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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ARGmANfZE NWA POWERRR! Episode 137: Return to Robarts, Part 1 12/12/23 @ Sarasota, FL full time wrestler Tim Storm joins us on commentary again. He is a welcome addition. Heavenly Butterflies (Tony Donati & Faboo Andre) vs. Daisy Kill & Talos Talos really looks like a giant compared to these two. GREAT shot while Talos is on the apron about to enter the ring while the Butterflies are in their corner and he just looks MASSIVE. match as a whole was fine, nothing spectacular, but the closing run featuring Talos was pretty fun. This might be the most i've enjoyed him? next week: Magnum Muscle EXPLODES~! in a match for the TV Title. OK, so they're competing out of friendship, so 'explodes' might be a big much, but they're facing off at least. and to echo what @Peck said, Mims' promo was short but sweet. i liked it. Junior Heavyweight Championship: Joe Ocasio vs. Colby Corino (c) this left me feeling a little underwhelmed. I think the guys took a little too long to get their timing aligned, so it just felt off. Colby is good. Ocasio seems good as well, but this just didn't deliver like i expected. Taylor Rising vs Allie Recks vs Airica Demia Allie and Airica are both making their NWA debuts. Taylor is the vet, having been with the promotion since....NWA 75 in August. this wasn't good. Taylor wins with a pedigree, and i'm sure there's a Terra Ryzing connection in there, but i'm not going to make the effort to find it. Matt Cardona issues a challenge to EC3 for the next PPV. i guess that means that EC3 will be winning his defense vs. Jax Dane from this same set of tapings. US Tag Team Titles: the Immortals (c) vs. Brothers of Funstruction i'm surprised to see Violent J still with the clowns. i assumed he was only brought in for a short run from NWA75 to Samhain, but i guess not. i want to like Odinson. he's got a unique look. But he just doesn't have it in the ring. Unless you REALLY like European uppercuts, he just feels very one-note. slow match to start, with Yabo juggling early which leads to Kratos just manhandling him for a while. that's kind of the story of the match here. the Immortals dominate until the clowns use some "wacky" schtick to gain an advantage. "The Kids" run in, knock down Violent J, and interfere in the match, sending it to a DQ finish. Who are "the Kids" you ask? two of the new debuts (Jackson & Lev) from three weeks ago. that was a shit-ass heatless finish. At least it didn't break up any kind of interesting match.

100%. i have this in my top three wrestling events of all time (Mania 17 and All In being the other two). is this the end of your ECW book or will more supplementary shows be included? ECW ONS2? TNA Hardcore Justice (2010): The Last Stand? Hardcore Homecoming? Extreme Reunion/Rising?

DCW was a promotion on local access tv here. Definitely a backyard hardcore fed that had such luminaries as "the Undertoker". the old timers around here referred to all pro wrestling as "All Star Wrestling" and i've never been able to pin down exactly which promotion they would have been exposed to with that name because there were numerous that may have aired here at different times. (i believe it to be AWA but will never be 100%)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gkx6p9-cc NWA POWERRR! Episode 136: Blood Is Thicker Than Gold 12/5/23 @ Nashville, TN Slime Ballz vs Country Gentlemen The Cazana boys enter with their father Joe. I guess they're celebrating their new partnership, with Joe Cazana's promotion being the second affiliate league. i enjoyed this WAY more than i expected. the Cazana brothers make for a more interesting team than the previous Country Gentlemen IMO. KC uses a handful of high flying moves that look good for his size, and they complement AJ's size and power very well. The Slime Ballz seem pretty good in the ring as well, which i am happy to say after being down on their promos the last couple weeks. Samantha Starr will now only be referred to as "Miss Starr". She introduces her new assistant, the woman Starr assaulted in the ring 2 weeks ago. Chelsea seems extremely apprehensive about this new role. Starr is fairly wooden in her delivery, but she's trying, so it's not terrible. Women's TV Title: Max the Impaler (c) vs Chelsea yes, the same Chelsea from the last segment. Miss Starr granted her this title opportunity. If Chelsea looked apprehensive in that promo segment, she looks downright frightened here to start. The first minute is just Chelsea literally running scared from Max. This wouldn't rate on Dave's star scale, but i found it compelling, like watching the teenagers about to be murdered in '80s slasher flicks. Just a palpable atmosphere you don't get (or want to) see every week, but it was perfect here. A+ Outrunners vs New Spectaculars 2.0 (Rush Freeman & Slade) Match was fine. Double Interview with Colby Corino and Pretty Empowered. Colby looks befuddled by Pretty Empowered's antics. They talk some smack. He cuts a promo that is rather forgettable. He gets asked about PE's dominance, gives a pretty "let's move along" answer, and PE get riled up. Joe Alonzo vs Rey Fury vs "Certified" Luke Kurtis Crowd chants "certified loser" at Kurtis. Rey Fury lands a nice looking Froggy 'Bow, which i didn't know anybody except Mark Briscoe. Rey Fury kinda of steals the match here, but the story they tell early is Alonzo and Kurtis working together. Until it breaks down, of course. above average match. National Title: Devan Dixon vs Silas Mason (c) the announcers make fun of Dixon's hair, which looks very much like Brian Knobbs'. They tell a decent story that mostly works. Mason brought in Dixon since they were running buddies, but Mason just takes it to him and lays down a beating. Certainly a way of showing that former friends are former for a reason, and that it's all about the Southern 6 now. Post-match S6 beatdown on Dixon is interrupted by EC3 and Jax Dane, who are all buddy-buddy now. In the last 30 seconds we get Dane and EC3 facing off, but then they shake hands and leave amicably. This is the worst build to a title match i have literally ever seen. There's no animosity, no disrespect, no misunderstandings, and really even no 'mutual admiration'. The interaction has been practically nonexistent. i don't get what they're going for here at all.

