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rovert
Jun 10, 2013

I Before E posted:

What happened? Can't find anything on Google.

https://www.facebook.com/WRWpage/videos/611371029289474/

Didn't go viral even ironically and the crowd didn't care.

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RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

rovert posted:

https://www.facebook.com/WRWpage/videos/611371029289474/

Didn't go viral even ironically and the crowd didn't care.
The most disgusting thing about this clip is that I saw like 5 CZW trainees with man buns.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

RealFoxy posted:

The most disgusting thing about this clip is that I saw like 5 CZW trainees with man buns.

It's like the Young Lion mandatory look but with the express goal of looking like a douche

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Uproxx did a great interview with Janela that's worth a read https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/joey-janela-is-living-his-vhs-dreams-interview-aew-gcw-2019/6/ Some highlights

quote:

Previously, you were doing a thing in the kind of “Joey Janela” brand shows where you were on this journey, you were fighting all these wrestlers who were more famous in the past. What was the inspiration for that? Was it just, like, living a childhood dream?

Yeah, it’s like living your VHS dreams. You know, me grabbing the VHSs from the vendors’ tables. I wasn’t much of a – I was too young to be a tape trader, really, I think – a lot of guys were tape traders; they would trade tapes with each other. I would just go to local indie shows and there would be a vendor there with the tapes that had been traded around and guys like Hakushi and, you know, Japanese legends, you know. Fuckin’ I wrestled Hakushi, fuckin’ Great Sasuke… We’re bringing [Atsushi] Onita in for the next show even though his knees are hosed. That’s like me living my childhood dream and it’s just a wild situation.

Game Changer Wrestling kind of lets me run my own shows and run wild and this is who I want to book, this is what I want to do, and they just let me do it, you know, and I don’t have to put any money into it. I put all my time into it and everything works out and now, you know, we gave each other the rub… Game Changer can go all over the world and sell out shows, so it’s a great deal.

quote:

And Spring Break is two different shows this year. That’s pretty crazy. It’s blown up so much. Did you expect at all for it to get as big as it is now?

No, not really. We’re running a smaller venue this year. Last year we did about 2,800 with the WWN Experience and this year we want to go on our own and do our own thing and showcase indie wrestling. You know, WWN is WWE affiliated. Hard to showcase what we do with those guys. And this year we’re doing our own thing and it blew up big and it was an overnight success. And not only are we developing our own shows, we’re developing talent for the independents and it’s 2019, talent is getting swept up from WWE like it’s nothing like it’s a claw machine like in Toy Story. I compare it to the little aliens in the claw machine are getting loving snatched up and yeah, we’re just trying to develop new talent. We’re trying to, you know, just keep on going and sell out buildings all over the world.

quote:

I feel like there is a kind of a method behind the independents and WWE right now and all the other big promotions that people are going to say the indies are going to die because this is how the territories died. WWF snatched all the names from the territories and, you know, eventually the territories died out and became more of a giant, which needed to happen because that’s the direction wrestling needed to go in, but in fact, if the independents die and these shows start dying then the talent won’t be developed.

The talent won’t be scouted, and, you know, in the long run for WWE and AEW and all these promotions… things won’t be as easy as it seems. Talent won’t come by as fast and the indies will die and also, you’ll have to resort back to grabbing ex-NFL players or athletes. And that still goes on today, but I don’t want it to go back in that direction. Bodybuilders in wrestling, you know, sometimes it meshes; sometimes it doesn’t. Independent talent, you know, creative thinkers, and they know what’s going on, and, you know, I just want to keep on being around for the movement, and that’s the reason when I signed with All Elite Wrestling I said, “For me to sign that contract, you guys gotta to let me do what I want to do.” And that means not doing every promotion like I was before I was injured. It means doing GCW, doing PWG, doing AIW, Beyond Wrestling, places that develop talent, and working for my friends and having fun.

It’s not about money to me. I just came across a loving contract. I was delivering pizzas two years ago. I was working for Uber a year ago. You know, this is not about the money for me. I’m just happy to come across money and, for me, it’s more the thrill of developing talent and developing myself and, you know, twists and turns for the wrestling fans and keeping stuff just wild.

Also confirms more Japanese involvement with GCW and it's likely going to lead to a show there

Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Mar 6, 2019

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


blast0rama
Aug 13, 2003

Tingly.


Hell yeah!

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
They also announced Timothy Thatcher vs. Hideki Suzuki for Bloodsport

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



KungFu Grip posted:

They also announced Timothy Thatcher vs. Hideki Suzuki for Bloodsport

loving tight!!

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

rovert posted:

https://www.facebook.com/WRWpage/videos/611371029289474/

Didn't go viral even ironically and the crowd didn't care.

amazed that the guy yelling about calling the cops wasn't DJ in this vid.

That's some sad lookin stuff.

Your Parents
Jul 19, 2017

by R. Guyovich

KungFu Grip posted:

They also announced Timothy Thatcher vs. Hideki Suzuki for Bloodsport

Sleeper MOTY candidate right here.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/status/1103824310920192000

Rock n Roll Express vs LAX

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Sorry Super No Vacancy, AAW finally did a thing I don't like

Replace Dragon Lee with 2019 Eddie Edwards

https://twitter.com/AAWPro/status/1103824566554673152

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

thats the second time dragon lee has flaked on a weekend for them, folks i'm afraid he's canceled

Basic Chunnel
Sep 21, 2010

Jesus! Jesus Christ! Say his name! Jesus! Jesus! Come down now!

