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  1. Yeah, I think we're done here. Wrong time to pull this shit. Wrong fucking time.
    40 points
  2. This take didn’t even have long enough to get room temperature!
    38 points
  3. Apparently, my good friend and our old mod sprewellrimz sent the link to AEW's Karen Tran (some indie fans would know her as KZT) who now works as a digital director after her stint working on NJPW on AXS. She sent it to TK. The pro wrestling community is more close knit than I thought it was. I guess we can thank DEAN for that.
    38 points
  4. First a note in regards to expectations - this is going to be a long process. Insert whatever your standard cliché is here ("Marathon not a Sprint" being the one bandied about the most). I also should note that I am not pressing for any updates. I take what I am given so it is possible things will go radio silent for awhile. Also, and I want to be honest about this, I am being extremely cautious with what I share. All updates that I continue to receive have been positive, however, and if you have read the GoFundMe you probably realized this, this is still a very serious situation. To that I can at least say that it has been relayed that the family can start taking things "day by day instead of hour by hour" Now as to not end on a somber note - Dean has been awake from time to time. His vitals are good. Communication is very limited at the moment but he is in a better way than he was on Monday. And I will share this message from his wife "I told Dean about the support and comments from the dvdvr and he squeezed my hand." Continue to keep his families in your thoughts. Donate and/or share if you feel so inclined
    36 points
  5. I will edit this into my first post too but just wanted to pass on to everyone that the outpouring of support from here (DVDVR) and the wrestling community is greatly appreciated by Dean's family. And the updates so far are positive
    35 points
  6. A quintessential picture of DEAN
    34 points
  7. During my tenure in sports announcing, we had a big tournament. We selected our broadcast team, made the announcement, everyone was happy. An hour later, a member of that broadcast team was credibly accused with sexual assault. We called him into a meeting to hear what he could say about it, with the thought that we were going to remove him until everything regarding his accusal had been worked out through whatever method the victim chose to take. I still remember him saying "well, we had sex, but she said yes! That doesn't mean she can just take it back!" as my blood started to run cold and realizing he either didn't understand what he had done, or he knew exactly what he did and didn't care. Either way, things became a lot more complicated. We fired him outright. We contacted and confirmed a replacement, notified the broadcast group and the participating teams, modified the announcement to remove his name and add the replacement. We reached out to the accuser to notify them of his removal, and offered support. We were going to make a formal statement, but it needed to be cleared by legal, and that was going to take three or four days. We'd done all we could do at that very moment. I laid in bed at night wondering how many other people he'd hurt, because I'd hired him to do a few other tournaments, and I couldn't help but wonder how much I enabled this monster. There's no way I could've known, but at the same time, I was responsible for him being there. I had to accept some form of fault, right? The next morning, exhausted emotionally and physically, I got out of bed and saw I had quite a few Twitter notifications. Someone prominent in our community sent a tweet, tagging me in it, saying that my silence was complicit. There were replies indicating that because there had been no statement, we were covering up a sexual assault. It took everything I could to not lash out. As a sexual assault survivor myself, I resented the indication that I did nothing, or worse, was actively trying to cover it up. But at the same time, how could they have known what we were working on? We made a lot of changes behind the scenes and were stuck unable to make a formal statement until legal cleared it. So I just responded that they should refresh the roster announcement, and that I still needed time to process understanding that someone I considered a friend was a monster. It wasn't good enough, but it was all I could do. That and crying. I say that to spare some thoughts to the people who work inside of WWE's machine. Maybe they knew. Maybe they didn't. Maybe they're working to try and fix things. Maybe they're just as blindsided and disgusted by this as we all are, but can't say anything. We don't know. We may never know. But I feel for the people who are doing the right things, or trying to and are stopped, and as a result are being grouped in with a monster. We can say we're disgusted and we can cancel our subscriptions and we can stop supporting them - and we should - but we should also remember that there are people who deserve our understanding and did not commit Vince McMahon's crimes and don't deserve to be lumped in with his horrific choices. That's all I ask.
