clintthecrippler

WWE should tweak TJ Perkins entrance so that all the lights do out except the top of the Titantron and when the Start Game graphic completes, have a pixelized representation of TJ drop down from the sky like Megaman and have him on stage in the "drop spot" when the lights go up.

Just watched this the other night. Was surreal seeing Curtis out of character, being presented as just another retired wrestler. Also made me wonder again just how much Philadelphia Arena film from the early 70s they are sitting on that hasn't been converted or is too expensive to convert, that stuff was a staple of those early TNT shows.

Man, now I'm picturing healthy Earthquake hooking on for one last run, long enough to be the first big man that Brock Lesnar puts in the F5.

Yet shockingly appreciative and cognizant for that era that Japanese and Koreans aren't the same just because they are Asian.

I miss ECW, but goddamn do I not miss ECW crowds when they are at their worst and lowest points. Racist chants of "More Fried Rice!" and "Hiroshima!", chants of "The ref's a fat fuck!" but the minute Tiger Mask and Sasuke start flying through the air they chant "ECW!" It's like the wrestling equivalent of a white sports fan that constantly calls black people the N-word but then cheers when a black football player wins the game for their team.

I've seen matches against Sabre Jr. and Ospreay from RevPro, the Ospreay match from WrestleCon, his BOLA 2015 appearance, and the Axel Dieter I Quit match. As another poster earlier said, I don't think he's necessarily BAD. I just have yet from the sampling I've viewed said to myself "I want to watch another Marty Scurll match", or get excited that he is on the other end of a match being hyped as an "indy dream match."

So then which current British indy wrestler is Happy Mondays? And on the topic of guys I don't get, Marty Scurll is probably at the top of mine. Every time I have watched a hyped Scurll match by the end of it I was more impressed with his opponent's performance than his. I am still not seeing anything he brings to the table that makes him a guy worth flying over to the States.

Still not as awesome as Ernie Ladd managing The Wild Samoans, and wearing the Polynesian skirt...over his slacks/dress shirt/loafers ensemble.

I think Buddy brought them in as mercenaries to assault Michael Hayes after the Freebird breakup angle in 1988 World Class.

Had a morbid thought during the first matches of Cruiserweight Classic, and not sure what exactly triggered it, but has there ever been a one-night tournament in wrestling where the person that was booked to win the whole thing got legit injured during an opening round match and couldn't continue, so they had to change the booking on the fly? I want to say it maybe happened one time with a CZW Tournament of Death, but curious if that has ever happened elsewhere.

Vince would likely never allow it, but I would love if every few months on the Network, there was a one-shot special that was essentially the American/WWE version of whenever a Japanese promotion turns over their roster to someone for a night and let's them do a "(Insert Japanese wrestler's name] PRODUCE" special with guys like Austin or Regal that obviously still keep up with the product. Tell Steve Austin to pick 12-14 guys from the roster, give him budget to bring in 1 or 2 non-contract guys for a night, and let him make the matches, basically tell him "Hey Steve, what wrestling show do you want to see tonight?". Would be a neat one-off special and get another legends appearance in as well. And could make for some damn fun wrestling television given the tastes of certain guys.

I will be shocked if it's anything more than the "still photos" video that they already posted on WWE.com a couple of years back.

Yeah, I will seriously be stunned if what is listed as "Last Battle of Atlanta" is anything more than either (a) promos building up the match, (b) still photos from the PWI library with a WWE narration or (c) some other random cage match between Tommy and Buzz. Because if they found the actual match and are giving it to us, then hell, we may just yet get Bret Hart vs Tom Magee.

Did WWE Network find more old ECW TV on an unmarked tape or something? They just put up episodes labeled "ECW Hardcore TV 02" and ECW Hardcore TV 03", so as of today the earliest ECW match on the WWE Network is now Glenn Osbourne vs frigging Johnny Hotbody. It does start with an awesome promo exchange between Terry Funk and Eddie Gilbert though.

