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1 hour ago, Leonidas said:
With this Deathriders angle falling flat who would everyone like to dethrone Mox?
OC has been overdone at this point.
Darby is off climbing Everest again.
Hangman could be fun but needs a lot of story to get there and I'm really enjoying him as a heel.
Kingston upon his return would be the most fun, especially if DBry comes back to help him too.
Who else? Swerve yay, Switchblade boo, John Silver? Peter Avalon?
I'm not even the HUGEST fan but it should be Ospreay. Just have him give a spirited "I didn't come to AEW for NWO 3.0, bruv" promo. I don't think there's anyone outside of him (or Darby but he's away) who would make everything feel new and fresh with a victory than him. Plus you have easy feuds to plug in for the next few months (Fletcher, Okada, Omega, Callis and fam, Ricochet Eric etc). His never-ending feud with Callis feels like such a waste of someone so organically over withdraw crowd.
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Really enjoyed the women's casino, Taz's return, Joe's return, and some of the main event.
Really hated the good guy in the MJF feud slut-shaming his mother and girlfriend. Also thought them using Owen Hart's death as that "Oh no MJF went THERE!" comment seems like EXACTLY the kind of thing Martha Hart wanted to prevent happening when she kept Owen's name out of wrestling shows mouths all these years. I used to think WWE would be salivating at the prospect of signing MJF away from AEW...now I'm not so sure they would even offer him a deal if released. My favourite is the DEAD silent crowd followed by him yelling "I said shut up!" and two people boo, so he does it again. If this feud continues down this path, Double J might lose his "last ride" momentum and not have to worry about his title shot.
I also like to imagine Edge and FTR watching the Death Riders swarming Hobbs backstage on a monitor and going "Wait, let's see where they go with this...oh they just just re-broke his knee, I guess we should amble on out there."
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I got to say, after not really watching a Dynamite all the way through in the last little while it is REALLY WWE-heavy now. It's not quite early TNA where guys would walk off of Raw, into a title match over an established TNA guy, but I find it REALLY obvious. Hurt Syndicate (with their mostly non-wrestling manager!) quite easily dispatching the tag champs and a recent ROH world champ. Mercedes getting a vignette. Ricochet getting a promo but Swerve not getting to him in time. Mox and his 60% WWE guys beating down Hobbs, only for a WWE team to run them off (After the guy has already been demolished). Maybe it's just cuz WWE has had SO many wrestlers under contract over the years, but I used to like that AEW featured guys WWE wouldn't/couldn't sign (Omega, Lucha Bros, some of the ROH guys) and guys who thumbed their nose at WWE (Jericho, Mox who wanted to do something different) and now it's kind of turned into Velocity co-starring some AEW guys. Or maybe the Death Riders deal is just grinding me down...
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On 1/13/2025 at 6:12 PM, SirSmUgly said:
Tygress hits a Bronco Buster while Konnan yells A FACE FULLA STUFF over and over, *sigh*.
That reminds me of my favourite Stevie Ray commentary - well except for
[spoiler]when he confronts Lex Luger in the crowd and lists a hilariously low amount of people watching and Tony has to talk over him to cover for it[/spoiler]
But when Tygress hits this move later on, Stevie shouts
[Spoiler]Face fulla' yak! Face fulla' yak! Don't strike back![/spoiler]
That would not be funny coming from any other announcer but is HILARIOUS when he does it!
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8 minutes ago, Ramo2653 said:
And yeah Kingston bores the hell out of me. His silly mugging expressions when he's trying to portray being hurt in a match, his mugging when he tries to one up someone, his remarks about how he's so tough and so real and everyone else isn't. Like get out of here.
I thought I was alone!
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6 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:
I'm only a few minutes into the Kamloops Thunder, but I should have that done later today. Were you or any family members on camera at the Thunder taping?
None of us made that one! The only other televised wrestling show I made it to was a Smackdown several years later with a main evenr of McMahon-Lesnar in a steel cage which was, quite obviously going in, a swerve in which Lesnar would turn on Kurt Angle, that nevertheless INFURIATED the Kelowna crowd resulting in lots of chanted "Bullshit!" and other cussing that seemed to cement Kelowna as not worth returning to, as I don't believe we've had another televised show or even a house show since.
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2 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:
Show #253– 14 August 2000
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Ah, my beloved Kelowna Nitro!
