Joe Son. He was the parody Oddjob in Austin Powers.
Joe Son. He was the parody Oddjob in Austin Powers.
I didn't know that, incredible.
Phil Brooks got beat so bad that Dana cut the guy who beat him for not finishing the fight and toying with him.
As is with his WWE/AEW work, his promos and such are top notch, but inside the ring, something to be desired.
Just watched the last bit of WrestleDream and thought to myself, if Nick Wayne doesn't make it, at least he can say he was there in the ring when Edge came to confront Christian after all those years. But then I realised the guy was five years old when Edge initially retired, so he was probably stood there like "who the fuck is this?"
Huh, they've put the NA title straight back on Dominik. Obviously going to be a transition to Dragon Lee then. I hoped they'd just continue the feud on the main roster to be honest, they don't need a title.
Also, Dynamite is on Tuesday next week for some reason, head-to-head against NXT. So WWE are putting Cena, Rhodes and Heyman on the show lol.
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Just watched the end of Wrestledream. Would have been better if it wasn’t so dragged out after the final bell, but always entertaining to see a wrestler I know join the gang. Better than another Japanese jobber, for sure.
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Fastlane looks stacked! 5 matches if I’m not wrong. 3 tag matches, Rollins v Nakumura and a triple threat for woman’s title.
They're so hot that they think they can put any old shit out. Jade Cargill is slated to be on the show however, so I'm in.
I don’t mind less matches as means they have a chance to put on a decent show rather than being rushed but they could do with another one. Give me PPV Gunther.
Reckon Carlito debuts and joins LWO
John Cena and LA Knight is like the superteam of superteams. Hogan and Savage of this generation.
I think that match will be cool and I expect the tag title match to be excellent if they can tone Jey down on the superkicks (but what else has he got?).
Agreed. I said it before but the inevitable Jay/Jimmy match will be tragic
Best heel in the biz.
Surely Priest is cashing in tonight otherwise I don’t get the point in dropping the titles.
Suppose they need an excuse for Rhodes going on Smackdown
Top Guys out.
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Fastlane was pretty poo. The site I use buggered the link for the video with the main event but I hadn't seen it was last man standing so knowing it went 30 minutes I think I've dodged a bullet.
Jey/Cody vs. JD was fine if pretty plodding at the start. The Pizza Hut match I'm not sure why you'd have your budding heel faction lose to a nostalgia pop, womens triple threat was clunky and mostly served to let Charlotte dominate single-handedly and Iyo once again doesn't just get a proper win, Cena/Knight vs Bloodline had its moments but as we've discussed in here at some length the whole thing is spinning its wheels until Reigns bothers his arse to show up on TV.
I know his knee is kayfabe gubbed earlier in the night but that really ought to have been the point they had Priest cash in. I've no idea who they have taking the belt off Rollins but it could do with happening sharpish.
Why they don’t wrestle in smaller venues I do not know. Wembley gotta be the only time they’ve managed to sell more than a couple hundred tickets in the hard camera side in the past few months.
Tony Khan is rubbish at this sort of thing. They've never ran Salt Lake City before and apparently there was little-to-no local advertising (which was also the case in Seattle for WrestleDream). Now, either Tony thinks everyone is an internet fan like him so they'll know the show is on, or they absolutely don't want the casual fan in attendance and would rather have 2,000 marks there than a full house who would demand something more than flips. The chickens have come home to roost on his touring schedule; he got away with running the same five cities constantly through their hot period and now he's tired them out he's going off to these other cities that they've never ran before and refuse to promote in advance. It's no surprise there's no cunt there. And also booking 12,000-20,000 arenas when your draw is clearly in the single figures thousands range is just naďve and looks horrendous on TV.
Dragon Lee has officially been added to the Smackdown roster.
Should be a really good addition.
Hopefully they don't add him to the LWO though.
Sounds like the CM Punk to WWE return is pretty much done and the earliest event he could appear at is Survivor Series and of course, it's pretty much in Chicago.
Haven’t seen it yet but apparently Raw was shit hot last night.
Lol at AEW and WWE pulling out all the stops to smash each other in the ratings tonight. I assume NXT will win over though
Walter vs. Reed should be fun.
Show sounds like it had a few decent matches.
