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The only problem I had with this one was that, logistically, it was worked like a HIAC. Gacy, even having a clue, stayed out of the fight even though he could have interfered. Brutus came dow and chased Gacy around the ring for said key, instead of just climbing over the cage. I dont know why this bugged me so much, but on this occasion, it really did. Elsewhere, I was pretty impressed with Jordan (I can't remember her first name...Delani?!) who does a couple spots that I don't think I've seen anyone else do. Reminds me of Sol Ruca in that respect, although her offence is quite as far along as Ruca's. This one of the first times seeing a Dragunov promo where I thought: "You know...maybe he could make it on the main roster." Would be a pretty great storyline if he was the one to end Gunther's IC Title reign, too which could lead to an eventual down-the-line Gunther WorldTitle Defence when Gunther finally stops him (again).

Frazier-Dar was my pick (To be fair I missed both the Dragunov and Hayes matches) because I'm in awe of Fraziers speed and Noams shtick.

Enjoyed both the round robin matches. Butch-Dempsey was my match of the night though I couldn't stop thinking how much DEAN would have dug it! That said it was not my favourite moment of the night...That was Booker T, calling Lola Vices match, shouting "Look at the Vice! Look at the Vice!" Followed possibly by "Scotty!" (?) before Vic very calmly and seriously asked "Why are you sweating?"

Oh god, the grunting! It's all coming back to me....

I hadn't heard about the Nemeth encounter, looked it up and laughed about Punk preventing guys from being on Collision. Actually I think they should go All-In (Ha!) on it Being Punk's show: add "CM Punk presents" above the logo, paint a Pepsi logo on his belt, and, most importantly, dig up the season 2 Lucha Underground set and have Punk sit on a throne a la Mil Muertes watching over all the matches with disdain

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSPvQGGPMw&t=57s Sorry one more because I somehow never heard this one before!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3-J6HFxvY I'm pretty sure I first heard this on here but it ALWAYS slays me: Terry speaking rather than singing, the image of Terry cruising the streets and of course Funk speak-singing "They call us juvenile delinquents" because when I think of no-good teen punks, I think of Terry Funk! I had this on my iPod for years and it never fails to make me smile though I have to concede I almost never make it all the way through!

I just have to say I was Googling Shawn Michaels Little Rock because I'd somehow never heard that before and Google autocompleted it to "Shawn Michaels Little Drummer Boy" and now I'm terrified to follow that up. Edit: I did, I couldn't find something, but did find this absolute HBK nonsense https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/xnsp42/shawn_michaels_as_a_local_news_reporter_when_he/ Apparently he was a..."Reporter" while on hiatus from WWE. So bizarre.

Oh man, I remember that movie! It was after I loved Jason Lee so much in his Kevin Smith stuff that I sought out everything he did. On the plus side, I would not have seen 'Mumford' if not for this plan, on the downside 'Kissing A Fool'!

It was especially good on the Canadian broadcast because it went somber voice, plug, to a completely black screen with "Whopper whopper whopper whopper" playing. In fact there were two straight at breaks with no picture. It was weird

I really wanted Darby to go "I owe this man everything" while Nick Wayne shouted over his shoulder "Hey, I don't agree with this!" "Those two guys just beat the shit out of me, I am not down with this." "Seriously he just threw a tanktop with my blood on it -that he is somehow still wearing- at my mom, I don't think he's a good guy!" Seems like they could have just had someone "injure" AR Fox as payback for going after Nick Wayne's mom, or something, then bring him back after they get back stateside. I hope I'm wrong, but this kind of felt like writing AR Fox out of AEW more than writing him out of All In.

In honor of his passing, this if my favourite non-Foley Terry Funk story, taken from Bruce Hart's autobiography 'Straight From the Hart': Bruce, Bret and Dean Hart travel down to Texas to work with Dory, only to find him away but are told that his younger brother Terry would look after them "Terry said he had an angle in mind, which entailed me pretending to be a mark in the crowd and running into the ring on the finish to save the local hero Dick Murdoch. Murdoch would be caught in the Russian sleeper hold, being applied by the dastardly Boris Malenko - their top heel. I told Terry I'd be happy to give it a shot. Since I was supposed to appear to be a "mark", Terry didn't want us to be seen getting out of his car or walking in with him , so he dropped us off what he said was a block or so from the buildnig - which proved to be a mile or two. When we finally made it to the arena and sat down ringside and proceeded to play our roles - hardcore mark types - booing, cheering and whatnot, our actions seemed to rub some of the rednecks we were sitting near the wrong way and we almost got into a fight or two with them. During the main event, when Malenko gos hist dreaded Russian sleeper hold on Murdoch, I slid under the bottom rope and jumped on Malenko's back, piggyback style. I should note that I'd never met either Malenko or Murdoch before this and I sensed something was wron, as Malenko tensed up and I heard him telling Murdoch "some fucking mark just jumped on my back." He then gave me a stiff head mare on the mat. As I was laying on the mat, I saw him wrapping the chain around his fist and drawing back to clobber me with it. Wide-eyed and scared shitless I began shouting, "Kayfabe, kayfabe", which is the wrestler's way of letting the other guy know that you're not a mark. He looked at me, kind of perplexed and I shouted, "Terry Funk told me to run in on the finish." Malenko and Murdoch looked at each other, puzzled and Murdoc then snarled, "That fucking Terry and his ribs." At that point, I suddenly found myself surrounded by cops, who handcuffed me and dragged my ass out of the ring. They threw me in the back of their police cruiser and i was contemplating having to spend the night in a southern jail - which, based on movied I'd seen, was nothing to look forward to. My spirits brightened mometarily when I saw Terry Funk come out the back door of the arenaa and approach the police cruiser. I figured that he'd tell the cops everything was cool, but he instead launched into an Academy Award-deserving rant about how I'd endangered the safety of thousands of fans, beseeching the cops to lcok me up and throw the keys away. He then stormed away in a huff, making out to be incenesed and leaving me to ponder how I was going to get my ass out of this thing." Eventually Lord Alfred Hayes talked the cops into letting Bruce go, and he says he and Terry laughed about the incident and became good friends. RIP Terry Funk

