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crazy how most of us made friends on here because we were going insane about the same 2 freaks at the same time. like oh you’re up thinking about them too?

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for the one true king

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I had fun at the show, even being by myself but the absolute FUNNIEST thing that I witness was this:

It’s a 90 min drive from Louisville to Lexington where the show was and I had work in the morning so I left about 20 mins before the Rampage taping ended. I get to the parking lot across from the venue and I noticed the Scapegoat Bus!

I was so distracted by this just being right there, running, that I didn’t even see that Jack Perry was loading a SUV with his stuff just to the left of this view. Once I did, I was stuck in flight or fight and felt silly that I was filming it that I just looked at him and then kept walking.

Once I got to my car and got ready to pull out, the damn Scapegoat bus (followed by that same SUV) pulled in front me. So then I was driving behind it.

We all ended up getting on I-64. The Scapegoat Bus, while super edgy or whatever, apparently can’t go above 70 MPH. That don’t hit for me, so I immediately got over to pass them and y’all.

As the universe as my witness, I swear on everything, I was NOT prepared to see that Jack himself was *actually* driving that thing. I have no footage of this because again, I wasn’t expecting it and also it would have been dangerous to try and film while going that fast and it was also 11pm.

But yeah, Scapegoat was straight up driving that thing, windows down, one arm hanging out the window.

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Made this concept a few weeks ago in hopes of maybe AEW's The Conglomeration considers it for a T-shirt design in the future 🥹👉🏿👈🏿

Reblogs are fine, please do not save to repost ❤️

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reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

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toxic_thekla: FEEL THE H.A.T.E.

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Buddy Danielson wants Dad to clean the ketchup off his face

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me too

I just watched @schadentekkers have a Moment in real time

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By request, here's a brief summary of the history between El Desperado and Douki! I wrote this for @novampiresremain but it might be of interest to someone else too?

Sorry for the lack of cited sources, but the English language NJPW website is still down, and I don't want to dig through the Japanese website for citations. This is written from my own memory, but most of the information comes from NJPW's website, Taichi's blog, various tweets, and wikipedia.

As a teenager, Douki wanted to train to be a wrestler, but specifically, he wanted to train to be a luchador. At age 18, he'd decided that in order to pursue his dream, he would move to Mexico by himself, despite a complete lack of wrestling training and zero ability to speak Spanish. Douki happened to know Milano Collection A.T. and asked him for some advice. (His connection to Milano is also why he still uses one of Milano's techniques, the Italian Stretch Number 32, as a finishing move. And if you ever listen to a Douki match with Milano on Japanese commentary, you'll hear Milano get very emotional cheering for Douki.)

At this time, Milano had recently been forced to retire from wrestling due to vision problems. Milano's ex-tag partner Taichi, brokenhearted and feeling abandoned, had run away to Mexico. Taichi was living at a house with other NJPW wrestlers and training at the CMLL gym. Milano advised Douki to go to live and train with Taichi, and Douki did exactly that.

Taichi remained in Mexico for about a year before returning to Japan. Douki kept training and wrestling as an indie wrestler in Mexico.

Outside of kayfabe, Mikami Kyosuke's excursion to Mexico and CMLL began in 2012. Within Desperado's kayfabe background, he's from Mexico originally. Regardless, he met Douki during that time period, and they've both talked about their time together in Mexico, a pair of broke wrestlers drinking cheap beer and watching funny videos online together.

(Outside of kayfabe, Desperado was a wrestler from NJPW, Japan's biggest promotion, wrestling in CMLL, a major promotion, while Douki was wrestling as a freelancer in the indies. Other wrestlers who also know Desperado from that time period have mentioned that he treated all other wrestlers the same regardless of what company they worked for. Sasaki of DDT has said that this is why he and Desperado originally became friends, and I suspect it's part of why Desperado became friends with Douki as well.)

Desperado returned to Japan in 2014, making his debut as Desperado early that year. Douki kept wrestling on the indies in Mexico, while making occasional trips back to Japan to wrestle in the indies there. He made his Japanese wrestling debut in 2015, but continued to wrestle primarily in Mexico, sometimes in Texas, and only occasionally in Japan.

In early 2019, Douki's old friend Taichi booked him for one of his own Taka Taichi self-produce shows - in a singles match against Kasai Jun. Douki fought with his usual fearlessness, but lost. Kasai won the match with his signature Reverse Tiger Driver, but modified - he added rotation to it, making it look very similar to El Desperado's Pinche Loco. After winning, Kasai prepared to hit an unconscious Douki with another Reverse Tiger Driver, but Desperado ran in to save Douki, who he called his little brother.

That match was the setup for Desperado and Kasai's first pair of singles matches, at TakaTaichi Mania II. Desperado wanted revenge for what Kasai had done to his "little brother" Douki, and he showed up wearing a half Desperado, half Douki mask.

During one of those matches, Kasai accidentally broke Desperado's jaw. As a result of the injury, Desperado had to skip the 2019 Best of the Super Junior tournament, which left NJPW scrambling for a replacement. Douki was still in Japan, since he'd also been booked on the same show where Kasai had broken Desperado's jaw, so he took Desperado's place in the tournament as a last-minute substitute.

He spent the entire tournament carrying Desperado's mask around with him, and taking out his anger on everyone around him instead of actually trying to win any matches. At first, he said he was just there for his "boss" Taichi and his "brother" Desperado, but he ended up being brought into Suzuki Gun by the end of the tournament.

Over time, Douki continued to grow as a wrestler, and became more and more competitive with Desperado. Desperado has always welcomed this, even when they were both in the same faction, and has also encouraged Douki in his own Suzuki Gun way when Douki has talked down on himself in the past. (I keep meaning to translate some tweets related to this, and I will get around to it eventually.)

In a strange way, Douki owes his current position to Desperado. I have to believe that Douki winning the Junior Heavyweight belt for the first time from Desperado, specifically, meant a lot to both of them.

@novampiresremain I hope that background information helps a little bit! If you (or anyone else) would like specific match recommendations involving these two, let me know and I'd be happy to provide some, although some relevant matches aren't available on NJPW World.

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tumblr mutuals who i would walk around an antique store with and point out funny items and afterward get icecream with

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✨ Please reblog the polls before the poll ends (there is no point in sharing a closed poll) to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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Are you listening to music right now? (Put the song in the tags)

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Watching the G1 right now

Not going to lie but Finlay on commentary is pretty nice

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@schadentekkers I would have send it to you thro an ask but was not possible either way hope you like it ;)

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Reblog to give the next person a prize! :D