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  1. I'm not a mod...but guys y'all need to chill. This isn't a good look for anyone who lurks and might want to actively join our community. Cut it out before this gets locked again. Please and thanks.
    9 points
  2. We should probably peer pressure Auteur Octorock (his CHIKARA name) into a road report since PS was good enough to do one last week, but I'm going to hold back lest we end up making everyone do it it and it becomes a chore. I caught 1/2 of this on my commute, scattered. Basically a bunch of interview segments, Luchasaurs, the Tornado Tag, and the main. Will catch the rest on the way home. I have nothing to say about the Tornado Tag except for that I'm so much more excited to see Rush/Andrade wrestle non-lucha guys than to see them wrestle lucha guys. Contrast is the spice of life, and way less spotty. I mean, I don't want to see them wrestle the Bucks and Omega. But OTHER non-lucha guys. The main was very good at first watch. Jericho did an excellent job with just one or two physical overstretch moments (that double underhook backbreaker for one) which you could actually attribute to the character. My favorite moment in this was when Moxley came back because Jericho was inwardly excited about the Lionheart chants. You could tell he was kind of fascinated by it all as an egomaniac character. My favorite theme was that despite asking for it, Mox was really not ready for Jericho coming out with his 1997 offense and that was a wedge to keep control. Other favorite moments were the crab through the break (I still think there should be 3 stages of the move: the regular crab, the one leg in elevated Walls, and then the high elevation, both knees behind the back Liontamer, but what do I know?). Anyway, they kept it compelling all through the break, though I would have timed it a little differently so Mox didn't get out immediately after it ended. And then the finish where Jericho had the better Walls on but was such a bloody mess that he couldn't see or breathe or keep it. Also, after the Judas Effect kick out, Jericho's shock was well acted and believable instead of overwrought and terrible. And I liked how Sammy screwed up the bat shot because while it made Aubrey look just a little dumb, it also covered why that wasn't the finish as Jericho had to rush and didn't get everything he wanted. I wish they had made a bigger deal out of the lionsault but some of that was the announce both trying to get their shit in. Jericho really has had a special 2022 in some ways. Post-Match was serene pro wrestling, just beautiful, even if I knew Punk was coming. It built and built until Mox threw up the middle fingers, Claudio hyped him up, and then Punk showed off his new muscles. I'm looking forward to going back for the Starks match and the Coffin match. Danielson vs Garcia III (2/3 Falls) should be awesome. Too bad they couldn't get Matt Smith to be the special ref. Storm vs King will be awesome if it gets time but if it gets time, it'll probably die a horrible death with the crowd and the ratings too, as they haven't used King in forever, not even on the webshows, so that's a catch-22. Rampage seems a bit too loaded but full of fun matches. Hurray for AEW.
    9 points
  3. Segunda Caida: still the most influential force in wrestling
    8 points
  4. I’ll get it up tonight. Got home very late. After Rampage I was tuckered. Dropped buddy off at his home and had a slice (details coming) just after midnight with the wife. Highlights to look forward to - my beard being dryer than normal - selling used camera gear at my company I don’t work at anymore - regretting not getting nachos and then feeling like I made the right decision
    8 points
  5. I too have Thursday thoughts on da grapples! Darby vs Brody fucking rocked. The Sting stuff ruled too. Everyone was chanting "WE WANT STING" and I'm expecting the lights to go out again and instead Sting was in the coffin. Holy shit this match. Brody does a, ahem, KING SIZED BLADE JOB right at the fucking start of the match! I love this fucking guy so much. It sucks that Black's back is fucked six ways to Sunday, but at least they have Brody to do the full time work. DARBY WILL DIE FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT. My god, this guy. Darby killing himself isn't anything new, and yet, it never ceases to amaze me at how he will just annihilate his body to get a match over. I said it earlier, but my thought as soon as this match ended was "Do Mox vs Darby and PUT THE TITLE ON DARBY" if Punk wasn't able to return. We're still due a Mox vs Darby match where Darby wins. TORNADO TAG TEAM MATCH! Fuck yeah! The best kind of tag match! Weirdly enough, for two guys like La Sombra and Rush who can be stiff motherfuckers, they were laying in some feather