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I assume this is in response to Bix's article about Drake which cites stupid things he posts on insta, Parler, etc. Fuck Drake Wuertz. Fuck his QAnon, Proud Boy loving ass.

I don't think it gets BETTER than this.....

We are so close to getting that hobo army

WWE does cult leader gimmicks and then strips the leader of the cult, which winds up making the person look like a fucking dork. They did it multiple times to Bray. Then they did it to Seth.

Eddie confirmed they did the same with him. And Ben Carter was signed up pretty quickly after his little run as unsigned talent on AEW TV. Imagine WWE’s disappointment when they tried to hit up Top Flight last week, only to find out they were already signed. Warhorse is somewhere wondering if he missed a call.

I can shed a little light on this, I've wrestled in WCW rings, TNA rings, WWE ring, & ECW rings (not the companies, just rings that originated there). -The WCW ring was the best feeling one of them all. They had 16 foot rings and 18 foot rings. But they were custom to WCW. They didn't bounce like a trampoline, but the bump was soft. The ropes felt like planks of wood, which was great to spring off of but would give a little when you hit them. I'd liken the bump to amateur wrestling mats placed on top of pillows. Solid impact, but lots of absorption. -The newer WWE rings bump pretty good (post 1998). But they are 20 foot and a little springy when you run. You also get tired taking 4 square feet more on every send off exchange if you aren't adapted to it. The ropes suck because they're real rope. They bend a lot and don't give you nearly the spring cable ropes do. Which means they break a lot more often than cable. WWE ropes are a little higher than any other brand as well, which is probably why extremely short dudes like Rey Mysterio find it more comfortable to rebound off the middle rope instead of stretching upward to hit the top rope right. -ECW rings are what transformed into Highspots rings and get sold to most indy companies these days. Cable ropes. Good bump. 18 foot by 18 foot. Very springy while you run tho. Now AEW decided to use the Highspots / ECW style ring but custom make them themselves so they could make them 20x20 like WWE. They get the benefit of a trampoline like landing, but running on it has to be hell on your knees. The extra 4 square feet means the boards are longer and bend more in the middle amplifying the bouncing effect that was already high on Highspot rings. There's no way bumping on this ring hurts more than a New Japan ring tho. New Japan rings are pretty solid. Like a full on platform with just an amateur wrestling mat. I think Kenny's complaint isn't that it hurts more per say, but that it's so springy that it bumps completely differently and you have to take the bumps differently because of it or else your landing can fuck you up. -Worst of all tho are the 6 sided TNA rings. For fuck's sake man. Bumping in that felt like bumping in an empty parking spot. No give what so ever because of the extra tension from a hexagon shape. No bounce. No give. I'd rather take a suplex on the god damn floor. The ropes were also so god damn tight hitting them felt like it was going to slice through your torso. Awful.

This was so randomly funny. This was the first and only wrestlemania I’ve been too (had a blast). I work for a very wealthy persons estate and the day before was the annual big party where they have these taiko drummers every year as part of the entertainment. https://www.sftaiko.com Part of my many duties was to greet and escort them while they set up. They were all talking to each other about wrestlemania tomorrow and how cool it was and I was like wtf?!? That was also the first year the sensei wasn’t there because he was in Santa Clara getting ready for wrestlemania. Just random and funny and I really enjoyed the show. Really like your recaps.

I maintain that Rude getting hurt at the end of '92 just before he was going to become WCW Heavyweight Champ robbed us of some all-time great television. I've said it before, but Rude in 1992 is probably my favorite wrestler year ever. The ring work and character work were insanely good. He spent half the summer trolling Ricky Steamboat for accidentally hitting Madusa when throwing a punch, and it was legitimately one of the greatest heel troll jobs ever. What a piece of shit that character was. Rude in 1992 is up there with Midnights in 1988, Bret in 1997, Austin in 1998, and Rock in 2003 for me. Or I guess Jim Breaks in 1978, though I have less of a bead on the breadth of his work from that year.