    32 points
  8. He was OUR FRIEND. All of us, our FUCKING FRIEND. I'm putting some Husker Du on the thumb drive for the car tonight.
    32 points
  9. For the record, I do not have any kind of details about what happened with Mr. Punk and Mr. Boy, but I am *really* fucking glad I banned that idiot earlier this month.
    29 points
  10. Hey all So this is Matt Griffin - the CEO of ACTION Wrestling. FKA Jacey North of DVDVR 500 and Road Report fame I'm the promoter of ACTION. Thought I'd drop some things in as to how you can help us out First off, DEAN~!!! will stream live on IWTV. It's a $9.99 subscription service. If you sign up, please use code "ACTION" to give a referral credit We will be discussing sponsorships soon. You can sponsor or adopt a match, advertise your website/blog/podcast or whatever you like. No pressure, and I'm not a huge fan of asking fans for extra money We also will have a t-shirt designed and for sale on ShopIWTV.com Lastly and most importantly, if you're close, you can buy a ticket and attend. Doing a show in this weekend environment is always a risk. And thanks to Phil & Eric for having this idea. I started on DVDVR ............ a long time ago and enjoyed having the crew do Road Reports on shows I worked on. Hopefully we can honor the memory of Dean Rasmussen well
    28 points
  11. Here's a copy of what I posted to our twitter: Hey gang, Rev Ray here. I do not have my own social media, so I'm going to post this here. I want to thank everyone for thier kind words and contributions so far and hope everyone keeps them coming to help out DEAN~! and his family. I've known Dean dating back to the RSPW pre-DVDVR and got to meet him when a group of us met up at Dark Cheetah's house to swap tapes and go to an indy show. On that car ride the conversation included Dean using the phrase "Akira Taue's 'mounting face'". It was at that point I knew my life would not be the same again. Having been to shows with him in person, I can assure you that in person that the humor, gregarious and enthusiasm you saw on your screens was the same in real life. The world needs more Deans. This can apply to multiple things, but Dean shared his love of pro-wrestling, be it from today, the past, in a dome, in a rec center where the ceiling was too low, pro-wrestling in its many forms is awesome, try to find what you like and share it. Turn over those stones, you might find that kid starting out who ends up entertaining millions. Keep the big guy in your thoughts, let him know what he means because sometimes you never get that chance again. Thanks again, keep the love and contributions coming.
    28 points
  12. Going to try to get just a few words down now or else I'll be a wreck all day. More of one. The old and the very recent. DEAN is why I'm here. It's the Nitro Workrate Reports that led me to finding the board in the first place. I'll be honest that I don't think I found my real voice for wrestling until 08 or 09 but I was here in 98 and 99 in high school and it opened me to be able to appreciate things and have an open mind to things that were against conventional wisdom. I remember thanking him in 2000 or so for being able to appreciate The Barbarian. It was silly. I was 19. It was true. And you could track it forward to requesting bits in the COMIX and me getting random comps of whatever was laying around from him to help support the board all the way cajoling him into creating a bonkers Greatest Wrestler Ever list at the last second in 2016 (Rufus R Jones at 87! Paul Jones at 68!. The high vote for Dick Murdoch (3) and Mocho Cota~!, a few slots above me, even though he hadn't liked his 93 run back during the DVDVRs). The outpouring on twitter is amazing, but there's a lot of reminiscing. It's a lot of people who moved on and are looking back at great memories and how they were inspired. In some ways, and I'm being honest here, in this moment, that's a little hard on me actually, because DEAN, even just a few days ago, was a huge part of our everyday life. He was posting CMLL matches on Sunday for everyone! For those people that have wandered back to pay tribute, go and search through the AEW media thread. Go run a search on DEAN's content. Since retiring, he watched every show and wrote up this wild train of thought summation of every match, often just a sentence for each but it was just a glorious block of text and going to read it was the first thing I did after Raw and Smackdown ended. There's so much of him that you haven't even read yet just waiting for you. And it wasn't some static, lifeless thing. Of course it wasn't. He was engaging with the matches, with the wrestlers, and with us preemptively. A couple of weeks ago he tagged me on a Takeshita match knowing exactly what spot would drive me nuts. It didn't drive him nuts, of course. But he knew me and my exact