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Entertaining show but somehow the only thing that stuck with me was the security guys coming into the ring and, seemingly forgetting they were playing security guards, started throwing worked punches at Edge and Christian and it was so hilariously lame and simultaneously just wrong that it really cracked me up. Even one of the announcers kinda chuckled and pointed out they were attacking them instead of, whatever it is that wrestling security guards do.
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-Also, that opening Kenny-MJF was promo was pretty hilarious:
"Here's the bombshell you're not telling everyone..." Oh, I wonder if Kenny is retiring, maybe he's told his family this is hast last year!
"Your intestine is a ticking time bomb." Oh, okay that's not really a bombshell.
"Yeah, well I talked to your doctor..." Oh, is MJF battling through an injury too?!
"and you have no dick" [well more or less!] Ah!
-I enjoyed the 6-man. Ricochet was lots of fun in that.
-I understand the story and the idea, but I don't really buy Will Ospreay as blood feud killer guy. Neither his personality nor his moveset really suit angry killer.
-It was weird how guys who had nothing to do with Darby or the Callis Family came out to help Darby against the latter, but NO one came to help Ospreay from nearly getting crippled by the Death Riders. Even guys he teamed with!
-Thekla is so much fun. I liked when she walked around the ring going "Huh! Huh! Huh!" like Mankind then yelling "Kiss my toxic ass" like Mankind, thankfully, never ever did.
-I miss Tazz
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I thought the Learning Tree gimmick with Jericho as a clueless vet taking time away from the kids while "mentoring" young wrestlers had some legs to it, but he/AEW played it up all wrong. Jericho was too knowing in the role ("Gotta get my spots in, right?" [chuckles]) when he would've been much funnier using Gen-Z slang wrong ("I'm gonna rizz Kenny Omega up!" "Uh, boss I don't think that's what you mean to say!"), wearing old-style tights and getting made fun of for it, give him a 20-something girlfriend, have him get blown up in a Iron Man match. Then you could have his students turn on him, bring him back later a surprise face to put his students takeover down. But I don't think he wanted to look out of touch or dorky enough.
I guess he could just "play the hits" and get cheered for doing his old Jericho routine but I'm not sure how long AEW fans will put up with it. Then again, some fans were still cheering MJF last night so wrestling fans ARE also very stupid.
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On 3/29/2026 at 8:51 AM, porksweats said:
I thought Collision overall was pretty good but boy Private Party looked terrible. Marq Quen looked like he was moving through molasses the entire match.
Moxley's promo seemed to imply they were done, too. He said something like 'Private Party's not doing so good; we won't be seeing them for a while" and I wondered if maybe this was the time PP "owed" AEW and they were leaving. It was weird.
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I watched The Bellboy with Jerry Lewis and can say, with all sincerity, that I unabashedly LOVED it. The story, as TCM explains it, is that the studio wanted a Jerry Lewis comedy for the summer and he didn't want to rush 'Cinderfella', so instead in a matter of weeks, he came up with this film which he wrote (such as it were!), produced, starred in and directed in order to get it out for the summer of 1960. Now I'm not the biggest Lewis fan but something about this plotless silly little flick scratched me right where I itch! Lewis plays a mostly-mute bellhop and gets into assorted shenanigans as a bellhop at an exclusive hotel. The movie is quite literally plotless, there's even a short introduction where they explain it as such. Sometimes a segment is as minute as the bellboy being unable to carry a suitcase, sometimes he's flying an airplane, you generally never know where it's going to go next. And the great thing is all the vignettes are really short, so if you're annoyed with one, you don't have to stick it out very long before he's on to some other such madness. I genuinely, genuinely enjoyed the heck out of it.
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9 hours ago, Nineteen said:
There's a piece of lost media that I get really sad over not being able to find anymore, it was a post match thing where I forgot how we got there but it was just Manu and Orton chest to chest just.... later seasons Tony Soprano breathing at each other
Do you mean THIS?!
