From New Evolution Wrestling: Summer Brawl
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Charli Evans Vs Millie McKenzie Vs Kaggy Vs Chakara (UK)
From 'Back by Popular Demand' at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester - Friday 11 May 2018
Tommy Rich vs. Larry Zbyszko/Promos: Tommy Rich, Dick Murdoch. WCW, April 1983
After paying Killer Brooks $25,000 for the belt, freshly, illegitimately minted National Heavyweight Champion Larry Zbyszko (he would be stripped of the belt by the end of the month) grants Tommy "Wildfire" Rich a title defense on television, but only a ten minute time limit. Zybyszko aggravates Rich by doing things to run out the clock. After the match, Tommy Rich, joined by Tony Atlas, has some special words with Gordon Solie. Dick Murdoch speaks briefly about his upcoming tag match with Dusty Rhodes against Koloff and The Iron Sheik. WCW, April 1983.
Josh Barnett On The Young Bucks- "I Was Constantly Covering” For Them On NJPW Commentary (UUHH OOHHH)
On the latest episode of Pro Wrestling 4 Life, two-time WWE Hall of Famer Sean “X-Pac” Waltman sat down with former Pancrase Openweight Champion Josh Barnett. Barnett is still active in the combat sports world as a fighter for Bellator and the promoter of Bloodsport.
Barnett previously served as color commentator for New Japan Pro Wrestling on AXS TV. Pro Wrestling 4 Life co-host and Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman asked Barnett about the noticeable friction that he had with the Young Bucks.
“I don’t know what their deal is. I don’t know who riled them up into thinking that me and JR (Jim Ross) were burying them all the time because we weren’t,” Barnett noted. “One of the things that I think was a problem is they wanted to be cool, but I’m like, you’re heels. You’re constantly cheating, and breaking the rules and doing heel stuff, so we’re gonna say you’re despicable.
“We’re gonna say you’re terrible and horrible and you’re bad people. We didn’t say that you sucked. We just said that you’re bad guys because that was your job. Your job was to be bad guys, but it seems like no one wants to be an actual heel anymore. Everyone wants to be the cool anti-hero or cool bad guy. They want to sell all their merch. No, I’m sorry, if you’re a heel, be a heel.
“Stop trying to worry about whether the fans like you or not. You have a role to fill here, and if you want to run around telling people to ‘suck it’, then people should want to see you get your your teeth kicked in. That’s just the way it is, and nobody wants to be a heel and that’s a problem. And somebody riled up The Bucks. I don’t know how, whatever. They used to get into Twitter fights constantly anyways.”
Barnett continued as he spoke more on what his goal was on NJPW commentary.
“I’ve never actually had a discussion with them, and yet, I would constantly cover for them in their matches,” Barnett stated. “They go to hit their Meltzer Driver. They do all this crazy stuff that just gets them a two count. My thoughts are, ‘well, I don’t want this to seem like it was s**t,’ or it’s weak or it’s just a hope spot or it’s just getting their s**t in. I don’t want people to view that. I want to say, ‘well, okay, you can see that Matt, when he came off the ropes, he didn’t get the feet all the way on the help on that piledriver.’
“I don’t want to belittle what they’re doing. I want them to feel like, okay, if they had hit it perfectly, that match is over, but they’re tired. It’s tough. People are sweaty. Things are happening. This dude’s in air flipping to give the assisted tombstone. Okay, a lot of things can happen, can miss, and you get guys that always got to knock a dude out the ring. They always got to flip over it. Okay, fine, regardless if this has happened in every match leading up to this, but whatever, I’m not agenting things."
AWF on 45TV - Episode 177 (Crixus vs Joey Avalon, Northern Force vs Big Humble)
This week on the AWF, it's No DQ as Crixus takes on one of the best from Wisconsin, Joey Avalon! Plus, in Tag team action, Northern Force looks to continue to make waves in the Tag division as Vernon and Paul take on Big Humble!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_6mK-Gsa4
THIS? Is Going To Be On Impact Tonight? What A Great Example Of Why Fans Crap All Over Them
Impact Wrestling, even WITH the departure of Don Callis as booker (a role he should've never been hired to do in the first place) has been one of the most sloppy, barely watchable shows every week. Which along with AEW and WWE they're in fine company for TV shows that truly suck..
