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  1. 9 hours ago, CQI13 said:

    Their event from yesterday came up on my YouTube feed (Raven and some team in a cage match, Riddle vs Thatcher, David Boy Smith Jr was on it). I always crap on TNA for their subpar presentation - the ring echoes way too much, the crowd seems like it’s just a couple hundred people, etc. The presentation of this show was not bad for it being a smaller promotion. Some of the wrestlers look terrible though, and the promos were underwhelming from some of the less known names. Didn’t watch everything, but the AJ Francis involvement, and Dario Cueto (by whatever name he uses) really stood out. The gap between them and the rest was jarring.

    If it was the War Chamber match then it was Raven, Akira, Jimmy Lloyd and Jake Crist vs Cannonball, Dr. Cornwallis, Sami Callihan and Ricky Shane Page.  RSP's team is called The Calling and thus Raven named his opposing team The Answer.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Matt_Black said:

    It's Chicago. If they were shown footage of CM Punk taking a bulldozer to an orphanage, their reaction would probably be, "Little brats had it coming."

    Yet all Jack managed to get was mockery.  I'm just sayin', if he thinks he can ride this CM Punk business to superstardom he might be in for a rude awakening.

  3. Wondering why they hot shotted the Continental Title onto Okada straight away, rather then waiting for a pay per view.  Also despite the NJPW Strong title, the Continental Title and ROH Title being some sort of crown they're apparently not all defended together as Kingston is still listed holding the Strong and ROH titles.

  4. 2 hours ago, Big Roguey said:

    Okay so removing the hyperbole, it sounds like you just don't like hardcore wrestling (although from my limited watching of AEW shows, it feels like that description doesn't quite fit every Jon Moxley match). I feel like there is an easier way of saying that than repeating buzzword phrases coined by Jim Cornette.

    Especially considering the Danielson/Kingston match was an excellent match by all accounts.

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  5. 31 minutes ago, Matt_Black said:

    Here's how I would book things for the tag titles. Sting and Darby beat the Young Bucks with Darby getting the pin on one while Sting has the Scorpion Deathlock on the other to prevent him from breaking up the pin. Sting gets to retire as an undefeated tag team champion.

    The next Dynamite, The Bucks demand that Darby forfeit the titles and hand them over because he doesn't have a partner anymore. Darby must find a partner before the end of the show. But who...?

     

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    Knowing TK he'd just put the tag titles up for grabs in yet another tournament.

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Eternal Phoenix said:

    I have an addendum. D'Amore and Anthem were having severe creative differences. Enough that the purchase attempt was his last attempt at resolving the situation in his favor. With that offer rejected, there was only one way the story ended.

    If I were Anthem I'd be worried about how loyal the TNA wrestlers are to D'Amore.  Tossing him out was bad enough but if wrestlers start following him to whatever promotion he ends up working for, things could get rather dicey for TNA.

  7. 38 minutes ago, Jaysin said:

    Tony Khan should hire Scott D'Amore now that TNA made the boneheaded move to fire him. I know Scott's opinion of AEW had soured after the kind of piss poor relationship, but man, imagine what a guy that took TNA from irrelevant to a serious alternative again could do with a roster like AEW has?

    He'd do amazing, provided he can keep TK or the EVPs from overruling him.

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  8. 6 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:

    I think it’s unlucky. Being off for ten years probably led to this too. His body has not been used to the abuse one takes as a wrestlers so he lost that protective later to prevent injuries. Could this be continuous or could this be the end? Who knows we’ll see when he inevitably comes back and feuds with McIntyre.

    He wrestled some pretty intense matches in AEW too didn't he? If so that's likely not helped matters in that regard.  

  9. 19 minutes ago, Wrestling Machine said:

    TF?!? Which other promotion outside WWE and AEW could have given him a multi-million dollar contract in the US? Should he have cut his paychecks and gone to the indies to make someone in the IWC happy?

    And that's not just CM Punk is something applicable to any other wrestling superstar with big name value; imagine Randy Orton leaving WWE and going to MLW for a dime lol

    Also his time away from the industry pretty much obliterates those "CM Punk is an egomaniac" arguments.  The man stepped out of the spotlight for seven years and not a peep was heard from him the entire time.  Hardly a man who can't stand being out of the spotlight huh?