light shots throughout the match. I'm not sure if that's a respect thing for Penta and Fenix or a taking liberties thing with everyone else, but I'm sure it's a little bit of both. Even still, the match rocked. Awwww naw, you done fucked up now Malakai Black. You're going to send in Julia Ghoulia to entice the motherfuckin' Redeemer when his wife is CJ Perry?! Hell no. The Redeemer is a faithful man and a man of violence and he's coming for you, brother! Dug all of the promos between Mox, Jericho, and JAS. Wished we had a promo from Claudio being super polite. Daniel Garcia might be the biggest scumbag in wrestling. Not only does he have Diaz brother energy, he has some big time Bad News Brown energy too. And that kid is super young. He should retire with no less than 20 world title runs. I am thankful for the Rayne vs Jade match because despite how much that match sucked, it gave us the gif of the year with Athena mocking Jade. Someone in this Athena vs Jade match is getting fucked up. WARDLOW HAS A POSSE AND THEIR NAME IS FTR. The pops that FTR are getting right now are downright insane. Wardlow getting Singh up for the powerbomb is going to be something else. I hope he can pull it off. The main event was fucking everything. Jericho comes out to Electric Head Part 2 and man, that TRT is really paying off for Jericho. It's truly a fountain of youth for him. And come on, this fucking guy has to at least be on TRT to look like that at his age. Mox is starting to look like all of those pints of ice cream every night are starting to pay off. Dad Bod Mox is the best Mox. So folks, do you like blading and hardways because my god, these two guys looked at what Brody did in the opener and were like, "we can top that." Jericho's nose was already busted and then he splits open his fucking skull and I'm like, "STOP, HE'S ALREADY DEAD!" And Moxley bladed his ear. Jericho's tap out moment made me laugh because he's selling dying in those chokehold and then comes to life enough for a big ol' tap out. Then I'm thinking that should be the end of the JAS and BCC stuff and nope, IT. WILL. NOT. END. Sorry everyone in the BCC, but you've been caught in the Jericho booking vortex of doom where the feud will take a year off of your career and have no end in sight. Staredown between Punk and Mox was cool and Mox should finally be a heel in something and have it be organic. PRO WRESTLING FUCKING RULES
    6 points
  6. For fuck’s sake. How tacky. What would the tax hit on those be? Surely not too much for a supposed billionaire. What a couple of grade A world class scumbags.
    5 points
  7. TULLY'S LAST MATCH! Conrad going to work his way down that Crockett ladder, with diminishing returns, until we get the rousing finale of the storied career of Snake Brown.
    5 points
  8. I'm personally very happy to see this.
    5 points
  9. What a year Jon Moxley is having since finishing rehab.
    5 points
  10. To distract Phil from how the Yankees are currently playing...
    5 points
  11. Anyway, since I know you all look forward to this; SHOW THOUGHTS. -A lot of guys on the Jim Cornette subreddit were bitching about how balls to the wall this match got in the first minute or so. I say fuck those people. Fuck them twice, actually. Once for subscribing to that sub (I don't, but reddit keeps recommending it), and again for bitching about this. Every second of this fucking ruled. Brody King looked like that meme that goes around from the Passion of the Christ set where Mel Gibson is talking to Jim Caviezel while Jimmy C is in full Lord and Savior getup. My mans looked like he tried to motorboat an actual motorboat. This match ruled. Bud Matthews is always welcome on my tv. Looks like HOB vs Sting/Miro/Darby at All Out, unless HOB is in the finals for the trios. They should be, but they won't be. I dug the finish. Protected Brody while keeping Darbs where he needs to be in his gimmick match. Hope to see more of the House of Black, because they rule. -Mox is such a fantastic promo. This one wasn't even anything special, but Mox is so far ahead of everyone on the mic not named Kingston that it comes off as a big deal. -I'm a BIG Andrade fan. I haven't seen much RUSH but early returns have been promising. I can see why Regal wanted to bring RUSH in to nXt. He's got that WWE look to him. Glad he's All Elite instead. I liked this a lot, and I liked Los Fashion Instagrams going over. I hope this trend continues. Have I mentioned I love Andrade? -I'll refrain from saying much about the Bucks/Hanger segment. It was fine. I like the "Lost" phase for Hangman. I think eventually they should circle back around to him as champ, but for now "interloping goof/man of the people" suits him well. I feel like short Jackson was directly referring to me when he talked about the people that don't like the