#no i really liked the dumb gauntlet and how excited bobby was to get it for the first time 😭😭😭

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hey! can I ask for your help for a friend? haha

do the cats have anything they give out to a player after a win? I really can't remember having seen anything (they should be doing this, man. or maybe what they give out is a bj and we don't get to see it 😔)

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unfortunately this season they dont! its possible they might find something later on or theyll wait until playoffs but this is a fun opportunity to remember all of their old player of the game awards in lieu of this

because the playoff bone of 23 is like the freakiest thing theyve done but also goofier things prevail and thusly presented without much comment of days past

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My Favorite WWE Matches of 2018. In Actual Numerical Order.

10. The Men's Royal Rumble I haven't clapped in pure joy at a Royal Rumble match since 2010. We started with my bae Rusev, we had a sincere iron man in Finn Balor, we had stories for the undercard (behold Woken Matt Hardy. Bray Wyatt and poor, amazing Heath Slater, who eliminated Sheamus on his *birthday*). I almost wept when Rey Mysterio came out at 27, and I was excited throughout. Factor in that ending, which saw Shinsuke Nakamura throw out everyone's expected victor, Roman Reigns, to win it all, and then challenge AJ Styles that minute. What came after wasn't great, but we're all about moments, us wrestling fans. And if you don't think I'm HELLA stoked about this year's Rumble (Jan. 27) hoh SHIT are you wrong.

9. The Six-Pack Challenge (AJ Styles, John Cena, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler), Fastlane Something I noticed about this match immediately was the fact that the most conservative men in it (Styles, Ziggler) wore the most flamboyant tights, baby blue and shocking pink, respectively. Conservative men act out in the weirdest ways. This was a high-stakes spot-fest, a lot of hurling and whirling, a lot of hey-ho and ding dong. If you ask me to recall any of the actual action, I won't be able to. I just remember 22 minutes going by and being really happy afterward. I actually had to look up who was IN the match. Genuinely forgot Corbin was in it, even though he rammed Dolph through a Plexiglass barricade in the match.

8. Mustafa Ali vs. Buddy Murphy, 205 Live, July 3rd Vince McMahon said, after the Network ratings sagged and Enzo Amore got fired, that the Cruiserweight division was "not worth his time." So he turned it over to his son-in-law, Triple H, who fired some honest-to-God life into it. This match was fast, risky, more technically sound than the one live drummer Necrophagist hired, and felt more like a fiery indy show than it has since Alexander and Ibushi tore the house down in the CWC back in 2016. If you were sick of Finn Balor vs. Baron Corbin on EVERY RAW this year, this was the little bowl full of coffee beans at Yankee Candle Co. to cleanse the palette. Bonus points for mAybe the most creative use of ring stairs in a one-on-one encounter maybe...ever?

7. Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler, Hell in a Cell The first PPV match ol Deano had since his injury, coming back looking like a man made of boulders and pancakes, this match played skillfully off the four dissimilar styles of the four men in it, but it gets this spot mostly for the best finish of a match this year. Seth went for his beautiful superplex-into-falcon-arrow, hitting the first half of it, and then, lifting Dolph for the second bit, hit with Drew's amazing Claymore, sealing the win for Ziggler and McIntyre. Goddamn, it's a thing that still makes me smile.

6. The Men's MITB, Money In the Bank (Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe, Bobby Roode, Rusev, Kevin Owens, Finn Balor, Kofi Kingston and the Miz) CARNAGE. People falling off ladders! Ladders falling ON people! People deciding they should fall off a ladder onto ladders ONTO PEOPLE! Everyone climbing the actual mountain that is Braun Strowman! Seriously, guys this tall shouldn't be in ladder matches. It's unfair. Does anyone remember that amazing ladder match on Raw between the Undertaker and Jeff Hardy in 2002? Taker was up that ladder in two steps! Glorious carnage. Hard to keep up the energy after a 10-match card, but these men did, and brilliantly. Special mention to Braun, who showcased, through charging, smashing, slapping, and slamming, why he is a real-life Incredible Hulk. And to poor Kevin, who fell maybe 30 feet and wrestled later that same week.

5. Kurt Angle and Ronda Rousey vs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, Wrestlemania 34 I'm getting this out of the way now, because I thought it the instant it happened and I still think it; Trips and Steph's doings at Mania are their foreplay. When she came out at Mania 32 with a skull mask on, channeling Rita Repulsa and Immortan Joe with all her theatrical screaming about destiny in a floor-length coat, bustier and fishnets OVER tights, she and Triple H conceived a daughter that night. When Rousey trapped Stephanie in that armbar for almost a minute, while she writhed and screamed "NO, OH GOD NO, PLEASE NO, I'M BEGGING YOU, DON'T" in a skin-tight leather jumpsuit, I have no doubt they were trying to conceive another child. Aside from that, Kurt proved he still had it, Rousey shocked the world by being REALLY GOOD at this dumb bullshit in her debut match, and it proved to be the show-stealer at a decent Wrestlemania. It was also the ONLY time Rousey's eye makeup looked even halfway good, which is it's own feat, a year into her run.

4. Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles, TLC After two years, Daniel Bryan went from an amazing recovery, to an amazing return, to...just another mid-carder, feuding with, of all people, Big Cass. We fans of D-Bry (my current avatar) were kind of sad. We were happy that he was doing what he loved again after lesions on his brain kept him from it, but we were sad that a man so GOOD was doing so little with his prodigious talents. Like your friend who's amazingly good at guitar but has resigned himself to playing in a Wallfowers cover band. Then he went mad...again. Not because of 18 seconds, not because of his girlfriend or his tag team partner, but because he was SICK of the WORLD. Relatable. They will be remembered as two of the best in the business, forever, and this will be on the highlight reel. Another ingenious finish, too, as the Phenomenal Forearm was ducked, then the running knee was ducked into an inside cradle, which was then reversed. It was so good. It made Bryan look like who he is; fortunate, skilled and cunning. AND THEY'RE FIGHTING AGAIN AT THE RUMBLE. <3 <3 <3

3. The Gauntlet Match on the Feb 19 Raw (John Cena, Braun Strowman, Elias, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, the Miz) A Raw main event that went over 2 HOURS. And it was shown as one of the highest rated segments on Raw in literal years. It was a showcase for Elias, who is amazing. It also dumped Reigns early, surprising everyone. Most importantly, it showed that Seth Rollins is maybe the best ring general of all time. It showed that if he wanted he could carry a match with a wet paper towel and people would be invested. By no means show this to someone getting into wrestling for the first time...unless you show them the final two participants. Then absolutely show them. That is wrestling's essence distilled.

2. Daniel Bryan vs. Brock Lesnar, Survivor Series AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA oh my HEAVENS. Proof that when Brock cares, he can still go, and proof that Daniel Bryan is the literal best in the world. Years of what-if and hype actually delivering is pretty freeing and wonderful. The phrase "big fight feel" gets lobbed around a lot in wrestling. This is genuinely one of the few times it worked. Like watching Jeff Bridges as the Dude try and bring down Galactus. And almost succeeding.

1. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair, Evolution There is no way this match happened. These women love and support one another and good GOD does it show in how they carried themselves. The ultimate blow-off showdown, the best use of weapons in any match maybe ever, the crowd literally roaring and bellowing, the stiffest possible punches and spots, Charlotte rising from under a pile of announce chairs, and that climactic powerbomb off the apron. Becky Lynch IS wrestling right now, and Charlotte should be with her when she tears down the world.

Huh. That worked out.