Greggulator
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Sami/Gunther was absolutely fantastic. Nobody makes me jump out of my seat like babyface Propoghandi fan Sami. Great 2.9 after the first powerbomb. The one count and Gunther’s look of utter disbelief had me flipping out. I thought for sure Sami was going to survive the sleeper (great camera angle to show the “just inches away” rope grab) but for not. Sami’s the best in-ring babyface of the century. He sells perfectly and knows how to turn that into comebacks that make you always think he’s going to pull out the win. Gunther is of course masterful in all aspects of pro wrestling but I was especially impressed with how well he did arrogance to lack of confidence to shock to smugness with his facial expressions and body language. I love how he sits on the mat like he’s thinking things through. Fits him so well. Great main event.
The Sheamus/Pete Dunne match was a great, very stiff garbage brawl. They’ve been very big lately on having one big spot on every show — it helps make things viral and get passed along and potentially driving interest. The table spot of the whiskey barrels was really imaginative.
I love professional wrestling.
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Chelsea Green rules. She truly gets it. I don’t want to see her get a title push because they have more than enough women who can have title matches. They don’t have anyone else who can take a table bump in a garbage dumpster and show ass amongst the heel tag teams like Bobby Heenan. That 15 minutes an episode of excellent wrestling midcard stupidity is so badly needed on a show or else wrestling starts to take itself too seriously. Keep Chelsea Weird.
Naomi and Tiffany was a really good match. I really wish we got to see Naomi if she started her career a little later when she could have had her earliest reps in wrestling with The Horsewomen and not as a Funkadactyl. She’s so athletically gifted. It’s just that the in-between moments of her matches — the actual storytelling components — she struggles with at times. Tiffany is also athletically gifted (duh) but also learned about how to do a lot of those little things. Kind of fascinating to see them paired up in that way and a fun match.
That main event was something special. I loved the bookended story of DIY and the Profits both hating The Bloodline, but The Bloodline figuring out how to take advantage of that at the end. So many really great spots in this, too. Very imaginative stuff.
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Bronson Reed vs. Braun was A+++++ and a MOTYC. One of the best big-men battles ever. We all knew there was going to be a "ring gets destroyed" spot because it's mandatory. But I wasn't expecting "fans seriously hurt at ringside" spot (I totally bit for it) or Brock flying to the floor or the second move of the match being a chokeslam through a table. This was such a great match in terms of the staging and the blocking (the theater term for where you need to hit your marks on stage and etc.) Even though I'm not a fan of the run-in ending so much, I'll give them major points for how organically it came off with Reed getting his head on the steps. It looked so good with the ropes gone. Bronson has a few main event PPVs in him and I could totally see him becoming the US champion or something like that the next time they do a show in Australia. Dear lord was that match fun. I wish DEAN~ could have seen it, he would have loved it.
Other stuff I saw when I could:
1) The end of Xavier vs. Mysterio was something else. Did they ever run an "accidental" unmasking thing with Rey ever before? Definitely was very shocking and well-done.
2) The KCs with a mean streak is a fun twist. The Unholy Alliance looked like each of them had Wemby height in that segment.
3) Jey Uso's start of the show made Evanston, Indiana look like the most fun place on the planet. I love that we're getting a face Breakker because he's just way too good. Love the tease for him against Gunther. I hope that's still a ways away but I can see it absolutely on the table for WM.Fun night. Wrestling rules.
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Also, thanks for all of this man! This is my crash course into 80s AJW and it's a really awesome introduction into joshi, which I should have done a long time ago.
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The first scene of Part 6 where he talks about his multiple brains and one is thinking about sex... that's so fucking chilling. His absolute lack of empathy about the multiple wrestlers who died early and refusal to take accountability is fucked. While it's good they're taking concussions and addiction seriously, Vince flat out says it's all because it's good for business. I mean, he's not wrong... but you should be doing this for the well-being of your performers before anything else. The stuff about Taker and Lesnar is so fucked.
Even though we know almost all of this stuff already, seeing Vince and etc. comment on what they participated in is something else.
The thing that comes through all of this is that Vince is a very disturbed and damaged human being. He went from having a horribly abusive childhood to becoming involved with his father's business, which is built around gigantic personalities and kayfabe and backstabbing and lawless. When you have that type of lifelong desire to win, and you do win, and you're now the master of a universe you created that also somehow falls under the radar, and you managed to even beat the feds in a trial... you're just going to think that accountability isn't even a thing. That's going to lead to absolutely disgusting behavior, like what's in the lawsuit.
