The Max Caster Thing

TNA held their annual Bound For Glory show this past weekend and aside from being a decent, if unremarkable show, it did feature the TNA debut of one Max Caster. That kid from AEW who did the raps and stuff. His contract expired and he debuted in TNA as a special challenger to Moose, who beat him promptly.

And then as soon as he debuted, Max Caster is gone from TNA.

Max Caster came out and did his opening rap, which was a thing he did in AEW. During said rap, he mentioned something about dropping bombs and not needing to go to Riyadh… which is probably not the smartest thing to say shortly after the city had been the target of an attack. Needless to say, people were pissed, TNA was embarrassed, and a statement was quickly put out apologizing for the incident. All ties with Caster were cut and the segment was scrubbed from all replays.

I didn’t see the show; I was under the weather. Nor did I see the MiTB show… which happened on Saturday. Funny how I wrote posts for two PPV events that took place this past weekend and I’ve watched neither. I’d imagine when I do get around to watching the BFG show later down the road, that whole segment and the subsequent match will not be included… but a friend had offered to loan me his DVD recording for the purposes of a future musings, so that I can watch the complete, unedited show.

In any event… I don’t know what the guy was thinking. In isolation, the line was kinda eh, but there is such a thing as too soon. And this was definitely too soon. Not sure where Max goes from here. I can’t imagine WWE wanting to give this guy a shot, especially considering where they’re holding Mania next year. And if AEW wanted him, they would have re-signed him and not let his contract lapse.

Maybe he should go into rapping full-time or something. At least then, when he says something offensive, people will see it coming.

I’m done for the night. Review should be up later tonight or tomorrow… or however this works. Certainly not in the afternoon…

Sinus Consequence

So I had to postpone a Sunday Gimmick Table to next week due to sinuses acting up, which affects my vocal delivery and thus affects my coughing fits… which sucked. On the bright side, I sat down and wrote a bunch of stuff. Stuff for potential video fodder of the Rambling variety.

Some of this stuff is retreads of old Bite commentary material, but almost all of it is designed to push back the Video Of Bad News another month. I’ve got some material recorded for that one, but not as much as I’d like and it seems like there’s a new wrinkle that has me revising or outright redo certain dubbing bits in the process.

Good news is that the day off resting means I can get back to working on these videos, since it’s Thanksgiving and that’s a day off work. Other than family dinners, I’ll be on my own for most for the day, so I can just spend the day doing quick video stuff as well as some bits of clean-up.

The review schedule is more or less set in stone, though what comes up is another story entirely. I do have an idea on how 2027 kicks off, but that’s for later down the road. We’ve got a lot of work to do before long.

Later.

Controversy At MiTB

There was controversy last night when Tiffany Stratton won another Money in The Bank ladder match, which makes her the first-ever two-time Women’s MiTB winner… except not really.

Do people not remember that the first woman to win MiTB was, in fact, a two-time winner due to controversy? Carmella – the former Staten Island person – won said contract under some controversy when James Elsworth plucked the briefcase in the first ever match back in… whenever this thing was the first time around (2018, maybe? A lot of stupid shit happened in 2018.)

And then they redid the match on Smackdown and Carmella won that one. So while “officially” Carmella was the first woman to win it twice, that is a lie because the first woman to win the Women’s Money In The Bank contract… was a dude.

Show the No Chin Guy some fucking respect… even if his ass got booed in TNA.

Baby Flair Is Getting A Podcast…

Source: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/charlotte-flair-announces-off-the-pedestal-with-ashley-fliehr-will-launch-in-a-few-weeks/

Listen, I don’t want to come across as someone who poo-poos everything Charlotte does because I don’t have the supposed “hate boner” that some other folks seem to have with her… even though they’ve long since given up on giving her more title belts than her daddy… and I do wish Ashley all the best in her new endeavor.

But at the same time… I’ve seen podcasts from Cody Rhodes, AJ Styles, Mark McCool, and even – for the briefest of instances before my ears cried out in utter agony – Stephanie McMahon. These are kinda, sorta dull, produced under the watchful eye of WWE broadcast parameters, so you only get the WWE-approved material and not anything that people would want to actually hear these people talk about. It wouldn’t surprise me that people would watch a Cody podcast these days and forget that he was one of the founding fathers of AEW because it never gets mentioned.

Apparently, the numbers aren’t there, but I guess we need content for that Radio WWE thing that was announced a couple months back starring the Busted Open shills… which they’ve always been LONG before this WWE deal came about, so it’s not like I’m suddenly picking on them. But at the same time, if they produced anything WORTH talking about, I probably would have said something to.

That having been, big kudos to Dwayne Johnson for the touching tribute to PAC and the best wishes to Tony Khan and crew. Whatever you want to say about the man’s business moves and whatever the case may be, never let it be said that he isn’t a genuinely kind-hearted soul because that man has heart more than anything. For the WWE brass to be miffed at one of their board members mentioning the unmentionable… fuck off and grow a pair, will you? Dwayne did something nice, regardless of who the guy was working for, and that earns some respect points.

Review #1378 – Buzz Bombers (Intellivision)

Actually, you know what? Screw it. You get it early.

This was literally cooked up in less than an hour. Roughly 10-15 minutes worth of quick gameplay to get a feel, coming up with words in about half the time, doing the dub, assembling the piece in Vegas, rendering and uploading all this morning before I spot off to the rest of the day. It’s not perfect, but it’s… well, you know.

Ecch…

Right, so the review will be up later tonight… but I wanted to share a little tidbit for the blog reading folks.

I’ve had a roll with the new Belmont’s Curse demo and as you can surmise from this stream that I’ve uploaded a fresh recording of to ignore the travesty of a laggy live feed (found here), it was brief and made me wanting more. Good thing for a demo. I did not pre-order the game. I’m not going that route. I’m waiting until release day to buy the game. It will be the PC version.

It’s a digital release. There’s no copies of the game running out if I don’t pre-order or order on release day. There are plenty of these to go around because you’re buying a code that lets you download the game to your machine and play it. There’s no incentive for me to pre-order a game and no, a costume change doesn’t cut it.

This isn’t a statement being made or a stand being… made… it’s just me saying my piece and moving on because the thing that I was hoping to have done for today is not done and therefore I am distracting you with nonsense to keep your mind busy until I have something up later tonight.

Is it working?

Oh well… worth a try, I guess.

Review #1377 – Donkey Kong (Intellivision)

The true horror lies in the fact that someone at Coleco considered this to be acceptable. Setting aside the (largely disproved) urban legend of Coleco making non-Coleco ports purposefully awful to make their own console version look better, it amazes me how someone at Coleco thought that THIS was good enough for Intellivision owners.

Alas, here we are… for better or worse. Mostly worse.

Where’s The Next Review?

It’s coming tomorrow… promise. I’ve been “under the weather” shall we say?

Actually, these past couple days have been pretty painful, but fortunately the worse looks to have come to pass. Hopefully, we can start getting shit done now.

Oh, and in case you missed the memo, we’re reducing review output to two per week; every Tuesday and Friday. This week being the sad exception, but beyond that, it should be smooth sailings.

I’m hoping a false hope, aren’t I?

TNA Bound For Glory 2018

Another week in our little lookback at these Bound For Glory PPVs, another year has passed in the timeline of Bound For Glory and we’re about a year and a half into this Impact Wrestling phase of the promotion, which have been bouncing around between shows in Canada and shows in the US.

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