Some fun stuff from being at the show.
-My brother, my cousin and I basically wandered around the arena area for 1-2 hours before the show. At one point,we spotted Dave Penzer strolling around and asked him about the show ("It's gonna be a fun show! Everyone's gonna be here!") then asked him point-blank if Bret Hart was there ("Oh yeah, everyone's here!")...lying bastard.
-I was basically all-in on everything wrestling at the time, even listening to all the PPVs rather than paying for them in good, old-fashioned scramblevision, looking stuff up online when given the chance, compiling a Top 10 kayfabe rankings list etc. etc.. So when Vince Russo came out and started talking about "Your hero Goldberg!" my friend turned to me (We actually became friends because at work he was trying to tell two disinterested friends of his about Nitro and "that guy with the skeleton suit" and I chimed in with "La Parka" and he was all happy that someone else not only watched wrestling but cared enough to know the names that we hit it off) and was like "Wait, are we supposed to cheer for him now?" and all I could offer up was a shrug.
-My cousin and brother who got comped tickets "courtesy Mr. Goldberg" were on camera every time they cut to the announcers. My mom went in to check on him that night and my cousin said "Auntie Liz, that was the best night of my life." Life got in the way, time has rolled on, and last summer I saw him for the first time in 22-23 years, he has a wife, two beautiful twin girls and one of the first things he tells me is how he just re-watched that Nitro and showed his daughters when he was on camera.
-That main event was the WORST! For one thing, we were all expecting a match. For two, from our seats in the skybox we couldn't see the screen so all we could hear was Goldberg talking about something and some of the crowd reacting to it and the rest of the crowd who couldn't see it, turning to other people and going "What happened?" And for three, there was no dark match to send the crowd home happy, everybody just stood up and walked out like "Show's over, see ya!" and that was it.
-I can't remember if it actually made it to air or ended up as C-show match, but on Thunder they do some sort of handicap match with BC-area wrestlers and there was one guy Juggernaut whom we all thought would be a big star because he was 6"+ and like 400 pounds and did moonsaults and bled buckets and hardcore matches and the like and I saw he was going to be on there and when I finally saw it, it was the most disappointing thing because he was, in all actuality, not that good and his pants kept falling down and got not offence in and the big takeaway from the match was Stevie Ray repeatedly going "His britches are falling down, Tony!" So, I hope you do get to see that!
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In a much sillier part, I LOVE how they try to get over a catchphrase where one announcer says "It's Raw", the next one says "It's uncensored" and " It's uncooked! " which is genuinely a bad catchphrase (You really want people to think "uncooked" when describing your show? Is that a positive descriptor?) but is made even better that Macho and Bartlett keep forgetting to do their part, then later Vince says "It's uncensored" and Bartlett, who has most likely been talked to during a break, robotically adds "It's uncooked" and Vince stumbles not figuring on Bartlett's Pavlovian response. Eventually at some point they basically stop what they're talking about as Vince says let's get this right, and they go through the whole deal again and Vince is laughing but you know he's just seething underneath.
It's a genuinely terrible show in almost all aspects (The Mike Tyson thing with Bartlett doing a bad impression is just interminable) and a hilariously entertaining car-crash especially knowing Vince's desire to control everything about WWE's presentation and his craving of creating a mainstream entertainment show and how badly it fumbles away from that.
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Watching the first Monday Night Raw and Rob Bartlett is clearly terrible, but it's funny how he seems to genuinely irritate and befuddle Vince McMahon to the point that when Bartlett spots Doink the Clown in the crowd and calls him "Dork the Clown", Vince McMahon forgets the name of his own creation: "That's Dork! What a name for a clown. Dork?" before Macho goes "His name is Doink" and McMahon echoes it "It's Doink, not Dork."
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1 hour ago, Johnny Sorrow said:
When I visited Vancouver to ring announce at BOOM Pro Wrestling it blew my mind that Cheers reruns were on the the cable channel that seems to show not show reruns of Last Man Standing. Seriously, that was one of my top three reasons for wanting to move there permanently.
Even better, the channel that shows Cheers reruns (Yet seems to be trapped in an endless loop of 'Wings' reruns as of late, of all shows!), is CMT. Yes, that did once upon a time stand for Country Music Television but now just shows no-longer-current sitcoms: Cheers, Wings, The Office, Schitt's Creek, that little-seen post-Community Joel McHale show where he worked with millenials. No country music, no country-themed programming, still called 'CMT' with the same logo it had when it showed country music videos all day.