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52 minutes ago, J.H. said:
Oh my, the MST3K version is... a movie
James
It's one of those MST3K/Rifftrax where it's kinda awkward cuz they can make fun of things but can't really mock the plot/storyline. It's kinda the same as the Rifftrax of 'It's A Wonderful Life' cuz they poke fun at a couple things but you can tell they all LOVE the movie. Like in 'Hamlet' you can make fun of the acting, the performances but you can't be like "What a dumb plot twist!"
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I actually recall liking Shaft in Africa but it was the least of the Shaft movies. To be fair, I'm not the best judge, score aside, I actually liked Shaft's Big Score better than Shaft!
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Also, since I don't ONLY watch bad movies, I also watched 'Shield For Murder' which is a solid little film noir. Edmund O'Brien plays a crooked cop who bumps off a bookie's runner, steals his cash, then tries to stay one step ahead of his fellow cops, including the young cop he mentored. Best watched on the TCM Noir Alley broadcast because Eddie Muller will go into great detail about how many actors from this film ended up in significant long-running TV shows (A very young, very pretty, very blonde (!) Morticia Adams for instance...). The funniest one was the police captain, as I just saw him last week in the extraordinarily poor 'The Girl in Lovers Lane' (But at least I watched the MST3K version) and I thought he was kinda better than his supporting cast and wondered if he ever got into anything good.
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8 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:
I guess I probably will tackle the Ernest movies sooner than later. That sounds....unhinged to watch.
But, can you/will you be able to watch 'Ernest Goes to Africa'?
That's been a step too far for even me up to this point.
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I tried to watch 'Ernest in the Army' this week (Hey, I like 'Ernest Saves Christmas' and 'Ernest Scared Stupid' enough to watch them semi-annually around their respective holidays!) and thought "Maybe it's stupid but entertaining enough..." I...I didn't make it. The movie is SO bad. The above two (I haven't seen Ernest Goes to Jail or Ernest Goes to Camp recently enough to properly rate them but they were amazing when I was like 8!) are stupid and silly, but they're tame enough that you can watch them with kids (Well 'Stupid' is maybe a little scary). So, Ernest in the Army is in that same vein, but mines a LOT of humor out of parodying...military spending and publicity-hungry generals which is a real weird track to take for a kids film. Anyways,the overt anti-Arabian racism is actually rather quaint as it's post Gulf Storm racism but pre-9/11! So, Ernest wants to drive the big vehicles in the military and his friend urges him to join the reserves so he can drive the weekend and they don't have to go into battle and just party and drink beer (AGAIN a weird thing for what is, ostensibly, a kids film; I almost think they were trying push past family friendly and go for the audiences that weren't QUITE old enough to go see Adam Sandler movies). Ernest does. A middle-Eastern dictator name Toofootti (Perhaps a joke on Tofutti ice cream substitute...perhaps a complete coincidence) invades a made-up country and they decide to send Ernest's reserves to war. Some UN general hates him, he's in love with some local newswoman who ends up reporting on the war (A nice thing about Christmas and Stupid is that one NEVER has to think about Ernest's love live...unfortunately they don't stick to that formula here). I laughed at Ernest trying to walk through the desert with a canteen of chocolate milk. I smiled at Ernest getting electrocuted by an electric fence. I looked at the clock and saw there was 25 minutes left and I...could not do it.
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14 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
They only told Truth they were winning the titles. Not Priest.
You know if you had told me watching 2018 ROH that one of them would have a world title runs and be a steady upper-card wrestler for WWE, it probably would have taken me a long time to get to Punishment Martinez. I thought he had a good look and potential, but not much more than that. Good for him, though!
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34 minutes ago, southofheavy said:
The "Oops, All Matches!" stream on the WWE Vault YouTube channel is SO AWESOME.
Just watched the following matches in order: DIY/Revival in one of their 2 out of 3 falls matches, Flair vs Kerry at Texas Stadium, Kaval vs Eli Cottonwood, a Kurrgan handicap squash match and a YET-TAY squash from WCW Pro. Yeti was in his ninja outfit.
