Anyone else watching NWA Powerrr on YouTube? Cornette is living his wet dream; the return of Georgia Championship Wrestling (complete with cheesy worked ads). I loved Gordon Solie and GCW back in the day, but unlike Cornette, I’ve grown and changed. Are there changes that I don’t like? Sure, but I’m not sure I want to return to 1980-era wrestling. Last episode the heel tag team almost botched a power move. While they’re big, beefy men, apparently they’re not strong, big, beefy men, like Heavy Machinery.
OMFG did I just see parade floats of Roman Reigns and The Undertaker? I am now scared of parades.
You should be. After seeing that Undertaker parade float, you will now rest. In. PEACE. 
WWE has announced that Lacey Evans vs. Natalya has been added to the Crown Jewel card, making it the first-ever women’s wrestling match in Saudi Arabia.
Naturally, it was announced with zero fanfare a day before the damn card takes place.
Didn’t they end their feud and team together just a few weeks ago? (rhetorical question) Obviously they’ll be in full-body suits, but will they allow the faces to go uncovered?
I don’t know how to feel about this. These Saudi shows are a shit-show to begin with, but anything that chips away at their pig-headed, disgusting views can’t fully be a bad thing. We know VKM doesn’t have the moral fibre to turn down the money - not many would - so do we hope for whatever little good can come out of it? Or is it just more Saudi propaganda to help with their current tourism advertising campaign? Maybe one from column A, one from column B?
I have to admit, having someone on the card who’s finisher is literally called the “Woman’s Right” is pretty amusing.
BTW, a little late for this week, but anyone who is interested in Impact (ex-TNA), which has gotten considerably better after Dixie Carter, it’s now Tuesdays on AXS, which is carried on considerably more carriers than their last few moves.
I like that, and she’s a pretty good wrestler too.
Did they reboot yet? So far they’ve been showing clips from the past. Tessa Blanchard has left. She’s now on WOW, the descendant of GLOW and POWW, but I suspect she’s fielding other offers. WOW (also on AXS) isn’t a really bad wrestling show, it’s just not really that good overall, but some of the women are very talented.
It’s always a coin flip what to watch on Wednesday’s, but this week’s NXT opening knocked it out of the park with Io Shirai’s entrance. Don’t regret this week’s choice.
Meanwhile on AEW, 63-year old Ricky Morton takes a mad bump. And then Rick & Morty, almost his anagram, get a cross-promotion. ONLY 5 NEW EPISODES?
I guess Brandi Rhodes is more than a ring rat, now that she’s a witch who controls Awesome Kong.
This is the first time I’ve seen Orange Cassidy. I’m sure Jim Cornette absolutely loathes him.
Jericho is an absolute heat wizard. “No, I don’t suck. Skee-a-vone here does.”
This week’s episode was the first full episode. Tessa Blanchard has not left–in fact she was the final image on the show, standing up to Sami Callihan after Sami beat Brian Cage for the Impact world title.
WWE got the right ending for the main event, but Rollins vs. Fiend Wyatt just doesn’t work for me as a compelling match. Whoever is writing for Rollins is doing Rollins a disservice, and often brings down whomever Rollins is facing. Time for Seth to go heel, work on getting some heat, because he just isn’t working as a face.
That’s 100% right. Can’t stand Seth as a face and even him chasing the title doesn’t interest me. I’ll take Roman as King Face again over Rollins…
The Saudi show was…a lot of fun? Save for the Brock/Cain stupidity, the rest of the show was a lot of fun to watch. The women’s match was really good and it was awesome seeing the women and girls (shoutout to you little girl in overalls) in the crowd really getting into it. I’ll give props to Tyson Fury for actually attempting to wrestle. He wasn’t that particularly good at it, but he gave it an honest effort and it didn’t look like that cash grab it was.
Best part of the show? The crowd was on fire. Wish American crowds were half that into the product…it’d make it more fun to watch. Overall though…good show.
Seth can’t get in sync with the audience.
Ooooh, NXT is going to do Women’s War Games!
All their War Games matches have been epic. I’m sure Candace LaRae will try to outdo her hubby in the execution of sick bumpage.
Went to an NXT house show for the first time in ages last night. Given it was halloween, they had a mens and womens over-the-top costume battle royale. Holy shit I laughed more during those matches than I ever have in wrestling. Some of the women were dressed like other wrestlers (The tall blonde who is always with Shayna Baezler was Matt Riddle, bare feet and all…Reah Ripley was HHH and was escorted to the ring by Shane Thorne as Chyna), some were just random costumes (Two girls as unicorns, Bianca Belair as a loofah, with her hair as the cord, Mia Yim as Mia Yim…but from Us) and some were just funny (Finn Balor-ina). The ultimate winner was Darth Baezler because she used her force powers to tell Mia Yim to eliminate herself.
The mens was just as funny. One guy who I can’t remember came out as himself because “americans and halloween are stupid”. Another guy came out as one of the wrestlers, then the actual guy came out as himself and they did the little Laurel & Hardy mirror gag. However, the two best, hands down, was someone coming out as a statue of julius caeser, and a giant inflatable 15 foot panda. The statue was my favorite one because he literally just stood in the middle of the ring and didn’t move. Each of the wrestlers had a spot where they tried to hit him and hurt themselves (he’s made of stone after all) or tried to lift him and couldn’t. Otherwise, he just stood still in the middle of the ring. He was eventually eliminated by Superman because he was the only one that could life him. The giant panda was just huge. We don’t know who was in him, but we THINK is was Kieth Lee. Regardless, he could barely move, much less wrestle…but it was funny. The winner for the men was someone dressed as Rakishi.
A final cool moment was right at the end all the lights went out, then came back up to reveal Scotty 2 Hotty (the actual one…not a costume) in the ring. He danced around a bit and did some of his old schticks.
All in all a very fun show.
Cameron Grimes reminds me of Shun Di, the drunken fighter from Sega’s Virtua Fighter games. He moves like he’s fueled by moonshine.
He was more of a work machine in Impact, and he seems to have adopted this new style in NXT. I’m really digging him.
Lots of drama in Saudi Arabia. The majority of wrestlers and crew have been unable to leave the country, leaving tonight’s Smackdown with a bare bones crew. Reasons for the delay are unclear, but some are reporting an issue between Vince and the promoters are to blame, with the wrestlers being “held hostage” as a result.
Rusev tweeted out a request for prayers, Andrade tweeted out “bad day in Saudi Arabia” and Buddy Murphy tweeted “never again.”
Meltzer tweeted “Live by the sword, due by the sword.”
I hope they make it back safely and soon. Too bad they can’t do a Deadspin style walkout on Vince.
There you go, lie down with dogs.
Maybe the Saudis thought the women’s wrestling gear was too immodest, after all, you could still see their faces.
They called in anybody they could get their hands on. They even called in Pat McAfee. I hope they don’t decide to keep the NXT people.
I think I discovered the inspiration for Bray Wyatt Fiend’s mask.
The Wraith from Stargate Atlantis.