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2 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:
If you're Rey Misterio, you should probably be laying there longer because you've been kayfabe hurt (particularly if a heavyweight with a forty pound advantage hit you) because no matter how good your cardio is, it's useless if somebody rings your bell or knocks the wind out of you.
The conclusion that I come to as a viewer is that pro wrestlers must be weaklings with moves that do baby damage. Well, except for finishers. Well, except for when those finishers are done in an EPIC MATCH and are also subject to baby damage rules.
Speaking of baby damage, we need a medical school to research the fragility epidemic in wrestling referees. The slightest glancing blow knocks them unconscious for minutes on end.
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2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Why and how multiple people didn't tell Dixie, "hey, this ain't it" is baffling.
To me it isn't. Regardless of how they feel about the art, their sacrifices, whatever, the majority of wrestlers (especially back then) are still carnies at heart. As long as the checks are coming, what the money mark says or does is usually of no consequence. I mean I love Bryan Danielson and he's top 10 "I love the art of pro wrestling" guys out there, but he gladly ate his share of shit in WWE, including having his environmentalist beliefs used as heel traits. Because he was still getting paid.
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19 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
WWE Vault doing midday work and uploading Rockers/Demolition from June 1990 (previously on a Shawn Michaels DVD)
I came here to post about that match! One of the weirdest (non-squash) match layouts I've ever seen, especially from an earlier era where they mostly stuck to the formula. There is no shine whatsoever, so there's also no cutoff. They just go straight to the heat and occasional hope spots. If they hasn't shown the entrances, etc., I would have assumed the first few minutes were edited out. It was weird. So finally Marty gets what looks like a comeback, only to get cut off again. Very shortly after, the Rockers get their proper comeback, only for Demolition to cut them right off and win via interference. Really weird curiosity of a match.
I tried to watch Demolition vs LOD & Warrior, but hearing Vince kinda grossed me out and Piper's HYUK HYUK act on color also drove me up a wall in about 30 seconds.
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3 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:
No, I definitely can (and will)!
I think there is a point here that the more intricate your style, the more business-exposing it is, but I don't think the British style is all super-intricate holds. I also think the more intricate spots aren't as obviously braindead setups as luchadores diving one by one onto one another or a bunch of indie dorks doing a tower superplex spot. Your mileage may vary. I can at least look at Tiger Mask and think that he's holding the arm and watching closely to see where Wright is going to try to make the switch so that he can cut if off, but he simply guessed wrong. Chess match.
I don't see the chess match in two guys doing high-speed moves one after the other and barely bothering to sell in the interim (not that this style constitutes all of what AEW puts in its ring, of course, but I'm making an assumption about what style you're discussing because you used the terms "modern style" and "interpretive dance").
That's cool. Like I said, YMMV
And I'm self aware enough to recognize the ridiculousness of enjoying fake fighting, but each of us having our own line where things are just too fake. It's like getting blackout drunk on Miller Lite on weekends and then suddenly your store is all out, and all they have is Busch Light, and you're like "WHOAH MAN COME ON NOW, I HAVE STANDARDS."
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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
I remember seeing Gill and Hardy teaming on a Baltimore indy TV taping (UIW, I think) as "The Lords of Darkness." It was essentially their Executioners gimmick, just with paint instead of hoods. It was hilarious, because they're Road Warrior ripoffs, but it's two skinny white guys in singlets, the least intimidating thing you could ever encounter. And they squashed some other hapless geeks, with their whole offense consisting of nothing but one tag team finisher after another.
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I can't lift for a week, only able to run, and it's driving me nuts.
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Swerve's little GH pot belly is weirding me out. My dude looks like E.T.
