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Teams of dickety-two make the ring rickety, too!

Teams of...... um actually I'm posting to tell you I made a new wrestling crossword https://twitter.com/avalanchestyle/status/1791838149309587920

I think it was "teams of thirty-three make things awfully difficult to see".

The last page is one of my favourite in all my time as a DVDVR MB member. Cheers!

Definitely not on either end of the Moné spectrum. I like her just fine. She's a good wrestler. She should have very good matches with a lot of AEW's talented roster. That's cool. Intensely hating certain wrestlers/individuals is a trademark of an extremely weird and somewhat concerning small group of internet posters.

My alternate to ten "Teams of ten, Jesus, is Mox Bleeding Again?"

It's a reminder of how this is my favorite place to read and discuss wrestling, etc/.

My alternate was: Teams of ten come again. Settle down, The Naturaletico.

Teams of nine show their behind.

It’s kind of bullshit to say something like this. And if you’re going to accuse everyone here who disagrees with you about Mercedes of that, at least have the courage of your convictions and say what you want to say instead of half-assing it. I know exactly what you’re talking about and look, just because one person here said something about Mercedes in the vein of what you’re alluding to, it doesn’t mean you can paint every person who simply doesn’t find her to be a good performer with that brush. That’s a load of shit and is unfair to a large percentage of the people in this community. Do better.

Teams of sixty-nine Sixty-nine hehehe sixty-nine

No reason to stop, then. Where were we? Teams of seventy-eight make matches plenty great?

Teams of ten, go at it again.

Anyone remember the Four Horsemen Vitamins? And when Ric Flair would get all worked up during a promo, and say to JJ he needed some vitamins, and then he'd throw a couple down and resume his promo?

Teams of seven, no one's getting into heaven

Teams of words please wrestling nerds?

In comparison to the usual horror of my personal life that I post in this thread, I have been hit up on Facebook by a woman who is not only a metalhead but worked as a wrestler (!!!) for the indie promotion CLAW, which I am totally unfamiliar with. Apparently I've met her before but due to my issues I don't recall her at all. I get the feeling this might be a good friendship, and god knows I need some support. Friendship, relationship, it doesn't matter. She seems wonderful. Wish me luck.

Teams of eight, holy shit this show’s gonna run late!

Nia and Jade came off like an actual fight between high school girls. They just threw each other around pretty rough, followed by some good jawing with security in between. Nia’s taunting with 50 people between then was spot on in how an antagonistic bully instigates in the cafeteria after the adults separated everyone. Nia has gotten so good at her role since she came back. She’s not going to give us any ***** matches. But she gets more heel heat than anyone else not named Dom. She’s also become really solid at being an in-ring heel monster with good timing and making sure she is in the right position.

Great call. I thought it was hella smart what they did on one of the last loops through Texas where they made sure to book their locals like Bryan Keith, Lance Archer etc. and tons of lucha dudes, too. The idea to keep each show with a rotation of different people (other than maybe a handful of top stars) is a good one too. Sorta off topic, and a bit of a harsh (but very real) criticism: they'll often book guys in hometown matches like that - the above TX stuff, Hager in Oklahoma, AR Fox and Mercedes Martinez every time I go up to Connecticut, Kingston in NYC, etc. - how about advertising some of this shit?? The hope would be that they are working toward a short extension, or a new deal with limited dates or something - maybe even something more formal as it relates to working on the office side; the reality is that Mox was working without a contract as World Champion. Totally baseless speculation, but I could also imagine a situation where after pretty recently opening the purse strings for Okada, Mone, Ospreay and others, they might wanna get TV squared away first.

Teams of Six, The Losers get Fixed! James

Teams of four give ‘em what for!

Don't let it get you down. The right one is out there for you.

Good luck in your budding relationship/friendship. I have a date coming up Friday. I'm so nervous and excited. I haven't been on a date in years.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1wmF-vQNaVyHQog-H8_y7gHaEL?dpr=1.3&pid=ImgDetMain Happy May 19th!

i had it 114-112 Usyk. damn close fight. glad i watched.

