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The new Babish videos are really good and such an improvement over that period when he was trying to copy Mr. Beast.

Triple H isn't even a kayfabe character on the show anymore and he puts himself front and center on the poster for Wrestlemania. At least Vince was the actual top heel in the company.

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A great match. Not necessarily one that's going to blow you away in terms of twists and turns but one that will blow you away in terms of execution. If you can find guys who do a faster counter spot into a GTS, I'd love to see it.
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Miu could have stopped developing after the match with Yamashita in 2022 and still would have become PoP champion. She was already over with her strength and her personality. But instead she lived in the dojo and developed sick looking mat work.

Miu Watanabe has been a really interesting wrestler to watch for the last year and a half. In every match now, she's doing new transitions and new spots. Her matches with Shoko have been completely different to almost anything else going on in wrestling.

Yeah, and that was what made the whole 'Rock is ruining WWE booking' thing so irritating to me. Triple H takes credit for every single signing, every angle, every twist and turn. But suddenly when the booking goes wrong it's not his fault? Come on.

ZSJ Vs Takeshita was as good as I thought it was going to be. It's ZSJ and Takeshita. Treasure them now because there aren't another two guys like them walking through that door.

Yuya Uemura is one of the coolest and most unique guys to come out of the NJPW system in years. There's so much potential there.

There are a couple of spots per match where he tries to be Naito and he's just not built for that intricate stuff. The crowd likes it when he strikes and shows power.

It's a shame that the middle portion of the Kidd/Tsuji feud was cold while the beginning and end were good. I still think Tsuji is only 95% certain of who he is, despite being by far the most successful of the post-2020 pushes.

I'm still very much on the Gabe Kidd train even though he's cooled down from his hot start in Jan/Feb (which I don't blame on him btw). It left a big impression on me the last time I was in York Hall when he was the only guy to get actual heat, in front of fans who mostly wanted to clap and chant.

Wrestling, and especially puro, could really do with a couple of insanely stiff, lunatic jocks like him right now.

I've watched a lot of wrestler back catalogues in preparation for GWE and the biggest revelation so far is how great Takashi Sugiura is. I always knew he was good but for whatever reason, I never had him figured into my list of favourites until now.

I don't know what to say about Cena Vs. AJ. It was like a match two Chikara lads would have had in the middle of King of Trios years ago. Breaking out finishers from the 80s as a bit, with the commentators deadpanning. Except it was a real marquee match on a real a WWE PPV. Absolutely baffled.

The lows are worse than wrestling but the highs are amazing.

I genuinely recommend picking a real sport and getting into it so you can enjoy moments like the Seattle Mariners making the league championship for the first time in 24 years.

He'd be headlining TNA.

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And what a match it was too. I hope Stardom continues to underestimate just how many tickets Saya can move.

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For some reason I decided to binge The Sopranos, a show I have seen several times. Whenever I watch S1, I always mourn its casualties like Brendan Filone, Mikey Palmice and Vin Makazian. They were whacked out too early. The guy who played Makazian was nom'd for an Emmy and he's only in 5 episodes.

This is sort of like the equivalent of AEW streaming Page Vs. Fletcher on YouTube. It's The Present versus The Very Near Future. World title vs Undercard title.

Ah this is really cool. A show headlined by one of the biggest matches Stardom can book right now being streamed for free.

It is and it's why I, to an extent, defend the crazy long PPV runtimes, even though I don't necessarily love them myself. It's a way of delivering both quality and quantity, in an era when quantity is a thing consumers have been conditioned to expect.

She won't win it but she should be a strong WON Wrestler of the Year contender

Didn't notice until you pointed it out, my brain filled in the 'makes'.

It was surreal for me to see Mistico do the bloody ripped mask thing as he is the guy, more than anyone else, who I associate with modern 'clean' CMLL.

I have no idea what possessed me to do it but I watched a bit of John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, and God it's a misfire on several levels. Rock music score is one of those things that never really worked and is very dated today. Also the 'Big Daddy Mars' character is comical looking and sounding.

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I know 'keep it simple' is probably the most oft-repeated philosophical line about wrestling, but I'll be damned if it isn't correct. Year after year we see it proven right but major league professional wrestling never loses its insistence on overthinking things.

Is there a single good argument in favour of increasing the complexity of pro wrestling to incorporate complicated drama and worked/shoot elements? Mistico vs MJF was as elemental as it gets: USA vs Mexico, Outsider vs Hometown Hero, and it was the hottest match of the year and drew a ton of money.

It baffles me how someone like Max, who as demonstrated last night in CMLL has a generational grasp on crowd psychology, can have so many bad ideas and can regularly succumb to such hacky shit. Why isn't he like this most of the time?