The IWGP Heavyweight/World Title history at Forbidden Door: 2022: Jay White(c) vs. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page vs. Adam Cole 2023: SANADA(c) vs. "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry 2024: Jon Moxley(c) vs. Tetsuya Naito (Naito wins the title back) 2025: Zack Sabre Jr.(c) vs. Nigel McGuinness

Wasn't this for Main Event? And if/when something like this happened on Dark wouldn't the usual passel of bad faith grifters talk about how stupid it was to do such a dangerous thing for such a small audience? I mean, do your thing regardless of audience so long as you can do it safely, but still.

So we've got Julia Hart vs. Persephone and Hikaru Shida vs Zayda Steel. That still leaves Kris Statlander, Mina Shirakawa, Harley Cameron, and Queen Aminata who already announced, plus four names yet to be announced. Give me Trish, give me Athena...not sure who else. #AEW

Everything is so fucking stupid.

In honor of the latest Punk discourse, and just for the hell of it, let's take a look at the lineal Real World Championship. Punk announced it on Collision in AEW on July 29, 2023, and was not beaten for it. So who has it now? It turns out the answer is somehow more hilarious than I thought (cont.)

Just added to my presidential platform: chemical castration to anyone who comments “who?” on a match announcement graphic. You’re an idiot, you’re not clever, and I don’t trust natural selection alone to remove your ability to pass on your substandard intellect.

Sorry, folks, I don't have it in me to get worked up that AEW gave a top star from their partner promotion every opportunity to heal up so she can be represented in an important tournament, she couldn't get cleared, and they gave the opportunity to a woman who just lost her brother instead.

On one hand, I LOVE this and the match is going to fucking rule. On the other hand, I feel like this is doing major damage to my “Shane Taylor for ROH World Champion” agenda.

AEW themselves never promoted Iroha. It came entirely from an interview with Chono, and who knows if AEW even approved it. Plus with the dogshit CBP situation in this country, who knows if they’d even be allowed in anyway. Sad for Sareee and Iroha, good for Maya, take the chance and show out.

The ads have written themselves with everything this bloated moron has said in the last decade. It still hasn't stopped our wildly incompetent Democratic party from stepping on their own dicks like it was their job.

Awesome interview with Caprice Coleman talking to AR Fox after winning the ROH World TV Title. Fox finally getting his flowers is a great story that I'm happy that #ROH is telling. Also, while recent history hasn't been as kind, 6 of the first 8 ROH TV Champions would go on to hold the World Title.

Guys...Adora and Aminata had an absolute fuckin certified BANGER. Both women should be perpetually around either the ROH TV and/or World Title scenes. Make sure you watch it. It's on YouTube. No reason not to. #WatchROH

If you don't watch NXT, you won't know if these names are made up. And if you *do* watch NXT...you probably still won't be entirely sure.

Finally watching tonight's ROH special on YouTube, and if you don't see charisma and star power in Trish Adora, then I have no idea what to tell you. Belt her up with literally anything you've got. #WatchROH

So...has FIFA said anything at all about a photog traveling with the Iraqi team and a Somali referee being denied entry, and an Iraqi player being questioned for seven hours upon arrival in the US? Seems like something they should care about. You know...as an international governing body and all.

I don’t know how Marufuji vs Volador Jr. did less than four stars but here we are.

So here in Michigan, they've more or less centered on Mike Rogers, who nearly beat Elissa Slotkin in 2024, for the Senate seat being vacated by Gary Peters. His new ads dropped, and the message is: "Everything is awful, but if liberals take over it will all be worse." Make that shit make sense.

I feel like it's not mentioned often enough (read: at all) that part of Orange Cassidy's training came from the CHIKARA Wrestle Factory, so one would have to think he feels more comfortable than you'd anticipate against guys like Dralistico. He worked under a mask in CHIKARA for years. #AEWCollision

I hate that we never got Orange Cassidy vs. Tetsuya Naito in a nonchalant-off. Would have been legendary. #AEWCollision

Okay, the backpack gimmick is fun, and Kyle's being all tightened up like a kindergartner on the first day of school is delightful. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss belt-guitar Kyle. #AEWCollision

On one hand, I selfishly want Shane Taylor Promotions to continue to be in my special little corner of ROH, because Shane should 100% have been ROH World Champion by now. But I also love everybody getting to see what a bad ass Shane Taylor is, and what a fantastic faction STP is. #AEWCollision

So far in that package, we've got Shida, Statlander, Mina, Harley, Aminata, and Zayda Steel. Now can we please not do what I think they might be doing and set up those six women against tomato cans in "qualifiers"? Let's actually have some doubt. #AEWCollision

Nigel is not just name dropping Mitsuharu Misawa. On multiple tours of Pro Wrestling NOAH from 2006-08, Nigel was on the opposite side of multi-man tags against Misawa over a dozen times. #AEWCollision

Unfortunately Bryan Alvarez still doesn't get it, and he may need someone to explain it to him more slowly and with pictures for him to color.

