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Watching the AAA show on a delay. and I was thinking.....for everyone mad that WWE is going to ruin AAA, it was always AAA's goal to be the WWE of Mexico. They just could only go so far with the budget they had. If they get turned into WWE then that's just going to accomplish the goal they had all along.

Just watched Buddy’s babyface turn. Tremendous angle & the crowd was on fire for Buddy. Does anyone have match recommendations for face Buddy in addition to the 3/17/84 6-man that KB8 recommended?

Over the last few weeks on SmackDown, we saw London, we saw France…and now we’ve seen Brock Lesnar’s underpants.

AWA TV @ The Hammond Center 9-12-90 Larry Nelson: Hello everybody and welcome to AWA Major League Wrestling. The Immortal Hulk Hogan returns tonight! AWA world champ Ric Flair along with all the members of the four horsemen will be here. Bobby Blaze takes on Gary Young for a TV title shot at the Royal Albert Hall. Skip Young battles Texas Red. All that and a lot more, so let's get to the ring. The Magnificent Muraco vs. Trent Watkins Muraco looks better than ever and wins the match with an inverted piledriver. Nelson: Don Muraco, come on over. On October 18th right here on the Sports Channel, the AWA will have a special TV event called Melee at the Mecca, from Milwaukee. Don Muraco, you're going to get a shot at the AWA world title. Ric Flair will be defending that title in the UK, so you could be facing either him or Tony St. Clair. Muraco: This is the moment I've been waiting for. I went through hell with Jumbo Tsuruta in the cage at WrestleRock to get this opportunity and it doesn't matter if it's St. Clair or Flair, I'm coming hard and I'm coming to win the AWA world title! Commercial Break The Professionals vs. Vic Dutro and Willie Lopez Mike Graham and Brad Rheingans have joined forces and it looks like they've been teaming forever. They take turns out wrestling their opponents and even embarrassing them with some humiliating slaps and cheap shots. The Professionals hit a double front face suplex for the win. The Professionals cut a promo and say that was just a small dose of their wrestling expertise and they wont be satisfied until they win some gold. Commercial Break Nelson: With me now is Skip Young. Skip, it appears that Texas Red has sent Tiger Conway and your Jive Tone partner, Pez Whately out of the AWA. You'll be facing Texas Red in just a moment. Skip: Texas Red! You broke up the Jive Tones sucker and now I'm going to break your face! Let's do this! Pez, Tiger, this one's for you! Texas Red vs. Skip Young As soon as Red enters the ring, Skip attacks. Skip pounds away on Red, swings him to the ropes and nails him with a high dropkick. Red staggers against the ropes but swings back and clotheslines Skip down. Red hoists Skip up and chokeslams him down. Red picks up Skip, pauses and nails him with the heart punch! 1..2..3! Red walks by the camera and says "Nell, Hangman, show yourselves!" Moments later, Skip Young is stretchered out Commercial Break We see Col Debeers standing in front of a tank. His head is bandaged. Debeers: Carlos Colon! You bottom of the barrel peasant! You no good dirty untouchable! Our war rages on and I promise you Colon, I will be victorious! Carlos Colon vs. Arnie Goldstein Colon does a cartwheel, hops on the middle turnbuckles and nails his opponent with a diving clothesline for the win. Nelson: Carlos, you heard the comments from Col Debeers. Colon: He's right about one thing, this war is far from over! This war will not end, until he can't stand. Debeers! This war rages on! Commercial Break King Kong Bundy vs. Neil Jordan and Roland Riggs Since WrestleRock, Bundy has been unstoppable. He's taken out powerhouses like Steve Disalvo and the Snowman. Tonight he takes on 2 men. He powerslams Roland over, slams Jordan on top of Roland and finishes both men off with his big splash followed by a mandatory 5 count. Commercial Break The Takano Dragons vs. Todd Rooney and Carl Kellerman Takanos are in total sync tonight. Shunji executes a superplex as George follows with a frog splash for the exciting win. It's announced that the Takanos will get a shot at the AWA world tag titles next month at Melee at the Mecca. Commercial Break Winner gets a TV title shot on September 27th at the Royal Albert Hall Bobby Blaze vs. 