Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4

[pmo]

To be fair to TK the goal was 5k and he basically met the goal on his own.  That said hope Dean gets well soon.

[Al]

253 individual donations seems like an impressive amount. That's quite an outpouring of support.

[Dav'oh]

Terrible news. Rippa just posted what none of us wanted to read. 

[ChrisDrakkar]

To any spanish speakers: Dom gives this entire interview in kayfabe.  Granted, the interviewer, Molusco, who is a dick and has a controversial reputation in PR, did a good job of letting Dom speak, elaborate his character, his motives and his role in the JD. There's a lot of nuance in his heel work here.  He establishes that his allegiance to the JD comes from the validation they give him, the same validation that his dad didn't give him.

 

There's a fantastic heel moment around 3/4 of the way where Dom talks about when he first learned to run the ropes; here's an abridged translation:

 

D: "the first time I ever ran the ropes, my dad told me to run for five minutes.  15 seconds in, my back was already bruised and I complained.  He just responded: "sorry" and told me to keep going.  Five minutes later, my back is completely purple"

 

M: "It's Rey asserting his dominance over you.  Like, 'hey I'm Rey F'n Mysterio and I've been running these ropes for 30+ years so this is what I feel on the daily'."

 

D: "Exactly.  He told me he cried the first time he did this exercise.  My uncle, Rey Misterio, Sr. who is also his uncle, told him 'if you're gonna cry, go cry in the corner because wrestlers don't cry' so he cried, wiped away his tears, and kept going.

 

Of course, I didn't cry because I'm a real man."

 

In one fell swoop Dom puts his dad over, gathers sympathy for him and heels it up.

 

For any completionists out there, Molusco also interviewed Damian Priest yesterday out of kayfabe and Chicky Starr last week.  He is a respectful, although casual interviewer.

 

[KawadaSmile]

I am a decent Spanish speaker, but man this PR accent is killing me!

Still, having fun with this one, Dom is super fucking charismatic speaking Spanish. I like how from the get-go he mentions how being a heel would make him stand out on his own (and have fun) and not be in his father's shadow. Can't say he's wrong.

[sek69]

2 hours ago, Dav'oh said:

Terrible news. Rippa just posted what none of us wanted to read. 

DEAN was a real one. His contributions to the online wrestling world, when it was very much still in its infancy, can never be overstated. His influence goes from dorks like us all the way to the top of the #2 promotion in the US. That's a hell of a legacy. 

[MLB]

How in the blue hell did Dom get to be 6'1? His great uncle and father are both well under six foot. Lucky genetics, I guess.

[MoS]

RIP DEAN~! Thank you for the many many hilarious reviews over the years, which I both enjoyed as well as used as a crutch and a means of support when I was fighting with depression. You will be forever missed.

[El-P]

I've been kinda out of the loop, for various reasons, and I just saw the news on Bix's Twitter feed this morning. I had thought about him when I saw that DEAN sign on Dynamite, but I had no idea.

I'm very sorry to hear the news. My condolences to his family and friends. 

Like so many others at that time, Dean was super important in shaping my discoveries of other kind of wrestling when I got online in the late 90's. I stumbled onto the DVDVR Reviews pretty quickly when searching for stuff about pro-wrestling. I remember I could't wait for the next issues and it was always so much fun to discover what Dean Rasmussen in particular would write, because he was funny as hell. In 2000 as I moved to Paris, I did not had the internet over there, so what I would do when I was back at my parents for a week-end, I would print the latests DVDVR reviews so I could read them on the train back to Paris. To this day I have memories of reading some BJPW and GAEA reviews as the train was stopped in some small train station...

Over the years I had been a regular on the infamous light green board, and although I don't remember that many specific direct interactions with him (maybe there were, but it was a long time ago), Dean was always very nice to me, like he was to everyone. The last time I posted there was eons ago, and I was reviewing some old FMW stuff, and of course Dean was all about my pimping of Sambo Asako, because of course he would. The fact I always tried to make whatever I wrote to be funny and entertaining (like the WCW stuff) come straight from having so much fun reading Dean's reviews. Even when he was bashing stuff, he was so damn funny you could never be mad about it.

So yeah. Very sad news. Dean was one *huge* part of the internet pro-wrestling board culture. That Coach Tony K guy knows.

A billion zillions stars for you DEAN~!

[MoS]

There genuinely would not be an AEW without DEAN~! RoH probably wouldn't have become the entity they did either. He casts a giant shadow on the world of pro wrestling 

[ohtani's jacket]

My story, and feelings, are similar to Jerome's. Dean was always there and now he's not. And that sucks. There's no two ways about it. 