What, not Harlem Bravado? Tsk tsk.

What I’m doing with the family tonight instead of watching Dynamite. A beautiful night for baseball in west Michigan. Wouldn’t trade this for anything. ❤️

So in trying to check and see if any recent releases would have their 90-day up in time to be the Wild Card on Wednesday, I found that no, they wouldn't, but I realized something else. The Motor City Machine Guns 90-day is up on July 23. Six days later, #AEW is running Detroit. So, there's that.

Couldn't happen to a nicer grifter. I don't have words for how glad I am my kid never got into any of his shady bullshit. He watches YouTube for game playthroughs, tutorials, and harmless silly nonsense like God intended.

I hope the person I see nearly every day when I drop my son off at school with the "Straight Pride" sticker on the back of their minivan enjoys Pride Month.

I think they were already the betting favorite, but now? Short of an entire series of cataclysmic injuries, I don't see how the Rams are not now the *overwhelming* favorite to hoist the Lombardi this upcoming year. Holy shit, what a move.

Every time I’ve seen this clip or GIF or whatever, it’s bothered me that he did his W’s right to left.

See guys? The bar is literally in hell and still WAY too many of you can’t manage to clear it. Just be a decent human being.

“I learned a long time ago in wrestling that we’re never needing to make this about America versus or your home country versus.” I bet you did, Cody. I bet you did.

The way I laughed WAY too loud in the bleachers at my son’s baseball game. And got weird looks.

Finally catching up on #AEWCollision from last night. A thought occurred to me during the Death Riders/Rascalz trios match. We've never gotten Pac vs. Bandido one-on-one. Give. It. To. Me. Now.

Can someone explain to me the fantasy booking of Omega being the guy to dethrone MJF? I understand you want to get to Omega/Ospreay at Wembley. But we just did that at Dynasty, and if they wanted Omega/Ospreay to be endgame for All In, they could have just put the belt on Kenny in Vancouver.

I gotta say I can't in good conscience support the Fucking Kyle rhetoric writ large, even if Kyle Fletcher is a goddamned monster whose fault everything is.

Bad: Cubs join the 2017 Dodgers as the only teams since 1961 to have multiple 10 game winning streaks and a losing streak of at least 9 in the same season. Better: That 2017 Dodgers team cruised to the World Series (including clobbering the Cubs 4-1 in the NLCS) before losing in 7 to the Astros.

I kind of want to turn this into a monologue I can use for auditions. Because it’s fun to read, it puts you in a great mood, and it just affirms life. Plus I can always get behind his brand of cynical optimism.

Basically this. If you want to start with a new promotion, just watch. Don’t make it harder than it has to be. I’m not an NJPW expert by any stretch, but I know more than I did when I started. That’s just how these things work.

Shit, I’m 43, I’m still in pain from when I slept funny two nights ago, and I usually need a few days to recover after walking around a museum with my kids. You’ll never catch me calling Cope or Cage old in any way, shape, or form.

That’s what I’ve got. #AEWDoN

I'm legitimately not sure what to think about this main event on Sunday. I'm not sure what losing his hair does for MJF, unless it triggers some kind of major character change. But if you're putting the title on Ospreay at Wembley, then I can't imagine you want to change the title here too.

Finally getting to watch last night’s #ROH and a missed pop-culture reference opportunity on commentary. QT Marshall misses a switch foot moonsault, like the band Switchfoot’s 2003 single, “Dare You To Move” Yes, it’s a very old, very obscure joke, from a mostly forgotten band. But I do not care. 😂

In "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" Douglas Adams talks about the Golgafrinchans, an essentially humanoid race that tricked the most useless members of their society onto an Ark ship that was sent off to the far end of the universe. They then lived happily for generations. Just saying.

There is a real possibility that Big Justice is absolutely taking a bump or two on the outside in this match. Because what better way to get hate from the audience than by beating up a literal child.

I don't pay attention to all the bullshit, has anyone actually been able to pinpoint why Alvarez seemingly holds AEW to a different standard like this?

I'm seeing a couple of interesting points come up in the #AEW women's discourse. One: The women need more time, which is unarguably, completely, 100% true. Two: The women aren't actually booked badly in the time they're given, which I don't disagree with. What we get is good. We just want MORE. 🤼

Honestly, perfect use of Foley. *No need for an "authority figure." *There's no real point to have him in the announce booth as they're stacked there. *Don't think he adds any value as manager/mentor. And as much respect as I've got for the guy, I don't think his name moves the needle in 2026.