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On 9/25/2024 at 3:49 AM, Kadaveri said:
I love how you described that insane incident in the blandest way possible. Yep it's in there. Volume 13:3.
Hahaha! Man, the chicken thing at a press conference is absolutely batshit. I can’t even imagine the brainstorm session when they were putting that together.
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No way do I have time to rate anything, but I'm skimming through a bunch of this and I could not be a bigger fan of Dump and Bull Nakano assaulting teenage Crush Gal fans in the comfort of their own home or Dump's song "Extreme Evil." I'd imagine that IRL Dump has to have a ridiculously great sense of humor to pull off her act. All of her stuff rules.
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2 hours ago, For Great Justice said:
It really is amazing just how much more fun and joyous WWE TV is than it was 3-4 years ago. Obviously Jey embodies this, but even the evil foreign heel Raw world champion is smiling through the character and clearly having a blast. They all are.
Its infectious. I don’t want to make this into a wrestling show pissing contest, but I think it’s that 2019-2022 lack of joy that AEW really filled the gap on, let by Best Friends, OC and Dark Order. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but AEW attendance has dipped as it has taken on a darker, more serious presentation.
Really feels like WWE has turned the nose up in this regard. Everyone in the arena - fans, wrestlers, announcers, staff - are clearly having a great time. It’s great to see.
The new production has really been used for all of this. The entrances from the hallways through the crowd really help make Raw look like the most fun thing in the world to possibly see live. It really exemplifies the joy that should come from watching something as inherently dumb as wrestling.
Jey Uso has been one of the best parts of the show for four years now. He really got to show what he could do in the early Bloodline days during the pandemic. Then he really stepped up with his complicated relationship with Sami and then through the rest of his story arc with Roman. I get that people have been down on his in-ring work, but he’s connecting at such a high level right now. He’s also such a fantastic tag worker that he was bound to start having high end matches and he just had one of the best Raw matches in a really long time with a still relatively green (but awesome) Bron Breakker.
But all of this really boils down to a lot of the production being awesome.
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I only caught the main event because I was watching my Phillies clinch the NL East. But man, that was a fucking great main event. One of those Raw MOTY levels and was not expecting that ending. Bron is going to be fine.
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AJW 80s question. Was there any explanation given why Dump in her matches can just do anything she wants, along with her minions? I am not complaining because Dump is just the greatest. But just wondering why she never took a DQ in what I have seen even if she’s blasting someone with a kendo stick as the ref watches.
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Yeah, the show fell off for me in the second half. Presenting AJW as a shoot promotion and that Dump was legit stabbing other performers with forks was really weird. From what I know — my joshi knowledge is limited — but the actual backstage dramas were a lot more interesting. Dump actually trying to reduce bullying backstage (due to what she endured) while portraying the ultimate bully on screen is a way better character note, along with the promoters doing a divide-and-conquer to ruin her relationship with the Crush Gals.
It’s still a fun show. At the very least, I just watched the Lioness vs. Dump match from AJW and it rules. Jeez, you can see how much influence Lioness had on people like Finn Balor and Claudio and Danielson.
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I know nothing about 80s joshi beyond watching a bunch of Dump and Crush Gals and the big moments. First episode of Queen of Villains is really really fun. The wide-eyed innocence and pain of young Dump Matsumoto is really great soap opera. I hope this catches on because it’s really good.
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I have an outsized love for the Wyatts vs. American Made match. Awesome plunder brawl that really told a great story throughout. It wasn’t just some random ECW-influenced chaos, this built and had some awesome things like Rowan getting buried under everything to lead to his comeback (and Rowan has been incredible) and all the wild stuff with Nikki. Big props to Chad Gable for being kingsized throughout this whole angle, too. That match was a lot of fun and put together really well. A+.
Gunther telling Bret Hart (in Calgary) that his favorite wrestler is Bill Goldberg is one of the all-time great heel lines. I was laughing so hard. It really looked like all three of those guys were doing everything they could to not turf out during the segment.
It was really clear Jey Uso was going to get the title shot for a few weeks now. But the pop he got to close the show was something else. Yet somehow Bronson Reed was the guy who got the most from the match. Great stuff.
