Spontaneous

Freedoms 12th Anniversary from today was excellent. Four increasingly violent matches. Hirata vs Jack did what it needed to do.

Miyamto vs Ito felt like nothing new. I recently rewatched their scaffold match from Death Mania 3, it was more fresh then. Almost felt bad as Miyamoto hits a moonsault off a scaffold and it meant nothing to me. I am not really enjoying the slow build to Miyamoto vs Kodaka, I'm sure it'll be fine but Freedoms is blowing BJW's DM scene away. More exciting match ups and better in ring. Nomura should get a good run with the title. The Strong division feels like it is carrying BJW right now. Nakanoue's reign was excellent but it was Nomura's time.

The only music guest I recall providing anything on commentary was Sparta talking about watching WCCW, which seemed in stark contrast to what WSX was supposed to be. I guess you could say it walked so Lucha Underground could run.

Time to douse everything in pink. We have the G1 and N1 Finals this month. I know the line ups weren't spectacular but all the shows have been fun enough. Onita, on the heels of the DSOTR FMW episode, returns to America to wrestle Matt Tremont on Halloween in a no rope barb wire explosion match.

I'm thinking Shane vs Sakuraba or Suzuki

Nick Gage vs Shane O'Mac in a Cage Of Death would be neat.

If Shane was going to wrestle one non-WWE match who should it be, wrong answers only?

Dick Togo is supposedly on that committee mind you

I could see EVIL make the Finals, to maybe give House of Torture some "credibility", but I doubt he is winning.

Double post, sorry

How fast will that end when someone tears an ACL after a stiff foam q tip hit?

I figured the NXT name-making process was more like Keyser Soze, just looking around the room at stuff.

You know, I think this actually what lead to this. I saw Man on the Moon around the same time. So I feel slightly less stupid. I think my version of Dinner with Andre is better anyways.

When I was a teenager I thought My Dinner with Andre was about Wallace Shawn meeting Andre the Giant for dinner. I was really bummed out when I finally saw it.

Looking forward to GCW. I think the whole card is interesting. Raver-Colon should be a good death match. Cogar-Ninja Mack is a battle of two of their younger stars. Dickinson-Fatu will be a great wrestling match. They deliver more often than not.

The first time someone told me about drag races I very naively thought they were super into drag racing with like, ya know, cars. They were telling me that there was even an Australian scene and I was thinking, well duh, Mad Max. I'm not very smart...

Impact seems a good spot, has NJPW and AEW connections plus creative freedom.

I thought it was good but not great. It was one of those hour draws that felt like they were working towards the clock running out. Strong opening and ending though. Need to go back and finish the rest of the show at some point.

Don't worry, by time they get to the main roster they'll lose half of their name.

Cubsfan's stream on twitch of Triplemania had massive peak viewership for Omega-Andrade. Nothing else came close. Of course, that gets no money for AAA because of the legal nonsense where they can't stream their shows in the US but I could see why they'd leave it on him. There's still Vikingo and Psycho Clown as big matches.

Violento Jack is just a good wrestler. He makes his matches interesting and not just about smashing glass everywhere. He deserves more respect.

I would rather see Miyamoto-Numazawa by far. Ito has had some decent matches these last few years but he was never exactly fleet of foot. I presume we are getting Ito-Numazawa. Just watch Freedoms. Violento Jack vs Masashi Takeda from the last Freedoms show is one of the best death matches of the year. Must see. It's just a well done match.

Looking at what his last match was, kinda odd one to go out on: https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=233035 Teaming with Nakamura vs Samoa Joe and Robert Roode 6/29/19 in Japan.

Or vs RSP at Run Rickey Run from last year. Very similar crowd to Gage-Cardona. As for tag team cage matches, I don't know if it was mentioned but the New Day-Usos Hell in a Cell match was really good from I think 2016 or 2017. Zandig/H8 Club vs Joker/Necro Butcher/Toby Klein from COD7 is a crazy match. Also a good Nick Gage match. One of the first hardcore matches I ever saw. No tags but I wanted to mention it.

And I missed it. That's what I get for not going all the way back in the thread.