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[BronsonLee]

Here, have free (pretaped) live wrestling guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ-rkPkFCvc

Spoiler

It's FWE so I hate it but you may enjoy it

 

[Reneledarker]

Here, have free (pretaped) live wrestling guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ-rkPkFCvc

Spoiler

It's FWE so I hate it but you may enjoy it

Canadian destroyer!

I think some gaffers are on commentary...

 

[Ultratech]

https://twitter.com/search?q=#YouKnowYoureAWrestlingFanWhen&src=tren

5h #YouKnowYoureAWrestlingFanWhen You look at a steel chair or ladder and you think something INCREDIBLY different.

I shouldn't admit that I often think about this.

(Protip: EVERYTHING is a weapon.)

 

[BronsonLee]

Canadian destroyer!

I think some gaffers are on commentary...

It's the promoter, a color commentator who mostly does MMA...and Matt Striker

 

[Reneledarker]

It's the promoter, a color commentator who mostly does MMA...and Matt Striker

Well Striker is probably a Gaffer or a lurker like Joe.

 

[antonz]

Why are WWE houseshow prices more than
RAW?.

$120 max for floor seats?, when it was $105
last month for Raw?

Jeez I wish it was that cheap. Raw here 2 weeks ago was 150-400 for floor seats

 

[Penguin]

So having a brain fart

What happened to Hall during his second tenure in the WWE?
Was he fired or sent for treatment?

 

[strobogo]

He got fired due to the Plane Ride From Hell that also got Goldust and Hennig fired, plus Flair sued and Michael Hayes' mullet cut.

 

[Reneledarker]

Superkicks!

 

[Penguin]

He got fired due to the Plane Ride From Hell that also got Goldust and Hennig fired, plus Flair sued and Michael Hayes' mullet cut.

Ahh thanks for that!

Also catching up on your recaps, did I miss it.. or did the WCW Champion not appear at Fall Brawl at all?

 

[strobogo]

Nope, no Goldberg at all for Fall Brawl. Really surprised they didn't run Goldberg vs Giant at least. There were a few PPVs towards the beginning of the year that didn't have the WCW Champion on them as well. For the first two, there wasn't a champion anyway, but there were at least two shows while Hogan was champ that he didn't defend on or even be in a tag match. Really weird.

 

[Alucard]

Nope, no Goldberg at all for Fall Brawl. Really surprised they didn't run Goldberg vs Giant at least. There were a few PPVs towards the beginning of the year that didn't have the WCW Champion on them as well. For the first two, there wasn't a champion anyway, but there were at least two shows while Hogan was champ that he didn't defend on or even be in a tag match. Really weird.

Doing what's right for business!

Wait, what?!

 

[Mr. Enigma]

Hall specifically got fired for passing out backstage during a UK PPV. His fate was already sealed before the Plane Ride from Hell the next day. They came back. He did Raw and was fired. I remember the last Raw he did was the first Raw after they changed the name to WWE.

 

[Dark Ninja]

So I didn't see anybody talk about this match but Cesaro and Ziggler had a great match on Superstars last week. Hopefully Cesaro gets a push soon he really needs to get elevated from the tag division/Main Event/Superstars. Also Justin Gabriel teamed with the Usos, had face paint on and Uso type gear it was weird

 

[Man God]

The Scott Hall drunk angle that happened inbetween two DUI incidents on two consecutive shows might be the most distasteful gimmick ever run on any US wrestling show.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

I think there's an upcoming episode where Kevin Nash goes and finds him at a local bar and beats the shit out of him.

Can't believe Nash agreed to do any of that shit either.

 

[mariachi507]

wcw1998.tumblr.com

JoJo comes to the ring and asks for Arn Anderson to come out. They're both in tuxes. JoJo had a private conversation with Arn apologizing for what happened the last time they were in a ring together. Arn says that JoJo was right. Tonight is a rebirth of the Four Horsemen. Arn gives a history lesson and has to bow out for Flair chants. He brings out Mongo, Benoit, and Malenko. This is so awesome. The crowd is fucking HYPED, the house lights are down, and the ring is basically lit by spotlight. This feels like such a HUGE deal. Arn then brings out Ric Flair! A fucking GOD in Greenville. This is great. Ric is weepy eyed right away. This reaction is pretty amazing. After getting his weepy thank yous to the crowd out, he goes CRAZY on Bischoff, talking about what Bischoff did to the Horsemen and Ric Flair. Bischoff comes out with no music or nWo gear. "You're an asshole! That's right, you're an overbearing ASS..." ABUSE OF POWER. ABUSE OF POWER. "You are a no good son of a bitch!" "FIRE ME! I'M ALREADY FIRED! FIRE ME! I'M ALREADY FIRED!"

