Return Of Slideshow Movie Reviews And Debut Of RAW After Mania

Hey, folks. Hope you all had a very happy Easter weekend, even under these dire and unique circumstances of the world we currently inhabit. Sorry about the radio silence for the past couple days; I’ve been busy and all.

Anyway, I’ve got a couple big things to “announce with hopeful optimism that will eventually lead to utter disappointment when it doesn’t happen”  that I’ll save for after the break. I just want to start by letting everyone know that I’m taking a break from the blog for the week and regular updates will resume next Sunday, April 19th. Presumably, an audio upload if I’m feeling up to it, but it could a Sunday Gimmick Table if I’m also feeling up to it.

Anyway, on with the “big announcements”.

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AEW Dynamite (April 8th, 2020): The TNT Has Been Lit…

So… might as well talk some Dynamite, since the content I had planned isn’t ready yet and might be held off for another week or so.

Anyway, we’re starting off the TNT Championship tournament this episode and we also have a heated match between Hikaru Shida and Dr. Britt Baker DMD over an altercation that took place last week… meanwhile, Being The Elite had their own series of wrestling matches for some reason.

Not going to dig into this one that deeply, so I’ll stick with the five points format.

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WWE Grants The Revival Immediate Releases

Source: https://www.wwe.com/article/scott-dawson-dash-wilder-the-revival-released

So, after two years of requesting and harruphing for their releases, Scott Wilder and Dash Dawson of the Revival were finally granted their immediate release from WWE. Good for them and best of luck in all their future endeavors.

I guess we’ll see them on AEW next week.

Oh wait…

"Speaking Moistly" Is The New "Just Watch Me"

I normally don’t dwell on politics here, but fuck it, this deserves highlighting.

Yes, somebody made a song out of PM Justin Trudeau’s rather “unfortunate” choice of words during a press conference.

We went from “Just Watch Me” as a defining phrase during a crisis to “Speaking Moistly.”

Bunch of bleeding hearts, indeed.

RambleMania 36

So we live in interesting times at the moment. There’s a worldwide pandemic that making thousands sick and killing a fraction of that number. Businesses are shutdown for extended periods. Live events and sports have been postponed until further notice. Everyone is being told to stay at home. And we watch as everything around us slowly becomes a police state and who knows when things will be back to normal, if at all.

This naturally affects pro wrestling, as a lot of independent promotions had been forced to cancel events, leaving many independent contractors out of work and unable to make money. However, some have tried to get in as much content as they can in the can before they’re forced to shutdown. One of them being WWE, who were supposed to hold Wrestlemania at a big stadium in Tampa, but after some back and forth, cancelled that event and decided to hold it at their Performance Center with no fans… as a pre-taped program… that’s too big for one night… or something.

The debate as to whether they should’ve cancelled or postponed the event until we can have crowds back will be debated until the end of time, but regardless, WWE did their Mania show and whether it turned out to be a complete disaster or an utter miracle, it was going to be unique if nothing else… and as such, I break my modern WWE moratorium with Wrestlemania 36… we’ll skip the one week of TV that I watched because those were pretty useless.

A word of warning: much like the Ramblemania entries of the past couple years, this is going to be a very long read, as I’ve opted to cover both nights in one single entry. Anyone who has followed the PPV Musings over the past couple years will know that I used to watch the longer WWE shows over the course of several nights and those would be noted in the posts, so this isn’t any different from what I’ve done before. However, considering the circumstances, and in an effort to try and make this as timeless as possible, this one is going to be particularly meaty as I try to include some context to the mix. There is a lot to digest here and I want to get down as much as I can.

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