Ultimo Necro

I’ve put a few bucks on Connor TKO in rounds 2-3 at an online bookie, watching the build Connor looks lean and hungry which seems dangerous, particularly given he won’t have his Irish army behind him. I love Dustin but I don’t see how he wins this.

I just saw the music video for Men Without Hats - Safety Dance for the first time in my life, and realised if the Dark Order REALLY want to recruit Hangman they should recreate this video with Hangman as the main guy, the resemblance is uncanny. Silver could be the little guy, Anna Jay the blonde chick.

In my head I went “oh that’s ages away, they have plenty of time to announce a world title bout” then I remembered it’s only really 5 weeks! I was beginning to feel like Dynamite has been drifting a little aimlessly recently, hopefully announcing a date will allow them to set some things up and get a bit of focus and direction.

You know, if you told me Borash and Jarrett were solely booking Raw I would 1000% believe it. Tons of weird angles that make little sense, performed badly. AJ Styles being the only bright spot. Raw has finally completed its transformation into Impact from 5-6 years ago.

97 is under rated. It’s got Austin being Austin and doing incredible things for the most part. Jerry Lawler’s participation is also fantastic. It probably holds the record for most Luchadores ever on a WWE show. Apart from the Rumble match itself it’s one hell of a weird show.

I’ve started to wonder when the first round of AEW contracts and next ‘big’ WWE talent contracts will be due to expire. Its a shame for the wrestlers, as pre-Covid their bargaining power would have been off the scale for the first time in years, but now the big companies rosters are over-stacked and the indies & overseas tours are pretty much on hiatus. It will be interesting to see what happens. I’m assuming most people just re-up where they are, if possible, so they have a guaranteed paycheck. That would seem the sensible option.

I await the week where Arsenal are losing 5-0 at half time and they get jobber entranced. ”...and their opponents, from London, Arsenal”

Dynamite, Impact, MLW and occasionally SD. Impact has been my most watched show of the last 2-3 years.

This is the DVDVR version of the Eddie Kingston speech on BTE but it really nails the community aspect of wrestling fandom. Well said! I had to find a new Barber about 6 months ago. On my first visit to the new place I was wearing a Janela Spring Break shirt. My new barber saw the shirt and then wanted to chat about nothing other than the 2000-03 Philly Indy scene, old school CZW, Zandig, Ruckus, 3PW and Jersey All Pro, all that kind of stuff that I traded tapes of many years ago. I had never met the guy before but the kinship was there straight away. I was, however, very worried that the dude cutting my hair with clippers, had just spent way too long talking about the Nick Mondo weedwacker spot.

RE: Rippa’s post about KO / Priest. Its probably for the best that the angle was squished. Being Kevin Owens best friend rarely works out in storyline terms!! ?

Wait are you my brother Derrick? ? He messaged me to say similar. I asked if he watched Raw and he said “tried to, saw Miz, turned it off, watched Smackdown clips on YouTube instead.” This is a single man, with nothing to do, during a lockdown, and he can’t even watch a minute of a 3 hour show. It’s damning!

To round out a crummy year I went back and watched Episodes I and II today. Phantom Menace was much as I remembered, a giant kids movie with Darth Maul being the cool interlude. Attack of the Clones though, maybe because I haven’t watched in 10 years or so, looked way closer to the Clone Wars in style than I remembered. Did it always look this way? My memory is hazy on this. Neither movie was as bad as I feared. I hated Ep 2 when it came out but quite enjoyed revisiting it. I plan on doing episode 3 and Solo tomorrow.

Re: The Bruce Mitchell story, I happened to watch The Simpsons ‘Maison derriere’ episode and the song has been spinning around in my head. It totally works for “we put the dirt in dirtsheets” “You could close down Raw or Impact, And nobody would care. Because the heart and soul of the IWC is in its derriere. Like the scum on your bathtub, with pop ups for pornhub, Yes we put the dirt in dirtsheets”

Hope this sparks a trend of soccer managers using famous wrestling promos “This is Robbie Mireno reporting from West Bromwich Albion, Big Sam Allardyce, what just happened?” ”Whaddya mean what just happened? What are you blind? JEEEEZUS”

In the UK they call that PPV #megadrive

Said the exact same to my brother 5 minutes ago. For me it’s the best Star Wars thing since Empire, it was that good.

I’m not ashamed to admit I just spent 15-20 minutes in tears watching Star Wars. That was incredible.

At this point Pip farting on a snare drum could draw better key demo ratings than Raw.

Oh come on double double E Russ T, the Evil wrestling Ironmonger is right there, the most corrosive man in pro-wrestling. Honestly, Sometimes I feel like it’s just me that’s stuck in 1993.

Just catching up with this now. What a brutal ko. Bearhug into a spinebuster. Incredible. Leavitt seems like the nicest dude in the world.

Didn’t think I would pop for anything harder than Sting on TNT this week, but there we have it. Popped huge for the confirmation in this weeks episode! Dude is badass!

Wardlow with a moment of gold on the AEW podcast this week. He is discussing possibly getting into MMA and Tony asks “have you ever talked to Swagger about MMA?” Wardlow “no. Me and Jack do not speak much.” “I don’t even know why we hate each other, we just do” Blur the lines brother!

Yeah, hopefully this Sting / Jeff Hardy crossover goes better than the last one in TNA.

Tony Schiavone screaming “it’s Stttiiiiiiinnnnnnggg” on a TNT Broadcast just made me cry a little with happiness. 2020 is one wacky year.

No word on Tre Miguel? Interesting!