@Gertner - your tape trading may become insanely more valuable..... as WWE DVDs will no longer be a thing in 2022.

one thing they should consider is limited runs. sell them as collectors items by taking preorders for the large shows and only producing the quantity thats was prepaid and you could do that at a premium over the current price.

I think they should consider VHS.

Recorded on EP.

The way wrestling is meant to be viewed, Goddammit.

Haha I don't have any actual tapes. Just footage on an external hard drive. Lots and lots of footage.

Footage.

And lots of it

Aside from the Kevin Owens one, there hasn't been a single original DVD release in the almost 8 years since the WWE Network launched. It's either just a DVD of a doc that already aired on the Network, or just some random compilation of somebody's matches.

I wish they would just add more old docs to the Network.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whatever a graceful dive looks like, this is the exact opposite. <a href="https://t.co/NaXpuAckYq">pic.twitter.com/NaXpuAckYq</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1382773518404833291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I had no idea that Terry Funk wrestled Leon Spinks in Japan in the early 90s.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF1AydFX...jpg&name=small

Brisco and Bradshaw's podcast might be the most enjoyable wrestling podcast around. Just listening to the Honky Tonk Man episode. What a fun listen.

I read some of the talking points and skimmed through the episode. Truth be told, I don't think it's good for the wrestling podcast industry. Quite frankly it is undoing years of progress and pushing the industry back a few decades.

the industry needs to go back a few decades

Fandango has joined the NWA. Teaming with JTG it seems. Not a bad-sounding tag team but hopefully it’s just a stepping stone on his climb to being the face of the company he should have been a decade ago.

Bring on the cocaine and steroids! Wooooo!!!!

you joke but thats the chemical recipie for Randy Savage

Who said I was joking?

:lol: well me but point taken

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If there are more than 35 people in this audience at the EnDubyaEh PPV, I'd be shocked. <a href="https://t.co/PVkS90nV9F">pic.twitter.com/PVkS90nV9F</a></p>&mdash; Joel Pearl | TimAndJoelPod.com (@JoelPearl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelPearl/status/1467284293500211200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They need to get back on YouTube

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MLW. 5,000 strong last night. <a href="https://t.co/5EZ6t6vaFb">pic.twitter.com/5EZ6t6vaFb</a></p>&mdash; Court Bauer (@courtbauer) <a href="https://twitter.com/courtbauer/status/1467164042712260637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I think the NWA show had a seating limit of 75 due to Covid laws in Georgia

Which Georgia? What restrictions?

PWInsider█reports that the reason Saturday night’s NWA Hard Times 2 PPV had such a small crowd was because they found out on November 30th that only 90 fans would be allowed at the show since GBS Studios in Atlanta, GA takes government funding and thus was obligated to follow more restrictive standards

thats ridiculous. There are no restrictions on public gatherings here lol to get screwed over because the building has government funding is hilarious.

Still seems really strange though. I was in a government funded building in the same town a few weeks ago and there were WAAAAAAAY more than 90 people in there.

Edit: Also strange because our state lifted all COVID orders and restrictions at the state level like 4 or 5 months ago at least.

That crowd is fucking sad. I’ve seen bigger crowds at the local indy fed here in San Diego and it’s nothing but local guys for most of their shows.

Is he Fandango, though? Or did he go back to being FANDANGOO?

Wikipedia says he’s used the name Dirty Dango (barf) on the indies.

I wish for the NWA and MLW to reach new heights. 5k for MLW is a good number. It’s a shame about the restrictions for the NWA. Here’s hoping Johnny Curtis & JTG take them to mainstream success. Charismatic cats in that group.

Lol That’s actually not a bad name while he’s doing his midcard semi-comedy thing.

Might need to just go by his real name when he starts capturing every major indy title on the planet though.

I thought that MLW number seemed crazy. It turns out it was in Mexico and was a “super show” with a Mexican promotion in their home arena with mostly their wrestlers.

https://www.f4wonline.com/sites/www....age/ftrrnr.jpg

Tremendous.

If anything were to get Cornette out amongst the people again it’s that.

