Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

The Eco match battle for the Environment that WWE never had can finally happen now Eco Juice Robinson vs Eco Bryan Danielson

If Gallows was doing on his own, fair enough, it's a twisting suplex or something.

Anderson actually ruins it by limply tossing the legs down like a bag of cement. Put some razzle dazzle on the move!

Massive massive coup for AEW If the rumours are true about 2 big stars debuting/returning

wwe have themselves to blame in a way for there stubborness. Not saying Phil and Brian are saints themselves either. wwe could of thrown money at them

That's the thing you don't let your competition gain traction.

For me the aew story so far is following a road map that wcw did. The good parts! Not the bad lol.

Turner had deep pockets. So does Khan. Money is the only way to complete with wwe. Wcw started in 1988 but a few years later began to get the biggest names in wrestling like Hogan and Savage (even if they were past their prime) Later Hall and Nash. Bishoff, which looking back that man was smart, he made his tv completely different to wwe. Think nitro and raw from 95/96. Nitro had surprises, it featured luchadoors, guys like benoit, Eddie, malenko and jericho who cut their teeth in Japan. Heck, bishoff openly admits the nwo was lifted from njpw. He basically took the best of else where and all that was also nothing like the wwf were doing.

Aew is doing very similar! They've got some of the best talent in the world. They're trying to surprise viewers. They're not just wrestling a wwe style. Promos don't feel like they were written by some writer.

Wwe shouldn't let aew grow. What's the point letting their product become a speeding money train and then wwe decide to change their product. Mad like.

Shouldn't we be calling Daniel Bryan, Bryan Danielson again? since that's the name he had on the indy scene and most likely he'll go back to using that name if he wrestlers outside WWE.

Well technically he's been Bryan Danielson since the day he was born so I guess that's what's best to use so there's no question as to what he'll be introduced as.

So I get up at 5am to fly to LA for the first PWG show in quite some time. It's a proper bucket list item for me so can't wait and the show is Mystery Vortex. No wrestlers or card have been announced so every entrance is a surprise. Any guesses as to who might make appearances?

I think AEW will definitely have a few on there - would love Sammy or Darby to show up.

The only two ways are to buy the DVD/Blu Ray when it comes out - usually two months after the show. The other option is to subscribe to Highspots video service, tenner a month but the catalogue is amazing. The only issue is they get the PWG shows about 10 months after the fact.

I have a high gore/squeamish threshold but something about bladed foreheads makes my skin crawl...

https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1426537809746214915

I can't remember the wrestler who said it, but accordingly when you blade you just do a nice little flick with the razor and it will heal. Guys like New Jack dug deep and got that "cheese grater" effect after a while.

It is mad looking at it. Your face is your money maker so who wants this disgusting mark.

It's insane to say but a few have. Abdullah the butcher was blading when he had hepatitis. He wouldn't say a thing even if the other wrestler was blading too.

I do believe it was the guy behind the YouTube channel The Hannibal TV was wrestling Abdullah and he contracted hepatitis from him.

Didn't Bob Orton blade all over the taker once and then the taker learned Bob had hepatitis!

The subject of blading is a weird one. On one hand there is no need to do it as its not safe. Not in this day in age. The argument comes that if in say a hard-core match and two guys are hitting each other over the head with items why isn't there blood. In an ideal world, in a big promotion like wwe, those two lads would get blood tests before doing it. I heard that wwe do test when they DO allow blading (rarely) but I've never heard a wrestler say he was tested before blading. Up in the air.

All I know is you'd be mad to blade on the indies. That's for sure! Lol.

Yo any of you guys seen this? Would love to see it. I looks like the right type of primo bollocks!

Dave triggering people is always funny, why would Andrade care what he thinks?

The funny thing is Meltzer was very positive about the match, those snitch taggers are lame as. And it's hardly that outrageous to suggest that El Idolo hasn't set the world on fire since he left WWE. Just comes across as cry more Andrade really.

Was the pop as loud as it seemed on TV? It was one of the increasingly rare moments in WWE where the crowd had Attitude Era levels of excitement.

The atmosphere at Blood and Guts was something else, the entrances especially but I think the recent PWG show was the best. The amount of times my friends and I leapt up from our seats going WTF was insane haha, The main event is all kinds of crazy.

More for the Rock for sure as it was in NY (technically NJ) and that crowd is a bit more smarky.

Conrad Thompson a millionaire fanboy starts a podcast revolution.

Tony Khan a billionaire fanboy starts a wrestling company that leads to a pro wrestling revolution.

Fanboys ruling the world of pro wrestling outside the E.

Tricky one to answer, depends on who feels that the influx of the likes of Punk and Bryan will have taken away their rise to the top. In fairness AEW have managed their roster very well for the most part. If his contract hadn't a few more years to run, I nearly would have said MJF. While he's near the top of the card, he's stagnated a bit in the last year and the feud with Jericho hasn't helped him very much nor has leading the Pinnacle done very much. .

You gotta wonder what must be going through Cesaro's mind right now. A few months ago Cesaro was getting a push, working with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, and was challenging for a World Championship, and now he's the invisible man again. I was never a fan of Cesaro but it's gotta hurt for him to be knocked down like that again.

Any fans of PWG on here? I was curious how they would do after the pandemic and tonnes of their go to guys getting signed up across the bigger companies but wow they have put together an awesome card for next month. Listing is below and will see Alex Shelley and Eddie Edwards make their returns. Jack Cartwheel is new but was amazing at the last show and with Dante Martin and the rest, that will be an absolute spot fest 6-man and should be outstanding.

Just picked up my tickets this evening making it a crazy week of events. Flying to NY for the Arthur Ashe event which is both a Dynamite and Rampage, GCW's Emo fight the next night, then flying to LA for Halloween horror nights and PWG on the Sunday. Can't wait!

Three-Way Match

Tony Deppen vs. Evil Uno

Tag Team Match

Aramis & Rey Horus vs. Dragon Lee & Laredo Kid

Three-Way Match

JD Drake vs. AJ Gray vs. Lee Moriarty

Six-Person Tag Team Match

Jack Cartwheel, Dante Martin, & Alex Zayne vs. Jake Atlas, Trey Miguel, & Myron Reed

Singles Match

Jonathan Gresham vs. Alex Shelley

Tag Team Match

Black Taurus & Demonic Flamita vs. Malakai Black & Brody King

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla World Championship Title

Bandido (Champion)) vs. Davey Richards (Challenger)

Yeah, I'm wondering how the interviewers are told to interact with him. Like the last day he was being interviewed and he was cut off as the interviewer went to talk to someone else and he came to her complaining.

Ah here it is

Now with the stacked rosters outside the WWE and with most of them working together I would love to see a proper world cup of wrestling.

The men, women & tag teams competing within their own company to get places to represent that company in a world cup PPV

It would help fill out TV time for most of these companies and all finishes with a two day weekend PPV.

You would have AAA, NWA, IMPACT, NJPW, AEW, ROH, MLW, Independent non attached wrestlers, some European wrestlers

Was watching a gcw ppv recently and was wondering do audience members have to sign some sort of waiver when attending events with death matches? Or is it in small print on tickets? Just with glass and other things flying.