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A podcast I listen to calls it “Cody Island” and it’s pretty much the worst place you can be. I personally enjoyed this Black match, mostly due to the Arn schtick portion. Don’t have much interest in anything Cody-related at the moment and feel he gets lost in the shuffle on a roster getting steady infusions of far more talented wrestlers, but he has hooked me before when he’s had a meatier storyline. The problem is that I *think* this was also supposed to be one of those and, if so, it missed the mark.

That was a great night of wrestling TV.

I mean, they did sign him back in the day for a reason.

Will HOOK be in action?

This is pretty close to how I see it shaking out, though I was thinking Page is a surprise return at Full Gear. I definitely think a lot of people are going to buy that show, either way.

I forgot Flip Gordon existed.

My first reaction was that it was just a convenient way to take the belt off of Joe ASAP.

Speaking of their YouTube channel, the algorithm threw one from their channel at me the other day called "The Story of Jurassic Express" and it was perfectly made.

To me the peak was the Philly Takeover. NOLA was the residue from that and everything since has been pretty steady decline.

The latter part of that is definitely part of what makes me want to watch. I'm a fan of squash matches but watching two straight hours of them isn't all that exciting but throwing some stories into these shows should work wonders.

Very excited to see Stallion Rogers and Anthony Greene popped up on the Dark tapings today, as well as Allie Katch. I'm going to have to make more of a point to check those shows out.

Thought this interview with the recently-released Jake Atlas with Denise Salcedo was good:

I’m working through the 15 hour episode of the Lapsed Fan about 9/11 & the events surrounding that Smackdown now. I’m sure the levels of bullshit in the WWE “documentary” will be off the charts.

UFC just runs too many shows but the numbered events are still typically a fairly big deal and worth watching. They’re kind of similar to WWE in that their main purpose seems to be to create hours of programming for their TV partners.

To me, I think the main idea of putting her on this show was likely to feature her real life story, regardless of storyline stuff.

Sending 'em home happy.

I agree but Spears is one guy in the company I have literal zero interest in ever seeing on my TV.

Just brutal.

Really not great. When Tully started talking on Dynamite, I figured we were getting Darby/Stinger vs FTR and I was hyped and then he started talking about having a singles match with Sting LOL.

That was a fun match. Even better if they write Chavo off.

Bumping for the business tonight.

On the anniversary of Zelina's dad dying in the WTC.

I saw a pic of Brock and have to say it made me want to watch the show.

Is this going all the way to Mania? How would they *not* screw it up?

I liked a lot of his stuff in PWG but there's very little Reseda-era PWG I don't have rose colored glasses for.