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Swerve/Page last night reminded me a lot of the Jackass guys, and I mean that as a compliment. There are so many things in the Jackass movies that can go absolutely wrong and/or are beyond fucked up to try: Like letting scorpions attack your nipples or shit like that. Or taking a spine bump on a cinder block. One of my favorite matches of all time is Born To Be Wired. Sabu might be my all-time favorite wrestler. I saw The Murder Junkies live. (Post-GG, but still.)
I am a family man with a master’s degree and a lot of positivity in my life.
But there is a part of me that wants to live I. some nihilistic, crazed world where I could let a venomous snake bite an organ for laughs or burn down an enemy’s house or to hate someone so much I will get up from having my spine dropped across building materials so I can torture him. I am willing to admit that this chaotic darkness is something I find attractive. Stuff like last night’s cage match or the Hated documentary or other things like that are as far as I am willing to go into that dark corner. That’s why I love a good death match or bloodbath.
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That main event was jarring and disturbing. I loved it. The needle into the cheek doesn’t sound as bad on paper but the history of wrestling promotions suggests those guys were not concerned at all about infection control before the match. Hangman getting the shit scraped out of his back was so fucking gnarly. Loved that they went into the “stapling family photos onto each others flesh” at the same point of the indie match where they do all the roll-ups like Eddie/Dean. A+. Only thing this needed was for someone’s arm to somehow get sliced up accidentally so Nana could glue the wound close.
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That Poison Rana or whatever it’s called from PAC to Will was nasty and awesome. Mariah May rules. Mox’s new thing is really intriguing. Danielson’s going to get the win over Jungle Boy but he’s going to go all out in making Perry’s career. Either Perry hits it out of the park as a scumbag opportunist in this match or he doesn’t and ends up as a mid-carder. Fun show
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Hell yeah to Rosemary getting some NXT time. The only TNA I have ever watched has been her form of evil and chaos. Great performer in terms of her commitment to the bit.
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NCAA Women’s Volleyball starts today! Fantastic watch when one of the games is held at a volleyball school — Nebraska, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Texas, etc. But Nebraska is at another level of fandom. Bucket list for me is a trip to Lincoln to see the Huskers.
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Major props to Chad Gable. The guy is hitting it out of the park with all of his character work with The Wyatts. He does such a great job of being an overconfident jock but the second something doesn’t go right — the crowd chanting “You Suck” to something in the ring — he makes some really fun facial expressions and changes his posture a bit to reveal just how insecure he really is. He’s an amazing storyteller.
Bronson/Braun was something Dean (and really anyone) would have loved. Great stuff.
I thought the Miz/Woods/Bruiserweight three-way was put together really well with Miz and even X doing some sneaky stuff to try and steal the win, only for Dunne to do it best.
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42 minutes ago, Log said:
I never really thought of this before, but Sid was fist-bumping people long before that was really a thing, wasn't he?
I remember the more hood kids I grew up with fist bumping back then but there’s a good chance they started doing it because of Sid.
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The Scissors incident with Arn was one of the first “kayfabe stuff makes it out online”’thing I can remember. But The Squegee Incident is forever the best.
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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Sid's ECW run wasn't long enough, but it sure was fun while it lasted.
I believe the rumor at the time was that they brought Sid in and Sid started demanding to have the book and they just sent him on his way.
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Whether Sid was good or not in the ring (he wasn’t) is besides the point. He was as pro wrestling as pro wrestling gets. Stuff like Cheatum The Midget or all kinds of WrestleCrap he was mixed up in are just as entertaining and as important as some five star classic. I really can’t imagine what pro wrestling fandom for me would be without the master and ruler of the world bumping fists and wrecking dudes with powerbombs and having things like his ridiculous stumble on the mic against Nash.
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Sid needs his own separate thread befitting the master and ruler of the world.
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WRESTLEDREAM II - 10/12/2024
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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I didn’t see the show. But the end sounds incredible. Wheeler the conflicted protege doing the “et tu, Brute?” backstab? The BCC just tried to end not the career but the life of their founder, who is a beloved icon. They’re the evil force and now you need a hero (Darby, OC, etc.) to overcome the odds and put Mox away. I hope they just Keep It Simple Stupid and not get involved with any high power hijinks or anything silly. Mox is a big enough personality on his own to make it work.