Outside The All-Elite Bubble

For anyone curious, I have not watched AEW’s Double Or Nothing PPV from last month (or was it the month before?) I did watch the Forbidden Door PPV… or rather the replay of Forbidden Door. And only because I was told that Tony Khan actually got the rights to Final Countdown for Bryan Danielson to come out to in his match with Okada. I’ll have full thoughts on the show… eventually, but I thought it was just fine.

I’m sure someone is reading this and having a conniption fit over my not glorifying this show as the greatest thing ever… but anyone who knows me knows that I don’t watch New Japan and thus do not have the New Japan hard on that certain folks in the wrestling bubble would have. And also, I have not been keeping up with as much AEW as I would like… life stuff and all that jazz.

I have also not watched a single lick of the new Saturday Night Collision show, thus killing Punk’s brilliant theory on how I’m watching no matter what and I didn’t. I’ve heard good things about the show, but when I heard Collision was only going to be on the TSN streaming app, I said, “Fuck it.” Because the last time I tried the TSN streaming app, it was a total clusterfuck of an app and I gave up on. Now apparently, I’ve heard that TSN did air replays at midnight, but you know what? I ain’t watching shit at midnight on a Saturday night and I haven’t DVR’ed a single episode of the show either, if that’s the case. That’s why I don’t talk about Rampage or those Battle Of The Belt shows; cuz it’s only on the app and that app is fucking horrible.

Even Dynamite… I haven’t been keeping up with all that much. Just didn’t have the time and you know the funny thing, the more time passes, the less inclined you are to go back to something… I’ve been dealing with some family stuff, some personal stuff, and like I said, there are also technical bits I needed to work on. I just didn’t have the time, so Forbidden Door ended up being the first proper AEW show that I’ve seen in a while. Why that show? Because I wanted to give Tony Khan a couple bucks and help him pay Europe for the use of Final Countdown… that was it, really. As soon as I heard he actually got the rights to Final Countdown, I’m like, “Yeah, I gotta get this show.” So, there you go.

I have yet to play the Fight Forever video game… reviews have been generally positive, but I’m debating whether I’m gonna go for the Switch version or go full-blown PC version… also I’m debating going all in now or waiting for a price drop… we’ll see. WWE front… tonight’s Money In The Bank. We’ll see if I can catch, but if not… oh well.

WWF Unforgiven 2000

Yeah, we’re skipping a couple PPVs here. Most notably the King Of The Ring, Fully Loaded, and Summerslam PPVs… because we’ve already touched on those years ago and there’s not much I could add there. But to bring you up to speed, Rock won the title back at KOTR, which was largely a bad show and retained at the much better Fully Loaded show as well as a pretty good Summerslam card. Even so, the quality of these shows do not compare to the excellent cards that opened the year and we’re reaching the point where the cracks are starting to show and maybe this year isn’t looking so hot.

Fortunately, we’ve got the return of Strone Cold Steve Austin to WWF television after a long hiatus due to neck surgery and also who ran him over and such.

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State Of The Blog – July 2023

Happy Canada Day.
This is just a quick update, as I’m presently undergoing some technical issues that’s been slowing things down considerably, but for what it’s worth, the road to Review #1000 is on track. The schedule might be out of whack here and there, but it’s going to happen one way or another.
Aforementioned technical issues has also pretty much cancelled this month’s edition of the DTM-Cast. I’ll see about doing one at the end of the month, but worst case scenario is a new episode is coming around Labor Day weekend in September. I’ve got some stuff recorded, but then shit happens and plans change. Anyway, we’ll see on that front.
In the meantime, there’s 21 Years Ago In TNA that’s going on for a bit, a couple classic WWF 2000 PPV Musings and of all the recent PPV/PLE/POS shows that took place this past month, the only one I’ve seen is the Forbidden Door one last night… so somewhere along the way, there will be musings on that.
That’s about it. Later.

WWF Judgment Day 2000

WWF Judgment Day 2000 is the next PPV on our list of revisiting the WWF PPVs in the year 2000 and it features what I always felt was the best damned Ironman match in the history of Ironman matches. Does that opinion hold up or does it run the risk of losing its would-be crown to the MJF/Danielson match from this year’s Revolution PPV?

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