Ibushi definitely thought he was just posing with some fans there.

For those that enjoy watching and/or reading up on old wrestling, Voices of Wrestling recently had an article on the early days of US wrestling going as far back as the 1890s and one of its first mega stars.

Back in the day when wrestling was mostly seen as a real sport although still had its fair share of sports media saying wrestling was fake.

https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/20...-in-the-1890s/

Farmer Burns!

Austin Aries has to rank up there.

Yeah, Flip is the obvious one. I've also noticed some troubling posts made by NXT performers such as Raquel Gonzalez. I wonder if it had any bearing on the recent outbreaks at the performance center.

Agreed. IIRC he randomly talked about fluoride making kids autistic during a podcast. Also, Bo Dallas is a conspiracy nut. Unsure about his stance on the pandemic.

Bo is a conspiracy wacko?

Was this recent since I don't remember any dirt against him said around the net.

This was back in 2017 on an episode of Talk Is Jericho.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR...0QkfYCegQIARAF

Coming from the military like Flip was (he was Army Guard, I was active Air Force) I don't blame him for believing in a lot of stuff....when you work for the Govt. there are things you are led to believe that in the end were B.S. from the start.

I guess it's all on how far down the rabbit hole you fall.

Who's that guy on the Forgotten Sons that's some weirdo

Jaxson Riker

According to PWI, a very sad incident happened in Mexico last night.

A young wrestler suffered a fatal heart attack during the middle of a match.

Unlike what happened with Silver King's passing in the United Kingdom, match was quickly stopped and medical officials rushed in immediately to try to save him.

Edit: PWInsider was a bit off on his age since Lucha Blog reported that he was actually 23 years old.

RIP

RIP

"Concerned" about people who have to work with Strowman.

Seems WWE recently ran into some legal issues regarding several trademarks for talent names they've been filing in batches these past few months.

At least 3 wrestlers haven't given their written consent needed for WWE to own their names while in the company due to their ring names being their real names.

Interesting, another denied trademark was for "Justus" which isn't the current name of anyone in WWE and has been rumored for a while to be related to Retribution. That was originally rumored to be the name of the group before they were officially revealed as Retribution.

Also WWE has been having trouble trademarking Mia Yim's name not because its her real name but due to her having past usage of the name in the indies meaning WWE needs her consent to own it while she works for them. Seeing as she's one of the people who is affected the most by WWE's recent third party services ban, makes sense why she isn't too happy to give them permission for ownership of her name.

https://heelbynature.com/wrestling-n...t-from-talent/

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Throughout the pandemic/lockdown, my girlfriend and I have dug out all our old DVD's and been watching through them all. This includes all my wrestling ones which she loves watching and is a huge fan!

Currently just watched The Great American Bash 2004 and Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story, and two random notes/observations:

Damn, Chris Benoit was so fucking good. If you can try to appreciate his work as a wrestler prior to how his life ended, he really was one of the absolute best. From his solo DVD and all the ones we watched prior, the guy was so crisp in the ring. He had an absolute intensity and believeability that nobody really has anymore. Makes me appreciate that era of technical wrestling around the turn of the century before all the flippy and comedy stuff got too out-of-hand. Nowadays it's all so choreographed and gymnastics that it takes a lot of the realism out of the competition.

Also, I always kinda wished WWE would release a DVD or something on the Network or whatever, focusing on all the guys/matches that don't warrent DVD's of their own. So many mid-card matches and stand-out performers that should be highlighted. Guys like Christian, Booker T, Jamie Knoble, Tyson Kidd, Dolph Ziggler, Carlito, Shelton Benjamin, Dean Malenko etc. Perhaps matches from Raw, Smackdown, WWECW, NXT, Main Event etc that weren't necessarily main event matches or significant in any way, other than being great matches that seemed to have been kinda forgotten about.

