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Just had a cursed thought, what if AEW bringing in Father/Son tag titles is their way of belting up Big Boom AJ and Big Justice.

Megan's not actually that big, the majority of the AEW women's division is just tiny.

Well, TBH we probably should have had a thread for them all by themselves if they were gonna keep doing this shit. This is a lot of material. Yes, I just asked for another thread. Kill me if you must.

Triple H, intentionally or not, set up this show for failure.

For that era Sid, that might as well be a 60 minute broadway.

Looking at old photos, he kind of always looked like that despite the lack of beard, but he did manage this piece of '50s wrestling cheesecake (and remember, Jimmy is STILL ALIVE).

Well, Dusty did bleed and have actual matches in ECW, whereas all Sid did was walk out, fist bump the crowd, and pick somebody up for the powerbomb. That is a pretty perfect description of how I always feel when I see him. Ancient dude with striped pants pulled up above his navel, no muscle tone, doing a bad dance to a fucking Billy Joel song. It's like, what?

No, I am also somewhat of that mind. However, I have to add in the context that by the time I saw the Boogie Woogie Man, he was pretty much done on that level. At best, I caught him at the very tail end of his run. Then, after that, it was like on TV through appearances in late era Memphis when they were struggling to put a few thousand people into the Mid South Coliseum. By then, I was wondering, "why do they keeping bringing this decrepit Rip Van Winkle looking S.O.B. back?". I had no context of why he was who he was. IMO Jimmy is one of those guys (along with other Starrcade 83 luminaries like Bugsy McGraw and Rufus R. Jones) who became obsolete once you entered a certain era of pro wrestling where even guys who were mostly personality had to display some type of "workrate". It also doesn't help that the enhancement talent once it was just a big two were guys who were insanely over qualified to be that. So even the guys losing regularly on TV would be able to put on amazing matches if you let them. There are no guys around now where their sole responsibility is to liven up the audience to a molten hot level by putting in the least amount of effort required. The closest is Dusty's 1994 mini return in WCW and also his ECW run where guys are just running into his elbow while he just stands there.

Making all those thread splits pretty silly.

New BTS w Al Getz had good discussion about JCP taping s Hercules im mid 80s.

Meathead

And yet the songs on Technical Ecstasy, which is the better album, didn't get a touch. Even Sabbath themselves pulled out "Dirty Women" for the reunion.

Yeah, I just saw a video of him claiming that, in a very much less polite way ("it was the most heavy metal thing ever because they were stupid enough to believe they made it up". Reiner isn't very well known for his tact).

I can't imagine the odds were high on three songs from Never Day Die getting played would've been very high, but here we are. And by the last two bands before Ozzy and Sabs.

If you didn't get booked, Beyonce should comp you free tickets.

I just saw a clip from GCW Backyard Wrestling of a guy called JJ Allin (heh) who set himself completely on fire in a burn suit on his way to the ring before jumping in a pool.

Because he was awesome. The crowds were super into the years long feud with Paul Jones. It's what grabbed me the day I discovered Worldwide on channel 17. And it wasn't that family friendly. He hung out with street people.

I love how we're talking about the WCW uploads in three different threads now haha

I think its more (with me) that I just don't get the marking over Jimmy. The gimmick is just soooooo weird. I get that it's super enthusiastic and family friendly and wacky, but... guess you had to be there.

Death, taxes, and the USMNT losing to Mexico in the Gold Cup.

Movies today....had to drive a bit today for one of the movie showings I saw. The Tutor (Netflix, leaving on 7/8) - 0.5/5 star Uncharted (HBO Max, leaving on 7/15) - 2.5/5 stars 28 Years Later (saw in the theaters) - 4/5 stars - rewatch, original rating 3.5/5 stars Raising Victor Vargas (Criterion Channel, leaving on 7/31) - 4/5 stars

it feels like if we had just a bit more Mid-Atlantic footage of Paul Jones, it'd boost his stock and make it obvious why he was such a big deal to people who weren't living in Crockett Country in 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8Obx3V6v8&ab_channel=snowboiiii Boy you know it's an Ian run show when some fat fuck is folding up a rebel flag in his lap when they start rolling tape EDIT: That was fuckin' nasty is what that was. The screams were real uncomfortable. That's kind of your baseline for how you might feel about that match, if you're gonna get upset by the wails of human suffering, don't watch. Ian's face in that promo after is disgusting.

The fans had been invested the Jones/Valiant feud for like 3 years. Every week something was happening in that feud. It had to come to sn end. Jimmy losing his hair was a shock so you know they'd have to really end it at Starrcade James

I can understand why JCP taped their big weekly show at Techwood, but the crowds always sounded wild in the footage from arenas for Worldwide/etc Also makes it more amazing that they managed to scorch themselves in the Carolinas Probably won't do a longer post on Bash 88 Greensboro but Heel Ron Garvin put on a show. I'm sure one of these two ring shows has had a hardcore match that just drifts from ring to ring, I know it's been done in some of the WCW WarGames shows but... although I guess trying to out-hardcore the WarGames match might be a tad unprofessional