FTR vs Briscoes III was tremendous. Again. A proper old school feud and I didn't think a dog collar match would be much good but it was.
Recommend.
FTR vs Briscoes III was tremendous. Again. A proper old school feud and I didn't think a dog collar match would be much good but it was.
Recommend.
Seems like 420 Stoner Bro is more than just a stoner, bro.
Stuff also popping up about his divorce that's not making him look fantastic either.
So being Keith's mate isn't enough to also make you immune to the Wellness Policy?
Oh shit.
Camera angle change kinda ruins that.
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McMahon has reportedly told people he plans to make a comeback at WWE, according to people close to the situation. He has said that he received bad advice from people close to him to step down, and that he now believes the allegations and investigations would have blown over had he stayed, according to these people.
He's also facing new legal demands from the women he sexually assaulted.
Still hoping he gets a big offer from Cocaine Tony.
Holy shit.
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Mandy Rose fired.
I mean, she'll probably make more money doing that sort of thing.
Also explains why whatsername got her Iron Survivor shot, and won the title, so quickly.
I saw one of her vids that someone posted on Reddit. Good god.
Is that a recommendation, or...?
This is my weekly “Ricky Starks is awesome” post. A classic plucky underdog vs. slimy heel match and another great promo. It looks like they might sidestep him into a Jericho feud or some shit so if previous AEW is anything to go by, they’ll cool him right off.
Speaking of Jericho, he got beat by some jobber I’ve literally never heard of. The match was put together really well though and the crowd were all over it. It’s amazing what this company could do if they think about their booking.
Let’s go jobber!
Absolutely can’t wait for the [inevitable] ladder match between The Elite and Death Triangle to finish the series.
Less stoked about MJF seemingly having a feud with Borin’ Danielson though.
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Danielson > EVPs
Absolutely tripe.
2009 Daniel Bryan* perhaps, but right now it’s not even close.
*I’d even doubt “prime DB” was as good as Kenny Omega is, but I’m not a fair judge
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If we are talking about overly cooperative spotfests then I’d agree, but this is wrestling. Omega and to a lesser degree PAC are more than capable of being great wrestlers but they’re far too easily swayed by the other four idiots. I’m looking forward to Omega vs. Ospreay at Wrestle Kingdom although I don’t know where Omega is physically these days.
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You're defending Danielson so keep going, I just immediately thought of that.
I'm going to watch an old McGuinness vs. Danielson match just to remind myself what wrestling should be.
I need to watch some McGuinness. I never saw any of his stuff but have heard great thing.
Baz won't like him.
Cheers, I've bookmarked that one.
15 fun minutes from Gunther and Ricochet on Smackdown. And it's nice that the crowd are quite into Ricochet now, with HHH have doing the super obvious thing of just letting the man wrestle and crowds realise he's great. Dunno if he'll be done chasing the IC title for now but if he is they need to keep going with him.
I'll watch that one later I think. Seems they also taped next week's SmackDown and the card looks like the ultimate phone-in.
I'm not sure I like the idea that there's a particular way that wrestling 'should be'. Like what you like, the best thing about AEW has been the variety on the card compared to WWE, you can see all different types of wrestlers/wrestling. The y use and book them oddly at times but they're there.
Big Match John back for a pointless main event on Smackdown, to keep his streak of having a match every year for 20 years alive.
As in style? I appreciate pretty much every style of wrestling but all this obviously cooperative shit whilst flipping off the basics is where I draw the line. I mean, when you have to get the referee to ignore something obvious, or worse, actively participate in the setup so you can do a spot, you’ve jumped the shark. That’s why I bash the Bucks et al.
16 years since Jeff Hardy broke Joey Mercurys face, apparently.
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Other than Hayabusa falling directly on his dome and paralysing myself, no other injury sticks out like that one. Awful.
MNM underrated tag team as well.
Sid's leg snapping is still top of the pops for me, especially as they carried on around him as well.
Ah shit yeah don’t know how I forgot that. I used to love Sid.
Was it Ray Fenix whose arm visibly broke and went all the wrong way round on TV recently? It was pretty grim whoever it was.
Was indeed. Courtesy of a Luchasaurus chokeslam, unsurprisingly.
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How does one break their arm on a chokeslam bump?
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There’s a really bad one where a guy jumps down from the top rope and breaks both his legs at the shins.
Big E having his neck broken on a suplex was pretty tough to watch.
As was Ridge Holland trying to catch someone in NXT only to see both his legs blow up.
Ricky Starks saying Jericho was built like an air fryer.
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This bad boy popped up on my YouTube recommendations, so I had to watch it because I never realised Undertaker wrestled in WAR.
Undertaker vs. (King) Haku. Yokohama, Japan, 1992.
So a bit of background from what I recall: this was around the time the NJPW and WCW relationship was strong so Vince decided he needed a Japanese partner because wrestling in Japan was so hot at this point whereas the US scene was in the shitter. Baba (AJPW) had gone completely isolationist after being burned by the NWA so Vince turned to Genichiro Tenryu who had left both big Japanese promotions and gone alone with the backing of some mark, creating SWS. Eventually the money dried up and SWS died but Tenryu found another money man and set up WAR straight after so it's basically the same promotion. So I'm guessing WWF and WAR did a few crossover shows and this match is on one of them. It's notable for a few things, firstly the entrance is probably the first one of the Undertaker's that is completely wild and paved the way for them to become commonplace in later years. Also Haku was a big name in SWS/WAR so he gets a lot of offence in this match, way more than anyone else did against Undertaker in the early years. And then the crowd couldn't give less of a shit about the finish. I don't think they liked the over-the-top gimmick at all.
I really like Swerve but "Mogul Affiliates" is just a bad stable name.
If a pitch black match is what it sounds like, HHH is a booking God.
Man fuckin' loves a gimmick, doesn't he?
Did you enjoy the Christmas tree spot, @Ben ?
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What’s this?
In match 4 of the Trios series, Penta retrieved a Christmas tree from the entrance and set it up in the corner of the ring. The Elite were all whipped into it, one after the other, while the commentary went crazy over the UNFORGIVING ARTIFICIAL PINE NEEDLES.What’s this?
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Good to see that them trying to have a serious match descended into nonsense comedy.
Brandon Cutler was an elf.
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What’s the deal with his face mask thing? Is it some gimp joke?
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