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Double J is the only guy that actually benefited from the Conrad network of podcasts on a likeability level, and also he's in perhaps the best shape of his career, very hoping we get a Hangman vs Double J Texas death match soon.

Absolutely delightful show, hard to think of such a good vibes show from start to finish including pre show, literally every match had some wonderful heartwarming moment, doubly satisfying if you were a fan in the 00s indie boom. TK is a real one.

The vibes on this show are exquisite

Alright Ezio doing the voice over for Ospreay's entrance popped me huge

Don't want to read the thread, haven't finished the show, but man this entire show from pre show to main show is so many feel good satisfying moments and returns/debuts

The weird irony that Raven was actually much better as a face than a heel :skip Also WCW cosmology has Raven, Saturn, Sandman, and DDP as high school friends, with Tommy Dreamer unofficially being in that group.

Somewhat related, is the Ricky Steamboat final match in 2022 with FTR available online at all? Or anything from that card? Surely it was an IPPV that has to exist somewhere.

Japan truly wild as fuck to have 80+ Dory Funk Jr. who has looked 80+ for 35 years and stage four cancer patient Osamu Nishimura in an exploding barbed wire death match in 2024, AND it was the longest match on the card.

Dbry is def on his I WILL NEVER RETIRE bullshit, there is a chance for Bryan vs Gunther for another decade to be a classic in AEW/WWE or random Euro indie.

My brain is mush, much like Bryan and Shibata.

Bryan can't retire yet. He needs to run matches with Jay White Takeshita Nigel Brody King Darby Shibata (brainstem on a pole match) Orange

All in '24 looks a lot stronger of a card on paper than '23

Sounds like the perfect Gedo set up to have ZSJ win the title, get off one defense, and drop it back to Naito at the Dome like nothing happened.

I like Shida's jumping knee is more Jumbo impact style than the V-Trigger type most do now

Speaking of Dump Teaser for ‘The Queen of Villains’ Gives a Peek at the Rise of Japan’s Most Frightening Heel - About Netflix how fucking random is this

One thing is for sure to me just seeing clips: Nu Bloodline would have absolutely zero juice pretty much anytime between 2010-2020 and benefit so immensely from being in a boom period where everything is over.

How much of Jumbo's Amarillo excursion made it to tape?

These past two years are some of the best work of Double J's career for sure. I think he might be the only wrestler to actually benefit from the Conrad podcast network because he seems like such a genuinely good dude. It's probably pretty fair to say Jeff Jarrett is the most important and influential non-McMahon in US wrestling between 2001-2019.

It's going to fucking rule

The team/stable started in Europe, particularly in WxW, which you may know was based in...Germany where "kampf" is not exclusively associated with Hitler. I'm pretty sure it started as a fashion brand like SPLX and absolutely did not have any Nazi undertones. This is really on some "all Germans are evil and Nazis by default" American media diet shit. Change the German to French and keep the presentation exactly the same and you might as well say he's a Napoleonic gimmick.

I think it is a bit extreme and unfair to say Gunther/Imperium leans into Nazi shit. His presentation is pretty standard snooty Euro in America, it just happens to be with German/Austrian instead of British or French. A German speaker using "kampf" shouldn't be seen as some Nazi dogwhistle. Kampf is used in pretty much all sports in Germany, particularly combat spots. Because that's like...the word for fight/battle/struggle/combat. Like is Gunther's presentation really that much different from Regal's when he was being taken seriously?

The newest version of the story just sounds like Britt is an absolute dickhead

Did lol at audio missing what Punk said before and after, only capturing him saying something about Seth's "Sabu pants".

MJF and Britt Baker are basically gender swapped versions of the same dickhead, makes sense to me they'd end up in conflict with each other.