Dolfan in NYC Posted January 20 Posted January 20 Who's the Black Sheep, what's a Black Sheep? Don't know who I am, or when I'm coming so you sleep. Wasn't in my dome, wasn't in ya sphere, knew not who I was, but listen here! Well last week, we bid goodbye to "Powerhouse Hobbs" and because we did... we needed new Trios champions! (Well that sure was convenient!) You can get with this, or you can get with that. You can get with this, or you can get with that. You can get with this, or you can get with that. I think you'll get with this, for this is where it's at! Some people took Hobbs' departure better than others. There was, of course, Darby Allin who is in a continuous battle to kill himself live on TV: ow. Engine, Engine, Number Nine, on the New York transit line... If my train goes off the track, Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up! On tap for this week... (Knight and Bailey both being repeatedly murdered by various people for the crime of 'Being Hangman's Friend' is an A+ storyline.) (I hadn't heard this for years until someone was blasting it along the Strip in Vegas this weekend. An absolutely perfect song for said activity.) Enjoy the week! 5 1
JLowe Posted January 20 Posted January 20 I saw De La Soul on tour in the early to mid-00s, part of me wants to say it was 20th anniversary 3 Feet High and Rising tour (back when they still hated it). Middle of their set, they say “we’re gonna bring out a special guest to do a song”, and it was Dres from Black Sheep to perform “The Choice is Yours”. The crowd, including myself, go crazy. Saw him a few years later at a free show put on by Scion, opening for Nice and Smooth, and that was again the highlight of the set. Bought a CD and talked to him after, really nice guy. Funny thing is that the popular version is “The Choice is Yours (Revisited)”, a remix that was released as a single/video and far superior to the original album version. I mean “Flavor of the Month” and “Strobelight Honey” were also great tracks, but that remix is what got them big for a hot minute and is still memorable. Gonna be in Delaware for work the next couple days and will likely miss watching the broadcast live tomorrow. 6
Curt McGirt Posted January 20 Posted January 20 Don't think I've ever even heard that all the way through. That's sick as fuck. (Love using laserdiscs on the turntable btw haha) What commercial is it that has the chorus of the song all the way through it that's playing on TV a lot these days? This show looks way way waaaaaaaaaaay more up my alley this week. Three singles, a tag and a street fight with Moxley involved, yes sir thank you may I have another. 4
SovietShooter Posted January 21 Posted January 21 I don't have Paramount+, but if you do, they made this documentary about Dres a few years ago. I believe the main themes are being a one-hit-winder, but continuing to toil on your craft without success, as well as him facing challenges in a new project where he was using JDilla beats. 2
RazorbladeKiss87 Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Pretty stacked lineup, minus MJF but every show needs a good bathroom break spot. Watching Penelope's return and I'm not a fan of Bayne's music. I appreciate that it's not a butt rock song or trap music but it's really lifeless. Can't wait to see Joe brutalizing Speedball. 1
Shartnado Posted January 21 Posted January 21 8 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said: Pretty stacked lineup, minus MJF but every show needs a good bathroom break spot. Watching Penelope's return and I'm not a fan of Bayne's music. I appreciate that it's not a butt rock song or trap music but it's really lifeless. Can't wait to see Joe brutalizing Speedball. Yeah, that theme is like... the previous one wasn't bad enough? I mean it starts out ok, but never really gets going. I know she's a heel, but c'mon! There are heels that have awesome theme songs/music, too! 2
Technico Support Posted January 21 Posted January 21 FTR vs DnD has been moved to next week. FTR vs Alec Price and Jordan Oliver has been added to tonight's show. 3
Shartnado Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Speaking of themes, the new Collision theme song was so awesome that I didn't fast forward Triller TV's ad breaks, so I could listen to it more! Needless to say, that's going on my next gym playlist! That's quite an improvement from one of the shit-worst themes ever on a wrestling show that was the original Collision theme. 1 1
Cobra Commander Posted January 21 Posted January 21 naturally one of the weeks they're in Arlington for the Collision residency includes a Saturday with snow/freezing rain 2
HarryArchieGus Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Rockin' line-up as per usual. Stoked for Bailey v Joe. Very excited to see what FTR do with the new signings. Certainly they could squash them, but I doubt that's what Cash/Dax have in mind. 1