I'm tempted to steal @RazorbladeKiss87 Mickie James joke from the TNA thread and say "Oh, cmon, plenty of people still dig Peter Gabriel" but I'll spare you On the real, a quick Wiki says that building holds ~10K for hoops, so if they bump the stage up a bit like they've done before in DC or at last year's grand slam, I bet they could do 4-5K. Might be a few empty up top if you're accounting for floor seats, but it seems at least doable (with the caveat that the advertising game needs some legitimate effort). Unless the rental fee is exorbitant, if worst comes to worst and they fuck it up and only end up doing 2300, you can always close the hard cam side of the bowl like any other building no?

What’s weird is that AEW’s women’s division is full of “catty female” tweeners like you’d expect from 2010s WWE. I don’t get how that happens.

“I love to lie, Cody Rhodes taught me how fun lying is.”

I should have known better than to bad mouth her (not saying her name or quoting so he isn't summoned) with her biggest supporter around. Expressing my opinion and being told I'm foolish and maybe someone alluding to racism? I don't know what that other but is about but yeah, heaven forbid I don't like a wrestler someone else does. This whole discussion is stupid and I'm not going to engage you anymore. I don't have any problem with any posters here and I'd like to keep it that way but being insulted for thinking someone is overrated by her obsessives doesn't sit well with me.

@Zakk_Sabbath Danielson made his AEW debut in September 2021, so if he was on a three-year deal, maybe it does legitimately end in August 2024. But, out of habit, I assume anything being said on TV or in interviews is folks working. If no one had said anything at all about this and Meltzer or someone reported his contract was ending before All In & Out, then maybe so. I'm just not seeing a huge difference between the MJF & Danielson "contract situations" as far as how they are being presented in AEW canon.

Made myself laugh visualising S.K.o.S reading the points total out like the Eurovision Song Contest.

According to Danielson, he asked for two things before leaving WWE: getting to wrestle in New Japan and getting to bleed. Hunter said no to the latter, while TK has given him both PLUS he's gotten to wrestle Blue Panther. I would sincerely hope that while he may eventually go back to the 'E, hopefully he feels like there's still lots of unfinished business outside of that company.

Meanwhile, on LVL Up: Tavion Heights d. Jasper Troy (debuting) - Troy has a bit of a Dijak / early SHIELD vibe to how he carries himself, and unlike some of the bigger NXT guys I can think of, he works big. "He says that every day is tax season, will Tavion Heights pay up?" - I have no idea why this is being said by the announcers. Was he once an accountant? Tavion does a good job getting thrown around a bit before winning with a big belly to belly. There was a fair bit of air on some of Troy's stuff (swinging missed clothesline, you know the one) but this was ok. Brinley Reece & Layla Diggs (debuting) d. Carlee Bright & Kendal Grey - Diggs is a former track and field athlete and, like Reese, personal trainer. She also looks a lot like Kelani Jordan? Bright and Grey are still putting it together and I'm not sure the hints of characterization from Grey from announcers come through so far with her attire or ringwork - she was apparently a very good amateur wrestler, but has mostly shown a black trunks (well, sparkly pink with garters) rookie moveset so far. Diggs gets out of an arm-wringer with a headscissors in a great little spot that miraculously doesn't look too collaborative, and later on gets out of a waistlock by doing a split and using that to pick a leg. Brinley brings out a flip clothesline that looks OK and a brief Giant Swing that looks good, but she's in a really challenging spot as far as finding a way to present Goofy Yet Flippy Power Face in ringwork. With that said, everyone here was surprisingly good at filling downtime, like making the stock WWE bit of slowly crawling to your tag partner seem like reasonable exertion of effort balanced with struggle. Brinley (finally) wins with a roundoff into a DDT on a kneeling Grey, after Diggs and Bright both tumble out of the ring.

