Ultimo Necro

I feel like Brock might be the answer. He went from rookie in OVW to main eventing in a very short space of time.

He sounded like The Simpsons squeaky voiced teenager at a high school battle of the bands. Just occurred to me the potential for a full Straight Edge Society reunion is right there!

IWA:MS Punk was the most fun version of CM Punk we ever had. He always seemed to enjoy himself there. Whether it was his Hero feud, commentating on the KOTDM or whatever. He always seemed to be having a good time. TK kind of has that Ian Rotten spirit of ‘I’ll just book whatever I want and to hell with anyone else”. I’m hoping that bodes well.

I’ve only seen the YouTube clips so far, but my god what a pop that was. Possibly the greatest moment in the last 5-10 years and easily AEW’s biggest moment to date

In a ‘normal’ wrestling promotion, the obvious answer would be for Seth to say “I’m THE MAN of the house, so I’m here and she’s at home because That’s what I decided, so you won’t ever get to see her wrestle again”. Becky returns at some point, says “I do what I want and I don’t need a man to tell me what to do”. Kicks Seth in the nuts. Massive pop.

As it should be. Punch, punch, big spinebuster, done. Welcome to spinebuster city. Got to beat the NXT out of these guys … Sorry, my mistake, thought this was the RAW thread!

The Cena promo was brilliant. Boogs getting ejected while cutting a crazy guitar solo was brilliant, as was the Boogs / McAfee celebration! Highlight of the night though was…. ”I mean, who even begs for 100 grand” ”uh, someone who needs 100 grand” I think I tell myself that Dynamite is my current favorite show, but I am often much more entertained by Smackdown.

Seeing David Young’s name on that link and was amazed to see him have matches as recently as 2019. A real under rated gem of a wrestler. His NWA Wildside stuff was usually very good and he was fun in early TNA (often tagging with Elix Skipper). I had quite a few Wildside tapes back in the day, Young AJ, Young David Young, Chris Harris, Abyss, Slim J. It was a fun promotion

With all the recent developmental change chatter, is there any argument that OVW was the most successful version of developmental ever? They produced so many future top stars in such a short period. Or was a lot of that just down to recruitment? Did they just stumble upon a crop of blue chippers all at once? Batista, Cena, Orton, Brock were all kind of “can’t miss” prospects to begin with based on their size and look alone. Even most of the Mid card guys were excellent from the time. I sort of understand their theory that you can teach wrestling, but you can’t teach size, which seems to be what they are aiming for.

38 mins 58 secs. Slowest I’ve been for a while! Tough one!

listening to a podcast and the term “catch as catch can” came up. I haven’t heard a wrestling commentator (maybe other than JR) use that term in forever. When I was a kid I used to think “catch as catch can” was an area of Canada where that style of wrestling was invented. Catchascatchkan bordering Saskatchewan. Id love a wrestler to use that as their hometown Catchascatchkan, Canada.

“We’re not saying you could be the next Dave, but we could see you as Dave’s best friend” “Oh yeah, I could definitely see him as Dave’s best friend”

I’m interested to see who the first AEW contracted talent is the first to go the other way. Their initial contracts will start to expire and as the main event begins to get top heavy the pastures of WWE might look greener.

RIP Bobby one of my all time favourites

I was disappointed when I found out Anthony Bourdain : Parts Unknown wasn’t a documentary about one of wrestling’s greatest destinations.

It should be renamed “Uncle Kracker heat”. The song was 9/10ths of the heat.

The “WWE Universe” can do all the wacky chants they want, at the end of the day they paid WWE to be there, I am sure they care not one bit. WWE is making money either way!

I’d genuinely be happy if I never see Ric Flair on a wrestling show ever again. Commercials on the other hand.

Hammerstone is aiming for WWF Hogan but landing on ECW Shane Douglas

First 3/4 of the show - Mid South Main event - IWA: Mid South

I always imagined a Vince movie would be exactly like the movie playing in Biff’s casino in Back to the Future 2. Come to think of it, it’s exactly how I imagine Titan Towers to be. “I thought I sent you to boarding school ya punk kid”

“Jeff, you have tested positive for Covid, however, you also suffer from a thing called 3 stooges syndrome… don’t worry, it’s quite common in wrestling, Vince, Ric Flair and X-PAC have all had it”

Vince’s pop culture reference point hasn’t reached the Hemsworths yet. “Get me that young up and comer Val Kilmer”

If they get Dan Lambert back I’d love to see him send MMA guys after Punk. Punk v Lambert on the mic would be ridiculous. Or Cabana is the other obvious one.

I believe it’s known as MLW now