2021-03-27

Ring of Honor 19th Anniversary Show

  • Television Championship (Tracy Williams vs. Kenny King): 2/7. I think the lack of a crowd really hurt this one. It's just hard to really get into a match when there's no crowd response. I dunno, maybe I'd have enjoyed it more later in the show, but maybe not.
  • Flip Gordon vs. Mark Briscoe: 2/7. I barely paid attention to this one, to be honest.
  • Dalton Castle vs. Josh Woods: 2/7. At this point I was starting to think I was just wasting my time watching this show.
  • Grudge Match (Jay Briscoe vs. EC3): 3/7. I'm not sure what the actual grudge behind this was, and I don't know what EC3 actually wanted, but he did keep yelling about honour a lot. I do like EC3, but yeah, just not sure what was going on here.
  • Triple Threat (Flamita vs. Bandido vs. Rey Horus): 6/7. This was incredible. The lack of an audience hurt it a bit, but it was still super cool. Three luchadores just doing non-stop luchadore stuff. I'd watch this all day.
  • Unsanctioned Match (Matt Taven vs. Vincent): 2/7. I've got to give them credit for not having an "unsanctioned" match on the premises or during the actual show. Makes much more sense this way - even if showing the video still kind of makes it seems like they actually did sanction it... But the match was dumb. Listen, AEW tried having some guys fight each other in an empty building for no clear reason and it was dumb. This was a different building, and there was a better excuse for the ring being there, but it was still dumb.
  • Pure Championship (Dak Draper vs. Jonathan Gresham): 5/7. Pure Rules is a neat twist on an otherwise standard match, and this match was fantastic. Again, the lack of an audience brought it down a little, and I felt like the end dragged on a bit, but still a very good match.
  • ROH Tag Team Championship (The Foundation vs. La Faccion Ingobernable): 4/7. Just an OK match, but made slightly more interesting by the ongoing drama between LFI and their manager.
  • ROH Championship (Jay Lethal vs. Rush): 5/7. Rush is very entertaining, but this match too would have greatly benefited from a live audience, and went on a little long.
Overall Rating: 3/7. This show could have got a decent overall score, I think, if it had an audience. Put other wrestlers around the ring like AEW, do masks and social distancing like NJPW, or do some kind of remote/fake audience like WWE, but do something. The empty, silent room just doesn't work for wrestling.

2021-03-14

iMPACT! Sacrifice 2021

  • Tag Match (Decay vs. Reno Scum): 6/7. Decay are really growing on me. I don't know what this match was about or why it was happening, but it was cool.
  • Intergender Tag Match (Tenille Dashwood & Kaleb with a K vs. Havok & Nevaeh): 4/7. Tenille and Kaleb are the kind of bad guys who get beaten up a lot and win by sneaky cheating. And that's fine. But this didn't feel like a PPV match. I'd probably have rated it higher if it was on a regular episode.
  • Tag Match (Violent by Design vs. James Storm & Chris Sabin): 4/7. I guess Rhino is joining VBD? Okay. I feel like this storyline is going nowhere though.
  • Hold Harmless Match (Eddie Edwards vs. Brian Myers): 3/7. I liked how Matt Cardona interfered to keep it fair after Hernandez interfered first, but otherwise I didn't really care about this one. Are they building up to a Myers vs. Cardona match? Why? Just do it.
  • Knockouts Tag Team Championship (Fire 'N Flava vs. Jordynne Grace & Jazz): 4/7. I didn't think Jordynne and Jazz would win and they didn't.
  • X Division Championship (TJP vs. Ace Austin): 5/7. I like both of these guys but I just wasn't feeling it.
  • Knockouts Championship (Deonna Purrazzo vs. ODB): 4/7. What was the point of Deonna's friends being banished? It didn't seem like it made any difference.
  • Men's Tag Team Championship (The Good Brothers vs. FinJuice): 3/7. I didn't think FinJuice could possibly win this, so I wasn't really paying attention. And then they did and I was like "Wait, what? Wish I'd actually watched this now." I blame the writing for not convincing me that it was a possibility.
  • World Title Unification (Rich Swann vs. Moose): 1/7. Don't care; didn't watch it.
Overall rating: 4/7. I'm kind of tired today so that might have diminished my enthusiasm, but this basically felt like a really long episode rather than a PPV.

2021-03-08

AEW Revolution 2021

  • Tag Team Championship (The Young Bucks vs. the Inner Circle): 5/7. Jericho and MJF aren't particularly great as a tag team, but they're not bad. I didn't think they had any chance of winning though, so it didn't feel like the stakes were really there.
  • Casino Tag Team Royale: 7/7. I always love a battle royale.
  • Women's Championship (Shida Hikaru vs. Ryo Mizunami): 5/7. I felt like this was a bit of a letdown after some of the tournament matches that led up to it.
  • Miro and Kip Sabian vs. Best Friends: 4/7. Miro has been pretty funny in this storyline but none of the others have really sold me on it and I just don't care about seeing them actually fight.
  • Big Money Match (Adam Page vs. Matt Hardy): 6/7. I love the Dark Order coming out to support Adam Page and I hope they stay friends forever.
  • Face of the Revolution Ladder Match (Cody Rhodes vs. Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Lance Archer vs. Scorpio Sky vs. Max Caster vs. Ethan Page): 3/7. Ladder matches are just not good. Everyone's climbed a ladder before; we know it's not that difficult.
  • Street Fight (Sting and Darby Allin vs. Team Taz): 1/7. I don't need to see a 62-year-old man wrestling, or Darby Allin doing anything, and if you're going to do a pre-taped match then there'd better be some impossible stunts, magic, or at least a ridiculous arena to fight in. A wrestling ring set up in an empty warehouse just isn't it.
  • Men's Championship Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch (Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley): 1/7. This was a dumb premise to begin with, and it was always going to be bad, but the "explosion" at the end was just the most pathetic thing ever.
Overall rating: 4/7. Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch. Who thought that was a good idea?

2021-03-05

Simple trick for getting a free house

All you have to do is take out a home loan and buy a house then, instead of living in the house, you get someone else to live there and pay off the loan for you. When they're done paying, you somehow still get to keep the house even though they paid for it and they get nothing.

Weirdly, this is practically impossible to do if you don't already own a house, and just gets easier the more houses you already have.

And even though you obviously just stole a house, you don't have to go to prison. No one will even suggest it. Everyone will just act like that's a completely normal thing to do.