#brutalturn

i don't know how to begin to explain to normies that the participant i was most excited about was rey mysterio who i do not think ought to be wrestling anymore at fifty years old and with such a broken body (but knowing what kind of wrestler he is i don't imagine he'll ever accept retirement), but who i can't help cheering for anytime he's in a ring. like he was the number one entrant! and he held up for SO long, bless him

did i think he was gonna win? obviously not, that'd be ridiculous. did i think he was gonna do any particularly impressive moves? i was hoping he wouldn't, his knees have been fucked for two decades, and you could tell he slipped several times during the match. was i still emotional about him kicking off the match and squaring off against penta, and did i pop when he did his slow and gentle 619? hell yeah.

it was axiom and frazer, but mostly axiom. short flippy luchador who's great at selling so he does the babyface-in-peril thing ABSOLUTELY pitch perfect? jesus christ i'm so predictable

vee accused me of having watched it in secret bc when mjf pulled out the little black bag from under the ring i tried to be funny and went “oh good i hope that’s marshmallows in there” and two seconds later jr on commentary went “that’s not marshmallows in there...!”

it’s possibly the most endearing thing i’ve EVER witnessed in wrestling, when punk knee’d darby so hard darby slid between the ropes out of the ring, and you could see half-a-second of punk breaking character entirely, panic on his face, his arms stretched out bc he CLEARLY didn’t intend for darby to fall down on the concrete floor

but i am LIVING for how the audience absolutely loses their shit at the music, and the infotron, at his appearance. when they start chanting again it synchs with the music and the energy just builds and builds