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40 minutes ago, Ramo2653 said:
That was a chaotic episode of NXT in the best possible way. That was almost attitude era in it pacing. I don't know if I'd like the show to be like that every week, but it was fun for a change. Also Bron attacking Corbin on site was hilarious.
Also Shawn Michaels office being seemingly built out of balsa wood.
I'm kind of fascinated by how someone in WWE/NXT is completely enamored of Noam Dar. He was one of the few cruiserweights to get promo time during the initial cruiserweight division; goes to NXT UK and gets the Heritage Cup; brought into NXT with a big hype video and the entire Heritage Cup division built around him; given his own group to lead; gets a tournament to face him and they set up a special lounge for him to watch the show from. Someone(s) must really love him. I haven't seen a ton of his matches. What would he be in the ring, say average, slightly above average? Promo-wise, he's got that great accent and oblivious a-hole character down pat, but he doesn't seem as can't-miss to me as one would think justifies this much attention and hype. But someone really must be in his corner, so I wonder if he ends up being one of the biggest stars from this crop of NXTers.
Trick's reaction and presentation on this episode really made him look like a superstar-in-waiting.
I'm curious where they're going with Thea. I mean, the Chase U gimmick probably isn't transferable to the main roster but I'm not sure the new one will set her apart either.
Baron Corbin seems like he's having a lot of fun in NXT, and i still love how Bron looks like his dad but sounds like his uncle. Undertaker is gonna sue him for gimmick infringment if he keeps sitting up like he did on top of that truck. Also, the POV shot of the fire extinguisher coming at the camera was so bizarrely random, it reminded me of that one Arrested Development where they had "gimmicks" to try to get people to watch the show including a "3-D" scene where Gob randomly throws a tomato at the camera.
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1 hour ago, Peck said:
Bryson Montana(NXT)
Admittedly I haven't been watching NXT as much lately..but this is the first definite "Who?" I've had. As in, I haven't even heard his name in passing much less seen a match of his.
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1 hour ago, DreamBroken said:
Kinda surprised Jade's rematch is just being thrown on Rampage, but next week looks pretty nicely stacked for Grand Slam.
Apparently the word going around tonight is that Jade is finishing up with AEW and heading to WWE?!
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52 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Big Time Becks is your new champion. Okay, guess it'll bring some good matches. I was only half-watching this one.
Figured as much. Since Vince's return-ish, NXT has lost its Women's Tag Champs (the champs were brought up, the #1 contenders, and the belt was just dropped), the women's champion (Indy), the North American title, and now the Women's Title. At this point, Shawn Michaels should make himself the NXT Champ, it's really the only way he can guarantee the belt won't end up on Solo Sikoa.
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I hate, HATE when companies run World Title Contender tournaments and the bulk of the top guys aren't in it because they don't want them dropping falls. Even if they said something like "Only competitors that haven't had a World Title match this year or that the names were randomly drawn or based off Win-Loss records" but to have a tournament for a #1 contender -featuring Nick Wayne and his, what, 7 matches he's wrestled?, Jeff Hardy who has been gone more than he's been here and Jay Lethal and Trent Berretta who really hasn't won anything of any substance in a long time and Roderick Strong who's been "injured" the last little while (at least he has some credibility with a win over Jericho)- just annoys me.
Swerve's promo was really good but I still can't for the life of me figure out his motivation. To build a rep off Hangman? Why does he care whether Hangman is coasting or not?
And if MJF's championship reign is just going to be him making sub-par Attitude Era fat jokes and then telling a story about "When I was just a 19 year old kid?!" then Adam Cole needs to turn on him yesterday. Even Samoa Joe seemed to be rather off his game promo-wise, like when he told the crowd who was chanting "Fuck you, Joe" that their mom was saying that...that doesn't really make sense. Did Joe cut them off in traffic? If the crowd was chanting "Fuck me, Joe" then it would make sense...but that would be an unlikely scenario. Tony being upset at MJF getting beat up is the worst. He's been calling him every name in the book for the past couple years and now he loves him? It's even worse than JR calling HHH and SOB all the time, then putting him over. It's unnatural.
Darby stomping Wayne was pretty awesomely brutal.
