DEAN~!!

[Curt McGirt]

Austin Luke vs Marcus Mathers - I Quit Death Match

Hey, it's an I Quit, light tubes, twink death match! These two young skinny dudes have decided they are gonna wreck their potential love lives by scarring themselves up before they turn 30 (or even 25). The venue is rather small but I wouldn't have it any other way for DEAN's show. For this show, however, it's... not advisable. Glass gets thrown absolutely everywhere and I can only imagine sitting on one of those sides where there are like two rows of seats between the ring and the wall. Apparently the two have had enough beef to have a glass match so there is much breakage of tubing. It's not just smashing each other, they wrest control from each other over the tubes and try (and sometime fail) to do some neat spots like the Northern Lights suplex while holding a tube to the other guy's back. Mathers gets cut up the most, in the front which the camera gets a good close-up of him checking himself in the ropes before he starts bleeding, a nasty back cut, and eventually his shoulder too. He tries to cut up Austin's forehead with a tube on three sides of the ring but it looks bad and he doesn't bleed. Some things are better done at a distance. They also work pretty stiff with some serious chops and kicks, and there are two glass panes that end up getting used. It's been awhile since I saw a light tube match after getting really burnt out on them with BJW in the early 2010s, so taking some time off and some psychology injected into the proceedings helped. Good match if you can take the gore, which is just mid-level for a vampire like me.

[(BP)]

H2O shows there are infamous for their “fans bring the weapons” matches and the creative stuff people bring. One time my brother brought a cheese grater strapped to a bible. 

[sabremike]

They need to put together a commemorative program consisting of all Dean's Smackdown workrate comics. 

[Octopus]

Sadly, deep in the Ocean and it being my lovely wife Gazelle’s birthday, I won’t be able to attend. I might be able to FaceTime and wave at friends. Love you guys.

[Technico Support]

2 hours ago, sabremike said:

They need to put together a commemorative program consisting of all Dean's Smackdown workrate comics. 

*boop*

[clintthecrippler]

On 1/13/2024 at 8:37 AM, Curt McGirt said:

For this show, however, it's... not advisable. Glass gets thrown absolutely everywhere and I can only imagine sitting on one of those sides where there are like two rows of seats between the ring and the wall.

H20 had a SEVEN HUNDRED LIGHT TUBE death match this past summer in that same room and I love me some deathmatch wrestling but I also can't imagine that even with a wall-wide side lift door open for that show that the air quality in that room by the time the match was over was less than one step down from smoke inhalation.

As for the DEAN show itself, I am guessing an Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts vs Fighting Ultimate Crazy Kings 8-man legends tag would break the budget?

I am bummed that I don't have my finances together to make a Philly trip happen this year. As someone who dates back to the yellow-and-green days of the board, this would have been awesome to attend live, but I'll do everything I can to be in front of the couch when this streams live on IWTV.

Edited January 14 by clintthecrippler

[Ryback Hates Bullies]

On 1/12/2024 at 10:45 PM, AxB said:

Davey Richards retired to avoid cancellation. He was exposed as being a sex pest around women.

I think it was domestic violence allegations. I mean look I don't think Davey Richards has much of a reputation to destroy, but we should at least be clear about what he was cancelled for.

[Curt McGirt]

54 minutes ago, clintthecrippler said:

Fighting Ultimate Crazy Kings 8-man legends

Unless the young boys went on to some kind of... credibility? you've just got Pondo and Necro, and I'm not sure if you want to give Necro a payday for political reasons. Didn't Pondo half-retire or something too? (BTW, he has an autobiography out from back in 2018 which I was unaware of.)

That H20 show sounds like you might as well do some unprotected asbestos removal

[onelegbrynn]

2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Didn't Pondo half-retire or something too?

Pondo has been active with Big Japan recently. He won their Death Match Heavyweight Title (not sure the exact name) right around the end of the year and held it for like a week before losing it back to whoever he won it from.

Also he’s popped up in GCW several times over the past year or so.

[Gordi the recovering AEW f]

6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Unless the young boys went on to some kind of... credibility? you've just got Pondo and Necro, and I'm not sure if you want to give Necro a payday for political reasons. Didn't Pondo half-retire or something too? (BTW, he has an autobiography out from back in 2018 which I was unaware of.)