Bucks online. It made me snicker. -New-chasaurus is extremely my shit. I can't decide who's side he's on, but he hasn't directly affected Jungle Boy or Christian Cage as of yet. Part of me wants it to be exactly what Jungle Boy says; simply keeping Christian safe until JB got back. I anxiously await the Jungle Boy/Christian match. Christian is another effortlessly good promo. I hope AEW's backstage crew are union, so they get that insurance coverage. -Despite online rumors, Miro appears to be having the time of his life with these promos. Julia sure didn't try very hard to get Miro in the fold. This shit is really fun to me, and if we get Miro & Brody King bumpin' meat in the near future it'll be a treat. -I was hoping the Factory would go away when Cody did. This feels like a real waste of Ricky Starks' time. Will Hobbs is going to be a STAR. -I'm not sure why this thing with Wardlow and Jay Lethal has to continue. Let's move Wardog on to something more substantial. Satnam Singh is HUGE. If they play this right they could have a big star on their hands. The Pinnacle reuniting to chase off these dopes was choice. Let them get in the trios tournament. Also, Wardlow is an elite wearer of suits. Looks like if a top sports agent was also trying to kill Wonder Woman. Top level fashion game. -JAS B-team promo. God's perfect idiot Matt Menard and Suspenders Ang are such great stooges. I gotta admit; Anna JAS choking out randos backstage is starting to grow on me. She's committing to it and it's working. -Damn. Poor Aaron Solow. Dude could be on Dynamite every week and he'll always be "the dude Bayley dumped." You know they're strapping the good shit to Starkman Jones b/c he got another video package. The line about "as if things couldn't get worse, QT offered me a spot in the Factory" popped me. The timing on that finish was massive, and credit to Solow. He's got nice footwork. I'm 100% here for "Rick Starks; man of the people." Hobbs breaking tv's like those twitter videos of people freaking out when their NFL teams take a bad beat popped me. -Stoke with the Ass Boys is interesting. One day I hope to be as happy about anything as Bill Ass is when Danhausen enters the room. -I've never been super into Best Friends. I think I always held the fact that they went over P&P in that parking lot fight against them, but they've been a lot of fun lately. Ari Daivari is clearly having fun. Parker Boudreaux looks like that one kid every guy who grew up in the south knows; aloof, really good at football but his parents never come to the games, girlfriend who is way too hot for him. Slim J is my kind of goofy. -This women's match just suffered from a total lack of cohesion. Both these women are capable of having a compelling tv match, they just don't work well together. I wonder if Rayne was calling spots that Jade had never done before. It looked like she was having to tell her how to bump for that neckbreaker right before she hit it. Let's all move on from this. -It's time. Thunder Rosa, you gotsta go. Toni Storm in action! -They announced a metric asston of shit for Rampage. This seems like too much. Rampage looks like dogshit actually, other than Swerve in our Glory and Toni Storm against Sign KiLynn King. Ehh. Maybe not. The more shit they announce the less offended I am by Rampage's continued existence. "HOUSE OF THE DRAGON." Next week is gonna SLAP. Bryan/Garcia II; Electric Boogaloo. Bucks and "Held Up" against Los Fashion Instagrams! It's such good shit, pal. -I was not for a second ever really sure Mox was in jeopardy until the shenanigans started. I watch Sammy throw Floyd into the ring and thought to myself; "you know, if they were gonna take the belt off Mox, this would be how to do it." Then Mox got the bulldog choke on and it was done. Minor complaint: Mox kicked out of the Judas Effect before. Full Gear 2020. The kickout so powerful it spawned a global pandemic. Postmatch was fine. I'm not all that excitedfor Punk to be back, but I know lots of people are, so good for them. I'm just a Mox guy, and I think he's done phenomenal work since getting clean. I just don't see how you take the title off that guy. I know that opens up Kingston/Punk at Grand Slam, but I still don't love it. AEW's got a lot of fun things potentially lined up. They also have some choices to make. I hope they maintain focus and stop diluting their on-air product with ROH and NJPW. Focus on your stars, established and young. - - -
    4 points
  12. Thanks Gordlow I've never seen that Boston Garden match with Bret, I'm really excited about it. I have the first Bret box set but not the second, and I'm too young to have seen it on TV so for whatever reason this one was never on my radar. I can't watch it until later on, but I'm already stoked based solely on the fact the video's 18 mins long.
