Dolphman 3000
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1 hour ago, Brandon Bones said:
And they are running a pretty strong schedule far outside their own home territory.
GCW chose to sign Nick Gage to a long-term contract right after the Hammerstein show to stop him from leaving and starting his own promotion, and now they have to run a zillion shows a year to pay it out.
This is the hell they chose - don't feel bad for them.
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6 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Was this before or after the shit with MJF being a bad ex boyfriend or whatever?
They broke up in 2019, she didn't work AEW until Summer 2021
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5 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:
If we are making up reasons Allie Katch isn't in AEW, I think "she isn't a very good wrestler" would be a better made-up reason.
At the time she was calling out PWG for sexism, she had stopped training and was regularly dropping her opponents on their heads because she didn't have any upper body strength
I'm assuming the Big Swole squash was a rib since that match was only a few weeks after the Twitter drama
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16 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
You just reminded me of Allie Katch and how they need to scoop her up like yesterday.
She talked wayyyy too much shit about PWG not booking women to the point where PWG started booking women who purposefully aren't her
That bridge is burned
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Bull Nakano Reportedly Involved With New Japanese Women’s Wrestling Promotion
As previously reported, there are plans to launch a new Japanese women’s wrestling promotion in the US. PWInsider has more details on the upstart company, which will include the involvement of former AJWPW and WWE wrestler Bull Nakano. Nakano will not wrestle for the new company but will be “actively involved” behind the scenes and will have an on camera role.
The promotion is expected to launch in September with the first event set for New York City. It has been planned and worked on for years. At one point, consultants for the company actually worked for Bushiroad, parent company of NJPW and STARDOM. A number of the wrestlers involved were signed to contracts earlier this year.
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28 minutes ago, EVA said:
Or, and hear me out on this, you could simply not use Davy Boy Jr.
David Hart Smith gonna beat Cody for the title in Wembley for WrestleMania 41 and y'all are gonna feel real dumb
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20 minutes ago, BrianS81177 said:
In the promo afterwards didn't Dax say something about having a surprise for BCG next week? Bret Hart maybe? They're gonna be in Calgary right?
Harry Smith would be a nice surprise, and then you can set up Harry for a match at Wembley
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If I wasn't sure his knees would crumble to dust, I'd say do LA Knight vs. Austin Theory with Kevin Nash as referee
Nash has been calling out Knight on his podcast for being too much like The Rock, and I think Nash helping Knight win in his hometown would be a cool way to turn Knight face
Or do the same thing, but with Kid Rock as referee
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8 hours ago, Sparkleface said:
Some of the indie results in PWI could be untrustworthy as well. Either wrong names, wrong results... sometimes entire fake shows submitted because PWI did no verification that the results were legitimate. Make it look believable enough and throw in a couple of legitimate-sounding names and PWI would print it.
I found a couple stories corroborating this:
http://wrestlingclassics.com/cgi-bin/.ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=9;t=005655
Funny story. From the time I was nine or ten, my goal in life was to get my "Arena Report" published in an Apter mag. Dutifully, after every show I would attend, I would send in the results and anxiously await the next issue to see if I was listed. Sadly, every time, my heart sank.
I determined that since the mags were based in NYC, that there was a WWF bias, so I decided I would play ball with the Weston guys.
At the time, they were reporting that Ivan Putski was heading in to work for Crockett (apparently Ivan was trying to get a gig with JCP and I guess Crockett and George Scott weren't any more impressed with him than they were with Tony Garea or Pedro Morales, who both came down and worked prelims).
So I basically BSed a report from the Spartanburg Auditorium, listing a match where Ric Flair pinned Ivan Putski. BINGO! They didn't list that result because obviously they knew it was a work, but someone there must've been impressed with my desire to play along. My report was printed in the next issue of Inside Wrestling with the match changed to Ric Flair pinning Joe Palardy (even though Flair wasn't even on the show).
https://www.angelfire.com/il/prazak/dan2.html
Three matches in, the ECI did its usual pre-show in-ring promo. Dan came out to the ring first, with a backwards Nike cap, leather gloves, ripped jeans, and a suit coat. Full Gypsy regalia. He also carried an issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated in his hands. He opened the promo pointing out that Motor City Wrestling was listed in the rankings, and smartened the crowd up to the fact that the promotion no longer existed, and explained his previous affiliation with the group, and that Coach Kurt Schneider was trying to pass off fake results as legitimate.
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1 minute ago, AxB said:
Thinking about it, I've been to more "Not on Cagematch" shows, than shows that officially exist and took place in history.
