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I mean... there were no chairs in the crowd so I don't know how they would. I've also been to many wrestling shows and concerts where I was standing the whole time for a similar reason so I don't quite see the big deal?

I was gonna commend the WWE for doing what AEW should by having the people in the audience maintain proper distancing as best as possible (they at times got excited and got a bit closer to one another than ideal)... and then they had all the guys run in at the end for a big pull apart. Sigh.

I do recall Cody not liking Gulak as of a few years back over some stupid backstage deal at an Evolve show, so there is a real chance that AEW may not be an option for him.

Having a guy with a potentially deadly infection go through a weight cut is... very bad. I feel like a lot of the people nowadays talking up safety being most important are just paying lip service (that is a much larger issue that doesn't really belong just here), but if UFC are truly being honest about wanting to do the best they possibly can they gotta change their procedure now. Jacare should have been pulled on Wednesday as soon as he indicated he had close contact with an infected individual, and so should anyone else fighting for UFC who is in a similar position.

Sid and Lee Scott were a match made in heaven. Umaga was pretty fun as well>

I watched a lot of Toryumon at the time and remember nothing of the match other than not really being impressed. I think it is funny that random Kenny Omega match proved to be so divisive as A) he actually won without the One Winged Angel which is something he should have been doing against lower tier opponents for years now and B) if AEW has a house style it definitely involves wrestlers on a lower tier often getting way too much in on a superior opponent in a match that goes on way longer than it needs to. They've gotten better at it recently now that they don't have access to half their roster and all the major promotions have returned to purer jobber squashes to work around that.

I think trying to predict anything on a card where we don't even know how many of the people can even train anything close to fully is a fool's errand.

I think the issue was that the first match was considered great at the time, but they had two more matches over the next six or so months (one of them an ironman match) that progressively were less well liked and that sort of drug down the rep of the first. Granted if I watched that first match now I'm sure there'd be a ton of things that drove me nuts, but it was a more innocent time...

I mean, for all intents and purposes he doesn't actually do any sports writing anymore, maybe one or two things a year at most. He was definitely stale before that point, but it seems even he knows it is best to leave in the past.

The thing is that the whole "we are open but you don't have to come in thing" is a big soft power move, and it is kind of a shitty thing for most companies, WWE and AEW included, to do. It is very much along the same lines as to why you generally don't allow someone in power at a job to ask out someone lower on the totem pole out, sure the person asking may not do anything wrong if they are turned down but the person asked has all sorts of potential risks to consider both professional and personal. So yeah, WWE are huge dicks to do this but AEW, even if they have the best of intentions, are also putting their talent in a rough spot and shouldn't be doing this either. Watch either show if you want as we're all stuck inside and would watch just about anything, but in a better world both of them would not be running now and wouldn't put the decision to on the talent.

I am pretty sure the company that has done everything for a decade-plus to pretend that Chris Benoit never existed decided to shout out the murders during Wrestlemania because... reasons? Like I can see how someone watching at home could jump to that even though as noted it isn't very much like what happened but there's literally no reason why anyone involved in the proceeding would want to do it. None of them would think that it'd make them look good, or make them money, or get any kind of good attention, like even if you think Vince is just a vile human being there's nothing in his decades of awful behavior that would suggest he'd be vile in this way.

I'd say no. Crews is mechanically fine but is just devoid of any in-ring personality or presence, and over that long a time you really need at least something in that regard.

I'm glad no one on that card has any sort of well known pre-existing lung condition, that would just be monstrous...

No one was gonna toss him into prison or in-house rehab in the middle of a pandemic, the main reason this got sorted so quickly is because everyone else has more pressing things to deal with. He probably could benefit from a stay in rehab but... now's not the time.

So I picked up a mod for the PC version that allowed me to see how many edit points each edit I have downloaded from the steam workshop has. I have just over 1400 edits downloaded and the mod still requires going through them one at a time. After a week or so of picking away at this I had gotten about 1250 of them written down on a spreadsheet. *dramatic pause* ...I did this as I use Fire Pro each year to sim my march madness bracket. Welp.

I remember as a kid watching a tag match with Jake Roberts and Undertaker and doing a double take when they both stood straight up next to each other, there really wasn't all that much if a height difference at all. He's a deceptively tall guy.

In the build up to a Wrestlemania, if you have been built up at all beforehand but aren't in a position of importance on the card... well, we've had many years of evidence showing that it's gonna be a rough stretch for you.

This sounded so familiar that I had to look it up and yep, same guy wrote Dictionary of the Khazars which had the same gimmick. I had a soft spot for overly complicated books/narratives for a bit (I mean, I picked Pale Fire when we briefly had that book club here...) and that book sure did meet that criteria. Anyways I think this means I should add The Affirmation to my "to read" list.

My dad sends me a message after raw generally and this week he more or less completely turned on McIntyre (a guy he generally loves) as he was horrified at just killing someone's pet for no real reason. I can't really argue the point.

Prefontaine and Without Limits came out within a year or so of each other.

Ico doesn't have a current gen remaster which is... well probably for the best, I have some qualms with said SOTC remaster.

I liked High Noon but it really did never settle on much of an identity for itself. ...We broke up the Highly Questionable band for this too ?

My hope is that Matt Hardy comes out every week even more and more crippled demanding Randy Orton answer for his attack on Edge. Next week can be with a bigger neck brace and crutches, week after that in a wheel chair while wearing a halo, week after that wheeled out on a gurney with all sorts of tubes connected to him, you can't convince me that wouldn't be a more entertaining build than what we are likely to get.

Worth noting is that apart from the decision, which was justifiable, was one judge turning in a score card that almost everyone felt wasn't in any way. I think most of the specific complaints are more about "how is that guy allowed to judge" than about the specific result of that fight.

You do grasp how popular Michael Jordan was and kinda still is, right?