    4 points
  13. You're talking about the same Pittsburgh promotions as that other guy, namedropping like the other guy, your writing is just like that other guy's, you do multiple posts in a row like that other guy, fly off the handle like that other guy ... but you're not that other guy. Got it.
    4 points
  14. Storylines be damned, no one deserves it more than Best Friends IMO
    4 points
  15. I love Conrad’s insistence that he’s just a fan and not a wrestling promoter when ol boy just oozes copious amounts of wrestling promoter energy. We are absolutely two years away from the Chili Sleep Ad Free Wrestling World Championship, presented by Paint Your Life.com
    4 points
  16. No, I know for sure those 3 have the balls to do that.
    4 points
  17. He was only trying to live up to the name of the event and die in the ring. First time he passed out he was like "OK, this is it..." then, "wait, nope... alright, here we go, the final curtain!" Then he wakes up once more and has to finish the match. "Well, shit! I guess it's just not happening tonight!" that's weird, Flair isn't really known for his no-selling. ? but seriously, can you imagine if he would have had a "serious" medical condition come up (yeah, i know, passing out randomly would be pretty serious if it happened to me too) Ric Flair, my dude, you passed out twice during the match. You're in your mid 70s. You looked like fucking death out there. Give it up, brother.
    4 points
  18. https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChH6dixDHLv/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= someone help with the embedding ?
    4 points
  19. YEEEESSSS Thank goodness this got clipped as a gif. I laughed my ass off and thought that may be the most gif worthy thing I'll see this year.
    4 points
  20. Jesus that coffin match was great and bloody as fuck. I've never seen a guy walking around with thumbtacks in his belly! That's Brody King for ya. Every time I see him do that kind of stuff, I think about the story of how he broke a tooth in a match, went to have it pulled, and the dentist didn't know he actually had a fracture in his jaw near the tooth. Pulling the tooth broke his jaw. He had it wired shut and ended up pureeing steaks in a food processor. Hey, gotta get your protein. I love how the announcers couldn't get over how well the final spot of that match went. Mox might as well just blade on the way to the ring from now on just to get the formalities out of the way. Did he blade his ear? What a nut. You can't play up Luchasaurus attacking a "non combatant" as a serious thing when A) Wardlow made a gimmick of it for weeks and B) Anna Jay has been doing it for laughs and did it again a segment or two after this. (I know that was Charlie Kruel) There was a spot in the women's match where Madison has Jade in a front facelock and she's talking to her so long I thought she was trying to Lecter/Miggs her way to victory. I still think the interim title thing is dumb, but the Punk run in and showdown at the end was great. I feel like it would have been more meaningful if Mox had won the vacant title instead and Punk was coming for the title he never lost. ELECTRIC HEAD! Fuck yes. I'll always have a soft spot for Zombie. I saw him in concert in a small venue and he stopped the show to casually ask everyone to stop filming with their fucking smartphones and just try to enjoy the show. Miro going after the HOB will be awesome. Aw man, Statlander is out again. And it was her other, non-injured knee. That sucks and I hope it's not as bad as it could be. Dutt is such a crazy hype man that he's out of breath when he gets to the ring. What a nut. Hangman sticking with the Dark Order because friendship means something. Nice. We're going to have more twists and turns before he and the Bucks are fully friends again. Sonny Kiss and KiLynn King are going to be on actual TV! Parker Boudreaux looks like Brock Lesnar if Brock Lesnar did time. Death Triangle vs Ospreay & Aussie Open. Yes, please. Great show!
