Dav'oh

I was doing a quiz and came across the word "Polari", which I was unfamiliar with, so I looked it up and found: "Polari is a form of slang or cant used in Britain by some actors, circus and fairground showmen, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals, sex workers and, particularly, the gay subculture." It seems to have (largely) died off by the 1970s, but was it ever actually the UK version of kayfabe?

I listened to Cornette for the first time in a while. After referring to Takeshita as "Take a shit" several times - as condescending and dehumanising an epithet as you'll find - he then said "I really like the guy". It's like he can't help himself. Puerility and low-hanging scatology for the sake of it.

Clearly, we live for this shit, so thank-you Phil. Long may you be a shitcunt. (And really, he's just displaying all the personal characteristics that made him so popular in the first place...)

Aaaah, the monitors have cables running from them. I get it now - they're like kites.

You were Kathy Bates, Danielson was James Caan. I'm still loving the Incredible, Gravity-Defying, Flying Monitors, meself. It's literally the only thing I give four-fifths of a fuck about in this entire brouhaha. No assault charges, either.

Where do people stand on the "Where's the art in hitting people full-force in a worked sport?" viewpoint? I stand with Bret. WALTER matches are just homo-erotic violence porn. People are getting off on the pain - me, included. BMMSM, 'n all.

"Why are there monitors eight feet in the air at gorilla? They're usually on a table" doesn't get asked much. There's intrigue and controversy surrounding the home-town hero a week before a PPV? Heavens to Betsy. Punk's turning up in Chicago. So are the punters.

Great show full of shitful punches and whiffed strikes. There also definitely seemed to be an edict of "This is a stadium show. Wrestle a stadium match", which was thankfully and fruitfully adhered to. And who better than Punk to show them how it's done? Undoubtedly great chemistry with him and Joe, something of a shame that the largely casual (from what I gather) audience didn't respond to certain things (or people). The six-man was unmemorable. I'm writing this from memory and a match listing. FTR/Bucks rarely does it for me. Perectly good stuff, I guess. One-dimensional! That's the word I'm looking for! When you lean so heavily into your gimmick and the gimmick is bog-simple, you become one-dimensional. Two largely one-dimensional acts together don't make a second dimension. Or quantum something something, something. The Stampede was a Stampede that...ticked boxes? I'd suggest they don't put their weakest puncher in their most violent brawl he said eyeing Chuck with contempt. Terry Funk's rolling on his slab. Tell me Saraya isn't cosplaying a wrestler. Go on. Like she really really wants to be a wrestler, and maybe she used to be one...check her out repeatedly, blatantly getting into position for the next spot. Out with ye, foul demon, as I once heard a man exclaim in a public toilet in Munich. I think we cut Sting a lot of slack. He probably deserves it. Let's enjoy Darby's spine while we/he still can. It was 4.30-5.00am by this point of the live show and my dog had been giving me filthy looks since 1.30 so I watched the rest later. No complaints about Jericho/Will. Slab Terry would applaud Chris's ability to stay relevant for the last 138 or whatever years. I think I thought during the trios match that it didn't know what it wanted to be. Might have been another match but I think it was this one. I'm the high voter on Buddy but he rarely gets to show what he can do. The wrestling-themed sitcom "Better Than You, Bay-Bay" continues to roll enjoyably on and cracks me so consistently up.

For all you omen gamblers, "Three marines killed in US military aircraft crash off northern Australia coast during training exercise. The Osprey aircraft crashed in the Northern Territory’s Tiwi Islands on Sunday morning." Jericho's paying $4.50 for each dollar placed... My dog's called Monty, so I'm all aboard Daddy Ass (ahem).

I know the Presidency doesn't do managers, but get Joe Biden a mouthpiece, pronto. Poor cunt sounds like he's having a constant series of strokes.

Just off the top of my head, under Florida Statute 784.021, the crime of aggravated assault is defined as an intentional and unlawful threat against another person with a deadly weapon, or while in the commission of a felony, which creates a reasonable fear that violence or harm is imminent.

Tony's a nebbish, god bless him. He's more Woody Allen (minus the, you know) than Pol Pot. He'd struggle to stamp his authoritah on his own dog. I got angry, once. At a person. They just laughed. I suspect Tony knows the feeling. I even tried being an arsehole for a few weeks but people weren't buying it.

It's probably not the best example, as the footage doesn't really show the size or scale, but there's just enough there to comment on. This also makes the sport look smaller - its grandest prize being fought over in a small ring in what looks to be some podunk armory. MSG or bust! (Half-joking.) (Central States may as well have been Central Jupiter for us antipodeans; just no access to footage.) (I did spend about ten years of my life on Jupiter, but Central States had folded by then.) I saw Kyle Fletcher vs Robbie Eagles a couple of months back in a tiny ring. Had everything to make it the best match I'd seen live, but they were so clearly hamstrung by the limited room that it was merely "very good". I love your passion and your knowledge and I appreciate you taking the time to clue-in the clueless (me).

I'm sure the Elite feel a sense of proprietorship - the House That Superkick Spamming Built, or some such - and aren't amenable to a blowhard blow-in turning their personal fiefdom into his own personal fiefdom.

Aaaah, I see the round breaks as the equivalent of ad breaks, and ad breaks during matches are the bane of television wrestling. I forgot to mention earlier that I find your reasoning to be sound, concerning both the round system and the ring size. But it's the aesthetics of the smaller rings, not the logic, that I struggle with.

When a promotion does the "because fuck you, that's why" like this, are PWO brothers inclined to use perfectly illegal means to watch the shows, "because fuck you in return, that's why"?

It's their baby; Tony K's just the sugardaddy.

Its not often I get mentioned in the despatches, and I certainly wasn't expecting one here, but thank-you, brother @MLB! If I shift my four o'clock bongs to four-thirty and bring my three o'clock bongs forward to say, two-thirty, that would clear up a couple of hours a day. However. I have no idea what is going on. Normally, that's par for the course and it's great, but I've haven't armchair-booked since I made a poster for a WWF vs NWA Supercard in 1987 (I think Savage fought Koloff. Or Sting). Does "game" mean there's points to be had? I do stick my beak in on occasion and enjoy what I read, but I think all I'm good for is already being done - the Apter-style recaps of what's going down. Any "Australasian scene" would have been in its infancy back then, and my only knowledge of the territories came from the aforementioned Apter. I'm happy to join in if there's peripheral roles, or as a special, nay, executive consultant.

The round system actively works against this, bringing everything to a complete standstill every three minutes. I'm here to watch wrestling - what am I supposed to do between rounds? Scratch my arse? Plan to take over the world? It doesn't flow - it spurts. The tiny rings make the sport itself look tiny.

Is Mitrovic pulling an MJF or a Cody?

Just getting back to the Hammer and the Beefer, has there ever been a bigger difference in talent between two partners? Eadie (as Ax) and Crush? I see Putski and Santana listed above (I'm not aboard the recent Putski reappraisal train).

Hard-as-fuck Greg Valentine and a Chippendale called Brutus.

Notes from Eddie vs Shingo Who knew Kingston was bilingual? Well, if you count grunting as a language. Loved the vocals early on. Love seeing two guys who enjoy being tolchoked as much as these two. Eddie needs a new finisher; it's like he grabbed one from the petrol station on the way to the match. And a good time was had by all!

They're really onto something with Yota Tsuji.

The Great OK(han) taking 99% of the match vs Okada is fine because I do find Okada's offence to be...wanting.