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A public service for everyone who plans on visiting Rob Black's restaurant in Rochester: DO NOT ORDER THE CLEVELAND STEAMER.

(Seriously, just trust me on this.)

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Biggest shock ever in all my years watching wrestling, Brock Lesnar defeating The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXX but it's up there in my time viewing different sports as well. The Streak ending at WrestleMania XXX. 21-1. Daniel Bryan overcoming the Authority to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship defeating Randy Orton and Batista got the crowd back. I don't think anyone else would.

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20 hours ago, sabremike said:

A public service for everyone who plans on visiting Rob Black's restaurant in Rochester: DO NOT ORDER THE CLEVELAND STEAMER.

(Seriously, just trust me on this.)

Who the hell would visit Rob Black's restaurant? The thought of Rob Black owning a restaurant makes my skin crawl.

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Spoiler

On this day in 1998, Chris Jericho treated us to the 1,004 holds promo:

Jericho: "Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, since I took care of Mr. Jannetty so quickly, I came prepared. Malenko, you claim to be the man of a thousand holds. But I counted and you know about sixty. But I know 1004 and I wrote them all down, here we go:

Hold 1: Armdrag
Hold 2: Armbar
Hold 3: The Moss Covered Three Handled Family Gredunza
Number 4: Armbar
Number 5: The Saskatchewan Spinning Nerve Hold
Number 8: Armbar
Number 9: The Shooting Star Staple Superpress
Number 10: Right Handed...

**Commercial Break**

Hold Number 712: Armbar
Hold Number 713: The Hisridhdsih
Hold Number 714: The Canadian...
Hold Number 723... whoa, I'm starting to get blown up here… The Jericho Screwdriver!

**Prince Iaukea comes to the ring**

Hold Number 725: The Super Blizzard

**Iaukea chases Jericho out of the ring, who picks up his roll of paper and leaves**

While Jericho walks towards the entrance: I still got 200 more!"

Happy Anniversary to Jericho's 1004 holds promo. 

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42 minutes ago, Greggulator said:

Can someone help me track down a match? It is a DVDVR favorite // Freebirds and Bad Street versus Dustin/Scott Armstrong/Tracy Somersault from WXW Worldwide 9/15/91. Any ideas? 

1. Are you a fed?

2. I'm not sure that match exists, but here's the 6/15 one. You don't mean the Bash match, do you? That's 7/14.

It's probably going to get taken down before long though.

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3 minutes ago, Matt D said:

1. Are you a fed?

2. I'm not sure that match exists, but here's the 6/15 one. You don't mean the Bash match, do you? That's 7/14.

It's probably going to get taken down before long though.

The one from Dustin of the Day.

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35 minutes ago, Matt D said:

1. Are you a fed?

2. I'm not sure that match exists, but here's the 6/15 one. You don't mean the Bash match, do you? That's 7/14.

It's probably going to get taken down before long though.

“It’s not what you think! It’s not what you think!”

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2 hours ago, Ace said:

To the surprise of nobody, Mox found a way to bleed at Bloodsport tonight.

 

I feel like everybody who doesn't find a way to bleed at a show called Bloodsport should be invited to the front of the building to read the marquee.  This isn't a Mox thing,  it's an everybody who didn't bleed thing. 

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Not exactly an earth-shattering insight or anything, but: enjoying Bloodsport this morning followed by Multiverse (TNA vs Japan) early this afternoon REALLY brought home what a wide variety exists within the very specific parameters of "professional wrestling." Despite the fact that fully half a dozen wrestlers appeared on both shows (Bad Dude, Coughlin, Speedball, Kratos, Cobb, Uemura) the two events could not have presented a more wildly different vision of pro wrestling. Strikes, suplexes, and submissions - nothing that looked like it wouldn't work in actual martial combat - on the one hand, and endless contrived and crazy and wildly imaginative spots on the other. Olympic-level amateur grappler Jeff Cobb early this morning, and power fighting, forearm strike exchanging, member-of-The-Empire-faction Jeff Cobb a couple of hours later. 

And BOTH were totally entertaining! 

Pro wrestling is just so great!

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I haven't seen the latest yet, but I've always been really into the concept of these Bloodsport shows - I think if someone with money got in there, it could be the next Lucha Underground (in terms of the 'fight club' feel and ability to plug into an episodic format - not like they run every night or every week)

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I just had a vision: Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Bloodsport
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12 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

I haven't seen the latest yet, but I've always been really into the concept of these Bloodsport shows - I think if someone with money got in there, it could be the next Lucha Underground (in terms of the 'fight club' feel and ability to plug into an episodic format - not like they run every night or every week)

I always enjoy the Bloodsport shows. Even the matches that aren't all that great are at least interesting to watch. The style is different and unique enough, that it doesn't blend in with all of the other wrestling out there.

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17 minutes ago, Log said:

I always enjoy the Bloodsport shows. Even the matches that aren't all that great are at least interesting to watch. The style is different and unique enough, that it doesn't blend in with all of the other wrestling out there.

Hard agree - like almost a more-accessible/digestible Pancrase, or something (perhaps not the best comparison, but outside of that and a handful of UWFi matches I've seen here or PWO over the years, I haven't watched a ton of worked shoot stuff in earnest - I guess technically speaking, maybe some PRIDE fights I didn't realize were works at the time...)

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3 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

I haven't seen the latest yet, but I've always been really into the concept of these Bloodsport shows - I think if someone with money got in there, it could be the next Lucha Underground (in terms of the 'fight club' feel and ability to plug into an episodic format - not like they run every night or every week)

While I agree I wonder how often they could run with out burning out the fans on the formula

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