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I think Zack Sabre Jr goes into NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion two years running. That's what my heart and head wants. Speaking of, HiroshI Tanahashi's final match ever to headline the show. Nobody deserves it more than Tanahashi for what he's done for NJPW.

Step one to making this a thing complete! The Taichi/Ishii part of the gauntlet and is must see. There's a good story with Taichi doing well and taking Goto's points that i hope they take advantage of. Taichi has been one of the best guys in the company this year.

I'm only at Fyter Fest so far and was watching Thekla's entrance thinking "Damn, she should really team up with Lady Frost... I wonder who she's going up aga...HOLY SHIT!!!" Sadly, too much of a squash, but I'm sure these two would have a better, more competitive match in them for sure! Casually starting the Summer Blockbuster with Ospreay vs Swerve 2! This ought to be nice...

I still want more wrestlers to be on the Challenge. For as long as the Challenge has been on, only having a pre-WWE Miz and Lio Rush is pretty lame. You'd think given that so much of the "game" of the Challenge is politicking, maybe more than the physical stuff, that more wrestlers would be ripe for it.

All In just purchased via Triller TV, there was some discount going on, so the price was only 17e to begin with and with 2e worth of Google Play credits, it ended up costing 15e, which is a steal if there ever was one! I'm so far behind the shows at the moment that I have no real idea of the card, but I already know that it will be worth THAT price, even with Mox in the main event.

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Just had a cursed thought, what if AEW bringing in Father/Son tag titles is their way of belting up Big Boom AJ and Big Justice.

Megan's not actually that big, the majority of the AEW women's division is just tiny.

Well, TBH we probably should have had a thread for them all by themselves if they were gonna keep doing this shit. This is a lot of material. Yes, I just asked for another thread. Kill me if you must.

Triple H, intentionally or not, set up this show for failure.

For that era Sid, that might as well be a 60 minute broadway.

Looking at old photos, he kind of always looked like that despite the lack of beard, but he did manage this piece of '50s wrestling cheesecake (and remember, Jimmy is STILL ALIVE).

Well, Dusty did bleed and have actual matches in ECW, whereas all Sid did was walk out, fist bump the crowd, and pick somebody up for the powerbomb. That is a pretty perfect description of how I always feel when I see him. Ancient dude with striped pants pulled up above his navel, no muscle tone, doing a bad dance to a fucking Billy Joel song. It's like, what?

No, I am also somewhat of that mind. However, I have to add in the context that by the time I saw the Boogie Woogie Man, he was pretty much done on that level. At best, I caught him at the very tail end of his run. Then, after that, it was like on TV through appearances in late era Memphis when they were struggling to put a few thousand people into the Mid South Coliseum. By then, I was wondering, "why do they keeping bringing this decrepit Rip Van Winkle looking S.O.B. back?". I had no context of why he was who he was. IMO Jimmy is one of those guys (along with other Starrcade 83 luminaries like Bugsy McGraw and Rufus R. Jones) who became obsolete once you entered a certain era of pro wrestling where even guys who were mostly personality had to display some type of "workrate". It also doesn't help that the enhancement talent once it was just a big two were guys who were insanely over qualified to be that. So even the guys losing regularly on TV would be able to put on amazing matches if you let them. There are no guys around now where their sole responsibility is to liven up the audience to a molten hot level by putting in the least amount of effort required. The closest is Dusty's 1994 mini return in WCW and also his ECW run where guys are just running into his elbow while he just stands there.

Making all those thread splits pretty silly.

New BTS w Al Getz had good discussion about JCP taping s Hercules im mid 80s.

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And yet the songs on Technical Ecstasy, which is the better album, didn't get a touch. Even Sabbath themselves pulled out "Dirty Women" for the reunion.

Yeah, I just saw a video of him claiming that, in a very much less polite way ("it was the most heavy metal thing ever because they were stupid enough to believe they made it up". Reiner isn't very well known for his tact).

I can't imagine the odds were high on three songs from Never Day Die getting played would've been very high, but here we are. And by the last two bands before Ozzy and Sabs.

If you didn't get booked, Beyonce should comp you free tickets.

I just saw a clip from GCW Backyard Wrestling of a guy called JJ Allin (heh) who set himself completely on fire in a burn suit on his way to the ring before jumping in a pool.

Because he was awesome. The crowds were super into the years long feud with Paul Jones. It's what grabbed me the day I discovered Worldwide on channel 17. And it wasn't that family friendly. He hung out with street people.

I love how we're talking about the WCW uploads in three different threads now haha

I think its more (with me) that I just don't get the marking over Jimmy. The gimmick is just soooooo weird. I get that it's super enthusiastic and family friendly and wacky, but... guess you had to be there.