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Roman Reigns pinned AJ Styles to win 4-way match that included Randy Orton and LA Knight for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at the 2024 Royal Rumble.

Styles, Knight, and Orton kicked off the match going after the champ and beating him down in the corner. Styles quickly turned his attention to Knight and the two went at it while Orton continued to work on Reigns.

The action spilled to the outside, where Knight slammed Styles against the announce table and Orton picked up and threw Reigns on top of the table. Orton tried to do the same to Knight, who reversed with a backflip and slammed Orton’s head into the table. Orton then got him back by picking up Knight and throwing him on top of the table.

Orton rolled Reigns into the ring and went to work with lower body stomps before throwing him to the outside. Styles got into the ring and was met with a powerslam before Knight attacked Orton from behind, while Reigns finally got some momentum knocking down Knight and hitting him with his signature short arm clotheslines in the corner. Styles hit Reigns from behind and again worked his legs, and Reigns hit a gigantic back body drop before taunting to the crowd and setting up for a Superman Punch on Knight, which was reversed.

Knight hit Orton with a running bulldog, then jumped to the other side of the ring and hit a suplex from the top rope on Styles. Styles landed the Pele kick on Reigns before connecting with the Styles Clash for a two count. Orton tossed Knight to the apron and landed the signature DDT.

Styles tried to set up for the Phenomenal Forearm, but Orton hit an RKO, followed by RKOs on Knight and Reigns. He went for the pin on Reigns, but Solo Sikoa pulled the ref out at the two count.

Sikoa hit a Samoan Spike on Orton, then on Knight. He dragged Knight onto Orton, then ran through the barricade as he tried to take out Styles. The Phenomenal One climbed back into the ring and connected on Reigns, then piled up all three opponents for only a two count.

Styles rolled out of the ring to grab a chair, hitting Reigns over and again in the back. He then hit Knight and turned his attention to Orton, who caught him with an eye rake. Reigns landed the Spear and Reigns pushed Knight into the ropes, knocking Styles off and eventually hitting him with a spear for the pinfall.

Listen, I’m not going to sit here and tell you to be amazed by the stuff Victor Wembanyama does. You are your own person, and you can consume things with whatever level of awe you want. Having said that, I have no clue how anyone can watch Victor Wembanyama, who is 7’4 and 20 years old, do a perfect Shammgod while being guarded by Rudy Gobert and not find themselves in a state of pure amazement.

Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs played host to Gobert and the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. During the game’s second quarter, Wembanyama got the ball at the top of the key with Gobert on him. He proceeded to do a dribble move that guys much smaller than him (this includes Lamar Odom!) feel comfortable doing in an game, and then he just — and I am sorry, but I need to use caps here — WENT RIGHT OVER THE TOP OF THREE-TIME NBA DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR RUDY GOBERT for a layup that banked off the glass and went in.

Maybe someone will figure out a way to stop this stuff someday, but then again, Wembanyama is still new to being an NBA player and can still get better. Anyway, when Gobert and Wembanyama are with the French national team for the Olympics in Paris this summer, I hope Wemby teaches him how to do this.

WWE went down to St. Petersburg on Saturday night for the Royal Rumble, and to kick things off, 30 women entered the ring to determine who will main event WrestleMania this year. And after entering third and eliminating seven other competitors, Bayley was able to get the job done and win the match for the first time in her decorated career.

Natalya and a returning Naomi kicked things off, with the latter’s return being the first big surprise of the night — Saturday marked the first time that Naomi, who had been competing in TNA, stepped into a WWE ring since May of 2022.

As the ring started to fill up, one of the biggest surprises of the night came in the number five spot, as Jordynne Grace, the reigning TNA Knockouts World Champion, entered the Rumble. While in the ring, she shared an embrace with Naomi, who she beat to win the title earlier this month.

The next surprise entrant looked like it was going to come at No. 24, when Valhalla started to make her way down to the ring. And then, R-Truth’s music hit, and he entered the Rumble and got thrown out by Nia Jax. After getting told by Adam Pierce that Truth was in the wrong Rumble, Valhalla then entered and was immediately tossed by Jax.