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Wrestling weirdness!
USA Network acquires the rights to Smackdown over 5 years, USA hasn't really been available in Canada, until this week.
In Canada, AEW runs on TSN (Kinda like a Canadian ESPN) but only airs Dynamite (Only showing Collision or the other show whose name I forget when they're in Canada, btu available online if you subscribe to TSN's online deal) while Sportsnet has the rights to WWE. So, WWE goes to Netflix and Sportsnet replaces it with TNA. And tonight, out of nowhere, AEW Collision airs on...USA!?
So, Smackdown airs on USA Network in the States, but in Canada the USA Network airs WWE's rival?!
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This is the first time I've had the majority of the back WWE catalog at my fingertips as a longtime Netflix subscriber. So far, I've watched the first two 'In Your Houses'. It's actually no wonder the NWO was so big because the WWF is so CORNY, here. I was a bigtime WWF watcher but kinda lost interest in high school/after Bret Hart lost the title, but I gravitated back toward it when Hart formed the Hart Foundation group.
But these shows are SO clique-heavy (Which I know in retrospect but wasn't aware of at the time), the first show has Razor match, a Diesel main event, a phonecall from 123 Kid recovering from injury and SO many references to Michaels even though he isn't on the card. The second show has another Razor match, a 123 Kid match, a Michaels match and another Diesel main event. But it's actually quite funny because Diesel does a promo on both shows and they're pretty dreadful, Michaels does 2 promos on the second show and they're REALLY bad, even forgetting what the name of the show is but Vince is just enamored of them, praising them non-stop, laughing at all their jokes. it's WEIRD, man. It's kinda like Vince finally got to sit at the cool table with Shawn and the clique and he's so worried about screwing it up.
But the funniest thing on the two shows is Jeff Jarrett doing his concert because, even though Jim Johnston has the songwriting credit on it, I assumed Vince had a lot of input because No. 1. He LOVES the song and No. 2. It sounds like a song you could imagine Vince singing; in the car, in his office, angrily over the phone to Jim Johnston when the early versions don't do what he wants. So, Jarrett "performs" it, Vince keeps saying things like "Wow!" and doing that "fun" Vince chuckle and talking about how surprised he was at it. Then they cut to Petengill in the crowd surveying the fans about it and, of course, Jarrett being a heel and these being WWF fans of the era, the kids are like "It's not bad", "it's terrible" and "it's ok" and you can practically hear Vince's heart breaking going "Oh.", "Well?" and "Tough crowd". I laughed really hard thinking of Vince ranting afterwards "Goddamn kids wouldn't know good music if it kicked them in the ass!" then driving home, listening to 'With My Baby Tonight' and weeping.
Also, somebody is really monkeying with the lyrics that are displayed when you try to Google it.
"You call me narrow-minded
About music and stuff like that
So I called you retarded
And I'm sorry If I ruined our little chat"
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2 hours ago, Octopus said:
More importantly, @The Natural is great.
Quoted for posterity
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On 12/23/2024 at 6:08 PM, J.H. said:
Man I remember Vito being over huge with Queens bus trip to Philly. He wrestled Van Dam that night and looked good losing. A bunch of us even turned our backs to the ring as the ref counted 3.
Bit my poor pal Bill was devastated that Krush's "The New Movement" wasn't some Black Shirt Mussolini-esque gimmick. Hell when Skull told us his implant DDT finisher was called the "Skully Special" we berated him until he asked us what he should call and everyone responded with "THE SKULL-KRUSHER!" he was genuinely surprised. It was at that point we realized Skull wasn't in the business to be the brains behind the scenes
James
There was a terrifically bad Big Vito promo in late WCW where he tried to get over a thousand different catchphrases at once but delivered them all poorly and kind stilted where he said "I've been hearing things...I've been hearing things...I am the goomba of ooh-aah, the Pavarotti of shots to the body and they feel real...good!" that my brother and I had queued up on a video and would just put on every time we walked past the VCR and laugh at.
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1 hour ago, HarryArchieGus said:
I second Orange Cassidy, an add MJF, and Hangman Adam Page.
