The BlackBear

Can't come soon enough.

Titus Worldwide could have been a good heel midcard stable.

I have lost all interest in Roode. I want them to give Gable a push, the kid is electric. Also Eric Young is out of Sanity now. Damo's put out a tweet saying he'll miss Wolfe too, so Sanity might be done for good.

... The Viking Experience...

Grab a big ol pinch of salt guys: Dean Ambrose rumoured to have handed in his notice. https://www.pwtorch.com/site/2019/01/29/dean-ambrose-leaving-wwe-shortly-after-wrestlemania-when-his-contract-expires-in-april/ IIRC it was Austin himself who demanded Austin 3:16 become a shirt. And given Trips was originally planned to win that KotR (before the Curtain Call,) one could say WWF/E stumbled on to Austin as well.

Huh, it was fairly by the numbers but all things considered I had a good time watching that. In the UK so was up until 5 and massively surprising to me I didn't feel it dragged. I liked both Rumbles and felt they had enough interplay between the individual storylines, sure there were oddities: Hornswaggle, Nia. But yes they were lacking a few big surprise entrants. I even liked Brock and Rondas matches, which I wasn't expecting to, you can really tell when Brock gives a shit about his opponent. Bryan and Styles were in a damn difficult position, and sadly they couldn't make it work, but I am kind of intrigued by him having allies. Maybe something like the Cruiserweight fourway should have gone here to just amp everyone up again. I mean... was it ever not going to? But speaking of which Halftime Heat looks good, also WWE shooting hard on Maroon 5 12/14 for the weekend, (I thought Rusev would retain and picked McIntyre to win the MRR, didn't get the weird tag match because I didn't know that was happening.)

Pretty good show, didn't really feel Ohno / Riddle, and I'm still not sold on Belair. Got all my predictions right too, so that's fun. I'd actually have rated the Ciampa match over the Gargano one, the latter was certainly flashier, but I preferred the story telling between Ciampa and Black. I think we're heading towards a split in Undisputed Era. And just a minor peeve, but Dream should have had man on one arm and a woman on the other, two women? Yawn. Looking forward to the Rumble tonight, hopefully the NXT graduates will do well.

I don't say trust him, but taking in to account the extremely changeable mind of Vince, outside of the writers room he usually seems to have a relatively good idea what the plans are. You just need to remember he's a journalist, and sensationalist news sells. Having said that: Ronda apparently is looking to have a family, so may be done with WWE after Wrestlemania, which would be pretty crazy, she's only been around a year. I wouldn't hate it if true, I'm not a fan of these big dominant champions coming in and just never losing.

Well I think Meltzer said he was going to get one back in December 'at least for a little while,' but he also said there were no plans to put him over Brock. Whether that means he was getting pushed just so he could be fed to Brock, or will continue to be near the top of the card after the probable loss, I don't know. I am a cautiously optimistic about the match, as Brock has still shown that when he respects his opponent (AJ) he can still have a pretty decent match, I don't want a lazy finisher, finisher, finisher, pin, match.

Another week another excellent Almas Andrade / Mysterio match. The Rumble's usually one of my favourite PPV's so, really looking forward to this weekend. Albeit 9/10ths of that excitement is Smackdown. Hopefully all the NXT guys (used in the gender neutral sense) get to make a big splash. It's beyond unlikely that Finn beats Lesnar, but just imagine if he does. #MakeAndradeCienAlmasAgain

They definitely got better as they became more established, but even so they've always eclipsed their corresponding main roster show.

Do you watch Take-Overs? Because that's where the really good matches are.

I looked it up because I saw so many people raving about it. It was great by TV standards, and pretty good by a PPV standard. However why the fuck do they have to shorten everyone's name? God forbid he have surnames. What is so difficult about Cien-Almas?

So The Revival appear to be angling to leave. I can't imagine if they want a release they're likely to get it anytime soon. They sat on PAC seemingly out of spite, and that was before AEW was a going concern.

Long history of no nonsense dicks being faces, it's just that in the current crop of WWE guys they're rare. Most of the time someone gets over being a badass then when they turn, they start being boring and generic.

I watched it, haven't been watching the weekly stuff, but it didn't suffer for lack of context. I'm a little disappointed they took the title off Rhea Ripley so soon, she looks like a stone cold killer, and the other belts are all held by Faces. It'd have been nice for them to have a bit of an establishing reign first. That said Toni Storm is the woman to take it off her, and with her recent troubles online, it's a nice show of faith by the company. Annoyed me them pronouncing Walter with a W, it's Valter damnit! And it's Coffey btw. Weakest thing for me was the commentary, I don't know how much experience the other guy has (not Nigel) but I didn't feel much energy or insight coming off him.

NJPW don't seem keen either, Omega saying he needs to be away from it for a while. Rumours the Bucks were being very closely watched backstage at WK and the night after.

Couple of things: RIP Mean Gene. The Hogan things was more tasteful than I feared, but still would have preferred someone else: So... this All Elite Wrestling thing looks pretty major, right? Jericho, PAC! Billy Gunn as producer. Be interesting to see what level it can operate at. Apparently Jericho has already been cut out of the WWE intro. Haven't been watching too much of the TV product but Smackdown was pretty good right? Bryan's heel gimmick is gold, and R-Truth got taken seriously! Almas got the pin on Rey Mysterio. Rusev is finally a babyface. The tag teams there are all fantastic. I even like the Miz/Shane thing, they took one of the worst decisions ever, and made it work. And we're getting Asuka/Lynch at the Rumble?

Penny Arcade have a series called First 15, they're generally hilarious. Here are my three favourites: Duck Dynasty Cabela's African Adventure Mirror's Edge

It's working now.

I hadn't even noticed, but given how weak it was, you're better off getting google to search the site for you anyway.

Just checked and I can't do that either.

I am unable to access anything under the Activity tab. I get: Sorry, there is a problem The page you are trying to access is not available for your account. Error code: 2S100/2 I tried signing out and back in, same problem. I can still browse, but can't use anything like 'unread content.'

I think the theory is quoted spoiler tags don't work.