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  10. 21 minutes ago, Mootinie said:

    They put several people in that position on the card whilst Cody was off solving racism, slathering heat proof gel all over his back and trying to help make QT Marshall a thing. That torch had been passed around a lot of people before they finally handed it to Cody. And it wasn't really Punk's torch anyway, it was John Cena's and then it was Roman's.

    I thought maybe he was referring towards the growth of alternative wrestling companies and the general pro-wrestling anti-WWE revolution in the mid 2010's. But, even then, that wasn't a revolution started by Punk. He re-signed with WWE after the pipe bomb and then laid down for Triple H, that's hardly the Che Guevara of wrestling haha. He then refused to wrestle anywhere else after walking out until he found a suitable bandwagon to jump on. What a revolutionary haha.

    I thought it was a pretty crap promo all things considered. 

    You mean he was fired for taking time off to recover from nagging injuries, as several wrestlers have been permitted to do before and since.  

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  11. 11 minutes ago, Jaysin said:

    If they didn't reference it, there'd be an outcry online from people complaining about them ignoring it.

    It's a lose lose situation 

    If you say so.  I still think not referencing the debacle was the better option.  Just have the guy wrestle in New Japan don't draw attention to the controversy and hope it all blows over.  Agree to disagree I guess.

  12. 7 minutes ago, Jaysin said:

    It's part of the new character, the Scapegoat. The character is that he's the one being blamed for Punk's departure and drama. They're turning the ordeal into a storyline. 

    Not the first time it's happened, but I imagine they're trying to salvage Jungle Boy by having him work New Japan for awhile to earn his way back. 
     

    It'd be better if they didn't reference the situation at all.  Just let the thing blow over while Perry hopefully learns something in New Japan.

  13. 1 hour ago, hailthebulldog said:

    Antics? He said a line, into the camera, that MAYBE 10% of the audience ven understood what it meant. Apparently it "broke down" Punk enough that he physically assaulted a co-worker. Besides getting assaulted for saying a throw away line during a match, what "antics" are you referring to. Because I genuinely don't know of any.

    Going on another show and tearing up his contract on camera, trying to use real glass in a match despite the danger to himself and his opponent, starting a fight with CM Punk when told he couldn't do that.  Really Perry's been living up to the Boy part of his moniker quite a bit lately.  

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  14. On 1/15/2024 at 5:00 PM, Mootinie said:

    I cannot take the Jack Perry stuff seriously because "real glass! cry me a river!" is simply too funny. I giggle every time I see the clip. 

    Saw folks claiming how Perry's actions made him "legit" and "broke down" Punk and chuckled for several minutes.  It'll be interesting to see how Perry fares in a promotion that won't put up with his antics the way TK does.  I suspect if he gets out of line there, he'll have a long future of being turned into a pretzel by Minoru Suzuki.

  15. 2 hours ago, ColdBloodedSausageMaker said:

    For me, the bigger deal was Hook taking his first clean loss by submission with little or no build on free TV.  Hook deserved better than to have his momentum squandered like that to get a 40-something transitional champion over. If you're going to have Hook get a surprise title shot like that, at least have him win. I hope this sudden change in plans for Hook doesn't mean Hook is hurt -- that's why AEW similarly changed MJFs plan. The fans love Hook and his intensity is a genuine highlight. I wish they would build up his MMA credibility more -- maybe enroll the guy in Judo if he doesn't have a Black Belt in something.

    Wasn't Hook already trained in Judo by Taz?

  16. 2 hours ago, ColdBloodedSausageMaker said:

    Jack Perry is a 5'5'', 100 pound guy with a Robert Gibson face who has the demeanor of Lex Luger or Shane Douglas.

    Guy thinks he can go out there looking like Randy Mulkey and thinks the fans will take him as a physical threat.

    In the ring, Perry can't do high spots and doesn't have good basics.

    His departure is addition by subtraction.

    What a pittance.

    Not to mention, NJPW is unlikely to pony up the cash for the one thing Jack had going for him: using "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora as his entrance music.

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  17. 2 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    Being called scapegoat gives the idea that he was wrongfully blamed when he was absolutely in the wrong and acted like a child. Maybe he'll turn this into a positive and make it work, but it'll be awhile before I give the guy a chance personally.

    From what I saw he was barely blamed at all.  I mean folks here blamed him but otherwise there was a massive stampede toward "CM PUNK BAD" with hardly any mention of Perry.  Not that I think that Punk is entirely blameless mind you but he's hardly the only one who deserves blame.

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