That H20 show sounds like you might as well do some unprotected asbestos removal

FU*CK! is 100% still active! They've moved away from death match style but still run shows in basements in front of, like, 30 people. Current Far East Asian Champion is Lucha Master Takemaru, whom I am sure I have met, but I can't find a picture of us together. I found a picture with Moriya, who is a current FU*CK! mainstay, and with Fuke, who worked for them back in the day. Fuke is a Fujiwara guy, and Moriya was trained by Kurisu! I am connected to current FU*CK! through my close friend Kuuga/Cooger/Asian Cooger (in fact I am

probably going drinking with Cooger and Moriya again soon) so, SINCERE OFFER HERE: If the fine folks promoting this show ever manage to raise enough sponsorship dough to fly some wrestlers in from Japan I would be quite happy to liaise the Osaka Indie scene for y'all. How about Bodyguard singing his entrance theme on the way to the ring? DEAN loved that. I am SURE I could convince some good people to go if it were at all financially viable. This year, or at any time in the future.

Edited January 15 by Gordi the former AEW fan

[RazorbladeKiss87]

Does FU*CK make tape or anything? I'm guessing no but it would be cool if they did. 

[Curt McGirt]

Yeah, they were reviewed in an old DVDVR. Pondo and Necro were beating up kids in a garage, basically.

[JLowe]

I’m just now seeing this and I am so stoked that this is so close to where I live now! For years, I dreamt about going to a show with the DVDVR Playaz.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Yeah, they were reviewed in an old DVDVR. Pondo and Necro were beating up kids in a garage, basically.

I should have phrased it better but I'm wondering if it does currently. I haven't heard anything about it in years.

[Johnny Sorrow]

I just put in for vacation time and this morning my work announced that we're all getting bonuses this week. That's my plane tickets.  So I will be going .

[AxB]

A Talent Announcement: Booked on DEAN~!!, in addition to Daniel Makabe is

Spoiler

SLIM MOTHERFUCKIN' J

~!

[Zakk_Sabbath]

15 hours ago, AxB said:

http://twitter.com/WrestleACTION1/status/1747056807804100811

A Talent Announcement: Booked on DEAN~!!, in addition to Daniel Makabe is

  Hide contents

SLIM MOTHERFUCKIN' J

~!

Yooooo I just brought up the Trustbusters yesterday!!!! DEAN might've been the only guy who liked their fake Jane's Addiction theme more than me. Awesome!!!!

[Jacey]

Hey all

So this is Matt Griffin - the CEO of ACTION Wrestling.  FKA Jacey North of DVDVR 500 and Road Report fame

I'm the promoter of ACTION.  Thought I'd drop some things in as to how you can help us out

First off, DEAN~!!! will stream live on IWTV.  It's a $9.99 subscription service.  If you sign up, please use code "ACTION" to give a referral credit

We will be discussing sponsorships soon.  You can sponsor or adopt a match, advertise your website/blog/podcast or whatever you like.  No pressure, and I'm not a huge fan of asking fans for extra money

We also will have a t-shirt designed and for sale on ShopIWTV.com

Lastly and most importantly, if you're close, you can buy a ticket and attend.  Doing a show in this weekend environment is always a risk.

And thanks to Phil & Eric for having this idea.  I started on DVDVR ............ a long time ago and enjoyed having the crew do Road Reports on shows I worked on.  Hopefully we can honor the memory of Dean Rasmussen well

[Dolfan in NYC]

Well I'm not going to have a guy nicknamed Mr. Delicious and not have that be his member title.  

Good luck with the show.  If I cannot make it (family stuff already planned for Mania weekend) I will definitely order.  

[Cobra Commander]

I didn't know Matt Griffin and Jacey North were the same guy until just now

It's possible that came up on some Between the Sheets episode and I didn't remember it

[Jacey]

1 hour ago, Cobra Commander said:

I didn't know Matt Griffin and Jacey North were the same guy until just now

It's possible that came up on some Between the Sheets episode and I didn't remember it

[Jacey]

1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Well I'm not going to have a guy nicknamed Mr. Delicious and not have that be his member title.  

Good luck with the show.  If I cannot make it (family stuff already planned for Mania weekend) I will definitely order.  

Ha the name Jacey on this board predated Mr D actually

[J.H.]

Holy Cow! I remember you Jacey!!

Good on you repping long haul posters on this endeavor!

James

[Jacey]

11 hours ago, J.H. said:

Holy Cow! I remember you Jacey!!

Good on you repping long haul posters on this endeavor!

James

I'm the best booker to come from the DVDVR board, right?!?!?!

[Curt McGirt]

Loaded question