POLL 7/16- 7/22 - WHAT WAS THE BEST FREE TV MATCH OF THE WEEK? blood + guts vs. tripa-mania

[John E. Dynamite]

Forty matches of sheer intestinal forty-tude. I suppose this week is your gut check - where do you stand on this surprisingly divisive, yes-we-had-another-50-minute-free-AEW, TV match? Or maybe you are a Dominick Mysterio person and you have been having the week of your life?

CMLL uploaded a fun championship tag match from their Monday show... but they took away my baby from me, my weekly Viernes Espectacular uploads are GONE! And all I wanted to do was pimp Mascara Dorada 2.0 for the rest of the year! And Leyenda de Plata looks awesome and it looks like the Anniversario's coming together... well TOO BAD. Because we got a bunch of OTHER LUCHA STUFF to watch! Nobody misses you! *sniff*

AAA uploaded a two-hour video named "Lo MEJOR de Triplemanía XXXI Tijuana" and it's just a low-res, low framerate rip of the entire Triplemania show with all the fluff cut out. So it COUNTS.  I don't know who runs Panther Promotions but PANTHERMANIA VII is some of the best free indie lucha I've watched all year. Well filmed, top-to-bottom solid matches, surprisingly good backstage promos, nice hot crowd (although some filter out after Psycho Clown/Vikingo/Negro Casas finish up)... if you need two hours of something different I truly recommend the whole show. IWRG also had a plus week, due to another good Tonalli singles match (look for the unintentional decapitated referee mise en scene, I was rolling around laughing) and an extra great pre-show for their Festival de Mascaras with a Ninja Turtles match I already gushed about in the Free Matches thread. 

Free US indie stuff is a bit hoss heavy this week. God bless Calvin Tankman. UWN has the Derby City & Hollywood words colliding, not only is the Bodega vs. TMZ main event tag real good but there's a Rocco Bellagio vs. Big Hoss match that missed the cut that I still dug. I really liked everything on the ROH pre-show. Pre-show of the year! Maybe! The second free G1 Climax is on here too, that'll be it for NJPW for awhile unless their AXS show comes back or they give more stuff away. I'm gonna want some wildly diverging opinions on Shingo vs. Kingston, please.

LINKS
 

Spoiler

NJPW G1 Climax Day 2 - https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00658_4_1
ROH Death Before Dishonor Zero Hour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLdbOZ2YN9k
AAA Triplemania Tijuana (starting w/ QT vs. Penta) - https://youtu.be/YNBLkulFpxU?t=3446 

Panthermania VII (queued to Octagon Jr. vs. Hijo del Villano III) - https://youtu.be/L9gclWxozEc?t=2959
MLW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYNdwCJQCYc
UWN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp_K10OfeXA

IWRG Festival de Mascaras Kickoff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcXvB4UYZOM
IWRG TV ( https://www.youtube.com/live/9UURKU0rn2k?feature=share&t=4889
CMLL Los Depredadores vs. Fuerza Tapatia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gSxV_c-CSs

 

Edited July 24, 2023 by John E. Dynamite

[John E. Dynamite]

Also I completely managed to miss the Fandango vs. Santino Marella match from IMPACT despite letting the episode run in full (maybe I was cooking??). Was this match good? Was this match dumb as hell? Was this match BOTH? As of right now I have no idea.

[Boydy]

I voted for the Blood & Guts match but I also could of easily voted for The Alpha Academy Vs The Viking Raiders or Drew McIntyre Vs Gunther. 3 very good matches to choose from this week.

 

[John E. Dynamite]

man this thing's getting buried

i'm gonna be the MJF/Cole guy. i'm cool with that role.