We're gonna have to hear about "respect for the office" or some shit even from so called opposition figures while they start building statues in every major city
We're gonna have to hear about "respect for the office" or some shit even from so called opposition figures while they start building statues in every major city
I think if he were dead/on death's door they would actually be shouting it from the rooftops because they want a Kim Il-sung type reaction and I'm sure MAGA and most of the media will oblige
Kalen DeBoer is just the biggest fraud in the history of the sport is all
I've seen thhat speculated but I mean then they're even dumber for letting things go down the way they did
Just wait til Hiromu leaves lol
It can't have helped that he was in charge when they ran off their most popular wrestler
After all the talk, punked out by Gus Malzhan and a QB who couldn't cut it at Boston College or wherever in game one. No coming back from that. At least Dilfer pulled out a win.
Yes, I am saying Kalen DeBoer is worse when you consider expectations and resources, DeBoer's dismantling of what Saban built is almost Trumpian
Only thing I'm gonna say about college football this year is that I don't even think Trent Dilfer is the worst coach in the state, all things considered
or AOC, or Bernie, take your pick
Prtizker even having to be like "We may have had our disagreements, but..." is gonna be the cringiest thing ever
I'm firmly in the "Vance would be worse because he really believes in this shit" camp but Trump dying and becoming a martyr is also a pretty unappealing outcome tbh
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Remember Ann Selzer? *sigh*
Ok bots are starting to like my wrestling doomer posts, maybe time to step back a bit
Tanahashi, as president, allows Bad Luck Fale to be booked in title matches in the year of our lord 2025 🤼
For the record I've always figured he was going to follow Naito out the door as soon as that all went down 🤼
lol Hiromu is so leaving NJPW next If/when this happens we legit need a Benoit style referendum on whether Tana gets to stay in the Observer HOF 🤼
FD has been a cruel joke for a few years now but it was extra bad this year
I've been thinking this since the cage match was announced but I'm glad someone else said it 🤼
I mean nobody else from TMDK, not even boring ass Haste and Nichols? You had to book a #1 contender's match to end in a time limit draw?
You cannot tell me that Yuya and Despy vs. Roddy and Kyle would not be better than Cope and Christian. Or vs. Hech and Alexander or JetSpeed
I could book a card more worthy of the Forbidden Door name just pairing off these guys into tag team matches and replacing the stupid tag team threeway and the Cope/Christian match, but what do I know
I was told this was what was going to bring down Trump for sure this time, for realsies
The Constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on anymore, though
TJP and Michael Elgin hating him should be points in his favor tbh
(not gonna look up when it was because it probably is close to 20 years now, and yeesh)
Haven't really had time to fully process it until now but I'm really bummed about Brent Hinds. Obviously had his demons, but he was still an Alabama boy who made good doing something cool. His grandma was in attendance the one time I saw them in Birmingham, which seems like decades ago now.
Dude Gedo has been on everyone's shitlist for at least five years, but while we're at it I'm not sure why it's Gedo's fault that an Edge and Christian match in the year of our lord 2025 has to take up space that could have gone to literally anyone from NJPW on an allegedly co-branded show
I buried it because sending an announcer who last I looked has wrestled a grand total of once this year to wrestle for the top title is bullshit, even if it is a dream match. Imagine if the Fed did this with NOAH or AAA
The Hunt For Red October is very weird about this (the movie, dunno about the book)
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Hey, one for each match that has NJPW representation on a NJPW co-branded show
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Magical.
That RevPro card legit looks better to me than FD 🤼
would be with me at this point
Joint show where last I looked NJPW was represented in three (3) out of eight matches 🤼
Has anyone considered the ramifications of Tony and/or Rocky Romero putting out a political hit on a long time member of the NJPW roster right before a G1 final against an AEW guy and days before a "joint" show? 🤼
Why didn't I know Coliseum put out a new album last year?
Theoretically Nigel could face EVIL in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 🤼
If the Fed sent like, Wade Barrett to challenge for the GHC title, what would the reaction be?
I'm going to anyway! The fact that the best AEW could do for an IWGP title match is a semi-retired announcer in what will probably be a 10 minute match in the midcard really does show you where New Japan is in this partnership. And they seem to like it that way.
Can I be a Debbie Downer about this or nah
I've been on the outside looking in still holding out hope that they'll get it together but I just can't anymore. If they're content to be AEW's NXT then why should anyone care?
Well good, that will save me the trouble of having to watch
Is this in that new show?