That doesn’t surprise me. Seems unlikely the MLW name itself would draw 5k.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Unless Christopher Daniels did it in one of his WWF enhancement matches, I believe this is the American TV debut of the Crossrhodes/Roll of the Dice/Last Rites.<br><br>Performed by Rick Cornell on the 11/27/99 Saturday Night. <a href="https://t.co/JSS1gFQgE6">pic.twitter.com/JSS1gFQgE6</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1467925554942910467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Austin Aries wore a cape to the ring at the NWA ppv...while he is a bridge-burning moron everywhere he goes I must commend him for the cape.

https://i.imgur.com/dhMeAzK.gif

I forgot Christopher Daniels wrestle in WCW.

Who do we have left that has/can wrestle the WCW/WWE/AEW trifecta? (List only)

Is that "Reno"? I remember really loving his Roll the Dice finisher when he debuted.... thought it looked great....

How dare they forget Carlito did the Apple Turnover for a few weeks there.

It is

Test also used that finisher. The "Test Drive" I believe it was called. It was my finisher for HCTP

Are we talking contracted wrestlers, or are wrestlers who did jobs on shows like Heat count.

We should probably go contracted.

Nah, fuck it. Let’s get extensive.

Also, is Jericho the only one to add ECW to the resume? (Not counting WWECW)

Brain Gerwirtz is releasing a book next year about his time in the WWE. Thank should be VERY interesting.

Has Arn Anderson been in a AEW match?

i think tully is the only contracted "legend" with that distinction so far.

Tully wrestled in ECW

Not yet that I know of. I forgot about him having a match in ECW though.

And if he did have a cinematic match, it doesn’t count. Those aren’t wrestling matches.

What???

He wrestled Shane Douglas in a 60 minute draw. It was horrendous.

oh god I might have to watch that train wreck

lol yeah i need to see at least some of that shitshow

For all Paul Heyman’s genius and his foresight to mix hardcore and traditional rasslin’ sometimes it seemed like he’d fall into the trap of “long match = good match”.

There’s no reason for those two to go an hour in the mid 90s.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here’s Maxx Muscle not understanding how a ring or ropes or even a body works. <a href="https://t.co/y258LXAgDY">pic.twitter.com/y258LXAgDY</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1467955889990688773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It happened in late 1994/early1995 I believe. It was during Shane's crusade to make ECW more traditional.

Oh man I am looking forward to this.

Johnny Swinger has wrestled almost everywhere. He’s probably too good for AEW though.

This has got to be the most blatant WCW theme rip off ever

I guess this was from Hard Times 2, but this guy was the champion of the local indy fed for over a year.

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Its up there, DDP had a pretty blatant rip off of Nirvana too.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t try to man up on Meng. <a href="https://t.co/QKRePFBlnM">pic.twitter.com/QKRePFBlnM</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1468067598822748160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I knew of DDP's song before the Nirvana song so every time I hear the Nirvana one somewhere my brain fills in the SELF HIGH FIVE

This is amazing lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, &amp; The Giant speak on their originally scheduled tag match with Goldberg &amp; Kevin Greene at Bash at the Beach ‘98.<br><br>Of the three, Hennig appears to be the most lucid. Rude struggles to recite poetry. Giant - well, dude seems blitzed.<br><br>This is must-watch. <a href="https://t.co/JiVE42uCT6">pic.twitter.com/JiVE42uCT6</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1374352535864152064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Forgot about The Giant's smoking "gimmick"....

Love it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">R-Truth is the master of the spinebuster for hitting one while also doing the splits. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tna04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tna04</a> <a href="https://t.co/xKtrXh5aVD">pic.twitter.com/xKtrXh5aVD</a></p>&mdash; Jus��in (@Justin_SofOK) <a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_SofOK/status/1468355203992887302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Remember when Ron Killings was the NWA World Heavyweight Champion?

"Overdrive" is the worst finisher ever.