I've seen a Shawn vs Goldust ladder match from a house show, a Double J vs British Bulldog ladder match that looks to be a dark match from a TV taping, Midnights vs Fantastics from Clash 1 and right now, a Giant Silva squash from Super Astros is on.
Apparently, I'm in the squash match power block portion, but aside from that, there appears to be no rhyme or reason to this at all. It's so cool.I didn't know about this, Thanks!
I should know better than to leave the chat on...but I did and it greatly annoyed me. There was a Raw dark match between Erin O'Grady (Crash Holly) and Vic Grimes (with long hair!), I know I was into wrestling in that period so it wasn't completely something I didn't know about, but the chat going on is all "Who are these guys?" "Guys wrestling on the weekend to pay the bills! LOL", "LOL so true!", "Thats lowkey", "It's Nunzio", "Yeah that's Nunzio." Okay, I know Crash Holly's not the MOST recognizable wrestler in the world (pre dyed hair) but he looks NOTHING like either Nunzio or, epspecially, Loki. I don't have a problem with "Who are these guys?" "I don't know, before my time." That's perfectly valid! But don't ANSWER if you don't KNOW!
Hahaha, sorry for ranting but that's one of those modern internet things that drive me bananas. If you don't know something, say "I don't know" or just, you know, shut up!
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That Darby-Kidd match was hilarious. Darby trying to drive into Gabe with his crapmobile. The ether and locking him in the trunk to drive into a hill about 20 feet away was hysterical. It was just missing Darby rolling out of the car and exclaiming "It jumped out right in front of me!" Gabe Kidd having to play dead for an interminable length of time, complete with Darby not quite fascinating the straightjacket on Kidd so Kidd had to pretend like he couldn't take it off for the rest of the match (Knowing what we know of Kidd...he might have struggled with the mechanics of a t-shirt so maybe it wasn't that far-fetched). I also greatly enjoyed Kidd saying something like "Making good memories" as if he was a Batman villain trying to show how crazy he was. Also the "Pushing Up Daisies" thing on the inside of the coffin was so silly, but even funnier when he turned the coffin around late in the match and some guy in the crowd reads it outloud at an extraordinary volume: "PUSHING UP DAISIES!" Also, why did the cameras keep focusing on that one knothole in the coffin? They zoomed in on it 2-3 times, were we supposed to see something, was Gabe supposed to stick something through. It was weird.
Mina-Marina was all right. The NHB stip seemed to only be there to give Mina any chance of winning. Enjoyed Maring throwing her socks at the announcers.
Liked Davis-Speedball.
The Jurassic Bus thing was weird. Like Jungle Boy carrying the knife is supposed to make the goofy Jungle Boy moniker more menacing, but then they make a vignette where he feeds squirrels and makes his one-armed friend drive his bus?! Also the fact that they left the cameras on Perry and the Bucks an extra 3-4 seconds too long while they stood there looking...serious (?!) gave it a Werner Herzog-esque awkwardness to the proceedings.
I think my biggest beef with AEW storytelling is that guys feud, try to get the other fired/murdered and then turn and bury all that in the past. Like Perry and the Bucks hated each other, were trying to ruin each others careers, then all of a sudden "Two of my oldest friends in the business!" Moxley is cruel, mean and trying to destroy this company, then he's on commentary and Tony is cracking jokes with him. He tries to repeatedly kill Darby Allin but he wins a few matches in that tournament, and he's back to being cheered. Now Ospreay's back, and you're supposed to boo him again. I know it's wrestling, but i'd just like some consitency and not guys bouncing back and forth from blood feuds to alliances.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with stupid Logan Paul's stupid feud against stupid football players.
