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  1. 57 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said:

    Ah. I guess that's what I get for not watching the YouTube stuff

    Jora Johl aka Robo I’m his earlier matches is sort of doing a gimmick similar to Brandon Cutler’s Elite role.  The difference with Johl is portrayed as a lot more competent as a lackey.  He is also more aware of his crappy situation.  

    You can tell that he hates how Hardy treats him.  He puts up with it though out of respect to Matt Hardy’s reputation..  He is totally going to go Batista on Hardy one of these days.

  2. 1 hour ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

    They’re going to do a 16 man tag match as a tribute to Brodie. OC & The Dark Order Vs. The HFO’s.

    it’s up on TK’s Twitter.

    Brodie Lee himself took part in at least one 16 man tag match when he was in Chikara.  Matches with that number of participants is usually called a Tornio Cibernetico and has its origins in 1990s CMLL.  

    Chikara ran the match as part of their year end blowoff for the angles that precipitated the match’s anouncement every year. The match is USUALLY elimination rules which give the match a bit more structure.

    Now that Chikara is no longer with us the 16 man elimination match is still done twice a year in CMLL.  It’s usually in July and September that they run the Leyenda de Plata and Leyenda de Azul in honour of El Santo and Blue Demon, respectfully.

    Ring of Honor kinda sorta did something similar to TK’s 16 Man Behemoth of a Match. It went waaaaay too long and really had no structure for what was dubbed the “Mother of all Scramble Matches” back at ROH’s 1st Anniversary Show eighteen years ago.  
     
    The one fall format will probably be a benefit as these matches can go for close to an hour…and then Chikara said “How about we go MORE than hour?” and thusly a trend was formed of longer and longer matches of this size. 

    Hopefully Tony K was influenced more by CMLL and Chikara. DOUBLE HOPEFULLY he will have completely forgotten the match from ROH’s 1YA debacle of a calamity of a match that they tried to put on.  

    Odds are highly likely that he was thinking about the ROH match from 2003 when he booked tonight’s show.    Maybe he thinks he can right those past wrongs and the match is angle AND action heavy…and oh gawd please finish in less than 30 minutes like the ROH was allowed to run.

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  3. Leyla Hirsch’s theme really reminds me of the song in Jabba’s Palace.  I’m not sure what the title is but it totally didn’t need to exist as it replaced a far superior song in ROTJ.  I like Leyla’s song more if I can picture Cy Snoodle and Max Reno’s Band playing it.

    I watched Kamilla vs Leyla when it happened a while ago and that reminded me of the Muppets as well.  That was by far Leyla’s best so far but it was like Muppet Fighting League with Miss Piggy taking on Sweetums.  Leyla vs Jade was a similar idea but I thought Leyla had more of a chance in the NWA match than she had in the match with Jade.

  4. 11 minutes ago, just drew said:

    I don’t think she’ll be the Joker. I think Cassie & Jessie will be the Joker. Ruby will be in the battle Royal, though, and has to be a favorite to win it…

    What kind of messed up card game are they playing here?

    Two Jokers?  

    Cassie can be the Joker.  Jessie will have to settle for being the Rules of Blackjack and Poker card..or something.  

    We haven’t heard much at all regarding Samuray del Sol/Kalisto since his release.  He did an interview with either SRS or CVV just after his release. Not much of anything since though…Isn’t the former Kalisto based out of Chicago as well?  

    Three debuts in one night would seriously be too much.  Even for Tony K’s imagination…or lack thereof according to the people who don’t watch the shows.

    Does Coach Tony K use EWR to book shows?  Maybe he is suuuper old school and used TNM7 like a true DVDVR veteran would “back in the day”?  Btw, the “day” would fall somewhere during the glory years  of the chat - probably between 1999 and 2002 IIRC.

    Good times.

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  5. I wanted to remind myself just how great Ruby SoHo’s entrance will sound when she debuts at All Out.  I put on Rancid’s great album “…And Out Come the Wolves” and went back in time to 1995.  The song titled “Ruby Soho” will instantly displace Jungle Boy and “Jungle Life” as the wrestler with the catchiest entrance music in AEW.  

    As soon as the chorus kicks in I was back in 95 with an incredible beer buzz and singing along with an album that I had sparsely sampled before that night.  

    Just wait and see.  

