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Roma is killing me.

Stop trying to name second generation NXT 2.0 guys. This is the Rampage thread.

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.

lol

Also, the Minnesota Homewrecking Crew is just a bonkers good team name.

Somebody eventually has to play transitional champ and drop it early into their reign or you will have a lot of heatless title matches.

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/

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?

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.

It's cool, the last 18 months are basically one long indeterminate schmear of time

Perfect picture, no notes.

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?

Eddie Kingston vs Heidi Lovelace (Ruby Soho) in Indiana, in 2013.

I'd have thought it was an Andy Sidaris movie.

NWA TV white title strap

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.

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.

"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

Alex Shelley. He was exactly like Alex Shelley.

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.

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 ?

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."

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.

Watch Deadwood

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.

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".

Fucking hell Tommy Dreamer why don't you try to be the Innovator of Silence from now on.

Holy shit

Naomi is best as a face, but her joining the Bloodline to help get what's hers would be boss.

Dennis and Randy on one team, bobby and Stan on the other.

Hobbs title when? If he can cut promos like that in the ring regularly he needs to be strapped to a rocket to the top ASAP.

Dan Lambert doing his best to give a shoot opinion without torpedoing his own gimmick.

On the Cole point — that pop he gets pointing to the ground then rising up on his entrance is legitimately one of the biggest repeatable week-to-week pops in 20 years. He and Baker have it absolutely nailed on how to move crowds.

Chip damage

Not sure if there will be anything this year more indie then then sentence "Allie Katch threatens to stab Paul Scheer with a knife in a match between Tony Deppen and Ron Funches"

There must be a huge internal struggle going on right now between super fan TK, businessman TK, and solid human TK.

That "fan" angle was abysmal and a complete waste of time. In fact, anything involving a "fan" is always atrocious(ok, maybe with the exception of the Earthquake debut. lol). Absolutely no one believed that was an actual fan, which garners no sympathy for the fan or Cassidy and minimal heat for Hardy/Evans and a complete dud of a segment. Not gonna win 'em all I guess.

I didn't know Tim Sylvia posted here.

Vince ain't your average boss. He helped cover-up a murder. A little cock twirling ain't no big thing to him.

I’m really loving the Andrade stuff a lot than before. He comes off like a cartel boss getting pissed off that his southern Waffle House waitress doesn’t understand what he’s saying.

So I had a ticket to sell because my friend couldn't go and I found a buyer. I sold it through stubhub and had no idea who bought but I knew when I got to the show, I'll be seated next to that person. I get to the show and for the whole night, that seat is empty. I thought maybe that person missed the show too. I get an email last night saying "the ticket was put to good use" and it's a picture of the fan dressed up as Dusty Rhodes! That guy was over big time everyone last night.

I found his 30 for 30 interesting because they allow him to tell some of the public nudity stories like they’re hilarious anecdotes, but the animated re-enactments make it seem pathetic and sad. Ric’s responsible for his own dumbass decisions, but it’s troubling how much Richard Fliehr was enabled and encouraged by an entire industry of people that needed him to be Ric Flair in real life. It wasn’t just promoters protecting an asset. He was a sexually aggressive problem drinker being egged on by younger wrestlers who treated partying with him like getting a Ribera jacket.

My interpretation was that Butcher and Blade were (are?) mercenaries with a butcher shop being the 'front' business where you go to contact them. So while they do actual butcher work, its the way they launder the money from the illicit business. The characters are a little muddy in that they have added in S&M apparel (especially Blade and Bunny) and the association with the Hardy Family which its unclear if Matt is paying them or vice versa like how he is explicitly taking money from Private Party.