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Between Stephie fixing sexism and Cody fixing racism, current-day WWE are actually the real progressives, that's what the people are saying. The blacks and the females come up to Paul Levesque, tears in their eyes, saying, "Thank you sir, you and Stephanie and Cody made sports entertainment great again."

Please, please please watch to the end to see how she breaks the body scissors.

Apparently Tony Khan was asked about Brody and Hangman's "leftist views" or whatever the question was and Khan basically said "that's who these guys are and I want everyone in AEW to feel like their voice matters." I love this guy.

Honestly, and this might be veering into "hot take territory," I wouldn't have Trish on there. I think she benefits from nostalgia and being a passable wrestler during a time that wasn't valued in the women. She was good. She worked hard. It's just that subsequent generations got a lot better.

Anyways, I think AEW should definitely try to counter Saudi-Mania if the landscape is similar in 2027. Pretty sure WWE gets all the money from the Saudis up front, so they're not as worried about the gate or even the buys, but it's all about the good will towards the indies and fans that people pointed out earlier. They'd draw nicely on top of it, but playing the long game is the right move for AEW. They may never be more profitable than WWE, but positioning themselves as the "wrestling company that loves wrestling for fans that love wrestling" vs. WWE's "soulless corporation stripping the copper wiring and bleeding fans dry with no regard for product quality" is a good recipe for long-term stability. WWE is Subway and AEW can be (insert your favorite smaller national sandwich chain here). Some food chat should lighten things up again lol.

I am just traveling this site with such ease. What a delight!

Last night was a BLAST. Gonna upload some stuff and do up a post in a bit. Here's a little taste of the views me and @HarryArchieGushad all night!

Some more highlights from Wednesday night! One of my favorite pro wres experiences. So thankful for the friendships and connections that made it happen. Honestly, everything was good to very good to great. No "dog" segments. Didn't feel like a 3 hour show at all. Lashley and TOA was stiff, violent and we got up close and personal a few times. Bobby's hat was thrown to us, but unfortunately security deemed the hat to valuable to be taken home by a fan lol. The Bucks/GunnClub was so fun. Josh and Hechichero are such a great team. Riho waved at me! And got to give some love to Mox and Roddy. Freaking awesome match. Got to see my boy DG ringside too. Cant wait for ALL OUT!

True, that is a good point and pretty much the reason I don't make "best of" lists and would rather have a "Favorites" list. But that's not good content.

Samoa Joe/Powerhouse vs Workhorsemen added to the tailgate brawl.

I wouldn't say it was a hot take. Trish was a pioneer helped by the likes of Victoria, Jazz, Molly Holly, Ivory under Fit Finlay's watch. You're right generations since has improved on what came before. Tongue in cheek, shouldn't Stephanie McMahon be there starting the Women's Revolution of 2015? ;).

Charlotte would not be on my list. She's good but I think Bayley is better.

What, you trying to get some of this hot fire, man? I still want to acquire that Spider-Man jacket that Wyclef was wearing in this sketch. Anyway, lists! If I'm listing the wrestlers that I think are the best, I'm going to be very English-speaking centric in my picks. I also have a hard time separating "favorite" from "best." I think, for example, Terry Funk and Rey Mysterio (Jr.) would be in my top five best wrestlers ever, but not in my top five favorite wrestlers (even though they'd both be top twenty, easily). And I wonder if Randy Savage should be in a list of the five best wrestlers ever (again, top twenty, easily in a "best of" list for me), but he's right at the top alongside Bret Hart in my personal favorites list. I will say that I'd park Bret Hart and Jim Breaks in both my five favorites list and my top-five ever list. I just wish we had more Stampede available so that I could move Bret as high up the best-ever list as I possibly could. Here's an offshoot question (that I'm sure we've answered before): Who do you feel would definitely end up climbing high on your "best" or "favorites" list if only you had more tape on them? I watched pretty much all the Lou Thesz I could find online, and I strongly believe that if the DuMont Network's archives were preserved, I'd probably have him way the hell up there on both my "best" and "favorites" lists. EDIT: Oh yeah, the reason that I wandered into this thread in the first place: Bash at the Beach '95 is on the WCW Watch Party stream right now, and even by WCW's extremely low standards for match finishes, this show has a shocking amount of awful finishes that look like shit, confuse the crowd, and completely blow up the matches that came before them (not that the matches are particularly good, for the most part).