This might be the single greatest segment in WCW history. Everything about it was perfect. The crowd reactions, Flair's reaction, the emotion. If you watch that and don't get goosebumps or get misty, you have no business watching pro wrestling. So good that I'll actually link the whole segment because if you haven't seen it, you must. And if you have seen it, you have to watch it again.

I get feels everytime, and my only exposure to the Horsemen were from WCW 1997-Death.

 

[Jitters]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vpAxf2mrPAY

lol

 

[sf2fanatic]

Michael Elgin vs. Rich Swann

Kevin Steen vs. Chuck Taylor

Johnny Gargano vs. Willie Mack

Kyle O'Reilly vs. Trent?

Joey Ryan vs. Drake Younger

ACH vs. Anthony Nese

Brian Cage vs. Tommaso Ciampa

AR Fox vs. Roderick Strong

Adam Cole & The Young Bucks vs. TJ Perkins & Forever Hooligans

Awesome card there. I'm a Willie Mack fan

 

[Man God]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vpAxf2mrPAY

lol

Now that is entertaining.

 

[Edgeward]

Fun match between Sami and Swagger. Shit ending but it moves the story forward.

Watching last week's Superstars. Jesus fuck, this redhead is the announcer and she is just shrieking out people's names

 

[Aiii]

So I didn't see anybody talk about this match but Cesaro and Ziggler had a great match on Superstars last week. Hopefully Cesaro gets a push soon he really needs to get elevated from the tag division/Main Event/Superstars. Also Justin Gabriel teamed with the Usos, had face paint on and Uso type gear it was weird.

So I didn't see anybody talk about this match but Cesaro and Ziggler had a great match on Superstars last week.

had a great match on Superstars last week.

Superstars

.

 

[Toki767]

Watching this week's NXT. I swear I get so bored every time the Ascension is on my screen. They have a big size and that's pretty much it. Connor O' Brien was more interesting when his gimmick was being a rat.

 

[Aiii]

According to this weeks observer, Naito attended SummerSlam.

---
About TNA:

There are all kinds of questions being asked, as the situation is feeling similar to ECW at the end. A lot of people are late on pay, or at least were as of TV, particularly on the production side. That, combined with Dixie Carter not being at the taping (she went to the Vanderbilt vs. Mississippi football game) led to all kinds of questions being asked regarding the future.

And about the BFG series:

Jay Bradley was given a win that as best I can tell, never took place. On the first show, he was listed with seven points even though he hadn’t won a match. He was put in what was called a BFG series match on Xplosion taped after he was listed with seven points, but it was against Eric Young, and it makes perfect sense a Bradley vs. Young match would be a BFG series match given Young wasn’t in the series. But then, Young won and Bradley got seven points.

lol.

 

[British Monsoon]

Just under an hour until New Japan - who's watching?

NJPW, "ROAD TO DESTRUCTION", 2013.07.05
Korakuen Hall

http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

01. Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) vs Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu
02. Yuji Nagata & Takaaki Watanabe vs CHAOS (Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI)
03. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger, Tiger Mask & Manabu Nakanishi vs BULLET CLUB (Karl Anderson, Tama Tonga & Rey Bucanero)
04. Togi Makabe & Captain New Japan vs BULLET CLUB (Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale)
05. Special Elimination Tag: CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado) vs Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Shelton 'X' Benjamin, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi)
06. Special Elimination Tag: Satoshi Kojima, Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & BUSHI vs CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Masato Tanaka, Yujiro Takahashi & Gedo)

 

[DominoKid]

I think there's an upcoming episode where Kevin Nash goes and finds him at a local bar and beats the shit out of him.

Can't believe Nash agreed to do any of that shit either.

oh god i actually remember watching this as a kid.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Just under an hour until New Japan - who's watching?

Yup. Tag matches are always fun.

 

[Aiii]

I'll catch it later, can't work and follow NJPW without commentary, need to keep my eyes on the match all the time.

 

[tm24]

Just under an hour until New Japan - who's watching?

NJPW, "ROAD TO DESTRUCTION", 2013.07.05
Korakuen Hall

http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

01. Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) vs Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu
02. Yuji Nagata & Takaaki Watanabe vs CHAOS (Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI)
03. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger, Tiger Mask & Manabu Nakanishi vs BULLET CLUB (Karl Anderson, Tama Tonga & Rey Bucanero)
04. Togi Makabe & Captain New Japan vs BULLET CLUB (Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale)
05. Special Elimination Tag: CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado) vs Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Shelton 'X' Benjamin, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi)
06. Special Elimination Tag: Satoshi Kojima, Tetsuya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & BUSHI vs CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Masato Tanaka, Yujiro Takahashi & Gedo)

Dammit, Nakamura should be in the last tag match. BUSHI needs his revenge!

 

[Hasney]

Just finished watching yesterdays NXT and for the most part, it was a pretty meh show compared to some of the more recent ones. The Zain/Swagger main event made up for everything else though. Zain needs to be called up to the main roster as soon as possible. Was thinking he could be called up as a team with Adrian Neville to start as that would work nicely.

