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Japan truly wild as fuck to have 80+ Dory Funk Jr. who has looked 80+ for 35 years and stage four cancer patient Osamu Nishimura in an exploding barbed wire death match in 2024, AND it was the longest match on the card.

Dbry is def on his I WILL NEVER RETIRE bullshit, there is a chance for Bryan vs Gunther for another decade to be a classic in AEW/WWE or random Euro indie.

My brain is mush, much like Bryan and Shibata.

Bryan can't retire yet. He needs to run matches with Jay White Takeshita Nigel Brody King Darby Shibata (brainstem on a pole match) Orange

All in '24 looks a lot stronger of a card on paper than '23

Sounds like the perfect Gedo set up to have ZSJ win the title, get off one defense, and drop it back to Naito at the Dome like nothing happened.

I like Shida's jumping knee is more Jumbo impact style than the V-Trigger type most do now

Speaking of Dump Teaser for ‘The Queen of Villains’ Gives a Peek at the Rise of Japan’s Most Frightening Heel - About Netflix how fucking random is this

One thing is for sure to me just seeing clips: Nu Bloodline would have absolutely zero juice pretty much anytime between 2010-2020 and benefit so immensely from being in a boom period where everything is over.

How much of Jumbo's Amarillo excursion made it to tape?

These past two years are some of the best work of Double J's career for sure. I think he might be the only wrestler to actually benefit from the Conrad podcast network because he seems like such a genuinely good dude. It's probably pretty fair to say Jeff Jarrett is the most important and influential non-McMahon in US wrestling between 2001-2019.

It's going to fucking rule

The team/stable started in Europe, particularly in WxW, which you may know was based in...Germany where "kampf" is not exclusively associated with Hitler. I'm pretty sure it started as a fashion brand like SPLX and absolutely did not have any Nazi undertones. This is really on some "all Germans are evil and Nazis by default" American media diet shit. Change the German to French and keep the presentation exactly the same and you might as well say he's a Napoleonic gimmick.

I think it is a bit extreme and unfair to say Gunther/Imperium leans into Nazi shit. His presentation is pretty standard snooty Euro in America, it just happens to be with German/Austrian instead of British or French. A German speaker using "kampf" shouldn't be seen as some Nazi dogwhistle. Kampf is used in pretty much all sports in Germany, particularly combat spots. Because that's like...the word for fight/battle/struggle/combat. Like is Gunther's presentation really that much different from Regal's when he was being taken seriously?

The newest version of the story just sounds like Britt is an absolute dickhead

Did lol at audio missing what Punk said before and after, only capturing him saying something about Seth's "Sabu pants".

MJF and Britt Baker are basically gender swapped versions of the same dickhead, makes sense to me they'd end up in conflict with each other.

Dave Meltzer reported the popular star, who just returned from a lengthy absence due to injuries and a medical issue, was either suspended “for either one or two weeks and fined by the company’s disciplinary committee.” It’s unknown when the suspension is up, but Baker was absent from this past Wednesday’s Dynamite. While the details are light, Meltzer said that something happened at the 250th episode of Dynamite on July 17th where Baker allegedly said something about MJF which Atout heard. She then told MJF who then confronted Baker about it. Ibou added the incident happened right after MJF’s match with Will Ospreay that opened the show with Fightful reporting that the Baker/MJF argument “resulted in MJF punching a wall before his hour long match.” Fightful’s report also stated Baker “exercised frustration” about MJF within the women’s locker room. The outlet also reported that they had heard there was a confrontation between Atout and Baker and that Ospreay even talked to Baker at one point. The conflict was apparently due to unresolved issues in the past and that, according to Fightful, the two former friends had a falling out at some point over the last year. AEW HR then launched an investigation in an effort to settle things quickly and talked to people on July 24th. Meltzer was unsure as to what Tony Khan’s involvement was as “everyone was attempting to keep this under wraps.”

What experience does Shane McMahon have in dealing with streaming services

Dynamite has fuckin rocked for months now. Really interesting because there was a long stretch where Collision was the way better show but now feels like an afterthought

Hell yes they're running Bryan vs Double J

Dbryne's seizure and paralyzed selling, which he's been doing since 2015, is easily the thing I dislike most about his work. 1. It is in poor taste 2. It also isn't believable because he's done it so often over the past 9 years, and it seems like he's leaned on that quite a bit more in AEW than he did in his second WWE run.

Maybe if the stuff with Vince hadn't happened and come out, there could be a shock and surprise of a McMahon in a different company, but post Vince crimes...

Shane The Man Shane McMoney McShane Tony yelling IT'S SHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEE Final Nitro: Shane McMahon buys WCW Final Dynamite: Shane McMahon buys AEW Poetry, rhymes, etc