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  1. Stop trying to name second generation NXT 2.0 guys. This is the Rampage thread.
    5 points
  2. I'm not exactly sure why, but I found it screamingly hilarious that Ruby delivers her big "banging one of the boys in the back" line, they go to crowd reaction shots, and one of them is a guy in a Penta mask doing the Cero Miedo taunt.
    5 points
  3. Also, the Minnesota Homewrecking Crew is just a bonkers good team name.
    4 points
  4. Somebody eventually has to play transitional champ and drop it early into their reign or you will have a lot of heatless title matches.
    4 points
  5. this all reminds me of this article from The HardTimes https://thehardtimes.net/culture/heavily-tattooed-band-tired-of-being-asked-if-they-are-chefs/
    4 points
  6. I'll go back to Remy vs Aledo at some point because I have a couple more images to source, but I just saw this and it's awesome. It's from Batman vs Teddy Boy and I was not expecting Batman to be so freaking athletic and technically sound: Has anyone ever seen this counter before?
    4 points
  7. The idea that they're doing an Aja Kong vs a young Rookie progression angle with Miro and Fuego, and in a year or two Fuego will actually be able to beat him? That's a good lucha thing. I think having the entire heel control segment take place during the PinP must be hurting the tag match, because I watched it on Fite and thought the match as a whole was really good.
    4 points
  8. It's cool, the last 18 months are basically one long indeterminate schmear of time
    4 points
  9. 4 points
  10. I can't blame Terri for this. If every woman goes to court for every time some dude harrasses them, our entire justice system would collapse because we don't have enough lawyers, judges, courtrooms, etc. Seriously, I'm not a woman, but I have enough close female friends to know that this shit happens to almost all of them fairly regularly. It's like racism. I'm not saying every time someone claims racism, that it is credible, but as a black person I know that I don't have nearly enough free time to file some sort of complaint every time it comes up. I have no idea how or why anyone on earth would think that a 50+ year old man trying to force a woman to touch his spinning penis is funny, especially after you sober up and have time to think about it for more than .1 second. Tommy Dreamer thinking it's all OK roughly 20 years later is fucking infuriating. You know the craziest part of this entire thing is to me? The fact that not only was their boss on the plane, but the boss' wife was on the plane, and they did all this bullshit any way. Can you imagine whipping your dick out on a plane with your boss?
    4 points
  11. Eddie Kingston vs Heidi Lovelace (Ruby Soho) in Indiana, in 2013.
    3 points
  12. I'd have thought it was an Andy Sidaris movie.
    3 points
  13. In defense of Tommy... No, really! Hear me out! His stupid statements were always cut to right after after Heidi Doyle's heavier segments. It made it seem like Tommy was responding directly to everything Heidi was saying, as if he were in the same room or at least had been viewing her footage. This is a very old editing trick, and you will see it in almost any documentary you watch. You'll see it all the time when they're trying to edit a story into a reality or competition show. It was a touch manipulative, and made Dreamer's already repugnant statements seem that much repugnant-er. This does not excuse or condone a thing Tommy said. This does not make Heidi Doyle's story any less true or troubling. I just think the show's editing was very MTV's The Real World when it didn't need to be. Ignorant as Tommy was, I'm willing to believe he'd never heard Heidi Doyle tell her side of the story. If I were Tommy's PR, I would tell him to say something along the lines of "Prior to the airing of this episode, I was unaware and misinformed in regards to Heidi Doyle's recollection of that day's events" followed by a few hundred apologies and public contrition via another kendo stick shot to the nuts.
    3 points
  14. Ryo Mizunami does the best sell of a sleeper after Yuu puts her out. They wake her up and she goes straight back to going after Yuu in a daze of confusion. So great. SEAdLINNNING is so awesome.