    Maaaybe set a reminder for the Buy In just before All Out.  Odds are that she is the Joker in the Women’s Casino Battle Royale.  They won’t be on the main card.  

    Why?

    Because….because…

    PENISES!!!  

    That’s why!!!

     

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  6. 2 hours ago, Matt D said:

    It’s fine. AEW needs more chinlocks.

    He has the Anaconda Vice sitting there getting dusty in his toolbox.  He probably wants his primary submission finisher to be more than just a rest hold though.  

    Choosing the Anaconda Vice shows just when some of his formative years occurred.  I think it was 2003 that Tenzan started using it and rode that wave all the way to the G1 that year.  That's also the year of Punk's only Japanese tour for Zero-One during the Fire Festival.  He wasn't in it unfortunately.  At that point he was just an oversized junior working opening matches for Zero-1.  I got all those shows from that tour just to see him work a new environment.  He was pretty far down on the depth chart in 2003 Japan.  His matches were fine.  Just fine.  The tournament itself kicked all kinds of butt IIRC.  

    Anaconda Vice - glorified chinlock, cool name and that's all that mattered.

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  7. 3 hours ago, For Great Justice said:

    Mox is beefing up and it's great. I look forward to grumpy old man dad bod Mox coming in to drop dudes on their head after spending the morning mowing the lawn in his crocs with socks and drinking an ice cold High Life. 

    I had to do a double take when Moxley’s manly visage is shown on an AEW screen.  Papa John is starting to resemble Andy Williams/The Butcher more than he doesn’t.  It’s The Butcher‘S look from a few months into their AEW time.  

    The Butcher was starting to lose that Beer City Bruiser look while Moxley seems to be destined for and BCB’s look if Moxley can’t stem the tide.  We are only a few matches away from Moxley wearing sweatpants to the ring.  

    Why do they only seem to “enhance” Jericho’s muscle tone in those preflight graphics?  Moxley looks like he can kickass while 240 or 420…which might add to the late feeding munchies.  Is cannabis related medicine or recreation legal in Vegas?

    I don’t think Punk could have done a better job with a thousand second chances. He was one of my faves from 03-06ish.  

    Two days before he left in 2014 I posted here that I thought his character was a little tired.  I had reached almost ambivalence towards Punk, especially considering Bryan’s ascension up towards the top tier of superstars.  I didn’t know yet that WWE wanted him to stay on Cesaro’s level.  

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  8. Caster and Bowens could have been  a really good first night confrontation for a certain returning Chicagoan on Friday’s Rampage.  

    Punk taking out Caster  would be really low stakes for his first night in AEW.  Punk cutting off one of Max’s “controversial” raps would kill a lot of birds while using very few stones. This is only the first idea to come to mind when thinking about both Caster’s predicament and Punk’s impending debut.  If Caster isn’t “working” us then he has bungled his future success in AEW.  His maturity combined with his rap subjects have dove-tailed and show the world how immature and stubborn he can be.  

    There are probably at least ten wrestlers in AEW that they can team with Bowens as Max’s replacement in The Acclaimed or whatever new gimmick they use now.  The rapping gimmick has reached its peak potential.  Caster was putting more effort into being topical rather than antagonistic towards his opponents anyway.  Only Julia Hart got any focus and really…He couldn’t make any rhymes about a pretty girl without gunning the engines and going for something that was just plain tacky and ridiculously inappropriate for television.

  9. 16 minutes ago, The Green Meanie said:

    Are we supposed to know who that 2.0 tag team was?

    I think they were just presented as non-contracted talent looking for their big break in the big leagues.  I haven’t followed NXT too closely especially since WWE tried that stupid Wednesday Night War.  I never saw them in’ recent years  but I have seen them in Chikara before they signed with NXT.  

    Were you supposed to know who they were?  

    It depends.  They have been a team continuously since 2002.  If you like following promotions that aren’t on TV then Tony Khan thinks you would know who 2.0/3.0/Ever-Rise are.  If you follow televised wrestling then Tony K may think you know that team from being either on NXT or in the news after being released from NXT just recently.

    So, to make a long story short, YES AEW may have expected you to know who they are.

    I always thought they were roughly 80% charisma and/or personality and 20% athleticism.  I didn’t think they were bad but I did think their time spent Nell-to-bell was unremarkable in every respect.  