I liked Roderick's neck brace going back on as soon as the match was over.
Toni's character is unique but I think it's self-defeating in that it's presented as a heel character but she's so bizarre and silly that she gets more cheers than boos. Toni vs Saraya is going to be a presentation nightmare, as the crowd likes Toni being weird and throwing her shoe, and really hates to cheer Saraya.
This Jericho-Sammy/JAS break-up feels like it has been going on for 7 years and AEW hasn't even been on for 7 years (That's my Taz tribute). Is Jericho now the good guy for dumping all his friends, getting duped and being an egomaniac?! Jericho beating Aussie Open less than week after they had tag titles is a pretty bad look.
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Seems okay by me
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43 minutes ago, HarryArchieGus said:
Great thread idea and title! I've always meant to see 'The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'. Andrew Dominik is an underrated filmmaker.
It's friggin' great! Great cast (Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, and my favourite underrated actor Paul Schneider), great score and some of the prettiest cinematography I've ever seen!
And this is the best thread title I may have ever seen!
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24 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
excited for CM Punk to launch a UWF style promotion like he's Akira Maeda
I REALLY want this to happen.
Punk should go to OVW they have a doc on Netflix now and remake it in his own image.
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On 9/1/2023 at 2:20 AM, L_W_P said:
I think Priest is walking out champion.
There will be a moment in the tag match where he will need to decide between taking a bullet (chair shot?) for Finn or bailing to keep himself fresh.
He bails, cashes in on an exhausted Seth, leaves the new WHC.
Before or after Punk drops his title in a garbage can!?
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47 minutes ago, zendragon said:
Only if they pass The Righteous backstage allowing Dutch to bellow
This is exactly what I was thinking about when I typed the above. The line that always cracks me up is when Walter asks if he still writes and Pilar says "Oh no, he has health problems"
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I think you guys are crazy.
Keep the title on Orange, his matches almost always overdeliver. Once you officially turn Garcia face, he can win it but it shouldn't be for several more months at least. Crowd is into the International title defences, Orange is getting way over, suddenly taking the title off him now just strikes me as change for the same of change. I say lean into the Orange's getting more beat up story: have him come to ring with crutches, his arm in a sling (only to cast it off dramatically mid-match to put his hands on his pockets!), Or in a wheelchair, wearing an eyepatch. Heck have the Best Friends wheel him.to the ring in an iron lung.
I think this Cassidy reign still had legs. I've got a Twitter account that is all sports, no pro wrestling (wrestling Twitter is pretty dreadful for the most part), but there's lots of wrestling that crosses over into my feed with a lot of journalists being fans as well, and there are two guys that dominate the mainstream conversation and it's Roman Reigns and it's Orange Cassidy. Now I can see where one would think you could just have him do the same thing as world champ to draw more attention to it but you're not going to have all the top guys agree to put him over in the same way so you either lose the angle or else end up with a world champ defending his belt against guys like the Blade. It just won't work at that level
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14 hours ago, Eivion said:
Creed Brothers vs. Dyad was fucking great beginning to end. Loved Brutus being kidnapped before the match began, the awesome 2 on 1 stuff with Julius showcasing early on before the simple struggle to survive, Brutus's wonderful Hulkout return. Honestly, this deserved to be on a PLE. Easily one of my favorite NXT matches this year and up there among the best from this year.
The only problem I had with this one was that, logistically, it was worked like a HIAC. Gacy, even having a clue, stayed out of the fight even though he could have interfered. Brutus came dow and chased Gacy around the ring for said key, instead of just climbing over the cage. I dont know why this bugged me so much, but on this occasion, it really did.
Elsewhere, I was pretty impressed with Jordan (I can't remember her first name...Delani?!) who does a couple spots that I don't think I've seen anyone else do. Reminds me of Sol Ruca in that respect, although her offence is quite as far along as Ruca's.
This one of the first times seeing a Dragunov promo where I thought: "You know...maybe he could make it on the main roster." Would be a pretty great storyline if he was the one to end Gunther's IC Title reign, too which could lead to an eventual down-the-line Gunther WorldTitle Defence when Gunther finally stops him (again).