tbarrie Posted January 21 Posted January 21 7 hours ago, Shartnado said: That's quite an improvement from one of the shit-worst themes ever on a wrestling show that was the original Collision theme. Wait, have we found a second person who didn't think "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" was awesome? Or are we talking about some other theme? 1
Zimbra Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Just a tidbit: AEW cancelled Saturday's live Collision because of an expected winter storm in Texas and they're going to tape it after Dynamite tonight instead. 3
Cobra Commander Posted January 22 Posted January 22 (edited) Things I Remember From This Week's Edition of AEW Dynamite: MJF and Brody King talk it out Joe wins due to chicanery from random dudes Death Riders around Moxley = faces. Death Riders when Moxley isn't around = heels So much Don Callis although Kenny ran him off for like a minute Gotta suspect the ring crew has to sweep extra hard after the stuff in the swing in the Death Riders/Callis Family match Time for the quarterly "Lance Archer showing up to job to somebody" match I don't remember how the FTR match went Weekly promo from Thekla and friends Mina flying like Earl Hebner being launched by Hulk at The Main Event Marina helping cost Toni/Mina a match Gotta say Protoshita right or else you'll get bleeped MJF surrounded by empty chairs Everybody beating the shit out of Jetspeed to establish their case to face MJF Edited January 22 by Cobra Commander
Nice Guy Eddie Posted January 22 Posted January 22 1 minute ago, Cobra Commander said: Things I Remember From This Week's Edition of AEW Dynamite: Joe wins due to chicanery from random dudes Time for the quarterly "Lance Archer showing up to job to somebody" match I don't remember how the FTR match went Since when are Shibata and Hook random dudes? Last I checked, they were members of the Opps with Joe Lance Archer didn't drop the fall. Rocky Romero did. I enjoyed the FTR match. I thought Oliver and Price looked good in defeat. 3
tbarrie Posted January 22 Posted January 22 6 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said: Death Riders around Moxley = faces. Death Riders when Moxley isn't around = heels Though given that the Riders are more face-adjacent, it was kind of weird that they had the whole squad get involved whereas the Family kept it to just the three guys legally in the match. 1
Cobra Commander Posted January 22 Posted January 22 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: Since when are Shibata and Hook random dudes? I was wearing headphones for part of the show so I guess the Opps dojo guys are blurring in with the actual stable guys
Nice Guy Eddie Posted January 22 Posted January 22 2 minutes ago, tbarrie said: Though given that the Riders are more face-adjacent, it was kind of weird that they had the whole squad get involved whereas the Family kept it to just the three guys legally in the match. I look at it as fighting fire with fire. The Death Riders know there are more DCF members, so they struck first. 3
Curt McGirt Posted January 22 Posted January 22 COLLISION IN ORLANDO, OR, THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING MISSILE DROPKICKS Spoiler There were a lot. I counted five (well, four, but I decided to count Kevin Knight's dropkick off the apron to Swerve too). Very DVDVR of them, along with Kenny and Alexander's Great Punches. - Still not convinced at any of MJF's chickenshit heel routine. It's painfully unfunny, unentertaining, and comes across old-fashioned in a painful way almost. He just has no edge in it. If he came off more like a Tully, or a Rude, it would be great. Instead he really nails being an insecure rich kid too well and it comes off as pathetic and irritating. I take no pleasure in his presence unless he is in the ring giving us a good match like last time. That's it. - Bailey suggests they name their team the Horse Cocks. Yes. I didn't quite catch it and the subtitles no-sold it, but apparently that's what he said, because somebody on the Internet suggested it. Awaiting the "HORSE COCKS HORSE COCKS" chant with baited breath. - Of course Joe vs. Bailey was great. Somebody in the Discord said Joe is moving slow and wondered how old he was but I don't see it. There were clips of Blue Panther vs. Ultimo Guerrero that I saw from last week and THAT was 'aging out of wrestling' slow (even if they were doing highspots and, well, go figure because of that). He is as explosive as when we all watched him wrestle a 20 year old Jay Briscoe in the chat last night. Bailey almost gets hobbled due to some prime legwork starting with an insane spot none of us have probably seen before, where he basically choke-bombed Speedball's knees into the mat (did he cross his legs behind him? I can't