green = sarcasm sorry, that was from a different, long dead forum. But i feel like it just works, you know? so it sometimes will still pop up in my posts.

yeah, Minus One is really fucking good. they did an excellent job with emotional character beats. of the ~12 Godzilla movies i've seen, this was by far the best. and it's not even close. sadly, the original is not one of those 12.

i find it fun to look at records when Smelly calls them out (particularly for TV title shots), so let's take a deep dive for the last few weeks: Hoo boy, where to start? Since returning to WCW after the Montreal Screwjob, Neidhart has a 7-5-4 record. In singles, he is 4-3. at least it's a winning record i guess. thankfully, i have no memory of a Hennig/Neidhart feud. Worldwide 5/9 vs Buddy Lee Parker (W) Saturday Night 5/2 vs Curt Hennig (L) Saturday Night 4/11 vs Curt Hennig (DQ W) Nitro 4/6 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Hennig & Crush (L) Nitro 3/30 vs Curt Hennig (DQ W) Thunder 3/26 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Hennig & Crush (Double DQ) Nitro 3/16 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Destruction Crew (W) Saturday Night 3/14 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Hennig & Crush (L) Thunder 3/5 vs Curt Hennig (L) Saturday Night 2/28 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Public Enemy (W) Nitro 2/19 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Hennig & Crush (Double Count Out) Saturday Night 2/14 Neidhart & Bulldog vs Dave Taylor & Doc Dean (W) Thunder 2/12 vs Mongo McMichael (Double Count Out) Nitro 2/2 vs Scott Hall (L) Nitro 1/26 vs Wayne Bloom (W) Nitro 1/12 vs Ric Flair (No Contest) oh, Mike Enos. thought this would be uglier than it was. Record of 5-6 overall, 1-1 in singles. definitely TV Title worthy. Worldwide 5/23 Destruction Crew vs Public Enemy (L) Worldwide 4/25 Destruction Crew vs High Voltage (L) Thunder 4/22 vs Goldberg (L) Nitro 3/30 Destruction Crew vs High Voltage (W) Nitro 3/16 Destruction Crew vs Neidhart & Bulldog (L) Saturday Night 3/14 Destruction Crew vs Raven & Saturn (L) Worldwide 3/7 Destruction Crew vs Inner Aggression (Bill Payne & Butch Long) (W) Saturday Night 2/21 Destruction Crew vs Benoit & Malenko (L) Thunder 2/19 Destruction Crew vs Outsiders (DQ W) Nitro 2/16 vs Barry Horowitz (W) Saturday Night 1/31 Destruction Crew vs Disorderly Conduct (W) King of the Ring '98? nah man, i'd skip that one. i don't think anything memorable is going to happen there. the only thing i ever remember about Scott Putski is him blowing his knee out vs. Brian Christopher, so Eddy's dropkick to the knee seals the deal for me. well, Smiley has a 2 match winning streak on Pro anyway. You know, his record in WCW is actually pretty poor up until this point. 5-6. spoiler alert, he won't get his first win on Nitro or Thunder until September. but maybe that will kick off a streak? Pro 6/7 vs Mike Tolbert (W) Pro 5/24 vs Robbie Brookside (W) Worldwide 5/23 vs British Bulldog (L) Nitro 4/6 vs Konnan (L) Nitro 2/9 vs Konnan (L) Worldwide 1/17 vs Manny Fernandez [not that one] (W) Saturday Night 1/3 vs Konnan (L) Pro 12/28/97 vs Johnny Swinger (result unknown. i've seen this written on match lists, but is not on the episode of the show i have seen) Saturday Night 11/29 Smiley & Chris Adams vs. Regal & Dave Taylor (W) Worldwide 11/22 vs Dean Malenko (L) Saturday Night 11/22 vs Dave Taylor (L) Saturday Night 11/15 vs Lenny Lane (W) well hot damn. you have a much more positive view of 1998 WCW than i did on my rewatch, so seeing a score this low makes me understand how truly bad this had to be.

