Dav'oh

It really is a shame that he's so awful once the bell rings, and that he really needn't be. Also, even though it's a nothing-doing home-alone Tuesday lunchtime here, I still don't have room in my life for Jeff vs Seamus in 2021.

A top-hat and a change of mask and Papa Wyatt is born. When that invariably fizzles out, he'll be the Brayfather, pimping out circus freaks.

You can't kill David Arquette, but let's see if Bobby and Braun can kill the Miz.

Anyone else's internet been noticeably slower since people started working from home, kids began on-line schooling and every fucker started zoom-tokking, reducing "off-peak" to between roughly 4.15-4.30am?

Sasha's boots, hair-extensions, knee-pads and two-piece weigh more than her. She's wearing glitter on her face to try and be heavier. If Nia passed wind Sasha would go flying over the top rope.

America truly is a foreign country, even though I live in the unofficial 51st state. Everyone's pulling in a different direction. Wuertz as "white supremacist so embarrassed by his own skin colour he uses spray-on tan to make himself darker" falls under tragi-comic bizarro-land shit. You'd think he'd be avoiding direct sunlight with Seamus and Paige.

I might be in the cheap and uninformed seats ("might be" heh heh heh), but the guy second from right is doing the same sign as fuckwit Drake, no? In fact, they all appear to be doing the same gesture, with Drake and second-from-right-guy turning their hands to face the camera. Obviously, second-from-right-guy isn't a white supremacist, so what am I missing this time?

Babies generally have their chins tucked in anyway, so up until mum's water breaks they're fine. They do need a doctor or midwife to catch them on their tope de vida.

I think they just cooled Lee down because they're focused on other performers, stories and angles. We know they don't like anyone getting hot without their blessing, and for myriad reasons they don't want him hot at the moment. It's not to say they'll never heat him up, or that he's damaged goods. Maybe I'm being kind - maybe they did sabotage him, maybe Vince doesn't see anything there - but maybe it's just as simple as "it's not his time, yet".

Was it planned that way, or was he just that good? Were promoters looking after him purely as a favour to Baba, or would he have had such a record regardless? Jumbo is my biggest wrestling black-hole (Bockwinkel's probably second) so I'm really enjoying this. Watching his ouevre is something I've been procrastinating on for a while. Thanks for taking the time and effort to do this @KinchStalker, much appreciated.

Gargano gave up "organic" for "epic" a long time ago, and while his matches might be "pretty" for want of a better term, they feel so rehearsed I have to change how I watch in order to get something positive out of them i.e if I ignore this and just accept that and overlook the other, then yeah, he has great matches. NXT star ratings should go (and I'm using Regal because I don't know who produces or "agents" the matches): William Regal (represented by Johnny Gargano and KUSHIDA) : 3.75 asterisks William Regal (represented by MSK and GYV) : 4.25 snowflakes etc because NXT Takeover matches are so clearly laid out and rehearsed that maybe the wrong people get the credit. Like I said, it's on me to change how I watch, not for them to change how they wrestle, but I do like seeing two guys work it out as they go along. Earthy and organic, not homogenised and shiny. Edit: at the very least, "here to accept the award for Match of the Year, Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano and Shawn Michaels".

Cheers cobber. I couldn't work out if you were down the "Ho-yay" aspect of the act, or that they started in a "comedy" promotion. As to the latter, everyone has to start somewhere, at least they were wrestling, and they had plenty of non-comedy matches. Do you know the joke that ends with the punchline, "...but you fuck ONE goat..."? Well, in this case, it's, "...but you wrestle ONE nine-year old girl...and a blow-up doll...maybe a box, too". They weren't no-nonsense Hansen and Gordy types. They were reunited "lovers" and having fun. And they couldn't ignore their at-times comedic background. They got serious when they needed to, but laughter is a big part of love, too. As for ho-yay...I dunno. Yes, I had to look it up, but if the Golden Lovers were "homoeroticism - yay!", then pro-wrestling itself must be acknowledged as "ho-shhhh!" ("homoeroticism? - shhhhh!). I probably have more of an issue with the latter than I do with the former. I only followed the Lovers story from a distance and didn't see everything they did, but what I saw was more Cybil Shepherd-Bruce Willis will they / won't they (are they / aren't they, in this case), rather than ooooh, matron! But I probably didn't see as much of their work as you, so I'm happy to be wrong. I also can't look at it through the prism of Japanese culture, so there's probably lots that comes off one way to me, and another to its immediate audience. Basically, I'm defending ho-yay (or at least what I remember of Kenny and Kota's version of it, because I think it was a lot deeper than tee-hee-hee) and people having to start somewhere. I thought it was one of the better storylines in a long while.

