Dav'oh

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

YOSHI-HASHI busting out the tope con hilo to kick off the G1. Yes, it was a YOSHI-HASHI level tope con hilo, but points for not dying.

Oh....I thought MJF was trying to suck Cole into trusting him before inevitably braining him with a dreidel.

It's like they take us for granted. "You've accepted the conceit of pro-wrestling, so you'll accept anything within that conceit." And, fortunately for the wrestlers, unfortunately for us, some people do accept a guy bouncing from the top to the middle ropes four times to do a fucking armdrag (Holy shit!!! You've made your opponent do a forward roll!) For some wrestlers it's easier to get ten pops a match than to build a match that climaxes in a huge pop because the latter is beyond them. And finally, back in my day () i.e the 1880s 1980s, Claudio kills Komander dead dead dead dead. So does White. Swerve toys with and murderlizes Little Nicky Wayne. Bring back my day!

Further, AEW's New List of Moves & Actions That Require Pre-Approval "Spots and bumps on the ring apron and outside Table/ladder/chair spots in and out of the ring (Only allowed with padding) Any elevated spots outside of the barricades (dives and ladder spots on stage, around the arena, and other places outside of the ring) All piledriver/tombstone variations, including: sit down drivers, inverted/poison hurricarana and vertebreakers High-risk dives or top rope moves (450, 630, double moonsaults, SSP, etc.) Intentional bleeding (of any sort, not just blading) Throwing people into/through/over ring steps, commentary table, bell table, or guardrails/barricades Weapon usage: Chairs, pipes, kendo sticks, hammers, ring bells, bats, chains, etc. Title belts, thumbtacks, skewers, barbed wire, and other sharp/puncturing objects o Powders, aerosol sprays, or liquids Throwing any weapons or objects- chairs, etc. Choking/strangling with hands or a weapon or hanging spots Injury spots or angles, whether or not medical is involved/called to the ring Any physicality in the crowd or crowd brawling Any physicality involving referees, managers, extras, celebrities, or special guests"

I think you answered your own question. "Child prodigies" rarely fare well against mature, experienced competitors in any field. 18 year-old world champions exist in...BMX? Snowboarding? Sonic the fucking Hedgehog? We've seen Nick Wayne a thousand times before, and usually better. Even if no-one admits it. I'm led to believe it's condescending to call him "Flippy Guy du Jour #612", so I'll go with: there's a Nick Wayne in every packet; there's not a Jay White in every packet.

AI is humourless, colourless and lacks personality, like (insert least favourite wrestler here). And I don't know if you can teach AI that stuff, or get it to use non-formulaic syntax and grammar, or to use the vernacular (really, every eighth word should be "fuck" or similar).

Wasn't there the story of Strongbow in Japan, where he started doing his tomahawk schtick, got chopped for real, then the sound of a slamming door, squealing tyres, and an airplane taking off?

Speaking of D-Lo Brown, which we weren't, Gunther's opponents should take to wearing chest protectors.

And now I want Bronson Reed vs Otis.

"I feel you all in the ring with me, and I know the ring is a dangerous place, so thank-you." Yes Cody, they risk concussion and torn rotator cuffs going "ooooh" on a 2.5 count.

Well, he's giving the audience verbal hand-jobs, so that might be a factor.

I'm a 49 year-old middle-class white Australian male. Can I play? I like Boom Box Brock and the rap stylings of Randy Savage. That shit be def, yo. Peace out.

I admire but don't envy the good brothers here who can watch three hours of RAW, week-in, week-out.

I'm thinking of WWWF MSG one-shots, like Verne Gagne vs Nikolai Volkoff.

I was at the MCG (nosebleeds) for the WWE a couple of years ago. The most I got out of it was, as brother @sek69 suggests, was "I was there" for the Undertaker's entrance, which I'd never experienced, and, really, still haven't. Couldn't see a thumbnail-sized Undertaker through the smoke. MCG is bigger than Wembley but nosebleed is nosebleed. You'll watch on the screens, be excluded from chants and the wrestlers won't play to you. But it's historic. If you've got no urgent use for the 54 quid, you may as well.

Not a fan of wrestlers sitting in a make-up chair for an hour before backstage interviews (hi, Cody!). No-one's gnarled and scarred and rugged and weather-beaten and brutalised by life anymore. Fucking Cody - 37 years old and not a scratch on him?

Maybe he takes vegan Somas and tofu Oxy.

$US 1.2 million at the gate, in the top three (I assume, third) pro-wrestling live gates in Canadian history. Also, per Fightful, Punk was on the complete opposite side of the arena to Kenny and The Bucks.

I feel like that match didn't rise to a climax or crescendo.

That epileptic seizure was poorly judged.

We're heading for Venus!

Picking Omega over Will, and Okada over D-Bry.

"The white elephant in the room". Don't ever stop mixing metaphors, Taz.

Loving this four-way. Big smiles.