Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Quick Update 2021-07-10

Figured we haven’t done one of these in a while, so some quick blog notes.

– Next week will feature no videos of any kind, but after that, should resume. I’m attempting to stick with a “two review a week” schedule going forward, with maybe a couple exceptions along the way. Review A Bad Game Day (August 8th) lands on a Sunday this year and will be a bonus review of sorts… just as well since it falls in line with the two regular reviews being done that week. We’ll see how that goes.

– The DTM-Cast will go in an August hiatus after the next couple (weekly) episodes and will return on Labour Day weekend.

– Musings for the past several episodes of AEW Dynamite, including the final Daily’s Place shows and the first couple shows, will be published next week and be dated appropriately. I know this goes against the “norm”, but the stuff was written ages ago and only needed a little polish that took a little while longer due to other commitments unrelated to this stuff.

– No update on the video commentary front thus far… but if something comes up, I’ll let you know.

That’s about it for now. Enjoy the weekend, everyone.

AEW Dynamite (July 7th, 2021): Road Ragin’ Party

Well, AEW is back on the road, holding a show in Miami.

I considered doing a joke banner and call it “WWE Dynamite” in honor of Jim Ross’ latest botch that people have railed him over, but decided against it. Hey, it’s live TV, kids. And sometimes, you do something for so long that it almost becomes force of habit. Everybody fucks up. It happens. It’ll happen again. And dumping one guy to replace him with another is no guarantee that commentary will be “better.”

Unless you want to put Alex Marvez back in the booth… anyway…

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WCW Slamboree 2000

For the uninitiated, this is the show that featured the sole main event of one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and once big-time Hollywood actor, David Arquette.

Some background is in order; once upon a time, World Championship Wrestling had a movie called Ready To Rumble, which starred David Arquette. Someone at WCW (not mentioning names) had the bright idea to have David Arquette win the World title in an effort to drum up some much needed good press. And so David Arquette won the title in a tag-team match on Thunder by pinning Eric Bischoff, who was not the champion, but rather the (now former) champion was David Arquette’s tag-team partner, Diamond Dallas Page.

Long story short – the move got one mention on some rag nobody cares about and the television ratings for Nitro continue their plummet into obscurity while the top prize in WCW – once something that mattered – meant a hell of a lot less… which, in the year 2000 where WCW was being overseen by the creative “genius” of Uncle Eric and Vinny Ru, wasn’t saying a whole lot.

A lot can be and has been said about the move and I will reserve my thought for another time down the road, but for now,  we have ourselves a cage match between current champion Arquette, former champion DDP, and Jeff Jarrett.

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Ring Of Honor – JOE VS. KOBASHI (October 2nd, 2005)

Those UWF shows were a chore to sit through, kids. Fortunately, those were the only UWF shows we had to sit through and I thought that I had picked a nice little palette cleanser for this week’s musings. And that’s where today’s show comes into play… from Ring Of Honor circa 2005 and aired on The Fight Network ages ago – thus allowing me to preserve the event onto DVD-R, including commercials – today’s show doesn’t shy away from what the main event is going to be: Samoa Joe vs. Japanese legend Kenta Kobashi.

At the time, this was hailed as one of the best matches on U.S. professional wrestling soil. And seeing this match for the first time, it certainly had enough to live up to that hype because I had a ball with that match. However, much time has passed and one has to ask; Is Joe Vs. Kobashi still one of the best matches in U.S. professional wrestling history? Or has it lost its luster?

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