Teams of eleven, ruthless agression!

When I was writing up the promotional materials for groups I worked with on the indies, I just called it "Ultimate Survivor" elimination match. People figured out pretty quick it was a Survivor Series match. "Royal Rumble" was harder to get around. The NWA promotion in Pittsburgh actually stumbled into some great branding that caught on for it - "Burgh Brawl". Everyone knew it was a Royal Rumble.

AEW Double or Nothing 2019 was the first AEW show and five years later AEW Double or Nothing 2024 next weekend will celebrate that in the same building. To mark this milestone, here's my top twenty AEW matches ever: 20. Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley. AEW Revolution, 5th March 2023. 19. Mr. Brodie Lee vs. Cody. AEW Dynamite, 7th October 2020. 18. Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson. AEW Dynamite, 6th April 2022. 17. Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki. AEW The Buy In: Rampage, 15th October 2021. 16. Kenny Omega/Adam Page vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson. AEW Revolution, 29th February 2020. 15. Cody vs. Dustin Rhodes. AEW Double or Nothing, 25th May 2019. 14. Chris Jericho/Daniel Garcia/Jake Hager/Angelo Parker/Matt Menard vs. Bryan Danielson/Eddie Kingston/Jon Moxley/Santana/Ortiz. AEW Double or Nothing, 29th May 2022. 13. CM Punk vs. MJF. AEW Revolution, 6th March 2022. 12. MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February 2022. 11. Thunder Rosa vs. Dr. Britt Baker. AEW St. Patrick's Day Slam Dynamite, 17th March 2021. 10. Sting/Darby Allin vs. Matthew Jackson/Nicholas Jackson. AEW Revolution, 3rd March 2024. 9. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynamite, 6th January 2022. 8. Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler vs. Jay White/Juice Robinson. AEW Collison, 15th July 2023. 7. Bryan Danielson vs. Ricky Starks. AEW All Out, 3rd September 2023. 6. Adam Page/John Silver/Alex Reynolds vs. MJF/Santana/Ortiz. AEW Dynamite, 30th December 2020. 5. MJF vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Revolution, 5th March 2023. 4. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Winter is Coming Dynamite, 15th December 2021. 3. Will Ospreay vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynasty, 21st April 2024. 2. Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Grand Slam Dynamite, 22nd September 2021. 1. Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. AEW WrestleDream, 1st October 2023.

Problem with the “AEW Survivor Series” concept is there’s a good chance the naming of it would need to include gambling terminology since “Dudebros playing Texas Hold ‘Em” is their early, outdated and tired aesthetic that they’re still married to.

First he loves Showgirls now this.... fun fan theory.... all the films are different retelling of the legend of Mad Max. hence the differences

Or The Briscoe's hawking Super Beta Prostate supplements during the same run.

Nia Jax rules. Her saying “Your mom sucks!!!” right in Jade’s daughter’s face is one of the best heel moments in memory. We all love heels because we wish we could say things like that but adhere to a moral code that makes us act like normal people. Nia does not care. That was a great post-match brawl, too.

They should mix the two match types and have 4v4 and 5v5 elimination tags in a cage. That would definitely make it a legally different match type. They just need a name for the show. Maybe something like "Elimination Chamber."

Nothing Deeb does is face-like. Everything about her act screams heel.

With that immobilizer it's a knee injury, not a break. Smoking a blunt in a wheelchair wearing a Dory Funk shirt is maybe the coolest anyone has ever looked.