:y:

Dark Side of the Ring renewed for a 14 episode third season


https://bleedingcool.com/tv/dark-sid...-returns-2021/

Oh wow, I thought Roberts,Houston, Robin and Smith were all one episode. Some really disturbing shit is gonna come out of this and I feel Roberts may be seen in a more empathetic way

The fact that some people thought Benoit was boring or "vanilla" is a testament to how many great personalities were in WWE at the time.

Benoit would be the equivalent of Steve fucking Austin in today's enviornment.

Yeah, I remember from the WWE Jake DVD that his early life was really fucked up, but they only glossed over it.

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No chance are they doing four shows on the Smith/Roberts family. It's just not going to happen.

Yeah I just read another article. It looks like it's Grizzly Smith and the kids

Do you fuck after watching sweaty guys toss each other in the ring?

David Bixenspan recently revealed that he helped work on the upcoming third season of Dark side of the Ring.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now that everything's officially announced, I can finally reveal that [one of] the secret project[s] I've alluded to for months is working as a researcher on <a href="https://twitter.com/DarkSideOfRing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DarkSideOfRing</a> season 3! It's been a blast; expect an epic season from the whopping 14 ep order. <a href="https://t.co/FDHhXecgIu">https://t.co/FDHhXecgIu</a></p>&mdash; David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1318255416543989761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Considering how great he is at uncovering the shady and dark aspect of wrestling, a bunch of these upcoming episodes very likely will be a lot more juicer in dark content than usual for the series.

Supposedly the main issues people had with Season 2 revolved around Bruce Prichard having too much influence on its direction and the producers leaning a bit too heavy on his style of storytelling for topics.

Add Bobby Fish to the list.

Bix is the best when it comes to this investigative reporting. The stuff he's uncovered on the Between the Sheets Patreon shows has been amazing. Stuff like all the Nevada State Athletic commission stuff regarding Herb Abrams UWF and the Blackjack Brawl. He's so good at this stuff.

This guy just started posting videos of classic AJPW. Most of them are from the 70's and feature guys like The Destroyer and Jack Brisco. Destroyer was so fucking good.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrc...bKxC7U9yhzABRQ

Just heard that another wrestler being rumored for DSOTR


Nick Fucking Gage

And that is amazing Fignuts. YouTube has come alive again for wrestling footage.

Weather sucks in Minnesota...need something nicer to look at.


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I dont think there's enough quality stories to be told thst they could do 14 episodes and like half of them be boring.

There's so much shady shit that even posters like us who are in the "Smark" crowd have no idea about.

They GOTTA do one on Chris Adams.

You could have :

1. Pillman
2. Collision in Korea
3. Grizzly Smith and his kids
4. Nick Gage
5. Chris Adams
6. Rob Black and the XWF
7. Steroid Trial
8. Ring Boys Scandal
9. Eddie Guererro
10. Sunny
11. Sabu
12. 2004 Diva Search (Just to have a light topic)
13. Scott Hall
14. Rikidozan



That would be an amazing season

lol I was gonna say something like "even the boring episodes would be interesting to dudes like Gertner!"

Looks like she's on a driving range with those signs in the background.

I'd drive that range....

Anyone listen to Tommy Dreamer's podcast before?

Apparently WWE is currently under investigation by Orange County officials regarding their venues being hotspots for the coronavirus in Florida.

Its part of a larger investigation targeting 17 businesses that government officials feel have been responsible for keeping the spread of the coronavirus on-going in the county.

I always wonder if Japanese speaking wrestling fans complain online about NJPW the way English speaking wrestling fans complain about WWE.

Probably not anywhere near the same degree mainly because NJPW isn't being run into the ground by an old and increasingly out of tough guy nor having somewhat destructive plans for wrestling like his potential successor has.

NJPW's biggest criticisms in recent years pretty much revolved around how they've handled Naito over the years including his Double Champ reign and the big backlash they got from their female fanbase over the idea to include women's wrestling on their shows.

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That's fantastic! I saw a post from his wife a few days ago that appeared to show Jim was on the mend.

WWE recently revealed how bad their recent coronavirus outbreaks were as part of their response to Orange County officials investigating them as a potential hotspot of the coronavirus in the county.

