some sad news
Marvel is collaborating with AAA to produce a Disney+ series revolving around luchadors based on Marvel characters, and the trailer (in Spanish) is out now.
I’m intrigued. It has a very Lucha Underground-ish look to it. No word yet on whether it’s going to get a US release.
Video from Tag Me In United. It should be no surprise that many wrestlers have to deal with mental health issues. This is a long overdue effort that could have saved the lives of many wrestlers in the past and hopefully will in the future.
If there was a drinking game for every time Booker T says “Let me tell you something,” Anheuser-Busch would be empty by now.
Another reason why Austin Theory is awesome.
Austin Theory’s going to be WWE Champion someday, and people will pay (and are already paying) lots of money to see that sniveling little weasel get what’s coming to him. I love to hate that guy.
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Another hot Toronto crowd for this show.
- “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story, my man.”
- “I’m an elite color analyst, but even I don’t have all the answers.”
- Calls Zack Clayton’s finishing move “Fisherman Buster Jones.”
- Athena stole Taz’s Wheelbarrow Suplex and renamed it.
- Danhausen is introduced as weighing over 300 lbs. Taz says Danhausen’s scale is in kilometers.
- Ex doesn’t think Taz identified a Pantone color correctly, then calls out “Going for the Pantone 1235,” which is Gold. How does Ex know this shit?
- Not sure what Taz was trying to say, but it sounded like he said Luther was from “Nationhood Nigh Buckethead Jones.”
- JD Drake is likely to be the guy at the bar watching a baseball game and drinking beers, then punches you in the face.
- Somehow, saying how Taylor Rising’s names shouldn’t be confused with “terrorizing” led to.a discussion about pistachio nuts and how GIF is pronounced. Ex said they have this discussion about once a year, and I still don’t know what they’re talking about.
- When Serena Deeb countered Spinelli’s gesture for a finishing move, Ex said a very Taz-like thing: “She was trying to get a passing trucker to honk his horn.” He then imitated the truck horn.
- The crowd chants “Oh, QT’s an asshole.” Ex says “I don’t think we can put that on a shirt.”
- Referee Bryce Rensburg sends QT Marshall and Aaron Solo to the back. Ex says The Factory is hitting the showers. Taz replies, “If I’m going to the back, I’m not taking a shower. But I get your drift.”
Aaron Solo vs. Serpentico w/ Luther
Taz: The beautiful country of Canada has gotta be so proud that Luther’s their hood ornament.
Ex: I think we know definitively from the announcement of Dasha that Luther’s home kingdom, the Kingdom of Nigh, is in Canada.
Taz: Well, that’s not necessarily true.
Ex: He was called “Canada’s Own.”
Taz: He was born in Canada in a box, a crate. Something gave birth to him in a crate, it was up in Calgary. No, actually it was in Winnipeg, I believe. No, it was Kelowna, BC. You know what BC is, right?
Ex: British Columbia.
Taz: That’s right.
Ex: You sure it wasn’t Newfoundland? Nova Scotia? Prince Edward Island? The Maritimes?
Taz: You know Excalibur, I can’t stand you sometimes.
Maybe you already know this, maybe you don’t, but HHH debuted in WCW as “Terra Ryzing”. Didn’t last long.
I remember one broadcast, Tony Schiavone likened the man who would become HHH to a young Ric Flair. (I don’t know if he was still Terra Ryzing, was using his real name which also didn’t last long, or had moved to his Blue Bloods gimmick with Steven Regal when this was said). I scoffed and wondered what Tony was smoking before the broadcast. The color announcer was skeptical, but not as outright derisive as I was at home. Schiavone was obviously better at spotting these things than I ever was.
MJF told Stokley Hathaway that if The Firm so much as looked at Jon Moxley before Full Gear, that they would be fired.
After Moxley retained the AEW World Title against Penta on Dynamite, The Firm came out and beat the hell out of Moxley anyway. Hathaway was revealed to be behind it.
MJF came out and hemmed and hawed for a moment, and I thought he was going to say, “Ah, the hell with it.”
But HE DIDN’T.
He checked on Moxley’s well-being and got in Hathaway’s face and told him he was fired.
And then The Firm beat the living hell out of MJF, finishing off the sequence with Morrisey putting Max through a table.
I did NOT see that coming.
I realized they were talking about Terra Ryzing too late to edit. Oh well, can’t catch 'em all.
That’s probably the closest thing we’re ever gonna get to an MJF face turn. It’s an interesting take on things - for 40 years Vince McMahon has been telling us that heels can ONLY win by cheating or having their buddies attack the good guy, and now here comes a heel who wants his opponent in top condition so he can beat him fair and prove to the world that “I’m better than you”.
In other news, some guy named Phil had his birthday yesterday. I’d suggest that he go back to wrestling in backyards since he’s well and truly burned his bridges with every single wrestling promotion that he’s ever worked with, but then again it was his brother who ran the backyard promotion and he and Phil haven’t spoken in years. (Guess why? The answer might shock you!)
Dude, that’s Andre the Giant.
For the first time in as long as I can remember, religion makes sense.
Triple H’s roaring rampage of rehires continues, with Emma appearing on Smackdown tonight to answer Ronda Rousey’s open challenge. She was one of the first of the new generation of women who helped make women’s wrestling serious business in WWE, and it’s good to see her back.
That segment with The Bloodline on SmackDown was brilliant.
Sami: “The Tribal Chief said he wants peace!”
Jey: “I don’t give a damn what the Tribal Chief said!”
[Roman turns and stares daggers at Jey, and Jey flinches]
Sami: “He didn’t mean that. He’s just not feeling like himself. He’s not feeling very Ucey.”
Ucey? Everyone was corpsing at that point.
And then the look on Sami’s face when Roman suggested he might become a full-blown Uce. Like a kid on Christmas with his long-awaited bicycle. I love Sami Zayn so much. And I love The Bloodline.
When Zayn was a guest on Renee’s podcast, they went pretty deep into the nature of perception, and how one has to change their own guidelines to effectively play a character to arouse audience response. Even though Vince wasn’t a fan of Zayn’s acrobatic style, he loved his mic work, and Zayn gladly handled whatever curve balls Vince threw at him.
For those wondering what Shinsuke Nakamura has been up to (or will be up to, to be more accurate):
# Shinsuke Nakamura To Face Great Muta At Pro Wrestling NOAH New Year 2023
Nice of HHH to sign off on this.
yeah, mutas finally retiring …some of the last 80s heroes of wrestling are retiring …stings the last one left …
Are we sure Flair is really retired? His son-in-law may want to milk another match or six out of him.
well supposedly flair was going to manage him in AEW and eventually charlotte was going to join them until he got in trouble but what I’m wondering is what were they going to have them do? cause anadrae isn’t setting the wrestling world on fire right now and never really has in the first place