Though it did have that one great moment when Le'veon Bell went on a multi-tweet mental breakdown how every football player would throttle every pro wrestler ever and said how any football player would "throttle" Stone Cold Steve Austin to which someone replied "Well he's sixty years old now". But even better was as he went on this endless tirade, Bell talked about how he would "throttle" Seth Rogen (First response: "Uh I think you mean Seth Rollins.").
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Is Moose's back genuinely injured?
Because as a guy who hurt his back about a month back (Sciatica is the worst!), there were a couple moves (a big boot and a pump kick IIRC) where Moose could/would not his get his leg up the way one normally does. Then, at another point, he dropped his chair (or maybe some other weapon) on the ground and looked at it, annoyed, and you could see him seriously contemplating if it was worth picking up before gingerly leaning over and grabbing it. And I recognized that exact pattern from dropping the remote control on the ground and wondering if I could just leave the TV on whatever it was on, rather than bend over to pick up the remote. But then a few minutes later, he's getting powerbombed on the bottom of a stood-up trashcan! So is he really good at selling, or is he just gutting out an injury?
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I say this as someone with a staunch record of heterosexuality, but is it just me, or is that David Finlay one HANDSOME man?! The group needs a little work, Finlay and Connors come across kinda same-y, Kidd comes across kind of odd not so much dangerous, none of them are really projecting a star-level personality, and the name sucks. I get that they wanted to drop/de-emphasize the "War" word (Seeing as the US is in one!) but they should've used the opportunity to finetune the whole name until something fit a little better and was less generic/silly as The Dogs (Unless they start acting like dogs in which case I would be all-in!). I think the biggest problem is they're all kind of serious, dangerous wrestler and need someone to break that up a tad. You know who would totally change the narrative/impression of that team?! Juice Robinson! Juice starting trouble before being saved by his serious buddies would probably be a better use of him than him occasionally teaming with one of the Gunns while everyone else is on the IR.
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I spent way too much time last night thinking that the Death Riders needed a sort of apprentice/young boy/low man on the totem pole so that Yuta doesn't always have to take the losses and trying to connect a wrestler to the group that I ended up with an endless loop of Danny Garcia's Death Rider theme stuck in my head along with a headache. I actually think (with the exception of Pac), that all the Death Rider themes are really excellent. Also, I never did match a young wrestler to the group.
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I've always been a little puzzled by AEW's use of Rush.
He comes out, looks like a badass. Destroys some guys. Disappears from TV. Comes back, destroys some guys. Disappears. Builds up a bit, loses to someone above his paygrade. Disappears. Comes back, destroys some guys.
But he always stays really OVER. He's got that Mark Henry-esque thing of no matter how many times he's been beaten, he comes out and there's a definite murmur in the audience like "This guy is going to kill somebody". I'd like to see him get someone to talk for him (Stokely? Someone else?) that represents him but that he can kind of bully so when his second is talking too much, he basically grabs him, tells him to shut up and yells out the "Get the horns!" catchphrase and give him a nice, real run (Maybe Ricochet's title? I don't remember what it's called). I think he could be doing a lot more meaningful stuff than holding the ROH tag titles. He should be way higher up the card, a threat for the world title and someone who sometimes holds the secondary titles.
Also, I really liked everything about that insane four-way tag match. Some moves and routines I'd generally never seen before, Dalton Castle flipping out on commentary. Good stuff.
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That Thekla segment last night was masterful. She comes out badmouthing Stat, fumbles a little bit given she's not speaking her native language, morons begin to "What?" everything and she just powers through it, even getting a chant for "Toxic ass", and crowd popping for everything down the stretch. Whoever is producing her stuff (But some of it, like when she repeated "But! But! But!" wile getting into the ring is I think just natural instincts) is really hitting it out of the park. She reminds me a little of early WWE Alexa Bliss (but a better wrestler) where the crowd is a little middling on her, but she's so sure of herself on the mic and as a character that the crowd is constantly won over.
