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That needle spot was the safest thing in that match. Maybe its just because I work with them every day, but everything else in that match was way more hardcore than getting a tiny ass needle poked through your cheek. I've stuck much bigger ones in kittens e: as part of my job, I'm not just wandering the streets giving random cats injections

Truth Magnum actually yells TURBO FLOYD, YOU SON OF A BITCH before they do the handshake-double bicep double elbowdrop and that is just the absolute best.

The double LP nature of All In and All Out was good, poetic stuff. All In being held in daylight, bright colors, big stadium, babyfaces mostly win, fun cameos, joy. All Out: dimly lit arena, heels reign supreme, ultra violence, blood, hate. It definitely felt intentional. Cool stuff.

I don’t know why people are mad at AEW for the cage match. They literally didn’t sanction it.

Gayne and the Bottomtaker, managed by Paul Bear.

Appointment making, couch riding, conversation having, breakthrough making, life changing, son of a gun! WHOOOOOO~!

Orton Stomp!!?!? I’m sorry, but I cannot abide your Ron Garvin erasure.

I fucking love AEW. That's all I have to add.

This is the dumbest fucking take. It's a fucking show. None of these guys are claiming to be bar fighters. They're actors / athletes / entertainers. Gal Gadot isn't winning any bar fights but she still wins in Wonder Woman movies. Bob Odenkirk is old as shit and couldn't win any bar fights. Didn't make Nobody any less of a fun action movie. Tom Brady couldn't win a bar fight, doesn't make him any less of an amazing athlete. If you care so much about bar fights go watch bootleg bum fights videos down the rabbit hole and quite using this insane talking point as some sort of gotchya evidence to support your weird grudge.

Fuck it, create a whole stable of Kanes Co-Kane - a Kane that gets beaten down, does a line and makes the wildest comeback in history, grinds his teeth during promos (while using the electrolarynx gimmick) Raising Kane - a Kane who throws chicken fingers to the crowd. Shayne - a Kane that wrestles in a jersey and sweatpants while throwing shitty punches. Wayne - a Kane whose gimmick is being the toughest man in Letterkenny. Elayne - a Kane that is a Seinfeld enthusiast Brayne - a Kane that wants to take over the world with his dimwitted mouse sidekick. Plane Jane Kane - a Kane that is also a shady as hell drag queen

I fully expect you all to have a very Happy Halloween!

See, when I was growing up in the '90s, a scrub was a guy that can't get no love from me, hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holla at me.

You’re the glue that holds this place together.

I was trying to explain to my coworker, who played basketball, the reason why so many football players love their asshole coach, and this is pretty much it. My high school football coach is one of the surliest people of all time, but at the same time would give you every second of his free time to you asked him a question, or wanted some kind of help with anything. I went to high school in Virginia, and as you can probably imagine 2-a-day practices in late July/early August sucked. We were having an issue with players cramping up, and the next day were were talking in the locker room before practice and he called every player on the team to make sure we were drinking enough water. At the time, we had the largest student body in the history of the state. He had a no-cut policy. There were probably 100-150 players between Freshman, JV, and Varsity. These weren't long conversations, but still that probably took 3+ hours out of his day on a day where he already spent 6 hours or so running practice and keeping track of a bunch of other people's rowdy teenage kids. He also challenged us to design our own plays and challenge him to design defenses to defend your idea. If we designed something great, he'd add it to the playbook and give us credit for it. I know for a fact that he had players dropping plays off in this class between every period. It was just adding work to his already busy ass day to keep us engaged. So, when he yelled at us for dropping a pass, or missing a block, we already had a foundation of knowing that this dude is absolutely committed to making us better.

