Casey Posted April 17 Posted April 17 14 minutes ago, Craig H said: Anarchy in the Arena works best in a stadium. They've literally never done Anarchy in the Arena in a stadium.
Niners Fan in CT Posted April 17 Posted April 17 4 hours ago, EVA said: My gut tells me there was a delayed Dusty in WWE at some point (maybe all the way back in the WWF era), but my mind can’t conjure it up. Undertaker and Hogan? Hogan wins back the title at 'This Tuesday in Texas' and is stripped of it immediately after due to all the craziness that happened towards the end. Belt is vacated and put up at Royal Rumble 1992 1
AxB Posted April 17 Posted April 17 (edited) Didn't Triple H lose the belt to Jericho or TAKA or someone, and then get the title change nullified by yelling at Earl Hebner? Also I'm very grateful that I somehow managed to start two or three pages worth of Smashing Pumpkins and NIN discussion by accident, simply by alluding to the fact that Zero was in the 4-letter song tournament (on the Discord) and lost to Hook by Blues Traveller. nb: Nine Inch Nails already have two songs through to round two, Wish and Burn. Three if you count the Johnny Cash version of Hurt, which narrowly squeaked past Doop by Doop... at one point the NIN version of Hurt was also in the tournament, but I appear to have dropped it to make space for something else. Perhaps it should be reinstated? Edited April 17 by AxB 2
The Natural Posted April 17 Posted April 17 (edited) 16 minutes ago, AxB said: Didn't Triple H lose the belt to Jericho or TAKA or someone, and then get the title change nullified by yelling at Earl Hebner? Yes, Triple H lost the WWF Championship to Chris Jericho on RAW and the referee Earl Hebner overturned it. Edited April 17 by The Natural 1
The Natural Posted April 17 Posted April 17 6 hours ago, tbarrie said: I feel kind of dirty halfway defending Vince, but isn't that more a Dusty thing than a Vince thing? I honestly can't remember WWF/WWE ever sending the fans home thinking they'd seen a title change then invalidating that change on a later TV show. (The closest I can think of was that time the Rockers won the tag titles at a house show, then something made the promotion change their mind and they just pretended it had never happened. I don't think they announced that the decision had been reversed, they just ignored it entirely.) Also, I'm pretty sure it should be "The Bucks Who Are Young". Not "whom". I remember Steiner Brothers beating the Outsiders for the WCW World Tag Team Championship at Souled Out 1997 for Eric Bischoff to rescind it on Monday Nitro. 1
Kevin Wilson Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Its criminal that AEW isn't selling Mone Puppets, they seem to really drop the ball with merch opportunities. The puppet is top five most over person in the company, the crowd would be a sea of them. 6
Infinit Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Just now, Kevin Wilson said: Its criminal that AEW isn't selling Mone Puppets, they seem to really drop the ball with merch opportunities. The puppet is top five most over person in the company, the crowd would be a sea of them. Ill take it a step further. I bet doing Puppets for the roster would probably sell really well. 3
Kevin Wilson Posted April 18 Posted April 18 1 minute ago, Infinit said: Ill take it a step further. I bet doing Puppets for the roster would probably sell really well. I mean its not rocket science. People like puppets. People will buy puppets. Make puppets. Stop making 23049 t-shirts and do something different. 2 1
Niners Fan in CT Posted April 18 Posted April 18 20 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said: Its criminal that AEW isn't selling Mone Puppets, they seem to really drop the ball with merch opportunities. The puppet is top five most over person in the company, the crowd would be a sea of them. Harley was interviewed about this. She said the puppet was Mercedes idea and she knows that there was talk of selling them but I haven't heard anything since. 2
SovietShooter Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Not sure what exactly was going on, but Claudio chucking that chair that ended up landing on Nigel was reckless and unprofessional. Claudio has a rep about as good as it gets, so hopefully it was just a moment of carelessness that (hopefully) didn't injure anyone. 3
Curt McGirt Posted April 18 Posted April 18 This is more my type of a show, a random-button-on-the-CD-player kind of grabbag. Or a dog's breakfast, if you understand that it's gonna be touch and go quality-wise. (And yeah: SELL THE PUPPET!) Spoiler - Deathriders are all mad. Mox is wearing a cross given to him by his sponsor and Yuter looks like a kid mad at his parents for not letting him go to the screamo show on Saturday throwing shit around. Actually with the beard now, he looks like the singer of the screamo band. Joe/Mox will always be good. - Kevin Knight came in with all this hype, right? Where's he from? Because he looks like a pretty generic highflyer to me. I honestly think it should have been a short squash. Poor Archer has been here since the beginning, his role has been their 911 for a long time, just let him do his thing. You can give Knight the rub from beating somebody else. - Takeshita/Alexander vs. Ishii/Romero is my kinda WAR tag. Ishii is a nice center here because everyone has to work around him being a block of cement. Romero also is hyped and has