I feel bad for him. Wish he had made backups.

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Take a fuckin’ nap, Kawada.

I kind of don't want to see him lose a match ever. Great signing for MLW. I hope they get a great TV deal coming out of this pandemic.

I prefer Hansen's lariat as well, for the same reason as you. JBL's always seemed the same -- definitely a nice looking lariat. But there was a certain sanitization about it...it always looked the same.

Hansen's was unpredictable. Sometimes it'd look sort of like JBL's lariat, and other times it was akin to a knockout punch. He'd fucking smack someone... and instead of them taking some massive, showy bump, they'd just drop like a sack of shit. Probably because he actually hit the person and flash k.o.'d them before they could bump lol.

Also, Hansen's psychology with the lariat was better. He'd do little things like pull up his elbow pad to make it seem like he'd have to "protect his arm" because he'd hit you so hard. But it was always a great visual and the audience would react.

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Figgy's gif was better.

Jericho started his own show with some of his boys. Hillarious stuff and typical all over Jericho.

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I think the more interesting part is the commentary.

At 2:30:

Macho: Roddy Piper were you ever on the receiving end of something you didn't want to come your way.

Piper: Nope

Macho: OOh, that was a quick answer but not sure we got a truthful one right there.

Anyone else recall the Roddy Piper Alfred Hayes story? :eek: He definitely didn't want to be on the receiving end there.

Apparently AEW managed to have a segment hit the 1 million viewers mark during this week's episode of Dynamite.

Think that is only the second time that's happened for them since the coronavirus really started to ravage the ratings for televised wrestling.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Will be next week. Young Bucks vs Butcher &amp; Blade were the stars of the night. Finish topped 1M viewers. <a href="https://t.co/KZVQL7dHli">https://t.co/KZVQL7dHli</a></p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1286725592096751616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So, went to my local bar...which had old school ROH on (lethal vs gresham)....so some dude wanted to talk shit about "wrestling is fake blah blah blah...." welp karma served the wrestling fan....watched this clown drop $200 into a pull tab box (paper tabs could be worth $$ if ur not aware of what they are...)....hit this bad boy...while blasting JUDAS in the bar when I hit it....

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Haha nice!

So that won't happen again ever! Lol

Seems WWE might be planning to run a tournament for their NXT UK brand whenever they are able to resume shows for it.

Would be called the NXT UK Heritage Cup based on a recent trademark filing.

They also filed a similar trademark without the NXT UK tag and possibly for use for non-NXT UK brands.

Currently watching GCW's Homecoming show since it just started after some technical issues and the ring they are using is tiny.

Could just be the camera angle but the ring somehow looks a tad smaller than the one NJPW was using for their Young Lions series.

ACH's GCW debit was pretty decent overall.

Not sure it was a wise idea to have a very lengthy and slow paced match in 80+ degree heat though since it did affect the match's flow at times.

The Scramble match before it was a much better mix of action and match timing for an outdoor show in that type of heat.

Mance Warner vs. Chris Dickinson was such a great hard hitting match.

How Dickinson hasn't been signed to a notable big promotion is a mystery since the guy has been great every time I've seen him in GCW.

This Blake Christian vs. Alex Zayne match has been amazing. They weren't joking when the commentators said it was going to produce a ton of gif moments.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All Heart!!<a href="https://twitter.com/Air_Blake2234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Air_Blake2234</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexZayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexZayne</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GCWHomecoming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GCWHomecoming</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GCWrestling_</a> <br><br>Available on <a href="https://twitter.com/FiteTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FiteTV</a>, new users use promo code “4vweyzv” <a href="https://t.co/xQ7eKc49Tx">pic.twitter.com/xQ7eKc49Tx</a></p>&mdash; Wrestling With Unicorns (@W_W_Unicorns) <a href="https://twitter.com/W_W_Unicorns/status/1287152025977917440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I think this may actually have been about Fritz Von Erich

Ouch at doing a Slice Bread #2 spot on a barbed wire board. This death match has been pretty crazy and very bloody so far.

Jim talked a bit about the Mama Cornette character, as she was a real person, but never appeared on camera. He mentioned this promo. I must say, he didn't cut very many of them, but this babyface promo is better than most folks best promos.

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:eek: at that giant panel of glass covered in barb wire that just got brought out.

Whatever they are planning isn't going to be good at all.

Yeup, that spot was brutal. One-man Spanish Fly from the top rope onto the glass that was setup as a impromptu table.

Considering the amount of light tubes and doors GCW uses up during their shows, wonder if they get a bulk discount on them.

:eek: Nick Gage vs. Shlak being a death match since that wasn't listed earlier for the show. However crazy the first death match was, this one is easily going to top it in terms of brutality.

