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It did rule. Was kinda short but it was for Dark so I wasn't expecting a 45 minute NJPW main event, but what was there was excellent.

Junior-berg is going to spear MVP isn't he?

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He's a top coach in NXT, which is on Vince's shit list right now.

So when they mentioned show was in San Antonio for a second I was like "odd, they usually bring HBK in for shows here, wonder why they didn't...." before it dawned on me why that wouldn't be happening this time.

I love how Randy Orton comes out to be mean to Riddle and say he doesn't want to team with him while wearing his RKBro hoodie.

Rampage drew 740,000 viewers, which seems pretty good for 10pm on a Friday night.

Funny thing is stuff like light tubes and barbed wire are relatively safe if done right.If you look at all the barbed wire matches from the 80s and 90s most of them just have the guys wrapping it around their hands/arms and usually there's just the normal forehead bleeding and sometimes like Dusty some bleeding on the upper arm to sell how sharp the barbs are. I'm sure the million tiny puncture wounds are no fun, but relatively speaking there's not usually any real major damage. Sabu slicing his arm was one of those Nick Gage "shit happens" moments that was compounded by Sabu being a crazy fuck who glued his arm shut and kept going. I also don't get why people get so personal in their dislike of Nick Gage either. It's fine if you don't like his style, but to think he's a moron just seems aggressively personal by all accounts. Dude obviously made mistakes in life and paid the price, and also by all accounts has turned his life around as well as one could expect since then. There's tons of stories on social media of people meeting Nick and saying he was a positive and inspirational guy. If you make a self-deprecating joke in his presence he's known for telling you to knock that shit off because you're a good person with value. He's clearly still rough around the edges as a person but the dude's put in work and it bugs me when I see people just dismiss him as the druggie who robbed a bank as if he hasn't done anything since then to try to make amends.

Andrade was salty that he said before the match it was going to be a "Five Star" match and then Dave pointed out (correctly IMO) that Kenny was out there trying to have a great match and he (Andrade) was just trying to have a good one. Comes off as he expected to get the free pass Ric and Charlotte get from Dave and was mad when that didn't happen. Also it's not like Dave has been the only one out there saying Andrade has been underwhelming post WWE....seems like that's been the consensus across the board.

Also LA Park is legit one of the best brawlers in the world and is very good at making things look like chaos while at the same time making sure no one gets (seriously) hurt.

Rey Escorpion interrupting the Porky tribute was some top level heeling.

Psycho coming out with his sister, if social media is to be believed (lol) that probably won't be the last family member we see.

Ric Flair putting Konnan in the figure four at TripleMania has to be a top 5 "2021 is wild" moment.

RIC FLAIR!

JFC Azul just saved Pagano's life on that dive.

FYI Sam Adonis is Corey Graves's brother if you didn't know.

Team AAA Defenders vs Team Legally Distinct From CMLL Invaders time!

That was a great match, Lucha Bros reign of awesome continues.

Tirantes and Faby have been feuding for years.....but yes that was protecting Faby and hopefully setting up a match in Impact.

NGD using their same names/masks is interesting because Sofia is the one stated to own those.

We need a forbidden door segment where Mr. Iguana runs into Luchasaurus.

Also Brian Cage is so awesome as Thanos he needs to find out some way to do that in AEW.

Tito Santana (not that one) entered the Copa Triplemania, keeping that joke alive for another year.

The Marvel match opened things off starting with Arachno (Vikingo as Spider Man) doing the HBK zip line entrance and it ended with LUCHA HULK (probably Murder Clown) doing a run in. Lucha is the best.

Bumping since the show is on tonight, 8pm Central time/9pm Eastern on thecubsfan's Twitch channel, unless you want to use a VPN to pretend to be in Mexico. Will Kenny have 2 amazing matches in 2 days?