clintthecrippler
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I do find it curious that after multiple apologies and years of being incident-free and working matches with gay wrestlers, that the Briscoes are apparently blackballed by unnamed executives but the current TNT Champion allegedly had a WWE offer pulled after some similarly cringe tweets during the same time period that were most decidedly NOT gay-friendly.
And if all three of them have honestly changed or at the very least, recognize why what they said was hurtful, then good on them.
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24 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Thinking about it, is the CYN that dissimilar, on paper atl least, when they tried doing that Underground thing on RAW?
taking the politics aside for a second, is someone trying to do a “Fight Club” gimmick promotion, in its own world and diegesis, any different than “made for TV” wrestling concepts than wrestling society X or the Jeff Katz thing or Lucha Underground?
I don’t necessarily want to watch any of them, but I don’t think the idea is so radical, as it were.
Thats definitely a fair assessment when you take some of the things CYN is trying to do at face venue.
Personally, I think in 2022 if you are trying to be anything more than just another indie, doing ANYTHING to stand out and/or not pull a TNA circa 2010 and become "WWE on a budget" is at least worth trying.
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3 hours ago, The Natural said:
Miz, Tarver, and Daniel Bryan all with proper reactions to someone running down the CYN "rules".
Now that I see him in this pic, how has Ryback not gotten wrapped up in the CYN thing yet? At the very least, if they really want to stand out in a "no type suicidas and no Canadian destroyers" way, booking Ryback vs Braun as a big man main event battle seems like a way to do so.
Or is - and this is a scary thought - is CYN too galaxy brain even for Ryback? (Or vice versa?)
Though also given that Ryback (a) hasn't wrestled since 2018 and (b) seems to have tried a few non-wrestling related business endeavors the last few years, I could also see him viewing photos from that live show they did a few weeks back and rightfully recognizing that this is going to be money-losing waste of everyone's time.
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1 hour ago, Infinit said:
Edit: Jimmy Valiant. Boogie Woogie ia definitely a guilty pleasure of mine!
Was scrolling through the thread and chomping at the bit that no one had mentioned the Boogie Woogie Man yet. The absolute biggest smiles I have had while watching wrestling from any era the last five years has been throwing on a random episode of 1980s World Championship Wrestling and a Boogie Woogie Man squash comes on.
Cheeseburger getting pops from the Tokyo Dome crowd those couple of years that he was booked for the New Japan Rumble gave me much joy as well.
In terms of the absolute giddiness I have experienced at a live wrestling show, being a kid that grew up on 80s JCP and finally seeing the Rock N Roll Express live in 2019 at Joey Janela's Spring Break, and them tearing it up with LAX was the absolute most elation I think I have ever experienced when being in the room.
And in terms of a wrestling moment that is guaranteed to put a smile on my face no matter how bad my day was, throwing on the night that The Mulkeys finally won a match is the all-time mood-upper for me.
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On 3/10/2022 at 12:22 AM, Sammo~! said:
And...its gone because the English commentator for NOAH'S Wrestle Universe streams pitched a fit about it being an unlicensed shirt on Twitter.
I know the overwhelming majority of the limited-run "fan service" shirts aren't clearing any likeness rights but I can't imagine anyone is making enough money selling these things to make it worth being such a dustup. I can't imagine anyone is making a full-time living selling fan art shirts featuring the favorite wrestlers of 1990s AJPW tape traders.
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37 minutes ago, (BP) said:
Stupid AEW, all they doing is poaching NXT's castaways...
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My favorite all-time hometown introduction is still the tag team of Sting and Eddie Gilbert:
Sting - from "Every Man's Nightmare"
Eddie Gilbert - from "Every Woman's Dream"
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2 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Jesus, in one single Tweet Tony Khan managed to:
1. Vehemently deny a rumor.
2. Put over one of his announcers.
3. Took a jab at his top heel.
4. Flexed his wrestling nerd muscles.
The dude accomplished more in a single Tweet than any 10+ minute opening segment of Raw in the last seven years.
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I am more than okay with piling on the booker who was gifted the MSG debuts of Jushin Liger and Great Muta and decided "you know who needs to go over here? KENNY KING"
As someone who was in the building that night, the ROH side of that show save for maybe the TV Title 3-way and the NJPW vs ROH tag title match up until the Enzo/Cass angle just kept draining the crowd energy that night. I genuinely can't imagine anyone who walked out of that building saying "that was a great night for ROH" and the general "evening of" consensus was that they blew their side of the biggest non-WWE show that NYC had seen in decades.
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12 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
watching the Flair/DiBiase Mid-South match, and if you don't wanna look at the gruesome scene developing from Ted DiBiase's head, you can watch the horrified fans behind the hard camera, including a mother shielding the eyes of her child as Ted DiBiase gushes blood in the ring
It's a family show. Like when the kids got to watch Kevin Sullivan stab Kanemura's arm with a spike in Smoky Mountain.
That still doesn't quite top my own personal favorite Mid-South fan reaction, from when the Rock N Roll Express is demonstrating how a straight jacket works for an upcoming match where Jim Cornette is going to be restrained in one to prevent interference, and a teenage girl in the front row very visibly and angrily shouts "Awwwww SHIT!" as the Midnight Express interrupts the demo because she knows that Ricky and Robert are about to get destroyed in front of her very eyes.
