I thought Styles was a face. (But now he’s the US Champion, so theoretically he’s out of the WWE Title picture for a little while.)
hey theres a neat pro wrestling series called "behind the titantron " on you tube explaining things you wondered about or what really happened on certain incidents …the posting team is calling its self “wrestlemania”
like dino bravo was basically Canadian mafia and they think he was killed due to a botched wholesale coke deal
the most recent one was about miss Elizabeth (and why lex lugers wife deserved to take him to the cleaners …)
Having just finished watching the replay of GBoF, I have only one thing to say;
This is the best episode of 1997 WCW Monday Nitro that I have ever seen.
I think there’s a joke in there, but it went way over my head. Care to explain?
I think he means the show was underwhelming for a PPV*, though Neville/Itami on the pre-show and the tag-team match were both really good.
*We need a better term for the shows, because no one is watching pay-per-view.
Chikara - The Lodger - Gibsonville, NC - July 8, 2017
I went with my coworker and his wife to see Chikara, performing out of CFW’s athletic center in Gibsonville, halfway between Bug Tussle and Hooterville. I think Trevor Lee and Andrew Everett from TNA/Impact/GFW have something to do with CFW, as their pictures are all over their website. It’s a nice little setup. Maybe 100 or so people in attendance. They had an earlier show that day, which I presume was more kid-oriented.
Here’s me wearing a Jim Cornette shirt. Wearing black in a packed gym on a summer night was a sweat fest.
Juke Joint Lucas Calhoun vs The Whisper
I decided Whisper would be my boy. He looked ultra cool. He has a tattoo of a haunted tree with an owl on his left side of his torso and slithers around the ring like Jake The Snake Roberts. Who else has a gimmick where he’s quiet? We got in the act and made “shhhh” sounds. We’d whisper “let’s go Whisper” and click our fingers. Whisper won the match. I went up to him during intermission and told him I liked his gimmick. He said he’s been wrestling for less than a year. He looked really good for the short amount of time he’s been working.
Dez Poloton (Donald Kluger and Jasper Tippins) vs Sandwich
Dez Poloton are a couple of adrenaline junkie bikers, and Sandwich is two fat guys who brought a sub sandwich to the ring. Their gimmick is that they get winded easily and need to get a carb infusion from their sandwich to continue. I yelled to Dez “Don’t worry, if you don’t beat them, diabetes will!” My coworker got embarrassed. Yes, I am an unapologetic smark. At one point, Jasper stole Sandwich’s sandwich and threatened to eat it. The red Sandwich guy chased him outside while Donald did a top rope splash on the masked Sandwich and won the match.
DUSTIN vs Sloan Caprice
DUSTIN is Chuck Taylor, whom you might recognize from RoH. He apparently has 15 zillion aliases. Sloan Caprice played the part of the egotistical muscleman. He’d get Dustin a headlock and yell “Feel the power of my biceps!” He’d then get him in a leglockand yell “See my traps?” Dustin played the goofy hero who somehow pulls amazing moves out his ass when it looks like he’s getting destroyed, like this waddayacallit. When Dustin was down, Sloan pulled off his sweater and wore it as sign of disrespect. Dustin made his heroic comeback and won the match, then got his sweater back. Best match of the night.
Hermit Crab vs Cajun Crawdad for the Crustacean Cup.
It was hard to tell which one was supposed to the face and which one the heel, so we cheered and booed both of them and expressed a plethora of crustacean puns. Here’s CC gets HC in a Boston Crab. HC in turn applied crab rolls to CC. Hermit Crab retains the cup with the Decapod Death Drop or something. The two shake claws after the match.
Frightmarevs Fire Ant, Last Man Standing match
Action spilled out of the ring, and Frightmare made some people in the front row get up and took their chairs. I yelled “Sorry, no refunds!” Coworker covers his face. Fire Ant suplexes Frightmare on a chair. I yelled “Grab him by the antenna!” and Frightmare obliges. Fire Ant sets up the chairs in formation. Boom goes the dynamite! After more carnage, Fire Ant answers the 10 count as Frightmare collapses and is declared the winner.
