Wrestling 2021: The Big Thread Machine

[BeardFaceMan]

That Dynamite Kid DSotR was an odd one, it didn't really feel like it had much of a dark side, they spent most of the time talking about what a great bloke he was and how he single-handedly revolutionized wrestling. Very, very few mentions of his cuntiness, which I imagine was a condition set by his wife in order for her to appear, she pretty much says as much a the end of the episode. Felt more like a tribute show than a look at his dark side. Which was still quite interesting to me as I don't really know a lot about the Kid, he was one of those people who was always mentioned as being a piece of shit so I always stayed away from watching his stuff.

[up_the_hampipe]

That Dynamite Kid DSotR was an odd one, it didn't really feel like it had much of a dark side, they spent most of the time talking about what a great bloke he was and how he single-handedly revolutionized wrestling. Very, very few mentions of his cuntiness, which I imagine was a condition set by his wife in order for her to appear, she pretty much says as much a the end of the episode. Felt more like a tribute show than a look at his dark side. Which was still quite interesting to me as I don't really know a lot about the Kid, he was one of those people who was always mentioned as being a piece of shit so I always stayed away from watching his stuff.

I was worried about this too, if you see my earlier post before it came out. I think it was actually balanced fairly well for the 45 or so minutes they had. There seemed to be plenty of instances of him being a raging dickhead, from bullying his co-workers to abusing his wife. But they did have to cover his importance to the wrestling business, as well as how much he destroyed his body in the process. Still, I would have liked them to cover the story about him breaking a little girl's legs so the family could get insurance money, which he confirmed to be true.

[BeardFaceMan]

I did enjoy the story about The Mountie knocking his teeth out, I really liked him as a kid, me and my friends would randomly shout "I AM THE MOUNTIE!" a lot. And if what he said afterwards about making up the mafia stuff was true, then that was a stroke of genius.

[Ja'moke]

Joe back on NXT as rumoured then. I did enjoy him choking out Cole and yelling "When he wakes up, tell him Mr Regal wants to see him!". I think Joe could make this NXT enforcer role work.

[Huxleys Babkins]

The Joe and Regal double act has the potential to be absolutely amazing.

[Moribunderast]

Just watched the Dynamite Kid episode of Dark Side. Man, they let him off quite lightly, huh? No mention of animal abuse, the worst "ribs", breaking a girl's legs...

I've enjoyed this (half-)season of Dark Side but I think many episodes could have used more time. The Pillman one was the best because it was a two-parter and I think the Dynamite episode and the Grizzly Smith episode, at least, could have been improved with a similar runtime.

[Ja'moke]

AEW has announced Dynamite: Grand Slam at the Arthur Ashe stadium in New York in September. A tennis stadium! Looks like a cool venue for wrestling. 22k capacity.

[gmoney]

Where's me washboard! Oh, Arthur Ashe

[Deanjam]

AEW has announced Dynamite: Grand Slam at the Arthur Ashe stadium in New York in September. A tennis stadium! Looks like a cool venue for wrestling. 22k capacity.

It's an awful stadium for tennis. The seats are way too high. Be interesting to see how different it feels with wrestling fans inside.

[Spiteface]

Just watched the Dynamite Kid episode of Dark Side. Man, they let him off quite lightly, huh? No mention of animal abuse, the worst "ribs", breaking a girl's legs...

I watched it, not being familiar with Dynamite Kid's work, and only vaguely knowing he was a rotten human being, but fucking hell, Mick Foley may as well have been a talking head on a sanitised WWE offering at points.

I did enjoy the story about The Mountie knocking his teeth out, I really liked him as a kid, me and my friends would randomly shout "I AM THE MOUNTIE!"

Off-topic, but a friend of mine when I was a kid was a big Mountie mark at the time. May have been the only one.

[Old Thrashbarg]

Dark really confuses me. I find myself laughing at the Joey Janela and Alex Marvez (!) "nip factory" segments, and I don't know why. And then I find myself genuinely excited for, and genuinely really enjoying, Chaos Project vs Gunn Club. These aren't things that should be happening.

[BeardFaceMan]

I watched it, not being familiar with Dynamite Kid's work, and only vaguely knowing he was a rotten human being, but fucking hell, Mick Foley may as well have been a talking head on a sanitised WWE offering at points.

Off-topic, but a friend of mine when I was a kid was a big Mountie mark at the time. May have been the only one.

There were three of us running around South Wales pretending to be a Canadian Mountie, but I think we were the only ones. We were the only ones to be make it known by shouting "I AM THE MOUNTIE!" on a regular basis, anyway.

