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So I downloaded FaceApp and some stuff happened.

AEW, very inclusive of strongly regional British accents.

As smart *as*

It just goes to show, most wrestlers think of wrestling fans as people who would never understand a woman's body in that way.

Watching a show from a couple of weeks ago, before the PPV, and I've just noticed, Kris Statlander is wrestling with knee wraps but no knee braces any more. That's a good sign for the career longevity.

Why on earth would she tweet such a thing, on a day like today?

Wouldn't it be ironic, if it turned out that watching all of those AEW shows was what made Danielson want to make the jump?

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We live in frustrating times.

My fantasy booking is that The Acclaimed defend their trios titles against The Elite (Billy Gunn vs Okada!), lose and do a soft split. Caster can feud with Keith Lee or some other big guys, and work a loudmouth antagonist gimmick. Bowens can win a ton of matches and get a World title shot on PPV (against World Champ Swerve Strickland, because it would mean a lot to a lot of people to have a black World champion defend against a black challenger, and to have a gay man vying to be top dog in the company). And Billy Gunn can have a quiet few months or go back to his semi-retired manager gig that he had before the trios thing took off.

Get well soon Mark Coleman. He's hospitalised having saved his parents (and dog) from a house fire. https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1767656021395116206

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.