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Hustle rules for its weirdness and randomness, but I don't know I'd say it was more cartoonish than Hulkamania era WWF. Chikara was extremely comic booky horseshit, but also not as cartoony as late 80s WWF. I'm not sure any genre or promotion is as cartoony than WWF from about 1987 to 1990 in terms of pure cartoon characters and storylines. Damn near everything in that period is about as close to live action cartoon as you could possibly get. Maybe even a bit before and after the dates.

President Trump to send in a video for Zhan Chena's retirement show

I still believe the Screwjob was half a work at least to the point that all the office, commentators, crew knew more or less what was going to go down. The shit JR says at the start of the show and before the match itself is smacking the audience in the face with a board telling them what's about to go down. Camera crew and production crew were in place to capture everything from every angle. I don't believe Bret was in on it (but he did suspect it as shown in WWS, but no way could he have not revealed that over the past 25+ years with the way he talks about everything), but I do believe all the McMahon inner circle, including Dunn and his crew, knew what was about to go down.

Very funny that Toni Storm doing her stuff in Mexico and Japan and online promos is a million times hotter than anything Mariah May is doing. I really think no one wanting to ask her a question at the press conference is not because no one there cared about women's wrestling, but because she has absolutely no heat or juice once separated from Toni.

No, because Terrifier 1 was trash, 2 was worse. Those movies are just the same trash as the peak of torture porn era of horror movies but with a more direct slasher bent. Just meanspirited SO OFFENSIVE shit that also feels like the director/writer guy has a genuine fetish for torturing women.

I made a comment about how hard it would be to make fans choose between Darby and Orange moving to the main title scene, but these dudes have never had a match against each other that wasn't a battle royal or multi man ladder match. Even outside of AEW there is a single match with them opposing each other and it was when Orange was still an Ant and also a big multi man match. Now that I'm thinking about it, Orange vs Darby in a main event match sounds great, something literally never been done before, a match that hasn't and can't be done anywhere else but AEW, a very intriguing mix of styles and characters. If all this stuff is ending up in a Darby/OC title match PPV main event :whoo:

Takeshita just blasting mfs has to be one of my favorite things in wrestling today. Interesting that they're signifying both Darby and Orange finally going to the top belt, because it seems like it would be difficult to satisfyingly elevate both to that level at the same time without making fans have to choose. Perhaps OC winning the CC makes more sense for now. CC could be even better than last year with the possible available talent: Okada Ospreay Fletcher Orange Hangman Swerve Cesaro Pac Brody Garcia MJF Adam Cole Rush Switchblade Maybe Black and/or Buddy? Juice Shibata KOR Jay Briscoe a returning Hobbs Richochet Roddy Stong Joey Samoey? Perhaps a Bobby Lashley? Get Double J in there, TK. Big Bill as a darkhorse in the Archer role perhaps.

Some WWE stuff got rec'd to me on Spotify looking for non wrestling related songs. One of the albums has the Mexicools theme and it got me to thinking...is there a more absurdly racist and offensive gimmick than the Mexicools? This was mid 00s, all three dudes were WELL established stars in the US. Their theme starts with lawn mower sounds, they rode to the ring on riding mowers while wearing jump suits. This shit feels more over the top absurdly racist horseshit than damn near any 70s/80s characters and gimmicks even with people playing the part of whatever ethnic group or nationality they didn't even belong to. I know it was said it was a satirical gimmick....but that shit was not a satirical gimmick.

I would genuinely love to see Bret/Goldberg team up to help Sami beat Gunther and bury the hatchet, but the saddest part of Bret's heat with Goldberg is that he very clearly concussed himself on the ring post figure four well before the kick, but he seems to not remember it. You know, on account of scrambling his brain before the kick.

Rock still carrying around his vanity title is hilarious

I guess maybe lol at this timeline where we might get The Rock in a War Games match in 2024

If War Games isn't Roman/Usos/Sami vs Bloodline Hollywood, waterwedune here

I didn't think the HIAC match was particularly good, either. Lot of real phony looking shit, especially with the wrenches. Drew was doing all the heavy lifting and the only thing to really get a reaction from me was the terrible looking bump on the steps Drew took for the Claymore miss on the steps. So stupid it's been a nearly year long angle over a fucking friendship bracelet complete with the blow off ending with a bag of beads instead of tacks or glass in a HIAC and it was treated completely seriously.

Can HHH do the impossible and have Bret and Goldberg unite to help Sami win the title?

That was the sloppiest match I've seen in ages. fucking lol that Cole and Graves multiple times couldn't even tell who was the one executing the move because it was so ugly and actually called it wrong multiple times because of it.

Not that I was particularly worried AEW was going to be gone anytime soon, but good to know the bag is secured for years to come.

Does that include the part of her saying Godzilla doesn't have her thighs, and Mothra doesn't have her flaps?

I don't think Okada has done any of that sleepwalking through 15-20 minutes of the match has happened in AEW at all because all of his singles matches have had 20 minute time limits due to CC rules. The only matches to go over 20 minutes have been in tags with the Bucks.

Lol at people finding out Bruce is the most pathetic jocksniffer to ever exist

Double also, Takeshita vs. Okada/Ospreay is going to rule. Triple also, gotta do more with Kyle Fletcher. Quad also, how fucking bad was Mark Davis' wrist injury that he's been out of action for over a year (also Bandito)?

Also, completely baffling how much Double J has absolutely fucking ruled in AEW in his late 50s when he was such an albatross of enjoyment from 1993-like 2015 with a handful of enjoyable periods, almost genuinely ironically when he was a babyface.

Always lol to see the late stage WCW comparisons when at that point, WCW had been absolute dogshit for years and in complete free fall viewership/tickets/quality programming when AEW over extending themselves booking venues bigger than they should a year in advance but putting on frequently great shows and nearly every PPV here specifically is effusive praise for how great AEW is. Also the memory holing of those weekly pics of Raw/SD where the entire hard cam side is empty for like....a decade straight.

Also Mariah May has absolutely zero juice outside of being associated with Toni Storm

Darby winning the big one but in the process retiring Bryan seems very unsatisfactory, but Mox beating Bryan and Darby beating Mox also isn't very satisfying. Will be interesting to see how it all turns out, but AEW has done great with long term angles for ages so I'm willing to see where it goes before getting down on it.

A 20 minute Jericho tv match in 2020 was enough to get me to tap out of Dynamite until they got crowds back, can't imagine that shit in 2024. Just seeing Jericho vs OC again in 2024 was enough to make me immediately tune out even if the rest of the card looked rad.