    4 points
  21. What a great main event match that was! Lotta firsts. First time seeing Jericho in lionheart tights in AEW. First time anyone has kicked out of the Judas Effect. I'm pretty sure that was the first time Mox has bled in an AEW ring. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong about that. Jericho hit a Thrillseekers level gusher at the end there. Mox bleeding from his ear was sick. Holding the Crab all through pitcher in pitcher was awesome. Did Jericho come out to White Zombie? What a pop for the surprise run-in! face off was goose bump territory. Our boy @Octopus picked a good one to see live. There was some issue with FITE at the beginning, my chat buddy got a "no feed from the venue" message too. So I missed tge start of the coffin match. Loved the finish, though. Brody king nailed that difficult bump and roll into the coffin! Were those issues just in Japan? I expected to love the tornado tag the most. But I was distracted while it was going on, missed a bunch of the action, and mostly came away thinking "enough with the unmasking already!" Jade was effective and believable taking offense. She keeps improving. She could be genuinely great some day. I.got to see a workhorseman on TV! Jobhoresman, maybe. The way to beat Starks is to invite him to a wedding at your castle, in my opinion. The way to beat Solo involves either carbonite or his own son turning on him. lookie here: Trustbusters! United Empire! No Baybay Fish KOR. Surprised and relieved. FTR run-in was good fun. Fans dressed as Brandon rule the world! BEARDHAUSEN! BRYAN VS GARCIA TWO OUT OF THREE FALLS!!! YES! YES! YES!
    4 points
  22. That ending was visually incredible, though, with the chain and Brody's selling/body language/perfect drop and spin into the coffin which slammed shut on it's own. Like, you could do take after take of that and never have it look as fucking GREAT as it did
    4 points
  23. Allright! Pro Wrestling! Darby Allin is starting it off. Will Brodie King crush him again? Probably. OH! I see there will be BLOOD! YES! This match fucking rules already. JESUS! THAT'S A LOT OF BLOOD! Allin is bumping like Darby Allin. Brodie is a big dude, chockfull of blood! Picture in picture is construction time for Brodie King. The picture goes big and King misses Allin on the table! SABU! JAKE THE SNAKE! Buddy Matthews is fucking awesome. CANNONBALL THROUGH THE TABLE! I knew STING was going to be in the coffin! I'm psychic! Is STING turning to the House of Black? Well, that was a fun total trainwreck. They booked the holy fuck out of that. Darby Allin rules. Brodie King RULES. DRAGON LEE! AWESOME! It's RUSH! And ANDRADE! It's PENTA! It's REY FENIX! Fenix is fucking spectacular. This match needs blood. EVERY MATCH NEEDS BLOOD TONIGHT! This match is also insane. The crowd is fucking MOLTEN. That match was fucking great. PENTA should have wrestled without his mask to save his brother but it IS Lucha Libre and there are rules you don't break, so I will live with it. Soooo KENNY OMEGA is back? Awww, Anthony Henry gets murdered by Luchasaurus. OH NO! Luchasaurus is the new Wardlow! I await a new class action lawsuit by Smart Mark Sterling! Julia tries to seduce Miro with the POWER OF THE HOUSE OF BLACK! I await Miro beating the life out of Buddy Matthews to set up the ultimate HOSS BATTLE as Miro goes through Brodie King. Anna JAS is fun. I super dig Daniel Garcia, the Dragonslayer. Aaron Solo is going to get murdered by Ricky Starks. COLE KARTER SIGHTING! So Minnesota has the best crowds in the NORTH! Ricky Starks eventually murders Aaron Solo. Ricky Starks uses sheer will of BABYFACENESS to get over a feud with the fucking FACTORY. So Ricky Starks is going to be a superstar. The TRUSTBUSTERS! I assume this will be on Rampage? Will Sonny Kiss be there? (oh Kiss will be there to be crushed by Parker Boudreaux). Madison Rayne is going to get murdered by Jade Cargill. Rayne gets in some offense. Cargill sells it kind of awkwardly on the floor. Jade crushes Rayne in picture in picture. This match is pretty ugly which is weird for a match with two such stunning ladies in it. I liked the idea of what they were trying to do, it just they fucked everything up. Hey! It's ATHENA! That will be good. AWESOME! ASS BOYS vs BEARDHAUSEN! ERIK REDBEARD IS BACK! HOLY SHIT! DANIELSON vs GARCIA, 2 out of 3 FALLS! It's our MAIN EVENT! Feels big! Mox and Jericho are both over in Minnesota. Jericho is fucking channeling Negro Navarro. Well this is fun. BLOOD! MOX always delivers. This match is good. GREAT Boston Crab by Jericho, as he is stretching Moxley like he said he would. Mox is fucking great selling it. GREAT nearfall on a Code Breaker. JERICHO BRINGS THE BLOOD! AWESOME! BULLDOG CHOKE! BLOOD IS STREAMING DOWN JERICHO'S FACE! AWWWESOME! That was fucking GREAT. CM PUNK! WHAT THE FUCK? Well, that show ended well. AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING WORLD!
