@jump I first saw Will Osprey about a year or two ago with a British promotion and instantly fell in love with his ring style. He was a wrestler that I wish would come to WWE just so I could see more of him (even though I know WWE would mess him up). Mostly I have seen his indie stuff on YouTube and it's always a joy watching him. The match he had with Lance Archer this past Saturday was great. Even they had two different wrestling styles, they worked really well together, for me it was probably the best match of the night.
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Only had time for one wrestling event last weekend, and I chose AEW’s Fight for the Fallen. It was a good show, and it helped highlight the depth of their roster. There’s never a shortage of great tag team rasslin on an AEW card, which I enjoy. Is there kayfabe AEW storyline occurring somewhere right now, like maybe on twitter or something? It completely broke all logic that Shawn Spears was there, but not confronted by Cody. Drove me crazy. I really needed to see Spears bleed. Maybe it’s a story for All In, but they could have touched on it here.
I hope they can figure out commentary by TV this fall. This team is atrocious. I like a two person booth. They need a high energy play by play person to fill the air, and let JR chime in with colorful JRisms. He can’t carry a three hour show anymore, and the jay-brones out there with him can’t cover his BBQ’d babyback brisket.
Good show though, and I saw multiple piledrivers, so I went home happy.
@bimmy-lee For now most of AEW's storylines are little 5 minute videos on their YouTube channel which obviously will change this October when they come to TNT.
I was able to watch both Fight the Fallen and the B Block of NJPW G1 Climax tournament both had excellent matches. I second the tag team matches on AEW and Moxley's match for New Japan was great as well. Apparently in New Japan chairs and tables can be used and won't get a person DQ'd unless it's in the ring, outside it's all legal. I found that interesting.
Oh and on the AEW front I can't wait to see the Battle of the Kongs!!!
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Forgot about the Kong standoff. That was great! A match to anticipate. I also meant to mention Evil Uno from The Dark Order in my last post. That guy made my night. What a throwback! Loved his mid 80s, slimy, chicken ish heel act. He even has a mid 80s rasslin heel body! He looked like Adrian Adonis in a mask and made everyone else look amazing.
I'm betting they'll just be announcing the official start date and the day/time that it will be airing. All indications at this point look like it's probably be on Wednesday nights, starting sometime in October. I am so looking forward to it!
I'm betting they'll just be announcing the official start date and the day/time that it will be airing. All indications at this point look like it's probably be on Wednesday nights, starting sometime in October. I am so looking forward to it!
Apparently it's gonna be on Tuesday, Smackdown is moving to Fridays on Fox so they are eyeing up that spot and have copyrighted Tuesday Night Dynamite.
Ooh, I like Tuesday Night Dynamite! Tuesday or Wednesday would be good nights. Tuesday maybe slightly better because it’s not competing with NXT, and there will be an opening on a previously established wrestling night.
I’m guessing the announcement tomorrow will be a press conference for signing CM Punk, but it’ll get invaded by Kevin Steen and Rusev, The Outliers.
Sphydar called it like Ric Flair calling a 60 minute broadway. You’re all invited to my place for a viewing party October 2nd. I’ll have refreshments, they’ll all be things rasslers enjoyed in 1983.
Yeah, it sure doesn’t seem like he’s coming back, aside from possible masked run ins at indie shows. A shame for wrestling fans, but oh well. He wasn’t transcendent, but he was fun to watch. The real shame is that he’d probably be even better now than he was when he left. He had shades of Hot Rod in him. If he cared about wrestling, he would be huge for AEW, but he doesn’t, so he won’t.
So more news on AEW's schedule. The word going around is that they will do 51 TV shows a year (speculating that the week of Christmas they get off) and only 4 PPVs a year reason being to give storylines more time to grow and they don't feel rushed.
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Quarterly PPVs is great news. Feeding the monthly beast has directly impacted WWEs ability to produce interesting storylines. I’m interested to see how they crown their champions as well. I love a good tournament. Just talking out of my rear here, but I would be thrilled if they implemented a rankings system concerning contenders for the titles. It would present their brand as a sport, it would make wins and losses matter (thereby creating kayfabe), and it would be fun to keep tabs on the rankings.
@jump - Except for the part where he said he’s moved on from wrestling, and shared his personal philosophy of “eff it, on to the next thing.” He said he still cares about the fans he’s touched, but has no interest in the sport. He did say he thinks it’s dumb that strangers think they can dictate what he does with his life, and used an analogy about walking up to someone doing their job and telling them he thinks they should work at Wendy’s; but that’s not what I said. I said he doesn’t care about wrestling anymore, which was the entire crux of the interview.
@jump - Except for the part where he said he’s moved on from wrestling, and shared his personal philosophy of “eff it, on to the next thing.” He said he still cares about the fans he’s touched, but has no interest in the sport. He did say he thinks it’s dumb that strangers think they can dictate what he does with his life, and used an analogy about walking up to someone doing their job and telling them he thinks they should work at Wendy’s; but that’s not what I said. I said he doesn’t care about wrestling anymore, which was the entire crux of the interview.
I was talking about how fans saying they know his complex feelings towards wrestling and askew his words to fit a narrative they believe ;P
I heard on a podcast this week that Viceland has renewed the Dark Side docu series for a 10 episode second season, which is good news. Certainly there’s no shortage of material. Anyone have any speculative subjects for an episode? I’ve heard some pretty wild stories about Dino Bravo, seems like he might make an interesting subject. Pretty much anything Sheiky Baby has ever said or done could be an entire episode. Magnum TA seems like a tragedy they could tell. Maybe the story of how Kowalski became Killer. I’m curious how dark and scandalous they’ll go. Looking forward to it.
@bimmy-lee Actually Killer Kowalski was a kind man and actual a vegetarian. He got the killer name when in one of his matches his opponent's ear fell off after Kowalski hit him with a knee drop. The wrestler's ear was already badly cauliflowered from years of abuse (cauliflower ear is quite common for wrestlers in fact stars such as Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar and even John Cena have had it at one point in there life) and wrestling. Kowalski felt bad after it happened to the point where he visited the other wrestler in the hospital. Long story short he other guy forgave him, they had a laugh over it but afterwards Kowalski started to use it as a gimmick for his character, that he would maim his opponent's gleefully earning him the name Killer Kowalski.
Bonus Fact:. He trained Triple H, Chyna, Perry Saturn, Kofi Kingston and many other current and former wrestlers.
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