May 2025 Wrestling Talk

[supremebve]

1 hour ago, Log said:

My daughter is OBSESSED with that place. We get cookies from there almost weekly. She tracks leaks of their menu before they’re announced. The one by us is constantly busy. Cookies are pretty damn good, too. 

I mean, I ain't no snitch, but Log is clearly the kingpin of this particular drug cartel.

[Curt McGirt]

2 hours ago, Brandon Bones said:

Oh.  What can I get?

For you? Chicken and biscuits. 

[The Great ML]

4 hours ago, twiztor said:

so in honor of AEW featuring Ricochet vs. Mark Briscoe in a Stretcher Match this weekend, i post this question:

What are the best stretcher matches in wrestling history?

Andre being merciless and pulverizing Killer Khan as revenge for his ankle comes to mind. 

[zendragon]

Was Brock vs Big Show good?

I wonder if WM being in Vegas is gonna be like The Super Bowl rotating between Superdome, Arizona and South Florida 

[Elsalvajeloco]

5 hours ago, Log said:

My daughter is OBSESSED with that place. We get cookies from there almost weekly. She tracks leaks of their menu before they’re announced. The one by us is constantly busy. Cookies are pretty damn good, too. 

Oh, it's like crack in the 80s and the 90s down here. 

To me, it's good but not that price for a goddamn cookie good. Luckily, all the instances I've ever ate one is people bringing a box or two to work. 

[Nice Guy Eddie]

13 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

There's an actual -- get this -- vacuum repair store here on a corner downtown, right down from the police department! It's had the same sign in the window for 20+ years. As soon as I saw that episode of The Wire where they identify the convenience store with the bank-grade glass and no stock as a drug front, I immediately thought of that place. That probably isn't one, but we have so many goddamn smoke shops and casinos that've cropped up around town in the last ten or so that I presume some have to be.

EDIT: Actually, it wasn't that spot in The Wire that made me think that, it's Joe's shop where it's just a junk store where he tinkers and fixes toasters. Now, who needs a vacuum cleaner fixed anymore? 

There's actually a vacuum & sewing machine repair shop in the town I reside. I was there once to have a vacuum repaired for the funeral home I was working at. It was run by an old man who had his dog in the store. I think I can safely say it wasn't a drug front. 

[bobholly138]

10 hours ago, The Natural said:

Pissed me off when I sorted the DVD's in alphabetical order in the charity shop I worked for until it closed in the pandemic to see customers/staff mess it up. As a big fan of films, it was cool to do and I picked some great films up in perfect condition: The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Memento and Pulp Fiction to name a few.

The Thrift in town is one I hit every week. Their DVD/Blu Ray section aint big. And most weeks I sort it while looking. I just do alphabetical for them. Aint gonna do like home and break it down  by genre and then if I got say 5 copies of TCM74 on DVD/Blu ray put them in release order.

[bobholly138]

41 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

There's actually a vacuum & sewing machine repair shop in the town I reside. I was there once to have a vacuum repaired for the funeral home I was working at. It was run by an old man who had his dog in the store. I think I can safely say it wasn't a drug front. 

When I first moved to this area I was wondering why a town this small and this poor had 12 or so boutique clothing stores on the main street and then a shoe repair shop.

Figured at least one was a front. Shoe repair place is one that has been in that family for 3 generations. The locals go there to get new dress shoes and boots.  Do think they do much shoe repair.

And the clothing  boutiques are mostly used by folks from outside the area. One is a wedding place that you got people coming in from Jackson and the coast to get dresses.

 

[StevieNippz]

2 hours ago, zendragon said:

Was Brock vs Big Show good?

I wonder if WM being in Vegas is gonna be like The Super Bowl rotating between Superdome, Arizona and South Florida 

I liked Brock vs Show but I was in attendance so I might be giving it too much credit. I was spoiled that year because I also got to go to the Smackdown with the Brock/Angle Ironman match. If you do check out Brock/Show I'd skip most of the rest of that show. Outside of the Eddie/Tajiri vs Haas/Benjamin ladder match it was full of duds, with Triple H vs Nash being a huge stinker. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

I remember Brock vs. Big Show being entertaining, yes. 