According to the Observer's Bryan Alvarez, the 1.5% positive cases given by WWE ends up being around 150 wrestlers and staff who tested positive for the coronavirus since WWE started holding tapings at their Performance Center and Full Sail. That number is a lot higher than was originally assumed for WWE's outbreaks.

Alvarez also stated that WWE's number doesn't include family members that contracted the virus from infected wrestlers and staff which would skew the numbers even higher against the company.

Jesus Christ :nono:

Guess they’re going for herd immunity?

Fucking despicable.

Just as long as Vince gets his sub par tv show out he couldn't give a shit. :roll:

Surprised there isn't some way to shut them down totally for a few weeks.

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Lol when the hell did that take place

From an episode of WCW Thunder in 2000.

https://insidepulse.com/2005/04/27/36893/

Lol of course it happened in 2000 WCW

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I totally forgot about that. Gonna watch it this weekend.

"Every time HBK dropped a title without putting someone over"

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Seems Marty Scurll might be gone from Ring of Honor.

ROH recently removed him from their roster page and he wasn't brought back for their recent set of tapings. Same for him not being brought back to ROH Creative since being among those accused during this past summer's tidal wave of sexual abuse and harassment allegations within the wrestling industry.

funny how much the indie scene has changed in terms of who's hot and who's not in the last four years or so. PWG's Battle of Los Angeles from 2016 was the pinnacle of popularity for that company, it featured many guys that have since gone on to greater things or returned to WWE - Tomasso Ciampa, Ricochet, Tommy End, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish, Adam Cole, John Morrison, Trevor Lee, Brian Kendrick, Matt Riddle, Pete Dunne, Mark Andrews, Chris Hero (who was later terminated again). Cody Rhodes and the Bucks went on to form AEW (and took the Lucha Bros with them), guys like Zach Sabre Jr. and Will Ospreay still doing their thing, Jeff Cobb and Marty Scurll (Scurll WON that weekend tournament) found further success in ROH in the years to follow.


It's interesting to consider where all those dudes were in their careers at that time, the opportunities that they got and the paths they've chose, how it's lead to further success and popularity, how it may have allowed them to get lost in the shuffle of things, or how simply they couldn't maintain appeal for whatever reason/s. Also interesting to me is how instrumental many of those mentioned were in giving New Japan a way to break into the US and how that has floundered as well.

Lucha Libre AAA held their TripleMania press conference today and the two biggest stuff coming out of it was them signing a sponsorship deal with Marvel and Kenny Omega defending his AAA Mega title against Laredo Kid at the show.

In other stuff, apparently Danny Burch ended up outing himself as one of the COVID truthers in NXT's locker room and Road Dogg got into a another dumb online argument but this time with Hurricane over the view that wearing masks prevents the spread of the coronavirus. Could easily guess which side Hurricane was on.

Tommy Dreamer's podcast is really good. Definitely check it out.

Hurricane is the best.

Rather have him and not Triple H's merry band of fools in charge of NXT considering some of the bad stuff that's come out in recent times regarding their handling of it.

At this point, strongly feel a Triple H & Steph regime over WWE once Vince leaves is going to be neither a net positive nor a net negative. Whatever areas they will improve will just get offset in other areas where Triple H & co. have been just as bad or worse than Vince & co.

Just finished the episode dedicated to Howard Finkel as Dreamer used to work in the office with Fink. Great stories, but really sad. Finkel was living in assisted living towards the end and had a brain disease where his brain was shrinking faster than normal. Dreamer said the WWE kept him on the payroll and paid for everything.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Never forget Retribution was hastily thrown on TV along with Raw Underground after investors peppered Vince McMahon with questions about new talent, fresh ideas, creative and declining viewership on a quarterly call.<br><br>There's another quarterly call this week!</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1320906323790278656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 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">I tried to teach <a href="https://twitter.com/thunderrosa22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thunderrosa22</a> realistic MMA for professional wrestling and it did not go well. <a href="https://t.co/kfdLTupN5r">https://t.co/kfdLTupN5r</a> <a href="https://t.co/77XkZBQb1B">pic.twitter.com/77XkZBQb1B</a></p>&mdash; Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamiekilstein/status/1321097874818695169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aTXlPZAQbIE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