tastes well enough to slip a trigger warning in his real time review. People would drop their reviews after him and he'd pull out text to engage with, things he missed, things he disagreed with or had a rationale for, or just something he wanted to triple emphasize. Because he read and he cared. Every bit of televised wrestling over the last couple of years. And he went back twice with AEW to see the int'l feed! Plus the weekly polls, being the most qualified guy in the world to set them up. And he was good enough to participate in Secret Santo the last few times. And that was great, because when I was posting the lists each week, the pairings, I knew that I'd be making someone really happy because they got to pick a match for DEAN to review and have him pick a match for them. Even in 2022 that was no small thing. I was already thinking about the next one on the commute home and how I'd rig the first round to have him paired up with someone. I didn't want to post anything because I was holding out hope he'd be back and writing up WOW and IMPACT and that we'd be watching Collision together. It was all great. Two and a half decades of great, but the last few couple of years were especially great. And I don't think they were necessarily a sure thing. I don't think I would have predicted them five years ago. It's been such a hard few years with the pandemic and everything else and having DEAN here on a day to day basis, so engaged, so engaging was the best thing imaginable for everyone here. We're lucky for all the memories, the old ones and especially the new.
    27 points
  13. Dean Rasmussen was the closest thing I think wrestling fandom will ever have to a gonzo journalist. His reviews often contained great tangents that revealed things about day to day life. He was a foul mouthed, strangely insightful, deeply observant, and incredibly funny human. I never had the privilage of meating the great DEAN in person but his endless enthusiasm for his subject matter has been a constant bright spot over the last quarter of a century. He will be deeply, deeply missed by everyone in the community. A unique, irreplacable human being.
    27 points
  14. Not even blocking anyone else's view with the sign. A++
    27 points
  15. Apologies for posting mid-show, but if you saw Orange hop off the ramp to high five a kid, that was my son!
    26 points
  16. Mr. Khan and me generating heat backstage and we, under-book beautiful women there’s a dozen to use Oh no no I’ll only book three I wanna be Verne Gagne but I don’t know why, and I don’t know And when everybody’s got heat aw, dad, it’s just about as stressful as it can be
    26 points
  17. To talk about how good DEAN was at his craft, I can honestly say without an ounce of hyperbole that he belongs on the Mt Rushmore of pro wrestling writers. Of course there’s Meltzer, and there’s Bill Apter. But at a time in the late 90’s / early 2000’s when the influence of Meltzer and less talented clones like Scott Keith drove the general internet wrestling fandom ethos in one direction, DEAN and by proxy DVDVR represented that counter culture of “no, we don’t want to see Lance Storm perfectly execute moves; we want to see Jerry Lawler punch a motherfucker in the face” And that was massive. And I think it shaped all of us and how we view wrestling. It can’t be understated.
    25 points
  18. Doesn't want to embed for some reason (ADMIN EDIT: you're covered - Pete) but Joe has paid tribute
    25 points
  19. Man, this a punch in the stomach. I said a bunch of my piece yesterday, and as the day rolled on and the comments rolled in, I was really hoping that we were going to have this outpouring of good thoughts to share and we would all have a good laugh at some of the memories. It's kind of a nagging lesson out there where it usually takes something terrible or someone passing to remind you but, please remember that every now and then to remember to share the love, with a family member or even in the form the gratitude of someone who brings joy to your life. You don't want the regret of missing that chance. Its inspiring to me that something as silly as writing about pro-wrestling on the internet has brought people together, given careers, inspired them to do projects of thier own or brought them to discover a new love of something by the works of one person. I know sometimes you think you are shouting into the void but the last two days, I found out it wasn't so empty in there when the replies came back. I feel for Angie and Dean's kids. I know I miss Dean just for our conversations on the internet , I can only imagine to have a person such as him in your life everyday not be there any longer. I feel really privileged that Dean invited me to write with him on the DVDVR and stand in his shadow. He will be missed and he is still number one and the best.