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Frazier-Dar was my pick (To be fair I missed both the Dragunov and Hayes matches) because I'm in awe of Fraziers speed and Noams shtick.
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Enjoyed both the round robin matches. Butch-Dempsey was my match of the night though I couldn't stop thinking how much DEAN would have dug it!
That said it was not my favourite moment of the night...That was Booker T, calling Lola Vices match, shouting "Look at the Vice! Look at the Vice!" Followed possibly by "Scotty!" (?) before Vic very calmly and seriously asked "Why are you sweating?"
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15 minutes ago, Jrag said:
I had successfully blocked that from my memory and now it’s back. Thanks.
Oh god, the grunting! It's all coming back to me....
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I hadn't heard about the Nemeth encounter, looked it up and laughed about Punk preventing guys from being on Collision. Actually I think they should go All-In (Ha!) on it Being Punk's show: add "CM Punk presents" above the logo, paint a Pepsi logo on his belt, and, most importantly, dig up the season 2 Lucha Underground set and have Punk sit on a throne a la Mil Muertes watching over all the matches with disdain
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSPvQGGPMw&t=57s
Sorry one more because I somehow never heard this one before!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3-J6HFxvY
I'm pretty sure I first heard this on here but it ALWAYS slays me: Terry speaking rather than singing, the image of Terry cruising the streets and of course Funk speak-singing "They call us juvenile delinquents" because when I think of no-good teen punks, I think of Terry Funk!
I had this on my iPod for years and it never fails to make me smile though I have to concede I almost never make it all the way through!
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5 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
1990s Shawn Michaels was on his own planet. That kinda guy couldn't exist in this world of pro wrestling. Moreover, at the height of his craziness, WWF was probably at their worst both financially and sparse when it came to actual talent. It got better towards the end when his back was shot, but Shawn used the fact that he was a supreme talent against WWF to be an absolute menace. It was a story about Shawn at every week. For example, if Punk did what Shawn did at those house shows in Memphis and Little Rock, he would have been fired. Punk's issue is being thin skinned and a walking contradiction. Shawn had a LITANY issues that ranged from backstage politics, extramarital affairs, and the aforementioned drug issues. On top of that, his grip on Vince divided a lot of the backstage to the point where the overall product suffered even though Shawn was always a net positive in the ring. Shit, Shawn Michaels wouldn't be on just one show if WWF had three different weekly TV shows. That definitely wouldn't happen.
I just have to say I was Googling Shawn Michaels Little Rock because I'd somehow never heard that before and Google autocompleted it to "Shawn Michaels Little Drummer Boy" and now I'm terrified to follow that up.
Edit: I did, I couldn't find something, but did find this absolute HBK nonsense
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/xnsp42/shawn_michaels_as_a_local_news_reporter_when_he/Apparently he was a..."Reporter" while on hiatus from WWE. So bizarre.
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On 8/25/2023 at 2:04 AM, zendragon said:
I always So there's this movie called Kissing a Fool which is notable for being Produced and Starring David Schwimmer in 98. Written by one James Frey notable for his fabricated Memoir A million Little Pieces. The Plot involves a man having his best friend trying sleep with his girlfriend. Roger Ebert's review states that "none of the characters behaves at any moment like any human being we have ever met". find myself coming back to that line when people act nonsensically in wrestling like Nick Wayne instantly forgiving AR Fox, this is the stuff that I consider "business exposing" in 2023
Oh man, I remember that movie! It was after I loved Jason Lee so much in his Kevin Smith stuff that I sought out everything he did. On the plus side, I would not have seen 'Mumford' if not for this plan, on the downside 'Kissing A Fool'!
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9 hours ago, hammerva said:
i was thinking they could make an American Pie reference but frankly Nick might to be young for even that movie. Fuck we are old
As Trevor Dame mentioned on Twitter, Excalibur going from having a serious and somber moment to plugging a gambling web site (ON A WRESTLING SHOW) to quickly going 100 MPH plugging All In is something to say the least
It was especially good on the Canadian broadcast because it went somber voice, plug, to a completely black screen with "Whopper whopper whopper whopper" playing. In fact there were two straight at breaks with no picture. It was weird
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4 hours ago, EVA said:
But what happened with AR Fox was straight TRASH. Fox/Swerve was really working. If he can’t make Wembley, fine, but don’t just throw away the whole act and then have the faces just forget the whole thing in 3 minutes. Terrible.
