Category: Wrestling Musings

All posts related to pro rasslin’ that isn’t covering specific shows or events.

It Took AEW Five Episodes To Feature A Contract Signing

So it was announced that this coming episode of AEW Dynamite will not only feature the tournament finals to determine the first set of AEW Tag-Team Champions in a match between the Lucha Bros and SCU, but there was also be a CONTRACT SIGNING between Cody and Chris Jericho for their upcoming Full Gear PPV title match. Bless their hearts; it only took them five whole episodes to reach a time filler, but there you go.

Fortunately, I’ve been enjoying this ride so much that I’m rather keen on how their contract signing will turn out. My hopes aren’t high for this segment because I’ve not seen a really good one since maybe the one where CM Punk was chewing out Vince about the ice cream bars, but if they could get Dippin’ Dots over in a brawl, I guess I shouldn’t be concerned all that much here. We’ll see.

Watch Steve Austin Sell You A Video Game

From the WWE ’13 hype train all those years ago. Not only does Steve Austin deliver a fine promo towards the end of the video as only he could, but he also does a better job of selling me on the video game than all these other geeks have done lately.

Take notes, geeks. This is how you sell a fucking game.

Heroes Of Wrestling… 20 Years Later

So it never occurred to me until recently that this month marked the twentieth anniversary of the now-infamous Heroes Of Wrestling PPV event. For those who don’t know of this show, it was an independent wrestling show that brought in some of the legendary names of wrestling who haven’t been signed up by either the WWF or WCW at the time and hold a little nostalgia act, with the intent of doing more of these if this first show became a success.

That obviously didn’t happen since the show was an complete and utter trainwreck due to most of the legends signed being past their prime, resulting in matches that barely broke the below average level of quality… not to mention the legends who were advertised and ultimately no showed. Of course, this show is notable for the utter on-screen collapse of Jake “The Snake” Roberts, who was a bit… debilitated, if you will.

I’ve seen this show live once on PPV… it was not a fun experience even without knowledge of all the backstage shenanigans. It was only years later through various readings of reviews that the full scope of this show’s failure became somewhat apparent.

In 2015, I was able to find an online posting of this show in its entirety and sat down to watch it for the first time since its initial airing. My thoughts were then parlayed into a musings that – if you’re reading this on the same day this post is published – can be accessed through the Post Of The Week gimmick on the sidebar. I might still have the show archived somewhere, but no way am I sitting through that thing again.

For those with mobile devices, you can read the musings here.

Let’s Talk Kofi

So I jumped the gun a bit in posting my musings on the utterly horrific Shit In A Cell PPV event a couple days ago, so in lieu of another PPV musings for the week, I’d figure that I would address on the Kofi Kingston losing to Brock Lesnar in 6 seconds… and why I’m actually okay with it.

Yes, that’s right. I did not have a problem with Kofi losing the title in the manner that he did. I did not throw a fit on Twitter acting like the dumb fuck fan that WWE believes they are catering to (besides the sponsors, of course). I did not go on the radio talking about how much of a complete burial of Kofi this turned out to be. I actually didn’t mind the way this match turned out and thought it was an excellent story told.

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AEW Dynamite To Air On TSN In Canada

Source: https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/tsn-announces-new-partnership-with-all-elite-wrestling-becoming-the-canadian-home-of-weekly-series-aew-dynamite-beginning-october-2/

Well, at the last possible minute, we have a deal. Thankfully, I have TSN for some reason… so I can watch this, no problem.

Believe it or not, I’m actually looking forward to this. Maybe I’ll do a posting tomorrow.

WWE Clash Of Champions 2019

So, in an effort to try and get some sleep, I watched the last WWE PPV and fell asleep right after the Women’s tag-title match… so that clearly got the job done. For the most part, the show was boring and sleep-inducing; hence why I preferred to talk about an old WCW PPV that was terrible for my Wednesday PPV musings over a WWE PPV that was boring. Not because it was better, but because the WWE write-up would’ve been  several lines of  “So-so beat so-so in a match to retain or win some title. Boring.”

Oh… so you want me to go through that? Okay…

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The World Of Perpetual Darkness Eludes Me

I’ve been staring at the ceiling in my bedroom for a couple hours. I don’t know how much sleep I got, but it couldn’t have been much. I’ve got this massive headache like none before. I tried a couple Tylenols and followed with some tea. Because I ain’t sleeping any time soon.

So I decided to pop up my dusty laptop. One that I’ve had for years and clearly haven’t touched in that amount of time. I dig in to see that it still has some juice, though the battery quickly dies in a couple minutes because it hasn’t been charged and I never got around to it. Desperate and with no other options, I dug into storage and pulled out a box. Inside the box was a tape recording device and a collection of cassettes labeled various things. One of the tapes was labeled HHH Promos.
Yes, in the event of a massive headache such as this, when all other remedies fail, I have a cassette tape that has nothing but HHH promos. I often said that HHH promos were the cure for insomnia and now I’m willing to see if that’s the case.
So I start listening to this tape; some of the most dull and uninteresting promos that McSon-In-Law has cut from the days when he ruled the top of the RAW food chain and the product was shit as a result. One minute, I was listening to HHH drone on about some accolades or whatever and then the next minute or so, my eyes were wide shut. By the time I woke up, light was creeping in from the curtains and my headache was all gone.
So thank you, HHH, for curing my headache with your boring-ass promos circa 2003.

A Compilation Of My Recent Thoughts On Seth Rollins’ Main Events

Seth Rollins claims that WWE has the best pro-wrestling on the planet. This is, of course, a total lie since WWE is not pro-wrestling, but sports-entertainment. Therefore, you cannot have the best pro wrestling if you don’t do pro wrestling, but I digress. In any event, I wanted to review the past year’s worth of Seth Rollins’ matches that I’ve seen… which isn’t much.

So I’ve copied-and-pasted the relevant pieces of business to this here blog post and added some annotations in bold for current day thoughts. Should be a fun experiment:

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