WeeAl

So Andrade is done with the company, yet on the way out the door they give him a win over Bryan Danielson and he goes toe to toe with Miro and is given an out for losing, with the interference from CJ Perry? Odd. 

8 minutes ago, WeeAl said:

Double Post wanker

4 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Fucking hell, how did I forget this.

 

Glad to see some sense going on in here. 

44 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Anchorman

This always gets a lot of love with people but encapsulates almost everything I can't stand about Will Ferrell. He's less funny than Adam Sandler and that's saying something. 

Anyway; 

Smoky & the Bandit

Kelly's Heroes

6 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

But not on the fighter’s shorts though. Definitely not there. Gone are the days of fighter’s getting sponsorship money from such fine establishments as ‘CONDOM DEPOT’. 

That's a very good point. Maybe every wrestler will now have to wear a version of white with black trim or black with white trim. 

As well as that, Raw might see itself expanded to six hours. 

6 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Haven't watched UFC in ages. Is there anything decent production wise that WWE might benefit from?

Only that every single show must look exactly the same. There's an absolute shit tonne of sponsorship stuff that'll be all over the place too. On the ramp, on the mat, the barricades etc. 

The production team going forward might possibly feature a lot of cross over staff from the UFC. Sorry. "Synergies". Both could evolve from how they are done now, to end up being produced fairly similarly to each other in the by the end of the teething period. 

• 20-man Battle Royal for a future AEW TNT Championship match (Zero Hour pre-show match) - Don't know, doesn't matter. A heel, to challenge the new baby face champion. . . 
• Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale (Zero Hour pre-show match) I won't see it as I don't watch the zero hour portions, but guessing Willow. 
• Hook (c) vs. Wheeler Yuta – FTW Championship match (Zero Hour pre-show match) Hook is bound to win this, but again as above, It'll not be something I'll be searching out. 
• Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston – Championship Final of the AEW Continental Classic for the inaugural AEW Triple Crown Championship. It's Eddie's big night. The one we thought it might have been around the first Grand Slam show. The atmosphere will be there all the way for this one. 
• Julia Hart (c) vs. Abadon – AEW TBS Championship match
• “Timeless” Toni Storm (c) vs. Riho – AEW Women’s World Championship match. Like the Julia Hart match, it's too soon to be moving the belts away from either. 
• Chris Jericho, Darby Allin, Sammy Guevara and Sting vs. The Don Callis Family (Takeshita and Powerhouse Hobbs), Big Bill and Ricky Starks. It's a shame Sting is on the same side as the rest of those bellends. Sting is going over, the rest are just trying to ride his surfboard. We know he's unlikely to face any punishments, but it'd be nice if Jericho wasn't immediately rewarded in the wake of what has come to light. If it weren't for Sting on one side of the equation here, this should be a clear win for the heels. 
• Christian Cage (c) vs. Adam Copeland – No Disqualification match for the AEW TNT Championship. It's a shame it's coming already, but I'd expect that's it for Christian's run with the gold. It's usually a hot potato belt though, so he may have it back after the rubber match. 
• Keith Lee vs. Swerve Strickland This is a penalty kick. A necessary match, and win, for Swerve on the way to the big time. 
• Miro vs. Andrade El Idolo. I wouldn't to it, but I think Miro goes over here. He's been a bust. Andrade, when around and used, has shown that he has something worth investing in. Miro meanwhile, as good as he can be, I think the majority of his problems are his own. I get the feeling he's difficult to work with, more than most, and increasingly that the terrible storylines with his wife, in both promotions, are all his idea. Let Miro out of his contract and make a deal with Andrade that you'll get behind him with something solid every week with purpose, for three months. If at that point either party are unhappy? Call it quits. 
• Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli and Bryan Danielson), Mark Briscoe and Daniel Garcia vs. Brody King, Jay White, Jay Lethal and Rush. A win for the heels? Faces? Tweeners? One of my biggest irks these days with AEW is this shades of grey shite. Brian Danielson is a heel. He's seemed like a prick almost his entire AEW run, aside from maybe the MJF program. I'm not on with this flip flopping every other match. This should be a wild, exciting spectacle - but the roles here should really be Rush/Andrade/Briscoe/Garcia v BCC/Brodie King/Jay White - with Lethal and Miro on the pre show in that 'loser leaves AEW' match that people were talking about. Ending in a double count out. 
• MJF (c) vs. Samoa Joe – AEW World Championship match. If there's any justice in the world, we get: The end of this Devil nonsense, another tasty match between these two, MJF can take some time off to heal and Joe gets a short run with the belt - before it goes to Swerve then Ospreay. There's time for Joe to hold it until Revolution. MJF can return at Revolution to chase off Adam Cole, who might be in the process of cashing in his big, golden, polystyrene donut against Copeland for the TNT belt. 