    4 points
  24. Booking a trip to Ireland and I'll be staying in Ballydehob, a village in County Cork. I was wandering around on Streetview and it turns out it's the birthplace of Danno O'Mahony, NWA World champion in the 30s and the person who the Irish Whip is named after. Then I remembered I'd seen a statue of a wrestler in Sneem, County Kerry decades ago. That was Steve Casey, a Boston AWA world champion in the 30s and 40s, looking like one of those toy soldiers with molded base. Turns out there's a whole bunch of pro wrestling statues around the world - https://ringthedamnbell.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/immortalized-professional-wrestling-monuments-around-the-world/ (the Baba is great) Anyone know of others?
    4 points
  25. Mike Tomlin is a hall of fame coach, the top line of his resume should be, "We didn't know Antonio Brown was a crazy person until he stopped playing for Mike Tomlin."
    3 points
  26. I can't get enough of the enthusiastic chest bump Mox does at the end to Claudio as they leave the ring. BCC is really starting to find their footing.
    3 points
  27. You know what's funny about this? A while ago on Twitter I was talking to a stranger about how I hope Darby/Sting get to wrestle FTR again because I loved their first match at Grand Slam, and someone suggested a trios to mix it up this time - I said what about Punk/FTR vs Darby/Sting/??? And the guy goes "Miro. Think about it." I didn't get it at the time but after that sweet vignette last night, I think I'm with you. Man, Darby/Sting/Miro vs House of Black? Count me the F in. The TNA segment with the bird in Bischoff's office is some all-time WrestleCrap, it's so bad it's transcendently great. To me, he was more like the Cesar Romero Joker of the '60s, but I definitely see a bit of Carrey in there.
    3 points
  28. I didn't like Jericho showing off the earring and gloating for what felt like a LOOOOONG time because it was so clear that the clasp was wide open and he clearly just carefully unhooked and removed it from Mox's ear. This sounds like a dirty euphemism and you can just leave this out of the road report please and thank you. Gotta save something for the DVDVR+ paid tier. I liked the Deadlock shout out on the opposite die of the sign. SKEEEE WHOAH indeed.
    3 points
  29. Not only did he blade his ear after the earring spot, I'm pretty sure he bladed it again in the post match. He was pointing to it in one shot, and there was no blood. Then, when he and Punk did the face-to-face, it was pouring blood.
