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New additions: Terry Funk retirement 1983 show program and ticket, and The Wrestler No. 59 newspaper covering the event.

I tend to agree. Micro Brawlers are OK for what they are, buy they seem like more of a cheap novelty gift. Price point is sort of crazy—you're right, the AEW figs at retail are $20, $23/$24 if you have to pay an upcharge through Ringside Collectibles. These are going to be $17.99 plus tax, plus shipping for EACH ONE. People will pay more for these through PWT than they'll pay for figs through Ringside Collectibles.

$20 retail, if you can find one, or just slightly more if you're willing to wait out the scalpers.

NJPW programs are something else. "Stunning" Steve with a fairly dangerous tombstone in this one. Someone should make a poster of this! Merch!

Agreed, this will be the fifth one. Dude needs to give it a break. Series 1 Series 1 1-in-500 Blood Brothers two pack UK Exclusive w/ ring Series 4

Just finished two books recently. The Young Bucks: Killing the Business I preordered a signed, first edition, but after reading, I wish I would have waited for a paperback release. I've never had a more "average" experience reading a wrestling biography. My wife asked if it was a good, I paused, thought, and replied, "Yes? I guess so?" There are a few good stories, including the time at PWG where Danielson and Strong worked pretty stiff (for much longer than planned) in a failed attempt to make the Bucks sympathetic baby faces, being super lonely their first few trips in Japan, and the entire dynamic between the Bucks and Omega choosing between AEW and WWE. But if you're not a big fan, you might end up feeling like this is really just a rundown of their lives and careers. Which is fine, I love hearing it straight from the author, there's just nota lot of creativity or storytelling. Maybe I'm just spoiled by some of the great books by Foley, Jericho, Regal, etc., (they didn't use any type of ghostwriter for this). I admire their story, and what they've done to change the entire industry, and appreciate they dedicated so much time to this project. Like @Hagan said in a previous post, they're two genuine guys, so it's probably worth a quick read when it reaches a lower price point. Just doesn't expect an elite-level memoir here. Wrestling with Pixels Every wrestling video game, ever. They cover it. The kickstarter for this opened almost a decade ago (2013!) and it was finally released last year, after the book was handed over to Hardcore Gaming 101 a few years ago. A fan of video games, and wrestling, this strikes two boxes. My growing interest in PURO MERCH! checked another box, as this has a short summary of every Japanese release ever (look at that, FMW had a game, and holy sh*t did Japan get a lot of releases throughout the years). It's also nice to reminisce about the US releases, and learn why I never knew about WWF In Your House for PS1 until 10 years after its release. Summaries range from a third of a page to two or three pages (saved for a dozen or so titles). Brevity is nice, I don't need to read the full history on Super Wrestle Angels, but I'd like to know it exists. It's decent in a "checklist" sort of way: seeing the art, knowing what it is, and maybe a quick opinion. If you're expecting it to be in-depth on each game, you're not going to like this. If you want a definitive list of what's out there, this is the book to own. Sadly, the most common format is available at retail is paperback/black and white. I'm not sure if the digital formats are color or not. There's a paperback/color version floating around that I'll probably end up grabbing at an additional cost at some point. If this was a larger, color, coffee-table-style book, I'd be one of the first in line.

Got Series 2 last week, my Pentagon has a slight packaging error.

The Riho is an odd choice (even if they decided months ago), and the figure doesn't look great. They double down by making a Riho CHASE figure as well. And they totally missed out by putting "WHOEVER" on the side/left instead of the name.

The new Storm Collectibles Liger (on the left) is ... just different enough?

As an AIW regular and someone that finds Matthew Justice entertaining ... he needs to stop that. It's been a semi-regular occurrence on AIW shows for the last two years and I'd guess other places as well. He's crazy enough where it doesn't add anything, and there's a legit cringe (and not in a good way) every time they do those spots. Jumping off of balconies is more than enough.

After looking as the results of the NGI and today's show, I'd guess Ol' Mancer finally signed with someone and is closing out his indy run.