At 28, WWE fans got to see the highly-anticipated debut of Jade Cargill, who made the jump from AEW in October but never stepped in the ring. She immediately went face-to-face with Jax in the center of the ring, picked her up, slammed her to the mat, picked her up again, and threw her out of the match.

The final three competitors ended up being Bayley, Cargill, and Liv Morgan. All three made their way out onto the apron and traded blows, and ultimately, despite losing her Damage CTRL stablemates earlier in the match, Bayley was able to take advantage of Morgan eliminating Cargill by tossing her to the floor and earning herself a title shot at WrestleMania following a Women’s Royal Rumble record 63:03 in the ring.

Bayley’s seven eliminations were second only to Jax, who eliminated a match-high eight other competitors.

Order Entered

1. Natalya
2. Naomi
3. Bayley
4. Candice LeRae
5. Jordynne Grace
6. Indi Hartwell
7. Asuka
8. Ivy Nile
9. Katana Chance
10. Bianca Belair
11. Kairi Sane
12. Tegan Nox
13. Kayden Carter
14. Chelsea Green
15. Piper Niven
16. Xia Li
17. Zelina Vega
18. Maxxine Dupri
19. Nia Jax
20. Shotzi
21. Becky Lynch
22. Alba Fyre
23. Shayna Baszler
24. Valhalla
25. Michin
26. Zoey Stark
27. Roxanne Perez
28. Jade Cargill
29. Tiffany Stratton
30. Liv Morgan

Order Eliminated

1. Indi Hartwell
2. Candice LeRae
3. Natalya
4. Tegan Nox
5. Kairi Sane
6. Asuka
7. Jordynne Grace
8. Kayden Carter
9. Xia Li
10. Ivy Nile
11. Maxxine Dupri
12. Piper Niven
13. Katana Chance
14. Chelsea Green
15. Valhalla
16. Alba Fyre
17. Zelina Vega
18. Shayna Baszler
19. Michin
20. Shotzi
21. Nia Jax
22. Zoey Stark
23. Roxanne Perez
24. Becky Lynch
25. Naomi
26. Tiffany Stratton
27. Bianca Belair
28. Jade Cargill
29. Liv Morgan

In 2013, Zerlina Maxwell ignited a firestorm of controversy when she strongly recommended we stop telling women how to not get raped.

Here are her words, from the transcript of her appearance on Sean Hannity’s show:

“I don’t think that we should be telling women anything. I think we should be telling men not to rape women and start the conversation there with prevention.”

So essentially — instead of teaching women how to avoid rape, let’s raise boys specifically not to rape.

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There was a lot of ire raised from that idea. Maxwell was on the receiving end of a deluge of online harassment and scary threats because of her ideas, which is sadly common for outspoken women on the Internet.

People assumed it meant she was labeling all boys as potential rapists or that every man has a rape-monster he carries inside him unless we quell it from the beginning.

But the truth is most of the rapes women experience are perpetrated by people they know and trust. So fully educating boys during their formative years about what constitutes consent and why it’s important to practice explicitly asking for consent could potentially eradicate a large swath of acquaintance rape. It’s not a condemnation on their character or gender, but an extra set of tools to help young men approach sex without damaging themselves or anyone else.

But what does teaching boys about consent really look like in action?

Well, there’s the viral letter I wrote to my teen titled “Son, It’s Okay If You Don’t Get Laid Tonight” explaining his responsibility in the matter. I wanted to show by example that Maxwell’s words weren’t about shaming or blaming boys who’d done nothing wrong yet, but about giving them a road map to navigate their sexual encounters ahead.

There are also rape prevention campaigns on many college campuses, aiming to reach young men right at the heart of where acquaintance rape is so prevalent. Many men are welcoming these efforts.

And then there are creative endeavors to find the right metaphors and combination of words to get people to shake off their acceptance of cultural norms and see rape culture clearly.

This is brilliant:

There you have it. Seven comparisons that anyone can use to show how simple and logical the idea of consent really is. Consent culture is on its way because more and more people are sharing these ideas and getting people to think critically. How can we not share an idea whose time has come?

