JayKHunter's OSW Review 99 - AEW Revolution 2021

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Did the running down of profit/loss from WWE films/XFL etc interest you? I find it interesting but I imagine it's a bit 'observer'

I love it! It's always great to hear Vinces greatest F### ups rather than accomplishments!

Hello, I found and watched quite a few of your shows last night. I became a fan of WWF/E somewhere around 1986, pretty much whenever they killed off World Of Sport Wrestling on ITV and started showing American stuff. I had a lot of the shows you review on vhs tapes for years so I'd seen them all a few times. Actually you're getting close to a point in time where I kinda gave up on wrestling just a bit for a few years. It's very funny to hear a bunch of Dubliners talking about this stuff. None of my own friends are into wrestling and the one guy who is, doesn't know a fraction of what I know about it. I was in genuine hysterics hearing about Jake Roberts Christmas geanseys last night. And yes, Worzel too, my firends and I always called him "The man with the hair" because you knew **** was serious when the man with the hair showed up. Also Earl Hebner was "The Bouncing Ref" to myself and my pals back then too, because if he was in a main event, there was a more than 50% chance he was gonna get knocked out and not be able to count to 3 while the babyface was about to win the big one! I'm pretty sure Tony Garcias name was Tony Garea and that he was a tag champ in the very early 80's and then a jobber in tag matches after that, always teamed with another jobber, but keep calling him Tony Garcia! I was always aware there was a lot of other American wrestling besides WWF that we were not getting to see but only because I read about it in PWI in Easons on O'Connell Street, but yeah the only WCW we got was an hour on ITV well after midnight on a school night. I'm still proud of my photo of me with Sting, Bill Kazmaier and Rick Steiner from the Point Depot in 1991! I had my ticket bought weeks before that show but my younger brother who was a kid at the time, won 4 tickets for WCW from Zig and Zag on Dempseys Den on RTE 2! Me on the balcony seats miles from the ring, and my Mam and siblings at ringside with their free tickets whilst they mostly could not give less of a **** about wrestling if they tried to! I did hog Mams backstage trip though! The venue was less than half-full so moving down to ringside during the intermission was not hard! Although once I seen Arn Anderson up close doing that spot where he tilts his head back and spits straight up in the air when he got punched in the gut, I thought "Wrestling looks better from a distance" plus calling P.M. News a "fat gay ****" with the Mam sitting beside me wouldn't have been entirely cool so a trip back to the cheap seats is how I watched the end of the show! Anyhow, I loved checking some of your work last night and am looking forward to hearing about Wrestlemania 8! It's not the show that made me go "**** this nonsense, I'm done with this until 1997" I'm pretty sure Wrestlemania 9 did that to me instead...

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Not in bad company

Thoroughly enjoying these. The work that goes in to editing it pays off and Simpsons references are always good with me.

Two questions that I'm sure are frequently asked, When can I get my grubby mitts on the next one and how long are you going to do these? The increased pay per view schedule may put you off but I could listen to you review the new generation/attitude era.

Hello again... I was watching last weeks Impact and during the main event, Taz called Bully Ray "Tugboat" after he hit Kurt Angle with an avalanche in the corner and I immediately thought of OSW and the Wrestlemania 8 show you guys did.

Before I get into that, many congratulations on 2 years. I know I'm a bit of a Conny-come-lately to your work but 2 years is impressive. Fair play to you all. And congrats on the anniversary. I'm still going through old shows so it'll be a while before I get through all of them.

I loved the Wrestlemania 8 review. Talk about making a silk purse from a sows ear! It's not my fav ppv by any means but the review was super-funny. Where to start? Noggers! lmfao! Isn't that what people from Sallynoggin are called?

Ok I have a confession to make, I felt super-guilty that Roidey Magoo wasn't on the card. I wish I'd never mentioned anything to do with giant butt-sores! I did kind of feel super-smug about Bossmans pit-stains getting a mention! I mean I always liked the guy, and he perfectly fits your description of old-school wrestlers being the kind of people who "take no ****." But yeah, when he came back to WWF in the late 90's in his all-black ensemble I was gutted, I remember thinking at the time, "No, no, this is not good, Bossman is supposed to have a light blue shirt like the one I wore in primary school with a few bits sewn on probably by his Mam, with big sweat stains under his arms!" To this day, his side-slam finisher is one of my all-time favs.