I think the most valuable thing Apter has is the Arena Reports from his magazines - quick look at this random Pro Wrestling Illustrated page from 1995 shows most of the shows aren't on Cagematch. If someone could go through and digitize all those results, that would fill in a great chunk of missing stuff from the 80s and 90s:
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15 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
are there any promoters/promotions who've published a record book of results (both the ones widely known and the ones not known before)?
WWE at least had the agents keep their own books at shows to record the results/gate/agent reports. And then Vince and Patterson had their booking "bible" where they would have 12-18 months of storylines mapped out ahead of time. Collect all those things together and you'd have a hell of a book, but I have a feeling you'd only be able to do it for select years. Cornette was only an agent from I think 96-98, and who knows if anyone else kept their agent books.
So "Rise of Stone Cold and the Attitude Era" would be possible
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Oh yeah I forgot about this - I had this and it had a chronological timeline of the entire year along with some match results - it was great!
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3 hours ago, chriskbrown50 said:
For the first time last night I noticed Collision has a decidedly different feel to it. More focused. Smaller roster feel, almost old school territory.
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yeah I remember trying to look up Johnny Saint matches at one point and going "that can't be right" - he only has like 100 matches listed for his career
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6 minutes ago, Happ Hazzard said:
Bingo. That one surprised me. Just because he only seemed to be a part time wrestler once he hit 40.
How about Liger?
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2 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said:
***** ******** - 974
Kevin Sullivan?
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2 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said:
***** ******** - 974
Steve Williams?
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Tracy Smothers?
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12 minutes ago, jm29195 said:
As someone who saw Punk/Joe 4 when it took place in 2005, also in the UK, I did think they got the name of the match wrong though.
Last night was actually their seventh singles match
16.08.2003 Ring Of Honor Samoa Joe defeats CM Punk (13:06)
15.11.2003 Pro Wrestling Guerrilla Samoa Joe defeats CM Punk (12:22)
12.06.2004 Ring Of Honor ROH World Title: Samoa Joe (c) vs. CM Punk - Time Limit Draw (60:00)
16.10.2004 Ring Of Honor ROH World Title: Samoa Joe (c) vs. CM Punk - Time Limit Draw (60:00)
04.12.2004 Ring Of Honor ROH World Title: Samoa Joe (c) defeats CM Punk (31:33)
19.03.2005 Frontier Wrestling Alliance Samoa Joe defeats CM Punk (20:44)
08.07.2023 All Elite Wrestling CM Punk defeats Samoa Joe (15:33)
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Tag match was fantastic btw
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27 minutes ago, Casey said:
Interesting that Starks declined to 1) save Punk, instead FTR did and 2) turned his back on CMFTR with a solemn look on his face.
It was a nod to Owen staring down Bret at the end of WrestleMania X
Horribly done, but...that's what it was
The Bret-Yoko rollup off the ropes finish would have been better than whatever that rollup was tonight...geesh
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28 minutes ago, JLowe said:
Brian Cage is like someone having a D&D character where they used all their character points on strength and dexterity. I just can’t care no matter how I try.
BOY DO I HAVE AN INTERVIEW FOR YOU
Brian Cage On Feeling Underappreciated By AEW Fans, Why That’s The Case
“With our core audience at AEW, I feel they almost hate on me because of all those attributes [size, charisma, mic work, athleticism], I almost feel like that screams WWE. In some regards, it’s almost like anti-me, ‘He doesn’t belong here. He’s too jacked, he does this,’ which are all positives in my book, but it feels like ‘I’m on the wrong team.'”
He continued, “I can toot my own horn and say, they can’t be me, so they’d rather attach on to a Darby Allin or someone they can live more viciously through as opposed to someone like me.”
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25 minutes ago, AxB said:
When did Smart Mark Video start? Because they did a lot more to keep IWA Mid South in business than Ian Rotten.
Mike Burns ran Future Wrestling Alliance out of Pennsylvania in 1998 with Mike Quackenbush as his champion, and he started filming other promotions on the side that same year
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11 hours ago, BloodyChamp said:
Is there a Sabu episode? They need to do 1 on him.
All things considered, Sabu's doing alright. He let his uncle handle all his bookings up until he died, which meant after 2002 Sabu was flying blind with managing money and protecting his gimmick.
I was thinking last night an episode on Louie Spicolli would make sense. First ECW star of many to succumb to addiction.
AEW - JULY 2023
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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So much for sobriety