    For my tastes they have a pretty unimpressive presentation of…whatever it is that they are supposed to be portraying.  I always thought that they really needed a consistent and well-defined gimmick backstory or tag team personality/identity.  

    This is what a place like NXT was supposedly for.  It feels like NXT doesn’t really do that AT ALL for the wrestlers who need it there.  For all the hyperbole over smaller Indy wrestlers not having the complete package it sure does look like maybe only Trevor Lee has a different persona than he had in PWG or Evolve.  

    All the talent pillaged from those groups as well as all the ex-ROH guys all look, sound and even wrestle pretty much the same as they did before most were gobbled by the monster of insecurity WWE unleashed just so AEW wouldn’t get them.  

    I did enjoy that six man match that 2.0 was in on Dynamite.  It really helped that the “jobbers” didn’t get much offence against Los Tres Babyfacios- Moxley, Darby and Eddie.  The “wrestling”  aspect is really not one of their main attributes as a tag team.

  10. 34 minutes ago, elizium said:

    If that’s the case, I didn’t get it and mea culpa 

    I just get so angry at the thought of someone being anti-Willow Nightingale lol

    @Ryan Faulconer Apologies, as I seriously misread your post

    No worries.  I didn’t mean to put down any talent I listed.  The AEW women’s division is something I have taken a big interest in seeking improve.  I thought the comparison lined up and I ran with it.  

    I was reading various AEW discussions on Reddit and a more mainstream (they rant about PC this and Cancel that while the others try and keep things civil and inclusive) forum.  I can’t believe the buzzwords and niche phrasing framed as insults that get thrown around in place of actual discussion.  

    I wanted to see how the ‘others” were handling Max Caster’s latest rap subjects.  While there Tony K signed Ruby Soho and maybe a certain Doctor’s boy toy so the old argument came up…many times…in several threads.  I was starting to feel sympathy for Platinum Max. It’s possible that at 44 I might not be a fair judge on what is and what isn’t suitable for a heel rapper in his early 30s. I still think they mostly sound juvenile and unoriginal though. The topic is out of gas after it was reported Tony K will pay more attention to editing. 

    Get better material, Max…The Acclaimed are getting better as a team and the wrong words might send him off to wherever Lenny and Lodi were banished on TNT’s orders in 1999.  Muhammad Hassan probably vacations there after UPN went a  bit too far….although WWE wouldn’t be in that situation if they hadn’t gone “a bit” too far with a wrestling skit that they thought needed some terrorism to make it special….in the wrong way.

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  11. Again?  How many female wrestlers are they going to get from the SHIMMER/SHINE groups?  Tony K just raided Ruby/Heidi and they have signed or used too many of their castoffs:  Partial list ahead…

    Ashley Vox & Delmi Exo,Davienne, Heather Monroe, Hyan, Holidead, Kenzie Paige, Leyla Hirsch, Nicole Savoy, Queen Aminata, Willow Nightingale, Zoey Skye, Nevaeh, Awesome Kong, Alyson Kay, Elayna Black, Mercedes Martinez,  Big Swole, Kris Statlander, Priscilla Kelly, Thunder Rosa, Leva Bates, Miranda Alize, Lady Frost, Penelope Ford, Alex Gracia, Shazam McKenzie, Rachel Ellering, Ariel Monroe, Serena Deeb, Tessa Blanchard (All In), Tesha Price, Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D.~!

    There are other women’s groups out there.  Why do they always take SHIMMER’s leftovers?  

    The SHIMMER stans will hold it over AEW enthusiasts any chance they get.  It’s almost like they are saying that the women not good enough for them will instantly be OUR main eventers.  Homegroaner/zombie Abadon, Red Velvet, Tay Conti, Jade Cargill and Anna Jay will do all the jobs to those who I assume are no good because they aren’t wrestling for the largest women’s promotion anymore.

    It doesn’t make sense, does it?  Also, the WWE to AEW argument is stupid, if you couldn’t tell already…?

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  12. 15 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

    2.0 is back, and they freed Davey Richards clone from the lab.

    But Dave’s Richards himself is a clone.  Dynamite Kid is Jango Fett.  Chris Benoit is a Bad Batch member. They ain’t making one like that ever again!

    3.0 were the least over team in Chikara with me.  They just seemed like a block of clay.  