If they don't use Animotion's "Obsession", is it even Saturday Night's Main Event? James

Sorry to be the guy over explaining and ruining the magic, and I'll stop if you guys want me to. But I think giving away some of the secrets to the super dangerous stuff is putting some people more at ease with the violence. The seat on the chair was grinded down to the thickness / pliability of a cookie sheet or the aluminum trash cans. If you look the bottom of the chair leg had a pink sticker on it. So they guys would know it's the gimmicked one. They also took out the hinges that keep the seat connected to the frame. It was a nasty loud sound. But the seat gave immediately. And the thickness was no different than standard cookie sheet shots. It was just so well done it looked like death. Kudos to the truck for doing the pull back wide shot at the exact right time too. Really added to the effect.

Blue Kane? He needed the money! Oh!

Just popping in to mention how tacky I think it is for a pro wrestling company to artificially extend a talent contract due to injury. I hate it when WWE does it. I hate it when AEW does it. Yet another reason why there needs to be a union in wrestling. These people get used & taken advantage of beyond the pale. The Jets don't get to automatically keep Aaron Rodgers a year longer just because he blew out his achilies last year. It's predatory bullshit and something I used to think AEW was above. TK is losing good will with fans & workers alike by fucking over Fenix. Your end date should be your end date, full stop.

Maybe he is taken out by Mox and avenged by the mysterious masked wrestler, the Vegan Rider.

From John Carpenter's Letterboxd account.

Therapy only works if you go in with the mindset that you need to change your life in fundamental ways and would like help figuring out how to do that. Does any of that sound like Ric Flair to you?

100%. They don’t train professional wrestlers, they train people to perform WWE-style wrestling. Teaching them the actual business of being a wrestler might accidentally empower them with a sense of agency in their careers.

I cannot remember the last time I saw Taz break this bad:

sorry bud, this is HHH's WWE. you will take an AI Motorhead cover of Obsession and be happy.

I think I’m a sicko. That main event is my match of the year.

Am I just desensitized, or did the main event not seem as “sick” or whatever as everyone here is making it out to be? Like at no point was I uncomfortable or anything. The only spot that sticks out as truly gross was the needle bit, and even that didn’t land like they wanted to since it didn’t seem like it actually went through Swerve’s cheek. I stil loved that match, though. I don’t think it’s over, since this was unsanctioned and that’s the time when Hangman finally gets his victory (when it doesn’t count for anything). I smell exploding barbwire in our future.

I do miss the days of there being a bunch of heel managers and sometimes they work together, but they're also all slimy dudes who'll backstab you at a moments notice.

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Fuck yes. Go to an AEW show and then hold signs all night about some dumb radio show/pod that has just the worst garage dad opinionz 4 u re: wrestling just hoping, I guess, they mention you in their dumb fucking show? Please rethink your life choices.

Hey everyone. I know a few of you have already seen the 80s Joshi videos I've been posting on YouTube, so firstly this is a bit of an explanation. I was a bit too late in becoming a wrestling super-nerd to participate in real time, but I'm a big fan of the 80s projects. I've watched them all except for the WWF one, which I've been would be a bit redundant. So it was very much in the spirit of those sets and DVDVR that I decided I'd try to fix there not being an 80s Joshi set. I've put together the footage a little differently to the 'classic' 80s sets. It's not really 'the best matches', the approach is somewhere in between the 80s sets and the 1990s Yearbooks. The best matches are all there, but I've also included some matches with are important for developing angles/historically significant, or just help make it feel more representative of the vibe of the promotion (e.g. including more trios matches than a 'best of' would have included). And because it's Joshi, there's also a bunch of songs and on-location skits layered in. I have translated and put in English subtitles in important parts so you can follow the angles without understanding Japanese. So altogether, it's 18 videos of just under 4 hours long. 183 matches. The easiest place to find them all currently is here: https://vk.com/video/@kadaveri If anyone wants access to downloadable versions, feel free to DM me. If anyone still wants physical discs, maybe that could be arranged... So, who's down for one more 80s project?

Outrunners rule the goddamn world.