Yoshihiko putting Brock Lesnar to shame with the amount of suplexes he busted out against Janela.

Ouch at that spike DDT Janela took.

This has been an amazing comedy-based match so far.

:eek: Janela actually won DDT Pro's Ironman belt. Wonder if he's going to bring it to AEW television.

Holy shit, Lio Rush suddenly showed up. This GCW show has been amazing.

:lol: he ripped his spandex tights a bit too much for the surprise reveal. Almost pantsed himself in the process.

GCW World title match was decent. Wasn't really into it after the all the crazy stuff that happened prior in the show.

Only really interesting stuff that happened in the GCW title match was some guy in the crowd shouting out "Why are you so fat?" to the champ and the fork to the wang spot.

Show itself was great. Out of the 9 matches on the card, only 2 felt like duds for different reasons.

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:love::love::love:

Dear Emperor Smeat,

I've noticed that you seem to watch all wrestling pretty much so I have a few inquiries.

What is your favorite promotion? Least favorite? Do you only watch new wrestling or do you watch old as well, and how old? The reason I'm asking is because I feel you may be the the purest of all of us.

Myself am over saturated with product 100% I'd usually rather watch whatever the latest Netflix hit show is like "Dating on the Spectrum" or "Down to Earth With Zac Efron." I mean when it comes to today's wrestling how many times do I need to see the overly protected suicide dive, and why should I be watching anyone abuse the super kick beyond The Young Bucks?

The over choreography of a lot of today's wrestling is what really dampens my spirit. Seeing the red thigh from the slap for the knapp. Canadian destroyer every match.... yeah I know I'm describing the basic Young Bucks or Lucha Bro's match but they are amazing. They are the best of the best. Everyone is is not the best of the best but tries to have a Wrestlemania show stealer crammed into whatever time frame they are given for their match.

Diet Cokes for you from now on kid

Favorite - Leaning towards NJPW. Watched one of their Wrestle Kingdom shows several years ago and got instantly hooked on the promotion. Before that, mostly knew of them via gifs, videos, and reading online discussions.

Least favorite - Impact Wrestling. Less so about the actual quality of their shows and more because I rarely felt hooked or interested whenever I'd watch beyond some brief periods. Last time I saw a regular Impact episode was during the Final Deletion stuff and stopped after that was over.

In regards to old wrestling, I watch that from time to time. Mainly stuff from the Attitude Era since I have more fond memories of that period of wrestling than other periods. Usually all depends if I'm in the mood for some classic wrestling or if something peaks my interest that was posted or talked about online.

In regards to modern wrestling, never really had a problem with it becoming very athletic or spot-heavy for matches since around the early to mid-2000s, I started to enjoy that style of wrestling more than WWE's story and promo-heavy style of wrestling.

Currently watching GCW's Homecoming Part 2 show although missed out on almost all of the first half because of internet and computer issues. Seems the first half was pretty good and had a great death match bout based on some of the online chatter for the show.

Scramble match was somewhat short in length but was amazing in terms of high flying action. Ton of flips and dives and even had a one-man double Frankensteiner spot.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tr" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/AlexZayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexZayne</a> insane <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GCWHomecoming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GCWHomecoming</a> <a href="https://t.co/P874KuWqYl">pic.twitter.com/P874KuWqYl</a></p>&mdash; Jason (@WRESTLE_FAN96) <a href="https://twitter.com/WRESTLE_FAN96/status/1287517946328358912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I gotta say that the GCW Lost in New York show was the most fun I've ever had at rasslin.

One of these days I want to go to a GCW show but they usually don't run shows anywhere close to where I live nor have anyone to go to a show with since they either all moved out of the state or stopped being wrestling fans years ago.

Joey Janela vs. Lio Rush is about to happen.

Supposedly this is Lio's retirement match from wrestling.

Yikes at Janela almost crashing face first from that suicide dive to the outside.

Extra yikes at Janela getting busted open from the corner post and broken shards of glass on the outside shortly afterwards.

:eek: at Rush taking a spiked Package piledriver and a double stomp with a chair.

Match has been pretty good so far although nothing really special outside of a few big spots.

Holy shit, Janela is crazy.

Jumped from the top of one of the poles along the boardwalk and not only did he smashed through an impromptu table, he might have also boinked his head on the boardwalk floor.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crazy ladder door spot during the <a href="https://twitter.com/JANELABABY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JANELABABY</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/NotLioRush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NotLioRush</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GCWrestling_</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GCWhomecoming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GCWhomecoming</a> <a href="https://t.co/H6kmoa7wsz">pic.twitter.com/H6kmoa7wsz</a></p>&mdash; Evan Germanó (@evan_germano) <a href="https://twitter.com/evan_germano/status/1287531472455376902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Match itself was pretty good overall although would have been way better if it was like 5-10 minutes shorter.

