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The domestic violence themed episode of The Wrestlers aired this week. I hadn't thought of Mia Yim since she left Impact, but her being featured here made me wonder, did she ever actually go to NXT, or was she just in a Mae Young Classic tournament and then not signed? Because if she is still just doing indies, that's a bit of a waste. She was in great form in Impact (once she wasn't working with Marti Belle anymore), and then she just left. Between WWE, AEW and Impact, you'd think someone would have roster space for a great worker with mainstream exposure. Especially since AEW did hire Leva Bates. If that's the bar, Mia Yim is way higher.

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11 minutes ago, AxB said:

The domestic violence themed episode of The Wrestlers aired this week. I hadn't thought of Mia Yim since she left Impact, but her being featured here made me wonder, did she ever actually go to NXT, or was she just in a Mae Young Classic tournament and then not signed? Because if she is still just doing indies, that's a bit of a waste. She was in great form in Impact (once she wasn't working with Marti Belle anymore), and then she just left. Between WWE, AEW and Impact, you'd think someone would have roster space for a great worker with mainstream exposure. Especially since AEW did hire Leva Bates. If that's the bar, Mia Yim is way higher.

She was in the NXT Womens Championship match at Takeover last night.

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On August 5, 2019 at 1:02 PM, Technico Support said:

I finally watched the episode on Witch Catch ("voodoo wrestling") in the Congo and I still have no idea what to think about it.

Finally watched it myself and it was fascinating and demonstrates how wrestling is an amazing story telling art that can be adapted and molded by the culture of it's practitioners. That faith healer is easily the most carny character to appear in the series. 

Also "witch catch" just sounds incredibly cool to me for some reason.

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17 minutes ago, quackhell said:

Finally watched it myself and it was fascinating and demonstrates how wrestling is an amazing story telling art that can be adapted and molded by the culture of it's practitioners. That faith healer is easily the most carny character to appear in the series. 

Also "witch catch" just sounds incredibly cool to me for some reason.

You know you're a master worker when, not only do the marks actually believe you're a witch, but they actually hire you to apply your witchcraft skills to their lives and fix things.  Nobody was calling Tony Anthony to IRL fix a failed sump pump. 

And then the one guy turned on witch catch, aligned himself with a televangelist (a different flavor of carny!), and then worked the "I fight for Jesus" angle.  I mean god damn, that is some next level, through the looking glass work right there.  Fuck.

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5 hours ago, Technico Support said:

You know you're a master worker when, not only do the marks actually believe you're a witch, but they actually hire you to apply your witchcraft skills to their lives and fix things.  Nobody was calling Tony Anthony to IRL fix a failed sump pump. 

And then the one guy turned on witch catch, aligned himself with a televangelist (a different flavor of carny!), and then worked the "I fight for Jesus" angle.  I mean god damn, that is some next level, through the looking glass work right there.  Fuck.

As a Pastor and fellow wrestling nerd...I believed they hot-shotted the booking way too quick. That should have been a showdown for a stadium show, not the neighborhood alley, lol.

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Well come on man.  The alley fight was clearly against the Virgil of the witch crew, a warmup match against the B team.  The eventual stadium show is a match against the witch lady who ate that one guy’s guts and disembowled herself in her apartment.  They can’t show that on Viceland.  They’re saving that for the launch of the Witch Catch Network.

 

Damn.  Now I want somebody to send Meltzer some witch catch to get his thoughts on it.

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According to Mike Johnson, three of the episodes on the 2nd season of Dark Side of Ring will be Dino Bravo, the Benoit murder/suicide, and Brawl for It All .  That last one is a bit strange to include.   Based on a tweet and a picture from them most people believe that Mass Transit/New Jack will also be on the 2nd season

There is apparently a rumor that Herb Abrams is on the 2nd season.   That would be incredible 

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5 hours ago, RIPPA said:

Martha Hart all but confirmed that one is on Owen Hart's death as she said that she and other members of the Owen Hart Foundation were interviewed by Vice recently

Honestly I am stunned she would be involved with anything wrestling related. This episode and the Benoit episode are going to be must watches for me. Wonder who will be featured on the Benoit show

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Season 2 will begin in late March

10 Episodes covering 9 topics

Per Meltzer and PWI - the confirmed topics so are:

  • The Chris Benoit story
  • Brawl For All
  • The life and times of Dino Bravo
  • New Jack
  • Herb Abrams, founder of the UWF
  • The life and times of Owen Hart

The Benoit episode is rumored to be the 2 episode one

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Four of those should be good. 

