#but that was an ass move you guys

[wrestlingisfake]

Bound for Glory preview

Josh Alexander vs. Eddie Edwards - Alexander is defending the Impact men's world title. Edwards earned this title match on August 18 in a six-way match.

Edwards is the leader of Honor No More, a renegade faction of wrestlers disillusioned by the shutdown of ROH in December 2021. While Tony Khan purchased ROH and revived the brand on AEW, Honor No More invaded Impact in January 2022 to take their frustrations out on across the minor leagues. Eddie, who spent seven years in ROH and eight in Impact, revealed himself as the leader of the group in February. So he's basically the Benedict Arnold of the promotion. Alexander, meanwhile, has become Impact's franchise player, so it'll be a tough blow to the company if Edwards takes the world title from someone like him.

Once these two get in the ring, though, I don't expect the Honor No More storyline to be much of a factor. These are two smash-mouth grapplers, and this match should be a violent war of attrition. It might be interesting if Edwards captured the title for Honor No More, but it's hard for me to believe they'd cut off Josh's title run for that. My prediction is that Eddie's defeat here will be the beginning of the end for this faction.

Jordynne Grace vs. Masha Slamovich - This is for Grace's Impact women's world title. Slamovich is undefeated in Impact, and on September 1 she beat Deonna Purrazzo to become the #1 contender.

Grace is a thicc powerlifter and Slamovich is a classic monster heel character, so this has all the makings of a MEAN GUY MATCH~! except with women, which you don't get to see every day. If I was booking it I wouldn't even have this go very long. Just have 'em spam big power moves like a Brock Lesnar/Goldberg match until one of them gets caught and goes down for three.

You could have Grace be the dominant champion that shuts down the undefeated monster, but I think it's Slamovich's time. I smell a title change.

Matt Taven & Mike Bennett vs. Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley - The Kingdom (Taven & Bennett) are putting the Impact men's tag team title on the line. Sabin and Shelley defeated Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis on September 22 to earn this match. Up until the Kingdom won the tag title, Honor No More seemed to be going nowhere fast. Could that all come crashing down here? I'd say this one can go either way.

Mike Bailey vs. Frankie Kazarian - Kazarian won a three-way match on September 23 to earn this shot at Bailey's Impact X division title. Kaz is an AEW guy but he was in Impact for most of its first twelve years. Bailey is over a decade younger than Kazarian but he somehow looks a decade older. There's probably no upside in putting the belt on Kaz at this point, so Bailey should retain.

Deonna Purrazzo & Chelsea Green vs. Taya Valkyrie & Jessicka - VXT (Purrazzo and Green) are defending the Impact women's tag team title. They won the belts from longtime friends Valkyrie and Rosemary. Now Rosemary's other friend Havok has undergone a transformation into Jessicka, who's a little more on Taya's wavelength. So I guess that group wants to try again with this new combination. VXT seems to have a better thing going, so they should probably keep the belts. I get the feeling this Jessicka/Taya/Rosemary storyline is going to be more about a schism in that trio.

Mickie James vs. Mia Yim - James has vowed that she'll retire the next time she loses a match, so she's effectively put her career on the line here. Yim was released from WWE last year, and returned to Impact about six months ago. I suppose it's possible this is Mickie's last match, because Yim seems like the sort of opponent she'd want for that role. But they only introduced this "last rodeo" storyline five weeks ago, so it's hard to believe they'd blow it off so quickly. I'm picking James to stay alive for at least a few more months.

Call Your Shot Gauntlet - This is a 20-person gauntlet match with timed entries. The match starts with two entrants in the ring, and at regularly scheduled intervals each additional participant joins the match. Eliminations can occur at any time when someone exits the ring over the top rope directly to the floor. Once two entrants are left, the first to score a pinfall or submission wins the match. The winner receives a Call Your Shot trophy and the right to challenge for any championship in Impact Wrestling, without any warning to the champion.

Fifteen wrestlers have been announced for this: Bhupinder Gujjar, Bobby Fish, Eric Young, Gisele Shaw, Heath Miller, Joe Hendry, Johnny Swinger, Killer Kelly, Moose, PCO, Rich Swann, Sami Callihan, Savannah Evans, Steve Maclin, and Tasha Steelz. I'd say the favorites are Young, Maclin, and maybe Callihan or Heath if they've got a story to tell. Swinger or Hendry might make sense if they want to set up a comedy match for one of the lesser belts. You could do something with Kelly or Steelz, but women never seem to do very well in these things.

I usually punt with these things and pick a wildcard. I guess Fish, fresh off of leaving AEW, is the biggest x-factor in the field so far. But there's still surprise entrants to reveal, and any of them could be game-changers. What am I saying? It's Impact. I'm guessing the surprises will all be like the Kiss Demon and Luigi Primo.

