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Anthony's Stupid Daily Blog (718): Mon 4th Mar 2024

Mon 4th Mar 2024

This morning I checked out last night's AEW Revolution in order to pay tribute to the Icon Sting and watch his final ever match. It still feels so surreal that Sting is still wrestling almost 30 years after I first saw him run out to rescue Bret Hart from a Hollywood Hogan beat down on an episode of Nitro. I know some people aren't a fan of the way AEW have booked him but by all accounts Sting requested this kind of booking as he knew it was going to be his last ever run and he wanted to do some crazy shit he'd never done before. People were similarly critical of The Bucks being booked to be his last ever opponents but I think this newly tweaked version of the Buck's characters where they abuse their authority has made for a good exit storyline for The Stinger. As expected Sting made a grand entrance accompanied by his two sons dressed in surfer and Wolfpac attire. I really enjoyed this match, I think it was a great final effort for Sting and to his credit it did look like he gave it his all in a tornado tag match which included multiple table and ladder spots. The main spot of the match that will be remembered more than any other will be when Darby jumped off a ladder through a pane of glass and completely sliced his back up…yeah this guy is going to die. In fact I'm not convinced he's not already dead and there are actually a bunch of rats inside the corpse moving him around like a puppet. I'm really happy Sting won and he went out on top as you don't really get that many happy endings in wrestling since most wrestlers don't get the chance to have an elaborate retirement storyline. What more is there to say about this legend who has committed so much to professional wrestling? For the longest time he was my favourite ever pro wrestler. He had the coolest look and he had an uncanny ability to make a crowd come alive just with a look or a motion. His was also the first wrestling figure I was ever gifted although I didn't get another one until later that year so I had to get him to wrestle my old Power Rangers figures and Ninja Turtles figures which was kind of lame. Congratulations and happy retirement to the mighty Stinger on a truly legendary career.

After having a good cry that lasted approximately four hours over the realization that I had seen the final performance of one of my childhood heroes I decided to go for a run…but fifty yards down the road I started sobbing again and had to come back. After three or four more attempts and having to change out of my running clothes after soaking them with tears I finally pulled myself together and headed off properly. This was more of a sped up walk than a run but the reason for this was I was planning to do a proper run tonight in order to make a real impact in my weight loss programme so I took this one nice and easy so that I wouldn't overwork my legs. Instead of listening to music I listened to Matt Lucas being interviewed on Richard Herring's podcast where he talked openly and honestly about the content he created for Little Britain that nowadays is seen as unacceptable. To his credit he didn't make excuses and is very regretful but gave a lot of the character portrayals context and explanations as to why at the time he and a lot of other people didn't see them as insensitive. Sometimes controversial comedy isn't done out of malice but because the comedians have decided to tackle a subject they think they have a good understanding of but they may have their blind-spots that they don't realize need to be taken into consideration. For example when Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator he did so because of what he knew about Hitler the man but he was unaware of the death camps he was setting up at the time and as such later expressed regret over making the film.

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