I DO remember just how hated Adam Page was when he was first in the Elite in ROH, most memorably on here when Adam Cole had the huge lump on his head and one poster asked "What is that awful lump at the side of Cole's head" and someone on here responded "I think they call him 'Adam Page'."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Xqdl3ARi0
Aja Kong vs Chaparita Asari from the Vault...could win the award for worst commentary on a serious match ever!
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2 hours ago, MoeCristyV.1.6 said:
Maybe that's why he wants the Acclaimed in Hurt Syndicate. (Caster was one of his "sisters")
I did NOT realize that!
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39 minutes ago, Ramo2653 said:
Let's not forget the awful Rusev/Lana/Lashley cuckhold/love triangle thing when talking about awful angles Lashley has been in.
Yeah that was a bad one. But the sisters thing was on another level for me.
I remember he was in TNA and they told the story about how he was likely to be on the 2004 US Olympic team and ended up having to duck gunfire during a bank robbery, tearing his knee up and ending his amateur wrestling career. And I thought "What an amazing story, why wasn't it told before?!" I mean, you can use that story two ways about how it made him stronger and more determined to prove himself (face route) or how it left him an embittered mean bully with an axe to grind with the universe (heel route). So when they did the interviews, I thought they were going this route and instead told these bizarre stories about his sisters. And then just to make it worse, added an extra layer of transphobia with Sami bringing out his sisters and HA! they were all guys dressed as women!
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I only saw a couple minutes of Lashley 2 on 1 (Cheeserbuger's pop was pretty huge!) and I thought Lashley's jacket said "All Night" on the back (It was quite obviously 'Almighty') and laughed uproariously at Lashley coming into AEW and dropping his "I'm a big strong dude" gimmick for a lady's man gimmick. It would only be the second worst Lashley booking (The worst being that weird thing in WWE where he talked about his sisters then his "Sisters" (AKA men in dresses) came out for a promo with Sami Zayn and he beat them all up...that thing just KILLED him for a long time in his WWE return).
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Haha, he went right back and did it right the next night...and got 3 assists if I'm not mistaken
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This is the highlight of the season as far as I'm concerned.
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1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:
Arn Anderson races down – well, “races down” for him – and makes a save with a log…
Hahaha, I've been rolling my eyes or scratching my head for these last two reviews but this is the one that really got me. What a terrible choice of weapon! No wonder Arn in AEW seemed to be packing heat, he was tired of swinging around a log!
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10 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Lin-Manuel Miranda (sp.?) dressing up as Dirty Dom is not something I had in my 2024 bingo card.
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Man Adam Cole's tan...
He looked like he was sick. My niece had jaundice at birth, he looked like she did (She's fine btw). It was weeeeeeeeird. It didn't look like he had overtanned (Like Triple H a few years back!) and it wasn't like a Trump tan. It was a weird off-yellow color. It was genuinely distracting from what was, in fact, a very poor match.
I got distracted after that, should I watch anymore?
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There is so much STUFF on these shows that I get confused reading these recaps and wonder if I missed something (Rick and Tank are buddies now?!). It made me wonder if I kept them straight back when I was watching and then I remembered when we saw Nitro here and Russo talked about "Your hero Goldberg" and my friend looked at me and went "Wait are we supposed to like him again?!" and, me, who was like my friends' wrestling encyclopedia (There is even a photo in my high school yearbook of me kissing the PWI Almanac!) shrugged my shoulders and said "Uh...I guess?!"
As a guy who fashioned himself as some sort of writer for a while, I think that's where these shows hurt the most: they're so badly written. Stories start and stop with no resolution. Character motivations are often nonsensical (especially with Russo's SWERVES). I can tolerate mediocre matches or acting if it's in service of a solid storyline but all three at once!?
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AEW TV - 1/15 - 1/21/2025 - Yah Mox B There
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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I watched a DREADFUL 1950s flick last night called 'Stolen Face' where a doctor was so upset about his unrequited lover marrying someone else that he performed cosmetic surgery on a female inmate (He had a theory that disfigured criminals would change their ways if their face was changed...no really) to make her look like his lost love (Luckily for the inmate, his lost love was played by Lizabeth Scott!) and so Scott played two characters: a bad girl with a cockney accent and the good girl and it was terrible and bad but the entire time I couldn't help but think it would be a great angle for Toni Storm!