JLowe
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I think it is fair to say that making time to keep ROH in the wrestling public's mind AND building to an inter-promotional PPV was already a big challenge AND THEN your new champion gets hurt and has to miss a few months.
If/when ROH gets a new home, and the Forbidden Door is shut for a while, things will settle down a bit. Unless Vince fires a bunch more WWE/NXT people
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11 minutes ago, Matt D said:
There really needs to be some consequence to what Swerve did to Keith Lee at least.
While it maybe made sense in terms of Swerve's character, if they really are breaking them up it has the WWE feel of "shit, these guys are hotter than the guys we're pushing for the titles, we need to split them NOW"
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Here I was the outlier who hated last week’s Rampage and am now the outlier who loved just about everything about tonight. Hell, Marina Shafir even got some heat and didn’t look completely out of place. It set up some fun matches for the next couple weeks and the PPV. The main event was so good and it’s because KOR went stiff shot for stiff shot with MOX. The PAC-Buddy match was so good because they’re almost the same guy and style. The only things I didn’t like are them running back so many angles (Cole-Page, Bucks-JE-Hardys, HOB-DT) and even teasing a break-up of Swerve in the Glory...UNLESS they pair Dante-Lee.
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Excited for this as I think PAC is fantastic and I've only seen Buddy as part of the trios matches so far but a lot of people here are excited about him and he's shown some great glimpses of being able to keep up with PAC.
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1 minute ago, The Natural said:
Hang on, isn't Adam Cole injured? As noted, no Adam Cole fan but I wouldn't wish injury on someone.
Yes, apparently a shoulder injury. I was going to joke that he lost his smile.
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13 hours ago, DEAN said:
Skye Blue is still currently Born To Be Pinned... I dig the Queen of STIFFNESS, SKY BLUE!
Settle down, DEANetico.
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1 hour ago, SirSmellingtonofCascadia said:
This might sound weird, but I'm looking forward to hitting about late-1998 WCW on through to the end during my Nitro watch.
First of all, there are a lot of guys who got burn during that period who fell off the map after that. I'm interested to re-evaluate their work. How good a worker is late-period Bam Bam Bigelow, for example, even considering the constraints of late-'90s TV wrestling in the U.S.?
Second of all, I want to see if the post-Russo/Bischoff era where they let Scott Steiner be a dominant champ and tried to put over a new generation of workers from the NBT to Shane Helms and Chavo is as good as I remember it being. I really, really liked it back in the day, but I don't think I've sat down and watched through it since it happened. I want to see how it looks two decades later.
I have a similar memory of those dying days. I thought 3 Count was a great gimmick with excellent wrestlers.
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2 minutes ago, DEAN said:
What the fudge?
Obviously, they told him he needed to stop larding out so the AEW title will look better around his waist.
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3 minutes ago, zendragon said:
A guy named "QT" who exclusively wears bowling shirts?
Is he obsessed with feet?
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19 minutes ago, Matt D said:
I might write an essay for SC on the value of the webshows. I get the sense that a lot of people complaining about them and wrestlers relegated to them started watching wrestling after the year 2000 and never grew up with WCW syndicated shows.
I was a card-carrying member of the Cult of Worldwide!!
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11 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
I know they both struggled to find a trade partner but the fact Garoppolo and Mayfield are both still on their respective teams is funny. Like, can't you figure out something? They are going to end up either Watsoning them and making them inactive all year, or doing the "everything is fine!" and pretending like nothing happened even though every fan (and the players) know they aren't wanted. I know Garoppolo is hurt but I think his 27 mil salary is going to end up being a bigger obstacle.
I guess Mayfield is an insurance policy in case Watson gets Watsoned again, or suspended.
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12 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
I kinda like that they keep stuff like that in their back pockets, like how Gunn Club was very quietly undefeated for almost a year or something
Scorpio Sky has been undefeated for over 400 days, mostly by not wrestling for 300+ of them as far as I can tell.
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12 hours ago, The Natural said:
Great comparison.
“Hears Kate Bush on ‘Stranger Things’ once”
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On 6/3/2022 at 10:33 PM, evidence said:
I'm all in for more Kiera Hogan on my TV screen
You’ll need to pay for those special channels to see much more Kiera Hogan on your TV
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I’m a day late, grumpy, and drunk. This show was not really for me.
Opener was the definition of a spotfest with no story. Independently, some great stuff. Context? Cero. Hardys and JE? Entero miedo.
Hobbs and Starks wrestled, I think, it was over very fast and I was pissed because they’re more interesting than the 4 teams in the opener.
Athena-Kiera was a match that happened. I don’t recall anything that stood out other than Hogan’s pathetic strikes. Kiera Hogan doesn’t win on Dark. Athena, if you’re trying to push her, should squash that. I don’t know, I’m grumpy and drunk.
I must have missed when Punk actually relinquished the belt. There’s meaning in the MJF fucking awful promo on Wednesday and Punk only naming Danielson and Moxley as worthy. Ham handed storytelling, but will lead to mostly good wrestling and a flurry of fantasy booking.