Christian is a poet though.
I really wanted Darby to go "I owe this man everything" while Nick Wayne shouted over his shoulder "Hey, I don't agree with this!" "Those two guys just beat the shit out of me, I am not down with this." "Seriously he just threw a tanktop with my blood on it -that he is somehow still wearing- at my mom, I don't think he's a good guy!"
Seems like they could have just had someone "injure" AR Fox as payback for going after Nick Wayne's mom, or something, then bring him back after they get back stateside. I hope I'm wrong, but this kind of felt like writing AR Fox out of AEW more than writing him out of All In.
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In honor of his passing, this if my favourite non-Foley Terry Funk story, taken from Bruce Hart's autobiography 'Straight From the Hart': Bruce, Bret and Dean Hart travel down to Texas to work with Dory, only to find him away but are told that his younger brother Terry would look after them
"Terry said he had an angle in mind, which entailed me pretending to be a mark in the crowd and running into the ring on the finish to save the local hero Dick Murdoch. Murdoch would be caught in the Russian sleeper hold, being applied by the dastardly Boris Malenko - their top heel.
I told Terry I'd be happy to give it a shot. Since I was supposed to appear to be a "mark", Terry didn't want us to be seen getting out of his car or walking in with him , so he dropped us off what he said was a block or so from the buildnig - which proved to be a mile or two. When we finally made it to the arena and sat down ringside and proceeded to play our roles - hardcore mark types - booing, cheering and whatnot, our actions seemed to rub some of the rednecks we were sitting near the wrong way and we almost got into a fight or two with them.
During the main event, when Malenko gos hist dreaded Russian sleeper hold on Murdoch, I slid under the bottom rope and jumped on Malenko's back, piggyback style.
I should note that I'd never met either Malenko or Murdoch before this and I sensed something was wron, as Malenko tensed up and I heard him telling Murdoch "some fucking mark just jumped on my back." He then gave me a stiff head mare on the mat. As I was laying on the mat, I saw him wrapping the chain around his fist and drawing back to clobber me with it. Wide-eyed and scared shitless I began shouting, "Kayfabe, kayfabe", which is the wrestler's way of letting the other guy know that you're not a mark. He looked at me, kind of perplexed and I shouted, "Terry Funk told me to run in on the finish." Malenko and Murdoch looked at each other, puzzled and Murdoc then snarled, "That fucking Terry and his ribs."
At that point, I suddenly found myself surrounded by cops, who handcuffed me and dragged my ass out of the ring. They threw me in the back of their police cruiser and i was contemplating having to spend the night in a southern jail - which, based on movied I'd seen, was nothing to look forward to.
My spirits brightened mometarily when I saw Terry Funk come out the back door of the arenaa and approach the police cruiser. I figured that he'd tell the cops everything was cool, but he instead launched into an Academy Award-deserving rant about how I'd endangered the safety of thousands of fans, beseeching the cops to lcok me up and throw the keys away. He then stormed away in a huff, making out to be incenesed and leaving me to ponder how I was going to get my ass out of this thing."
Eventually Lord Alfred Hayes talked the cops into letting Bruce go, and he says he and Terry laughed about the incident and became good friends.
RIP Terry Funk
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1 hour ago, Peck said:
I was really surprised to hear Trish use the term "frog" tonight towards the Quebec fans. I was always under the impression that was an ethnic slur. I've worked in the pro hockey ranks for almost 25 years and I definitely know a few guys who have gotten suspended for calling someone that over that period of time.
Perhaps there's some French-Canadians on the board who can enlighten me?
I thought the same, but then I was just rewatching a 'Kitchen Nightmares' (the UK one) and Gordon Ramsay talking about this all-French kitchen staff by saying: "I need to turn this kitchen of frogs into princes" so apparently it's not a strictly-enforced ethnic slur?!
AEW TV - 9/27 - 10/3/2023 - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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I dunno, man, the immature part of me would have laughed myself silly if they cut to a stall with Roddy's feet shown underneath yelling "ADAAAAAAM!"