Was this the origin of Red Shoes Unno's Red Shoes?

I also wouldn't be surprised if Hayes sensed that a big scene was about to take place so he purposely kept his mouth shut so he could watch the drama ensue. He seems like the type of shithead that would do that. And if "hit him and draw blood hardway" was actually communicated by someone at any point, just fucking bring back the blade at this point and let the talent that has to be bleed be in charge of how deep their cut is instead of just saying "let him hit you for real".

I think their logic on everything from yesterday though is that the GIFs were being posted in real time during the event. I wouldn't be surprised if nothing would have went down if DTAM and Lariato had waited until today to post their GIFs. But that said, does Ricochet vs Will Ospreay get the attention it ended up getting without the GIF of that opening sequence being spread around Twitter?

I did love that as Bobby Roode was being lowered to the ground from his pedestal, he couldn't resist cracking a "holy shit, this is awesome" smile on the way down as the fans are singing along with the entrance. I am going to be disappointed if it goes away in a month though due to fans singing along with it though and them wanting to keep Roode heel. Also got a kick out of them recycling the original "JERICHO" reveal font for his name on the Titantron. LOVED the tag team title match. Outside of a few higher-impact modern moves, I could imagine this match blowing the roof of a gym in South Carolina circa 1975-1985. Kind of looking forward to them (hopefully) running Authors of Pain vs The Revival down the road being a modern-day Road Warriors vs Tully/Arn. Bayley vs Asuka was exactly what I was hoping for it to be, and I think what it needed to be for what I assume is Bayley's NXT farewell. I ended up digging Joe vs Nakamura in the end, but yeah, it started off WAY too slow and for too long before heating up. Though I admit I was pulling for a Dallas-style full-on brawl. Really hoping that Joe isn't hurt too seriously.

I saw a special set last night where Chuck Mosely was joined by Roddy Bottum, Billy Gould, Mike Bordin, and current Faith No More guitarist Jon Hudson for a special Faith No More circa 1987 set to promote the "We Care A Lot" reissue. Chuck sounded rough but it was closer to "1987 rough" than "2015 Detroit FNM show rough" and the band was great. Overall fun and loose vibes all around. Just really cool to hear some songs live that haven't been in a Faith No More set in decades. And we all survived the Earth falling into a wormhole as prior to the Faith No More set, Chuck Mosely did a solo acoustic set accompanied by another musician on conga drums, and as part of that set Chuck performed a cover of "Take This Bottle" from the Patton era. Also, "Death March" works surprisingly well as an acoustic song.

Me when new Metallica song hit this week: "Oh man, this is a ripper! I'm going to go check out more info about the new album!" ---- ...sees that the track that got released is the first three minutes of a 12-song, double-disc 80+ minute record... ---- Me: "Sonofabitch!"

Tony Nese is the ultimate "guy that does wrestling moves well" and nothing else well. And on the topic of people whose profiles are getting raised thanks to Cruiserweight Classic, I don't think anyone before the tournament was clamoring for having Brian Kendrick hired as a trainer for the Performance Center. But damn he has been great at playing the wily vet role in this thing.

If that fan did indeed have a knife, then damn, I can imagine everyone is breathing sigh of relief that the guy didn't jump the rail while the lights were down moments later.

Looks like they just moved over the three events (Hardcore Heaven 95, N2R 95, and Cyberslam 96) that they had added during that ECW week they did a year ago from the Vault over to the PPV section, so nothing new to the Network added yet. Though keeping my fingers crossed that this means they're adding more ECW Home Video content, I'm not getting my hopes up too much.

GLAAD just tweeted out a news article about WWE'S pledge. I am assuming no one showed them Ezno and Cass this week cracking wise about Jericho and Owens "watching each other's backs".

I got to watch One Man Gang vs Tommy Rogers open an ECW show at the beginning of 2000 and it was frigging awesome.