On the opposition, whoever is doing Statlander's stuff is doing the reverse. The sunglasses and leather combo and not speaking until she has to stuff is...bad. I enjoyed the crowd popping for Thekla making fun of it. It sorta seems like ever since the sorta heel turn, everything they've tried with her just hasn't worked. Her wrestling is fine, her matches are fine. Her promos are dreadful, her character work is sub-par. It's like someone has it out for her. When she showed up to warn ThunderRosa last week, it was maybe the dorkiest character-work since Zack Ryder as John Cena's cuckolded friend. I think the biggest thing is they seem to play up one thing: Calling her Stat Daddy, the alien/space stuff, the cosplay stuff, the silent sunglasses deal etc. etc. then just drop it after a couple weeks and try something else. I think they just need to stick with one gimmick/character for a while, and give her more of an edge, make her less of a goody-goody.
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Aside from finding Kidd's wrestling kinda...dull...I really HATE his entrance as well. The faux-epic drum intro/theme song, the War Ready nickname, and ESPECIALLY the stupid crawling thing he does. It does not work for me on any level. He looks less "Whoa this guy is crazy, better watch out!" and more "This guy eats postage stamps."
This entrance, while still retaining the nickname/music, at least works a little better for me.
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My (not exactly favourite but more weird variety of guys I'm sort of proud of seeing): Great Muta, Big Show, Christopher Daniels, Rey Mysterio, Juventud Guerrera, Asian Cougar, Brock Lesnar, Chelsea Green, Val Venis (post WWE/pre Christian culture warrior/mid breakdown), Jim Neidhart, Greg Valentine, Vince McMahon, Tank Abbott, Tony Kozina, Black Dragon, Zack Gowen, Tajiri, Eddie Gurrero, Vampiro, Davey Boy Smith Jr, John Cena, The Undertaker, Goldberg, Booker T, and Count Monsterod Von Hugenstein.
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Having not read the SRS article, there's also a Chris-Jericho-likes-to-work-the-dirtsheets possibility to this. He talked in his book about when he was coming back to WWE, how he met with Dixie Carter, then used a backchannel or some such to message one of news sites about how he'd seen Chris Jericho talking with Dixie Carter to improve his negotiating position (He also copped to writing to one when he was starting out as a wrestler praising this young wrestler named Chris Jericho he'd just seen to the moon!). So it's entirely possible Jericho has put either his WWE return or his AEW contract freezing out there to either garner sympathy, throw some doubts into where or when he returns, or just mess with people.
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I think the Vince love of MLK was genuine in his own addled brain. One of my favourite stories was in one of Jericho's books when they had guest hosts and they booked Al Sharpton to host. And Jericho was a heel at the time, so he thought he'd be heeling on him or something, but instead Vince wrote this GLOWING speech about Sharpton and made Jericho read it out and wouldn't let him change a word. Jericho thought it made no sense because he was a bad guy and Vince was agog at this idea because it was AL SHARPTON! And Vince loved MLK so much that he was so excited to have someone somewhat connected to him that he wrote a segment where MVP and Jericho traded praise over him. (As an aside, reading up on this (I'd pretty much checked out on WWE at this point IIRC), but the segment with him and the Bella Twins sounds way more entertainingly bad!)
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Someone posted on here a while back that they noticed a growing corner of wrestling discussion that seemed to believe the pro wrestling was real ("Stone Cold would've kicked this guy's ass!") which I also noticed, but now even more recently I've noticed a growing trend of "wrestling fan" who understands how wrestling works but also seems to think everything is some sort of shoot. Like after the whole McAfee turn, I saw more than one tweet asserting that "Cody has gone off-script!", "Cody is trashing the angle and standing up for us fans!" etc. And it's...no?! Like if Cody gets the microphone and starts trashing WWE off-script, they turn the microphone off. They don't stay with it and promote it on their socials. Like every single thing is a worked shoot, or just a shoot. "You can tell how much they hate each other!" It's really odd. I genuinely think if this forum goes down, I probably just drift away from wrestling, cuz there's nowhere else worthwhile.