Craig Ballantyne

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Be more skeptical

Minoru Suzuki with a C3PO/Slave Princess Leia displayer and blow-up R2D2
Screenshot from Cagematch.net showing Tiger Mask IV wrestling in ABC 10 days after his official retirement, and PRODUCE a few weeks after that
Bully: “Has any other wrestling company ever put us on the front row and identified us?” LaGreca: “No.” Bully: “Should they have?” LaGreca: “Yes.” Bully: “The WWE did so thank you to the WWE for the great, great treatment. Shout out to Nick Khan, who got up out of his front row seat to walk halfway around the stadium to come up to us, say hello, tell us how great he thought the partnership was going so far, asked us if we need anything, were we comfortable. Thank you Nick Khan for being a complete gentleman.”
Chad Gable celebrating his Intercontinental Championship victory with a furry
Ibushi standing in front of the NJPW Lionmark with caption: "So, back to New Japan"
Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay match graphic
Big Damo tweet edited to say: "Some voters are just fuckin stupid I don't know what to tell you"
Poll shows Labour ahead of Reform UK for first time since Burnham became PM Labour has regained its lead over Reform UK in More in Common polling, Luke Tryl, its director, says
Ornate mirror in the National Gallery of Ireland. The reflection shows a man checking his phone in the bottom corner.
Collage of two images at different ends of a series of doorways, the left hand side is painted blue, the right painted red. You can see the opposite colours slightly in the distance.
Motor City Machine Guns
Ibushi: Next up, the fan tour
Kota Ibushi announcing the premium lecture and fan tour
The Knockout Bros, Oskar and Yuto-Iccccce
“So what you’re saying is, I just want to understand you clearly, that New Japan it’s not doing as well as everybody thinks it is. … This is also what I’ve heard, through other people, not on the internet. That’s why I even said what I said because I heard it from, you know firsthand information. But whatever. Internet knows everything. I’ll just keep it at that.”
Tanga Loa looking on as Great-O-Khan eats a lot of eel to retain the KOPW Title
Kenny Omega as The Cleaner in NJPW 2015
Head-to-head IPSOS poll gives Count Binface a 12-point lead over Nigel Farage
SANADA wearing a gold suit, sunglasses, and sombrero because he's a motherfucking cold blooded snake
AJ Styles wants WWE to purchase a Japanese wrestling company “I would love WWE to find a way to be in Japan, kind of like the way AAA is. We’re not changing what they’re doing. We’re not trying to change the culture. We’re just putting our spin on it. It’s not them coming to WWE, but WWE has purchased a company in Japan. And now, we have Japan, we have Mexico… I don’t want them to come to RAW or SmackDown. I want them to be a WWE whatever in Japan. It’s endless things that we could do. And I believe that with the help of WWE, we would be able to revive Japanese wrestling to where it was. I would love to see it back where it’s the Tokyo Dome. I’m talking about not like a WrestleMania over there. I’m just saying it’s the company selling out the Tokyo Dome like it did in the early 90s. That’s what I would want to see.” @thep1podcast
MyAEW 🤝 @MapleLeafPW We are excited to announce that MLP's new weekly program, MLP Mayhem, begins streaming for free in the United States and more than 100 countries around the world exclusively on http://MyAEW.com this Thursday!
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The NJPW roster throwing Tiger Mask in the air to celebrate
Gabe Kidd giving NJPW fans the middle finger
El Phantasmo posing in the ring in NJPW
Muse: The Wow! Signal album cover
David Finlay attacking Jay White at NJPW Battle in the Valley 2023
Translation of Bakusai: "Bombing into bits"
Thekla looking mad
Graphic showing UK June temperature record of 36.4C
Sign for Massey Bros funeral directors in Dublin, The Young Bucks' real names are Matt and Nick Massie
Road Dogg Discussed Within TNA As Potential Replacement For Tommy Dreamer
Marco Rubio with gianter shoes
Tiger Mask v Black Tiger graphic
Cope and Cage with their arms folded, Cage looking at a mom in the audience probably
SANADA in all-red entrance gear with high shoulders, reminiscent of recent Becky Lynch gear
Ad listing 19 mannequin heads for sale, everybody wants and needs them
Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr Forbidden Door graphic
Pain from Naruto looking out at heavy rain
Match graphic for Kenny Omega vs Bad Dude Tito on AEW Collision
russelltdavies63 And so GOODBYE from me to Doctor Who but HELLO to a big new future for the show, as the BBC announces it's putting the show out to tender. As a result, there won't be a Christmas Special - we only cooked that up to guarantee a future when no one knew what would happen, but now we do know, there's no need for it. You'll have to wait a bit longer for new Doctor Who... but you'll be waiting for MORE Doctor Who than a one-off. So it's worth it! For the record: there was no script, I never wrote it, and no actor was ever approached to play the next Doctor. You may disagree; fine, sit in that chair and wait to be proved right. You'll wait a lonnng time Now I'm as excited as anyone to see what comes next! Will they keep the theme tune? Will they lose the blue box? Will they bring back the Drahvin?! It's all up for grabs, which is so Doctor Who, exciting and unpredictable and new! Here comes the future, vworp vworp @bbcdoctorwho
NJPW graphic breaking down Dominion card
A top-down view of the doughnut king
Star City poster
Lio Rush looking mad and holding a rainbow umbrella with caption, "THE RAIN"
Maven looking at a laptop with the caption "Why modern wrestling is killing the finisher". Pretty sure it's a typo, and should be "how", but there you go.
Hiromu Takahashi in a suit leaving NJPW HQ
Breakdown: 3,550,200 shares to TV Asahi and 6,950,200 shares to CyberAgent