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2 hours ago, twiztor said:
11/5/2009. the following week. We open with Dixie Carter addressing the TNA roster and staff. This is not in front of the crowd, this is earlier in the day. Let me just transcribe exactly what she says (spoilered for length):
"Since I was named President 6 years ago, I've had a lot of people telling me how to run a wrestling company. And while I appreciate their contributions, it's time for a change. We've had a lot of great things going on in this company. We've made a lot of changes in the last few months that I'm sure you've seen and we've made a bigger change even last week. I can assure you that we'll have more changes coming in the coming weeks and the coming months as well. Nobody likes drastic change, nobody likes big moves, I understand that. And it effects different people different ways. And while i respect that those of you out there might have differing opinions of the decisions that I'm making, I expect you to support me 100%. When you question things in this company, you're questioning me. And I cannot allow that to happen. Business is about choices. I've made the choice to put my finances, my reputation, my passion, my love, behind each and every one of you, and this company. And it's time for you to do the same thing. You have a choice to make. You can choose to support me, you can choose to support the direction TNA is going, or you can choose not to. But you'll need to find another place to work. It's time for us to swing for the fences. It really is. No great success comes without risk. And I'm great with that. I hope you are too. Now's our time. I look out at the faces that have made this company, and you've made me very proud. But this is a test. So I'm asking all of you to step it up. In every way possible. And let's do this thing together. Because now's our time and you've gotta believe it. If you don't believe it, you're hurting the person sitting next to you. You're hurting me, you're hurting our fans. But if you believe it, let's do this thing together. And let's show everybody what we're all about.
Holy fuck, if i was working for TNA i would be looking for another job. FUCK anybody that tells you "i cannot allow you to question me." If this was supposed to be a rah-rah speech, it doesn't look like it landed. Most of the roster looked uninterested. IMO this makes Dixie look less like the leader she thinks she is, and more like somebody who thinks they know what they are doing, but are just flailing. i have led a number of teams/people both at work and in extracurricular activities. I constantly TELL my team to question me, or to call me out (professionally if in public or any way they want if in private) if I am doing something that doesn't make sense. it would never cross my mind to stand in front of my team and tell them to fall in line and do what i say, or get to stepping.
The live show starts with AJ Styles coming to the ring, cementing that he is fully behind TNA's choices and talking about how great it is that Hulk Hogan is coming in. This just REEKS of trying to sell your audience something they're not buying.
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as this show goes on, i'm getting real Poochie vibes. I know Hogan is a huge signing, but this is ridiculous. WheneverPoochieHulk's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where'sPoochieHulk Hogan?"to continue the theme of my post from yesterday, the pace of the war drums increases.
Funny thing about TNA is the war drums started week one, and never stopped, but somehow it's still around. I can't fathom a wrestling product that, for it's whole existence, mostly has been middling to outright horrible (with a few highs, to be sure) but has lasted this long. I'm leaning strongly toward money laundering.
On the Dixie front, David Sahadi told a great story on Meltzer's show about Nash supremely bullshitting Dixie and Dixie eating it up. Essentially, Nash was at contract renewal time, so he went to the bar with Dixie, and he's just buttering her up like crazy. They're drinking wine and he leans in conspiratorially and says, "you know Dixie, what I really, really can't wait for?" And she's all wide eyed like "YES KEVIN, WHAT IS IT???" And he says, "I can't wait for us to kick Vince's ass!". And Dixie, bless her sub-orange tabby level intellect, was ecstatic.
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The train one is awesome because they shot every route four times, once in each season, then spliced it together. So you'd enter a tunnel in Winter and come out of it in Spring. Yes I'm a dork fuck off
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It's just personal preference and YMMV and all that, but I can't stand that style. People crap on today's highspot style but that old "British style" of seamlessly floating in and out of holds with not just a total lack of struggle, but actual complete and obvious cooperation (shit, you can see TM literally pulling Wright up off the mat in those arm wringers) is, to me, even more showy and business-exposing. You can't call modern style like AEW "interpretive dance" while glazing this style in the same breath. I remember watching ZSJ (before he figured shit out) and Marty Scurll on a PWG show and it was awful. Just an exhibition of two guys exchanging and escaping the lightest holds you've ever seen, like "look how British we are!" It was terrible. Again, enjoy what you enjoy, this is just me giving one dude's dumbass opinion of overwrought British style.
