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Do you know Adam Cole's wife is a dentist ?

Pretty much agree. Considering Havoc vs Mancer was supposed to be a blood feud, that match was stupid as hell, but really, Havoc going all GTA Vice City jacking a car was glorious. The part in his appartement was also quite funny. You would not think Jimmy Havoc's place looked like that. Funny how they were very careful not actually damaging anything, not taking bump onto the wall. Made it fake as hell but hey, the absurdity of it worked. Other highlight, Havoc screaming "It's a kidnapping !" in the car. The end of the match was standart Havoc vs Mance, and by that I mean not very good. I really like Douglas James, he's kinda MLW's Little Guido. But that match was indeed too long and never in doubt. Is Aria Blake gone ? What about MJF ? The women's match was indeed terrible, but Pricilla Kelly seems to have some character, and using some Angel Dust era FNM endears her to me. She's Darby Allin's wife ? Wife ? Married at 22 ? You know you're gonna get divorced, people, right ? Even getting married at 40, you are gonna get divorced... So, Lawlor stays ? Ok. He's so the one who attacked Von Erich. Hey, a Dr. Tom Prichard cameo ! Yeah, nothing to write home about. I'm waiting for Salina to come back with more AAA talents. Also, did you notice the Thanksgiving special show had the old Survivor Series font ?

Yes. Don't be hateful. Plus, the guy has got mental issues. So there. Your criticisms of Mauro just got cancelled.

Ah ah, that's a good point. Yeah, it is a great match, but it also demonstrates how much context matters to me at this point. I can see it's a great match, those women are just terrific talents, but since I'm not connected to the context and it is a context I actually actively don't care about (for different reasons), I never really got into it. I honestly have more fun watching a random Madison Rayne match on IMPACT, simply because I enjoy and am familiar with the context. And my main criticisms would be all about the context : _Mauro Ranallo is annoying as fuck, so it detracts from the match as he's hammering on my head all the time. _The Dakota Kai stuff was great at first, then went for too long and meanwhile what is happening in the ring ? This is typical WWE production. _WWE style match : cage match, hate feud (from what I gather) : no blood and tons of garbage can shots, table and chairs. And more of no blood. So whatever criticism I would have only refers to the context : context of announcing, context of production. The workers I have nothing but love for them although I'm not familiar with a few of them. Bianca BelAir is still awesome. Basically, I hope I'll get to see them in another context, I just don't care about that one. Which is not to say I don't think this was a great match.

Ok, I'm gonna give it a chance. Cage barely begins to lower. "Like Chuck T. said, Welcome to the Terrord..." AAAAAAAAA SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY !!!! THE MATCH HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN !!! SHUT HIM UP FOR FUCK'S SAKE !!!!!

This. I actually typed something about how I was sick of the "mental health" card being played when people like Cass for instance act like complete assholes, then I felt it was opening a can of worms. For the record, I have delt with depression, I have had (severe) mental breakdowns and I have been close with people with issues, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about in terms of let's not put everything on the back of our own mental issues to always find ourselves excuses or play victims. Not saying Mauro is doing that, but I see a lot of "mental health" card being thrown often, much more often that it should. And that's all I'm going to say about that particular point, because PWO.

I don't give a flying fuck about Mauro's Twitter drama. To me Mauro is a god fucking awful announcer and he's actively preventing me from enjoying anything he's calling. That's about it.

Yeah, so can we get rid of that old guy spewing "aww the physicality" every three minutes now ?

Hey, glad I'm not the only one who is thinking about Raven when Darby Allin is around. I totally got that Raven vibe from the Mox match, in that Allin just takes a beating like no one else, much like Raven used to do. That and the creepiness aspect of the character. I would absolutely have those two plus : Sami Callihan : MVP of wherever he goes. His stuff in IMPACT building the feud with Brian Cage has been awesome, the match totally delivered, his work with Tessa has been terrific too. Taya Valkyrie : she has blossomed as a character since Mr. Impact left, she's been mean, funny, carried herself as a total star and she's probably at her best in-ring too at this point. John Moxley : Half Austin half Brody. Was awesome in the G1. Is awesome in every AEW match he's been. Feels special.