 

[British Monsoon]

Pretty average first half to the New Japan show, really enjoyed seeing the young lions in action though - Komatsu was very impressive in the opener against TIME SPLITTERS, while Watanabe showed some fire in his tag match teaming with Nagata against CHAOS. The two Bullet Club matches were fine, but I'm getting kinda tired of seeing Devitt kill Captain New Japan over and over and over, lol. Also, just before intermission

Spoiler

Bruce Tharpe-des and 'Iron Man' Rob Conway appeared on screen to announce the next challenger for the NWA Heavyweight Title; Jushin 'Thunder' Liger

!

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Also, just before intermission

Spoiler

Bruce Tharpe-des and 'Iron Man' Rob Conway appeared on screen to announce the next challenger for the NWA Heavyweight Title; Jushin 'Thunder' Liger

!

lol @ this. Was there a build I missed?

 

[Mengetsu]

Lol just heard an ad on the radio at work that there's gonna be a Raw house show in Brooklyn and JTG is gonna get a title shot for the IC title. That home field advantage :lol

 

[British Monsoon]

lol @ this. Was there a build I missed?

Not really,

Spoiler

Bruce Tharpe-des, president of the NWA, & Rob Conway have been showing up with no explanation since April and challenging people to take on Conway for the NWA title. It's pretty random, but I like Bruce Tharpe-des. He's a fun villain

.

 

[Coldnoodle]

Not really,

Spoiler

Bruce Tharpe-des, president of the NWA, & Rob Conway have been showing up with no explanation since April and challenging people to take on Conway for the NWA title. It's pretty random, but I like Bruce Tharpe-des. He's a fun villain

.

Spoiler

Rob Conway still wrestles? HOLY SHIT

 

[Net_Wrecker]

That first elimination tag match was a lot of fun. Nakamura/Benjamin work really well together.

 

[British Monsoon]

Yeah, I really enjoyed that, totally forgot about the over the top rope elimination stipulation in New Japan's elimination matches, though.

This main event should be awesome. Masato Tanaka is awesome.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Is the NJPW stream pretty consitant? How about the VOD?

 

[British Monsoon]

There's never been a problem with New Japan's streams for me to date and the VOD's are usually up minutes after the shows go off air.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Last 2 matches did their best to make up for an average first half.

 

[British Monsoon]

Yeah, especially that main event, great fun. I'm really looking forward to the Destruction PPV now, Kojima vs Okada and Naito vs Tanaka should both be great.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

NJPW needs a toyline.

 

[jmdajr]

It's the son-in-laws world, we are just living in it.

Absolutely

 

[jmdajr]

Hey, so at what time is NXT uploaded?

 

[Hasney]

Hey, so at what time is NXT uploaded?

Not sure, it's up on your standard video sharing sites already, but unsure as to when Hulu gets it.

 

[jmdajr]

Not sure, it's up on your standard video sharing sites already, but unsure as to when Hulu gets it.

Well it's up on Hulu Thursday morning...but just wondering if anytime Wednesday night by chance.

 

[Aiii]

Well it's up on Hulu Thursday morning...but just wondering if anytime Wednesday night by chance.

WWE NXT |OT| The Best Indy Wrestling free on Hulu.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

JoJo comes to the ring and asks for Arn Anderson to come out. They're both in tuxes. JoJo had a private conversation with Arn apologizing for what happened the last time they were in a ring together. Arn says that JoJo was right. Tonight is a rebirth of the Four Horsemen. Arn gives a history lesson and has to bow out for Flair chants. He brings out Mongo, Benoit, and Malenko. This is so awesome. The crowd is fucking HYPED, the house lights are down, and the ring is basically lit by spotlight. This feels like such a HUGE deal. Arn then brings out Ric Flair! A fucking GOD in Greenville. This is great. Ric is weepy eyed right away. This reaction is pretty amazing. After getting his weepy thank yous to the crowd out, he goes CRAZY on Bischoff, talking about what Bischoff did to the Horsemen and Ric Flair. Bischoff comes out with no music or nWo gear. "You're an asshole! That's right, you're an overbearing ASS..." ABUSE OF POWER. ABUSE OF POWER. "You are a no good son of a bitch!" "FIRE ME! I'M ALREADY FIRED! FIRE ME! I'M ALREADY FIRED!"

Bar none, this was the MOST popular video (not even a question) on my WCW Archive stuff back when I was maintaining it. It blew everything else away.

 

[Jamie OD]

NJPW needs a toyline.

There used to be a series of mini figurines that were made for the entire puroresu landscape but they stopped making them around 2006-ish. I got a bunch over the years and would love to see them return for the current generation.

Sorry for the bad photo quality. They were taken years ago on a DSi.

 

[strobogo]

WWE.com has release another set of character sketches. Man, they're awful.

Repo Man

Bret Hart

Crush

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