Mezmero

Now that I think about it I do wish Daniel Bryan's final Wrestlemania moment wasn't just headbutting Ziggler off a ladder but rather the dream match with Brock Lesnar that literally everybody wanted to see.

I'm sorry guys but everything about this Daniel Bryan retirement gets a big ol' shrug out of me. Like I've been under the impression for several months that he was never going to wrestle again, at least not for WWE. The people who had hope that he would return I suspect are the same people holding out hope that some day WWE will have consistently good booking. I only got back into wrestling back in 2014 during that Wresltemania season and while I thought D. Bry had a good showing, I base that entirely off of crowd reaction because again I saw Daniel Bryan wrestle maybe 4 or 5 times total in WWE over the past 2 years. I get that you're all die hard WWE marks but that product could not even hold my attention for a full year before I dropped it all together. Perhaps Bryan's absence was indicative of that but we'll never know because I simply DID NOT have the exposure to him to decide how I felt about him one way or the other. Before y'all start telling me which of his matches I should go back and watch a) it's pointless because it's not like once I familiarize myself with his body of work it'll bring him back to the ring and b) the stuff he did elsewhere shouldn't be indicative of his skill in WWE because I imagine like all the other indy guys they bring in they probably cut about 30% of his really cool moves and booked him like trash.

I'm in this weird head space lately where I feel like all the best wrestlers go to WWE to retire (also they hire big muscle dudes). Not retire for real like D. Bry or the various legends but they're basically done in my eyes. Take Kevin Owens for example. When he got called up to Raw I wasn't like "Oh boy now I get to see KO on the TV" I was like, "Well I guess I'll never see Kevin Owens wrestle again because I don't watch garbage wrestling promotions." Don't get me wrong, I wish KO a long and prosperous career, however slowing him down and cutting 30% of his move set is just not going to get me watching again. Same goes for AJ Styles and Sasha Banks. Obviously they have a lot to offer but I'm not interested because the company they now work for book talent like shit. Sorry for being cynical guys. I just think WWE has bigger problems than one of their best and brightest calling it quits.

My prediction as someone not watching is that Bo Dallas comes out and says "Winning is phat and all of that, losing is wack and Bo-zack." It's time to get live, it's time to represent.

Considering both AJ Styles and Samoa Joe are now in the employ of WWE I did a quick check up on Christopher Daniels. Apparently still doing RoH and Indie dates as well as dabbling with comic books. Of that trio of dudes he seems like he'll be the unsung hero of that hybrid wrestling style that has caught on with younger wrestlers these days. He's obviously not as marketable as the other two dudes but still, the dude could go. I'm assuming he's still partnering with Frankie Kazarian fairly regularly? I got to see The Addiction wrestle The World's Cutest Tag Team a little over a year ago and that was some good stuff. I saw a handful of RoH stuff with The Addiction last year and it was mostly okay, but I just have issues with RoH and not necessarily with the talent they book.

I could eat a kit kat at any time and feel good about it. Runner ups would be reese's cups, whatchamacallit, and twix bars (preferably peanut butter). I haven't had a symphony bar nor a take 5 in a while but I remember liking both of those.

@aronleon: HAHAAAA! This makes me so happy.

Lucha Underground continues to be the best wrestling show. I have completely bought into the idea that this is a promotion that features wrestlers with super powers and I think they have the perfect roster of dudes to get that concept over. The cut scenes are the best thing to happen to modern wrestling programming and it's a shame no one else is even trying to ape this style, regardless of what a money sink it may be.

Jack Evans was on Art of Wrestling. I really need to rethink how I sleep on airplanes...

I thought this was going to be Dan's thoughts on that Sandra Bullock movie...

My fantasy booking of Fastlane is the same as it was last year. Fuck putting on a wrestling show. Just have some wacky event actually involving cars driven by wrestlers i.e. monster truck show, destruction derby, rally race. Hell Vince wants to call this thing sports entertainment so how about do something outside of the sport of simulated prize fighting. I'd love to see a cannonball run-esque reality series out of them. Hell they got all these guys who are injured, make a cross country car race with those dudes and that's guaranteed to be better content than the stuff they have planned for the network.

I finished BOLA 2012. Some thoughts

I can think of a lot of portable versions of games in this vein. I didn't have a SNES growing up so I didn't get to play Final Fantasy 4 or 6 until the GBA releases and I loved both of them. I ended up playing Chrono Trigger on an emulator about a decade ago and really loved that as well. Never played Valkyrie Profile until it came to PSP. Didn't play Ghost Trick until it came out on iOS. Didn't get around to Zero Escape: 999 until long after Patrick finished Virtue's Last Reward. During a family road trip last year I played and beat 10000000. All of these are fine examples of games I really wish I had played sooner because they were so insanely up my alley.

Was never a fan of Bret Hart growing up, I was more of an Owen Hart kid. However as an adult looking back at his body of work his level of talent was undeniable. I wish nothing but the best for Bret.