Curt McGirt

So that's my giant review of the show. Gives you a good grasp of what a JCP card was back then and it would have been a blast to go to.

You cheeky bastard Speaking to the topic, last night on Smackdown they made note of how "no team has come together out of nowhere and clicked as well as Andrade and Fenix" and that reminded me of this kind of thing. I mean of course Fenix is a great tag wrestler, but Andrade could find his niche as one of those kind of guys. We know he can main, and he probably will again, but he seems to have just been getting by for a long time doing nothing in the midcard of two feds now.

Any undercard picks out there for GAB '85? Card is I'm starting at the tag titles match

They can always have non-title matches, no...?

So, I skipped a couple matches on both nights, and I skipped the cage match here because 1. I watched the last one, and 2. I watched the Roadies/Russians chain match, so I think I got both my fill of MX and Roadies. Went straight to Flair/Dusty. The Flair 3-disc DVD with the two Dusty/Flair matches came out in 2006. I don't even remember watching those (they were both Starrcade matches) so even if I did, and I probably did, it's been nearly 20 years. If those were good they must not have impressed me, but this one definitely did. It felt really close-up, cinematic, and probably more important than anything was that Dusty won whereas I doubt the ones on the Flair DVD, he did. This was the close of a whole tour and had the dragon get slayed. Big Dust might've been a guy who was all charisma, but when you have that much charisma, you don't have to do a moonsault. These guys were just getting by on bullshit and blood (Dusty Gunshot-to-Eye Level 0.9) the whole match. I don't think I would have even appreciated that in 2006. The pop on that three was unreal.

TBH he did bring a lot to the other match. All the verbals, telling them there's no wrestling and that pins don't count etc., had a good place in a match like this. It's kind of an intentionally ref-heavy match. Now, kicking away Nikita's arms for the pinfall in the Magnum match later for example, not so much. I really enjoyed the Boogie/Valiant match because the closeup shaving with Boogie's face was so intense. You can see in his eyes, he moves from total blind rage to this steely resolve that he is absolutely gonna kill this guy in revenge. For such a goofy, unserious wrestler that was some epic shit. Rock'n'Rolls/Andersons was pretty cool; don't think I've ever seen a straight Andersons match unless they had one on the Horsemen set. It was really non-stop action for 20 straight minutes til the finish line. Was fun seeing Ole sell the leg when I'd think of him as a character who'd rather not. The big wishbonings of the legs were some classic '80s pops and Arn was such a sadist working on the nose, then Ole at one point grabbed Ricky's face to work on it too when they were on the mat; it looked like he stuck his index finger right in his eye, with the camera like six inches away from them. And hey, at the end we got to see a Baby Rockers! The Magnum match was real basic, probably because you could clearly see a green Nikita calling it while he had on headlocks, but the Magnum bladejob was Passion of the Christ-like. Gooey.

Watched it, and nahhhhh the first Taped Fist was the better match. This one had: 1. Way more pulled-looking punches from Garvin (probably because Tully just couldn't/wouldn't have it like that a second night in a row) 2. Tully's cheating wasn't as extensive 3. It was less even of a match from both guys with way more Garvin dominance even though he was taking it easy on Tully 4. They did the fist-wrap spot but then had to DOUBLE it by later giving Tully a knuckle-duster that looked like an actual weight for hand-lifting 5. They had Garvin stomp the crap out of Tully in full view of Earl Hebner, who let it go because of course, it's Earl Hebner. It also just felt less grimy, less like a fight, not as long, wrong guy won thus no pop. Points for JJ blading though. He looked like an executive who managed to survive a plane crash or bombing that you'd see walking away from the wreck on an '80s news broadcast.

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I still need to see Sweet Sweetback too! And I've even seen the documentary about it.

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EDIT: Nevermind, my timeline is totally off Let me just say I think he should have done more dramatic stuff. Him showing up as a surprise guest in Inglorious Basterds was not only, well, a surprise, but quite effective.