'Gorgeous' Gary Young w/Austin Idol Blaze enters the ring wearing his white ring jacket with red flames. He takes it off and is ready to go. Idol walks into the ring and grabs the mic. "Listen up darlings. Let me introduce to you, the new and improved, Gorgeous Gary Young" Young struts out wearing leopard colored pants and wrist bands. He hugs Idol and seems more confident than ever. The match goes back and forth for a few minutes until during a break, Young gives Blaze a cheap shot. Young takes over and executes a vertical suplex. Young swings off the ropes and hits an elbow drop 1..2..Kick Out. Young hurls Blaze to the outside and distracts the Ref while Idol picks up Blaze and hurls him back into the ring. Young swings Blaze to the ropes and goes for a back drop but Blaze kicks him. Young staggers up as Blaze dropkicks him down. Blaze regroups and goes to town on Young with hip tosses, slams, clotheslines and back drops. Blaze hooks Young and executes the Northern Lights Suplex 1..2..(Idol reaches in and pulls Blaze by the hair) kick out. Blaze gets up and goes out after Idol. Blaze chases Idol around the ring but eventually gets back in the ring. Young quickly nails Blaze with a knee lift and follows with a running bulldog 1..2..3! Young gets out of the ring and celebrates with Idol. Commercial Break Larry Nelson is in the ring. Nelson: Is everybody ready? Joining me now is the former AWA world champion, the immortal Hulk Hogan!! The fans blow the roof off the place as Eye of the Tiger blasts and Hogan appears. He gives them a double thumbs up and goes into the ring. Hogan paces around and soaks in the cheers. Hogan cuffs his ear and the cheers get louder. Nelson: Great to have you back Hulk. It looks like your leg is all healed up. The people all want to know. Are you ready for action? Hogan: Well you know something Lethal Larry, since losing the world title at WrestleRock, Hulk Hogan has been rehabbing, pumping iron and getting my mind straight. Losing the world title had the Hulkster feeling down but then I got back up and got focused brother. All these great fans letters got me through a dark time. I want to thank each and every Hulkamaniac for all their tremendous support. On that note, Hulk Hogan is back and Hulk Hogan wants the AWA world title back brother! The fans are up and cheering but then the boos reign down as the four horsemen stroll out and into the ring. Tully grabs a mic. Arn and Zbyszko are sporting their AWA world tag titles and of course Flair is dressed to the nines and has the world title on his shoulder. Nelson: Come on now, you guys will get your time later. Tully: Zip it Nelson! (looks at Hogan) Hogan! That was a real emotional speech but right now keep your mouth shut because the AWA world champ has something to say. Flair: Hogan! You've got some nerve walking out here and talking about getting this title back. This title belongs to me pal. While you were out drowning in your sorrows, I've been defending this title all over the globe. In 2 weeks I'm going to give Tony St. Clair a wrestling lesson in his own backyard. After that, I'm going to beat that goof Muraco in Milwaukee. Then it's on to another contender and another and another. But Hogan, you're not on that list. You have to climb that immortal ladder and earn it. You see, you're no longer calling the shots pal. I am! Hogan: Well let me tell you something Ric Flair, I am coming to get that title back and there's not a damn thing you or your stooges can do about it! Flair: I don't think so big man. It looks like you'll have other things to worry about. Flair looks pass Hogan. Hogan turns around WHAM! Hogan gets nailed by a big boot from DAN SPIVEY!!!! The Horsemen all laugh and stroll out of the ring. Flair stays behind. Flair: You don't get another shot at the title and that's final! Flair gives Hogan a stomp before leaving. On the outside, the camera picks up Tully giving Dan Spivey a thick envelope. Flair, Tully, Arn and Zbyszko flash the four fingers as the show ends.