    3 points
  15. "The power of D.Z compels you..." This is especially funny since the link didn't work until I put it in a separate tab
    3 points
  16. Alex Shelley. He was exactly like Alex Shelley.
    3 points
  17. I've only seen a handful of Gargano matches, but what I've seen has been exceptional. He'd obviously be a great addition. The snobbery that leads to ppl groaning over him is as ridiculous as the trolling hate for Omega, the Bucks, etc. etc. Go watch some Raw and find yourself a better reason to complain.
    3 points
  18. And similarly... https://thehardtimes.net/culture/tattooed-barber-excited-to-give-everyone-that-one-haircut-today/ I was in the local punk scene for a good chunk of change and new at least 3 barbers, not so many chefs ?
    3 points
  19. Fuego del Sol next week: "You know what I had to do Tony? I swallowed these keys. You know how I got them back out? Yeah... but hey, I don't have to take the bus again."
    3 points
  20. There were a lot of great lines tonight. I think everyone was trying to keep up with Punk. Taz on the plant: "There's no way he has a wife." Jericho on Britt: "IS IT A CRIIIME TO BE IN LUUUUV" Miro: "I like my God up above, and my wife down low." Plus the snarky snap about Adam Cole from Ruby before the Tony comment took it way too shooty when they'd already brought up Adam and WWE. Agreed, don't give the mutants something to chant, but hey it was funny. And the wrestling was perfectly fine, though the tag match was... ehhhhh. Butcher and Blade, cool as they look, just don't do it for me as a team, and I've been tired of Lucha Bros.
    3 points
  21. Around that time they did the same with just about everyone they repackaged, mention their "real"/former name on the first appearance and then the nickname became their ring name. Curt Hennig/Mr Perfect, Davey Boy Smith/British Bulldog, Kerry Von Erich/Texas Tornado, Ricky Steamboat/The Dragon. They didn't do it with Smash/Repo Man I would imagine because it was two complete gimmick characters, but also they never refenced Hawaiian Crush as the former Demolition Crush despite him using the same name so it might have also been because of the lawsuit over the Demolition name and gimmick. I've never seen Barry Windham's debut as the Widowmaker which is in this this timeframe so I don't know if they acknowledged him as Barry Windham, former 2 time tag champ, son of Blackjack Mulligan etc. He did it at WM6 as well, asking Gorilla if he knew "Perfect's old man, the Ax". It confused me as a new fan of American wrestling and I thought Demolition Ax was Mr Perfect's father for quite a while.
    3 points
  22. Chioda came off like the dork whom the cool kids let hang out with them every so often and goes out of his way to kiss their asses because he thinks he gets to be "one of the boys".
    3 points
  23. Fucking hell Tommy Dreamer why don't you try to be the Innovator of Silence from now on.
    3 points
  24. Now I'm imagining Dreamer getting his going like someone starting the propeller on an old-timey plane. So, thanks for that.
    2 points
  25. I see that Hikuleo is really good at powerslams.
    2 points
  26. Drip Queen. I saw she wore a huge ass fur coat last week, that was boss.
    2 points
  27. We'll see what the spot really is, but WWE has been reasonably high on Carmella for a while and Morgan is an on-off project ever since NXT (when she wasn't really any good but still got featured). It's not that surprising that they get rotated in here.
    2 points
  28. I knew I was right about him.
    2 points
  29. Parroting WWE's perception of any talent or anything on their television is at least 20 plus years out of touch. It's like calling released talent 'WWE rejects' and assuming AEW will handle said talent like TNA did years ago. Mind you that argument seems to have been mostly silenced by the likes of Miro, Malakai Black, Andrade, 2 point fuckin 0, Tay Conti, etc. etc. etc.
    2 points
  30. Per cagematch, the Suwama-Ashino team in All Japan is called Runaway SUPLEX.
    2 points
  31. There must be a huge internal struggle going on right now between super fan TK, businessman TK, and solid human TK.
    2 points
  32. "Still has a 24-inch neck. he said i gotta lose 20 pounds... i said get your neck down to 18 you'll lose it!"