AEW has been desperate for female talent for ages now, and they’ve shown no interest in Tessa.. WWE has shown a willingness to sign virtually anyone that they think could help their competitor, and they’ve shown no interest in her... I’d say she’s burnt her last bridge with Impact... ROH is seems pretty allergic to controversy right now after what happened with Marty... There is nowhere for her to land among the major players in North America. I think she’s going to be in Mexico for a while. It’s too bad, because she’s immensely talented. But unto every generation of Indie wrestlers, at least one talented-yet-insane asshole is born, and it looks like she was born under the sign. Fortunately for her, every asshole gets a hundred chances in America, so her time will come around again, if she plays her cards right.

Drake says he'll be praying for Bix. So he's got that going for him.

I don't know where this belongs, but Renee's new podcast, Oral Sessions, had Moxley as the first guest and that episode is an instant classic. Among the things Moxley talked about: Doing a bunch of coke and going to the library Kids, go to the library because they just give you shit for free Getting busted trying to steal a Playstation Sleeping in jeans because you always have to be ready to go He wears combat boots because they're the perfect running shoe Basically, we've done a poor job of fantasizing what Jon is really like because none of us could have imagined any of this.

Drake Wuertz posted like six pages of a note written on his iPhone talking about Bix "stalking" him.

I watched the opening promo. Matt Riddle has such a stupid fucking face. I've now come full circle on him. I started out not getting why people dug his character so much, especially people that don't dig that pothead vibe, everything about him was very annoying and he only came across as being really dumb. I started coming around to Riddle when I saw he could cut a serious promo and when he started in NXT, and now I'm back to, "this guy is the living embodiment of what I think a dumbass looks like and I can't stand him." It also doesn't help that WWE turned him into WWE RVD 2.0, except now with more words. Everything he said in his promo was awful and fell flat. It reminded me of watching one of those videos of Big Bang Theory on YouTube where there's no laugh track. Nothing is funny and nothing comes close to landing.

YES. If I remember the story correctly, Trigg had no idea Sting was a wrestler. There was some guy Trigg saw at his gym all the time and that guy was always talking about real estate whenever he saw him. Fast forward to whatever TNA show that was, and Trigg happened to see Sting in the locker room and was just like, "shit, that's Real Estate Steve from the gym!"

Okay, so the "GPU" song in Astro's Playroom is fucking GREAT, and that's on top of what's basically a glorified tech demo being an awesome experience. Please PLEASE give us a full length game ASAP.

Asuka and Lana are the new Rock n Roll Express. Lana sold an assbeating like a champ.

I always love the story about how when Frank Trigg was backstage at a TNA show and saw Sting, he only knew him as Real Estate Steve.

How to End a Man's Career in 4 Seconds, a play by Adam Pearce

I've seen PR bloodbaths but this is up there with the Invader matches as most bloody. Shane hits a gusher.

NIPPLE JONES. Also, I'm all for that Bionic Battler Robot Lady. Give me a tag team of her and Statlander any day!

Guys, let's go back to yung Jon Moxley doing coke and going to the library to read books like it's a normal thing to do.

I would like to do this thing, hope that's good with folks.

The thing about Tessa is, Impact were willing to keep her on if she apologised, and if she continued to send in video promos for the big title match (which she was planned to come back for). And she refused to do those things, so they released her. But the thing is, who runs the office in Impact? Don Callis and Scott D' Amore, right? And who is Kenny Omega's wrestling business guru? Don Callis. If Don says Tessa is unreliable and not worth the hassle, Kenny's going to listen, isn't he?

I think the Piccolo idea would work, or even the "Vegita" style were its a very self aware and self depricating Seth realizes that while yeah he can beat some of the same guys, he ain't Goku. Hes #2 and while he whines about it, he also has found happiness with a hottie. He fights with the good guys to keep his wife happy, and slowly develops grudging respect for his good guy peers.

Rebrand Gable as Shorty D.

Once again, Memphis is killing it with their city edition jerseys.