My Queen. :love:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TalkNShopAMania2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TalkNShopAMania2</a> First look! <a href="https://t.co/Fv4XH9eQTz">pic.twitter.com/Fv4XH9eQTz</a></p>&mdash; “The Big LG” Doc Gallows (@The_BigLG) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_BigLG/status/1320889714401038336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The first Talk’N Shop A Mania show was pretty fun to watch. Quality-wise it was basically a train wreck but in an entertaining and comedic self-awareness way.

Apparently, Road Dogg quit Twitter. What a jagoff.

https://www.tpwwforums.com/customava.../avatar1_1.gif Hey its me Triple A and I think you are all little bitches

Wow, harsh words!!

Impact angle is a shoot, literally

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEBravo1st?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnEBravo1st</a> was just SHOT! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPACTonAXSTV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreRosemary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeAreRosemary</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTayaValkyrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheTayaValkyrie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/THETOMMYDREAMER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@THETOMMYDREAMER</a> <a href="https://t.co/hfiBm3sUg4">pic.twitter.com/hfiBm3sUg4</a></p>&mdash; IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) <a href="https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1321270462802919424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Interesting things going on in NWA land. Last week, the Pope took the TV Title off of Zicky Dice, who was looking to leave. And this week?

So that makes it two days in a row a wrestling show had someone killed.

First WWE's RAW with rambling rabbit and now Impact with Johnny Bravo.

All that's needed is for NXT and/or AEW to do the same tomorrow to keep this murder week streak going.

Just saw this on Twitter, and I have to say I'm very excited to see what the women's match as Full Gear is.

Lol dude this is so brilliant

Since when is murder PG?

Fake news

Triple A would write "l'il"

Holy shit, WWE got hit with another outbreak at their Performance Center.

Need to double check but think they are legit averaging an outbreak per month at that place since June.

Also Bronson Reed not happy at all with what's been going down at the PC.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If I've learnt anything from this pandemic it's that a lot of people are real selfish PIECES OF TRASH.</p>&mdash; Bronson Reed (@bronsonreedwwe) <a href="https://twitter.com/bronsonreedwwe/status/1321257034298306561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That also explains the recent rumors of why NXT wasn't involved in this year's Survivor Series brand warfare stuff since WWE was already very wary of having developmental and NXT talent mingle with main roster talent before this newest outbreak.

Whatever remaining trust NXT and developmental had with WWE over coronavirus handling is likely all gone now.

Meiko Satomura headed to NXT UK as both a coach and an on air talent.

I haven't seen any of her matches in the last couple years, but last I was following her, it was easy to make a case for her being the best female wrestler in the world.

So that's a signifigant get.

:|

Do they even wrestle anymore on IMPACT?

I saw that most of those are actuslly going to happen.
I cant say I know a lot about Grizzly Smith so I wouldn't mind that episode.

The WCW in Korea thing, its an interesting story but I dont think it's Dark side of the ring material.

Steroid Trial is blatantly obvious.

Pilman Adams Sunny and Eddie would be a given.

I'd say a Rick Rude ep on his later carer til he died would be good too. Kurt Angle in TNA with his wife if they could cover TNA. Jake Roberts would probably be a 2 episode deal since I'd at least cover his last few years/comeback even though that part is covered.

ICO PRO/ WBF also would be interesting story but not really dark side material

Grizzly Smith is just misunderstood.

Oh man this is great :lol:

I think Dark Side needs to do an epsiode on Chyna.

Totally forgot about her

Which proves that Miss Elizabeth is more popular than her.

Liz was the best.

i am wondering if aew did not loss another woman wrestler in thunder rosa

The AEW women's division is a joke

Not a joke.....


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Bargain Bin Lita.

How exactly?

You don’t see a mild similarity in their look?