Curt McGirt

I'm not sure if the fans noticed the fire, it was so close. You kinda have to actually throw it, nawmean? But from our perspective that looks pretty nasty. You can definitely think of Vince saying "GODDAMMIT PAL HE CAN'T TALK AND THAT LOOKED LIKE SHIT", and getting mad at whoever came up with it... probably Cornette. Plus it is so very not a New Generation type spot.

TBH I haven't read the details on the case besides reading I think a Guardian article so I could see some courtroom sketches and dip my toe into just how disgusting it is. What I meant was "power and degradation" on a non-consentual level, which, in another TBH for me, I tend to associate with "non-consentual" as far as sex is concerned. I understand that everyone has different concepts of consentual sex but to me that starts to evoke a reach. (Obviously, they would have excused me from jury duty for this one.)

Well do you expect them to eat Cocoa Pebbles and then go get inspired by Picasso's Brown Period and paint their apartment using human shit?

So, just reunite with his former tag partner? He really broke down -- like really broke down -- the match in Way AEW Edition. He says he had Hanger watch Cody Garbrandt vs. T.J. Dillashaw in UFC as an influence, for example. I don't want to give away what Phil went out of his way to get printed but lets just say he gives his personal insight into AEW style and psychology within matches, not only in this chapter but throughout the book, and it's really fuckin' cool.

He was stiff as fuck and had mad charisma. And he was from Atlanta, Canada! The issue is the Flair feud. People thought he was a (hands of) stone midcarder and not on Flair's level.

You always gotta take in mind that the weather in this movie is bringing out the worst in everybody, even Radio, who seemed the type to just stay mute and let things slide off his back. And of course the destruction of Sal's is representative of the LA Riots. That was always viewed as people burning down their own houses, when it was really people robbing businesses that took their money and gave little back to the community. (Of course, cops drew the line at Beverly Hills and let the rest of the city burn.)

Oh man, the spot in that cage tag where Condrey is gonna piledrive Magnum and Magnum goes up for it then just falls back down to his feet while Condrey bumps on his ass is priceless. It's so goofy it would work in CHIKARA and so simple it could be done by a backyarder, would have always been good for a laugh, but I can't ever recall seeing it.

Good god, apparently I can't count either 30 SECOND. (and yeah, I really can't count... I can't even long divide)

I must've missed this; anyway, my review for anybody else is in the WWE News thread. You really really really should watch this match; I did twice already and could go another. I didn't notice how much actual cheating wrestling happens here from both guys at first, and the return of the bucket of water from the start to finish the match is some brilliant shit. Of course this "suffers" from the We Can't Count In Wrestling thing that every match involving rounds or time limits does, because there isn't a single actual 30 minute rest period in this; at least Tommy gets the ten-counts right, it seems. He also really serves the match with trying to keep this shit together.

They don't want it to be so obvious that Hangman is going over. Doing a good job of it too, looks like.

Mox demanded this be a Texas death match probably. And is probably demanding to put him over in one, because it's the best match they had and one of his favorite matches he ever had. We know how this is going down we just don't want to admit it because of years of promoter abuse. Tony isn't gonna fuck us or swerve us. That would be him fucking himself.

I was gonna make a crude joke about a snake but I'll stop myself. The intro of Kill Bill 2 between him and David Carradine is still one of my favorite pieces of dialogue between two characters, or just cinema period, ever. His list on Wikipedia of work is staggering. In I believe 2019 he did more movies than there were months in a year, on top of probably video games and TV. You probably don't want to watch any of them except to see him, but he's there. RIP

Watching it again and I swear-to-GOD it's a teenage Dustin Rhodes who drives Wahoo and Ronnie down to ringside in the golf cart.

Dear Ms.: A Revolution In Print on HBO is extremely good. Not only do you get the full purview of what it was like through the eras they covered but they contact everyone (I guess) that they could, and the way its done with the art and writing from the original issues reprinted and cut up on the screen is super cool, along with live footage from the era. The porn problem is discussed at length and its crazy how far away we are as a culture from that discussion, really interesting historically. But overall, it's REALLY crazy how groundbreaking as a whole the magazine was (when magazines still had national power and prestige) and the conversations it lit a fire under. There's also a clip from Johnny Carson where Oliver Reed (who had to have finished off the bottle of scotch he had on the plane backstage along with probably five or six glasses of wine) opens his drunk mouth about "feminist chauvinism" and a woman just walks up and dumps a glass of water on his head. He sits down and weakly puts up an 'empowerment' fist with his elbow on Johnny's desk. It's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNh6ZWsBpYs If there's gonna be a Way of the Blade 3, I hearby nominate Tully Blanchard vs. Ronnie Garvin, Taped Fist Match, from this show. Phil, you wanna see this.