Look man, in near 30 year history of this message board, this is easily the 1093rd time we've done a "My Top Wrestler List" James

ABUMBAKAM, ABUMBAKAM ABUMBAKAM ABUMBAKAM, ABUMBAKAM ABUMBAKAM A RUM A TUMP, A RUMP A TING, A RUMP-A-TUMP-A-TUMP, A RUMP-A-STING I RIP AND I RHYME, I RHYME AND I RIP, THIS IS THE WAY THAT DYLAN SPITS ...YOU TOO CLOSE MAN Anyway, making a top TEN would be reeeeeeal fuckin' hard. Or twenty.

That's a lot of "oh"s, Infinit haha Stat sounded kinda off but Hayter sounded frickin' weird, like I didn't know where she was going with that.

Thekla is so awesome and my god did MVP wallop Ricochet. This was a fun show top to bottom and for those that care, it also did very well in the ratings.

I kinda felt Stat was the wink link in the 3 way promo they did. Not bad but it was off. Still very interested in the match. I wonder if this is the time for Toni to lose. She'd be fine to take a few weeks off. I don't see any of the women in the match winning though. Maybe Hayter? I'm psyched for the Tail Gate Brawl. The women go wild in these things.

As someone who’s been responsible for one or two “the fuck is he on about” moments on this board…. The fuck is he on about?

Arguably, it’s not that different than real sports, where each generation usually gets bigger stronger faster. She’s Dr J before the modern women were MJ.

Ladder match with an OSHA inspector at ringside to DQ anyone who breaks safety rules

Bull Nakano wrestled for the WWF. She should be number one.

It would be refreshing (to me, at least) to see a ladder match that had one ladder and that's it.

Mil's mysterious drugs are pretty conventional if you have the right hookup in the locker room

At a certain point, you'd think fans would wake up to how much this company hates them. Or at least doesn't care about them.

For what it's worth, at least the dumpster fire appears to be out. That said... if we lose the Jets next week... EVERYONE goes. Now, back to me making fun of all of you. Especially @Craig H

This would be a big disservice to Toni and the women's division I think. A massive Stat turn is the only thing that seems worthy of ending Toni's run, and that's better suited for a singles situation with the 4-way serving as another "close not quite" moment for Stat to push her over the edge. When it comes to new frontiers for the women, having Stat become the championship centerpiece of a mostly male top stable would be quite interesting.

@Pete, @zendragon and @Death From Above.

I think it was just there in the Triller app. It'll be a sad day if and when Triller collapses because it's hard to run a viable business selling people GCW and Portugese football.

I loved seeing Robyn Renegade back after six months, one of my favs and was a highlight whenever she'd show up throughout last year. Thekla/Aminata ruled. I'm hoping a 4 way isn't where Toni loses her title. All Out + 3 matches on the Tailgate looks great and stacked.

Still doing the Sleepy Psycho gimmick. Besides her recent feud with Kendal, she had a program with Kylie Rae which included her stealing Kylie's son's teddy bear. On the women's side of Evolve, she's basically the roadblock that faces have to overcome before they go after the championship.

I like that this is 6. Usually 5’s get me wiggling that I left someone off. Turns out, no matter the number I want to add more! GOAT 6: Bryan Danielson, Terry Funk, Negro Casas, Kenta Kobashi, Akira Hokuto, Mitsuhara Misawa I suggest another list topic: UNDER-TEN 6 (your favorite wrestlers when you were under the age of 10) Ken Shamrock, Mankind, The Rock, D’Lo Brown, Kane, Stone Cold

AEW has such a big back catalogue of great matches got me thinking about those that need talking up more, underrated/overshadowed. Mine in chronological order: Jon Moxley vs. Brodie Lee. AEW Double or Nothing, 23rd May 2020. Cody vs. Eddie Kingston. AEW Dynamite, 22nd July 2020. Cody vs. Mr Brodie Lee. AEW Dynamite, 22nd August 2020. Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston. AEW Full Gear, 7th November 2020. Serena Deeb vs. Riho. AEW The Buy In. AEW Double or Nothing, 30th May 2021. Young Bucks vs. Jon Moxley/Eddie Kingston. AEW Double or Nothing, 30th May 2021. Darby Allin/Sting vs. Scorpio Sky/Ethan Page. AEW Double or Nothing, 30th May 2021. Jon Moxley vs. Lance Archer. AEW Dynamite, 21st July 2021. Kenny Omega vs. Christian Cage. AEW Rampage, 13th August 2021. Miro vs. Eddie Kingston. AEW All Out, 5th September 2021. Dr Britt Baker vs. Kris Statlander. AEW All Out, 5th September 2021. CM Punk vs. Darby Allin. AEW All Out, 5th September 2021. Darby Allin/Sting vs. Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler. AEW Grand Slam Dynamite, 22nd September 2021. MJF vs. Darby Allin. AEW Full Gear, 13th November 2021. Anna Jay/Tay Conti vs. The Bunny/Penelope Ford. AEW Rampage, 31st December 2021. MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February 2022. *****. Hangman Adam Page vs. Lance Archer. AEW Dynamite, 9th February 2022. CM Punk vs. MJF. AEW Revolution, 6th Match 2022. *****. Dr. Britt Baker vs. Thunder Rosa. AEW St Patrick's Day Dynamite, 16th March 2022. Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe. AEW Dynamite, 13th April 2022. Sting/Darby Allin/Shingo Takagi vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson/El Phantasmo. AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, 26th June 2022. Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter. AEW Full Gear, 19th November 2022. Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada. AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, 25th June 2023. Bryan Danielson vs. Ricky Starks. AEW All Out, 3rd September 2023. *****. Will Ospreay vs. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jay White vs. PAC vs. Shota Umino vs. Hechicero vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Mistico vs. Lio Rush. AEW Dynamite, 29th May 2024. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mariah May. AEW All In, 25th August 2024. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mariah May. AEW Grand Slam Australia, 15th February 2025.

