Floored by the revelation that the Briscoes' "Reach for the sky, boy" motto isn't because of some badass western or whatever, it's because Jay cried every time he watched Toy Story with his kids. "Reach for the Sky" is what Woody says when you pull his string.
Samoa Joe got fired, re-hired, wrestled one match where he won the NXT Title, vacated the title, disappeared, then got fired a few months later. All within like 8 months.
Just realized AEW now has CM Punk on their male roster with Omega, Mox, Darby, Kingston, Hangman, PAC, Lucha Bros, Miro, Young Bucks, Cody, Jericho, Christian, Andrade, MJF, Malakai, and a bunch of others. With Danielson likely coming soon.
Dude.
Harley Race would often invite wrestlers to his house for barbecues. One time Owen Hart pulled a rib where he spiked Harley's famous chili with three bottles of really intense hot sauce.
Harley Race responded at the following Raw by meeting Owen backstage and tasering him.
2018: Zack Sabre Jr. won the New Japan Cup and complained about the warm celebratory beers.
2022: Zack Sabre Jr. wins the New Japan Cup again and his beers are cold.
Long-term storytelling
RE: The Naito-WWE story. Naito actually met with WWE officials at his favorite cafe in Tokyo. Naito heard their offer, then excused himself to use the restroom. Except he didn't use the restroom, he actually slipped out the backdoor, leaving the WWE reps with the bill. ;)
Katsuyori Shibata: I am a no-nonsense fighter with black trunks and boots. I beat my opponents without mercy and expect none in return. I physically give everything I have, even at the cost of my own health.
Also Katsuyori Shibata: It's my dream to wrestle the Pockets Man.
Flash forward to a year from now, with AEW World Champion Konosuke Takeshita chowing down on Cinnabon at a post-PPV presser. "I'm healthy and I'm young and I'm energized and I work with some very lovely people."
Andrade had a match with Johnny Gargano at TakeOver Philly that was so great that people were discussing whether it was the greatest WWE match ever. And they still fucked it up with him.
Chuckling at WWE tweeting out that list of wrestlers losing in their hometowns, the same day AEW has Eddie Kingston, Homicide, Santana, & Ortiz all winning big in theirs.
"According to an anonymous Turkish source, the killing took about seven minutes and forensic specialist Salah Muhammed al-Tubaigy, who had brought along a bone saw, cut Khashoggi's body into pieces while Khashoggi was still alive."
Anyway, enjoy Doudrop vs. Zelina Vega!
Saw a suggestion for AEW to retroactively replace Sammy Guevara with Tomohiro Ishii in all of their past storylines. They should do it. Remember Ishii’s ladder match with Cody? Or when Matt Hardy crashed the golf cart into him? Or when Jericho started calling him the Spanish God?
Just unhook it. Unhook it. Unhook the briefcase. UNHOOK IT. JUST UNHOOK IT. HEY YOU STUPID BASTARD JUST UNHOOK IT. WHO CARES IF BROCK IS COMING IT TAKES YOU TWO SECONDS TO UNHOOK IT AND WIN. JUST UNHOOK THE GODDAMN THING. JUST UNH- *brain explodes*
"I talked to Vince, and he goes 'You have to cut off Kaze ni Nare in Cincinnati.' I can't do that, I can't. I described to Vince I'd just as soon blow my brains out, what you're asking me to do."
- Bret Hart on The Suzuki Incident
"My family knows what it's like for something to be cut off unexpectedly -- just as the federal government tried to cut off my father's unstoppable momentum in the 1990s"
- Stephanie McMahon on The Suzuki Incident.
People creaming their pants for Michael Cole namedropping Bullet Club and IWGP, meanwhile those same people going "WHO IS THIS?! THE CASUAL FAN IS CONFUSED!" when El Desperado shows up on Dynamite without a video package. Get real.
Big Cass saving a bloody JTG from a bunch of masked dudes in scrubs at 3:15 a.m. while Julius Smokes on commentary screams "Hell yeah, it's WrestleMania Weekend! Who dick you suckin' now boooy?" Also, Smokes likely thinks Cass is Test, who is dead. I am not making any of this up.
Didn't realize it until later, but PAC taking the knees right to his face instead of the mid-section makes the finish even better. Not just a fluke roll-up, but a critical strike to an established injury.
If you wanna know why Moxley is living his absolute best life, he's got planned matches with Yuji Nagata and Nick Gage, outside of his main AEW gig. The guy is getting to wrestle the people he wants to wrestle, which would never have happened if he stayed in WWE.