You’ve cursed us with anEVIL win and then holding it til WK

9/7/87: Inoki/Fujiwara vs Maeda/Fujinami: Fujimaeda! They actually call them that. NOW leaders vs NEW leaders. Since it's Kido and Fujiwara from the UWF guys in NOW, Fujiwara has gotten a bigger push which is really cool to see. He's just gotten two wins over Maeda. This was, I'm happy to say, the best Inoki vs Maeda stuff I've seen. The crowd wants that match up to begin but Fujiwara starts, first against Maeda, with some really slick matwork, and then against Fujinami with more conventional stuff. It feels cool to have Inoki and Fujinami match up in this setting and Fujinami really grinds him down with some nasty angles on sleepers. When we really get Inoki vs Maeda, it's great, because Inoki puts him in a kneeling deathlock which is one of the only holds that Maeda can't grab a limb to get out of. He hammers blows down but overdoes it and Maeda is able to push him over and fire back and it all devolves. Later on, they take over on Inoki and Maeda gets a revenge deathlock, this time bridging back with it. Great moment. Towards the end, Maeda just kills Fujiwara in the corner with a leaping knee drop with the ropes to assist him and injures his side. Fujiwara does make it out though. Finishing stretch goes back to Inoki and Maeda and Inoki dodges the spin wheel kick in the ropes and hits the enziguiri and puts on the royal octopus hold! And it's this awesome culmination to a year and a half of the two of them not ever having a decisive finish between them. Inoki has him, finally. He's going to prove that he can hang with the best of them with the new UWF generation of Gotch-trainees, of the shoot masters, that he belongs! You see Fujinami in the background and it zooms in on him, and he understands the dynamic here better than anyone. Fujiwara had been quick to interfere but Fujinami is built with a different sort of honor. And then you see him move, coming in to break it up and steal the moment from Inoki. Things cycle back to Fujiwara shortly thereafter and he eats a Maeda kick tot he side to collapse and get pinned. But man, it was quite the moment right there 9/7/87: Marc Rocco/Owen Hart vs Yamada/Takada: Fun to see the Yamada/Takada team for the first time. Yamada looked great by the way. Owen is a nice addition actually. He more or less grounded rocco, weirdly enough. They had a feeling out thing early and then Owen started doing headlock punches and it got heat so Rocco did too. Lots of stuttering heat in this one with hope spots and hot tags and then things grinding back down after a big counter. This was way more focused than I was expecting and came off as a very good match overall. A lot of the comebacks and cutoffs were very big. Yamada did this amazing goardbuster to Owen that had a nasty looking angle from behind, for instance. Past that it was tombstones and bit clotheslines and what you'd expect but it never felt too egregious. Takada went up to the top once and was cut off by Owen on the apron and I had no idea what the heck he was going to do up there. At one point they did a back body drop into a piledriver but it was too cheaty and the ref didn't let them count. During the stretch, Takada and Yamada did a double leglock. There was some stuff with Takada hanging in the ropes and taking a bunch of stuff before it centered back to him vs Rocco and he got the spin kick and a slick stylized pin for the win. Overachieved.

They ran the Moody Center once before moving back out to Cedar Park. Still not super convenient for bus service after hours but a cheaper ride share.

An Eliminator match on a ppv sounds wrong, but it gives Takeshita a real shot at another big AEW win. He can quietly lose the re-match in NJ, but a ppv win over Mox would be a nice accomplishment. Not sure if it would make him the only one to beat Mox and Kenny on AEW ppvs, but it would sound good if he was.

Surely the right move is Moxley holds it til the Dome, Shota wins the G1 and beats him for it in January. The only hitches are that the booking is all over the place at the moment, and Shota doesn't deserve a title with his current haircut.

https://youtu.be/kYBeBvcAjGs Mississippi Championship Wrestling tv EPISODE 4 FINAL AIRED EPISODE So if rumors are true this episode got not only MCW canceled from Fox 40 but also got MCW a nice letter from either ESPN or WWE ,depending on who is telling ya the story. Full hour this time Air date is march 19th 2011 YOu got all kinds of stolen footage. AWA on ESPN CLASSIC airing of Brickhouse Brown vs Iceman King Parsons. Powerslam Productions,MS Indie back then,footage of Monty Warbucks vs Joe Kane. And Memphis Music video of Pork Chop Cash during his Bruise Brothers days. Oh and the same Cassidy Riley is coming to MCW promo airs 3 times.