Garlic Junior

Takahashi match was... weird. Bone Soldier punched his fucking head off for ever. Then there was just a bunch of weird reversals and Taka's hand injury never came into it at all. Strange.

EVIL + SANADA as a tag team: let's look as disparate as possible EVIL + SANADA as a feud: let's look identical Also... that fucking table spot smh

NEVER fight was good. Big strong men doing big strong things ?

Day 2 so far: For some reason I wasn't getting the Stardom dark matches, just replays hopefully find them somewhere afterwards Opener was Yano doing Yano things, yanno? Jr Tag match was ok, perfunctory with a meh ending.

Dude wants to kill his niece, okay. Another dude starts licking blood off the floor. Unhygienic, but okay. Vampires are turning people into mindless slaves. Alright. Guy gets shot up to shit, blood everywhere. Hell yeah. Then the bad guy vampire grabs a lady by her boobs. Uh.... Then he grabs her crotch. Then says he has to rape her just to make sure she turns into a mindless zombie. I.... do I keep watching this shit?

Read a theory that the post-match pin attempt wasn't concussion related or Ibushi selling exhaustion.... .... it was just that he's such an airhead he thought two belts meant he needed two pins xD

Have heard good and horrible things about Will and Bea, but hard not to respect this.

Was ready to say "fuck wrestling", but then Ibushi tried to pin Naito a second time and I couldn't help but love him again.

Naito flicking out of a head scissors into tranquillo pose. Naito sweeping the legs. Naito dragging Ibushi all over the place. .... he's gonna lose isn't he Ibushi with a better dropkick than Okada

Osperay vs Okada My stream cut out for a bit, what happened between them getting to the ring after the table spot and the rope break? Dispensing with the spoilers at this point. That Spanish Fly looked hot. Totally forgot to mention my favourite part of the tag match as well. There was a bit when they had grouped into three pairs, two outside one inside, and the cameras had no idea who to focus on and missed everything it was so amateurly endearing and chaotic. That Rainmaker looked STIFF. I believed it. Great match.

Yeah IC was always on a level with HW so it makes sense they would main event each day individually. I give it a pass because yknow COVID booking is hard. These last two matches should bang. I'm in full "plz Naito plz" mode now.

I don't think it's just that, the whole "split over 2 days" vibe just makes day 1 feel largely pointless anyway. Speaking of pointless - Tanahashi match felt lowkey "Cena wins lol". Meh. Cmon WK, pick up some steam.

KENTA match was good. The whole event has felt good-not-great so far. But like, wtf was with that Rocky Balboa monologue from the English commentary

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Match

Woke up just as Takahashi made his entrance. Perfect. Takahashi vs El Phantasmo

Regardless, I am hype! My days randomly got switched around so I have until the 7th to recover from getting up early for this (7am start I think UK time?)

Spread across 2 nights is also a bit of a shitshow imo. Takes away from the specialness of it to me.

"due to lockdowns and AEW, KENTA's now defended the challenge briefcase more times than Moxley's actually defended his title" Thanks for that. Hype for basically everything on Night 1 (I don't know O-Khan, sorry) but lowkey scared for Naito Night 2 less hype for, Stardom will be interesting (I keep meaning to get a month of their streaming service) and Shingo v Cobb might be good. Weird Sanada v EVIL is for basically nothing but pride.

Been watching the Sting: Into The Light DVD lately and I am HYPE for him in AEW now

The whole shebang plz k thnx. Someone on reddit used to put together a neat, professional looking programme but ain't seen them in a few years.

Merry Christmas all I had a bit of a weird one, but it did feature food, chocolate and booze so all good I guess. Giftsgotgot = lots of random Mets stuff (board games, face masks, headphones, etc); some books on film making; some large duffel bags to fit all my film making gear in (thank fuck - it's such a hassle digging it all out a cupboard bit by bit every time I go to film. Now I can spend a few days packing these bags properly, then it's just pick up & go in future!) Hope y'all had a blast

@Vic Boss what's my tl;dr on Wrestle Kingdom? Do we have a match card / general idea on feuds?

"It says 'Dude... why?' "

Turns out, Kylo Ren was Grogu all along.

Yeah wtf, it's either offensive or it isn't. Why wait a year?