T-shirt Mania. They won't unionize after being left in Saudi Arabia but they are fighting for Brand Supremacy and you are all invited !

Word. I would watch the women's Wargame, but Mauro is just *that* annoying to me.

I think it's safe to say they can do vignettes...

The Omega interview was great. Sorry, but this guy is the best. Comes off smart, humble to a degree (not without a sense of confidence about being great), most of all very level headed, talking about how he's still learning how to be a star in a US wrestling TV format, his love for joshi puroresu and how he would spent lots of money in 1999 buying tapes (yeah ! I've been there !), the fact he and the Bucks are more interested at this point with creating new stars, how they are in long-term and therefore not worry about a ratings war, the whole Jim Cornette thing. Just terrific stuff.

The thing is, as LAX they always had Konnan to carry the out of the ring segments and promo time, and the three of them had an excellent dynamic. They do miss that aspect of their game as characters to me. LAX was definitely more interesting than P&P from that perspective. Still a terrific team though.

And then AEW is gonna do a Match Beyond in a few months with buckets of blood to settle an actual blood feud between two factions. The whole "yearly gimmick matches" was bad already, but now that you *have to* do both a men and a women version because well because, it's even worse.

I sure know what Youtube search to do now whenever I'm bored. No. Never.

T-shirt Mania is so lame.

Yeah, the gauntlet match was fantastic. Total main event star performance from Rich Swann, and I actually look forward to the incoming program with Elgin, as this segment was pretty awesome and probably the best I've seen Elgin, as he was downright vicious. The final segment was very good too, and it's cool as hell to see a guy like Brian Cage give Tessa the nod, especially since she has referred to him as his big brother inside the ring, so it had to be special for the two of them. And of course, it leads to Sami putting her over. Loving what this company has been doing lately. I can't wait to next week's show, from the teaser it looks like so much fun. The fact they are running an actual MILF angle with Trey's "mom" cracks me up. Glad IMPACT is keeping the sleaze aspect of pro-wrestling intact.

Well, Corny's making much more sense than I thought he would, even offering some reasonable kind of apology. And he's not wrong piling on NWA's management either on this case, as they should have edited the stuff before airing it. Now let's wait until next week when someone tags him with the IMPACT cosplay (I can say it because it's a legit one) show including Sami Callihan dressed as James E. Cornette so he can lose his mind again. Or maybe understand that he should not take things so seriously after all. Dunno...

Thanks. Legendary indeed !

Well, the whole "Uncle Tom" was neither here nor there. Maybe if he had called Lethal a sexual harasser it would have gotten more traction or sympathy, but it had nothing to do with the issue at hand. But yeah, anyway, I wish there would be a genuine MeToo moment in pro-wrestling where a bunch of women would collectively speak up against whoever, no matter how powerful they are, so things can get shaken up a bit. Probably won't happen. When a former Diva who had talked about being raped commits suicide and the collective reaction is apathy, it doesn't look too good.

Ooookay. That's pretty funny. Is that a young Kevin Nealon next to Sanders ? Nealon is legendary to me as a Weeds fan.

Between this and the Cornette case (about which he did a tremendous job explaining the whole thing, including how the MX were basically the Young Bucks to the older generation back then, how what Corny said is not defendable and was not either in other eras despite people not batting an eye then but also how something like Randy Orton using racial slur on Twitch totally got a pass for some reason), poor Meltz, having to deal with a sea of idiots.

The Johnny Candido episode was interesting. Tammy comes off like a horrible person though. I did enjoy the Raven one too since I'm a Raven fan. I wish the guy would make some cameos in IMPACT or AEW again. Gonna listen to the Terri Runnels one too, she's someone you don't hear that much abou (the shoot interview she did years ago was excellent). Sean really is still clearly not sure what he wants to do I think, but at least he seems to have some different guests at times.

Not really. Well, I'm a French teacher, so I'm used to it. [ø] is not an easy sound to pronounce for English speaking people. I kinda get a kick out of JR trying to say it and failing badly everytime. The way Jericho pronounced "celebration", with only the last part of the word sounding French, was quite funny. No idea where that idea comes from. I guess it makes him obnoxious.