    2 points
  33. Welp, I guess that Gunn Club video did enough convincing.
    2 points
  34. It brings me immense joy that the 2021 version of Big Bubba Rogers or Meng is Taz’s 22 year old kid.
    2 points
  35. Ya Chioda just came across and a guy who didn’t wanna grow up. Flair (in my opinion) has always been one of the biggest pieces of shit in the business so none of this really surprises me. Dreamers comments were a surprise to me but I guess I never cared too much about him to listen to him before.
    2 points
  36. I always catch myself thinking about the "Lost Generation" of US pro-wrestlers who existed after the demise of WCW/ECW and before the NXT talent raids. Like, I don't think we realized what was happening during those 18 years of WWE dominance and TNA futility. I don't think we realized it was a period in wrestling history when things were not the way they were supposed to be. Even (especially?) die-hard fans were so pessimistic about the whole thing that we just assumed wrestling wasn't ever going to be cool again, the UFC took all the legitimacy away, Benoit took away all the joy, the demise of WCW took away all the creativity, and somehow our favorite thing deserved to be portrayed to the masses as a largely stupid and childish form of entertainment. That's why I think it's really important to remember and celebrate the generation of wrestlers who peaked in that era and never got to make the millions of dollars & fans that they would have in any other. Off the top of my head, Homicide, Nigel McGuinness, and Chris Hero are the big-name indy superstars that come to mind but after that first tier comes a bunch of bigger what-ifs. Alex Shelley, Super Dragon, Eddie Edwards, maybe not headcases like Low Ki and Davey Richards. Really entertaining guys who would have gotten over as midcard acts, like a hypothetical 2002 ECW run with the Spanish Announce Team, or 2009 WCW running an odd CHIKARA tag in the first hour of Nitro. Who's to say an edgy rival doesn't counter-program the Cena era and doesn't do a Gage-esque short run with a deathmatch guy? I think the rawest deals went to the "sports entertainment" type guys who worked a real solid style but weren't flashy enough to win over spotmark indy fans, i.e. BJ Whitmer, Adam Pearce, Xavier, etc. Or European guys like Jody Fleisch who would have, at the very least, been able to garner a decent following with just a little US TV exposure or bigger US indies that could afford to fly them in. Or, here's a shocker, every woman who was in that first wave of SHIMMER talent - it is bullshit that people like Lacey or LuFisto never even had a chance to be famous. A majority of the PWG founders + early regulars had to eventually say "fuck it" and fall back on their day jobs, and I'm pretty certain time has already dimmed the glory of their deeds. Not to mention global talent like the cursed 3rd Generation of the NJPW dojo, the heavyweights that failed to inherent the throne of NOAH, and the dozens of luchadores who would have done a better job with the Sin Cara gimmick than Mistico. I guess what I'm saying is, this board was built on the discussion of monopoly-era indies and international wrestling so talking about these guys is second nature to a lot of us. But the rest of the wrestling fandom is pretty darn clueless. Don't allow these past decades to become the Dark Ages. Tell the children all your tales of B-Boy, "The Turkish Delight" Murat Bosporus, and Osamu Nishimura, or we will live in a world that will forget them.
    2 points
  37. would also explain why HANGMAN Adam Page drinks so much. Dude has seen some shit.
    2 points
  38. So… given Dark Side of the Ring, we’re all in agreement that Flair isn’t the guy for Andrade and that Khan should open the Forbidden Door to MLW to get Dario Cueto, right?
    2 points
  39. I watched exactly 60 minutes of the wrestling! The main event was good because I got to actually watch a few guys I would usually fast forward over. I noticed I can continue to fast forward past the W Morrissey matches. I didn't know Madman Fulton was good. He basically held this match together. I think I'm in love with Bryan Meyers. He sells like a weirdo. I await the Laredo Kid/ John Skyler rubber match. That was a lot of watchable wrestling. BRAVO, IMPACT! Who did Su Yung drag off?
    2 points
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