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crowd looks pretty decent, announcers are saying 30,000 ish and that looks about right just eyeballing it.

TV Asashi vs the Sasha stans gonna be the most violent match of the night

Lio Rush got hardway'd taking a face first bump on the rampway and he's half Muta at this point.

first big announcement: an Antonio Inoki movie is being produced!

Final Four in the Ranbo to fight for the KOPW 2023 provisional title: Shingo Takagi Sho Great O'Kahn Toro Yano

EVIL was the first one eliminated, Gedo reads PWO confirmed

pre show kicking off now, about to have the RANBO

less than an hour away from WK, here's the lineup: Antonio Inoki Memorial Match: Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, and Togi Makabe vs Tatsumi Fujinami, Minoru Suzuki, and Tiger Mask IWGP Jr. Tag title match: TJP and Francesco Akira (c) vs Lio Rush and Yoh IWGP Women's title match: KAIRI (c) vs Tam Nakano (this is where everyone expects the Artist Formerly Known as Sasha Banks to appear) IWGP tag title match: FTR (c) vs Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi NJPW TV title tournament final: Zack Sabre Jr vs Ren Narita NEVER Openweight title match: Karl Anderson (c) vs Tama Tonga Keiji Muto Final NJPW Match: Keiji Muto, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Shota Umino vs Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, and Bushi 4 way for the IWGP Jr title: Taiji Ishimori (c) vs El Desperado vs Hiromu Takahashi vs Master Wato IWGP US title match: WIll Ospreay (c) vs Kenny Omega IWGP World title match: Jay White (c) vs Kazuchika Okada

Yeah, he's hardly donating money to millionaires. Every one I've seen was someone undergoing hard times and/or illness.

I dig how NXT's women's division is shaping up. They have a good mix of established names and newbies getting close to "getting it" that there's a ton of potentially fun matchups.

Wrestling has always been built on spots/moves from the past, it's just that so much footage is available nowadays it's much more obvious than it used to be. Hell, some of the greats lifted their entire acts from others. Ric Flair got over the hump from being a Mid-Atlantic midcarder to world champ by basically lifting Buddy Rogers' whole deal. Both Hogan and Dusty borrowed liberally from Superstar Billy Graham, and every territory in the 80s had a Rock n Roll Express knockoff.

Watching Melo vs Apollo and I'm reminded of how when discussing Dragon Lee's NXT deal he mentioned that Apollo is the highest paid person in NXT right now even still. Assuming he was kept at the same money his main roster deal, it really shines a light on how little folks must be getting paid there.

Funny how she had no issues with doing borderline racist/definitely tasteless angles in AAA but this is a bride too far for her.

To be fair, he has donated a lot to not only this but other fundraisers. Dude may have shit politics but he does have a heart.

I suppose we should be happy WWE is getting behind a young guy, but man I don't get what they see in Theory. IMO his peak was being Gargano's dumb jock son, and him in the main event is some square peg/round hole shit.

Yeah the NFL was going to just have them warm up for five minutes and restart the game until the coaches basically just went "fuck that".

I forgot they mentioned that Hardy dude earlier and thought Kid Rock really let himself go.

(mentioning this because if/when there's a sudden drop in the ratings for Raw this week, you can tell the usual suspects to fuck right off)

Not to be Debbie Downer, but a Buffalo Bills player collapsed during Monday Night Football and they are performing CPR on the field.

Bloodline be like FUCK YOUR SHOW

Bianca vs Alexa tonight, so I guess we'll finally get the transition to Fiend Alexa again.

Don's enthusiasm was so infectious he was able to get Sam the Eagle-ass Mike Tenay to mark out on several occasions, that's probably his biggest accomplishment.

Is it really that difficult to believe that folks are underwhelmed at Bryan vs Nese? He's the prototypical Good Hand, he'll give you a good match but he's got zero connection with the fans. Maybe hoping Bryan would be on WK was a pipe dream, but folks were sure as hell expecting something better for his Seattle debut than Mr. 205 Live Abs Guy.

Well Bryan has stated he wants to go to Japan, but only when crowds can cheer again....and WK is going to (mostly) allow cheering again so that was another thing leading people to assume things.

I have a feeling Nese is going to get taken out or something is going to happen, I just can't imagine even unselfish Bryan wants to have his first Seattle AEW match against Tony Nese.