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Props to you for the Flair commentary, got a pretty good laugh there. I couldn't believe it. That had to be the most touched up photo they've ever run with. It's like they took 1992 Flair and made him into a Disney prince.

You really don't want to see more of Shane Strickland.

I'm doing a late live blog over at Segunda Caida. Really liked the ADR/Kalisto match and like the women's tag as well. Show is starting off plenty good. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/02/wwe-fastlane-2016-live-ish-blog.html

The DVD of Deadbeat at Dawn is really great. All of Van Bebber's stuff has been released in really loving versions. That guy is a real rare bird.

So for the first time in many years (2011?) it looks like there is no CMLL on Lucha Azteca. Not sure if it will still be shown on LATV but there is nothing on the next two weeks of Azteca's schedule that sound anything like wrestling.

Phil - gentle, married, tiny dog owner - is a little more hate-filled than I am in general, but the vignettes are getting a little silly-in-a-bad-way for me this season. Dario was so much more of a presence last season and it's kinda like SNL losing Phil Hartman. The show needs more of the most consistent vignette performer. Plus the repetitive nature of every single LU guy just getting jumped wherever he goes....while also wanting to have a cop drama are really threatening to be just too much.

Was really surprised to see who Kobra Moon was, as she's barely been wrestling a year. Super nice person and wrestles a lot for the fed Tim Livingston and I do commentary for. She's actually probably the most popular worker on the shows and she's made an absurd amount of progress in the last year. What's weird is I've never seen her work an intergender match up here, so it's weird she'd be brought in to work those on television. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/02/lucha-underground-season-2-episode-3.html Cuerno's bump was the sickest bump in the show's history. Why would you hold onto that ladder!? It's like the ladder was giving him a powerslam off a roof.

http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/02/lucha-underground-season-2-episode-2.html I thought the episode was decent enough, Phil thought it was one of their worst. Agree that this is the best Killshot and the Disciples have looked (Killshot still looks plenty dodgy though). Darewolf is one of the worst nicknames I've ever heard, but I did enjoy Vampiro incredulously asking what a Darewolf was.

Awesome debut episode. Phil and I are going to be reviewing every episode, just like last season. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/01/lucha-underground-season-2-episode-1.html I can't decide my favorite moment, but I liked Catrina's new wig, and I liked Dario gaming those guys out of $60. Reminded me of that old State sketch where terrorists hold a bunch of people hostage and demand 150 American dollars. "$21.42 apiece, boys!" Totally bought the Ivelisse nearfall, loved the return to prominence for Cuerno, just a great hour of TV.

I'm hopping on the bandwagon. Phil liked it so much he recommended I watch it, so I TOO reviewed the Tetsujin shootstyle show, and merely added my thoughts to his earlier review: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/01/tetsujin-shoot-style-112015.html I really loved the show top to bottom. I'd seen a few of the guys before but this whole thing was really eye opening. Even the weakest matches were still quite enjoyable.

MTV also aired Lucha Libre USA. And MTV Tr3s has aired (and I believe is still airing) lucha libre reality TV. And don't forget the original Tough Enough.

Thanks Zakk! And yeah, Disciple used a stunner as a finisher. Around this same time Disco Inferno also used a stunner, but as a set up move so all the announcers could go "who would be hurt by that!?"

Did a little fundraiser for my coworker who lost her home to a wildfire, and one of the donors requested I write about some favorite weird moments from WCW syndicated shows. Now I kinda want to make it a regular feature: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/11/fire-fundraiser-wcw-saturday-night.html http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/11/fire-fundraiser-wcw-saturday-night_8.html

So I'm trying to raise some money for a friend and coworker who lost her house and all her worldly possessions in the terrible recent Middletown fire. We've already gotten a couple generous donations but really I'm looking for anything here. If you donate you can request anything at all for me to write about (it's all explained in the link) and I could probably coax Phil into it as well, if you hate my writing style/opinions/face. I'm matching contributions 100%, and really, if you donate a dollar, you get a request. If you donate $50, you get a request. Shoot I'll probably try and think of other nice things to give contributors. I don't know, I'm bad at this and never tried to raise money for anything. It's tough without bikini carwash girls. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/09/segunda-caida-fundraiser.html

Selma Blair was great in two different Todd Solondz movies, Storytelling and Dark Horse. She was also in one, possibly two, Hellboy movies.

What does it say about Linda Hamilton that she was already doing guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote just two years after The Terminator? That Angela Lansbury was hugely respected and she could get tons of awesome guest actors to appear on her show? Nearly every episode of the series has a recognizable actor/actress in it.

Love is a really great choice for this. She really was great in Flynt. The crazy was easy to capture, but she hit the perfect note on several little tender and playful moments that really added greatly to the movie.

TWELVE Uwe Boll movies, actually. (Going all the way back to before Boll made video game adaptations.) Poor Pare! I...had no idea Boll even had 12 movies. Woody Boll and Mia Pare. It's kind of cute in a way. I'm glad Pare still gets work, but I will forever be angry I didn't get the originally planned Streets of Fire trilogy.

There are a lot of really well known actors popping up in this thread. My pick is Michael Pare. He wasn't/isn't a very good actor, but he definitely had something. It seems like he just had bad luck and starred in a few movies that bombed, yet later became cult hits on cable. Streets of Fire is one of my favorite movies, but I also get why it flopped. Eddie and the Cruisers is good too, but it was another bomb. He also had a good recurring role on Greatest American Hero. I was excited when he booked a John Carpenter movie (Village of the Damned) but he literally dies 5 minutes in. He was also a minor part in Virgin Suicides and had a fun cop show with Michael Beck called Houston Knights. But for a good looking guy who couldn't act very well, tons of other similar guys have had way more successful careers. He still gets tons of work, but he's done 4 Uwe Boll movies so that should tell you the quality of work. As far as actual actors who only had ONE role, Dylan Baker's oldest son in "Happiness" I thought did an amazing job, especially during the scene where Baker is telling him how he molested one of his classmates. That kid never acted again.

Vampiro looked far more like the fat bloated bald zombie on the boat in the opening scene of Zombi 2. I'm sure - being on El Rey - he was going for a Fulci tribute with his look. That's loyalty to his network right there!

Virgil Flynn is another Bay Area guy who's pretty tiny (like 140 lb?) but can take a beating and do some fearless flying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKH6-eO0r4 That's a fun recent match (full disclosure, I'm one of the goobers on commentary)

And match him up against 2 guys I've never heard of. Reno SCUM are two Bay Area guys, Adam Thornstowe and Luster the Legend, who have been out here for quite some time. They always put on a good live match, though they really peaked a couple years ago. Still nice to see them getting a shot somewhere other than the Bay Area or Reno.

700? I would be shocked if that place held half that.

http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/06/ring-of-honor-on-destination-america.html Not the best debut. Ferrara and Dijak were not guys that should have been on the first "nationwide" episode. And Silas Young is to Man's Man brawler as Charlie Haas is to "technical wrestler". During every Haas match all they ever talked about was his technical ability but all he did was throw bad punches and do poor rope running. Young gets constantly talked about as a manly asskicker, and looks like a manly asskicker, and then wrestles like a worse Johnny Gargano. It doesn't fit. They'll be fine as long as they feature the Briscoes every single week. That'll get me back, at least.

WWE doesn't really have the luxury of editing their stuff to air a couple months later. I imagine a lot of how things are filmed in WWE has to do with some combo of "Looks best/Easiest to transport".