Vic Boss

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Definitely. AEW's energy can't be beat right now

AEW Card - AEW World Champion Chris Jericho vs Darby Allin/Philadelphia Street Fight - AEW Women's Champion Riho vs Dr. Britt Baker - SCU vs Best Friends/AEW Tag Title Tourney Quarterfinals - Jurassic Express vs Lucha Bros/AEW Tag Title Tourney Quarterfinals - Kenny Omega and Hangman Page vs PAC and Jon Moxley NXT's Card - Tommaso Ciampa vs Angel Garza - Pete Dunne vs Damian Priest - Keith Lee vs Dijakovic - Tegan Nox returns Also AEW Dark had Kenny Omega vs Joey Janela in an unsanctioned match and NWA Powerrr's pretty good too :lurk:

"The ballseye" "The garden of good and evil" I fucking love Mauro ?

NJPW bought Stardom. Sounds like they're covering their last base for when NXT Japan starts up

Only the crippling pull of gravity and my self-inflicted love of sedentary activities tag-teaming my too-tall frame into slowly slouching myself to death

Welp, I'm a maximum level liar, been playing Smash Bros Ultimate most of the week, collecting spirits (have over 500 now) as Marth. Had my alignment get changed on me again just before a major boss in SMT Strange Journey and now I'm not as into it. Probably gonna pick up Luigi's Mansion or Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen instead.

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There is no way WWE and NJPW would be able to co-exist. WWE's trying to kill all other wrestling and NJPW is what the average Japanese person thinks of when the word "wrestling" comes up in Japan. I do recall that WWE and Dragon Gate were talking to each other. Tozawa, Apollo and Ricochet were Dragon Gate guys. Dragon Gate's lost a number of their top stars because of management issues. You need a Japanese partner to break into Japan. Only thing that wouldn't make sense is that Dragon Gate is the exact opposite of WWE wrestling, it's small fast guys.

Fourth of the Seven times that NJPW has held the tournament. First two J-Cups are considered some of the best one-night shows of all time. They held one a few years ago to crown Kushida as the Junior Ace and had a decent Japanese-and-other-company mix to make it seem more legitimate. This time it's mostly the NJPW/CMLL/RoH conglomerate and some indie fill-ins. If I were to guess, final four are Ospreay vs Eagles and Dragon Lee vs Caristico, with Ospreay beating Dragon Lee in the finals... maybe. Caristico is the monkey-wrench in all this because OG Mistico/OG Sin Cara is the biggest star by far of all of these guys but also both the guy who least needs the win and the audience who is the least likely to see him as the big star he is. Fantasmo could also make the final four as there's a story rivalry between him and Eagles now and because Fantasmo is a proto-Ospreay in the making. I also think Ospreay was slid into Hiromu's original spot before he got hurt too, the story between that spot and Dragon Lee makes more sense if it's Hiromu.

Dynamite was awesome.

IIRC, that ref has been reffing Ring of Honor for a decade or so, unless we're ignoring everyone else's kayfabe, which is tricky because everyone else's kayfabe is why most people on the roster are considered stars in the first place

Did you get a bugged No Mercy cart or the fixed one?

Format = they'd have a Raw vs Smackdown match, and the winner got to select first for the round. Each round Consisted of 2 SDL picks and 3 Raw picks (Because Raw has a third hour, so they need a larger roster). Instead of doing what sports would do, picking the best players first, they instead seemed to save a number of higher tier stars so that most rounds would have someone interesting get picked. So you had a situation like Seth Rollins, despite being the Universal Champion and one of the top stars in the company, basically getting picked almost 30th overall because they had to save some big-time picks for Raw, which means people like Nattie, the Viking Raiders and Heavy Machinery got picked ahead of him on Smackdown.

Well like, what happened with Kenny in the six-man-tag now makes so sense. If it's a real sport, you adjust tactics based on what you're allowed to do, and AEW just allowed a non-legal wrestler in a tag match to be attacked and knocked out of the match without penalty, or even an explanation for why the referee was using his discretion to allow it to continue. So now, in every tag match, you should be able to get one of your friends to drag away the non-legal man and beat the shit out of him and then gang up on the legal man, and if they disqualify you, you can sue them or complain using the previous ruling as a precedent.

I don't think anyone in WWE management actually watches sports. Generally, you draft the best players first and then the so-so's and then after them the scrubs.

>tfw you beat a Legendary Spirit with 1 HP remaining YOSHHHHHH (Baby Bowser) 102/124 Challenges (just have a few Classic Mode Challenges left and then it's Online Challenges), 1069/1343 Spirits (don't know if that counts DLC or not, haven't gotten it yet), and beaten Classic Mode with 13 Fighters

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Dig the graphics and production values on SDL

Mostly as Marth, Ganondorf or Bowser to finish off World of Light stuff or challenges I do plan on beating a single player Smash Mode with each character once just to see if anyone feels better (and to pop spirits)

Pretty much agree with all of that. They're not explaining "referee's discretion" very well. Like that kind of stuff happens on the outside of the ring in Japanese wrestling, but there's a cultural reason for it (a directive to make sure every match has wins and losses after the UWFi got hot promoting that and New Japan and All Japan had to follow suit). I feel like Kenny's sacrificing the western women to get over the Japanese, especially Riho (though apparently the teenage audience jumped when she came on, so maybe they know what they're doing). But yeah, Impact's got the best booked women's division outside of Joshi and WWE's got most of the best women's talent, it's a real weakness in AEW.

Popping Spirits (I think I'm 10 or 20 off of 700) and doing Challenges is extremely addicting (64 of 124) and satisfying in Smash . 100%ed World of Light, primarily concentrating on non-online and non-spirit challenges first, then gonna alternate online and single player Smash mode for spirits Fanservice in the game is absolutely insane too. Lost my shit when I played as Simon Belmont for the first time and all his moves are exactly his ability set from the side-scrolling games, down to that arc-ing axe

I was familiar with the beat from when Pusha T massacred Drake with it, but never heard the actual song until randomly hitting it up last week (and god damn that music video )

HERE WE GO NXT Card (Copied From SI.com) AEW Card (Also copied from SI.com) Jim Cornette is moving his podcast to Fridays (recording Thursdays) for the next month, pledging to watching both shows (though probably not NXT's network hour) and then commenting/ranting on them. He might continue doing more afterwards but it depends on if there's a real contest and if he likes anything.

I thought Dark was a mess. Cima/Darby was good, 8 Man tag had a bad flow, women's match was meh, six-man tag had Marko Stunt being treated like a wrestler instead of a mascot in it