remember) which looked super gnarly and super hurty. But then Mike works through it way too quick and they rely on interference to get to the Muscle Buster which IMO was the wrong move; you worked the knee, finish it with that heel hook/kneebar. And bring back the Island Driver! - This was the beginning of Taz working heel again and that sucks. Opps really IS the new Team Taz, I guess. Luckily though we later got a neat telestrator thing where Taz explained how Max won the match against Bandido in technical jargon. Call it the Taz-istrator. Paul E. and probably even Bill Watts would have loved to use something like that. - We are now up to a full 14 active and inactive members in the Don Callis Family! Gonna have to look up what NWO B&W was finally running at before the fractioning... Anyway, they send in the Z-Team of Archer and Romero, the big muscle and cringing lackey that started there and will finish there, with hot-shit Hechicero which feels like a step down for him sadly. Moxley/Garcia/Yuter are our three from the Riders. Street Fight was a bit of a mess until we started the big bumps with Wheeler eating a ginormous chokeslam from Archer through a table just behind the barricade that sent chairs flying and was crushed perfectly with the exposed, cracked board facing the camera. Archer did a lot of the heavy lifting (pardon the pun) in this, including almost 911-ing Marina who used the choke to armbar him and have him eat two super-shitty Busaiku Knees from a recovered Yuta. In case you were worried as I was that this would be a Moxley-featuring street fight with no blood, he brings out a table covered in barbed wire, tacks, and glass to be slammed into. Archer also did neat little things like toss the barrier pad on Yuta after the table spot, then smack him in the head with a garbage can lid they were passing by on the ramp, those small bits matter and bring spice to a match. Eventually Claudio and PAC interfere, whereas the other 11 members of the Family stay in the back?! Alrighty then. Mox hovers over Callis a long time before telling him his boy knows where to find him, and they walk off with Claudio clutching one of PAC's broken crutches as a souvenir, I suppose. - Price and Oliver are I guess yet another twink highflyer team for the grist mill of the AEW undercard. They have a really solid, competitive match (not a squash) with FTR who give them plenty. We are reminded that chopping Dax Harwood is a futile endeavor given the chest-reddening results of said offense. Stokely now has a gold-plated wheelchair with "big stoke" (no caps) written on the back in cursive, which is just as '80s as the team he's managing. Oh, and he has some nice loafers too, which Callis will smoke by once again wearing Count Dracula's Houseshoes. - Thekla is a real fucking good promo! Wow. Harley Cameron has her hair braided in the most absurd way humanly possible. It looks like uncooked bread dough that has been twisted to be baked into some kind of arcane pretzel-loaf. - Omega and Alexander go out there and just beat the absolute shit out of each other. It was great. Kenny's finally looking in good shape, still selling the gut but that's probably always gonna be a part of his matches now. Him and Alexander work their way from in the ring to out in front of the announce desk where they have a forearm exchange, that breaks down to them straight punching each other in the face, which ends up in Callis freaking out, Kenny coming for him and him jumping the rail and running away. Now this sounds pretty standard until you factor in that it was all shot in EXTREME CLOSE-UP by a single camera operator on the floor over the course of at least five minutes in one take with no flipping to another camera. It's just this guy, trying not to get steamrolled by Kenny and swinging this big-ass chunk of technology back and forth to catch every last thing, until they finally go and get back in the ring so the hard cam can take over. Give that man a fucking raise, Tony! Seriously. - Love Bombs versus Bayne and Ford was a little loose, a little sloppy; Mina almost got seriously hurt when Megan pitched her out of the ring at Toni, but unfortunately over Toni. Whereupon she went *splat*, right there facedown from ten foot up. OWWW. Ford looks back to working speed too. Anyway, Mina thankfully didn't die and gets right back in the match, and at one point either her or Toni eat a frickin' Claymore Kick from Megan. Marina comes out to interfere and costs the Lovers a win. It's good to see her having other female friends onscreen. - Think I finally am noticing the weight that Swerve has put on. Sadly it seems to have gathered in his midsection so it's like he's matching up with Darius right now. The beginning of the match felt almost in slo-mo to me, they were doing lucha-esque speed stuff that was a couple RPMs too low, but