Johnny Sorrow

Over the last year on our YouTube show Mystery Titans Theatre, we've watched a lot of Barry O matches. He was really good and unique. If Randy does the " O" pose tomorrow it'd be awesome.

That was overall a really fun show. My fam, pal, and my nephew and his pals enjoyed what they saw. My nephew fell asleep, and two of his pals had to go home before the Main Event, but Finn, the 11 year old from across the street who has completely caught the wrestling bug and is now a huge fan said this when the "explosion" happened. "That was pathetic."

Since this has turned into the "let's vent" thread then let's go. First of all, Loss I know that twitter can actually be a great way to share thoughts and feelings, Don't be feeling bad about not doing stuff here. Twitter isn't the shitty wasteland some folks here pretend they don't look at, but constantly reference. If I have to read someone saying "WWE Stans or AEW Stans" again here it'll be too soon. The whole "WWE Stans" thing especially. It's such a strawman here sometimes. News flash, gang.... almost anyone who would want to talk about WWE who digs it would not want to post here., KawadaSmile being the exception.. Especially since most WWE fans are people who don't talk about it online and have kids who like it. This whole "It's boomers who watch" line is nonsense, I've looked at that Thunderdome set up and not an old fuck in the lot. The demo thing doesn't reflect the "My kids like it so it's on" demo. Kids still like it. Not like the 80's for sure, but kid's still are the audience. Kids who don't own Neilson boxes but their folks do. I've been to a ton of WWE house shows here in Colorado and they've all been families in the crowds. The amount of smarks have been minimal. I was at one show here where there were literally four guys doing 'CM PUNK" chants and trying to shit on the HOUSE SHOW, sadly they were right behind me and my friends. Not so sadly, was us and the kids and their folks around us who shouted them down with BOO! and YAYY! By the way, there are no "WWE Stans" here at PWO. That's something that comes up way too much. Using invisible twitter folks for your arguments is lazy. If someone hates twitter wrestling culture so much, why constantly bring it up here just to can complain about it? It's no different from the complaining about wrestling TV shows that people either don't watch or do watch but hate watch. Which is insane behavior. Look. No one was a bigger Simpsons fan than me. By 2006 I found myself not laughing anymore, and I just stopped watching. Do I go on Simpsons message boards to complain about a show I don't watch anymore? Of course not. That'd be insane behavior., Do I watch a show I don't like? Of course not, that'd be insane behavior. Do I go on Simpsons boards to read about what they are doing and complain about it even though I don't watch it? Again, of course not. That'd be insane behavior. Do I myself post about why I don't like , say IMPACT or whatever promotion? No, because I don't watch it. Personally, I love old wrestling and current wrestling. This idea of a divide between the two is just silly. The last live show I went to was AEW Dynamite live in Broomfield, Colorado. And it was awesome. I also think that almost nothing is better than watching Bob Backlund vs. Greg Valentine from MSG or Jimmy Valiant vs. Paul Jones. I don't care about scandals or wrestler's opinions just like I don't care that Dustin Hoffman is abusive creep or John Wayne was a racist drunk. I still love The Graduate and True Grit. TK above nailed it. Like what you like. If someone hates what you like, who cares? Wrestling is awesome! Since the pandemic I've been watching the least amount of current rasslin in my life since I was 17 and quit for a few years. Girls and the Grateful Dead took over. But, over the past few months, things have changed a bit. My 10 year old nephew has been watching wrestling since he was a baby. It's been on here at least one Sunday a month since he was born, where his Uncle and his pals grill food and have fun.. As such, he loves it but it's not been an obsession. When he was smaller, he adored Cena, Rey, and he still loves The New Day. I got to bring him to a house show when he was four to see Cena in the Main Event, But as most kids who grow up with something, it's just been "a thing". Recently, his best pals who are two brothers from across the street, have become enamored with wrestling because of seeing it here, especially the 11 year old. My love of watching wrestling has changed now. Because of the pandemic, I lost interest because of no crowds and no crowd here at home. These kids are part of our bubble, and it's become something they look forward to each month, including AEW. My nephew acts like the 10 year old version of a "smart fan" now, explaining things to his pals with a tone of "I've been watching since I was one. You need to pay attention to Rey Mysterio, he;'s the best." They keep asking me when the next "A and W" show is, as they watched the last AEW PPV here. They LOVED the Royal Rumble show, and can't wait for the next show. And this is awesome. When they first saw the Fiend last year, the kids ADORED it. Now, they say they don't care anymore and are totally over the gimmick. Their consensus now about who's cool include Kevin Owens, New Day, Orange Cassidy, Asuka, Bianca Belair, and they want to see Charlotte Flair beat up Lacey Evans. My love of wrestling has been rejuvenated by watching it with my nephew and his pals. Now, I just have to keep them from killing each other while watching. The 11 year old can do a mean German suplex on the other kids. New Day Rocks!