This article originally appeared on 06.27.15

Austin Butler’s life changed with Elvis, but to some he’s the guy who cut his teeth on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon fare. To others, though, his breakthrough was as Tex Watson, convicted Manson murderer, in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As the killer, he’s alternately terrifying and pathetic, even before he’s gruesomely dispatched by Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth. (Note: In real life Watson is still very much alive and still very much incarcerated.) It’s not a huge role, but it was juicy enough that Butler shot down another big, very different movie.

“I ended up having to choose between going to the screen test for Top Gun: Maverick or saying yes to Quentin Tarantino,” Butler revealed on a recent live episode of the podcast Happy Sad Confused (as caught by IndieWire). “I’d already met with [Tarantino], so I did that.”

Butler didn’t reveal which Maverick character he would have tested for. Was it the gung ho show-off Hangman, ultimately played by Glen Powell? One of the others with fun code names? Whatever the case, he would have had to undergo some truly painful-sounding training and flown in actual planes? Instead he got to have Brad Pitt fake-beat the crap out of him while one of the 2019’s best movie dogs gorged on his nuts.

Besides, he got to do some piloting later anyway, in Apple TV+’s new show Masters of the Air, so it all worked out in the end.

(Via IndieWire)

It’s incredible to imagine that Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime. “The Red Vineyard” sold in Brussels a few months before his death for just 400 Francs.

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Now, he’s celebrated as one of the greatest artists who ever lived.

In this incredible clip from “Dr. Who” we get to see what his reaction may have been if he saw his art today.

This article originally appeared on 02.21.20

To most indie rock fans, Morrissey canceling a show wouldn’t come as a shock. The Smiths’ former frontman reportedly once pulled out of a concert in Los Angeles because he was “too cold.” But when Morrissey announced that he would be hitting the road to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his album, You Are The Quarry, folks held out hope.

Unsurprisingly, both scheduled gigs were canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Following pushback from ticketholders, Morrissey’s tour manager, Donnie Knutson, took to the musician’s official Facebook page to explain why the performances were pulled.

“Morrissey is receiving medical supervision for physical exhaustion,” he wrote. “He has been ordered to rest for two weeks, and he will remain in Zurich.”

Given the medical reasoning behind the You Are The Quarry anniversary shows being canceled, supporters have begun to ease up on Morrissey. The explanation post has since been flooded by fans wishing Morrissey a speedy recovery. It is unclear if the shows will be rescheduled. As of January 27, Morrissey nor the previous venues set to host the shows have shared any additional information.

With no performance on the books, fans hope that his previously announced album, Bonfire of Teenagers, will finally receive a release date.

When Jimmy Kimmel takes to the street, you know you’re in for a good laugh at just how little we actually know about, well, seemingly anything. That goes for anatomy too. In this case, female anatomy.

In a segment called “What Do You Know About The Female Body?” men try—and hilariously fail—to answer even the most basic questions, like “does a female have one uterus, or two?” much to the amazement of some of their female partners.

Here are some of the very best bits of nonwisdom:

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Woman have LOTS of fallopian tubes and ovaries, apparently.

When asked, “how many fallopian tubes does the average lady have?” one man prefaced with “I know I’m gonna be way off,” before answering “four.”

He was right about being way off, indeed. Women usually have one fallopian tube on either side of the uterus, making that two fallopian tubes.

Another guy guessed that a woman has not one, not two, but six ovaries. Which, in case you didn’t know, is three times more than the correct answer (two ovaries, one on either side of the uterus). Where would a woman keep four extra ovaries? Her purse?

A mammogram examines the stomach.

The interviewer also asked: “What part of the body does the mammogram examine?”

“The lower half…” replied one man. Yikes.

And when asked to demonstrate where exactly the “lower half” is, he gestured toward the uppermost part of his belly, seemingly avoiding the actual area a mammogram covers entirely.

PMS is all in the mind, but only annually.

The next question up was “What does PMS stand for?”

