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The whole "UWF-I" approach kinda makes me want to give it a try, but I wonder if it isn't gonna get dry after a few weeks. Also, I think this stuff can work only with a certain kind of quality workers.

So the current promotion is coming back in November. If they go back on Youtube, I will probably give them another try, I was totally down on them during the last few months of activity, but maybe they can come up with something fresh again.

That's kinda the beauty of it, actually. (for personal reasons, I will always kinda have a soft spot for anyone not giving a flying fuck) Although, burning bridges with the NWA is basically burning a bridge to nowhere (hey, I enjoyed the second season of Powerr, but let's be realistic for a second, those weekly "PPV" aren't even really NWA stuff).

In the 90's, that would make for good little pro-wrestling folklore. In 2020, people make whining tweets and call for people to lose their jobs and win Internet points. Whatever happens with Ivelisse it's too bad, because she's better than 90% of the AEW roster (Diamanté is not even close to Ivy in term of in-ring talent, let's not be silly here). She may be difficult to deal with, but her stuff is not difficult to watch like, say, Swole. Oh anyway, it was fun while it lasted. IMPACT, wanna grab one more to piss off the usual Twitter crowd ? How long is Thunder Rosa gonna stay within the NWA btw ? I mean, really, she's the best catch AEW can do right now (straight at the very top of their female roster in term of both in-ring talent and charisma) and it seems she's becoming more and more of a regular... Yeah, really good stuff this week, nothing much to add to what's been said already. Main event was ridiculous

I'd go for Ibushi too. My one issue with these blocks is that Block A final really looks like the final. There's absolutely no one this year on Block B that should win this (Sabre would be cool, be he ain't winning). Hopefully Gedo works his magic and we don't get too much Bullet Club Bullshit matches...

And so Avalon vs Cutler ends up as a double count out. Of course it does. I hope they work the 20 minute draw eventually. Poor Leva, she looked in such a need of a hug at the end.

Very cool interview with Debbie Malenko. At 47 she now wants to get back into wrestling now that her children got older, that would be a terrific story. People talk about how women wrestling is kinda rated on a curve, sometime with good reason, but in Debbie's case, she was right in the middle of the most insane roster ever near its peak basically, and she was not just hanging on with them, she was actively on the level of the Hasegawa's and Yoshida's in 1992 (not quite elite level, but top-tier midcard level, which by this time's standard is awfully good already). Transfer 1992 Debbie Malenko in today's wrestling realm, she's right at the very top. Some really cool stories told, the old Mariko Yoshida fan in me loved how she credits her for helping her out a lot. Would absolutely love to see her make a comeback. AEW, IMPACT, make it happen (yeah, WWE is out of question when they make Mickie James out to be "old", which is such a disgrace) !

One of the funniest thing in the last two seasons is how the whole universe just shrunk. Either that or a raven basically invented teleportation !

Bro, they would never expect it bro. At least John Snow did not say to Danae "Come on Emilia, you don't follow the script ! What am I supposed to do now, improvise ?"

Come on, she was obviously fucked up in the head from the start. It's not like the heel turn came from nowhere, she had the messiah syndrome since day 1. But she sure turned batshit insane in no time though, not exactly playing subtle of anything. All because John did not want to exchange body fluids with his aunty anymore... (well yeah, ok, that's Russo too )

I had no idea what you were referring to since I don't know the name of pretty much anyone apart from Emilia Clarke. Oh, ok, you mean *that* scene. I'm not that easily offended by violence in movies, but I was repulsed and appalled by this shit and it is exactly one reason why I always thought GoT was a completely ridiculous show, very poorly written, using gratuitous, complacent violence, torture and rape scenes to get a buzz (not to mention swerves, bro, that Vince Russo or M. Night Shyamalan would be proud of). Completely unecessary gory shit and psychological violence that I really did not want to watch. Game of Thrones is the most overrated show ever. Good for hate watching indeed (from the very start), while fast-forwarding the most repulsive torture/rape scenes. Gotta love how every woman was naked and flashing tits and ass all the time in the first few seasons then got dressed up like nuns in the later ones because, ya know... I do laugh my ass off at all the young couples who named their daughter Dany or Danae because she was such an inspiring empowering and whatnot female figure... and then... wooops, didn't see that ending coming.

Probably because it's less an NWA show than several indies working together. With Mike Bennett in the main event... Nothing against the guy, but really now. Free on Youtube, I'd probably bat an eye at the main event, just for the sake of it. By sheer virtue of working All Out and Dynamite, Thunder Rosa is a much bigger name than anyone there.

The guy is young, good looking, engaged to Penelope Ford... Yeah, basically jealousy.

He's a kinda fun character, needs to develop his game, pretty good worker but nothing special shown thus far. Considering the ridiculous amount of hatred he gets here, he's safely in the "underrated" category. It's not like he has got any kind of serious push thus far either.

Maybe they'll finally be successful in recruiting someone, after weeks of efforts... This Dark Order stuff is way more compelling and fun to me than the apparent MJF/Wardlow storyline, which again, reeks of old-school pro-wrestling studies but really strikes me as kinda ridiculous in the current context. I mean, if Wardlow doesn't have a contract with AEW, why is he even allowed to compete there ? And the whole "I can put you and your family on the street" stuff is ridiculous, why isn't Wardlow just signing with AEW anyway if he's tired of MJF's bullshit ? It's not like he wouldn't be signed by Tony Khan, speaking strictly kayfabe-wise. Yeah, I understand it's a classic old-school angle, but it struck me as not fitting in today's product very well unless you give me more than the old-school bullshit. MJF is great, but yeah, his character is almost *too* old-school.