Ring Emcee Vlad Rudinov calls for a drum roll and introduces the Main Event…
Campeonatos de Parejas: Cornelius Crummels, Sonny Defarge vs Solo Darling, Travis Huckabee
I think there’s some sort of “Hardcore Champion” clause to this title where the title holders are subject to challenge at any time. More on this later. Solo Darling is kind of a combination of Alexa Bliss and Becky Lynch with bee acoutrements. She tries to get Travis to wear a bee bandana, but he’s not so keen on the idea.Crummels and Defarge are Keysone Cops villains, I guess. They used a double team combo frequently that involved one of them rolling on he other one’s back and then doing a corner toss into the opponent. They did the mean ol’ male chauvinist routine on Solo. Here’s a closeup of Solo’s initials. Here are the heels cheating. Never fear, Solo’s got it all under control. The heels win the first fall, but Solo makes Sonny tap outto win the second fall. The Rumblebees go on to win the third fall and the belts! The Ice Creams come out to congratulate them. But what’s this? The Ice Creams aren’t so sweet after all! They turn on the Rumblebees and start a match! Because the Rumblebees have been beaten up so bad in the previous match, the Ice Creams win the belts in short order. Get it? Short order like in a soda shop? Damn millenials…
Bonus Match - Mister Azerbaijan vs Razerhawk
Mr. Az is actually one of Chuck Taylor’s aliases. His gimmick is that he doesn’t speak English, so when he gets a 2-count on Razerhawk, he screams “bir iki üç” to the referee, who has no idea what he’s saying. Razerhawk wins with his lucha style acrobatics.
Chikara’s always a lot of fun to attend, and it’ll be sweet if one of these performers goes on to glory. Alumni include Aerostar, Brodie Lee (Luke Harper), DBD, Cedric Alexander, Claudio Castagnoli (Cesaro), Colt Cabana, Drew Gulak, El Generico (Sami Zayn), Heidi Lovelace (Ruby Riot), Johnny Gargano, Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose), Kota Ibushi, Lince Dorado, Mickie James, Mike Bennett, Rhett Titus, Sami Callihan (Jeremiah Crane), Tommaso Ciampa, Tony Nese, Trent Seven, Tyler Bate, Zack Sabre Jr., and CP Munk!
I just checked out the first three episodes. They’re all pretty short, but provide some GREAT information. I highly recommend these.
So it appears you can take the TNA out of Impact, but the LOL part keeps on coming, as the unified GFW Champion Alberto El Patron is being investigated for a domestic abuse incident between him and Paige at the Orlando Airport. Paige originally tweeted that it was a problem with an aggressive fan, but said fan was recording audio of Patron and Paige yelling at each other.
I believe GFW has at least a month of episodes taped with Patron as their champion.
Ah, Smackdown.
Will we see the same promo from Jinder (not his fault, the writers)?
Will they ever end this Orton-Mahal feud? C’mon, I don’t even want to see the Punjabi prison match. This feud is stale already.
Can we please stop this Noam Dar - Cedric Alexander feud? Please? enough!
Are we going to see still more Naomi - Lana that no one wants?
Why the F- is WWE dragging out these hopeless feuds? 
You bet they do. Just wrapped up filming last week (which is why they were here in Orlando)
I seriously hate everything about ADR. Always have. Always will. I don’t understand what anyone sees in him either. He’s clearly a horrible human being (and has been forever) and he’s not even that spectacular of a wrestler. If GFW wants to be taken seriously as a legit wrestling program, they need to kick his ass to curb.
Go back to Mexico, go back to AAA and get out of my sight please.
The man has scorched the Earth everywhere he’s been. I don’t think AAA would take him back, but I could be surprised. I think those two are just bad chemistry, as in the two of them together equals douchebag city.
Let’s just take a look at a few of his exploits;
- CMLL: Constantly no-showed events while world champion, then started working WWE matches while still holding their belt
- WWE: Fired for assaulting a backstage employee, came back, failed a drug test, quit while suspended
- AAA: jumped ship to WWE while world champion and refused to drop the belt forcing them to vacate it, no-showed his comeback match after the second WWE run
- Lucha Underground: Jumped ship to WWE between seasons
- Various indies; Multiple no-shows, assaulted a wrestler backstage
The man has a Hogan-sized ego, with none of the talent or charisma to back it up. Any good will he had after his first WWE run, he’s pissed away by generally being violent, narcissistic, and unreliable.
It gets worse. According to Paige’s brothers, Alberto has been beating her for at least six months, the fight started when he wished death on her sick uncle, and he’s actively trying to get her fired from WWE with his trash-talking and antics.
This is classic abusive husband/boyfriend behavior - isolate the abusee from their family and make them solely dependent on you so that they have nowhere to go if they try to leave. She seriously needs to get out now, because the longer she stays in this relationship, the harder it’s going to be to escape.
Kyle O’Reilly debuted at tonight’s NXT tapings, the same night that Bobby Fish’s debut aired. Could a reDRagon reunion be in the mix? Certainly hope so - and it’s a darn good thing I just managed to get their autographs at what was probably their last indy show. 
So, who do we think Kurt Angle is going to reveal he’s been talking with on Raw next week? The rumor mill says they’re building for him to have a match against Triple H at Summerslam, so I’m gonna guess either Stephanie (who’s been cheating on Trips with him) or Dixie Carter (who wants to be commissioner of Raw).