    Parker and Matthews had yet to form recognizable shapes at that stage.  They could be funny sometimes.  They were too directionless as characters.  That was back in 2012 and the last I saw of them.
    I would love to see if their characters and ring work has improved considerably in the years I haven’t seen them at all…until tomorrow night!

    Kodama and Obariyon/Chris Peaks and Louie Vaille looked better on Dark than they ever would be in a similar timeframe in Chikara.  There is hope for 3.0 yet.

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  13. Life was less complicated when I (possibly We?) watched wrestling that was broadcast in Spanish or Japanese.  For a majority of the 2000s that was better than most alternatives broadcast in English.  I don’t speak Spanish or Japanese but move names are universally the same around the world.  Wrestling is “spoken” as a visual language and body language can fill in the gaps as far as feuds and getting over personality goes.

    Very few promos or mic workers in the PG era left a lasting positive impression on me.  It was encouraging just how good ROH/PWG/indies workers were.  Sami Zayn spoke (in English) for the first time in WWE.  Daniel Bryan became a great talker without a gimmick or style to his promos. He was good before WWE, especially as a heel, He was just assumed that his promos were subpar because he had few catchphrases and he didn’t put himself out there as flamboyant.  

    Rapping (or singing) is not cutting a promo,r Cens and Mr Caster, they are both more charismatic speaking like a normal overgrown teenager would.  Hopefully Caster does more of it…unless it is one of their music videos from Dark.  Those spots actually get the feud over.

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  14. I have no allusions that professional wrestling is supposed to be Masterpiece Theatre (although…) but Max’s raps have been too low brow with the more topical lines usually being forced and weak…y’know, they are terribly off putting.  

    I’m the type that watches ALL of Elevation and Dark and Max’s dumber yet topical lines almost inspire me to skip the Acclaimed intro entirely.  I am invested in seeing the team improve and I WANT him to get better with his rhymes.  Unfortunately he seems to be regressing with the quality of what he calls “rhymes”.

    Show the episode as it is.  They can deal with the backlash should it result from something he probably didn’t think twice about while skimming news headlines during his cereal and cartoons.  The main problem with that strategy is the influx of bad faith actors.  If the wrong people come away bored tonight they could just start shit just to start shit. 

    I would still have a talk with Caster about some of his subject matter.  The doofus makes homophobic rhymes with Bowen’s standing right beside him.  Maybe he really doesn’t get it for REALS.  Hopefully he thinks a little bit more before spitting hot barbs of fire at folks like Julia Hart and the various enhancement talent.  Some of which he reams on the microphone like Platinum Max wants to ream Juli…WHOA!  That is inappropriate for pro wrestling on almost every platform it airs on.

    YO!  This 100th Dark episode looks like the best episode yet.

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  15. 8 minutes ago, Wyld Samurai said:

    This is the least intimidating group of wrestlers I've ever seen. They look like the cosplayers you see in Japan when the WWE tours.

    What if they all connected together to form a Voltron-like mech?

  16. 8 minutes ago, zendragon said:

    AEW has a constantly expanding roster and a seemingly younger fan base. Do you think that they could capitalize by adding some weekend programing? Either morning or afternoon? Thats how a lot of us got into wrestling. 

    They could, for once, benefit from a weekly wrap-up show.  Normally I find wrestling clip shows like WWE does redundant.  AEW probably could use such a program on weekends.  I don’t know how licensing works with YouTube since Dark and Elevation aren’t shown on TV.  

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  17. 4 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

    AEW have had like 15 things already that gave you an immediate title shot. One more on the pile wouldn’t hurt.

    Fifteen?  That seems like an exaggeration for the purposes of making a smaller point. Let’s see how many we can name…

    - win a battle royale and earn a title shot 

    - win a single elimination tournament for a title shot ala the AEW Women’s World Title Eliminator Tournament 

    - win a tag team eliminator match (non-title) against champs and earn an actual title match

    -TNT Title matches are nearly always challenges by someone

    -Miro, who only answers to God and his hot wife, challenges challengers for shots at his title.  He is a little impatient for a challenge.  

    That gives us five match stipulations.  There is also the Top 5 Rankings but that is implied for most title shots.  

    Are there any other unique stips I am forgetting?  AEW seems to have focused on only a handful of ways that title shots can be acquired.  That is an admirable attempt to limit cheap booking or thinking things up on the fly.  That’s the way most mainstream North American wrestling promotions did it for close to the last forty years or more.  

