Octopus

Happy birthday to the Bockwinkel of DVDVR, @Matt D!!!!!!

If I were to make a fake account, it would be my arch nemesis, Squid. Fuck that dude. —— I’m all for the Nylavator

One time I got so cranked on that bam bam sauce that I filed Hulk Hogan’s autobiography in section 612.36 of the Dewey Decimal System. Easy mistake though.

Give me Nakajima… vs Daisuke Sekimoto vs RUSH vs Jun Kasai vs Minoru Suzuki vs Zack Sabre Jr vs Ishii vs Pentagon Jr in a bloody lucha brawl vs El Desperado (I know some of these happened before, but I want them again)

Nakajima-gun

Watching Tenryu vs Hashimoto with lil Octopus before bed.

He’s gonna Coffin Drop Christian Cage from the top of the mountain

Love me some Nakajima. I want him to kick people around the globe!

I feel like you and I don’t talk about food enough. A year ago my wife and I went to Chili’s for the first time in a very long time when lil Octopus was having a sleepover at uncle Giraffe’s. I was very impressed but there were minor things to take note of. The fajitas were very fun but a tad bland with certain ingredients. I will say, the ambiance was to die for and a fantastic staff, but you could tell they had a dark secret and as an outsider if we dug too deep into would likely not come out the same. 4 out of 5 mozzarella sticks.

Love me some @just drew. Good idea for a thread. I’ve rambled before on my journey through pro wrestling fandom before but I think this setting and as a concept of establishing taste will be fun. It all started with the Rock and the colorful characters of the WWF Attitude Era. Catchphrases, one of a kind personalities, a self contained Ed universe that was completely wild. I loved it all. As a 7-8 year old, I wanted to see The Rock make fun of Al Snow, DLo Brown to wiggle his head before a Frog Splash, Mankind sticking it to HHH, Shamrock break Jarrett’s leg. I loved it all. That bombastic charisma that oozes out of someone who IS their character, not just playing a role. I’m one of the few Penta lovers here, because when he’s spamming taunts, I believe he’d do that. Just like a WR dancing before getting to the inzone or me playing the video games against my friend and taunting like crazy. The People’s Elbow is so stupid but so great because of that. It’s fun and silly and as much of wrestling as an armbar. I failed to do a backflip while watching gymnastics in my basement, but my parents assumed I was watching wrestling. Wrestling is banned from the house. We snuck watched it for a few years, but it slowly faded. I was still heavily playing the video games at my friends house. Faded out to miss most of the Invasion angle. Once I hit middle school I had a few friends that watched and we’d talk about how cool the team of RVD and Kane was. My neighborhood friend had Here Comes the Pain which we played nearly daily. We actually had a group of neighbor kids that would watch WWE. Around 03-06ish until the group fizzled out. I learned of wrestling forums around this time. Which helped my pretentious and probably bad takes. I was “Sledge.” on Wrestling Forums. TNA became a fun alternative. Through the internet I discovered the Indy’s. ROH and specifically Low Ki vs Kenta changed my perception of what wrestling can be. It felt real with the strikes and the struggle of the hard grapples. I watched that match a hundred times. It opened up a wormhole to NOAH and Super Dragon and CHIKARA and so much more. CHIKARA had such fun characters and storylines. The build up and reveal of the BDK group was so wild. So many secret hints and small things to look back on. I remember digging through CHIKARAFans for all the hidden websites and messages that lead to the Eye of Tyr. I enjoy a good blood feud that puts two great workers against each other, but I also love and find lacking the elaborate tales in wrestling storytelling. When done right, it can be magic. I absolutely loved the Hangman Saga. Just feuds in general are great. I used to watch fan-made feud mv’s on YouTube. Kingston vs Hero had a good one that was broken up into episodes. I wish I could find that. I was really fascinated with the King’s Road style of wrestling and psychology. The grapples and holds being caught for. The idea of moves and counters building off of previous matches. I remember the first time seeing 90’s All Japan it was just so different. Compared to Steiner vs HHH, these guys looked human! They chopped each other and dropped each other on their head. It took a bit (just like watching non-flipping lucha) but once I got the pacing down, I felt like I could appreciate so much more. Just like how There Will Be Blood changed my view of cinema, 6/9/95 was a game changer for me. Now I’m just rambling…I made a post giving thanks to the posters that showed me the way of lucha. It makes me think of Satanico and Negro Casas. I think the dig to learn it more and my drive to do that with things I find fascinating. I love the wrestlers that I can watch and just keep my eye on them and find that even when they’re not the focal point of a multi-man match, they are still doing the little things right. There’s a match where Satanico is beat up and sitting in the corner and the ref or his partners is checking on him and you just notice he jerks his body angrily to be the tough guy not watching help. Just such a tiny thing but shows his character so well and it would be easy to miss. Or when they are the focal point and every movement and reaction makes sense and comes across so interesting or well done. Terry Funk is the best example of that. Examples being Nick Bockwinkel, Buddy Rose, Negro Casas, Akira Hokuto, and a handful of others. I just watch what they do the entire match. I guess I’d say this place (and a few others) introduced me to so many of my favorites. Now what I want to watch is a Super Event Penta taunting in one match, followed by sappy melodrama, then modern NOAH kicking or Kobashi chop off, then a passionate promo to either build to something or just fun buying time, maybe a neat tag match, throw in a comedy bit, then main eventing with an hour long sweaty grappling struggle between Daisuke Sekimoto and an equally muscular barrel chested man. TL;DR - The Rock and friends - Neighborhood friends (a community to enjoy wrestling with) - Low Ki vs KENTA - CHIKARA - Four Pillars and friends - This place (current community and discovering favorites)

Is it too late to join the Chill Club? I promise to be really calm and work on being casually cool.

Sadly I am moving on this day. I will likely not watch this until maybe the next day or the day after. Which is a shame, Danielson vs Sabre Jr alone is worth the ppv price (or theater ticket price ).

The Trustbusters were the beginning of the end for AEW. Mark my words.

QUAKE?? WILL IT BE AT A FUCKING LAKE THOUGH?!?!!?

Might not work with Joe but a different heel could play that up to keep their heat. Actually, Joe could go on a warpath or something because of it.

It looked like Mox yelled “fuck you” to Knox after he stopped the count.

You only have so many stat points to distribute amongst your attributes. It wouldn’t be fair otherwise.

Jade’s Irish whip percentage has been down and her TPM (taunts per match) is abysmal. Don’t resign or trade for WWE Draft picks.

I meant people, not serpents

Guys, let’s just agree that everyone sucks.

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Can you do the match on a non-Wrestlemania? Like counter program a big AEW PPV. Maybe even debut Punk or Jade there.

Wait Me, what if we get Rock vs Roman Night 1 & Cody vs Roman Night 2?!?!?! Are you telling me there’s a chance, Me? Vikes winning the Super Bowl!!!!!

Sad for likely losing the Finish the Story story (I don’t know this, but I’m a Vikings fan so I’m conditioned to express the worst after having hope), but a Rock return makes me happy. I will watch WWE stuff again. Which I guess is the goal of bringing him in. Good work! I like what I’m seeing. Maybe I’m a WWE-guy again?!