:lol: at the "Fuck Cornette" chants during Janela's post-match promo and praise of Lio Rush. That might have been the best promo I've ever heard from Janela.

This main event match turned from being a handicap hardcore match to a light tube massacre and death match in an instant.

Ouch at the fat guy getting sit-out powerbombed through a bard wired door.

GCW Title shot vs. Nick Gage GCW career match was great. Much better main event than yesterday's show.

GCW's Homecoming Part 2 show was wonderful based on what I was able to watch.

I'm gonna say this knowing I said I enjoyed the Full Gear unsanctioned match but I'm not really a fan of these crazy death matches with barbed wire/light bulbs/etc

I like watching a death match every once in a while since sometimes they end up being pretty great but after this weekend's set of GCW's shows, I've had my fill of them for the foreseeable future.

Light tubes used to be the thing I liked the least about them but that changed after seeing a couple matches last year that involved scissors and blades boards. Especially after seeing one guy almost impale himself in the chest with a scissor. Think GCW stopped using those type of boards for matches after that incident.

Vince sounds like he has a cold...maybe just a bad mic?


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE CEO Vince McMahon responds to a shareholder question about what the company will do to improve TV ratings, from the annual shareholder meeting on Jul 16.<br><br>&quot;We have a 30-plus year track record of creating compelling characters and engaging a variety of audiences...&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XV9EjFgyeG">pic.twitter.com/XV9EjFgyeG</a></p>&mdash; Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1287506105325834240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NOAH and DDT will merge on Sep. 1 2020 as CyberFight<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ddtpro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ddtpro</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#noah_ghc</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tjpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tjpw</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GanPro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GanPro</a></p>&mdash; DDT English Update (@ddtpro_eng) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1287584482568966145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So the next one to have a "channel"....but hey at least they are funny.

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Sounds like a combo of age and a bad mic

How did this talk turn out?

Wow this got zero views (on youtube at least), that question takes place around 12:55



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Won't hold it against him as fucked up as his mind must be from all the chair shots.

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To clarify, they are still going to run as seperate brands, just under the same banner. You're not going to see blow up dolls in Noah or anything.

Though you might see some of DDT's more serious wrestlers cross over to Noah.

Seems WWE dropped their plans for a new higher priced tier for the Network that had been rumored for months to include content from their affiliated promotions.


Also current rumor going around the net is WWE is looking at a potential outdoor location for this year's SummerSlam event.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE could possibly run outdoor locations for Summerslam, according to some of the murmurs within the company. They should. UFC got a lot of buzz for a Fight Island that looked exactly like the rest of their shows. WWE could do something different</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1287869819740553216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

With MLB, MLS and NBA scrimmages, I'd expect RAW to likely do an all-time low rating this week.

I just don't see how they can avoid that.

It's too bad Club La Vela closed in 2018.

Yeah, next 2-3 months are going to be brutal for wrestling numbers.

Add in NFL and rumors of College Football looking at a Spring 2021 season and it might not be until next summer that wrestling gets any real reprieve from the sports onslaught.

That's assuming this coronavirus stuff doesn't take a turn for the worse in the winter.

Great to see you continuing your full-on racist twat gimmick. Nice to know you attribute believing one shouldn't be summarily executed in the streets by law enforcement with little to no reprocussions to CTE.

Keep up the shit work. :y:

Yeah let's just reward arson/looting with Ice Cream or better yet you donate like the lib celebs have to bail them out.

Ol' Milk Foley

If Sasha/Bayley is the new Austin/HHH 2 man power trip, im going to guess Sasha is playing the role of HHH and will probably get hurt and cause it to end too soon like HHH and his quad

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He's sounded that way for a while now, sounds like he has a remote controlled vibrator shoved up his ass set to high power.

lol

He sounds like Philip Baker Hall

Stuck in bit of a wrestling rut. I need a new long stretch project but I think I've done everything that I'm interested in.

Might do WCW Saturday Night 1998/99. Two hours a show is a long time to sit through C show matches . The 1 hour Worldwide's are way easier to do

Did you know?

The final episode of WCW programming was not Nitro and was in fact a WCW Worldwide broadcast.

Here we go again....Excalibur.

https://www.ringsidenews.com/2020/07..._vwcE3nPywbpE0 (AEW ANNOUNCER EXCALIBUR CAUGHT USING N-WORD IN MULTIPLE VIDEOS)

Since Sammy got suspended over past comments, Excalibur will at least get that too, right?

Yuppers! Worldwide had become just a recap show by 2000.

Wish I could find a full version of that ep, last checked like 5 years ago, it might be on youtube at this point.