@HarryArchieGusI agree - well said. And assuming arguendo that there are a couple minor plot holes: We are getting Nigel vs Dragon in New York. I repeat: We are getting Nigel vs Dragon in New York. I don't give a shit if the angle was that a magic fairy came down, gave Darby amnesia, and he simply forgot about the title shot, because (say it with me): We are getting Nigel vs Dragon in New York. To borrow a phrase from the Champ himself: FICKLE!!

Back when I was working, I was taught that there was a legit heirarchy for headbutts. Samoans were at the top, and trumped everything below. That was followed by any other ethnic minority, followed by "madmen", followed by any "foreigner". So, if I was in a match with Samu, I would sell a headbutt like I got shot in the head. But if I was working a regular white dude, he had to sell the shit out of mine, since I was a diabolical Soviet. Yeah, pretty racist, but most ethnic gimmicks are.

Another Asian Cooger drinking party yesterday, a rooftop BBQ in Osaka's Shin Sekai neighbourhood with several Canadian wrestlers. My old buddy Salty the Seaman (and just after he left Seth Knight showed up), TKO Cody Smith, Riea Von Slasher, and Slave from Thrash Wrestling. Always great to catch up with Seth, and I very much enjoyed meeting Cody, Riea, and Nick. On the Japanese side there was Cooger (of course), Moriya from Fighting Ultimate Crazy Kings, and Hiroto Okubo whom I think of as a young boy but actually he's a 10-year veteran, and Popo-chan. The BBQ was interrupted by a sudden torrential downpour, and we all got absolutely soaked to the skin before moving to an empty room in the building. It's a very Osaka thing to have buildings with multiple little bars and restaurants on every floor. We eventually went back upstairs once the rainstorm passed, and then ended up in Kathmandu cafe, a Nepalese restaurant where the staff all wear Dotonbori Pro shirts. (You may recall my stories from last year of drinking with the wrestlers from Nepal). The other party-goers were all old friends, including Kenji (!) and it was straight up joyful to see everyone again. There were also two American teachers whom Cooger had recently befriended and they fit right in. Cody and Riea both know my good friend Verne who is a stalwart presence on the Vancouver wrestling scene, so that gave us an easy connection. I sent the picture of me with Slave to my small chat group of wrestling friends and one of them IMMEDIATELY typed "Slave!" and another later said that he's known Nick for years. Connecting with people through wrestling is absolutely one of my favorite things. I was wearing my Stan Hansen t-shirt, Slave was wearing Macho man, Salty was wearing a very cool Killer Khan t-shirt that he got years ago at Khan's restaurant, Moriya had Bruiser Brody, and another guy had Hayabusa. Tons of Cooger t-shirts and also several Salty t-shirts. Riea had a Cope tank top (not Adam Copeland. A Vancouver indie wrestler). Cody is a massive dude with a shaved head, covered in tribal tattoos. He could NOT have been more friendly or more positive. Everyone was begging he and Riea to come back next year (or just to stay in Japan). As always, the atmosphere was amazing. Just a huge diverse group of happy drunken wrestling fans, with the bonus for me of having lots of people to speak English with. We traded war stories and talked about tattoos travel food wrestling and how grateful/lucky we are to be able to enjoy nights like that and to have a friend like Cooger who can bring us all together. Joshi wrestler Popo-chan. Also super nice and friendly. Seth always seems to show up after Salty leaves. The man who makes all these memories possible for me. My drinking buddy for 15 years, Asian Cooger. I am one lucky prick. Merch! We played a Russian roulette game with dumplings at the Kathmandu cafe. Guess who picked the fucking fucking spicy one. My sinuses are still burning. Totally worth it.

Very much a "you tell me you met an asshole in the morning" situation.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED, at the deafening silence from Bischoff and Corny. I’m as shocked we don’t have Vile in here damning this with faint praise. Wrestlers gonna get paid, another big company around is best for everyone, hopefully WWE keeps partnering with TNA to give them a boost and not just fleece their roster, and uh I have no idea what to say about ROH.

