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Wait on the sons of no one
I can’t swear to it. My DVD archive is too disorganized, too vast… but the chances are good that the first time I saw him was on the pre Dragon Gate USA LA Extreme Fight show from sometime around 2008. Chances are extremely good because I know “Hollywood” Stalker Ichikawa was on that show, too,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Boogaloo dudes (I want to talk to you, all of you)
I blame YOU. Well, maybe not YOU in the specific, but certainly you in the abstract. Definitely that guy over there, and maybe her, too. Maybe… I dunno, a week or so ago, for some reason, someone dredged up that weird deal from a couple years back where Ricky Starks was sharing a ring with…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Help me lay the renegade to rest
Obviously it was already going to be an emotional show, AEW Dynamite celebrating the career of the stalwart second banana Rebel (not Reba) and her struggles against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gerhig’s disease)… …but then Andy Williams, the Butcher (of Butcher and Blade infamy) only went and passed away on Sunday at the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Life goes on after the show
What deadly dose of poison do I quaff before Dynamite starts; dirt awful discourse about the ratings Big Dave Meltzer is going to give the top matches at All In, SUPER dirt awful discourse about how no matches have been announced for Dynamite as of 2pm PST, or the SUPER, MEGA TOXIC discourse about how…
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M-Day
My first issue of Avengers was issue #222; not a fill in, exactly (and actually somewhat important as it’s the first outing for this particular lineup of the team), but it was not produced by a permanent creative team. The book was undergoing changes; a new editor had arrived and the editor in chief was…
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U.N. Squadron sounds like a Cannon film starring Michael Dudikoff
When I walked into the classroom, that shining day in 1989, she was there, waiting for me. The one. Well, maybe not THE one. That would come later, of course, at a time where I was unprepared and from a direction I didn’t suspect. But for eleven year old me, smart, awkward, head full of…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no Canada like French Canada
We could argue all day the merits of AEW slowly but surely crawling towards the once per month pay per view model… suffice to say I don’t like it but it’s not like I don’t understand it. Money talks, and all that. I do think that there is a touch of nuance lost when AEW…
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40th Anniversary Non Apology Tour
An awful looking, tacked on CGI horror dropped into MY Transformers the Movie (1986)? A “secret” in a story “we know so well?” I know I’m supposed to sink to my knees in fanboy supplication and say six “Hail Hasbros” while I hold my hand over a resin copy of the Matrix of Leadership, but…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When I needed soul revival
May as well get right into it this week, as I kick it speed style. If you want the more thoughtful, more introspective side of my writing, I dropped a near 7,000 word screed about TNA earlier this week. Tranquilo. Assenayo. Much like most heel commentators when the in-ring action gets… questionable… you might say…