Oh, so Excalibur is a former rassler? I always wondered who the f he was and why he wore a mask, but they never bothered explaining or mentioning it.

I think he's mentioned in passing like "I've been in the ring with this guy" but nothing more "official" than that.

Youtube just has a couple clips from the show

I saw the “sign-off” of that episode a few months ago. Pretty odd.

Picked a Worldwide episode at random and landed on Pat Rose immediately.
He has that territory body. Mmmmhmmmm...

Too Cold Scorpio and Marcus Bagwell was a weird team. Just flung together in red and white pants, dancing with kids in the ring.

The match ends with a 450 splash that couldn't look more out of place.

Backdrops were deadly in WCW

The Z Man now.

I think Tom Zenk is the name I dread seeing the most.
At least Scott Norton has interrupted just to decimate him.

Slamboree 93 has to be the weirdest PPV card I have ever seen.

Jesus Christ

Not a fan of Excalibur as a play by play guy. Wouldn't give one fuck of he was given the boot.

He should change his name to Ex Commentator

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Like how they ended with dismantling the set.

Supposedly he apologized for those comments in the past, same with Kevin Owens since he's in one of the videos but wouldn't be surprised if he got suspended.

2nd time those comments have resurfaced recently with the first being when the big wave of abuse and sexual harassment accusations was rocking wrestling. That's how Sammy got busted while Excalibur and Owens somehow managed to be left unscathed.

If people are going to dig thru old wrestling events of the last 5-20 years they are going find massive amounts of things to get outraged over.

I'm pretty sure Roderick Strong and Johnny Gargano were using the F word in indy feds a year before signing w/ WWE and in general PWG, ROH and TNA have tons of stuff that would be considered offensive. I say leave it all in the past and focus on the now, personally.

Lawler called Goldust a fag on Raw in 97.

The Rock called Kane part-retarded on RAW in 99. I think Lawler also called him The Big Red Retard at some point.

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Idk about Gargano, but Strong didn't do that. AJ Styles used it pretty frequently though.

All people need to do is watch any early PWG show with the commentary on and they will hear the entire commentary team say some racist shit anytime a black person is in the ring. Obviously they were doing it for shock value but it was still stupid and ignorant as fuck.

Pretty surprised he's still doing AEW commentary tbh. He hasn't improved at all since he got there even though he's working with legends every week. I find him pretty annoying. Take him out, put Tazz in, and my interest goes up a lot.

Jerry Lawler's output during the Attitude days was just constant smut. I'd say about 75% of what he said on any given night was closer to the bone than Rhiannon.

I watch back and it constantly blows my mind. Just watch literally any women's match from 98-2002

lol yes he did

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/zacksabrejr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zacksabrejr</a> I apologize for calling you the Fword but I don't apologize for anything else I said. Tomorrow this ends. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChampStrong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChampStrong</a></p>&mdash; Roderick Strong (@roderickstrong) <a href="https://twitter.com/roderickstrong/status/706030676148101120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NXT Champion Johnny Gargano vs. Universal Champion Seth Rollins in AIW in 2008. The first 1:03 seconds show Johnny calling Seth &quot;pretty gay&quot; then grabbing his penis repeatedly while asking Seth if he likes it, and if he's looking at it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> <a href="https://t.co/UhdqGYbruF">https://t.co/UhdqGYbruF</a> …</p>&mdash; Brad Shepard (@TheBradShepard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBradShepard/status/1117596798053384194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm sure this one will bounce back at some point

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My point is, I don't think people should 'cancel wrestlers' for saying stupid shit in promos from the past era.

Focus on the here and now, things have changed.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Imagine paying $400 for this. <a href="https://t.co/HOkp3GZrkI">https://t.co/HOkp3GZrkI</a></p>&mdash; Matt Degnan (@degnan_matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/degnan_matt/status/1288585493807063040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not watching that, but I would absolutely do something like "I bet you $1,000 I can get Alexa Bliss to answer my request for a date."

Alexa is a class act.

Match goes a minute. Watch just for Sid's punches and Sid nearly paralyzing Lenny Lane.

Lol I remember that because we used to call this kid we played hockey against that. Oh the 90's.

Would have been much better if she had said what she was really thinking.:rofl:

The Owens and Excalibur stuff is just young people saying offensive things for attention. They're not racist. They just lacked the empathy and understanding of why using that word, even within that context is an extremely hurtful and insensitive thing to do. They should be made to apologize for any offense or pain they caused.

That's what should happen, but we live in 2020. Best case scenario is they are kept off TV for months. During this time they will be made to undergo sensitivity training despite the fact that they have already grown and matured as people at this point and would probably never even think of acting like that today, promo or not.

Figgy speaks the truth.