Ha, no. More to come.

So much joy in that picture. Stephanie Vaquer is leaving the dream, after standing next to the AAA officials who supported the person who tried to murder her and the people who harassed her, now she realizes that her "English class" was actually learning to speak propaganda. Meanwhile, Brandon Thurston in all his sarcastic glory : https://www.postwrestling.com/2025/09/12/opinion-i-hate-politics-thats-why-im-going-to-love-wrestlemania-in-saudi-arabia/

Athletes in general are really dumb as fuck, you know. Anyway, it's official. Mania 43 in beautiful, progressive Riyadh. No Effy's Big Gay Brunch during that Mania week, I reckon.

Yeah, they looked like shit during the last "TLC" match they had in TNA. Setting tables and ladder at a snail pace, taking awkward bumps. They look quite ok playing the hits at half-speed when they are in with younger and better tag teams but... In other news, apparently TNA has banned its wrestlers from taking booking with D'Amore's MLP Wrestling, because he's also getting AEW people. (EDIT : well, apparently D'Amore said it wasn't the case. So there. Moose is just an idiot. What else is new)

They ran an Eddie Gilbert tribute at the 2300 and guess who was there ? Old Stinger indeed. Hopefully some of that ends up on their Youtube channel. That's pretty cool because it feels like Eddie Gilbert in Philly, which basically set the basis for what ECW was gonna become, is often overlooked/forgotten about.

This is already way overstated because AEW has to be dying soon, right ? I mean, it has been dying soon since day 1. The reality is that AEW today is a valuable asset to WBD, merger or not (and no, WCW does not consist of a precedent because they were losing ridiculous amount of money and was owned by the station). And plus : Tony Khan is a billionaire. AEW is gonna be around in whatever form as long as he wants it to be, really. (however, more media conglomerate controlled by the extreme-right, yeah, that's really bad)

Well, looks like we can ressurrect this thread, since it's been reported Paramount is considering buying WBD, which could affect AEW.

Got bored already? ):

If only Trent Knight and Snake Brown had still been around in that era.

Yeah, the eventual Daddy Magic attack and blade job is going to be king-sized. They can get some good mileage out of Garcia vs Nigel too as Nigel steps in to show his outrage. I do wonder if the end goal of the Death Riders is for Moxley to mould someone in his image and then be taken down by them. Garcia would fit the bill as the guy to eventually out-Mox Moxley down the line

Harmless yeah. Just aggravating.

That's like the WCW Jobber Hall of Fame, god damn!

IWGP Champion Power Warrior (Kensuke Sasaki) vs The Great Muta - NJPW 5/5/00 I have now seen 3 out of the four matches Muto/a had in Japan in the Year 2000. I was really disappointed he didn’t have Miss Madness/Mona with home especially when I saw Sasaki brought his wife Akira Hokuto with him. Now this was a classic Great Muta match. The Chono match had the table but there was a lot of Keiji in that match. This was Great Muta through and through. Sasaki is dressed as his alter ego the Power Warrior so that means no one is selling shit in this match. Muta comes to the Ring hobbling on crutch why you might ask because it is Great fucking Muta who the fuck knows. He attacks Warrior with the crutch. Then he kicks Hokuto. I was like no fucking way. So then she dropped his ass Northern Lights Bomb I had to stifle my pop because my wife is asleep next to me. HE MISTS HOKUTO~! ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY FOR THIS OPENING! It settles into a Muta match. Weird pacing, strange selling choices by both, really long wrist control work by Muta. Sasaki throws in some of his normal spots. Muta does the Powerdriver elbow and dragon leg screw. I really liked the Muta Springboard Dropkick/Power Warrior No-Sell/Levels him with a lariat. Sasaki dumps him on his head with the Northern Lights Bomb. MIST~! MOONSAULT! Cross-armbreaker was a bit weird. I dug the finish. Muta goes for the RED MIST! BLOCK~! POWER WARRIOR MIST~! LARIAT WIN! After the match Hokuto hits a Doomsday Device on Muta! Sort of defies rating because it is mostly bad but when it is good it is fucking great pro wrestling theatre. Call it *** 1/4 I think most people will enjoy the 15-ish minutes it takes to watch this.

50 Years of Funk:

To be honest it's a pet peeve of mine when people do that, and I avoid doing it, but its also ultimately harmless I guess.

What they have done with those two Mox/García matches + the turn on Darby is amazing classic pro wrestling right there. I'm as excited as I was when the original BCC turn on Danielson happened, I wanna ser where this all goes. There are tons of interesting dynamics to explore (Garcia-Darby, Garcia-Yuta, Garcia-Menard, García-Bryan...)

I don't think Khan himself popularised it, but Excalibur saying it and it catching on with their viewers makes sense.

