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DVDVR 5 OFF: NXT TV (May 1, 2013) and Austin/Angle

(by PHIL RIPPA) THOUGHTS ABOUT NXT (05/01/13) For a brief shining moment, I was doing retro NXT workrate reports. The idea was that, starting in September 2013, I would watch from the beginning of 2013 and do workrate reports for them. I was reminded of them, recently, when I uploaded them onto the main DVDVR […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (April 17, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – APRIL 17, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) WHAT WORKED Look at that – Justin Gabriel vs. Leo Kruger… again. I guess since Mania is over, they can get back to all the random feuds that were happening. I am at the point where they space out these matches far enough that […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (April 3, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – APRIL 3, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) Into April! Only Eight Months Behind! WHAT WORKED Poor poor crippled Oliver Gray. Replaced by Bo Dallas. Why they haven’t stripped them of the tag belts yet is beyond me. Anyway – it’s Dallas/Adrian Neville vs. The Wyatts. I have already mentioned how much […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (March 20, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – MARCH 20, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) In the full disclosure department – this is the one episode of NXT that I have watched before. Way back when, when I was rummaging around Hulu, I randomly decided to watch NXT and I picked this episode because the screen cap was nothing […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (February 13, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – FEBRUARY 13, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) WHAT WORKED So just as I was starting to make a comment about how weird it was that here was Summer Rae doing ring introductions with no mention of her freak out and her attack of Paige when who should come storming down the […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (January 30, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – January 30, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) Okay – just for the record for those too lazy to look but are anal like me (not that kinda anal you pervs), the brackets for the tag title tournament is (since they finally showed a graphic this week). Wyatts vs. Percy/Yoshi (Wyatts already […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (January 23, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – January 23, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) I haven’t done one of these in a little bit. I realized I need to get cracking if I want to finish 2013 before 2016. Please don’t make me regret picking you over Mass Effect. WHAT WORKED Alex Riley shows up and looks exactly […]

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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT (January 9, 2013)

NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – January 9, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) WHAT WORKED Hey! It’s Yoshi Tatsu! He isn’t dead! And he is teaming with Percy Watson who really is quite non-descript without the glasses. And they are wrestling the Wyatt Family. We are just going to assume right now this is going on this […]

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1001 MATCHES: The LADIES~!

(by PHIL RIPPA) This time we are focusing on THE LAAAAADDDDIIIIIEEEESSSSS~! No filthy boys allowed. 251) JAGUAR YOKOTA vs. MONSTER RIPPER – AJW (04/07/82 – WWWA World Heavyweight Championship) https://youtu.be/3HywVRRXtqQ The amazing Jaguar Yokota defending the Red Belt against the woman who would (unfortunately) be remembered only as Rhonda Singh and Bertha Faye. The early […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW ISSUE #175 (Simple Version)

TOMOAKI HONMA~! WINS~! Wait… WHAT?!?!?!?~! VICTOR JOVICA~! bleeds by example~! DAISUKE~! has no last name~! DEAN~! still can’t spell Mr. Gannosuke correctly~! LUDARK SHAITAN~! BULL OF THE WOODS~! JUDY MARTIN~! KENGO MASHIMO~! LUCHA DEEP CUTS~! HIYA~! Welcome to the Death Valley Driver Video Review Issue #175 A THANKSGIVING TRADITION BITCHES~! ALSO BI-WEEKLY~! Yeah… that ends […]