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Your reminder that God made the Devil just for fun, but when he wanted the real thing, he made Aja Kong.
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14 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
The first 3 matches on this MSG card are Sal Bellomo vs Baron Mikel Scicluna, Mr. Fuji vs SD Jones, and Iron Mike Sharpe vs Johnny Rodz. They're not holding anything back on this card.
Iron Mike Sharpe vs Johnny Rodz actually ended up being a shockingly fun match though. Rodz ends up being defacto face being the native New Yorker, and they have quite the "late 90's WCW Worldwide"-style hidden gem match.
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EDIT: accidental double-post
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23 hours ago, D.Z said:
Does anyone know which '70s territory this version of the "NWA World Tag Team Championship" is representing?
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On 12/1/2021 at 11:30 PM, Cobra Commander said:
I love that Kal Rudman was a radio-industry guru that rubbed shoulders with folks like Bruce Springsteen and Clive Davis, but once a month he would use his Saturday night instead to go have himself a wonderful time at the WWF show when it came to Philadelphia, commentate the matches with Dick Graham, and interview the wonderfully over-the-top characters of the WWF as if they were actual people.
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According to Amazon, this came out on DVD during the month of November, because who doesn't remember the Extremely Legendary run that Ric Flair had in 3PW?
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13 minutes ago, Ace said:
It's a tie-in to Rock's Netflix movie.
The initial reveal of Vince showing off the egg was one of the most unintentionally hilarious bits of WWE television all year, as it was obvious that no one smartened up the pre-game panel to the movie tie-in and they all seemed as confused as the audience as to the egg gimmick.
And that honestly right there is one of the bigger signs to me that WWE has lost its fastball at nearly every level possible. Even in times when the in-ring product was in shambles, they would always make sure to hammer home the dumb promotional tie-in gimmicks and angles.
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2 hours ago, Peck said:
Oh yeah? How about doing that with full cans, hmm?
Why would you promote alcohol abuse like that?
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9 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Shawn with Hall and Nash, would have done something stupid, no doubt.
Just imagining how much of a train wreck the promos would have gotten if a pilled-up Shawn that doesn't give a flying fuck was placed in the ring opposite peak-incomprehensible 1998 Roddy Piper makes me wonder if Bischoff would have ordered production to just cut to commercial sometime during.
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2 hours ago, J.H. said:
What if... Vince convinces to let Bret take the paycut and let's him stay, benches Michaels for the remainder of his deal and Montreal doesn't happen? Does Michaels going to WCW get us the same result as Bret going (i.e. Bischoff has 0 idea how to effectively use him) or does Shawn just spiral out of control bbefore that with tragic results?
James
I am still of the belief that Shawn going to WCW would have been even more disastrous than Bret going to WCW, as combined with him being in a company where his outside-the-ring issues would be more unchecked, he would still run into the brick wall that was Hulk Hogan's creative control clause, which also likely in that time period lead to even more exacerbation of his issues.
I always got the feeling that Hulk at least respected Bret as a worker even if he didn't see him as a "star" on his level. I just see Shawn getting told "that doesn't work for me, brother" whenever ANY idea of him in 1998/1999 interacting with Hulk got pitched.
Shawn MIGHT have a shot if he hung around long enough for Russo to make it to WCW, but even then, I can't imagine Goldberg having much patience for dealing with a pilled-up Shawn Michaels, and if they were put in the ring it's possible that Shawn's career would have ended too but in a more malevolent manner.
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On 11/9/2021 at 8:50 PM, Zimbra said:
FROM THE WHEAT!
And then there was THIS tonight!
Video from the crowd with better audio of the in-arena reaction.
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One of the great pop-culture developments of the last decade was a responsible adult informing John Carpenter that he can make money performing his film scores live. I've only seen him once but he looked like he was having a great time doing these concerts, and one of my favorite live music experiences of that year was watching him put the sunglasses on before performing his theme from They Live
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23 hours ago, elizium said:On this date at the Winnipeg Arena, jesus what a card
Roger Kent's call of the match is certainly a guy talking into a microphone while large dudes wrestle.
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Uh, this seems like it may be leading to something a bit more than a hiatus...
EDIT: obviously while not as important as the livelihoods of a few dozen wrestlers, I do hope that if Sinclair begins fielding phone calls regarding the tape library, they pick up Tony's call before they take Vince's call.-
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March 2022 Wrestling GIFS and Pics
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Posted · Edited by clintthecrippler
I know many of us have our Holy Grails and other lists of footage they wished existed, arena cards 1970s single-city territories that were basically the pro wrestling version of "All Star Games" on a monthly basis are the peak of my "dammit I am bummed that I will never see these matches/cards.
We got a little taste of that from the "pre-Mid South exclusive" Houston footage that got out there through NWA On Demand a few years back, but those post-Sheik Toronto cards, Muchnick's St. Louis cards from the peak of the NWA, and 1970s Hawaii shows that had all tons of American talent stopping over on the way to and from Japan, some of those cards (especially the Hawaii card) are absolutely mind-blowing in terms of stacked talent in interesting matchups that didn't play out on a loop anywhere else.