Brisco Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I first saw Sexton in a tag team with Masada as the Texas Death Club. They won the tag titles that night from a blowjob babyface tag team billed from Myrtle Beach. Rippa has Jimmy Rave in March Madness, so apparently he had some good matches in 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I remember Seth Delay being really impressive on the NWA Wildside tapes I had back in the day. Always figured he'd go on to do more. TNT (Todd Sexton and Tony Stradlin) were a pretty good team around that same era. I recall liking some matches they had with the Backseat Boys, though there's no telling how those matches have aged now by early 00 indy standards. Speaking of old Wildside guys, whatever happened to Jimmy Rave? He was all over the place 10 years or so ago and I can't recall hearing him do much in recent times. Rave had drug problems, got over them, and has basically been the best wrestler in the Southern Indies by a decently wide margin for the last 2-3 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I wish ROH would bring Jimmy Rave back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I wish they would bring back the Embassy(my friends). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Followed (NWA) Anarchy until they closed up shop...sounds like Why We Wrestle has been working out the kinks in their early months. Like a lot of those guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I wish they would bring back the Embassy(my friends). What do you know about shrimp cocktail, ehh? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I remember liking Onyx in Wildside and his feud with ICEBERG. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turk128 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATlItkusdE&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidas Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 There should be a quiz panel show on the network. Have a couple wrestlers, couple legends, couple comedians and Renee as the host. Each episode has a theme. I'd watch that, but not sure if quiz panel shows are purely a British phenomenon. Only American one I know of is Whose Line... Mainly because the E n C show is just terrible. Not even in a so bad it's funny way. It's just bad. You could say it reeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I wish they would bring back the Embassy(my friends). What do you know about shrimp cocktail, ehh? Damn Prince Nana was so great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I miss Julius Smokes. Unironically. I'd watch TNA if he were on it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I miss Julius Smokes. Unironically. I'd watch TNA if he were on it. I do too. My favorite Smokes moment is when he's standing in the aisle, doing his weird Julius Smokes shit, and Low-Ki just casually moves him aside so he can get to the ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I love that Julius Smokes is responsible for Adam Pearce getting Repo Man chants, calling Pearce a half-assed Repo Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I was just wondering the other day what happened to Julius Smokes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 He was the best. Completely bought into his gimmicks and I loved it. I miss pre-Davey Richards ROH. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisco Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Richards ruins everything... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I used to like how, whenever interference was on the horizon, Smokes would get this hypervigilant look where he's scanning the place like a meth rabbit, sticking his hand under his shirt like he's about to pull out a 9. At a wrestling show. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I actually do tend to draw the line in the sand with my RoH fandom as "when Davey Richards showed up". That was right around the time were the style altered to "Look how our guys Puro!" when I just liked it better when it was "Look how much we do everything well!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Gabe still booked really well, much better than anything since. And we had the CZW insanity going on at around the time Richards showed up, but I tuned out right around the end of Austin Aries' reign and the Summer of Punk (which I admittedly have only seen parts of). I tried going back to watch my favourite stretch of ROH (mid 04 to the summer of 05) and a lot of the undercard stuff hasn't aged well at all. Way too exhibition-y instead of trying to win a wrestling match. Shelley is one of the worst offenders in that regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I generally view the end of the CZW feud as the end of RoH's "best promotion in the world" run I thought they had going from Reborn Stage 1 on. They didn't stop being a good promotion or anything, but it just felt like the stories they were telling from then on either kinda harmed the problem to a degree (I never bought Danielson would lose the belt to anyone till he faced Homicide), or payoffs I didn't care for (Morishimas reign ending against Nigel really soured me on them for good) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Interesting note about RAW tonight, blatantly stolen from Reddit: This is the first Leap Day RAW in WWE history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I generally view the end of the CZW feud as the end of RoH's "best promotion in the world" run I thought they had going from Reborn Stage 1 on. They didn't stop being a good promotion or anything, but it just felt like the stories they were telling from then on either kinda harmed the problem to a degree (I never bought Danielson would lose the belt to anyone till he faced Homicide), or payoffs I didn't care for (Morishimas reign ending against Nigel really soured me on them for good) Did the Colt/Homicide feud happen during or after ROH vs CZW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Just before. late 2005 RoH after Bryan took the belt wasn't blow away great either, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 How I see is it was they really recaptured people's imagination with the Summer of Pawnk, then were back to generic-y promotion having really good matches up until the CZW feud, which is some of the best independent stories and matches I've ever seen, then fell back into the trapping of being pretty predictable but good nonetheless. Then Davey fucking Richards. Joe's reign was my favourite period. I wonder how those Punk/Joe matches have aged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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