I thought the same, but then I was just rewatching a 'Kitchen Nightmares' (the UK one) and Gordon Ramsay talking about this all-French kitchen staff by saying: "I need to turn this kitchen of frogs into princes" so apparently it's not a strictly-enforced ethnic slur?!

Saw a pickup truck today parked with one tire on the sidewalk in BC, needless to say: two MASSIVE "Fuck Trudeau" stickers on the back of that window.

"He lives his gimmick, brother" -Abdullah the Butcher There's a story in Mick Foley's book where he talked about DDP working really hard and how one day Abdullah looked at Foley and said that DDP was going to be a big star and when Foley asked incredously "Dallas?", Abdullah uttered the above. But I do think there's something to that, you can see a lot of guys who were big athletes but not really used to being the center of attention outside of athletics and have no idea how to portray that, Foley talks about how DDP loved cheesy lines like when security guards asked how he was doing he'd say something like "Lady, I'm doing so good, I'd have to be twins to get any better". It lead to so many incerdibly cheesy lines ("Self high five" or that great story where he wanted his heel opponent to praise how good-looking and talented he was) but he felt...genuine in his delivery of it.

I'm only a casual NFL fan but I kind of adore NFL pre-season. I especially like hearing the regional NFL announcers and their special guests. My three faves so-far: -The Seattle crew which consisted of their usual announcer, a former Seahawk and a current Seahawk coach and they spend the entire time talking about the Seahawks, referring to the players by their first names and cheering for them with phrases like "I told him! I told him to do that!" and you wouldn't have known therefore two teams playing judging by the commentary and then it abruptly cuts out with a loud crack before you hear this super-serious, super-polished broadcaster voice and he says something like "Due to technical dificulties, we have lost the Seahawk broadcast" -I can't remember which game it was but the guest commentator had this boisterous, hoarse PE teacher voice repeatedly shouting about "smash mouth football". And the pbp guy seemed to really enjoy breaking his balls and started reading tweets about him: Mina Kimes says she loves hearing your dulcet tones and he laughed and said "I dunno about dulcet" and then the Pbp goes " Another tweet asks if you swallowed a hotdog while you were calling the game" and he kind of chuckles sadly -One of the guys in the Giants game last night who just HATED rookies. Every time there was a bad play he'd blame it on a rookie. He'd make comments like "The coaching staff told me he's improved his footwork so if it's still that bad, that should tell you how bad he was!" and " Well that's the problem with playing rookies! "

I think we already have a winner in that one... I'm so sorry

This drives me bananas. Why are there 5 or so different channels that 80-90% of the time all show the same thing!? The worst though, as a non-baseball guy, is when the Blue Jays are in the playoffs and it's on all but one channel, and you make the specific choice to watch that one non-Jays channel and then they cut in with Blue Jays highlights like "Hey maybe you didn't NOTICE are other four channels but the Blue Jays are playing!" ( I'm sure they do this with the Leafs too but I am a hockey guy so I've never noticed!) There's only one Roughriders now! But definitely agreed on the latter!

Them showing all the Canadian=based shows then pulling it after they got back to the States irked me even more than if they had just said "We don't have the airtime" and never shown it at all.

I still maintain Dana Brooke could have worked out but her NXT stay was way too short. She was a heat magnet with that weird armpit rubbing flex she did and she's obviously ridiculously athletic (that flip thing she does (did?) in her entrance was super impressive). But she was just starting to lean into a muscular heel bully role in NXT and get a little less clumsy in the ring when they nonsensically rushed her to Raw to be Alexa Bliss's muscle. This was set up to fail as Brooke wasn't experienced enough or noteworthy enough to be seen as a big deal. Coupled with the fact that women like Charlotte and Nia Jax dwarfed her which kinda negated the muscle part. I thinking she'd been given another 6 months or so in NXT she might have turned out well. Evans is somewhat similar though she had more charisma than Brooke. She was pushed too far, too hard, too fast (Those endless appearances where she strutted to the ring in weird millennial updates of old-fashioned Southern clothing, while they played her annoying theme and Michael Cole repeatedly yelled "THE SASSY SOUTHERN BELLE!" haunt me!). Like when she was shoehorned into that feud with Rollins/Becky by wearing Rollins name on her tights but she had neither the stature not the ability to be at that level. But I still think the natural thing to do was just go "She's a mom, she's a vet, U-S-A! U-S-A!" and the crowd would have cheered and you could have more talented heels look down on her and basically play her as the female John Cena: cheesy but still kind of cheerable.