Verne Gagne was running opposition at the Forum so the NWA sent in the Marines. Love that group photo.

Somehow, someway, WWE is stealing how I run my goliath fighter in D&D: An irrational, hothead, murderhobo who doesn't know the names of the other people in his party and is constantly confused by what the mission is, except he's a savant at puzzle solving. If Braun starts solving puzzles or starts outsmarting others...

There clearly isn’t a bidding war on Tessa.

They might have implemented this after Starks and Eddie, but Cody said on the aew podcast that now the Indy guys they bring in to try out are given multi show contracts and they have a first dibs clause. Maybe now they at least have the right to match any offer. Makes sense. I also really liked seeing Hobbs out there as a face but I’m fine watching it play out.

I'm into Will Hobbs in Team Taz, I see the criticisms of turning him though. AEW does not lack for heels while top babyfaces, especially POC, are less common. Mox, Cody, Darby, and Hangman are it for faces so having Hobbs on that level would have been a welcome addition. Perhaps the idea is to Rock/NoD him to stardom but he seemed plenty hot already. Not surprising WWE tries to snap people up after they appear on Dynamite, Vince has always been a talent stealer and now more than ever they seem content to mess with AEW's momentum more than anything.

They went way back after all.

I must have missed this when it originally happened so new to me SVP getting bleeped is the clear highlight of all of this

Hall used to do that move that was like somewhere in between a chokeslam and The Rock Bottom

That whole match was a treasure; Page's outfit, Lawlor's America sweatpants, Lawlor's America briefs, Page channelling Van Damme after being blinded by powder, the turnbuckle assisted bicycle kicks, neither of them releasing the block when they simultaneously went for overhead chops, the crowd chanting "kumite", the interfering ninjas leading to these sworn enemies having to work together, Page getting resuscitated after receiving chest compressions. I'm sure I'm forgetting like a dozen things. E: Oh yeah...Lawlor doing the Lex Luger Torture Rack arm taunt and then actually picking Page up into the Rack

Don't know how I missed that. Cheers! Probably my finest hour, GIF reactions to THAT Davey Richards/Eddie Edwards superplex spot: Or this from the Most Hated Wrestler thread: "Hulk Hogan. Hated him for always winning, a sore loser when beat fairly, his repeated backstage politics like at Starrcade 1997 vs. Sting and worse of all, he's a racist piece of shit. I have utter contempt for the Hulkster. Fuck you, Hulk Hogan. Fuck right off."

http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7630-march-2019-wrestling-talk/page/48/&tab=comments#comment-850664 Perhaps my Finest Hour on the board

That's Justin Credible!

Yeah, some of the stuff regarding the Tully, Brainbusters-Demolition and that particular title change have been discussed here previously, but it only occured to me upon watching Colossal Connection win the titles, that Demolition's second title reign altogether was something of a back-up plan. What ened up being their 3rd reign only should have been their second, starting at WMVI. As a storyline, it worked out pretty well. Heenan panics, as Brainbusters lose the titles and hauls out Andre to desperately try and win them back. They do, but Andre is nearing the end of his career and Haku needs to carry the workload and Andre is mostly used as the big immovable lump that you cannot kick out from under. Demolition, embarrassed by their quick and decisive loss, level up upon the rematch and figure this out. When they lost the titles, Smash didn't tag in once, while in a match where they regained the belts, Andre didn't. So, Ax and Smash obviously figured some shit out between the matches. Heenan loses another title, loses his shit, fires Andre and gets slapped around. Andre gets to turn face and unofficially retire. Of course, this sparked something in Demolition, too! Maybe they thought, "phew, that was close" and got a third member and turned heel again, because they didn't want to feel overmatched like that again? Then LOD shows up and it's all down hill for Demos after that!

He'll sell this, He'll close that, and he'll clear escrow as quick as a cat fixer-up to code and get out of his way, he'll put up the sale sign and you'll get your pay from REAL ESTATE STEVE REAL ESTATE STEVE