Curt McGirt

Jim looks like he's gonna go jump off a bridge. And jesus is Shane big.

I love that just when you think this thread can't get any better, someone will post a picture of Finlay on a horse holding a rifle. EDIT: And wearing a track suit!

This was hurt a bit by me not being able to distinguish between the tecnico team members, but it was still awesome. Infernales Mark II rule. Fiera (I guess) attempts suicide in Hector Garza fashion off the top rope. The ending sequence almost falls apart but they save it at the last moment. "Una lucha apocalyptico" indeed, this was wild.

I will give in and watch mine tonight after work. Liquor and lucha will hopefully numb the sting.

Seeing this after a match taken off of Youtube, probably filmed by Japanese guys yet having local play-by-play, is completely surreal. It's like changing prescriptions on your glasses, all of the sudden you have incredibly vivid clarity. Atlantis still seems kinda green here with his overselling. El Dandy is Faraon's second and looks incredibly skinny. This one has very little flow and is pretty underwhelming. A couple good dives and Atlantis wins with a very 'after the thought' feeling rollup. I can see these two having a better match a couple years down the road (and involving some blood), but this ain't it.

Climax's white shirt, jeans and braces totally fit the Cock Sparrer tunes on the menu. First fall has the speed increasing exponentially until rudo miscommunication ends it. Cota powdering with his hands behind his back afterwards is tremendous. He stooges so good in this. Pretty ephemeral tag, but Mocho Cota brings the greatness.

If it wasn't for the clipping in the third fall this would probably be the match of the set, at least so far. This has a gritty, sleazy vibe that makes you think of Mean Streets or Last House on the Left. It's well-filmed but the shitty quality of the video makes it feel so trashy. Sangre is pouring blood within minutes of the first fall. Eventually he comes up with the simple comeback we already saw in the two MS-1 matches. This time however his tope is out of this world and I had to replay it. Villano III pops a vein out of nowhere and we have less than a full match. Sad, sad, sad.

Mocho Cota immediately gets another mark in my cool book by his hair making me say "you got to be shitting me". Rudos dominate early but the tecnicos come back and there's a funny little bit with Rayo dancing and faking out Benetto. They win the fall and Cota wants nothing to do with Villano and Gran Cochise who scare him out of the ring. He's truly great here, cheap-shotting people, bumping huge into the ring post, ducking down to apron level and racing around the ring to attack the other team on the sly. Fishman hits a huge splash to end segunda caida. Cota talks shit to an old lady at ringside just to amplify his rudo grandeur. He's so great that you totally accept Cochise biting his head open as a face move. This appears to set up a Cota/Cochise hair match that I greatly regret is not on the set. Cota shows so much ass in this and you want to see him served up on a platter.

I really lost it over the Conquistadors match. Workrate lucha in WWE with Mascarita Dorada in a bull costume. This is gonna be over like rover. Main event was awesome too, Dustin's makeup is so much better with black as the base.

I hope that was some personal shit on her part because it was a pretty brutal and careless diss. Despite that, it's fucking hilarious. Someone should e-mail that to Clive, I think he'd get a kick out of it.

It's definitely a new thing. Back in the day BJW's secondary focus was on juniors wrestling -- Tajiri is their claim to fame in that respect.

I just saw Wiseau on Tim and Eric the other night, I wonder how THAT partnership went.

Pretty random, back-and-forth beginning until the awesome spinning neck submission thing that Javier busts out, that really looks like something that would jack somebody up bad even though it is completely absurd. Cesaro could totally steal that today and it'd get over. We get the dawn of CMLL filming style as taco feasting is more interesting to the cameramen than the action (this would evolve to them paying more attention to cute girls in the crowd, luckily). Dandy beats up on Javier all caida until the half-Gory sub with hair pull. Tercera caida begins to wear on me, they just trade pins and submissions despite a brief bit of good brawling. The finish is unique and deserved as this could have been so much more than it was, so fuck it -- cueball both of 'em! El barbero does a serious Full Metal Jacket job on Javi before the tecnicos force Dandy back into the ring to face the same. He must have had a job either in the prison system or the military because dude surprises me with his speed and efficiency at cutting hair. I guess that says a lot about this match, as I'm more impressed by that than the work involved. Again, a hair match without blood. Sensing a pattern here.

wrong gang sign Konnan Meanwhile, Nash is too drunk to remember his own gang sign

I like Mick up on a pole being the least plausible thing on a comic book cover.

Cliffhanger's on Sundance right now. I am one very happy camper.

I think the question here is who is meant to be punished by sticking Khali in a world title match: ADR, Christian, or the crowd?

Z you really need to see the OG Maniac. It's a stone classic. I will debate that with anyone who wants to.

Honestly, I think he's probably got immunity from the Wellness Policy, but that's just me. Pardon my ignorance but what the hell is a "mobile command center"?

"Uncle... uncle we got to go now. Come on, you're not even playing with sticks."

The genre detests me on its face, but! I make an exception for Last House and I Spit On Your Grave, because I think the revenge parts are great in a very '70s fashion. Last House is also actually well-written and well-acted of course. I also wish to see Ms. 45, but that's about it. Really anything abhorrent can be done well given context and execution as so many films point out.

Terry Funk documentary.

Are we really doing this AGAIN?

I missed that little convo but I remember MC Lyte. C'mon. Forgot about this, right before I passed out last night I turned off the DVD player and Turner Classic Movies showed Julie Harris talking about The Haunting (!) and a FULL TRAILER for Horror of Dracula. I guess both are on TCM this month for any who haven't seen them or want to rewatch here, so check your local listings. Horror is totally on my radar cause I only have it on VHS and none of my players work anymore.

There's a whole lot of El Dandy we haven't seen. A whole lot. I really dug the Andre match extra. Seeing him in a packed arena like that working heel is so awesome (Andre/Hansen is still my favorite match). It almost made me think of him as Flair working to get territorial babyfaces over in how the match went.