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Prime was it's own provider if I remember correctly and there were definitely Prime Exclusive matches but it's truly D Level stuff.

I think Sabus matches were on Prime.

Well I'll be damned, I always considered Cash to be the Tully of the FTR Brainbuster comparison but here he is channeling Arn.

Alright time to dive in with a WALL-O-TEXT~! and some Porksweats Lore! Incredibly excited for this first match because I've been loving everything that's come from Bryan Turner's channel and to watch some obscurity. Can't beat some Tracy Smothers and Ron Killings, to be honest haven't watched much Doug Gilbert. I actually got a chance to meet Tracy Smothers at the dual BLP Turbo Graps/GCW Nick Gage Invitation 4 show (picture to prove!) Onto the match, Killings comes out first with a really rad TNA basketball jersey, wish I could have one of my own. Tracy's introduction saying he's got more titles than you count on one hand? Sick. Last but not least, we've got Shane McMahon's music playing with "GM Rob" introducing the mystery 3rd man Doug Gilbert! Not gonna lie, it'd have been sick if it was Shane as the third man. Love that dude. But Gilbert's got a Ribera jacket and looks ready to rumble wielding a baseball bat. That's going to come in play for sure. Match starts off with Smothers saying he's the one to worry about and Truth/Gilbert immediate team up to get Smothers out with a double clothesline over the top. Truth and Gilbert go at it, Smothers is back in and "Pearl Harbors" per commentary Gilbert from behind. Let's see how antiquated this commentary is going to be. Tracy and Truth go at it, Tracy's dancing. Truth's crisp. Smothers takes a Russian Legsweep like a DDT and Truth goes for the cover but no dice because Gilbert's back in and breaks it up with the bell ringer's bell! How topically considering the Leatherface match on Dynamite. Doug's just hammering away at both Smothers and Killings (ignore the obvious pun). Oh god, Doug's trying to gouge the eye of Truth with the handle of the hammer, thank god Smothers comes in and breaks it up with a chain before any damage is done. Doug and Tracy go to the outside, Doug's got the chain now! It's a small chain but it's still a chain. Truth flies over the top leaving a mess of bodies in front of the 50 some odd fans. Some more brawling back in the ring and we get the second cover of the match from Doug to Tracy (announcing says its first but the first was when the hammer came into play), Tracy kicks out and now Doug's unwrapping the wrist tape. We're playing all the hits here. Tracy breaks the choke with a low blow but Truth's back on his feet and nails a hook kick. Doug's a goddamn weasel and tries to steal the pin here. Last second kick out, some more back and forth from Doug and Tracy before Truth's whipping Tracy to the corner and hitting his sick backflip, throwing Tracy off balance with his drop down split, to bounce back up and kick Tracy's face straight off. Another Gilbert steal attempt! Another escape! Truth's just doing the work here hitting a scissor kick on Tracy, don't know why he isn't trying to get rid of Doug before going back for Tracy but it ends unfortunately there with Doug getting the 3 count on Smothers. There's a post match promo with Truth calling out Doug for stealing his win, Tracy gets the jump on them after and lays them out with the hammer and the title belt. It leads to GM Rob setting up a tag match where Tracy can pick his partner against R Truth and a partner. Smothers says its going to be Terry Funk! GM Rob said that's no surprise. He reveals Truth's partner.... PSYCHO SID VICIOUS. I'll be damned, I'd go to that follow up show even if this match ended poorly. There's no cagematch listing for that follow up match from May the 14th but man I hope it happened. Overall, I enjoyed the match for what it was, a small time Nashville Tennessee Fairgrounds show with wrestlers who are good at their jobs. The wrestling match equivalent of a nice ice cold can of RC Cola from the gas station. The second match will be reviewed later on!

I think the only reason they didn't do a Cinematic match is that it had to deal with Picture in Picture during the dark first backstage half of the match. Otherwise a cinematic match start culminating in the ring would've been the way to go. Also glad to see my prediction of Callis bringing in Ospreay from 2 weeks ago panned out as exactly that.

I for one liked the insane GM Baron Corbin/Lacey pairing that wound up backfiring so bad it got Paige fired from GM too on a heavy Brand Split Smackdown.

They did bleed with the BCC. Can't go wrong with them as an option. John Silver will be one to watch in the Stampede.

No matter how bad the Texas Chainsaw Deathmatch started, the visual of Singh standing tall at the end was worth it all.

My biggest dream for tonight is seeing Satnam with a chainsaw.

It's nice to see her finally break the Dark/Elevation bubble and have something substantial on the weekly TV after that unfortunate Jade Cargill challenge.

Hey Casey, going through your posts I saw you're a big fan of Billie Starkz so here's a match AEW itself hasn't run but can totally run back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gp36nvWRlE&pp=ygUQYmlsbGllIHN0YXJreiB2cw%3D%3D Wrestling Revolver beat them to the punch and had Billie take on Ruby Soho! This is a blind drop so here's hoping it's good. If it isn't, I can come up with a backup.