What's intriguing about this whole Cabana angle is that now that Brodie is mad with him costing them the match at All Out, Evil Uno seems to want to "protect" Cabana from his boss wrath. Maybe at some point we'll get a Uno & Grayson babyface turn alongside Cabana (whom I really can't see as a full fledge heel, he's really the "useful idiot" of Dark Order rather than a true heel thus far), maybe also leading to #4 & #5 getting more of a push (they really are an excellent team and Silver is such a charismatic guy he sure could do more).

It was only a few sessions here and there though. Angle was mostly trained by Dr. Tom I believe. I believe Terry Funk retiring and then coming back to work for Onita really did not sit well with the main promotions. As far as Dory goes, well.... just watch him, his look, his kind of work. Not exactly the kind of stuff that hardcore leagues were about (well, the look was whatever, but the stoic (aka boring as fuck) attitude and endless european forearms and stuff was not exactly gonna set FMW on fire).

Yeah, the man had a tremendous voice. Just catching up on 09/01 episode. I will legit miss Wrestle House, one of my favourite stuff of the summer. And it sure delivered for its last episode, with the über-ridiculous Deaners vs Ace & Larry brawl ending up with Suzie basically murdering all four of them, then the inevitable Taya vs Rosemary main event culminating with a happy-ending (and yes, another wedding incoming I guess). I love how they go full-fledge Lucha Underground magic stuff as the entire cast of Wrestle House just teleports inside the ring during Purrazzo's celebration, which already had been ruined by Grace and the return of Tenille Dashwood. With Kylie Ray the official N°1 contender, that women's roster is just stacked on top. Eric Young winning the world title in a very good TV match was quite the development, the guy is now used at his most effective. Very pleased with how his comeback turned out. (also enjoying the Callihan/RVD feud and the MCMG defending against Rascalz the following week. Heath has been a fun addition too thus far. ECIII is basically a psychopath, his suff with Moose has been quite interesting too. The Impact rebuild about SpeakingUp/Tessa debacle really has worked much better than I thought it would)

But you do know why they were called Henry O. and Phineas I., right ?

Dustin Rhodes doing Code Red and Canadian Destroyers at 50 years old is fucking awesome. Just like Terry Funk doing crazy-ass moonsault at whatever age he was in the 90's was awesome. And yeah, Dustin at 50 still is a great worker and his match with Lee was terrific. So glad he's getting to display his ability again.

Considering Jake Hagger murdered Stunt on Dark a few weeks ago (with Stunt injuring his ankle), I don't think this will happen... Now, give Big Swole another TV feud that takes up my time and then I'll complain, again.

Because pissed off people always express themselves more anyway. In a few weeks no one will talk about this anymore. Of course there will be something else that will piss some people off by then.

As far as AEW goes ? Nope. FTR were gonna work with the Young Bucks and Omega/Page, which basically means they are top level guys from the get go. Miro, who the hell knows what level he can attain in AEW. He's totally unproven outside the WWE machine. He can be another Mox/Lee or another Spears (Cardona is too early to tell, but I don't see shit in him). And honestly, if he had showed up and challenged Mox or Cody right away, *then* we're in a TNA situation where a guy who for years has been a mid-card act at best shows up in the other company and goes automatically to the main event. I really can't wait to see the follow-up, as I've got a feeling of where it's gonna go... I don't think people are getting *how* meta this is (because I don't feel there are a lot of fans of the BTE kind of spirit around here), but maybe I'm wrong about where this is going... Well, because maybe it's time to give the guy some time on TV and develop his character too ? Gotta start somewhere. His team with Jimmy Havoc was quite good and they were given wins, but that was obviously derailed. So, let's try again. Nah. The Dark Order beatdown of the Elite late last year is still their biggest misfire. That and the Tyson stuff, actually, which I thought was a complete mess (and it really did not spark much mainstream interest nor helped ratings).

I doubt he was the hottest free-agent anywhere but in the minds of hardcore fans. In the WWE, Rusev had been a complete afterthought for *ever* before he got his last big angle which was all about him losing his wife to Lashley and having a bunch of totally forgettable matches. Yes, he was one of the biggest names *for hardcores*, and hardcores certainly dug the dig at WWE (it's the old ECW mentality, really). It's not like he was a main-eventer in WWE. He never was. He peaked as far as status on the card when he fought Cena... that's YEARS ago. If you consider kayfabe, FTR were arguably much bigger deals than Rusev thanks to their NXT aura (which also assured they would fit in AEW), and they did get the tag team titles recently before they left. Rusev, much like Cardona (I'm obviously not saying it's *the same*), is a guy who got over much bigger than his push. But the last memorable thing he did in WWE was a stupid wedding angle, after years of doing nothing of note, really. The fact he's introduced in AEW in a wedding angle is total meta-work, and actually I find that really funny and smart.

Three letters : A.E.W.. Since DAY 1, people have been doing that about the promotion. Remember when THE LIBRARIANS were gonna drive people away and how this gimmick was gonna KILL THE PROMOTION AND NO ONE WOULD WATCH IT BECAUSE OF THIS SO IMPORTANT GARBAGE GIMMICK ? Yeah. Fun days. Oh, and when Kenny Omega let Angels (who got a job of out it) kick-out of a non-finisher, how that was THE END FOR KENNY OMEGA OH MY GOD HE'S DONE HE KILLED HIS FINISHER (which it wasn't, but, oh well) HE'S A DORK NOW ? Endless "debates" about this absolute non-event for days. It happens all the time with AEW. It's completely ridiculous, but that's the way it is. Probably won't end either. To me 20 years of WWE monopoly has screwed-up people's mind quite a bit (BUT : apparently people are ok with JR sucking and stuff like that)