I feel like this post is the DVDVR equivalent of one of those movies reviews you sometimes see, where a critic is like “I’ve never watched any of the Fast & Furious movies, but now I will review Fast & Furious 19.”

Bryan Danielson also thinks Glenn Jacobs is a good guy, so, like, I dunno, wrestlers are fuckin’ stupid I don’t know what to tell you.

I am going to go ahead an assume that Bryan vs Okada is intended specifically as a birthday present for me. And, for the record, I appreciate it.

lol @ Danielson’s weapon of choice being a necktie. +100 points if he took it from Justin Roberts.

yeah i believe it is sometime in April. Coach Tony K has already helmed more episodes of Dynamite than Uncle Eric did Nitro. and i really, really love the irony in Eric calling out Tony for "using his daddy's money" when he was LITERALLY KNOWN AS ATM ERIC for using Ted Turner's money. zero self awareness.

the company isn't called Good Person Records

I think I recall a spot, '89 Royal Rumble perhaps, when Bad News Brown headbutted Koko B. Ware, and the headbutt had no effect on Koko, but caused Bad News to stagger. Being that both are black, shouldn't the headbutt have no effect on either one? As a white guy, am I even allowed to be talking about this?

I think you might have it inverted; Nigel thinks Bryan is injured and unable to compete, so he demanded this match to make him look like a coward when he does not show up to face him at Grand Slam. But then when Bryan does show up, Nigel will have to actually fight him. Advertising the match (which might actually move a few tickets) and then not doing it would be some bait-n-switch bullshit.

awh man, congrats to Stokely! iykyk Also for those wondering why the Outrunners aren’t on the PWI 500, they asked to be removed from the list to give everyone else a chance. So humble for two guys that are so young.

Hot take: This is AEW’s best year ever from both a storyline and an in ring perspective and it sucks that viewership isn’t reflecting that. They’ve had 3? 4? consistently good to great months of storyline progression, threading the needle in difficult situations, less abandoned storylines, and so on. Everything is clicking. Also, after watching Willow vs Stat, I think the worst bump of the night was Stat landing straight on her tailbone on that dive through the table. And see, this is why it’s good to have a booty, male or female, because being all caked up is going to save you months of pain from your tailbone. Fucking Stokely wearing a Belly t-shirt killed me. SMILE ANYWAY MOTHERFUCKERS

I disagree with your assessment of the show, but I totally agree with this general sentiment. AEW has adopted a lot of WWE-ish tendencies over the past year. Don't know if it's the network, the ex-WWE production hires, or what, but you hate to see it. I will say this show wasn't an example of that, though. WWE hasn't had the balls to try anything like the last hour of this show for 20 years. While I don't like the BCC turn conceptually, it was executed magnificently. They cut off the MITB trope, and Danielson's sell of Claudio's uppercut was beautiful. Total shock and he knew what was coming, but then he didn't actually know what was coming. The plastic bag was a grotesque visual and a fitting escalation of Mox's new character. Only nitpick is I didn't like Wheeler getting held back by Pac so easily. Claudio would've made more sense there. Tying in with your point, though, this angle does need to dodge the "tag champs who hate each other" landmine AEW has avoided so far. The cage match was designed to be uncomfortable and it worked. Whether or not it was a good idea is up for debate, but I applaud them for trying something different. The only thing in WWE that could remotely compare would be some of Foley's matches (Taker HIAC, Rock I quit). The whole story of the match was that there would be no winner, just one survivor who would have to abandon any shred of humanity. Even Swerve's big spots weren't really things that made you feel good about them happening. The vertebreaker on the cinder block, stabbing with piece of the house then crying over it, etc. Nothing truly cathartic before Hanger went full psycho. The whole feud has been kind of outside the usual face/heel dynamic and telling the story of both guys dragging each other to hell, physically and mentally while everyone looks on in abject horror. In that sense, the match was executed perfectly.