They've broken me brothers. The human mind cannot fathom how over it all is 🤼
Someone made the joke that this would be the G1 final to set up HoT vs. Don Callis Family on the FD preshow and holy shit he might have been on to something
I said this somewhere else but the annoying thing to me is they're sacrificing their future for part time ringers from a company that doesn't respect them. And if they're content to be a developmental territory why should anyone care?
They book Joji Otani regularly too, so...
Even still I never would have fathomed putting Evil in the finals at this point
Not only does AEW see NJPW as a developmental territory but it's become very clear that NJPW themselves are okay with being that
I never understood why people get mad about looking at the ref during a nearfall. Like, it makes kayfabe sense that you would do that I would think
How long has this been happening? Because it started doing this to me probably close to a year ago and I just ended up switching to Chrome because of it (I'm sure Chrome has a lot wrong with it but I just don't want to spend five minutes waiting for a page to load like it's 1999)
Ok Hiromu is on there too. Still not getting the vibe this show should delivering tbh 🤼
Sorry, three, with Gabe Kidd. And we know what the endgame is there. 🤼
So am I to understand that thus far the only two NJPW contracted wrestlers on FD are Tanahashi and ZSJ? Meanwhile, Edge and Christian have a tag match? 🤼
Thought this said Sarah Silverman at first and got really confused
Shota Umino is winning the G1 btw 🤼
So we need to have a bloody civil war first, lose, and wait for the fascist in power to die? Cool.
I unironically think the biggest problem with Kross is he was simply born too late for the peak of shoot style wrestling. He'd probably have done well in Rings.
There is no groundswell of Killer Kross fans. This is all Sean Ross Sapp payola
Tana going out like Ted Williams with the Senators. Feels bad man (yes I know this is an archaic reference but I don't care) 🤼
It's clear that AEW only sees NJPW as their developmental territory (as they would Stardom if Tony cared about women's wrestling) but NJPW seems content to be reduced to that so all I can hope for is that they get paid well for it and not end up like AAA 🤼
Maybe he also wouldn't have just let his two biggest stars and only draws he had left up and walk. Man, what if 🤼
So now that it's almost over I can just admit that I completely failed to stay away from the discourse, because I'm pathetic. But speaking of discourse, man, it sure is a shame that Gedo doesn't have a boss that can replace him. 🤼
tbh I'm under no illusion that NJPW isn't a sinking ship nowadays, I just hope they get paid well
But apparently NJPW can't complain because Kojima won the GHC title or something, or is that no longer the argument
Remember when Scott Norton was IWGP Champion and a midcarder in WCW
In which he was on the losing team, btw. Looking at who he was teaming with I assume he ate the pin too but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong 🤼
For no reason at all I just remembered how in the build up to last year's Forbidden Door Jeff Cobb issued an open challenge to anyone in AEW for the TV title and no one responded and he just ended up working a tag match. 🤼
I know it's low on the list of why AI is bad but I find the non-word...symbols? it produces to be really unsettling and I'm not sure I can articulate why, it's almost Lovecraftian
literally Videodrome
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I've deleted any posts I made about WWE lately because no ethical consumption under capitalism, I get that. But the biggest WWE grifters, like the biggest MAGA grifters, are uniquely bad because even apart from liking shitty things, they are just genuinely bad people and should be treated as such
No, I'm not going to Google it
But seriously though, who the fuck is Jelly Roll
boxd.it/aAp6UD
The years grew wings and flew away
Not to take away from Taichi but isn't this kind of a problem
Sorry www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...
Might not want to look up what Kevin said about this situation then
They're putting up Wrestle-1 numbers for Tana's last G1 and the consensus best match of the tournament so far is between part time ringer Takeshita and 40+ Shingo Takagi
Did I just admit my age? You should be dying of secondhand embarrassment right now.
It just hit me that I don't think I have ever been to anything that constitutes a "party" in an adult sense. I will be 42 in a few days.
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Good idea to keep Gravity's Rainbow in the bathroom in case one needs to vomit while reading a particular section
I do hate that ZSJ is going to go down as a Justin Credible level territory killer of a champion when I don't think it's his fault 🤼
Dying promotion that will soon be another ROH, a block of pretaped matches before AEW tapings. 🤼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgIs...
Because I had to peak at what was going on over at the Bad Place: Tanahashi's front office tenure has just been one L after another to the point where Korakuen in his last G1 is going to look like the Honor Rising tours but no one seems to want to confront this obvious fact. Feels bad man 🤼
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I won a copy of the new Walter Murch book in a Letterboxd giveaway, apparently. I assume this means I was the only person who entered.
Had to add "New Japan" to this How as it come to this. Look what they took from me
She has never done anything wrong
Did Andy Borowitz die?
I'm not strong enough