You would either get grumpy old JR mocking it as it went along or game JR trying to explain it as it went along and failing. Either option would have been amazing.

I hated this show. Hated it. Cassidy-Yuta was fine. You knew full well where it was going. Omega's interview was pretty silly, and then he gets attacked by two guys who have absolutely nothing to do with him in AEW, just so they can shoehorn in a nonsensical multi-man match. This smacks of when WWE comes up on Survivor Series and teams would randomly attack other guys so they could put them in a multi-man match with no real backstory. Jericho-Callis was just long and stupid. So Jericho agrees to join Callis because he's a mastermind, but said mastermind already had a photo set up because he didn't think he would join? Then why go out there? To set Jericho up to get beat up by Ospreay...you could have saved us many weeks of shitty segments if he had just beat him up to begin with?! Plus, Callis was just going to walk away with Jericho after all? So did he want him to join the group or not?! Was he trying to trick Jericho into thinking he wanted him in the group so he could be blindsided by Ospreay? Or did he actually want him in the group and was just going to text Ospreay "nm" after Jericho joined the group? And then Jericho berates Callis for being an idiot and a scumbag for like two minutes...two minutes after agreeing to join up with him? Is this supposed to make me want to cheer Jericho? Because he is ostensibly the face in this match, right? So, you're telling me the guy who formed group to worship him, betrayed said group, then agrees to join the most hated man in the company (No, not Punk), then turns around and berates him..that's the guy I'm supposed to cheer for? This is the worst, most poorly-executed AEW storyline in a long time. Just bafflingly, stupendously bad storytelling that makes everyone involved look incredibly stupid. Darby/Allin-GOA was fine. Darby's stuff is always almost great. Sting's kidnapping of Nana was fine. Did Sting genuinely forget the date of the show or was that scripted? That was weird. Speaking of bad, who did Roderick Strong tick off to get where he is today? I wonder if he would have stayed on as Diamond Mine's overbearing boss rather than be turned into the whiny, neck-brace-wearing cast-aside who INJURES his foot kicking the tire of the ferrari his best friend was driving. MJF's promo was okay but this whole thing mostly sucked, too. The Texas Chainsaw match was one of the worst things I've seen. Probably the worst AEW match, maybe ever. It's like when WWE does those Christmas or Halloween hardcore matches where people meander along and get hit with wrapped cardboard boxes, except those usually have one great spot like someone being thrown into a Christmas Tree or something. This just had guys standing aroudn, meandering waiting to get hit and an ending that made Robocop's apperance look good. (So Jarrett says he has an in with Leatherface is really stupid, and Leatherface coming out is really stupid, and chasing off Karen Jarrett is really stupid but in the stupidest part of all, somehow this distracts everyone except Jarrett who wins the match!). I wish I had two more hands, so I could give this four thumbs down. Baker-Bunny was okay. I think Bunny and her entourage would have freshened up the 4-way way more than Baker but AEW is going to shoehorn their top guys and gals on that UK show whether it works or not. Excalibur trying to get Baker over as a dentist when it failed once is really funny. Remember when she was first pushed as the face/ace of the women's division and JR would blather on endlessly about Baker's dentist credentials as if everyone is going "Man, I love dentists! She's kind of a mediocre wrestler, but her being a dentist changes my mind entirely!" Also, AEW taking Rebel away from Britt because she's a face is the kind of bad booking WWE is known for (Like Smilin' Brock Lesnar). I notice I'm mentioning WWE a lot here and that's cuz this was like a bad Raw. Like a bad, Anonymous GM-era Raw(And I kind of liked the Anonymous GM for a while!). Bucks-Gunns was whatever. The Gunns are much more interesting than most of the teams above them. AEW almost needs US Tag Team Titles, really. FTR helping the Bucks overcome the odds is a plot point I feel AEW have done a hundred times. WWE likes to put their main eventers on the same team and win the tag titles and fight over it. AEW likes to have tag teams who are feuding help each other out because of "RESPECT". Man, do I miss Collision (I am no paying TSN extra money to watch it though)

I remember being so confused by this angle as #1. I had no idea Gary Spivey was a real person (Well as real as a TV psychic can be!). #2. Why he seemed to have a tennis ball on his head and #3. How this whole thing was going to tie into Danny Spivey (whom I had only seen once or twice and thought was amazing) because they wouldn't introduce a character with the same unusual last name as a wrestler and not draw attention to it. Also, a quick Google finds he is still alive, still working as a psychic and his "hair" has gotten even more ridiculous https://garyspivey.com/about/

I REALLY want to know who yelled "High spot!" when Jannetty crashes into those guys with the bike and knocks one into the fountain.

Apparently one of the matches he produced was that sweet Big Bill/Cage vs Trent/Sydal match