I pray to God it’s Dixie. That would be the funniest/craziest/most unlikely thing I can think of to happen in all of wrestling. The only thing that throws that off, for me, is Kurt saying “I love you” at the end of the conversation. That being said, we all know the real truth
It’s CM Punk
I actually heard on Masked Man’s podcast a speculation that it’s Vickie Gurrero. That’d be interesting huh?
My really real answer is that it’s probably going to be an angle (heh) with American Alpha wherein one of them is his illegitimate son or something.
On a related note: Is anyone even excited for a HHH/Angle match? I know that’ll be an easy pop for the crowd for a Wreslemania match, but I can’t imagine it’ll be THAT compelling.
I should hope that it is nothing to do with portraying him as having an affair or having illegitimate children, considering how they showed off his family, and his pride in his children, in the special. I know I for one would tell them to fuck off if I had young kids and they wanted to play that kind of storyline.
I agree. With how exposed the wrestlers are now with social media and docs and stuff, angles like this just don’t work (see the lack of interest in Alicia Fox/Noam Dar/Cedric Alexander)
On another note: Ms. Cups and I are going to the first night of the Mae Young Classic tonight. If you wanna watch it’s on Facebook live at 6:30. Couldn’t get tix for the second night, but we’lll be able to see most (if not all) the ladies tonight.
Not only just that, but after TNA essentially ran an angle (NPI) about how his ex-wife left him for Jeff Jarrett*, I’d find a Kurt affair angle to be particularly distasteful.
*Yes, I know that that’s not literally how the angle played out…
I heard that there was a spoiler out suggesting that
Mercedes Martinez and Kairi Sane had to face each other in the first round!
If true, that blows: that legit could have been the Final for the whole damned thing. 
She did not. Her first opponent actually was
Tessa Blanchard
I kinda like being a wrestling hipster, in that I don’t really follow the indies and don’t freak out about what the marks do. So I really wanted to just be ambivalent over Kairi’s elbow drop. But after seeing it live, holy shitballs that things gorgeous.
As for the rest of the night: It was a lot of fun! I have heard of very few of the women. There were a couple I knew from NXT (Tessa Blanchard, Ellering’s daughter etc.) a couple from TNA (Jade and Marni or Marci someone) and some just from the internet (Kairi, Crazy Mary Dobson), but most of the ladies were brand new to me.
I was happy to see different kinds of wrestling too. There weren’t any high-flyer lucha kind of ladies. But some were mat wrestling submission-type matches, some were more spot heavy, some were in between. It was nice.
Favorite part was actually seeing the wrestling celebs. NXT trotted out pretty much every women’s wrestler on roster, save for a few. Maybe they’re being shown tonight. We saw Nia Jaxx and Rock’s mom, Bayley, Alexa, Beth Phoenix and more. The biggest surprise of the night? Rhonda Rousey! She was there for an MMA girl. Two things about Rousey: One, she is suuuuuper short! Two, she looks really pretty in person. On TV she can have a bit of a “is she or isn’t she” on the hot scale, but when she’s laughing and having fun? She is absolutely beautiful.
Does anyone know when this airs officially? Is it after Summerslam? I hate to be conspiracy theory guy, but Naomi was there without her title, and Carmella was there WITH the briefcase. Granted, Naomi was dressed very formally, and Carmella wasn’t, but still, could be something there.
We couldn’t secure tickets for tonight’s taping, so no extra news on that front. That being said, what’s the taping schedule for this? We saw only the first-round matches and no more. There’s no way they’re going to have an entire rounds 2-final in a 3-hour taping tomorrow. Does that mean there’ll be more down the road?
Oh, one more thing. Because I’m a sap, there was a nice story from last night. It involves the result of a match and the result is kinda-sorta an upset, so I’ll spoiler it just in case ya’ll want to come back to it later
[spoiler]Because Ms. Cups and I were late, we ended sitting in the open space where the wrestlers’ friends and family and stuff were. During one of the matches Ashley someoneorother was wrestling against Jazzy Gabert. Jazzy is a freakin monster from Germany. There were quite a few Rocky Balboa “Break her!” jokes being shouted about. Ashley, on the other hand, is a small, cute cheerleader type.
The match screamed squash. During the whole match there was a woman screaming, “Let’s go Ashley!” She was older and had a button with Ashley’s face on it. Clearly her mom. Mom kept cheering and cheering and after a GREAT match, Ashley did a surprise rollup for the win! Mom was so happy. She was taking pictures and jumping around and started crying a bit. IT was nice to see a mom so supportive of her wrestling daughter.
NXT needs to sign Jazzy RIGHT NOW.[/spoiler]