7 hours ago, wandshogun09 said:

Well well well…

A large part of me wishes it could be Mike Perry, in BKFC. Let the pair of those mutants tear each others faces half off before Perry gets the W at the end. The rest of the world would all be winners. 

56 minutes ago, mrtrickio said:

Card subject to change... It's now Takeshita in place of Kyle Fletcher

It's odd because when it was first announced I thought Takeshita shouldn't be the odd man out, but then figured Fletcher is the one that will be taking the fall. 

55 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Swerve deserves better.

He does, but at least this puts a bow on something that should have been wrapped long ago. He'll win and then (hopefully) be moved right into the title picture come Wednesday. 

Not on board at all with some of the talk in this thread here. The Scooby Doo slander has taken things way too far. 

Triple Threat matches are stupid and should have been put right back in the box and returned to sender many moons ago. Air Raid mentioned earlier about the one fall Triple Threat being a vehicle of appeasement and that's really all it is good for.

It's understandable booking a story where a multi person match, with elimination's, makes sense. (This month for example, would have been fine and dandy. Joe, Wardlow, Roderick Strong etc chasing MJF. Only way he escapes with the belt is to beat them all, but they all get in each others way). 

However If you don't want someone taking the fall so you then book a multi person match? It's a copout, and a failure of booking to paint yourself into that type of a corner. 

The ones I got right were Edwards, Zhang, Volkanovski and Makhachev. Considering who some of the champions now are, I'm amazed to have gotten even as many as that 😅

Two voices that could sing the phone book to me, Linda Ronstadt and Sam Cooke. Other worldly. 

Linda Ronstadt

&

Sam Cooke

Bugger me, where do you start. His filmography is banger after fucking banger from beginning to present day. Rain Man and Risky Business are another two I love. Then you have the fun Days of Thunder, the first Top Gun. It's all good stuff. On any given day I could pick a different movie for different reasons. Maybe today I'll go Collateral, to show how good a baddie he can be. Or Top Gun: Maverick which proves Tom just bloody  knows how to do a sequel. 

Cruise is going to be the last true Hollywood A Lister when it's all over. Wait to you see his version of being Paul Newman in the 3rd entry of The Hustler/Colour of Money series in about ten years. He'll be magic. 

As you guys say, Bella probably/probably  should get the next shot, with Shavkat's injury. I think that's a good matchup for Leon and would expect him to win. Shavkat meanwhile, I think I might make him the slight favourite against Edwards. That fight will do nicely later in 2024. It feels like it would be an anticipated fight with an outcome very much up in the air. 

I think the only reason for dragging it out this long is that it is supposed to be Adam Cole. If it turns out not to be him, I'd imagine it's a case of doing a U-turn based on Cole's health status.

Jack Perry seems to get a lot of play as a possibility. Tony would be an absolute gobshite if Perry is the reveal under the hood - and I've been a bigger cheerleader for Jungle Boy than most. His heel turn was a mistake in both idea and execution though. The only way it could have been salvaged is if he immediately realigned himself with Christian. As a heel, Perry hasn't got the chops to carry this off after the reveal without it dying a death. 

Has to be Cole. Get to the reveal quick though. With four henchmen, he doesn't need to be healthy - use them as the roadblocks for MJF until you can get to the eventual showdown. 

There's probably tonnes, but then even if the push fell flat, they might have gotten a huge contract out of it. Or it worked out down the line somehow. 

I would say Miro and Alistair Black are two recent ones, in that they haven't went on to have a run much better, if at all better, than what they left. Some bright spots, but overall I'd hardly call it a success either. Even then, they'll have come out with a big deal from AEW and will do great financially when the call comes from WWE again. 

Sid leaving WWF in 1997 might be one. While he goes on eventually to get another top push in Atlanta, and probably would have got another short term monster of the month type return run in the WWF for Austin or Rock or something, maybe the leg break doesn't happen if he's not in that exact moment in time. 