    3 points
  30. I caught most of this Tuesday night and then spent most of Wednesday thinking it was Tuesday and that Dark would be on that night, so that's where we are here. They really need to let Isaiah Broner do something on one of these sometime soon. In total agreement on the idea that Anna Jay's roll then stop then kick should not be an every match move. It's not a surprise that she's going to hit you from that angle if she does it every match. Rush's hybrid promos are fun and fit his character a lot more than Andrade's fit his. It's so weird having Jose there when he never actually talks for them, right? He's basically Alexandra York who becomes Virgil whenever he takes his shirt off. Ok, look, if I was an AEW Agent, and I don't think Pat Buck is a big DVDVR lurker, so this probably won't help, but those moves where you position one opponent into a compromised hold by the other opponent and then make opponent 1 hit a move on opponent 2 by doing a move yourself? The WHOLE company gets one of those a month. One a month. No more. Please. I am really glad they're going to do something with Sonny and Davari's good and Slim J is instantly a top.... 10? 5? guy in the company just by walking in the door, which says a ton, and I get that it'd have a harder time leading to matches, but considering Stoke is getting people up and down the roster anyway, they really should have used Kiss as a Baddie if they were going to go for a turn anyway. The minute we got of Kiss vs Slim J was really good. Bordeaux is just visually offputting due to his tattoos and weird baby face. I'd say get a beard but it'd probably be all ginger and goofy. He should wear a cut off shirt/tanktop thing. I think that would help. Look, sorry, it's weird, ok? Six women match really delivered. Big surprise. I am no madman and I'm not getting into the "they're booking the women all wrong" discussion, but I get a match like this every week and I enjoy it every week. Yes, getting ROH TV would help, but just making Dark feel more like a big deal without changing anything else about the presentation would go a long way. Not on this board necessarily, but I get the sense that a lot of people who complain about it all will never, ever see this match. If this match exists, and it's free and easy to see, and it's so much fun, why not seek it out? It's a hell of a lot more effort to watch Dynamite in 2022 than it is to watch Dark. Anyway, my big take here is that whenever some chocopro person isn't there, Leva Bates should always second Emi. She fully understands the performative aspect of wrestling in that sort of "High School Theater" way and it'd all be great fun. Next week, if it's not both Dark and Elevation taped at once, we get a really long show, with ol' injured Daddy Magic on commentary with Excalibur, which will either be awesome or get old quick. Squashes: Nese/Woods (Arik Cannon); Dark Order; Deeb (Sierra); Julia (Free Range Kara); Private Party; Ford (Reckless); Acclaimed And then Nemeth/Takeshita II and Rosa/Storm/Shida vs Emi/Nyla/Shafir, which goes to what I said above.
    3 points
  31. The new Regal podcast is a Q&A. He spends a few minutes encouraging people to listen to Slade (the band, not the wrestler). I agree, you should.
    3 points
  32. The final final final match. Fucking embarrassing.
    3 points
  33. Twitter handle checks out.
    3 points
  34. My friend, @Octopus picked a great AEW show to go to.
    3 points
  35. If it's my choice, work some injuries over the tournament so Hangman has the awkward task of being a substitute for the final.
    3 points
  36. Jeez. That's the thanks he gets for putting together the Shield... Smh.
    3 points
  37. Why the fuck can't I get a Hulu/Disney+ with no ads bundle without subsidizing ESPN?
    3 points
  38. I somewhat agree with you on all of this, but I do think the big roster and limited tv time are almost an advantage. Would I like to see Bryan Danielson wrestle twice, maybe three times a week? Yeah, I probably wouldn't complain. But, it's also not the worst thing that I don't get that since it makes his matches more special. I don't want to WWE bash, but at least AEW can't run matchups into the ground like them. The Usos and New Day have had some amazing matches together. But, they've had so many, that none of them really stand out, IMO. Like, I can't sit here and pull up one of their matches that sticks out from the others. It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I would like to see someone like Miro in action more often. I enjoy seeing him wrestle. But, I will probably get to keep enjoying seeing him wrestle longer, because there won't be that burn out. Again, not to WWE bash, and not to say that anyone here is acting this way, but I think sometimes that the monopoly that WWE has had for the last two decades has made a lot of fans have a very narrow view on how things "should" be done. I personally don't want more ppvs. I don't want to see the same guys/gals wrestling each other week in and week out. WWE is very successful and that has worked out for them very well. I just don't prefer it.
    3 points
  39. "That was his last match in Nashville, buddy. This is the Ric Flair Drip Retirement Road Series (sponsored by Blue Chew, Manscaped, Steve Singer Jewelers, and of course Save with Conrad). Watch for ticket info at your local box office in the following cities: Spartanburg, SC, Greenville, SC, Raleigh, NC, Norfolk, VA, Richmond, VA..."
    3 points
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