Dante-Scorpio saved the show. Announcers put Dante over, they told a story, stayed mostly grounded making Dante’s big flashy moments really stand out. Big (not so) subtle moment with Ethan Page being pissed at the SCU chant. They’re still building to something with Page and Sky, I’ll give it a moment since apparently it’s the World Title that’s getting the hard reset.
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16 minutes ago, hammerva said:
So Deshaun Watson lawyer recently is using the "if you get a happy ending during a massage it isn't necessarily illegal" argument I mean he isn't 100% wrong but maybe 95%. I don't know that many legit massage places or "sport therapists" (which he always CLAIMED they were) that are like "sure I jerk off all my customers"
I'm surprised he isn't suing every accuser for defamation.
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43 minutes ago, The Natural said:
Genuine, likeable and believable. Kingston can go in the ring but his greatest quality is the gift of the gab. Man, can Mad King talk.
Your money feud after King-Jericho is King-MJF.
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13 hours ago, Matt D said:
Hey, look, it's the quarter hour breakdowns we deserve:
So, did everyone leave in Q3 AFTER the promo? Or did the promo make them leave midway? Or was it the ad break?
Maybe we should all just talk more about how good Garcia vs Moxley was instead?
Because of my bias, I'm going to interpret this as over 150k people turned their channel during MJF's promo, and they never recovered more than half of them.
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1 hour ago, Lawful Metal said:
MJF is just Bubba Ray Dudley's old ECW shtick.
I was thinking "What about me, what about Raven"
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Lauren Theisen has weighed in on Defector (for those who are subscribers): https://defector.com/the-aew-mjf-feud-gets-more-fake-and-more-annoying/
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4 minutes ago, DMJ said:
That being said, I would blur the face/heel lines with MJF - one week he attacks a babyface like Dustin Rhodes, the next week its a heel like Bobby Fish.
The only standout thing about MJF is his full-time commitment to being a chickenshit asshole heel. Otherwise, he's a talented guy on a roster of incredibly talented guys.
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11 hours ago, SirSmellingtonofCascadia said:
For whatever reason, it is this that represents to me the creative nadir of this era of pro wrestling in America.
There are a lot of awful things that happened during this era, many arguably more awful than this. There's just something about Vince Russo calling a teenage girl a bitch as he chases her around the ring in a pathetic attempt to be edgy that really grinds my gears.
in 2000/2001, I would watch PPVs with some friends who had their cable box hacked to get free PPVs. And yet, I don't recall this one at all and am wondering if by this time we just gave up on WCW PPVs entirely.
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Mostly loved the opening match. Did you hear the pop for the Acclaimed? That said, Caster might have a couple weeks off again to think about ridiculing abuse victims. Dax Harwood was a fantastic FIP tonight.
I spoke my piece on MJF. I think there is a point to the AEW originals-NXT imports feud, hell Adam Page was working the same angle literally last week. That said, MJF is one of their most protected guys, someone who rarely even wrestles outside of a PPV.
MIRO!!! I've been meaning to make the joke that all those "Miro" commercials that don't make any sense as a product were secretly meant as a reminder about Miro being on the roster. His promo was great, match had moments but honestly should have been a total squash IMO.
2.0 all scarred up. Kingston taking a beating so Ortiz could jump Jericho and cut the hair. Amazing that after Anarchy in the Arena they can keep this going into an even more violent match and yet here we are and I am ready.
10-man was fine, add me to the list of those not excited about what now seems inevitably the Bucks being the ones to finally beat JE for the titles.
I'm not a fan of the "Swerve in the Glory" name, and wondering what's next for them.
Was disappointed that Wardlow didn't have his new theme music, but that was a fine squash and the post-match angle with Smart Mark and the class action lawsuit on behalf of security is fucking brilliant. Still, feels like all the BS this past weekend took a lot of shine off Wardlow's big moment.
Womens's tag match was fantastic, great back and forth action, very hard-hitting. Glad that Ruby got her win back, but OF COURSE DMD immediately got her heat back. Ready for more Storm-Hayter.
Main event is a strong contender for best of 2022 list. I can't recall who compared Garcia to The Terminator but spot on, dude just kept coming after Mox and laying it in. Busting open Mox's stitches with headbutts is old school (but also, less headbutts please). Forcing the ref to untangle the Figure 4 on a rope break is old school. This is clearly part of a long-term story where Garcia realizes that his natural place is in BCC, and it's going to be a brutal, bloody trip getting there.
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Fuck MJF, fuck his shooty bullshit, fuck his no selling the stretcher job. Let his ass go. His strength is being willing to be a true heel instead of a cool one, and now he's fucked that up too.
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They're out there, I liked them but didn't love them like I did Kindred and the Parable books.
Also, if you didn't know, they're making an Amazon series "Wild Seed" with Viola Davis involved, and Nnedi Okorafor co-writing the pilot script (and I think more)