[Raziel]

8 hours ago, twiztor said:

so in honor of AEW featuring Ricochet vs. Mark Briscoe in a Stretcher Match this weekend, i post this question:

What are the best stretcher matches in wrestling history?

Sabu vs RVD easy.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

12 hours ago, supremebve said:

The single most obvious drug front...Crumbl Cookies.  I have not met a single person who likes those terrible, piece of shit, cookies, but they keep popping up everywhere.

My mom loves them lmao

Random thought while cleaning the grill today: how do you think Brock entering the business in the early-mid 80s would go? Where do you guys think he'd end up? 

I feel like Watts would cream himself over the prospects. Verne too. 

Edited May 25, 2025 by RazorbladeKiss87

[supremebve]

7 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

I remember Brock vs. Big Show being entertaining, yes. 

Not only were their matches very entertaining, they are both at their best when they have someone to sell for.  If I'm going to watch a Big Show match, I want it to be against someone who can credibly make him bump around like a cruiserweight and Brock is in the same boat.  If you give either of those guys an opportunity to sell another power guy's offense, they are going to turn into Shawn Michaels.

[Curt McGirt]

4 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

Where do you guys think he'd end up? 

The New Miracle Violence Connection after Gordy dies.

[Cobra Commander]

Skimming through a “best of WWE Money in the Bank” stream that was on the WWE YouTube and thinking I really didn’t miss much by not watching weekly TV during the saga of AJ Lee

The match was Punk/Bryan for the title and that was good. Although the match had a “he’s gonna do something and you know it’s gonna be good” sort of way of filming AJ emoting ( https://youtu.be/rMX7k3qsnBk?si=Qi1GXwoqCD_Ap8L2 )

[zendragon]

8 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

My mom loves them lmao

Random thought while cleaning the grill today: how do you think Brock entering the business in the early-mid 80s would go? Where do you guys think he'd end up? 

I feel like Watts would cream himself over the prospects. Verne too. 

Main events WMII, works around the horn on the house show circuit with Hogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9FvK0eQy0

Full Yokozuna documentary

Edited May 25, 2025 by zendragon

[The Green Meanie]

2 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

Skimming through a “best of WWE Money in the Bank” stream that was on the WWE YouTube and thinking I really didn’t miss much by not watching weekly TV during the saga of AJ Lee

You missed #AJALL

[Ramo2653]

On 5/23/2025 at 1:25 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:

Thing is though, over the last 30+ years, the Bible Belt has a sneaky population of Mexican-American people and Mexican nationals. So if you did decide to move to New Orleans and were tired of the local fare, you could find pretty good Mexican food.

I think the argument though is if you don't give a damn about the local fare, why would need to go to New Orleans? Even though it's mad expensive, you can order the shit on Goldbelly and make it yourself. They give you the instructions. Otherwise, I am guessing there is a bunch of people across the country who consider Popeyes as New Orleans food much like Taco Bell is authentic Tex-Mex.

I've had some really good meals in New Orleans every time I go and they were always outside of the Quarter except for the muffuletta. But the one thing that I always think about is the jambalaya at Dooky Chase's. I make a pretty good jambalaya but it wasn't like that. And I learned how to make chaurice so I could add it to my jambalaya like theirs's but it's not the same. I might order some from Goldbelly for my birthday this year if I stay in town.

I'm kinda over the high end food scene in my city though, nothing is ever that good to me and when I hear people hype it up, my eyes roll like vintage Undertaker. The real gems are in the "ethnic" fare and the casual stuff.

On 5/23/2025 at 3:23 PM, Cobra Commander said:

there was a time with Popeyes/Church's under the same company where I heard the theory that the poorer areas got Church's locations instead of Popeyes

There's the old Mannie Fresh line from a Juvenile song: "Popeye's for the ballers, the ghetto eatin Church's."

