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I'd love for like a full hour of a Dynamite to be a Cibernetico.

Yes, for the above mentioned reasons except I was 7 at the time. Plus, having arguably the greatest entrance theme helped. Demolition's theme was my gateway to rock music.

Bad News Brown, pre-teens. As I've said before, he was Stone Cold about ten years ahead of his time...

Rick Rude. I stuck with Randy Savage when the Mega Powers broke up, but I'm pretty sure Rude was the first guy I was introduced to as a heel, who I immediately loved without ever seeing him as a face.

Excalibur yelling "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO RESEDA FOR A MATCH LIKE THIS" in the opener really got me, man.

https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/was-it-real-or-fake-the-truth-revealed-about-macho-man-randy-savages-voice/

I'd say Jeff Jarrett just got his shipments of kettles and pots, but the tariffs... 😞 ... Double or Nothing at the end of the month!

I was just as mad as when Tunney announced there could only be two members of Demolition, thus phasing out Ax. I never forgave Brian Adams for being part of the downfall of Demolition, so I was happy to see Doink one up Crush at every turn.

The opening match was basically the match they'd have on the last night of BOLA featuring all the people who lost in the first round.

HANGMAN MOTHERFUCKERS! I loved that opener too. As it was going on I thought, man, this is PWG and Chikara as fuck and then yeah, Excalibur busts out the Reseda line. I need a gif of Toni Storm exercising and then dancing to Hayter’s music.

I have to say, the team of Nigel and Tony is growing on me. Now that Dragon isn't around and neither is Mariah, Nigel has toned down the insufferable aspects of his announcing. He's basically a better version of what Lawler was going for. Tony plays a great straight man for him too.

As a kid, anybody vs. Fcuk Hulk Hogan. ;).

I can echo the sentiments of some of the answers in here, like Macho Man, Demolition, etc. But the first heel I really rooted for at a live wrestling show was Nick Gage in CZW. Champ's Soccer Area/Tournament of Death 2 era CZW. First time I saw Gage, crowd was booing him, but my friends and I just thought this dude was the absolute best in an unbelivably reckless. He threw a ladder into the crowd at that show, riling everyone up, being an unhinged lunatic and we were the only three going nuts for him. It pains me how far CZW has fallen, because it is the only promotion i was there at almost the beginning and a few years back, i went to Cage of Death, 20? i think remembering at the second Cage of Death and realizing i was following a promotion that long was awesome.

Demoliton, age 5. Absolutely floored by their look, with the facepaint and spikes everywhere.

That's basically me, except with Ring of Honor in 2003.

Minus either a remote control slo mo spot or thumb in the butt train. I miss PWG but I don't know if it'll ever be back, nor if there's really a place for it anymore. I mean I have a place for it and would pay for every show, but how many lunatics like me are out there? PWG revived my love for wrestling in 2010 when, after 25 years, it hit me that I wasn't really digging it anymore. I found PWG at that time and was blown away, and it only got better from there. I'll always have time for PWG.

Yeah, that opener was pretty much the "Big Budget PWG" that people either dreamed of or had nightmares of when AEW started. I loved it. The arm breaker spot was great. The bald stuff was fun. Everyone was hitting on all cylinders. I want TK to book a cibernetico one of these days. The main event was really good too. I'm guessing the video edit crowd is having a field day with that match.

AEW Double or Nothing 2025 marks the five year anniversary of AEW's first ever show, AEW Double or Nothing 2019. Bigger still, AEW's co-produced tribute show for the late great Dean. Love and miss you, mate xxx.

This month sees NJPW Wrestling Dontaku, WWE Backlash, AEW Double or Nothing and biggest of all, an AEW co-produced tribute show to the late, great DEAN. Love and miss you, mate xxx.

Should've gotten the pop at Rumble '20 and called it a career. 🎵 ON THIS DAY... I LIMP GINGERLY... INTO AN EPSOM SALT BAAAAATH....

Never said the boot was on her foot.

Boot gets stuck in the bars. Somehow the cage lights on fire.

I'm now morbidly curious to see just how Shafir could botch that spot.

Give me Thekla/Toni Storm at Double or Nothing.

I hate to pick an AEW example as a WWE one feels like it'd be more relevant... but look at Swerve and Hangman. They were both widely loved and cheered within what, a month of the most horrible stuff they did to the other? If burning someone's childhood house down or creeping around their newborn child can't get you heel heat anymore because it was done well you start to bump up against some very existential type questions.

I would get this PPV on Hangman v Ospreay alone. I'm really looking forward to this one.

I thought Rick Rude was awesome as a wrestler but still dutifully hated his obnoxious ego and rule-breaking ways.

I couldn’t think of any until you mentioned that and yeah, I was Team Andre against Hogan and I guess I was 14.

The Midnight Express, age 15.

A+. Instant top 10 MCU movie. I about came in my pants for the end credits scene and everyone in the room went fucking nuts. I loved this so much that I can see myself putting into the rotation of movies I endlessly rewatch. It is fucking ON.

I didn't watch wrestling with any regularity or intentionality until the NWO existed and half the damn dorm was watching Nitro and the MU* games I played on were creating dedicated wrestling chat channels to keep it from contaminating everything, so I'd have to say Chris Jericho when I was 20.

Get someone to do the Worm as a transition into an RKO, and call it the Tilde Bang.

Jimmy Snuka when I was 8, pretty much every kid around my age was also cheering for him over Bob Backlund. About a year later Don Muraco was the first heel I cheered for that did all the heel bs to piss off the fans and he was great at it!