they eventually kick it into second gear and start to gel. At one point Swerve goes for what I think he wanted to be a Poison Rana but Knight walks off and bails on him, so he stomps over through the ropes and just boots him in the back of the head, haha. Swerve eats all of Knight's big offense and even some of his own with the leg-slap kick (whatever it's called) and they crank the temp to boiling right at the end in a tornado of offense-trading that Swerve finally comes out on the winning side of, hitting the Vertebreaker/Kudo Driver/Cop Killa and then his tucking front powerbomb thing that is apparently called the Big Pressure for the win. Solid, solid match. This one was a hit out of the ballpark. I knew it was gonna appeal to me directly having so many singles matches, only one multi-person besides a pair of tags, and a street fight with Mox, but anyone would love this show. 1
Shartnado Posted January 22 Posted January 22 5 hours ago, tbarrie said: Wait, have we found a second person who didn't think "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" was awesome? Or are we talking about some other theme? Yeah, that theme makes me what ever the opposite of "pumped to see the show is". (Maybe if it was "I'm Still Standing" it would be different?) I understand the connotation of a show on Saturday Night having a theme called that, but if that was the reason to use it, there's a collective of artists who make music for these kinds of purposes (called Backing Track) and they have a track called "Saturday Night is Alright for Dying", it's much better and if Darby Allin is on the card, also very a propos. 1
Curt McGirt Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I'm up there with the "hates the Elton John song" folks. If Elton can't stand "Crocodile Rock", I suggest he instead take a hard look at "Saturday Night's". 1
Cobra Commander Posted January 22 Posted January 22 sadly AEW doesn't have time to have an 9 minute long Collision theme every week 2
caley Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I'm just a few minutes into the show, but in Canada there was a very hilarious commercial break. What was supposed to be a picture-in-picture ad break, instead became fullscreen footage of Samoa Joe beating on Speedball while a Bell ad (One of the two big TV providers in Canada) covered the lower quarter of the screen. Now this in and of itself isn't funny, of course, but Bell likes to do an initiative this time of year for mental health (Sounds good, but there's some conjecture about how much of this is Bell using mental health to promote their brand as well as how many folks they have let go in recent years but all that's a conversation for another day!) and this year they've been doing ads serving as a mental health break. So this big blue symbol comes up and a breathy ASMR voice goes "Bell is giving you a mental health break, so inhale...hold...exhale" and the whole time this relaxation/mental health break is going on, Samoa Joe is silently kicking the shit out of Speedball in the background! 1 6
Curt McGirt Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Death from Above said in the chat: "Commercials in 2025: Online casinos, AI in your phone, and charities for kids that can't get food, everything's going great" So there is another Canadian opinion for you 3
Zimbra Posted January 22 Posted January 22 If you had asked me which guy in Samoa Joe/Speedball was going to do the Minoru Tanaka kick-trap kneebar spot I would never in a million years have guessed Joe. 1
Pete Posted January 22 Posted January 22 On 1/20/2026 at 5:44 PM, JLowe said: I saw De La Soul on tour in the early to mid-00s, part of me wants to say it was 20th anniversary 3 Feet High and Rising tour (back when they still hated it). Middle of their set, they say “we’re gonna bring out a special guest to do a song”, and it was Dres from Black Sheep to perform “The Choice is Yours”. The crowd, including myself, go crazy. Saw him a few years later at a free show put on by Scion, opening for Nice and Smooth, and that was again the highlight of the set. Bought a CD and talked to him after, really nice guy. Funny thing is that the popular version is “The Choice is Yours (Revisited)”, a remix that was released as a single/video and far superior to the original album version. I mean “Flavor of the Month” and “Strobelight Honey” were also great tracks, but that remix is what got them big for a hot minute and is still memorable. "Choice Is Yours (Revisited)" is actually tacked on the end of the album proper. That whole LP is pretty great... at Bradley I bumped it for the basketball team after practice and they lost their minds for "Have U.N.E. Pull," "Pass the 40" etc. In light of what a shit sandwich the US has become, Cindy and I also love "For Doz that Slept." 2
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