[Ramo2653]

On 5/23/2025 at 5:18 PM, AxB said:

The greatest heel faction on the US indies for the last ten years was 44OH!. Their gimmick was being from (near) Cleveland.

The brothers had a TNA/Impact run right? I remember they were fun.

On 5/23/2025 at 10:49 PM, bobholly138 said:

Shit sorry sounding like Forest GUmp here. This was 86 and 87 mostly.

Sometimes I feel old and then I have this board to remind me I'm not that old. I would have been 2-3 years old at this time.

On 5/24/2025 at 7:25 AM, supremebve said:

The single most obvious drug front...Crumbl Cookies.  I have not met a single person who likes those terrible, piece of shit, cookies, but they keep popping up everywhere.

A friend brought me a box of these for my birthday last year and I really had to hide my disappointment. I think they're so bad.

[AxB]

17 minutes ago, Ramo2653 said:

The brothers had a TNA/Impact run right? I remember they were fun.

That's a different group of Ohio-based heels. OVE (Ohio vs Everything) was the TNA-ified version of Oi4K (Ohio is 4 Killers) was Sami Callihan, Jake Crist, Dave Crist, and sometimes Madman Fulton and briefly Rich Swann.

44OH! was Ricky Shane Page, Atticus Cogar, Eddy Only, Eric Ryan, Bobby Beverly and Gregory Iron. But then they split into two rival 44OH factions... they had been black and green, so Atticus Cogar, Otis Cogar, Eric Ryan, Bobby Beverly and Gregory Iron became 44OH Yellow, whist Ricky Shane Page, Vincent Nothing, Alice Crowley and Christian Napier became 44OH Blue.

And then a few months of gang war later, every member of both factions decided they were sick of their leader's shit and both groups disbanded on the same night. And Christian Napier is now a heel ref, allied with the Cogar Brothers in GCW (him being in the rival faction to them was a big "Here's a knife in your heart"angle, because he's their IRL cousin).

[Graham Crackers]

On 5/24/2025 at 7:16 AM, twiztor said:

so in honor of AEW featuring Ricochet vs. Mark Briscoe in a Stretcher Match this weekend, i post this question:

What are the best stretcher matches in wrestling history?

The Moondogs vs Fabulous Ones Stretcher Match from Memphis is pretty intense.

[Curt McGirt]

2 hours ago, Graham Crackers said:

The Moondogs vs Fabulous Ones Stretcher Match from Memphis is pretty intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEAEr_JbqDY&ab_channel=CWAMemphis

I had to find that. Review later.

[Sex Machine Gun]

This is NOT to reinvigorate the earlier subject but I really thought I'd informally banned myself by making a personal statement about Joshi fans. I was legit frightened to see what the responses would be because I really like this community and didn't want to lose it. That's all I'll say about that.

To come up with a different topic in a topic-less thread:

What wrestlers are addressed in discussion more or equally to their ring name? The first that comes to mind is X-Pac/Sean Waltman. I see the latter come up more often in the contemporary sphere than the ring name. Wrestlers who used their real names don't count. 

[zendragon]

Foley comes to mind

[Technico Support]

On 5/24/2025 at 1:02 AM, Curt McGirt said:

There's an actual -- get this -- vacuum repair store here on a corner downtown, right down from the police department! It's had the same sign in the window for 20+ years. As soon as I saw that episode of The Wire where they identify the convenience store with the bank-grade glass and no stock as a drug front, I immediately thought of that place. That probably isn't one, but we have so many goddamn smoke shops and casinos that've cropped up around town in the last ten or so that I presume some have to be.

EDIT: Actually, it wasn't that spot in The Wire that made me think that, it's Joe's shop where it's just a junk store where he tinkers and fixes toasters. Now, who needs a vacuum cleaner fixed anymore? 

“I need a dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro Model 60“