Hopefully the match is on PPV rather than TV. I just can't cope with all the ad breaks. A wrestling match needs to get you invested to achieve its point and constant breaks just kill it.
There must have been five or six minutes tops of that Reed match actually on air. But it was a triple threat, so maybe that wasn't a bad thing.
American Badass Taker showing up on NXT? Holy shit.
Seems like NXT won the night.
I've only seen brief highlights of both so far. Dynamite actually looked decent with Jay White beating Page, Hobbs squashing Jericho and Toni Storm continuing to be incredible. But then they went and put the International title straight back on Orange Cassidy because God forbid we go more than two weeks without that guy winning a match on TV, and they wasted Edge's first match on fucking Luchasaurus.
NXT came across as outstanding with all the cameos having a bit of meaning. LA Knight as special guest ref as Dragunov dragged Dominik to a legitimately good match. Breakker went up like fucking Lesnar for that Taker chokeslam and it was awesome.
There's a lot of AEW that I can't stand but Timeless Toni Storm and Christian talking about everybody's family are absolutely massive highlights every week.
What’s this WWE thing at Wembley?
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"Sunday Stunner" which is at Wembley Arena.
I think it's one of those BIG house shows which aren't quite PLE's.
960,000 for NXT and 640,000 for AEW is my prediction.Originally Posted by Ben
Not watched it yet but it seems AEW have doubled down on the “throw coins at the little Jew boy” gimmick. Interesting timing!
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Three months ago MJF was the must-see guy in AEW. Since All In they've leaned far too much into the comedy bollocks with him and I've stopped caring to the point they should just leave the belt on Jay White.
It was 920,500 for NXT and 608,000 for AEW.
Unlucky, Tony.
This aged well then.
He's such a child. Which is a fairly typical trait for a North American wrasslin promoter I guess.
That's not even the worst bit. Apparently he went off at some kid in his comments (who didn't even @ him) about Cagematch ratings and then chewed out Shawn Michaels for letting Vince and Trips put main roster guys on his show, thereby throwing away any chance he had of winning the Observer Booker of the Year Award.
Edit. Here they are:
A fucking billionaire screeching about things so niche that even most wrestling fans don't have a clue about them. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
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This year has had a lot happen but if Dog the bounty hunter wins best booker that'll top it off.
Lol at Vince selling up to Endeavor to get control back for them to give HHH all the creative control and for them to publicly blame Vince for stocks dropping.
Oh my
See, you could take that as a decent joke at face value if he hadn't been so clearly seething about Tuesday.
I still lol that he actually replied to someone who posted a picture of a flag that said "Tony Khan wanks dogs".
Wargames again for Survivor Series apparently.
No rumours on who will be in the women's one (or if they'll have one) but the rumours are that the men's one will feature Judgement Day.
No Pepsi Phil either
Meltzer has reported that they pulled out of the CM Punk deal so it’s probably 100% nailed on he does actually sign. Guy is a great historian but is wrong so many times “plans change”
Judgement Day vs a collective of babyfaces one assumes. KO, Sami, Cody, Jey? Something like that?
What a shame WarGames is shiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
They should have Mami fight in it too
If JD are in WarGames she's 100% ending up in the cage at some point even if she's not officially part of their team.
I assume McDonagh either is properly in the group by then or that's being treated as his final audition sort of thing, like Sami and Bloodline last year.
Finally got round to watching No Mercy.
Firstly, that intro video was class.
I felt most matches were a bit of a let-down but Ilja/Carmelo and Stratton/Lynch were brilliant.
Properly lolled too when Bex accidentally launched the barbed wire bat. Also, Stratton has IT.
Smackdown v Collision in November on the lead up to Survivor Series. Twitter is going to be a warzone
HHH gonna have Reigns v Cody II to bury Tony Khan further
If the story about the Punk to WWE deal being off is true, they 100% have to make it happen now just to see how much more Tony can self-destruct on Twitter. He’s still going now.
It's embarrassing really, even if 'posting' is pretty tame behaviour for a wrestling promoter this is all a bit Fall of WCW. If only they could find a happy balance between cool guy Tony letting the boys run the show and a promotion where the wrestlers can be creative and have input into the direction it takes.
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