whatever the last film, Star Wars or Marvel, was that came out. they are pretty much the only current films that i make any effort to watch. i've never had an issue going to movies solo, but i have been moving further and further into my antisocial habits as the years go by. my social circle continues to dwindle- whether that is a cause or effect (or coincidence) is anyone's guess. but i would much rather just watch from my couch.

World War II was an early stoppage compared to that fight

HOLY SHIT! did not see that coming! edit: this has been an all timer of a card.

well i bet you enjoyed Turner's!!

sorry, i'm not in the arena, it showed through on camera. what's funny is that i changed what i typed once before i hit 'post' because i thought it made me sound like i was live in person. guess i didn't do a very good job of revision. i don't know if that song normally makes air (my attention is usually diverted and/or i'm too drunk by the main card start to pay attention) but i popped. dear AI overlords....

While DC, Bisping, and the lead announcer are doing their start of the show talk, they're playing the old UFC theme "face the pain" in the arena. that song brings back the memories of UFC Unleashed.

2 slam KOs in a row?!?

Drakkar Klose says "hold my beer" and gets a slam KO in the first. amazing prelims so far tonight.

missed the first fight, but the next two prelim fights were pretty rad. definitely worth your time to check out.

yeah it's funny w/r/t Sid because on the week's Worldwide episode, they announced that Sid would not be advancing in the arm wrestling tournament (due to an onscreen attack from the Colossal Kongs) but mentioned he would still be part of BattleBowl (which makes no fucking sense but whatever). i didn't realize this was the stabbing incident until after watching the event. different side note, a week or two back, Jesse Ventura was asked by Schiavone to predict a BB winner, and his only selection was "well i don't think it will be Sid. and it won't be Arn Anderson" which stood out to me as odd, but makes a hell of a lot more sense in retrospect.

yeah no surprise that Flair/Austin could work in a heatless format (also Scorpio is over with the crowd, which helps a bunch). the Austin-Flair interactions were among the best stuff on the card. i like Tex/Shanghai, but they hadn't been on tv in months and there was no investment

i got very worried on where this was going when i was reading this one-two punch of comments.

i watched WCW Battlebowl '93 today. wow, that was a mistake. what a dud of a PPV overall. almost all of the random draw tag matches went around 15:00 minutes, which was WAY too long for a show with no storyline emotional beats to hit. the battle royal at the end was decent enough, but definitely nothing special. I did like how they ended up "eliminating" Flair from the final 4 due to injury on the rampway. then again, i just really like sets that use a ramp all the way to the ring apron, so maybe it's preference bias.

in that case, i probably make a similar remark each year but never made a connection. don't know if i'll be home to watch tomorrow night, but i guess we'll see.

i kind of disagree. there's only so many of those "big fish" out there. TNA is trying to make a big splash and be a major player again, for the first time in a decade. definitely keep shooting for those stars, as the right player with the right rep could absolutely put them back in that echelon. but continuing to build with the "medium sized fish" of the indies is equally important. "come for Ospreay, stay for Bailey. and Alexander. and Shelley." kind of mentality.

that is a pretty great card for a Fight Night.

a friend's son lost his battle with cancer a few years ago, and his last wish was to be able to go and watch the Sonic movie. they got to go to an advanced special screening just for the family. he loved it and it brightened some of his final days. when the parents came back to town, a big group of friends all watched Sonic in theater together. the movie will always hold a special place for me. i don't have the same kind of story associated with Sonic 2. started watching it and immediately regretted paying money for this. but after maybe 30 or 45 minutes, i thought it turned around and became a decent enough flick.

re: AEW's Triple Crown i like that it is made up of titles from three companies (albeit two of those owned by the same man), but i kinda wish they could have appropriated a belt from AAA or CMLL to make it from the big three wrestling countries as well (sorry Canada).