I said before that I went to WCW in the Point in '91, but the night I was there, the main event was heel world champion Luger vs Rick Steiner and it wasn't a good match. Not because I was hoping Steiner would win, it was just short with a bad finish. Luger used his feet on the ropes to get the cheat pin that night. It was an anti-climax after a great match between Rick Rude (with Paul E. Dangerously in his corner) vs Sting. The 1st time I ever saw PWI in Easons in the 80's, Luger was on the cover and it was the 1st time I'd heard of other American companies besides WWF. I never liked the guy much. I always remember reading mags in Easons and whether they were boxing or wrestling mags, I'd pick one up and subtly shuffle as far away from the bodybuilding mags as possible in case people in public thought I was some sort of mega-homo who is into looking at dudes with physiques that put my old Master Of The Universe figures to shame. That whole WBF was horrible. I was interested to learn more of the background of it though and how Vince decided to try to put the established governing body out of business (and failed thank Christ!)
It was interesting to recall the failure of XFL too. 2 years ago I saw an ESPN documentary called Small Potatoes - Who Killed The USFL. It's about a rival American Football company that ran for 3 years in the early 80's that was supposed to run during the NFL's off-season (NFL runs from September to January). I don't think you have to be into American Football to enjoy that documentary. It features the ultimate dude with the hair, WWE hall of famer, Donald Trump and also a man who has a moustache to rival Raymond Rougeau or Rick Rude in Burt Reynolds. I guess Vince never consulted with his buddy Trump before trying to create a football league.

OSW has kinda ruined Rick Rude for me. Now I see he actually was not capable of standing still and had to gyrate his hips constantly! I crack up laughing for new reasons when I see him on OSW now. That night in Dublin he said "I want all of you fat, out of shape, Dublin Dirtbags to keep the noise down while the ladies can enjoy what a truly sexy man looks like." To which Sting replied "You can just go and get up the yard!" which really got the most pops of the night with auld fellas in the crowd screaming "Yeah, get up the yard!" before Sting turned to Paul E. and said "And you can just piss off!" which also got the crowd into it!

There is another ESPN documentary I saw recently that's very interesting too. It's called The Real Rocky, it's about boxer from the 60's and 70's, Chuck Wepner who got a shot at Muhammed Ali. He explains how Stallone ripped off his life-story for the Rocky movies while Wepner never got any money from the success of the Rocky movies...Vince McMahon is in the documentary talking about how Wepner fought Andre The Giant after he retired from boxing in a wrestler vs boxer match, and Wepner says the whole Thunderlips vs Rocky spot in Rocky 3 is a direct rip-off of his match with Andre. It's really good anyway, and again, you don't have to be huge into boxing to enjoy it.

I watched the Savage-Flair match and thought his outfit looked a bit like Goldusts ring attire! I showed a friend of mine who wasn't huge into wrestling until the attitude era that match the day Randy died so it's pretty fresh in the memory, but when you said Savage looks like a box of Superkings I cracked up properly. That was borderline genius. I had to frown at Hulk Hogan looking like a can of Tennants lager though. I grew up in Swords in north county Dublin and it wasn't always the swanky awesome town it is now. Today it has a cinema, a giant mall and McDonalds like a real suburb now. But back in the day, we didn't even have an off-licence. We had to get Tennants from a pub, and even then we had to use id from An Oige, the youth hostel people just to get over-priced flat weak flavourless Tennants. I'll never forget what late 80's and early 90's Tennants cans looked like. They weren't red and yellow. They were kinda white and light blue. But for sure, given Hogans strange skin colour, he looks so much like a hot dog with ketchup and mustard, it's almost uncanny! After I finish this, I'm gonna watch Hogan vs Orton just to see who has the strangest skin tone, and that's a match I suppressed deep in the subconscious up until now!

Putting world title matches on in the middle of cards drives me nuts. although on the flipside of that, I remember going to the bathroom this year after the Undertaker vs Punk match at 3 a.m. and seeing the smile on my face that I had seen that match. I remember saying to myself "There's no way you'll stay awake for HHH's match or Cena" and sure enough, I passed out on the couch while Lesnar and Hunter were brawling outside the ring! But as a rule, putting the title match on in the middle of the card is just wrong.

I was in pain laughing at the concept of The Miz passing the torch to Wade Barrett. To be fair, I've seen The Miz in matches that go beyond 5 minutes that are quite decent, but if I have to listen to him rattle off his flimsy C.V. one more time while Cole tries to get his tongue right up Miz's roideys, I think I'll scream. Barrett? He is a rugged looking fecker, and he sounds mean, but he's not in my top 10 English wrestlers, I dunno why. I pretty much agree with everything you said about the belts today. Without ranting too much, 4 singles belts for a roster of that size just doesn't work. I think Antonio Cesaro is absolutely brilliant. I hope losing the U.S. title becomes the best thing that's ever happened to him. I worry that he'll end up jobbing for Cena and Orton every week but I hope he or Damian Sandow get a push.