And if you need a reason to not watch it? This right here would be a great example.
Brian Myers vs. Jake Something is slated to open up tonight's episode of Impact Wrestling on AXS TV. The stipulation for the match is that the winner will have to admit the other is a true professional wrestler.
So.. If the winner has to admit to the loser that HE's a true professional wrestler, what kind of a fucking stipulation is that? Shouldn't it be that the LOSER has to tell the WINNER that? DDDUUHH!!
THIS, is the 'best' the booking geniuses at Impact can scrape up. And THIS is a very example of why fans shit and crap all over Impact Wrestling.
Remember this is the very same company that thought, having titles that looked like THIS, was a 'brilliant idea'.
Needless to say, I won't be running to my tv to watdch THIS MATCH, LOL!
So thank you again Scotty D'Amore, Tommy Dreamer and the others on the 'current' (for this week maybe?) booking committee for giving me and other yet another reason, to avoid wartdching your product.
And here i thought the 'silliness' that has plagued Impact for years was gonna b e rid of when Callis was hired. Funny how the silliness only increased and even with Callis not booking and writing Impact shows, the show for the most part? Still sucks.
Makes you go, HHMM.
CWA Memphis Championship Wrestling January 21, 1989
CWA Memphis Championship Wrestling January 21, 1989 Ricky Morton Turns Heel!
Supreme Wrestling Last Word 7/8/2021
Comments from Supreme wrestlers after this past Saturday's event.
Fan Tries To Enter The Ring On AEW, But Gets Punched By Chris Jericho
Why do fans do that? I've seen fans try that shit going back to seeing wrestling shows live growing up in Chicago. And EVERY TIME? They always get their ass kicked for trying it. They get a few beers in em, then think they're gonna get themselves over by getting in the ring but instead?
They ALWAYS, got their asses kicked. The only exception to that was when Charlie Haas got dropped by a fan with one punch acouple weeks back at a show in Texas. (But Haas was outside the ring when that happened and he had pushed another fan, before being dropped with one punch by a second fan).
I remember a WWA New England show in Salem, Massachusetts back in 1998 a fan tried to get into the ring when Christian and Sean Stasiak (they were a tag team that night) were in the ring and Christian stomped on the guy's head before he even made it under the bottom rope. Both Sean and Christian ended that guy's story before it could even get started.
So in the latest example of why dumb drunken "marks" shouldn't try to enter the ring during a show a fan tried it on last night's AEW and got punched by Chris Jericho.
Imagine how many people are now laughing at that jack ass right about now.
Here's links to various views of the incident from last night
https://twitter.com/DanYanofskyMMA/status/1412936979856175105
https://twitter.com/i/status/1412938218731827203
https://twitter.com/i/status/1412937680921505796
THE FORMER ALEISTER BLACK DEBUTS IN AEW, HERE'S HOW HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT SO SOON
Tommy End, aka the former Aleister Black, just debuted on AEW Dynamite, attacking Arn Anderson and Cody Rhodes. He was identified as Tommy End, but then referred to as Malaki Black, the personality he debuted earlier today on social media. Black was released by WWE on 6/2, just weeks after the promotion spent weeks building his return to storyline via vignettes and an angle where he attacked Smackdown star Big E.
For those who were wondering how the former Aleister Black could debut tonight for AEW just a little over a month after he received his WWE release, we have the answer. And you can thank WWE since it was THEIR OWN FUCK UP, that caused this to be able to happen.
So much for how WWEW likes to 'micromanage' everything. Looks like they didn't 'micromanage' the contract too well.
Back when Tommy End was moved to the main WWE roster several years ago, the company failed to update his contract from the standard 30 day non-compete that NXT level talents receive to the 90 day non-compete that main roster performers are given. So, what can only be described as a bad clerical error allowed End to be free and clear in time for the first episode of AEW Dynamite on the road and surprise everyone. The natural question is going to be whether other talents also had the same error, allowing them to appear ahead of the traditional 90 day non-compete elsewhere. Obviously, there's no way to know unless they opt to make that publicly known before they pop up elsewhere.
Meanwhile, AEW announced the first official t-shirt for End, now christened Malaki Black
See his debut here. https://twitter.com/i/status/1412944130813083650
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