[Stiva]

The news about Dean is awful. I always remember stumbling across his Smackdown workrate reports as a fresh-faced teenager and laughing at his absolute love for the ridiculous Al Wilson storyline. Since then, I always made it a point to read his old DVDVRs, the comix and, recently, his stream of consciousness thoughts on basically everything over at DVDVR. He turned me on to so much obscure, dirty Japanese wrestling at a time where I didn’t see past the big promotions. Just total positivity in a community that, so often, only focuses on the negatives. RIP

[Graham Crackers]

The news about Dean really hurt, in large part because of the huge expressions of love and support that have been shared on various boards and on Twitter in the last few days. It's so rare that we actually tell people how much we appreciate them when they are still with us. I had hoped that Dean might get to see these with his own mortal eyes.

I'd been lurking on DVDVR starting in 2005 or 2006 and was a relatively active poster during a few of the 80s sets. The various boards in this orbit have been an active part of my media consumption throughout my entire adult life. I've made a few real life friends via these boards and I 've been lucky to meet a few others and simply say hi at shows over the years (that was easier when I lived in NY).

That's all to say that this is making me realize I'll miss a lot of you when you're gone. Take care.

[Strummer]

The results of Sara Lee's autopsy revealed she died via suicide. Lethal dose of alcholol and pills.

Tragic

[Migs]

In addition to all the other great things about Dean's writing, it hit me this week that he (and the other DVDVR guys) are the people who taught me the joy of wrestling road trips. Of gathering your dorky friends and feeling cool by going on adventures centered around wrestling shows to otherwise random places on the map. For that alone, I'm forever in his debt - my, how much joy wrestling trips have given me over the years. He'll be missed.

[Dav'oh]

Why couldn't it be Scott Keith, dammit?

I've seen comments on that feeling when DEAN liked one of your posts; for me, it was like the Pope blessing you or an approving nod from a Godfather.

DEAN's passing hit me harder than any recent worker deaths, because DEAN meant more to wrestling than any one worker, in his own way.

If someone here told me they've never used a TILDEBANG~! I'd be disinclined to believe them.

RIP big man, "The friend you never met". You changed my wrestling world for the better.

[JRH]

So I was wondering, is it possible to actually have a face-in-peril segment in a mixed tag match due to the format? 

[Indikator]

Read a great line by Andrew Betts on the Stick To Wrestling FB Group:

The reality is nobody who wasn't already a fan has ever taken wrestling seriously it's been that way forever

[KawadaSmile]

10 hours ago, JRH said:

So I was wondering, is it possible to actually have a face-in-peril segment in a mixed tag match due to the format? 

Memory fails me but I think Angle/Ronda vs Trips/Steph was predicated on that. Need to rewatch it.

[MLB]

I don't know if it's been discussed before but another thing with modern wrestling and the growth of social media and podcasts is the death of the shoot tape. People lament the loss of kayfabe but shoot interviews aren't as fun or revealing as they used to be. RF Video and KC used to be a big thing, yet I can't remember the last shoot interview that caused waves. Probably Punk on Cabana was the last shoot that was memorable. Or Conrad getting Jim Herd. Some of my all-time favorites are New Jack, Mike Graham, Brickhouse Brown, Ken Patera, Jaime Dundee, Billy Jack Haynes, Teddy Hart and Ultimate Warrior. 

[khawk20]

2 hours ago, MLB said:

I don't know if it's been discussed before but another thing with modern wrestling and the growth of social media and podcasts is the death of the shoot tape. People lament the loss of kayfabe but shoot interviews aren't as fun or revealing as they used to be. RF Video and KC used to be a big thing, yet I can't remember the last shoot interview that caused waves. Probably Punk on Cabana was the last shoot that was memorable. Or Conrad getting Jim Herd. Some of my all-time favorites are New Jack, Mike Graham, Brickhouse Brown, Ken Patera, Jaime Dundee, Billy Jack Haynes, Teddy Hart and Ultimate Warrior. 

The KC Timeline Series was fantastic, probably my favourite shoot series. 

[MLB]

1 hour ago, khawk20 said:

The KC Timeline Series was fantastic, probably my favourite shoot series. 

Really great, yeah. I know Oliver is still active and working with Nash. RF Video has so many legendary moments. I think Hannibal TV still produces good shoots. A lot of the novelty is gone. I think what meant is missing are these personalities I mentioned who are more known as wild shooters who burned every bridge than for their actual wrestling careers. Marty Jannetty.

Another crazy shoot was the New Age Outlaws one where Road Dogg talks about wanting to break Hunter's nose. Oops. Paul London is a good shooter, too.

[sek69]

On 5/5/2023 at 11:35 PM, JRH said:

So I was wondering, is it possible to actually have a face-in-peril segment in a mixed tag match due to the format? 

In modern WWE? Probably not, but AAA does it all the time. 

[NintendoLogic]

Superstar Billy Graham's wife posted on Facebook that his doctors wanted to take him off life support but she refused. He's been at or near death's door seemingly forever, but it looks like this really may be it.

[Flyin' Brian]

During the WWE Most Wanted Treasures episode this week they revealed WWE has 20 boxes of master tapes from Poffo’s ICW. They showed a few clips from 1983. Would love to see this released on the network someday.