I don't think there is a vehicle on earth that people treat less seriously than a golf cart. I've seen and done some incredibly stupid things involving golf carts.

A reminder the record companies back then released very limited physical copies of singles for rock bands, compared to other genres like Pop, Rap, R&B and Country. So that #8 for Wonderwall was almost purely based on radio play and Champagne Supernova wasn't even released as a single for sale US, it just got tons of radio play to drive album sales.

Apparently she now has a 7 or 8 figure real estate portfolio that she has acquired since she started dating Bill. Y'all, the 2029 Netflix documentary series on this is going to win 80 Emmys.

I'll say it was Piper and I was probably 11. I started watching in the run-up to Mania 1, but somewhere between that and maybe the run up to Mania 2, I got tired of Hogan's shtick and got into the heels. I blame Eddie Ellner, maybe. On the Crockett side, it was the Horsemen and Midnight Express.

Paging Speedball Bailey...

I figure I can’t be the only one who watched this episode and said wait Eddie Gilbert wrestled Tiger Mask well here’s the match and it’s pretty good actually really good

Happy May Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVU-sjy5_4 hopefully the WWE Vault is releasing a May Day 2 hour comp of Nikolai Volkoff singing the Soviet Anthem

Swerve knows what he did was wrong and Hangman knows he went over the line too.

The Buckshot out of the corner was a damn good spot.

Sandra Violet turns 7 in June and she will only watch wrestling if a cage is involved. She cares not about what ked to the cage match, just that 2 or more people are in the cage is all she cares about. On the flipside of that, showing her random Great Muta Tokyo Dome entrances terrifies her James

If you say horrible stuff as a heel, it's ruined by then going on social media to say "that's not really me saying that. It's a character I play." Thank goodness David Prowse didnt have to go on social media in 1977 and say he didnt really kill Obi Wan.

The Higher Power of coffee tables.

Doink BRAH making the kids cry BRAH

Insane and horrifying scene in Pittsburgh as a fan fell 21 feet over the right field fence head first to the ground. Here is a tweet in link form with footage, this is not for the squeamish: https://x.com/Bobbk_/status/1917744955881316740?t=ZWHAQm-2LdiyIs1ydKxxPw&s=19

I think this is some revisionist history. There was almost no build for this match. Andre was "reinstated" to the WWF after The Machines run on December 28th. There was nothing at all alluding to a him vs Hogan feud until after The Machines run was done. So returns December 28th. Did an angle holding the belt and giving it back to Hogan at a January MSG show. Andre turned heel on the February 7th on Piper's Pit. Wrestlemania was March 29th. The build and whole angle was literally 3 months in totality. They used Hogan ducking giving Andre a title shot as justification for the turn. But that wasn't actually shown or alluded to on air ever before, just once Andre turned. Don't have anything more to add to the general point. Just that our memories are faulty as hell sometimes. This gigantic match that did so much of the business had 3 months of build and that's literally it. They didn't even know if Andre could do the run so they had Orndorff on the back burner as a backup plan. Crazy to think sometime so monumental could be pulled off Between Dec 28th and Mar 29th. This is the end of the month and will get burried in a closed thread but so be it lol.

Further Bryan Danielson update: Bryan Danielson likes how AEW handles itself in competition with WWE. Speaking with Talksport for an interview published this week, Danielson said that — while he doesn’t know the right strategy — he likes that AEW doesn’t approach other companies in a “warlike” fashion. That approach is a natural fit for Danielson’s personality, but he doesn’t know if there will be a point in the future where AEW needs to go more on the offensive. "We don’t, at least it seems like to me, we as a company don’t approach other companies in a warlike fashion, right? We don’t feel like we’re in a war with anybody,” Danielson said. “But that’s not the same as the other side. So we have to — we’re constantly kind of on the defense in that. I don’t know the right strategy. I like the way Tony Khan handles things, because that in my mind, it makes us the good guys, right? “But I don’t know if at some point we need to go more on the offensive. I’ve had friends bring that up to me like, ‘Oh, you guys should attack.’ I’m like, wait a second. Like one, that’s not my personality. Two, that’s not Tony Khan’s personality. And I think that’s one of the things that drew me to AEW.” Danielson explained that AEW’s Brodie Lee memorial show in 2020 was something that drew him to the promotion when he was still with WWE. Danielson loves that Tony Khan is a wrestling fan who cares about the wrestlers and the fans. "It touched something in me and in my mind I was thinking like, ‘Oh, these are the good guys of professional wrestling.’ There’s going to be times where we make wrong, [or] bad decisions, that happens everywhere,” Danielson said. “But one of the things that I like to think about AEW is that we try — and we don’t market ourselves as this — to be good.” Though he can’t predict the future, Danielson believes AEW should continue growing as a business. "I think, obviously we can’t tell the future, but I think there’s going to be a lot of growth for AEW,” he said. “I think there’s a tremendous opportunity right now in the media landscape to put a wrestling product out that is the kind of focus that Tony likes to put into AEW. So if I were to guess, I would say that we’re going to grow, but it’s impossible to tell.” Danielson has been on a media tour to promote AEW & NJPW’s Forbidden Door pay-per-view that’s being held in London this August. Addressing his own in-ring future, Danielson has not officially retired but said he has no desire to wrestle right now. “I have no inclination right now, and no desire to wrestle right now. The last six months of my career built up to that actually, I look at it now as a blessing,” he told The Metro. “Because the six months leading into my last match were so hard and my neck was so bad. And, I mean, there’s things that I couldn’t physically do.” C&P f4wonline.com.

Well this was bound to happen