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIT. The Ron Garvin/Tully Blanchard Taped Fist match from that Bash is one of the best gimmick matches EVER. It's such a cool gimmick, especially for a puncher against a cheater, and to have five rounds, 30 seconds between, must be a winner, corner man for both guys. Wahoo is with Ronnie and of course JJ is with Tully. Garvin immediately has the advantage of course and if I was Tully or anybody else for that matter, I would never want to have that match even once. Ron is barely if at all pulling his punches and Tully is blowing up hardway, just EATING shots. Ron barely goes to the body which I think is a missed opportunity, however. Tully is just dying on his feet, taking huge downs, and firing back as best he can with "accidental" wrestling which the ref immediately yells about, or "mistakes" like Garvin getting flung into the post while in the ring. Garvin eventually takes some downs and it's more even, but Tully is clearly outmatched the whole time, which JJ tries to of course enable him to cheat to avoid. The finish is just perfect. The selling, the hate, the loathing of Tully, the whole gimmick, the blood. It's a four-star match (I don't go any higher). Go watch it ASAP.

Just watched the Manny vs. Baron match because I have seen so little of either, and well, for the obvious reasons. Bull bladed like Abby with the blades on his fingers just whacking away. He takes an ENORMOUS bump into the ropes spilling to the... field? Baron takes off his boot (and probably his belt which I missed), he steps on his pantleg and immediately his pants start falling down which is great. They miss a great opportunity for Baron to blade under the shirt when it's over his head, though. Paul Jones, of course, is dressed like Col. DeBeers because it's 1985.

Men are sick fucks and like to rape women. That's what the deal is. They want power and degradation in their sex.

This cracked me up. I have to agree you wrote probably the harshest takedown of him ever right there. Congrats.

If you read what I just did you wouldn't think that for a second (see weekly thread)

Yeah, if they can do at least two weeks of pimping for a dude everyone knows (Mistico) then they can do one night of it. I actually just read the Way of the Blade 2 chapter on that match and Mox puts it and Hangman over so hard, there is no possible way he is going to let this disappoint in any way. What it sounds like is a top three match of his in his eyes. He is going to want it to stand up to that. I don't even know if he'll want Deathriders interference, honestly. He likes it and Hanger that much.

Guess who's missing from there? EDIT: Oh, and Joey Ryan, for obvious reasons.

One of the things that was really special about LU is that it was just a murderer's row of guys. Ricochet, Aero Star, Santos Escobar, Mesias, Angelico, Texano Jr., Jeff Cobb (who never was better elsewhere), Strickland, the Lucha Bros., Taya, fucking Mascarita Sagrada, DR. WAGNER JR?!, Cheerleader Melissa, Melina, Drago, Hernandez, Paul London, Sammy Guevara, Willie Mack, Sami Callihan, Pimpi, Ricky Marvin, Iyo Skye, Sonny Kiss, Rey Horus, Flamita, Thunder Rosa, P.J. Black/Justin Gabriel, Wes Lee, Daga, Rey Rey, Mayu Iwatani, Kairi Sane, Jack Evans, Super Fly, Australian Suicide, and guys that if you want to put them in that category, Del Rio, Johnny Johnny, Cage, Hager, Matt Cross, Luchasaurus, Karrion Kross, Tommy Dreamer, Wade Barrett, Chavito... I think I got them all, looking at the Wiki. That's INSANE. I don't even know where Marty the Moth is now but that dude had the craziest match they ever did on the very last show.

I've honestly wondered what you did for a living given all of the watching but didn't feel comfortable asking. The Keep on DVD was a gift for last Xmas and I still haven't gotten around to watching it, but I have seen it once on TV (strangely, because it was practically a lost film for decades) and was taken by the visuals and, well, it's a Mann movie.

"El avión, jefe, el avión!"