One man shyly answered, “Post…mental…syndrome?”

One outta three ain’t bad. But the correct answer is premenstrual syndrome.

And it definitely happens more than “once a year.”

An IUD is a “mammogram device.”

Oh, and a NuvaRing is a “pap schmear,” and a speculum is the actual “IUD.” Holy moly, if you thought IUDs were uncomfortable before…

Things really took a turn once the graphics came out.

And men were asked to point to where the cervix is. Plenty of things were pointed at—like the uterus. But sadly, no cervix findings.

Changing gears, the interview instructed the men to “point at something you know.”

To which one man replied (inaccurately) “uh…that’s a baby?”

Unless the woman is giving birth to a colon, that was incorrect.

Later in the video, a man is asked “where does the baby go?”

“In there,” the man answers after pointing to the ovaries. (Spoiler alert: It doesn’t go there. A fetus grows in the uterus, which this man thought was the cervix.)

His wife, a gynecologist no less, chuckled “I’m mortified…I’m apparently not a very good educator at home for my husband.”

Though this is just for pure fun, it is food for thought.

A woman’s autonomy over her own body has been the subject of much controversial discussion lately. And I can’t help but wonder how certain politicians/leaders would fare if given the same questions. Perhaps it is unwise to try to govern that which is not fully understood, just saying.

You can catch the full segment here:

This article originally appeared on 01.14.22

In Maestro, stars Bradley Cooper (who also directed) and Carey Mulligan have great chemistry. Of course they do: They had a great meet-cute of sorts. Per HuffPost, the two went on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, where they revealed how the first time they met, he had to take her straight away to the emergency room.

The incident happened back in 2018, when Cooper went to see Mulligan’s one-woman performance of Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys in New York City. Things went a bit sideways, though, after the show.

“I went to meet her backstage and she was prone … because one of the sets had hit her in the top of the head halfway through the play,” Cooper recalled. “I went back and I was like, ‘Are you OK?’ “And she was not OK, at all. And so we went to the emergency room.”

Mulligan then told the story from her perspective, saying that no one had noticed she’d been hit because it happened during a blackout of the stage. Since no one had seen it, she just “carried on.” Only after the performance ended did she realize, through tears, how much pain she was in.

“I just couldn’t stop crying, and I thought I was really a goner,” Mulligan remembered. “You know, you get it in your head with a head injury, like, ‘Well that’s it.’ And then I was sobbing on the floor and … someone came in and said, ’Sorry, so sorry — Bradley Cooper [is here].”

She explained, “So he came in and looked me in the eye, and was like, ‘You’re not all right.’ And we went to the emergency room.”

It all worked out in the end. Mulligan obviously recovered and continued doing the play. And a handful of years later she earned her third Best Actress nomination as Felicia Montealegre, esteemed actress and Leonard Bernstein’s wife of 27 years.

You can watch Cooper and Mulligan discuss their memorable first meeting in the video below. Maestro‘s up for seven Academy Awards, though Cooper would have rather had an Eagles win.

(Via HuffPost)

Following her faith-altering health scare in 2023, Madonna’s Celebration Tour has taken on a whole new meaning. Unfortunately, two concertgoers weren’t feeling the love when the “Open Your Heart” singer stopped in their selected city.

At Madonna’s show on December 13 at the Barclays Center, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, were so peeved off by the star’s lateness — a nearly two-hour delay — that they filed a lawsuit against her. Back in December, a source close to the matter told People that the delay was caused by spillover technical issues from soundcheck. However, fans who attended shows in Europe echoed Fellows and Hadden’s anger, claiming Madonna was also late to those performances.

Now Madonna’s management is clapping back at the lawsuit and the growing narrative that Madonna is excessively tardy to performances. Representatives for her reached out to EW to comment on the legal filing. “The shows opened in North America at Barclays in Brooklyn as planned,” said the source. “With the exception of a technical issue on December 13 during soundcheck. This caused a delay that was well documented in press reports at the time. We intend to defend this case vigorously.”

Madonna’s Celebration Tour is still in full swing. View the remaining tour dates here.

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