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If we are getting this match in the Bash series then we are in for a treat. It's '87, but worth showing the photos that just popped up on Facebook. From Reunion Arena in Dallas: The page was Book Pro Wrestlers by Steve Stasiak, which I don't follow but probably should, it just showed up in my random feed.

If you're watching all of these could you kind of compare the ones that are the same on multiple cards for us? Like I would prefer to see a better version of the six-man tag or the strap instead of a lesser one. I'm of course gonna go ahead and compare the Taped Fists.

I had to think a minute and then go look it up, but it was worth it. Christ, I haven't seen the movies in years. I DID see the sequel in the last year or so on TV though, and it's still really good. I always thought it was the better one too.

You guys like Ice Road Truckers shit as much as us down here? My folks eat that right up. You'd think that actually dealing with stuff like that on a regular basis might dim the appeal -- but then again it IS big views of calamity and humanity has never been able to turn those down. What is Bowens good at in-ring? Is he just a solid hand? Is there any thing we can work with here aside from getting rid of the stupid gear and the nicknames? (I for one liked the Open Challenge as well, haven't seen it in a week or two though. I thought maybe they shuffled him to ROH or something, where he belongs.) Here's a thought: if you get them back together, have Bowens as muscle and Caster as just manager, a little buzzing mosquito being a shit. But please... no more rapping.

I can totally see Melvin Van Peebles taking his kid aside and saying "Let's fuck this accent up so bad on purpose! None of these dumb white motherfuckas is gonna say a word. Just watch." They come onto set. Day one finishes. Melvin looks over at Mario sideways after they cut and whispers "See? What'd I say?" And they just start laughing.

I'm not sure if the fans noticed the fire, it was so close. You kinda have to actually throw it, nawmean? But from our perspective that looks pretty nasty. You can definitely think of Vince saying "GODDAMMIT PAL HE CAN'T TALK AND THAT LOOKED LIKE SHIT", and getting mad at whoever came up with it... probably Cornette. Plus it is so very not a New Generation type spot.

TBH I haven't read the details on the case besides reading I think a Guardian article so I could see some courtroom sketches and dip my toe into just how disgusting it is. What I meant was "power and degradation" on a non-consentual level, which, in another TBH for me, I tend to associate with "non-consentual" as far as sex is concerned. I understand that everyone has different concepts of consentual sex but to me that starts to evoke a reach. (Obviously, they would have excused me from jury duty for this one.)

Well do you expect them to eat Cocoa Pebbles and then go get inspired by Picasso's Brown Period and paint their apartment using human shit?

So, just reunite with his former tag partner? He really broke down -- like really broke down -- the match in Way AEW Edition. He says he had Hanger watch Cody Garbrandt vs. T.J. Dillashaw in UFC as an influence, for example. I don't want to give away what Phil went out of his way to get printed but lets just say he gives his personal insight into AEW style and psychology within matches, not only in this chapter but throughout the book, and it's really fuckin' cool.

He was stiff as fuck and had mad charisma. And he was from Atlanta, Canada! The issue is the Flair feud. People thought he was a (hands of) stone midcarder and not on Flair's level.

You always gotta take in mind that the weather in this movie is bringing out the worst in everybody, even Radio, who seemed the type to just stay mute and let things slide off his back. And of course the destruction of Sal's is representative of the LA Riots. That was always viewed as people burning down their own houses, when it was really people robbing businesses that took their money and gave little back to the community. (Of course, cops drew the line at Beverly Hills and let the rest of the city burn.)

Oh man, the spot in that cage tag where Condrey is gonna piledrive Magnum and Magnum goes up for it then just falls back down to his feet while Condrey bumps on his ass is priceless. It's so goofy it would work in CHIKARA and so simple it could be done by a backyarder, would have always been good for a laugh, but I can't ever recall seeing it.

Good god, apparently I can't count either 30 SECOND. (and yeah, I really can't count... I can't even long divide)