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It's pronounced scone or scone depending on what you like.

Even though they deliberately put “scon or scone” I still read it as “scon or scon”.

Apex pish and a quiet weekend of boxing ahead so it's all about Knucklemania: Decent card on paper. BKFC turning into the WWE for me where I lost interest throughout the year but jump back in for the big one.

I think most of the influential matches would be in aew. When I used to watch wwe is didn't really understand the dynamics of wrestling and how it really worked. I think the young bucks v page and omega was my favourite aew match up until osprey v Danielson the other day. Since them I have become a big fan of tag team wrestling. I think recently I learned what makes a match food but also the subjective nature of wrestling. I saw the triple h v undertaker match from wrestlemania and I didn't like it. Its generally considered a very good match. But I personally didn't like it. Its not that I'm wrong or anyone is wrong Its just personal taste. If you like that kind of style you probably would really like it. One match that is influential for me was arcade anarchy a few years ago. I think had that match had a better story behind it and had it been with some bigger names it would have been more highly regarded. So it shows how important the story behind wrestling is

I'm not sure what's more annoying, how badly that scans, or "make it do" instead of "make do".

Happy St George's Day!

Fun fact for title reign nerds - this is the 5th run for Lynch with "the other one" - that being the title introduced as the SmackDown Womens title in 2016, which she was the first holder of. As opposed to the one where the lineage can be traced back to Moolah and which prior to Ripley's dominant reign coinciding with Io's forgettable one, was undoubtedly THE title. Becky technically held that one only twice so far, and one of those was the disappointing "let's just swap belts" where her and Charlotte both got drafted (which at least allowed her to lose THE title to Belair at a Mania). The only time Becky actually won THE title in the ring... was on last at Mania 35. Quality over quantity there, really.

This. Becky is a safe pair of hands to stick the belt on for a bit as no-one else is ready and they can spend a couple of months building a credible future champion, be it a Liv Morgan or whoever. Had an Alexa Bliss or a Charlotte been ready to come back I wonder if they would have gone for a surprise winner last night, but working with what they have and a division that feels a tiny but thin and stale (something they can address with the draft). It's the most logical bet rather than hotshotting someone into a role they're not ready for and setting them up for failure.

The Babadook. Been meaning to watch this for ages and finally got round to it. Enjoyed it overall. Some bits made me feel genuinely uneasy, there's a real creepiness and the mum slowly losing it is unsettling but then at times it's a bit daft. I can forgive the cheapness of some of effects because what they achieved on what looks to be a low budget is impressive, it's just the fact that they used a noise from the awesome Resident Evil 1 intro multiple times (3:30 on this video. Then stay for the voiceover lad saying BARRY BURTON) took me out of the moment.

People finding and sharing her details online was always going to happen, but it's still a dick move. As was writing it in such a way that she could be identified this quickly. It's a shame because it's such a good piece of work, but that's just not on.

The only other acceptable winner of that battle royal would have been Chelsea Green winning after cheating her way back into the ring.

How yer man acted all that out after going through it the first time i’ll never know.

👋 I can. Excluding matches mates had on when I was round their house but not actually watching, the first match I actively watched was Koko B Ware vs The Model from WrestleMania VI. It's not on my list for "shaped" but it was the first.

My wife took one bite of an Extra Flamin' Hot Wotsit Crunchy and it blew her head off, leaving me with a free run at the whole bag. I loved them, better than the Doritos ones.

Out of interest did people on the forum hate jericho before the allegations were made? I wasn't on it then. I would hate to loose hook to wwe. I don't know if he'd really fit into wwe either. He'd need a manager or something with him in wwe. Where as in aew it works fine.

Amazingly, the Meltz has been Tweeting about this very topic as recently as February ; I can see both sides. The WWF weren't even one year into their 5 year contract for Raw with TNN, I doubt their brass would have been thrilled with a total rebrand of the show they'd paid big bucks to lure away from USA. It also would have been a huge gamble for the WWF, if ratings for "the flagship" had dropped because their viewers didn't want Booker T, they wanted Steve Austin. That said... Prichard has pointed out that more homes having access to UPN than TNN at the time made it appealing to make SmackDown the flagship show. There's a logic there I suppose, but I can't help the feeling that at the crunch they'd have wussed out regardless of Tacoma shitting on Booker vs Buff.

I thought the Dustin v Joe match was actually pretty good. Although I didn't like the end. Joe should have won clean. Don't entirely get the point in why they did it, I guess it's because cody was challenging for the world title but it seemed a bit odd.

My tolerance for heat has been way down since Covid, but those extra flamin' hot Wotsits almost did me in. Couldn't get through the whole packet, and I'm going to assume they were a contributing factor in my guts being a right state later than evening.

The former.

alexisonfire Is it Alexis On Fire, or Alex Is On Fire? Both shit.

I think that in the history books probably the best thing AEW will be remembered for is that it's a place where top guys can finish off their careers with one last hurrah, showing total creative freedom and a wide range of opponents from all over the world. Sting, Danielson, Christian and now Copeland who seems to be on the cusp of putting out some really special stuff. I'd like this to be a usual thing, guys winding down their careers in the most fun way possible in AEW.

Were you watching at the time? Specifically between SummerSlam and Evolution? This reads as though you weren't. Even the night in question when she strode out alone to stare down Team Raw she looked like the big fucking deal. That her covered in blood up in the stands became an iconic image absolutely does not detract from the fact she was the hottest star in the company already. Big fan of her winning the belt in a battle royal rather than literally any other piece of booking they could have done. Nobody had to do a TV pinfall job, and the next champion who gets elevated will do so by beating The Man, rather than winning a vacant title because they couldn't beat Rhea Ripley and only injury could. Good stuff. Realistically, Becky losing it to Morgan so she's primed for Rhea's revenge is probably the way they'll go, and I have no problem with that.

Becky just became switch the channel for me. Maybe I can never trust someone who wants to be around Seth Rollins that much

Toni's go-home promo on Collision, which they played snippets of during the hype package for her vs. Rosa, was the best thing she's ever done - "you might be a fighter, but I'm a star". The best distillation of the Timeless character into actually building to a match, rather than just goofiness and gimmicks for their own sake. You don't get that if she's not champion, and there's no one in AEW as it currently stands who would be doing a better job as champion; I've seen criticisms that her matches can be over-reliant on schtick and gimmickry and interference, but that's been true of women's matches in AEW for a while, with or without Toni Storm involved. Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay was fantastic, and still might not be the best Bryan Danielson match I've seen this month. What a run he's on. Over Wrestlemania weekend, while Bryan was in CMLL to face Blue Panther, there were idiots on Twitter talking about how he probably wished he were still with WWE and wrestling real big names, as if he's not having the run of his life, wrestling all his dream matches. Imagine what a "Daniel Bryan's final year as a full-time wrestler" story would look like in WWE compared to what he's been allowed to do in AEW. Probably whatever the 2024 equivalent is of wrestling Baron Corbin in your retirement match. And there's still the prospect of a match with Nigel McGuinness, he's still not had a triumphant return to Ring of Honor, and he's still not had my personal AEW dream match against Jeff Jarrett.

All I can think about whenever I see him: