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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: 497 day absence (leg)
Well, All Out has come and gone. A mostly good show, drug down at times by a crowd who was really into ENTRANCES AND MOMENTS. There were other factors dragging the show down as well, some self inflicted. You know what ultimately ruined wrestling? It’s not superkicks or the DDT not being a finish or…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true
On the whole, Forbidden Door was a better show than All In, but it was still let down by two things: not enough New Japan participation (more on that in a bit) and the absolute scourge of modern wrestling… overwrought, overthought overbooking. This show probably made it to at least 1.2 MegaJarretts on the overbooking…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: ‘Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
Well, that’s that. All In came and went. It played host to probably something near 30,000 spectators and apparently is on track to be one of AEW’s most purchased pay per views EVER. So business wise, an absolute smash. And yeah, for ME, the back half of the show delivered. It’s not even that the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: You rock me like the real thing
I don’t really have the energy to rant about four hours of AEW action being too much this week… and I think the more militant weirdos about it have largely backed off, anyway. People sort of figured it out… this wasn’t really a four hour “blockbuster,” if you’ll excuse the term, a four hour “pay…
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Chef Recommends: Nigel McGuinness vs. Lee Moriarty from ROH FInal Battle 2024
That’s it; that’s the post. Seek this match out by hook or crook. When pro wrestling is at its best, at its finest, there’s nothing like it in the world… and Nigel McGuinness returning to the hallowed ground of the Hammerstein Ballroom to fight one of the best young grapplers in the world today, Lee…
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Chef Recommends: The Big Texan
Just a quickie for a Friday afternoon… legend has it that, on a tour of All Japan circa 1996, Dory Funk Jr. and his wife Marti went out to dinner with Giant Baba and HIS wife, the (in)famous Matoko Baba. Legend further has it that Marti was said to opine, during this dinner, that maybe…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Below the sliding doors
Still kind of digesting Forbidden Door a bit; featuring both the best and worst of AEW. Before I get into talking about the show properly, I’d like to make a special aside to one Mike Mansury: Take your Vince McMahon-loving, LED board-having, camera cutting when there’s action going on ass back to Stamford and the…
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Chef Recommends: You Know you Ain’t Gettin’ No Younger
The thought occurs that I talk a LOT about wrestling I don’t like… but how about a quick recommendation for something I do like? Hence, a new, recurring feature: Chef Recommends. Have you TRIED the Clams Casino? A fake (aka digital) painting of my shoot El Desperado pyonsuke on some shoot drapery I think it’s…
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