[Gurke and Hare]

Dark really confuses me. I find myself laughing at the Joey Janela and Alex Marvez (!) "nip factory" segments, and I don't know why. And then I find myself genuinely excited for, and genuinely really enjoying, Chaos Project vs Gunn Club. These aren't things that should be happening.

The commentary, isn't it? I've seen it described as Taz and Excalibur's podcast with some wrestling going on in the background, and that's fair enough. I could listen to Taz commentating on Chaos Project for ever.

[Old Thrashbarg]

The commentary, isn't it? I've seen it described as Taz and Excalibur's podcast with some wrestling going on in the background, and that's fair enough. I could listen to Taz commentating on Chaos Project for ever.

Yeah, that's definitely a large part of it. For all that it's similar in terms of wrestling, Elevation is nowhere near as engaging. And I really don't need to hear Schiavone shout "Canadian Destroyer!" as someone hits a Death Valley Driver ever again.

[BeardFaceMan]

Anyone seen the new Chyna documentary yet?

[Spiteface]

Watching AEW Dynamite and Jake Roberts has Ross From Friends' teeth.

Couldn't he have gotten new teeth that weren't as white? Was really distracting.

[Deanjam]

Not a single comment about Hell in the Cell happening last night. Sums up how god damn boring WWE is right now. I didn't watch the show as I went to bed instead, but it seemed such a non event. Just a bunch of rematches. Anyway, having looked at the results it seems status quo has been achieved. Well done Vince, wouldn't want to do anything exciting now would we.

[Deanjam]

Though I may have to check out how awful this was:

[Mobius]

Half watched whilst I was at work and yes it was just completely low stakes, minimum effort stuff a lot of which ended in schoolboys or roll ups. Same old matches, no consequence or payoff to anything.

Roman not being on the card meant they gave even less of a shit than usual

[Mobius]

Check out Piper Niven's main roster name

[Magnum Valentino]

Eva Marie back I see.

[BeardFaceMan]

In all seriousness, why are they bringing her in and letting actual wrestlers go? She can't wrestle, can't deliver a promo and she has zero charisma. Does she have some enormous fanbase outside wrestling I don't know about or something? With a bit of luck Piper will give her a kicking and get a proper name at least. Doudrop? Who comes up with this shit?

[Mobius]

Eva Marie is probably back because John Laurentiis is in charge of talent hires, again. I don't get it either.

Doudrop is awful. They're also just pretending NXT UK doesn't exist, so Corey and co just have to pretend they don't recognise her and she hasn't been with WWE for years

[peanutbutter]

In all seriousness, why are they bringing her in and letting actual wrestlers go? She can't wrestle, can't deliver a promo and she has zero charisma. Does she have some enormous fanbase outside wrestling I don't know about or something? With a bit of luck Piper will give her a kicking and get a proper name at least. Doudrop? Who comes up with this shit?

Either they think she has nostalgia value or they think her being on Celebrity Big Brother in 2019 means she has some outside star appeal

Is there any other Hispanic woman on the main roster atm? That could be a motivator too, I think it was in her original push.

[Gurke and Hare]

Doudrop is awful. They're also just pretending NXT UK doesn't exist, so Corey and co just have to pretend they don't recognise her and she hasn't been with WWE for years

I I was RAW I'd probably want to pretend NXT UK didn't exist, a bunch of UK indie guys in an empty TV studio putting on a show that's a million times better than theirs.

[Ja'moke]

It seems that Piper actually acknowledged that her actual name is Piper and not Doudrop on Raw at least. So maybe hope she eventually turns on Eva.

[boki]

Is there any other Hispanic woman on the main roster atm? That could be a motivator too, I think it was in her original push.

There's Bayley, but her heritage hasn't ever really been part of her on-screen character.

[Gurke and Hare]

WWE doing 4 UK dates in September.

https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-live-united-kingdom-london-newcastle-cardiff-glasgow

[Ja'moke]

There's a few AEW wrestlers, including Omega and Britt, appearing at a Comic Con in Telford in November and Fozzy are doing a short UK tour around the same time. I'm hoping that means AEW are doing a couple of shows here.

[BeardFaceMan]

Weren't there plans in place for an AEW UK PPV before the pandemic hit? It felt like getting a good UK TV deal and coming here were important to them.

On a similar note, I saw Colt Cabana on a Cultaholic podcast and he was talking about someone who is uploading a shitload of old World of Sport matches to YouTube. Cabana even got in touch with him and sent him some of his own DVDs as he had some matches that the guy didn't have.