shown me nothing ever, except doing Eddie's shit (which irritates me when anyone does it. See: Mone, Mercedes). But they had him in for the closing angle which is Trent? coming back, along with the goddamn monkey wrench, haha. Fine by me. Lots of clubbering and big slammin' in this one. - The Megasus kills two women who look absolutely petrified before she does. It's wonderful. - Not watching a long Cole match OR a long Claudio match anymore. Nice temper tantrum though. - Ingobernables kill three guys. Squash soup is very tasty. I like mine with a lot of pepper. - Was Knight gonna give Ricochet two for flinching?! Is this middle school? Regardless, Knight is a good shit-talker, so he's got that. - Nick Wayne and Komander have a fine match. I would have been happy to see the whole of the thing minus commercials. At this point you just can't complain about the poison rana anymore, it's just there and under wrestling logic has changed its definition as a move. Nick wins with an old school Jushin Thunder Liger Fisherman's Buster, and takes home a belt which Christian will put in a glass box beneath a blanket which he will remove once a day for exactly one minute so Nick can look at it. - Tony and Nigel having to sit with no desk is highly amusing. Toni comes out and the foot fetishists rejoice! "I wouldn't be walking the streets calling myself a CEO" is better than all of the double entendres and sex jokes; so is imitating Mone's stupid dancing with your foot on her instead of doing the muscle pose a dozen times. (Pause: I JUST HEARD JOHN WATERS DO THE VOICE OF A GOLDEN RETRIEVER IN A BUSH'S BEANS AD. HOLY SHIT.) End of the match gets overly spotty and overly complicated, to the tune of Kris (who is supposed to be really strong?) blowing a Tombstone spot with Mone. Still, not a bad match. Toni leaves in style. 1
The Natural Posted April 18 Posted April 18 58 minutes ago, Infinit said: Ill take it a step further. I bet doing Puppets for the roster would probably sell really well. Good seeing you again here, brother. 2
stuntmanc Posted April 18 Posted April 18 The Don Callis family is a damn impressive roster -Fletcher -Takeshita -Murder Machines -Alexander -Roppongi Vice 5
Shartnado Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Yeah, a hell of an episode of Collision as well! Death Riders being sore losers at the beginning was something. Later on, people reminded them about it with a chant. Good. I guess that's a no on Elite Riders, then? Even better. Kevin Knight with big win after getting his ass kicked a lot by Archer. Megan Bayne looking very dominant, but at least the opponents knew the only shot they had was to attack immediately, and together. That was a good 2 seconds for them, after that, oh well... RUSH and company squashed people, too. Hah, Don Callis family looks completely different than last month, but he sure doesn't mess about when it comes to replacing members. Well, Trent is a return, not a replacement, but Callis seems to bounce back from adversity quite well. A lot like a cockroach. The Adam Cole open was great in a couple of ways. First, it was Claudio instead of Yuta, so it was immediately a bigger threat and with the injury history of Cole you felt like he is in immense jeopardy and the title could change hands right here! Cole surviving with a counter pinning combination was good, and rest of his crew coming in to protect him right afterwards was even better touch. Tony reading FTR's letter was good, if it leads to Nigel getting in the ring again, even better! Nick Wayne wins the ROH tv title! Match was awesome and the crowds awesome chants at Nick made a high-brow humor enthusiast like myself all fuzzy inside! Wayne flipping the crowd off after the win was very much deserved, but great time was had by all. Main event was very solid, crazy triple double suplex by Statlander and Toni Storm showing up here meant she will show up to every match that involves Owen participants still in the running, not just Mercedes (although she was there, too, yes). We'll know for sure during or after Hayter v Stat! Mini Mone making appearance until getting carelessly tossed (kicked) aside by Julia the Teenage Witch was another plus. Pricochet's bald, y'all! Just in case the glasses fooled you, or something? This leading to Knight and Speedball vs Bucks was a twist I didn't see coming. Show was a blast, yes. 3
Gorman Posted April 18 Posted April 18 25 minutes ago, stuntmanc said: The Don Callis family is a damn impressive roster -Fletcher -Takeshita -Murder Machines -Alexander -Roppongi Vice - And Mark Davis! 5
stuntmanc Posted April 18 Posted April 18 21 minutes ago, Gorman said: - And Mark Davis! I can't believe I forgot him, thank you. That's a hell of a stable right there. 4
Shartnado Posted April 18 Posted April 18 (edited) 8 hours ago, SovietShooter said: Not sure what exactly was going on, but Claudio chucking that chair that ended up landing on Nigel was reckless and unprofessional. Claudio has a rep about as good as it gets, so hopefully it was just a moment of carelessness that (hopefully) didn't injure anyone. Yeah, that did look like "Get a fucking grip before there's a lawsuit"-moment. Luckily it hit a member of the roster instead of member of the audience if it had to hit anyone. But yeah, if you toss a chair with such force, you had better aim low, so things like that are avoided. Edited April 18 by Shartnado Holy run-on sentence, Batman!
