AEW Creates Another Belt That It Doesn’t Need

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/aew-creating-national-title-full-gear-gauntlet-match/

The good news is that it’s a men’s championship and thus won’t be won by Mercedes Mone, who is probably winning some championship in Bangladesh this weekend or something to add to her eleventy-billion belts that she’s currently holding. I swear; that woman must have some real dirt on the business if everyone is giving her a belt. And then people want her to come back to WWE. For what? So she can go back to feuding with Nia Jax or put over whatever failed NIL project they’ve got going on in NXT?

But yeah, AEW now has a National title that they’ll probably abandon in a year or two when it’s promptly forgotten about. Reigning NWA National Champion and former Spirit Squad member Mike Mondo probably should have let this lie rather than comment on it, but I guess he needed people to know that he was still alive or something, which… hey, always good to know. Hope he’s doing well these days.

WCW Monday Nitro (Nov. 6th, 1995) – The Power Of… Something Or Other

We have an interactive hotline where WCW fans can call it and decide who will main event tonight’s edition of Nitro. You see, people were claiming that WWE had been pioneers of sports entertainment interactivity with their Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday gimmick PPVS in the mid-2000s, but WCW revolutionized that concept in 1995… WITH FUCKING TELEPHONES.

And what did WCW fans book with their amazing power of phones?

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WWE Survivor Series 2024

It’s Survivor Series…

WARGAMEZ!

From last year…

So yeah, full disclosure: I had this laying around last year and never got around to posting it, but since it’s around that time again, I’d figured why not. Here are my (very quick) musings on last year’s Survivor Series PPV, which featured the reunited Bloodline (led by Roman Reigns and also featuring CM Punk) and the Bloodline B-Team led by that Solo guy and a bunch of other Samoans that got signed from New Japan or something. If, a year after the fact, this is what I’m referring to that “other” Bloodline team, maybe it’s not as effective a storyline as some would suggest.

Also, yes, even though most of this was written last year and promptly forgotten about, there will be occasional notes to try and keep this more timely, as though it was written up on a few days ago as opposed to months prior or even a whole year previous.

Anyway, let us begin…

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Never A Strange Thing ‘Round These Parts

Netflix series hit Stranger Things is getting its fifth and final season later this year and my feelings on the matter are… meh.

I’ve never watched the series. I know some details, I’ve seen some clips, but never actually sat down to watch the show even during those periods when I had an active Netflix subscription. Whether it was its much simpler early seasons or the more fantastic later ones, it was a show that simply didn’t appeal to me in any way, shape, or form. As such, I never really followed the show. It’s just something that people reference every so often. And so when I hear that Stranger Things is coming to an end, my only reaction is “Is that thing still on?”

Here’s the thing about Stranger Things; yeah, it’s part of a genre of sci-fi horror that doesn’t necessarily appeal to me personally and that’s not a knock on it. It takes quite a bit for something to appeal to me personally enough to sit down and consume it unless it’s a legacy property (and even that’s a tall order), but it’s also a thing set during a time that I grew up in. It has references to things – movies, games, books, whatever – that I will recognize and will go “Why am I watching this thing referencing other things I could be watching right now?”

Anyway, hopefully the fans who stuck with the show will get a final chapter worthy of their fandom and the show’s run… or maybe they’ll make another spin-0ff or something to keep the gravy train going and then I can go “Is THAT thing still on?”

Either way, I’ll be watching actual 80s stuff from the 80s… on media from the 9os and 2000s… oh wait.

Sunday Gimmick Table #43 – Orico HD Enclosure That Looks Like A Cassette

It’s a hard drive enclosure that looks like a vintage cassette tape… but does it play like one? The answer is no, of course not, why are you asking silly questions? Anyway, in this video, I add a hard drive into the thing and check if it works.