have to use the cover mechanic. L1 makes you go into cover, which also shifts it from 1st person to 3rd person. R1 is shoot and R2 is throw a grenade. But just pressing them is blind firing from cover, so you have to use the movement stick to pop up or around from cover. It's just, the way games work, you expect L1 to be AIM, not cover. And if you need to run away from the cover (like if someone throws a grenade at you), it drops you from first person to third person as soon as you release L1, so you can't really tell... there's no way to run around the pillar in such a way as to interpose it between you and the enemy, because you can't see both the pillar and the enemy at the same time, or tell where your character is in relation to them. And you're getting shot the whole time, in a game where you can't absorb damage without dying.

Nigel McGuinness vs Bryan Danielson, ROH World & Pure Title Unification match, 8th December 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHQ-YhEw-Y

NOAH touring the UK in September!

There are surprisingly few deathmatch wrestlers who'll take thumbtacks to the forehead. Foley did, when tacks were more or less brand new, and lots will take tacks to the top of the head (via DDT usually, or if they're doing Fans Bring the Weapons and someone brought a wiffleball bat with tacks glued on).