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18 minutes ago, twiztor said:
pardon my ignorance, but what is a FAST channel?
11 minutes ago, Bustronaut said:Free Advertising Supported Television
It's what everyone was supposedly trying to get away from when they started flocking to Streamers.
Yeah, Pluto, Tubi, things like that.
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4 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
not to be confused with Slow TV, a term used for a channel that broadcasts a train going across Norway
Man oh man, my daughter and I used to love watching that when she was really young. Now you got me all misty eyed and nostalgic for first person train TV.
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Reading more about it, it sounds like the FAST channel will only be on their service. Kind of counter intuitive. FAST channels should be on Pluto, etc as free advertising of your product.
Can't link a pic...tiers of the service are here: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Faew-launches-a-streaming-platform-called-myaew-v0-x159qgy3o1og1.png%3Fwidth%3D1890%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1505950528b21bff3ca7aeb7923c6b584de0ee54
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14 minutes ago, Zimbra said:
Looks like AEW's streaming service has arrived: myaew.com
Press release: https://www.allelitewrestling.com/post/all-elite-wrestling-partners-with-kiswe-to-launch-myaew
So from what I can tell, this is for live and PPV for viewers outside the US, essentially a Triller replacement, plus a FAST channel.
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1 hour ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I dunno if that's so much problematic as much as they've totally built the structure of the company to be that way.
You're exactly right, and I should have connected the dots between ex-wrestlers and Sahadi both feeling the same way. The feeling among everyone who worked for WWF/E that Vince was the Walt Disney of wrestling who makes all his employees' dreams come true, while the underlings are the one who get the heat, was definitively the result of careful manipulation from the top down.
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On 2/19/2026 at 7:20 PM, Log said:
I’ve been sporting a mustache lately. In my head, I look like Selleck in that commercial. In reality, it’s probably closer to Ned Flanders.
LOOOOOL I cut mine down to just a fu manchu and a soul patch once. I thought it looked good but I probably just looked like a mechanic in a porno.
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Dave and Garrett had a pretty good interview with David Sahadi over the weekend (Sahadi is promoting his book). He told some good WWE stories and, to nobody's surprise, Kevin Dunn and John Gaburik are massive pieces of shit. Sahadi's view on Vince is rather problematic, though. Essentially, "He did awful things but it's difficult to judge him because I never saw that person, just the person who was really good to me." I think there's that deeper issue at play, too, where wrestlers always thought that Vince loved them but Ross/Dillon/etc were the ones with the problem. Like Vince was so charismatic that all the heat was easily passed to his underlings.
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Random LFI thoughts
- They should bring back Jose the Assistant
- What happened to Sammy Guevara as part of LFI?
- What happened to Mortos as part of LFI?
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19 hours ago, SovietShooter said:
PREDICTION: Hook is going to tell Bowens that to get into the Opps, he has to attack Caster.
That's actually a really good idea
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3 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
JR and Jesse called Starrcade 92 which had Simmons vs Doc
Was it all just Jesse awkwardly carrying it while Ross moaned?
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Speaking of finishers, Rosa should switch back to the Thunder Driver. That package powerbomb thing always looks awful, and if she's had back issues in the past, trying to hold another person out in front of her like that is just asking for trouble.
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3 hours ago, odessasteps said:
May I refer people to a certain podcast discussing football playing wrestlers?
Episode date?
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The best part of JR's carny bullshit was:
Face Luger: 4.0 GPA with a bachelor's, All American football standout
Heel Luger: thrown off the football team for disciplinary reasons
Did Simmons and Williams ever cross paths with Ross calling the match? The commentary probably sounded like Emmanuelle.
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Happy bday @The Natural! I'd say "one of the good ones" but you're one of the best ones. Hope it's a good one!
This Weather Sucks
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Yeah man, 2-3 days of 70s-80, and then a wintry mix. The only thing more Mid-Atlantic than that is Magnum TA.