From 411: "Fightful Select reports that the meeting took place within the company today with people on the corporate side, and many were told that they would not be getting promotions, raises, or bonuses.According to the report, those involved in the meeting were upset and left with low morale. The meeting did not involve the company’s talent/performers." Re: Roman. He mumbles on his promos. He might be a good promo, but he's not eloquent or clearly-spoken. He certainly doesn't enunciate. He's the "Head of the Table" through family violence. And if one of his elders (e.g Dwayne) says otherwise, he'll beat him up too! "Respect me as head of the family or I'll beat the shit out of you" doesn't sit well with me. Am I reading it wrong? I've never seen "Roman as domestic abuser" discussed anywhere.

Yep. And because it was Kota and Kenny telling their own story, in their own way, not them telling Gedo's or a creative team's story about the Golden Lovers. I'm not sure what you're going for there. Would their love be more valid if it originated in the WWE locker-room?

"More like Charlotte, less like Pete Dunne, damnit!"

apologies. Probably not the time to compare doctored PWI interviews to doctored Indian cricket pitches of the 80s and 90s, then....

I'm more used to "Twinkletoes" being used on someone like John Tenta or Kamala. Or even Titus O'Neil. It's always been used sarcastically. The irony is that Kenny really is twinkle-toed. It's a compliment. Corny is a gutless shit for hiding behind euphemisms and innuendo.

"Not-being-better-than-Flair" was the reason he never got a run as NWA champ, rather than race, going by what I've read. I don't recall him being a standout drug-user in the All-Star Recreational Drug Abusers XI that was the WWF locker-room in the mid-late eighties. I don't think he ever dangled Vince out of a window. I was sort of allowing for the entrenched racism when I wondered why his ceiling seemed relatively low. Even if his skin colour was working against him, I think he could've gone higher. How big was the pool of credible-against-Hogan black wrestlers back then? Reed and Kamala. Bad News Brown. Abby? Heel Atlas, heel JYD? PWI pimped Larry Cameron pretty hard.

The constant parade of new talents I'd only read about in the newsstand magazines (I wasn't tape-trading, or even "smart", yet) was one of my favourite things about the old WWF. I got excited for everyone from Harley Race to Ron Bass, Dory Funk to Superstar Graham v.3, but the one I most wanted to see do well was "the Natural". I was disappointed not by him but by his run and he seemed to disappear. Fortunately he had that run in Doom to remind people how good he was. The Meltzer thread here at PWO talks about him being a possible NWA champion, and of course legend has it he was in line for an I/C title run. Great talent, I'm not sure what held him back from being a bigger star than he was but now's probably not the time. Rest in Peace, Bruce.

Gabe Tuft (Tyler Reks) is now Gabbi Tuft. Good on her. Hopefully wrestling fans show their better side (I don't Twitter and only go to reddit for start times of NJPW shows, so I don't know what the reaction has been like).

I loathe Tama Tonga in-ring but he just turned babyface with that comment. Gallows would rather be Sex Ferguson than Bruiser Brody (yeah yeah, "well...can ya blame him?") and the Good Brothers would rather be the Bushwackers than the Road Warriors. Is my view from the cheapest of seats.

I don't think he's sacrosanct around here, but I still feel like a heretic when I say Karl Anderson isn't much chop no wrestling pun intended. I know he had a good G1 run some years ago, making the final, and I caught some of that, but most of his matches were "short" i.e 9-12 minutes (like most of the group stage matches). The next year they gave him even less time per match. Before all that, of course, he was secondary to Giant Bernard as champs of New Japan's traditionally-weak tag division but no-one here needs a history lesson, so... He's got a snazzy spinebuster and some good "Hot Asian wife" gags. But he's physically underwhelming, and whilst Gallows is to me just constantly taking the piss out of pro-wrestling, I get a similar feeling of "not taking it seriously" out of Anderson. Karl seems to be coasting on NJPW "smart-cred" since he signed with WWE five years ago. I love wrestlers who are enjoying themselves, of course - not a fan of Riddle per se, but I do appreciate that he's loving being out there - but there's a huge difference between Daniel Bryan's carefree attitude and Gallows and Anderson's care less (two words) attitude. As mentioned above, Rey Fenix saved that six-man match (from being the typical perfunctory Good Brothers match). And while the Magic Killer sucks eggs, it doesn't look like it could break one. Peace out / mic drop / I'm Kent Brockman / whatever the cool kids say these days.

It's the same with "ten million views" or "ten million followers". That leaves 7,784 million people who don't give a shit. The glass is almost completely empty but it's presented as overflowing... Also, "trending", "trending worldwide", "top-trending" or whathaveyou. It could be a million people tweeting "Who booked this crap?" or "Cane Vince's Balls", but there's never any context given - just the numbers.

I'll second this. He even did jobs as a "special attraction" in other feds. I couldn't imagine anyone else going to Jersey All-Pro just to lose to their champ, for example (maybe Terry Funk, who could probably be nominated as well, but I'm not clear if he counts as a "top guy" in this context).

Well, he worked me. But I like being worked when it comes to wrestling.