And, at least in my circles, the Bret Hart story from 96-97 is in no way overlooked or forgotten. It's considered some of the best storytelling the WWF ever pulled off. Shit, Montreal accidentally made it even better.

Speaking as a Coloradan, this is the only thing about that fucking idiot that has made me smile. If she truly is a result of Sweet Stan doing some cousin fuckin' it'd explain so much. I pray it's true.

Ha, me too. But "twinkletoes" also feels like something Mr. Roper would call Jack on Three's Company right after saying he was " light in the loafers." And then he'd break the fourth wall.

Same here, plus Maher is also an Islamaphobe and a mysoginist. I still watch Real Time on occasion, but not like I used to.

I just threw in 205 Live and it's the women's Dusty Tag Tourney. And it's fun!

Alexa is great as this character, even though the whole thing is awful. She's good enough to survive this whenever it's done. And it'll be done when live crowds come back.

I think it's hilarious that everyone, myself included, had no idea who Bad Bunny was and he's fucking huge. We've been making fun of them being out of touch forever and when they get an actual relevant act it's all " Who's this clown?" We're the out of touch ones.

That was one of his last matches before leaving. They also put him in the ring with Brian Blair and Tito , as Vince Jr. was trying to force a heel turn.

There are a lot of "talking points" about Bob's reign that don't hold water once you've actually watched the footage. Kelly, Pete, Parv, and myself saw a ton of it when we were doing the Titans podcast. For instance, the whole "Bob wasn't popular in Philly" deal is patently false. Maybe at the tail end circa late 82-83, but the Philly crowds we saw were electric for Bobby Backlund.

The only time I know of where Bob was "paranoid" was before the Flair NWA vs WWF champ match in Atlanta, and there were some indicators before the match that something screwy was going on. After a phone call to Vince Sr. who then called Barnett and Crockett, things settled down leading to Flair coming up to Bob and saying, half jokingly "Don't hurt me , Bob."

The 86 shows on Tony's podcast have been so much fun. They're watch alongs that you don't have to watch along with, and they're full of joy. It doesn't hurt that it's the era of JCP that was the height of my teenage fandom.

Yeah man. Billy Batson had a sidekick called Steamboat who was straight out of Amos And Andy. https://www.cbr.com/dark-secrets-captain-marvel-shazam/

Would DC have to license the Fawcett stuff? They used to reprint a ton of it in the Seventies.

Yeah. It was awesome live, but I was sandwiched between two giant smelly dudes.

I've been to a lot of great ROH shows from back in 2005-2006, but I'm going to go with being third row for Starrcade 86 in Greensboro and the Rock n Roll Express vs The Andersons in the cage.

So, if McBrodie is supposed to be Vince, I'm thinking the obvious way to go is a slow push of John Silver into being a babyface who McLee tries to " hold down" because he's tiny, but getting over?

Carmella isn't the greatest but she's fine. Does she have some Nia Jax rep I don't know about?

I'm still trying to figure out why I know Benson. He was a "friend" on Facebook but I cant remember why or when that happened.

Isn't Rikidozan vs Freddie Blassie more important?

I love that Eddie wore Misawa gear, fought like Kawada, and his favorite wrestler is Kobashi.

I would have shortened the Hardy deal by ten minutes and put Jericho/ MJF on Dynamite, but that's just middling complaints. That was a great show.

I'm all for using real music, but Poison? Yuck. Hey, Sweeney!