    25 points
  20. I mean... RIPPA did ban Fat Spanish Waiter before.
    24 points
  21. However you can both start the sleaze thread and live long enough to contribute to it.
    24 points
  22. I have awakened to the most horrible news imaginable. My good friend has passed away. My prayers and deepest sympathies are with his family at this time. Their loss is my loss. I was an avid follower of Dean and Hangman Tim Noel's wresting show on public access television and that led to a fast friendship. The man opened his home to me shortly after my divorce and gave me an avenue to vent out my frustrations about life in a more positive manner and that was taking pleasure in watching grown men beat the shit out of each other for my amusement. I will never forget those days or how his daughters treated my daughter as if she was their own sister. It will be hard to get through the day but I will manage. If it is one thing that I learned from Dean, it is that good men find a way to persevere. If your outlook on life is bleak, you obviously haven't taken the time to examine your life and see how many things you should be thankful for. RIP.
    24 points
  23. Oh hey good y'all can see it. EDIT: I don't have Twitter so please link the GoFundMe in the comments
    24 points
  24. My gut reaction is to feel like that. But I try to take a breath and be understanding. Not everyone has the strength, you know? BUT This thought goes through my head: Imagine fighting a guy over using real glass in a match you're not in and threatening to walk out of the biggest show in the company's history. Then you leave and work for people you've called bootlickers and embarrassing humans. Then this happens. What do you do? I'd give anything for Punk to be the guy he wants us all to think he is.
    23 points
  25. I don't necessarily feel like I have much constructive to add but I did wake up to 45 new posts and it does feel like it's getting a little chippy so I'll say a few things. @piranesi is not judging anyone here but is, without question, serving as a baseline for one to judge him or herself. That's making people uncomfortable. It's making me a little uncomfortable. That's ok. This is horrific, highly disturbing stuff that is closely connected to someone and something that has been a part of our lives for most of our lives. With very few exceptions, most of us had our developmental upbringings affected by this company. Piranesi is reacting in a certain way, but that's a personal reaction and I'm glad this board is here so there's a safe place for that reaction. There are power imbalances everywhere in life, but wrestling is uniquely set up for them. Even more so than movies, it's a carny industry built upon the notion of fooling and manipulating people, of milking the marks dry. It's built into the DNA. In some ways it's easier if you're watching old wrestling because there is a distance, but you always have to joust with Dick Murdoch's racism or Bill Watts' jingoism or Jerry Lawler's transgressions with his local power and parse that context as you are watching with a critical or just an observer's eye. But seeing it documented this way, in a period where the company should have been under so much scrutiny, during and after Speaking Out, and with the idea that it's only coming out because he didn't pay as much as he was supposed to... Point being, everyone here will find their own acceptable levels and the rest of us will do our best to respect those decisions and support one another. And hopefully not try to convince one another how to feel in order to feel better ourselves. Even though that can be hard. But we're all in this together. As for me, I moved in with my then 5 year old stepson in 2007, June 2007. I introduced him to TV shows, anime, comics, video games, books, but never, ever wrestling. I've considered showing one of the girls a TJPW match at some point, something like that, but no, never them either. I've probably missed out on a lot of rewarding moments because of it and I don't fault anyone for making different parental choices. But it was the choice I made. I am very fortunate that I have a challenging job, that I have a great family life. I produce a lot of wrestling content, but it's always a hobby. For the most part, I never chase clout and due to an ethics clause in my job, I can't chase cash through it. Over the last couple of years and the last decade in general I've seen a lot of my peers in wrestling fandom get closer and closer to the industry itself, whether just in communicating with a lot of wrestlers or being directly or indirectly connected to indy or larger promotions. I'm happy for them if they've found happiness in it, but personally, I do feel somewhat fortunate that it's just a hobby for me and I can draw stronger, firmer boundaries than some of my peers. Sometimes I feel a little left out, but I'm probably lucky for it all things considered. I haven't give a cent of my own money to WWE since an NXT show many years ago. I haven't really felt the need to go back and watch much of anything from them for a couple of years. I had my own reasons for that and they were equally symbolic or thematic as moral, though with WWE it's always all about Vince's vision and his insecurities and will, so it's always tied together. If I was actively looking forward to the Rumble, it'd be one thing, but I haven't even gone back for Punk's stuff, or Gunther's matches, or whatever. For me, the bandaid's already been pulled off when it comes to modern WWE. Though there are other, bigger bandaids of course. Anyway, back to the point. Let's all be kind to each other here in the face of such horror.