RIGHT IN THE OVARIES!

Karate Kid: Legends - Look, I love the first 2 Karate Kid movies. Every Cinematic KK movie after those are only good if you wanna sit abd watch them with your friends to make fun of them. I really wanted Karate Kid Legends to be good, hell I'd settle for watchable. This movie is what it us, a cash grab. Cobra Kai made Karate Kid popular again so of course someone came along to make a quick buck. The actual fights are OK but kind of ruined by up close shots. Nothing ruins martial arts fight choreography quite like up close shaky cam. I want to see the combatants form and technique. I want to see the ebb and flow of the fight. The fact the story feels so damn generic doesn't help things at all. The worst of The Sister Street Fighter films is better than this. Hell, the whole KK animated series is better than this! James

I think Stat is going to win the belt by some sort of Yuta/Shaffir shenanigans, and we're going to get a Toni/Thekla feud coming out after this. Toni keeps getting attacked by the Triangle, and I don't think Thekla is established enough to take the belt off Toni. Something like The Triangle brawling with Toni & Hayter while Yuta helps Stat cheat. Then we get a proper Stat vs Willow program for the belt.

There's probably worse positions to be in but I wish she was doing more, somewhere i watch. I don't think I've really watched any of her non-sleepy gimmick work, at least that I remember.

TKO made the decision to not allow press or fans at the Saudi Arabia WrestleMania 43 announcement. They were reportedly concerned that fans would boo the announcement and thought there was a possibility that press would ask "real questions." (Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter) --- No shit, Sherlock. You know that saying "Heads will roll?" I had to stop myself saying that when it was leaked WrestleMania 43 was going there.

“Toybox taken away” = company taken off tv and lots of people probably lose their jobs. So, yeah, he might “fold” to avoid that.

For reference, Saltador is the true utility player of LU, El Mariachi Loco and Mala Suerte is Mr. Cisco which if you want to mix casting choices with LU lore is a crappy way to get reincarnated and back to the Temple.

I actually meant Zack, but Scott fits too.

You're missing Xavier!!! If i could be serious for a moment, the ROH title lineage is actually really damn solid. Adam Cole is probably the worst, to me, and that's just because I can't stand him.

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Definitely late 90's, since I was spending hours in the college computer lab on the board. I remember times in the early 2000's when people would crazy spam movie spoilers (like for the second Matrix movie) and I think that's when they started requiring a login.

In 1950, #12 Illinois shut out #19 Indiana, in the first time they ever played when both teams were ranked. 75 years later, they played their second ever ranked contest (also, coincidentally, the 75th all-time meeting between the two, which surprised me. I figured it would be over a hundred just from proximity and both being founding members of the Big Ten.)

ANACONDA Starring Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Thandiwe Newton(???) Directed by Tom Gorickman (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, That Awkward Moment) Premieres Christmas Day --- This looks ... dated? Like this is a movie that should have come out 10-15 years ago?

Should AEW attempt to do a big show in New Orleans since they got completely fucked on WrestleMania these next two years?

Might as well have Kento take the Triple Crown off Jun. Still I'm kinda sick of Kento. Maybe long run for Kento and then drop it to Yuma Anzai?

It's 15th September 2025, I first joined the DVDVR MB 15th September 2005. Been here ever since. Thanks for having me 20 years. Love, Paul xxx.

Tell me I'm not the only one who read that as Anals in Love