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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh84qbN4BdI Mad Dog Connelly & Beastman vs Matt Tremont & Bam Sullivan

They should do an Andor spin-off show about Dedra Merro, showing the Coruscantian perspective on the events of the original trilogy. How the Empire is over the moon with glee at having captured Leia, destroyed Alderaan (they could do loads of propaganda broadcasts about what a bastardous traitor Bail Organa was, and how the collateral damage of destroying his whole planet was a worthwhile cost to ending him). How they can't believe the Rebel Alliance was stupid enough to collect all of their forces on Yavin-4 and soon the glorious Death Star weapon will ensure peace throughout the galaxy. Like cast somebody as an embedded Galactic News reporter on the Death Star, and have them giving an exciting countdown to the exact moment when the Rebel Alliance is finally compromised to a permanent end, it gets to 3... 2... 1... and the screen goes black, and everyone on Coruscant lets off party poppers and starts spraying champagne everywhere... and then the screen stays black for ages, and it's not until hours later that they find out the Death Star was destroyed and the Rebels survived. The final scene of the final season of the show is Dedra getting a message that she's being promoted and transferred, and we see her reporting for duty on the Death Star 2 right as the closing credits hit.

For some reason, DoN 2025 isn't available to buy on Fite yet. It's awfully close to the show... usually you can buy them a month in advance, but not this time. They should add a roulette wheel to the Double or Nothing ordering screen. So you randomly get it for either double the price, or for free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3ekSpCEBI&list=PLCQH9apVQRGgZVhwH1b3B3jac8JPBAnEx&index=6 French catch... from 2025!! Fancy Ryan Clancy (USA) vs Erin Ordo (France)

Ian Rotten probably fits better than Necro, but then both are falling down on the whole "being dead" thing (and the Heroin addict thing too).

That's Shane Douglas' music though. I am glad that it's been a couple of hours, and nobody has brought up that xenophobic American sitcom of the same name though.

Speaking of Mikey Rukus and Jamie Hayter's music, HayterRave 2 is coming out in 2 weeks. HayterRave 1 being this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbaanUjfgv4&t=97s

It was worse than that. When ECW died, Heyman reported to the court a list of everyone who they owed money to, and it read: Rob Van Dam $150,000 Shane Douglas $145,000 Tommy Dreamer $100,000 Joey Styles $50,480 Rhyno $50,000 Francine Fournier $47,275 Sabu $2 (This is from Sabu's book)

Another match announcement: The Wrestler formerly known as Matt Makowski has cut his last name in half.

Autocorrect really did a number on this post, huh? Although I am now wondering what a Stop match is, and if holding it in a café would increase the intensity. Perhaps it's like musical chairs, but for wrestling. You have to wrestle while the music plays, and then freeze when the music stops, so anyone who continues selling after they hit pause on the CD player is eliminated. I know that's just a mistyping, but OTT did once run a 6 man tag where Tyler Bate was on both teams. It was very silly.

No, we don't need AI art for anything.

AEW has announced another multi-week summer residency for this year. Between July 15th and 31st they'll be running the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois. The city they run more than any other.

There's plenty of things that are available over the counter in the USA that are completely banned over here. Sabu, he was the last of his kind, but he was also the first of his kind too. He was unique. But I didn't expect him to die at 60, when his Uncle was still wrestling at 70.

Next Cibernetico participant:

Twitter has now decided that GCW/ Joey Janela killed Sabu. And their basis for this idea is screenshots of Phil's article... Janela saying "They" gave Sabu Kratom so he could get through the match is being interpreted as that being a Brett Lauderdale decision, not a Sabu decision.

Beastman wrestled on the JCW show in New Jersey yesterday, so he's probably not on this tour, no. He has made a pretty impressive shift into being a Deathmatch guy, though.

Has anyone read this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Steel-Chair-Head-Professional-Wrestling-ebook/dp/B00GG0K35K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IYRJIH80OYNS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.CD3cCx3TuRZWUaU0LEmBjQ.AEglYeYAYjLdy3ce3kd7evMTswfPxZWsfGqmgTdNDFo&dib_tag=se&keywords=steel+chair+to+the+head+nicholas+sammond&qid=1747086288&sprefix=steel+chair+to+the+head+nicholas+sammond%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1 Spoiled for size. It's like a Cultural Studies book on Pro Wrestling.

Apparently, WWE is considering running the all-women Evolution 2 PPV in Atlanta GA, on the weekend of July 12th 2025. Same weekend as AEW All In Texas. Now All In is a Saturday PPV with an early start time, and WWE is supposedly running an SNME as well. But in our conspiracy addled minds, we have to ask ourselves: Is this WWE Counter-programming AEW to hurt AEW, or is this someone in WWE scheduling the All-Women show against the biggest drawing rival show they could find, in an act of intentional self-sabotage? Because if Evolution 2 dies on it's arse, they have the perfect excuse to never run Evolution 3, and start returning the match times for the ladies to the pre-Give Divas A Chance era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG_77trY9-k Rise: Underground's 2025 Mania Week show in Vegas Amir Jordan vs MBM Women's Wrestling Underground: Lena Kross vs Frankie B B.A. Rose vs Jack Harrop Daniel vs Iceman Casanova Valentine vs Judge Joe Dred Intergender: Big F'n Joe vs Mickie Knuckles European Deathmatch Championship: Lou Nixon (c) vs Tim Strange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMTW9Llrtqg Cactus Jack vs Sabu, 1994, Las Vegas

PW Insider is reporting that Sabu has died, aged 60. RIP if true.

Jose Aldo retired because he got beat by Ariel Helwani?

I've been AxB on the DVDVR board for over 25 years. But then, I started using AXB as my computer name back when Space Invaders and Pac=Man had a high score table.

Brady Boone was apparently really good, but he was a jobber on TV in the 80s and 90s, due to being the same size as most 2010s/2020s era wrestlers.