Brian Myers vs. ??? - This is scheduled for the pre-show. Myers has issued an open challenge with his Impact digital media title at stake. I get the feeling this won't be anybody very good, and Myers will cruise to retaining his title.

[soaked-doors]

pirates and their unconventional weddings (marines crashed it seven times)

[cozylittleartblog]

50+ deaths at 5 am got me yelling absolute nonsense to the bosses kicking my whole entire ass

[putterphubase]

You said I can ask you if there's anything I don't understand, right? Then please teach me. How to kiss.

THE TIME OF FEVER (2024).

[todayisafridaynight]

Is it funnier if:

Shishido tunes in to the VTuber's broadcast knowing he'll fume about exposing Kiryu being his idea first

Shishido is already a fan of the VTuber and tunes in as normal only to fume about exposing Kiryu being his idea first

Shishido is the VTuber

SHISHIDO IS THE VTUBER

[rystiel]

“pissed me off seeing the doctor suddenly being interested in men and kissing one for the sake of shoving it in our faces. kissing jack was a comedic moment for shock value so it didn’t count as woke pandering.” i’m hitting you with my bare fists

[reineyday]

mishanks mafia au where shanks is the don of the gol family and and mihawk is a hitman hired by the government (it's a conspiracy!) to kill shanks.

when mihawk shows up, shanks puts up a great fight, and even tho shanks loses (he's on the ground with hawk's blade at his throat!), mihawk decides shanks is way funner than the government and doesn't kill him after all. mihawk intends for this to be the end, with exception for perhaps more fights in the future, but shanks has already fallen on love and starts trying his damndest to get mihawk to work for the gols.

mihawk always refuses, but when the government puts out a hit on mihawk because he broke contract, mihawk finds himself thoroughly protected by the gol family anyways. shanks, however, doesn't save mihawk fast enough to spare the hitman some torture so, in retaliation, shanks brings down the entire government and exposes the conspiracy while he's at it, with the finale being a grand announcement that mihawk is his, actually, back the fuck off and don't try this again.

by the end, mihawk still doesn't work for the gols, but if he marries into the family, well. "there's still a difference, red." (shanks whines about this daily.)

[ivysos2001]

You still can’t convince me that the whole ‘Steve abandons everyone in the present to go back to Peggy’ thing was a well thought out/well developed ending for his character that made any sense for his post-catfa character arc (let alone all the time travel stuff) bc wdym none of the people who made the movie can figure out the logistics of it??

[melit0n]

I think Vessel would be a good hula-hooper perhaps

[ratanslily]

this is a ian hate blog🙌🏽

he's a colonizer, I'm an Indian

wild animals are meant to be in jungles, not as exotic pets

see 1) and 2)

where was that tiger caught from? hm.. Bengal is famous for their tigers, kcd/fs in set in Bengal. that means the yt btch exploited our jungles to capture and tame the poor creature. maybe he got it from somewhere else but the coincidence is too hard to ignore. this reminds me of the time british used to use our raw materials and cheap labour, and sell the product to us in high prices under the Queen's name. 🤡

but for real, I hope Pride!Devi has the option to slit his throat open like Amala. I'd feed him to the tiger, tbh🤷🏽‍♀️

[moregraceful]

what is a goalie tandem but the two guys who work the night shift at dairy queen getting blazed out of their fucking gourd and making out with tongue when there are no customers. anyway. don't look at me, i'm going thru something personal

[gearbroth]

[concept-dump] Space-au - (main(?) Antagonist) Skal, enemy of sun and mentor to iron

[grinchwrapsupreme]

imagine being Billy Whalen's mom like your son is the reigning champion of a quiz show when he's 15 until one day he's caught cheating, then he disappears. and when he turns up again he's missing an eye and has a robot hand and by the time you've heard about this he's moved in with the host of the quiz show who it turns out was the one who cheated for him by rigging the game and now they've been together for 20 years and you don't know how to re-establish a functioning relationship with him because you think he's scared you'll be homophobic so to signal to him that you support him and this quiz show host you send them furniture and dishware and then AND THEN they come to New York and move in with you and the whole time you have to just be normal about it

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

No idea why I decided to put art on my evil account instead of my actual main art account so please excuse me rebloging stuff so I can keep all my art here

I guess the idea was this would only be finished pieces ?? But I dunno I think I will keep sketches/doodles here but put progress shots/character discussion to my evil account among the other evil things

Not rebloging that many pieces but I was just thinking about how odd of a decision it was

[spicyvampire]

Ming : breathing

Sol @ Joe :

[taegularities]

some men are textbook villains fr