    23 points
  26. I don’t know if there was anything that showed Punk’s true character than when he took a shot at “EVPs not able to manage a Target.” What a piece of garbage, dismissive thing to say about retail work, especially from someone who openly compares himself to Joe Strummer. Also - managing a Target is hard as hell. There is absolutely no way Phil Brooks could manage a Target. Can you imagine how he’d act regarding a customer return issue? Let alone some of the very complicated and hard things that come up in managing an incredibly busy store that is a 24-hour operation? He would last one day and probably put the company in litigation.
    23 points
  27. When I was nine, I met Davey Boy Smith at an autograph signing and I was really stuck for conversation filler while he signed my figurine so I asked if he used the running powerslam as a finishing move as it looked like a dog burying a bone. He looked at me really quizzically like this question hurt him to think about and then told me I was a fookin idiot. I remembered this experience when Shawn Michaels came to a Toys R Us in Australia three years later and just bowed my head and held out the store provided 8 by 10 for him to sign. I think he thought I was non verbal so he handed me an action figure still in the box instead. I found that action figure today clearing out some boxes. Davey Boy Smith was right.
    23 points
  28. Funny how things change. Back in 2008, screaming YOU-MAGA was referring to a mindless savage. These days... wait a fucking minute, nevermind.
    23 points
  29. There is only one place that I hang out at on the internet. I don't twitter. I don't facebook. Discord is okay, but a little too ephemeral and fleeting to feel communal. DVDVR is the only place where I really hang out. There are users here that I talk about the same way I talk about my IRL friends. It's a message board so it's gonna have its ups and downs, but at the heart of this place was Love - love for wrestling. And I think we have Dean Rasmussen to thank for that. Dean was an exciting and passionate writer, and one of the most sterling examples of fandom that wrestling could've had(or deserved, some may say.) But I think one of the greatest gifts he gave this planet, is a place where people can share that passion with one another. Dean didn't just write hilarious reviews. He brought human beings together in what has to be one of the most positive forums for any fandom. As @Greggulator has pointed out - who knows what may or may not even exist without this place and the work he's done. Anyone who has the ability to bring people together the way Dean has in his life, has done a great good in this world and I will remember him fondly for it. Sunday's won't be the same without him increasing his font size to 72 and yelling for DAK~!
    23 points
  30. I did my mourning preemptively, no sad stuff here. I'm going to deal with this by watching more wrestling and writing about it. Homeboy is parked in front of God's stash of house show footage right now with OSJ, catching up on those early Bockwinkel defenses I hope we all get to watch some day. Just let me know when we're fundraising for the Dean Rasmussen Memorial Cup and I'll money mark you a couple thou. RIP~! to the greatest man to ever write about the greatest thing.