Not sure about the New Jack one (most of New Jack's story was said in Beyond the Mat and wasn't particularly important there).

The Brawl for All story...WHY? The Brawl for All was a forgettable tournament. Of the injuries, most weren't particularly serious, with only one wrestler (Brakkus) having an injury to end their career. Only one person from the Brawl for All is deceased now (Steve Williams), and his death was from cancer, so it had nothing to do with the Brawl for All. Likewise, you have Droz's paralysis, but it also had nothing to do with the Brawl for All. 

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Post-Beyond the Mat, New Jack:

1. Stabbed someone multiple times with a nine-inch switchblade during a match

2. Shot on Gypsy Joe with a barbed wire-wrapped aluminum baseball bat

3. Fell off a balcony in Danbury with Vic Grimes landing on his head causing him brain damage and to lose the sight in one eye

4. Tried to murder Vic Grimes by throwing him off a scaffold onto the turnbuckle post after that

So there are some things to cover there. 

This one is really great because Jack is alive and I'm sure willing to go on the record about all of it. 

As far as the Brawl goes, it'll work having a bit of a lighter one compared to all the misery surrounding the other ones. Look at it as the Montreal Screwjob one of this season. 

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On 1/10/2020 at 7:17 AM, hammerva said:

According to Mike Johnson, three of the episodes on the 2nd season of Dark Side of Ring will be Dino Bravo, the Benoit murder/suicide, and Brawl for It All .  That last one is a bit strange to include.   Based on a tweet and a picture from them most people believe that Mass Transit/New Jack will also be on the 2nd season

There is apparently a rumor that Herb Abrams is on the 2nd season.   That would be incredible 

You could easily do an entire season on Herb Abrams. To say that he was one of a kind is a massive understatement. 

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12 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

Post-Beyond the Mat, New Jack:

1. Stabbed someone multiple times with a nine-inch switchblade during a match

2. Shot on Gypsy Joe with a barbed wire-wrapped aluminum baseball bat

3. Fell off a balcony in Danbury with Vic Grimes landing on his head causing him brain damage and to lose the sight in one eye

4. Tried to murder Vic Grimes by throwing him off a scaffold onto the turnbuckle post after that

So there are some things to cover there. 

This one is really great because Jack is alive and I'm sure willing to go on the record about all of it. 

As far as the Brawl goes, it'll work having a bit of a lighter one compared to all the misery surrounding the other ones. Look at it as the Montreal Screwjob one of this season. 

And that's just the stuff that we know about... I can well imagine that New Jack has been up to all sorts of zany coke-fueled antics that we haven't heard about (yet). 

1. I don't think it was a switchblade, but rather a nine-inch open blade that he was carrying around in his sleeve during a wrestling match for reasons... 

2. I suppose that if you must have a hardcore match with a 70 year-old man, you might as well hit him with a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat just for the sake of completeness. 

3. Story is that Grimes sensibly got cold feet about doing the spot at the last minute so New Jack took matters into his own hands and caused them both to fall awkwardly onto the floor two stories below. 

4. The fact that Grimes continued to work a match with New Jack impresses me as among the stupidest acts in the history of pro wrestling and believe me when I say that covers a hell of a lot of ground.

We need more stories about how New Jack was paid by Rob Black in piles of cocaine and porn DVDs when working for his porn-fest-outlaw-freakazoid-mudshow or whatever it was he was doing to try and ripoff ECW.  Someone just needs to give New Jack an ounce or so of blow and a live mic and let him go for about six hours. Might not make much sense but it would be entertaining as hell. Did they ever do an episode on Southern Cali's Incredibly Strange Wrestling? Imagine if you will a cross between ECW and the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and you're pretty close to the vibe of Incredibly Strange Wrestling. You just don't have grudge matches such as Cletus the Fetus vs. the Abortionist these days, to say nothing of stipulation matches such winner drinks the pee of his opponent's  valet or loser gets tossed into a vat of AIDS-infected needles... 

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I haven’t seen the Gypsy Joe thing since it happened but I don’t remember any barb wire. This sticks out as I specifically remember feeling like I was watching the end of casino play out in a wrestling arena with what felt like the never ending sound of aluminum on skull over and over. 

According to New Jack the crowd calling him the N word set him off. 

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1 hour ago, Zartan said:

According to New Jack the crowd calling him the N word set him off. 

Having just watched the match, since I hadn't seen it since it happened, I could believe this. As there is one idiot screaming for Joe to kill the N word, or something like that, starting about halfway through.

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