Sting
Goldust

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chuck Palumbo was 6’7 and 280 pounds. <a href="https://t.co/dlUaPtLeXl">pic.twitter.com/dlUaPtLeXl</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1468400327409946626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Blackjack Lanza passed away at age 87 today

If only The New Blackjacks had worked out, we’d have a Blackjacks 3.0 team today and this news would be undeniably worthy of its own thread. Then again, we likely wouldn’t have had JBL. Or the APA.

And without the APA we likely wouldn’t have gotten Ron Simmons’ career rebirth.

And without Ron Simmons’ career rebirth, we wouldn’t have gotten “DAMN!”

And without “DAMN!” we wouldn’t have gotten DAMN iNATOR.

Anyway, I’ll still make a thread about Lanza’s life and death later if no one has. It’s definitely worthy of it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They called him The Wall because you weren’t supposed to run into him. <a href="https://t.co/QPxMdGfLnY">pic.twitter.com/QPxMdGfLnY</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1468779553141182467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So I've got a great Blackjack Lanza story

Back during the expansion in 1984, Vince kept fucking with Verne and Verne of course got paranoid. Larry Zbyszko walked into Verne's office and saw Blackjack Lanza crawling around on his hands and knees checking for bugs as Verne was convinced his office was being bugged by Vince. Lol the mole was Blackjack Lanza, and that's why Lanza was around for so long as an agent.

Also, I recently got my buddy a Cameo from Quinn McKay for Christmas. It was kind of awesome.

Avery Good (formerly Dasher Hatfield of CHIKARA) has announced that he'll wrestle 10 more matches and then leave the business.

I think he'd ultimately LIKE to keep going but he's had a rough go of it the last couple of years. CHIKARA's closure required a lot of their talent to completely re-brand themselves even as no indies were running, not easy to do since many of the characters from that company were viewed as too cartoony to get traction being booked elsewhere. He was scheduled for a PC tryout that got cancelled right at the start of the pandemic and he never got invited back. A few other indies he's frequented in the last year have gone on hiatus. Nagging injuries, and a family at home.

He even said he views it as quitting more than retiring.

God R-truth had so much style in his ring work. Said for a long time now he's been one of the most underutilized talents ever.

Especially now, in an Era where so many guys wrestle the same way, and have the same type of offense.

Kevin Freaking Nash making his GCW debut in January WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

saw that last night! also love that alex shelley brokered the deal since he'll be on the card for gcw again that night.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Big men shouldn’t fly around the ring and do flips!”<br><br>Vader: <a href="https://t.co/AnVunIqt5w">pic.twitter.com/AnVunIqt5w</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1468981437185544207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Super stoked. Love Nash. I've also decided that the reason this is even happening is because someone at GCW saw the Nashvember thread and realized that Kevin has a massive following and is more over than anyone in the business today and decided to strike while the iron is hot and book the greatest ever for one more epic run.

lol top rope assisted flip flop

How long till he tears his quad. Will it be when he steps over the top rope?

And people say that Nash never gave back to the business. He is gracing this independent shit-show with his presence to give them a fighting shot.

underrated post by vito

Am... am *I* your buddy?

Seriously, she wouldn't have to say jack shit. Just do the smile, cutesy wave, then flash her abs for about 10 seconds. I'd consider that money well spent.

Dude. How am I just hearing about this now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In 1996, Alex Wright released a single through WCW in Germany called “Hartbeat Away” (spelled that way).<br><br>Wright raps encouraging words to someone going through a tough breakup. It’s something.<br><br>It was on an album called “Christmas Brawl”, so this counts as a Christmas song. <a href="https://t.co/JN1GduZrP7">pic.twitter.com/JN1GduZrP7</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1469301482155659269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

That song has to be Jimmy Hart’s handiwork.

I really enjoyed the song.

It’s no “Girls in Cars”.

i'm still humming along to "wimpbusters" which was a great original hit by the king.

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I swear the one around the 50 second mark still says “Ghostbusters”

There are times in life when I think Alex Wright might be my favorite wrestler of all-time.

Back when they showed some wrestling on Polish TV, they would give wrestlers their own names just judging by what they saw. Alex Wright was Disco Kid.