An elimination match is only exciting if the champion is the first elimination and my gut tells me they're not going to hot shot the title again here.

Alright! Time for a Secret Santo Wall-O-Text~! (RIP Dean) So let me get my bearings straight here, this is just before the genesis and creation of the NWO, which aka is before my time watching as a first time fan. I didn't begin watching wrestling on a whole until around Winter 97/Summer 98? I was a WCW fan but that came from playing the Playstation Nitro and Thunder games, and every now and again catching a Nitro or Thunder but mostly the Saturday/Sunday Morning syndicateds. Now that the history lesson is out of the way I'm going to knock out both of these and give a quick run through. First, the Saturday Night match which was taped first on the 15th, but didnt air until the 25th after the GAB. Coming down to the ring first is Steven Regal (when did he switch to William? He definitely was Steven when he had the Real Man's Man, but I can't remember if he was still Steven when he came back for that very weird and brief 99 WCW run), with Jeeves in tow! Sting's out next and that man is no surfer, he's got a full head of brown hair. He looks tired, but he's still the man they call Sting. Test of strength to start, and Sting stomps the fingers. Regal's a world class seller and with his fingers curled up he looks like an old timey villain stalking the damsel, thinking about tying her to some railroad tracks. He turns around and gets psyched out by a Sting WOO. Sting almost steals a victory flipping Regal off the ropes, but Regal's sly and gets out of it. A quick eyepoke and Regal's got control. It's short though and Sting's back on top, not all that much is going on here then Regal tries to roll Sting up during the Scorpion Deathlock but Sting keeps cool and rolls himself on top and that's it. Well, that's just a taste of things to come. Here's hoping that GAB match is a bit meatier, not that there was anything wrong with this but it was not even five minutes bell to bell. Onto the main course! Regal and Jeeves come down first again, Sting follows but he definitely seems more on the ball here. Tony's hyping him up as a man who can overcome all odds and you know what? I'm sold. I'm digging his purple surfer facepaint here, it's slick with his tights. Match starts with Regal getting irish whipped into the corner and going over the top and down to the floor in a pretty rough landing. Backdrop from Sting to Regal on the outside before Regal rolls back in the ring and begs off Sting when he joins him back in. Clearly that's just a ploy because Regal hits the eye poke and follows with some european uppercuts where Dusty and Tony argue about it. Regal stalls for time, jabbers with a fan, stalls for more time. Test of strength leads to Regal locking in a cobra clutch briefly before rocking Sting with an elbow. Sunset flip flips fortunes and Regal's boxing the air trying to fight falling down. No pinfall, Regal's up before Sting and hits a dropkick that Regal's leading foot catches Sting right in the ear, youch that's got to hurt. Some more headlocks, heel control yadda yadda but Regal's got some great facial expressions that help a generally boring section go by fast. Regal's just breaking Sting down, bending the fingers, locking the head, rubbing his face on the mat. Sting looks like he's going to get control after a dropkick and goes up top but Regal's right on his tail and tosses him off. Sting's back irish whipped into another corner and Regal wails away but Sting's had enough and the adrenaline is kicking in! Knocks Regal down and boom Scorpion Deathlock and its over baby. My thoughts? I hate to say I'm underwhelmed but I'm underwhelmed by this! But I'm happy I watched it. It's good to know two of my favorites faced off even if it didn't set the world on fire. I wonder how they fared in their 95 showing or 94. Also wonder if footage exists of the NJPW show where Arn teamed with Regal against Sting and Lex.

AEW can bring in Nick Aldis to pop the hometown crowd.

Curt I gave you this one right after it started and you liked the post! I just wasn't able to tag. I've got what you sent me on queue for when I get home from work today to watch.

The next champ will be the 7th title reign since the start of the year.

That's not fair to the Cody Rhodes fans.

You know Jericho vs Ospreay will come from Ospreay being intro'd as the new Callis signing and shunning Jericho after he lost all his own followers. That's just my book it booker man idea.

That's my one preference too folks, I want some real obscurity to my options. I'll give this a watch and review real soon, sounds like a blast. Thank you Curt (Might watch both!)

Hey Curt! Looks like we're paired up! Looking through your recent posts, you seemed to really like Aussie Open so I'm throwing this one that someone uploaded on Youtube from HOG (a promotion I normally care nothing about) of Aussie Open vs The Briscoes (RIP Jay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331WYzCJ7Vc

I gave it some thought, Jerry Lynn should just bring Sabu back out.

I'd like to take part! It was a blast the last few and I haven't watched much extracurricular wrestling lately mainly due to how twitter has been dying so it hasn't been fun to post any gifs on Gifapalooza over there. Hopefully Bluesky will have gif support soon.

Yeah on Dynamite itself Excalibur announced it during his big rundown and there was a graphic for Scorpio Sky vs Kip Sabian.

MJF/Cole vs The Kingdom is a match I didn't know I wanted.

I wish I could say that advice works for me but no matter what browser it is, it won't work unless DVDVR shows as unsecured. Tried it in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and even Opera.