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Can we dig up the stuff AJ said about homosexuals too then ?

Twitter pro-wrestling is the worst. Wait. Twitter is the worst.

Thank you for providing the details of the story. It's just awful.

In other news, Salina de la Renta is petitioning to remove the licence of a PR wrestler who basically threw a cinderblock on a back on another guy's head. https://www.change.org/p/luchadores-retiro-de-licencia-de-luchador-a-hector-pérez-porro-conocido-como-angel-o-demonio?utm_content=okt_psf_wa_shlinks%3Ashlink&recruiter=885135958&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi.pacific_abi_select_all_contacts.select_all.pacific_email_copy_en_gb_4.v1.pacific_email_copy_en_us_5.v1.pacific_email_copy_en_us_3.control.pacific_post_sap_share_gmail_abi.control.lightning_2primary_share_options_more.control&utm_medium=whatsapp (the video is absolutely pretty upsetting, what the hell was that ?)

I'm becoming a Hart Foundation fan (I wonder how they can use the name though). Pillman Jr.'s got a whole lot of potential. Teddy Hart is insane. Seriously, doomsday device-style canadian destroyer ? I'm there. And of course, Harry is Harry, and he's got style too in this context (as opposed to just be a big gaijin bully in NJ, which he portrays really well too). I guess theis super smooth hip-hop instrumental theme doesn't hurt. Marko Stunt is a nice novelty I guess. It's gonna be fun watch him get killed seven ways to Sunday.

It was such a depressing time following the news around FMW back then. You're doing a terrific job with this project BTW.

Not really. That being said, I do enjoy browsing through the ppv threads, like I used to when I wasn't watching regularly to see what could appeal to me and cherry pick (plus at some point reading the threads was the best part of the PPV's anyway). I guess I posted this time purely out of habit. Of course you are. But that's ok. "None taken". But that makes two, wait, three unecessary posts by now, including that one. I could (since I don't have to pay for it anyway). But is it necessary ? Not really.

I didn't think so. For two guys who pack up more than 100 years, it was a perfectly fine match. I guess expectations are running wild these days. Since the craziness aspect is a part of every PCO match, that damn bump from the top rope to the apron was fucking insane. The never-ending promo/translation stuff at the end was kinda messy, although I liked the fact it looked organic. On the other hand, Havoc vs Callahan was a letdown, but I guess I just don't care one bit for Havoc. The whole staples and papercuts with lemon & salt is just for shits and giggles and it gets old very quick (especially the papercut nonsense). I expected a blood & guts match, I got some not funny indy comedy match... Considering the stuff Callahan has done in LU or iMPACT, this kinda sucked (but again, Havoc stuff usually does).

I guess the one match I would have loved is Charlotte vs Ronda. Oh well...

Tanahashi, Omega, Fenix, Ospreay, Ishii, ZSJ

Unless any strong feedback, not interested in this week's show either. Can't bear to listen to them waxing poetics about how "great storytelling" Survivor Series 98 was. It was the first event that put a real dent in my WWF fandom back then, where the booking of the big swerve was more important than the actual pro-wrestling (the entire card pretty much sucked as far as in-ring action went).

And Owen Hart vs Brian Pillman (with Terri Runnels dressed as a whore), having a fake-ass match on purpose, just a few weeks (days ?) before Pillman's death.

Exhibit #X of why 2018 has been the craziest and most exciting year in pro-wrestling in 20 years : just browse Youtube and you get to watch Pentagon Jr. vs L.A. Park having a terrific, terrific garbagey brawl, announced by Tony fucking Schiavone. I really liked Salina wearing LA Park's colors too, cool aesthetic detail, the kind of which I always loved in old-school wrestling (Jimmy Hart's outfit, Rick Rude's tights). Is LA Park really 53 ? Seems insane considering how well he bumps and execute his spots. Back to back winner matches involving the Lucha Brothers too, which I'm glad I get to see more of outside of LU.

Okada vs Omega 2/3 falls. Greatest match I've ever watched.

Game changer indeed...

Gotta say also I really like Ki's new style of "Hitman" (the video game, not Bret Hart) promos. Very different and refreshing.

Pretty fascinating indeed. Thanks for sharing.

At one point, the entire concept of "pro-wrestling royalty" should really been questioned. This struck me during the Shaul Guerrero segment at Ultima Lucha (which was very fun, don't get me wrong, but Striker talking about her being "pro-wrestling royalty" really made me think about the whole thing). There's this very bizarre notion in pro-wrestling that if your family has been in the business before, you automatically get respected (well, unless you're Erik Watts) because of some really twisted feeling of "wrestling dynasty". Who the fuck cares about who you parents or brothers/sisters are ? Nia Jaxx totally is a product of this mentality. She's a shitty worker with no presence and no promo ability, and she's been proven dangerous, yet she's been given more than most women who worked hard for 20 years (where's Cheerleader Melissa's sweet contract ?).

Well, I have been skipping the lastest ones and you all sure are making me save three hours of listening with this one. Yeah, I feel this has fallen into a tired formula, which was gonna happen eventually anyway, but listen back to an old episode now and the differences are striking.

Those Byron Reed matches are exactly some of what I don't care about in MLW, way too indieriffic and cosplayish (as in "look at me do all those moves and pretend selling" way). I dunno, maybe he'll grow on me but he's kinda like generic flippy indy worker N°whatever at this point (unlike Koto, who's displayed much more than this to me). On the other hand, Fenix vs Low-Ki from E24 was the easily best match on Fusion thus far, truly excellent stuff. Ki pacing it and really getting heat on Fenix, who's a great babyface (as showed by his LU stuff where he was more charismatic than Puma) made it super solid structurally, with all the stiff offense and crazy shit you'd expect. Salina is definitely an excellent manager, she doesn't has to do much in term of spots at ringside, but she does it really well. It's striking how short all these guys are though, unless she's a really big girl, as she looks as tall as many of them despite wearing flat shoes. Anyway, this was pretty ace.

Mil should not have killed Catrina...

You don't say. I marked the fuck out for these last five seconds. And really, this final episode of S4 was everything great about Lucha Underground ever. The only missing part was Catrina (nothing will ever be able to replace her). Apart from that, terrific, purely LU matches at their insane, absurd in some case (the Mundo vs Matanza match), best. Marty Martinez bringing back the Hase/Mutoh scale was something else. The short Famous B bit with some unexpected guests was fantastic (as always with B.). And the final vignette, although rushing to tie up some loose ends as it has been the case in this season, was still a whole lot of insane fun. Especially those last five seconds... Do a S5, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase !!!!!!!!!!

Finally got to finish that show. The last half was terrific, Suzuki vs Ishii was absurd in its simplistic greatness, Naito vs Sabre was excellent and tons of fun and Jericho vs EVIL was about as good an EVIL match will get. Crazy to think that Jericho, 20 years after being that young hungry potential star on Nitro, has basically became the Terry Funk of his generation (as in a terrific old-guy worker). Naito vs Jericho II at the Dome should be terrific, but honestly apart from the awesome G1, it's been kind of a off year for Naito in term of development. Hope he's not gonna cool down before he eventually gets the big one again. (he should get it or win the G1 next year, anything less would be too less).

I totally agree with Meltz about the current NJ greatness. Okada & Tanahashi especially (it really struck me during the G1) are the like best Bret Hart ever mixed with a modern high end offensive style. And Bret Hart to me was a much better wrestler than Michaels anyway.

Meanwhile, Lesnar is probably the smartest guy in pro-wrestling, ever. The ratio money/actual work is insane.