    23 points
  31. Got my Randy Savage socks on, got my ZSJ shirt on, got my EDIT: not ringside but incredibly hard cam-friendly seats, got my very last-minute sign made. I don't have to tell you who's name is on it. AEW RULES THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD.
    23 points
  32. People are gonna get on you, but at least that's a version of "this is actually bad for AEW" that I haven't seen yet. Appreciate you.
    23 points
  33. Backside of the Pontiac Motor Co. building, Amarillo, TX. Mural done by JEKS
    22 points
  34. This might be uncharacteristically positive, but think about this: We were alive when Terry Funk was alive. That's not too bad, is it?
    22 points
  35. Ugh, I’m gonna be sappy and cheesy for a sec. God bless Tony Khan. He’s easy to joke about and can be overly defensive on twitter, etc. But the wrestling landscape is so much better now because of his (and his partners) goal to start a wrestling company. I find the product of AEW exciting and I really enjoy a lot of the talent they employ. I haven’t yet, but I’m excited to dig through the Honor Club (finally canceled my Criterion Channel subscription to justify it) and rewatch some of my favorite matches. Having competition is great for wrestlers to bargain for better wages. Even if you don’t like what AEW does, WWE has stepped up and is doing some of their best television and feuds in response. Pre-Tony I was so down on mainstream wrestling. Now I’m just so happy to be a wrestling fan. We had a PPV where Suzuki was getting a pop. That’s insane. I see blood on tv. Jake the Snake! Even with the Brawl Out mess and the possible refusal of a match, it’s so far leading to a whole different show that is presented differently that I absolutely love. Good stuff.
    22 points
  36. 22 points
  37. I don't think this has been posted on this board (I don't see it and honestly I don't have the energy to check https://everloved.com/life-of/dean-rasmussen/funeral/#706705ff-6ca3-4244-96c6-6fdc00f908ee That is the memorial page for Dean - it includes his obit H/T to Kris Zellner for making me aware of it
    22 points
  38. You should've quit while you were ahead.
    22 points
  39. Toni Storm is a goddamned treasure, during the commercial break she said that Deonna Purazzo had "A fat ass and a bad attitude. Just like Orson Welles."
    21 points
  40. Late to the party but ended up buying a front row ticket to Collision on Stubhub the day before the show. $140.. not too bad. Anyways, I was seated literally right behind Dasha and Doc Sampson. Really fun show. Danielson/Eddie was one of my favorite matches I've ever seen live. Bobby Cruise put over my Gorilla Monsoon shirt. Plus this happened right after we were DESPERATELY OUT OF TIME following Collision...
    21 points
  41. So, here’s when we got to the arena yesterday and I told Harrison we were there for AEW: They also taped Rampage and ROH, so we didn’t get out of there until 1 am. He went STRONG the whole time. Screamed his little head off for Darby Allin. I’m surprised he didn’t come through on tv even though we weren’t exactly close. You can see him when Jay White is starting his post-match interview and he says something about “Lexington Gold Members”. Really small, you can see a little figure with his hands in the air. Once Collision was over, quite a few people left. We moved down to the floor, so Har was front row for a lot of Rampage. It’ll be interesting to see if we can see and hear him on Friday. I’m exhausted today. But it was all worth it for this:
    21 points
  42. No, don't back track. Doing one good deed doesn't make you a good person when you're publicly popping off at the mouth like the racist uncle of a generation gone by. Saying transphobic things like that negates good deeds. At heart he's a hateful garbage person and I would suggest his good deed was probably done as a way to over compensate for knowing deep down he's a garbage person. If you think standing up for the equal ethical treatment of everyone is "morally superiority bs" then maybe this is a you problem and not a him problem. You shouldn't let one good deed of someone cloud your judgement. Bad people can do good deeds all day long. It doesn't erase nor exonerate them if they then go and do a shitty thing. And make no mistake about it this was a SHITTY thing.
    21 points
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