The stuff about Hogan and Beefer being into bodybuilding mags (i.e. being very queer) was very funny too, maybe Linda Hogan was right all along. And I always though she's a lying sack of make-up, but OSW has convinced me that the woman speaks the truth!

I still have a raft of OSW shows to look at, but I would be sad if that's the end of OSW review. Timelinewise, (it's not a real word, I don't care) it's getting close to a time where I drifted from wrestling. i probably missed out on around 4 years, and it feels like a long time, but to be honest, during the times of Cena vs Orton vs Batista from 2008 till Batista left, I watched only TNA. I'm not going to say one company is better than the other because I just like wrestling. I like TNA but I am not going to say it's perfect. It's just nice to see Cena and Cole free wrestling!

Enough of my babbling. I'm off to buy a Toblerone, a crunchie, a Star Bar, a bag of mighty munch and probably not a Caramac because I dunno if they even exist anymore. Oh and probably not a can of Tennants because it's pish and it's not 10 a.m. yet. Maybe I'll stroll downtown to McDonalds for a feed of euroburgers too!

But I will stop typing now and thank you guys for entertaining me so much with that show!

I always used to call Nikolai Volkoff, Nikolai Underpants. Caramacs do exist still today, I just have never ever tried one! (yet) And 2 weeks ago while traveling with my Mam and my brother from Swords to Duleek in Meath, I asked her is she had ever heard of an ice cream called a Nogger, not just because she is older than me, but because our family business was a grocery/sweetshop when I was a little spudling. She seemed familiar with the name but couldn't tell me a whole lot more about them. Unfortunately, she thought so hard about Noggers that she took a wrong turn off a roundabout and ended up on the motorway towards Finglas, back into Dublin city. A harmless mistake if we weren't under pressure for time to get to my niece's communion mass. I mean personally, I don't mind missing mass, but I felt guilty for stressing the Mam out. Noggers are dangerous...
I'm still sifting through OSW reviews, I check one every few days so not to overdose. It's weird because no 2 wrestling fans ever share the same opinions on anything. I asked a friend not long ago who his fav used to be back in the day and he told me Rugged Ronnie Garvin. I always thought that dude sucked! Everyone takes what they like and hates what they hate and the arguments could go on forever. Thankfully I tend to agree with OSW on way over 50% of what gets said but I have to say just this much about clashing opinions. Here goes, I don't want to upset anyone, but it has to be said....
Every single thing about The Honky Tonk Man during his reign as Intercontinental Champion was great. Every time he was on telly, he'd say to the crowd "Thank you very much, you're a beautiful audience" and they would boo him like he was the AntiChrist! And I would laugh till it hurt. I liked that OSW review said they got the impression the real guy was not too far removed from his character, but for me, Honky was great. Hunka Hunka Honky Love man, Elvis wishes he wrote that song!
Looking forward to OSW 29!

Cool man, I will check that tonight after looking at the final Game Of Thrones for series 3.
It turns out I was right about heatbutting Tamina Snuka being a bad idea! Last weeks NXT proved it! (The spot was done really well to be fair, just the commentators were too useless to spot it!)
NXT without William Regal is a chore compared to when he is on the mic, he's brilliant!
I love when Antonio Cesaro rants in German at the end of a promo, I love that they dropped his rugby-gimmick because I kinda know a lot about rugby, and as I feared, he did job to Orton around the same time he dropped the U.S. title, but...
The promo he did with Sami Generico on NXT last week where he turned very Franche (That's French with an "e" in the wrong place and an "A" added before I get trolled for bad spheelig) last week was pretty cool. I like his man-bag (that's the satchel he slings over his shoulder before I deservedly get hammered for saying that!), his béret and his 80's shades. This stuff I read about him being boring in a lot of fans eyes does worry me, because I think he's awesome.
I watched a few Botchamaniamanias recently complete with that Bushwhacker giving one of the Rougeaus a good special-area rubbing at WM4 I think (could be 5, I've had a few beers, and leeched the last bit of the sunshine while I'm at it today I think!) and I couldn't help thinking of you guys and wondering how much OSW Review contributed to helping pick out some of the botches on that. I discovered OSW review through Botchamania. I was so terrified that OSW Review would make a lot of stuff I loved 20 years ago look really **** today, but mostly what I see is a bunch of heads who love this stuff even more than I do giving honest and very funny and entertaining opinions about something I'm familiar with. As much as I love Botchamania, it can make stuff that seemed good at the time, look very silly with the benefit of hindsight, plus recently sometimes I've caught myself looking at weekly shows and spotting mistakes that are gonna make it into the next Botchamania. I love being informed about stuff that happened in the past but I find being too smart about current wrestling events before they happen takes a huge amount of the fun out of it. But that's just me,
Smiling here now as I look forward to checking out your latest work,
PrátaDúbh.