Snap @Loki beat me to it while I waffled about Sid. 

Edwards winning popped up on one of those Google suggestions things when I opened a new tab. At that point I decided I wasn't paying another £20 for this show so checked up the rest of the results. 

From what I can gather from a quick glance, Josh Emmet killed Bryce Mitchell stone dead. Shavkat is still the next big thing. Mad Tony is as shot as we knew while Paddy continues to try to limbo under the already low bar we have set for him. I've no idea about Pantoja/Royval other than Pantoja winning a UD, didn't see much mention of that one. The main event sounded like a stinker, but all is right in the world that Colby's layoff did him exactly zero favours and Leon outclassed him while taking very few risks. That about right? 

13 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

One of the five acceptable musicals ever made.

There are five?

2 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

Not going to lie, I had to search for what TERF meant. 

As did I. Every day is a school day and all that. 

On 12/14/2023 at 8:14 AM, LaGoosh said:

That Golden Jets segment will go down as one of the worst in Dynamite history. Everyone was absolutely awful, they knew it was awful, the fans knew it was awful. Rotten in every way possible. It made me actively not want to see their World's End match.

A barrell of shite it was. Ten minutes that felt longer than that Revenant film that's still going on. 

3 hours ago, David said:

Famous last words!

Here's hoping! 😅🤞

Yeah I'm not seeing a finish either way in that main event. It's not either man's thing. Leon finished Usman to win the title because he and his corner absolutely knew they couldn't win a decision. He had to knock Kamaru out. Plus, in Dana White's UFC, Leon was never going to get another shot of he didn't win that night. 

We know more about this current version of Edwards than we do about Colby. I'm expecting a close, competitive fight. The difference being I think Leon has levelled up in the past couple of years, and I don't imagine the same to be true for Colby. I'd expect Covington to be game, in shape and to try and force his usual game on Edwards. However I think Edwards can deal with him on the feet and land the cleaner, better strikes. 

An interesting stat I heard earlier - outside of the two wins Edwards has over Usman - neither of these two have any wins over any fighter currently ranked in the t rest of the Welterweight division. Speaks to a few things really - the turnover, the reduced activity of many fighters at higher levels, re-match city etc. 

I'm predicting Pantoja will stop Royval inside three. Neither of these two know what the off switch is. They are both going to go for the kill, but Pantoja is just better and has more ways to win I think. Should be great fun. 

Shavkat is just all kinds of wrong for Wonderboy. If I had to order a Wonderman Kryptonite, I'm almost certain I'd have Albert from Hermes phoning to ask me how the fuck I expect him to get the big cunt with the hat, into the back of his Berlingo. 

I gave up on the main event after the second round. Lifeless. 

I tuned in for Rountree. Have to go out of my way to catch his fights. When he's 'on' it's must watch stuff - the sheer violence he can conjure up often make his fights edge of the seat stuff. The possibility of that fight with Pereira if it all works out down the line, that gives the tingly feels. I'm going to guess we don't get there, but still here's hoping. Anthony Smith just totally short circuited at the end there. 

Really glad Tim Elliott got the win and his post fight interview was one of those rare cases when a fighter comes off as genuine, normal and like somebody worth cheering for, without it feeling deliberate or like a show. I hope he gets a few more interesting but potentially winnable fights coming his way next, rather than just the next killer 26 year old contender. A little streak first would be nice. 

The iron turtle unfortunately didn't get it done. Strange fight though. He certainly gave up a lot of control time to Muniz, but did more with his opportunities when he had them than Muniz did. 

Going to be entirely honest here. I wouldn't watch Pennington Vs Silva if it was going on in the middle of my kitchen while I waited on the kettle boiling.

A dreadful division as far as interesting fighters or exciting pairings go. 

Evloev Vs Allen is about the only fight on the card I'm particularly interested in. That's a fight containing young contenders in an important, flagship division. Even the main event - it's intriguing in that I struggle to see how it'll fare out, but the day I look forward to seeing Sean Strickland do anything will be the day I ask to join Nicholson and Chief's gang and just eat all the pills and count the hairs on my arm. 

Let's hope it turns out to be better than it looks on paper. Plus, unlike this next show, it's not going to cost us any extra money to find out. 

Ah that's a great fight. Shaping up to be quite a card too by the looks of it. I hadn't realised Volk Vs Topuria was no longer headed for the January show.