Johnny Smith/Gran Naniwa/Ryuji Hijikata vs. Kaz Hayashi/Jimmy Yang/George Hines (AJPW 7/17/2002) It seems like they're all random teams these days. Scanning Cagematch, if he has a regular partner it's Hines, but he's on the other team here. Creative has nothing for Johnny. Let's run down the new guys: Gran Naniwa is a wrestling crab. His showing up is one of my favorite post-split All Japan things. He was the guy with the goofiest gimmick in a goofy promotion, and here he is walking sideways in what had recently been the tightest-ass wrestling promotion ever. I never realized that his epaulets are crab claws. Ryuji Hijikata is a forgettable kicky boy from BattleARTs. Kaz Hayashi was Shiryu in Michinoku Pro. He took off his mask, lost a lot in WCW, and then spent a quarter century following Muto around. I shouldn't be telling anyone about Jimmy Yang; I missed him almost completely. I wasn't watching death throes WCW, and I missed his WWF stints. George Hines isn't new, but I did want to mention that rubbing his head is good luck. His teammates do it, later he does it, and they win. Do you ever hear that "gaijin" is actually an insulting term? If so, the play-by-play announcer is basically a shock jock, because he's saying it every other sentence. Smith and Hines start off with a lengthy grappling sequence, the theme of which is that Smith can't get Hines off of him. There's some stuff here that should have been cool, but it doesn't work. Johnny Smith, I fear, is slowing down. He has less than a year left. So that's real slow, but then the other four guys come in and do a lot of things very fast. I wasn't all that impressed, but the fans are into it. By the time Kaz and Naniwa come in to do some Michinoku stuff, they're absolutely frothing. Eventually Hayashi, practically throbbing with fighting spirit from rubbing Hines' head, puts the crabman away with a Kaz Cutter.

Said it already but I will miss the 2300 residency. It's been a streak of great episode after great episode. Josh Alexander basically signed with AEW for this. I hope for his sake (and my egoistical self) that he'll get that Omega match he craves. Toni Storm paying hommage to Sandman (she'll be on his podcast, talk about some wild combination) and New Jack while Sky Blue did to Dreamer was pretty much the perfect match, pun intended. Young Bucks keep on being hilarious (that ridiculous head bump Nick took on the apron). Great heel turn. Expected, but great execution (I actually thought it was Gable as usual at first). I think it will benefit Danny greatly, he was kinda lost in the shuffle after his TNT title reign, which itself was not the greatest (good, but nothing special).

They're trying to make WWE like boxing or UFC where only the big shots have enough money to attend, but by doing this, they're also pricing out the kids (who are the next generation of fans) and families. I pointed out on the AEW board that AEW needs to counteract this by not just courting the 18-49 crowd, but also try to attract kids and families as well.

All Japan Triple Crown Champion Keiji Mutoh vs Masahiro Chono - AJPW 10/27/01 Pretty weird that two of the biggest 90s New Japan stars are headlong All Japan’s Anniversary Budokan show. These two have been having great matches deserve to main event a big show somewhere and if Inoki was not going to give to them might as well do it here. Mutoh is 0-3 versus Chono in past two years with most recent loss just three months prior. Can Mutoh hang onto the Triple Crown? What a bizarre and I would say bad finish to an otherwise great match. I also disliked the beginning. Chono comes out the gates red hot total full court press. Bang SHINING WIZARD BY CHONO! Awesome! Mutoh powders. Unlike the Tenryu match where that becomes the key plot point it is totally forgotten immediately and they just do standard New Japan chain wrestling sequence. That sucked because they had a real chance to make this match feel different. Mutoh goes for the STF a couple times. They end up in my least favorite tree hold the bundle of leg locks. Mutoh eventually gets a hold of the leg. It is 2001 Mutoh you know the drill. Dropkicks to the knee, Dragon Leg Screw and the Figure-4. I eat this shit up. Didnt love Chono’s transition a Flatliner, Piledriver and another Flatliner. Wish it was more organic, he does the Butterfly Lock. Mutoh pops off a Dragon Leg Screw on the apron and ROPE-ASSISTED SHINING WIZARD! up until this point it is pretty similar to knee vs neck psychology to their other matches. Mutoh goes for the Moonsault but Chono is up. He BLOCKS the Shining Wizard. One of the challenges of the Shining Wizard is that it is hard to see when someone blocks it or eats it. He hits his own! STF! Mutoh makes the ropes! Kappou Kick! Mutoh eats canvas on the Moonsault attempt. STF~! They are really building to a the finish. It is getting hot in here. STF WITH CHOKE! How Mutoh lost two of the matches. Then the match gets weird. Chono blocks all of Mutoh’s Shining Wizards and hits a bunch of his own and a Yakuza Kick. Mutoh keeps kicking out. Mutoh Frankensteiner and he wins?!? WTF?!? The body of 1/4/00 and 7/20/01 were better but then the run up to the finish was the hottest they have done. Then they just finished with a wet fart. *** 1/2 I guess