just drew Posted April 18 Posted April 18 I think the Jacksons are gonna get DR their Trios titles back through chicanery. Then Mox will be like "fine. We'll walk you home from the library to make sure none of the sophomores who smoke in front of the QuikTrip take yall's lunch money." Speaking of geeks... if TK insists on Adam Cole winning matches, that formula is the way to go. Catch an epic ass beating, heel loses focus, fluke win. I will say, to his credit, that's the first time I've ever seen him work a larger opponent and not pretend he's the same size. Only took him 17 years. Kevin Knight rules. Speedball Bailey also rules, but less. Ricochet is super fucking annoying, but in a good way. Happy for STP. They are now apparently on the official roster page. IDK if that's a new development, but someone pointed it out last night. Megan Bayne is dollar signs. They should've done the Clubber Lang "appears from nowhere, murders beloved babyface" angle. She'll be fine. If I'm TK I'm offering her and Harley Vlad Jr-esque $ and years. Toni isn't going anywhere, so those are the two I'd worry the most about getting poached. Everyone else is replaceable. Maybe not Statlander and Hayter, or Julia Hart. But yeah, everyone else. Lol. Ok, lock Athena up too. Shit. Have I mentioned how good I think AEW's women's division is now? Begone, Mariah. Unless you decide to stay. Happy as hell to see ROOSH back on my screen. LFI rules. RUSH and Joe beating the piss out of each other in a trios title match sometime in the near future would make me happy. Main event was good. Toni makes me laugh. Harley should probably be doing a little better at this point from a match standpoint. Like, getting more offense and whatnot. Statlander is so effortlessly good. Solid, solid week of TV. Would've been impossible to top Dynamite but very good Collision. 1
Craig H Posted April 18 Posted April 18 17 hours ago, Casey said: They've literally never done Anarchy in the Arena in a stadium. 17 hours ago, Infinit said: He's thinking of Stadium Stampede lol This. Fucking Tony and his similar concept matches with names with alliteration in them. 3 2
The Natural Posted April 18 Posted April 18 1 hour ago, Craig H said: This. Fucking Tony and his similar concept matches with names with alliteration in them. If it's any consolation, I get Stadium Stampede and Anarchy in the Arena mixed up. 1
NikoBaltimore Posted April 18 Posted April 18 On 4/17/2025 at 9:35 AM, Dolfan in NYC said: You know, I hate that my brain works this way... but 40+ years of getting trolled by the old man up North... and I shouldn't put this evil into the world... But, it's gonna be a damned shame, when the Bucks Whom Are Young come out next week and say the man who dropped the fall wasn't one of the actual champs and thus vacates the title switch. ... ... Sorry. (You can't get hurt if you don't think out the possibilities.) I still need to catch up on last week's Collision in full. But they mentioned that with Pac out Moxley is now the interim trios champion and is there to defend the titles. There might be a little bit of wiggle room but it sounded to me like they're trying to prevent something like this from happening. Plus, I would think/hope TK wouldn't be dumb enough to kill the crowd this way.
HarryArchieGus Posted April 18 Posted April 18 I'm not sure how much intrigue the decision presents, but Joe-Moxley is something I'd very much like to see. A strong TV Main Event. 1
Curt McGirt Posted April 18 Posted April 18 That was the first time we've heard Speedball speak natural-sounding, I believe. Nobody has mentioned Rich's (that is now his new nickname) horrible heat-gathering ugly coat yet either. Somebody will have to explain the STP name to me. Callis lost Davis, called up Trent. *insert Eddie Murphy pointing at head gif* I didn't notice the chair thing during the Claudio freakout but did think I saw him fling something way far into the crowd? Did he do that or not? THAT to me looked like "here comes the lawsuit".
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