It would be nice if DZ ever started providing context to at least some of the pictures he posts in this thread. It's the third theme album put out by NJPW, 1983, listing at discogs.com.

I disagree. If you have mental health issues, I'd rather a therapist provide advice on whether a specific occupation should or should not be pursued. For some, performing is an important part of positive mental health. For some, you're right, if you don't have the tools to deal with certain aspects, it can be counter-productive. Either way, it's a bit naive to generalize and put every performer in the same bucket of what they should and should not do, and how that impacts their mental health.

Another lawsuit by Joey Ryan, this time against for ROH student/wrestler Pelle Primeau: PWInsider The best part? The first part of the lawsuit claims, that, Ryan slept with Pelle's partner (not knowing she was Pelle's partner at the time). When Pelle posted about this, he did so as part of #SpeakingOut movement, instead of just posting it as his own, non-related issue. Attaching the posts to the #SpeakingOut movement caused Ryan to lose cash. I guess that's one route to take. The rest just claims libel after Pelle posted a bunch of stuff urging others to not financially support Ryan in any fashion.

How anyone still supports this carny f*ck is beyond me—and that goes for workers, fans, IWTV, anyone. After hearing the radio interview in 2010(?) where he just gets bombarded from others about the terrible stuff he's done (and little of which he denies), the amount of money he's swindled and stolen, and contributing significantly to the death of another worker, I'm shocked he hasn't been blackballed (or arrested).

I'm a big AIW supporter (it's my local promotion) and I couldn't agree more. I had such high hopes for the main event, and it wasn't even a good match, let alone a good ending to a months-long feud.

Me, too. The venue is interested. All concrete. I feel like if it was packed it would sound awesome and just amplify everything. But with the size of the crowd now everything just sounds hollow and dead. Cogar vs. Corino ending D-Generation F was a pretty rough way to go out.

Man, the "pro boner" joke was right there. I'm curious as to what Joey thinks the end game is here. Even if the accusers admit to lying or fabricating the entire thing, I'm guessing they're not wealthy enough to just hand over thousands and thousands of dollars if found responsible. He knows that more details of the incidents are going to come out in court, right?

"I couldn't possibly allow them to work in an unsafe ring, but I will make sure they slice each other up for little to no pay and take unnecessarily dangerous spots to appease 75 people in lovely Connersville at another time." Too bad, we'll all have to wait for another "Sh*t You Don't Want to Get Poked With" Death Match until a later date.

Yep. They just took the alternate phrasing "helluva" and pronounced that term differently than it normally would be. Get it, hahahaha, indies are hilarious with the top notch humor sometimes. Now it's just something 99.9% of the audience doesn't get and sounds awful for a trademark move.

I am just realizing now, after how many years, how dumb of a nickname "Legit Boss" is.

Sell it. No reason to hang on to it Eventually you'll be able to grab one for at least half that. You'll be able to grab most of an entire later series with the profit.

Why not just wait? I'm vacationing near Pensacola, FL, and there were 10+ figures at the two stores I went to. I live in Ohio and there has been nothing. You can use brickseek. While not completely accurate, it'll show you if your area has a decent quantity floating around. No need to drive around. If brickseek shows 10+ it means they have a standalone display that usually has a ton of stuff.

No significant addition to this other than being shocked my current residence of Parma, Ohio, would ever be mentioned on DVDVR. Yeah, he was very 'middle class' from the school he went to all the way the specific area of town he grew up in, and, while not entirely horrible or great itself, Parma is surrounded by some of the nicest communities in Northeast Ohio, all of which are know to be somewhat intolerant, in general. Parma is diverse, but in the "Is your family originally from Poland, or are they from the Ukraine?" sort of way.

Nope, that was a month or so later. I'm not really sure it was technically "broken" as everyone talks about today (or as bad as Austin's was) but it did eventually lead to problems a year or two later. I don't watch enough NJPW to know, but maybe this lead to the badass Yakuza-inspired gimmick change a few years later?