OK, yes, the guy who said Andre as Fezzik is objectively correct.

thanks for asking, the objective answer is Andre the Giant in The Princess Bride

Yeah, you can't do better than that.

If you had put anyone other than Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins front and center you'd have fucked up one of the greatest television series ever made.

Don't love Sand as a candidate but that number does make me feel good.

The most confidently wrong batshit crazy people I've ever met have been college professors!

Unfortunately it does not do that.

Oh, can do.

Pete's arguably the dumbest guy in the dumbest administration this nation has ever seen. Profoundly stupid and doggedly attached to the worst ideas he's ever been exposed to. Aggressively dedicated to making everything around him worse in every way.

something I've gotten over as a successful adult with gelatin-brained morons for in-laws is "condescending" as inherently wrong. in the words of a great philosopher, some of you bitches are very dumb

tomato battle royal - 8/1/40

****

unknown wrestler vs unknown wrestler (underwater) - 13/7/32

****1/4

We were talking up Elementary yesterday but Psych might actually be the best take on Sherlock Holmes to make television. Key piece of the USA golden age run. What a show.

insanely sick submission by pat o'connor

Also not at all the same thing but when doing some research I stumbled over old articles that seemed to suggest some early basketball leagues did have weight classes.

Official pre-game measurements like how they do weigh ins for fights.

Learning the Vertical Knee from the Legend Chamuakpet Hapalang (MTL trailer, 1 hr 25 mins) YouTube video by Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai

A fun little teaser of Sylvie and my favorite Nak Muay of all time, Chamuakpet Hapalang. Talking about his vertical stepping knee, how to throw it and why he likes it over the normal stepping knee.
youtu.be/hKHosqgKzms?...

I ever get that Tony Khan money I'm going to single handedly end the Ukraine invasion by hiring all the Russian sambo / judo / Greco / freestylers.

There's the other half of our main event right there.

One guy whipped King Kong Bundy in 12 minutes, the other ran away from Brad Armstrong, you tell me who the real world champ is.

Tough to believe we didn't get evenhanded, reliable testing from the Capetown Institute of Racial Purity.

...in the WWF kicking Crockett's ass in the States.

Yeah, the whole story of the 80s, particularly in Japan but Crockett was also big on this, was great matches going to non-finishes. The role of the UWF here is well documented but I've also got a pet theory that Hogan going over top guys in 15m vs Flair going broadway with nobodies is underrated...

Unless you guys are going to stop giving that company money, wwe might as well rolled this out - RevRay

...at half speed.

(But yes)

Really offended that of all the 00s / 10s Russian meme sports to get big financing, we got Power Slap instead of Hip Show.

Wife and I are in S2 of a series rewatch and have to echo this. It's a procedural, with the inherent strengths and weaknesses of that format, but mostly emphasizes the strengths and hides the weaknesses. Really well done television from the golden era of television.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

4/? obvious TIA has kicked LIM's ass for over a century. I think a certain amount of that is inevitable. But promoters and performers have cut themselves off from some valuable storytelling tools in the process.

3/? those are the default settings. Coloring in the lines is restrictive but coloring outside the lines becomes meaningless if you remove the lines entirely. Practically from its inception, wrestling has been a generational battle of Less Is More vs This Is Awesome and if you look around it's

2/? There's no point in hiding a hair pull if you can waffle a guy with a chair in front of the ref and nobody cares. The champ can't walk out to save the title if you can fight in the audience for ten minutes and the match keeps going. You can't escalate to No DQ / falls count anywhere / etc if