    Making up rules at the convenience of the booking situation annoyed me as a kid in the 1980s.  AEW using the bare minimum of standards or rules has cut down on embarrassingly inconsistent storytelling that was the norm in WCW…and WWE…and even ECW, who had the goofiest “rules” of any popular promotion.

  18. 9 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

    Mixed tag handicap match… Teddy & Mr. Money Vs. Chris Jericho 

    Teddy would be a GREAT challenge for Jericho.  He always wanted to wrestle Owen and even win the tag belts with him if all his dreams came true…at the time he wrote that.  I’m sure his new dreams involve paying less taxes. 

    Before Juventud was named this week I figured one of the labours would involve Ultimo Dragon.  I saw a few matches between the two in random locations throughout Western Canada in WFWA/IWA Winnipeg.  Jericho even alludes to it during a twofer promo during their WCW years.  

    More importantly Jericho told Ultimo that he was his “favourite luchadore”.  I’m pretty sure they clashed during the CMLL portion of Jericho’s career as well.  I always enjoyed his CMLL matches.  It was probably due to the murderer’s row of all time great super workers every single night he was there.  If Jericho himself doesn’t impress there is probably more than a couple stars each time that are worth watching.  They aren’t classic matches in the least aside from a specific 5-on-5 elimination match from  1995.

    Other potential opponents from Jericho’s past are any of those old Stampede guys that hung on too long in 1990.  That might be hard to accomplish with those vets being broken down and ancient plus 30 years.  Many have also since passed away.  

    Brett Como/Black Dragon from Canadian indies and FMW or WAR.  At one point he had the best Shooting Star Press in the entire wrestling biz.

    Gedo was a frequent partner and opponent in FMW, WAR and WCW.  He is the booker of New Japan today, so he probably has has a key to the Forbidden Door already thanks to previous promotional crossovers.  I’m pretty sure he still wrestled too…on occasion.  Perhaps this is one.

    Lance Storm teamed with Jericho in FMW, WAR and SMW.  I don’t know about teaming in ECW but Storm could also be his connection to them as well.  That is another place where a significant number of ECW sports entertainers? are no longer with us.  

  19. 1 hour ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    My guesses for Britt's backup are either Leyla Hirsch or Ruby Riott

    They could find an excuse to finally hire Little Miss Amazon KiLynn King. Whoever it is they should be taller, larger or just more physically intimidating than Dr. Britt.

    I know it wouldn’t make sense but Britt’s backup better not be Nyla Rose.  WWE, WCW and TNA would try and tell us just how much this nonsensical move makes perfect sense for someone so smart.  Then they talk up her education or something.

  20. 2 hours ago, Infinit said:

    How cool is it that it's 2021 and we're going to get Tony Schiavone and David Crockett on the same announcing team??

    The only drawback would be the almost complete absence of calling moves.  Everything is a “type of” something or just described using some form of onomatopoeia like “Ohhhhh!”…or a better example that escapes me at this time.  It is a living nightmare for someone with low vision as myself.  Too often I remember them in the 1980s calling the result of the action …but rarely what caused it.  
     

    Even in these modern AEW years Tony Schiavone can still be guilty at times.  The 18 years off between wrestling gigs appears to have reinvigorated him considerably though.  Whether it was the long rest or Excalibur just being the great and exhaustive wrestling nerd that he is has kept Tony S on his toes more often than his WCW coworkers ever did. 

    Schiavone also sounds like he is having a lot of fun out there.  Whether he is directing traffic on Dynamite or mentoring Paul Wight on Elevation this sounds like a YOUNGER Tony than we got on late 1990s WCW.

    David Crocket has been out of the game even longer than Schiavone.  We probably shouldn’t expect the same recharging of batteries with Crockett though.

    Just call it a hunch.

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  21. 32 minutes ago, Casey said:

    She's not missing any time, though.

     

    Good, that is a relief to read about.  There were a few moments in that recent Nyla match where it looked like someone involved in that match was going to feel extra roughed up the next morning.  I honestly can’t recall an individual example…because there were just so damn many to pick from. 

    That picture is from a women’s bare knuckle fight event.  That just makes Britt even more of a badass.

    Perhaps she is scouting for the next Frau Stroman.  Mark Henry probably gave her a ride to the show.

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