I still have trouble believing that Eddie’s leaning into the El Hijo De Tommy Dreamer gimmick

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
Scotty Davis and Artemis Spence announced for PROGRESS & Joey Lynch and Jake Atlas for AAW are welcome and needed announcements.

https://twitter.com/AAWPro/status/1103833586032173056

https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/status/1103757259346243597

https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/status/1103391078852395008

Von Linus
Apr 6, 2006
I complete me.
Scotty will tear it up. It's about time he made it there.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
Joey Lynch will probably flop as Southern Wrestlers are chokers and mostly fake hype.

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
joey lynch is the jesus of mucha lucha atlanta, so shut your mouth

abraham linksys
Sep 6, 2010

:darksouls:
Rovert (& others who pay attention to Brit wrestling, which seems fewer every week that nxt UK exists and is a bummer): I'm going to SSS16 this year mostly as an excuse for a cheap transatlantic vacation (and doing a Scotland nature tour after to get some actual culture). How much of a bummer is the state of PROGRESS right now?

It seems like the all-in attachment to WWE has really affected EVOLVE, PROGRESS, and WXW in the same way: no one I know who follows the indies talks about them anymore. Of course, EVOLVE was never exactly beloved before Gabe went full stooge, and WXW was always slightly inaccessible for American fans (language barrier and less talent coming over here for shows), but PROGRESS seems like they went from super hyped right as NXT started signing UK talent to totally plummeting in stock.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Joey Janela is indeed back

https://twitter.com/WRESTLEZONEcom/status/1104085998282178561

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

hold the gently caress up, Crowbar is still alive?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Crowbar as in former north-east indies stalwart Devon Storm? Of course Joey Janela would try to make sure he got physical therapy from an almost retired wrestler. That's fantastic.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

forkboy84 posted:

Crowbar as in former north-east indies stalwart Devon Storm? Of course Joey Janela would try to make sure he got physical therapy from an almost retired wrestler. That's fantastic.

Yeah he's been a PT in Jersey for years.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

coconono posted:

hold the gently caress up, Crowbar is still alive?
My thought almost exactly, just with "around" in place of "alive".

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

I thought Crowbar died when he and Daffney joined that UFO cult in Atlanta in 05.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


coconono posted:

hold the gently caress up, Crowbar is still alive?

Listen, he's a spry young 45, as you can tell from that image he looks like he's got a lot left in the tank

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/janelababy/status/1104179604128972802

Orange Cassidy vs Taka Michinoku

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
There a GCW show on right now at fite tv

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
A guy just did a 630 to the outside though a door

TTBF
Sep 14, 2005



Strickland just had his last match at DEFY, with the locker room coming out to thank him and wish him luck.

This place is packed. We arent able to get out if the way of wrestlers because the aisles are packed with standing room. They've had legit sellouts before, which Meltzer announced as 700 people. Those all had the same crowd sizes and this is noticeably bigger.

Sub Rosa
Jun 9, 2010




rovert posted:

Joey Lynch will probably flop as Southern Wrestlers are chokers and mostly fake hype.

Quoting for posterity

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
Joey does have something.

But fully expecting people blaming the crowd if he dies a thousand deaths.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





I don’t know if this has already been posted but this is the greatest promo I’ve ever seen https://twitter.com/e_is_for/status/1097589371233075201?s=21

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Venomous posted:

I don’t know if this has already been posted but this is the greatest promo I’ve ever seen https://twitter.com/e_is_for/status/1097589371233075201?s=21


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOLkYxEdnY

Truther Vandross fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Mar 9, 2019

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

Is there any good deathmatch stuff on Powerbomb/IWTV? There's a bunch of old CZW stuff but doesn't look like anything recent, and I feel like older CZW stuff could probably be pretty hit or miss. For some reason I have a hankering for deathmatch wrestling today.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Phenix Rising posted:

Is there any good deathmatch stuff on Powerbomb/IWTV? There's a bunch of old CZW stuff but doesn't look like anything recent, and I feel like older CZW stuff could probably be pretty hit or miss. For some reason I have a hankering for deathmatch wrestling today.

They have some of the older Cage of Death shows on there. if CODIV is on there, that's the one to watch.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Phenix Rising posted:

Is there any good deathmatch stuff on Powerbomb/IWTV? There's a bunch of old CZW stuff but doesn't look like anything recent, and I feel like older CZW stuff could probably be pretty hit or miss. For some reason I have a hankering for deathmatch wrestling today.

Doesn't IWTV have some Lucha deathmatch company? I forget. There's also IWA Mid South on there, and man, some of those old KOTDM tournaments were fun.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
This is a really good video and worth your time:
https://twitter.com/beINSPORTSUSA/status/1104442741503811585

Cornette loves Mance Warner.

Big Dave
Nov 6, 2009

Friends don't shake hands, friends gotta hug!


Phenix Rising posted:

Is there any good deathmatch stuff on Powerbomb/IWTV? There's a bunch of old CZW stuff but doesn't look like anything recent, and I feel like older CZW stuff could probably be pretty hit or miss. For some reason I have a hankering for deathmatch wrestling today.

there are a couple lucha deathmatch promotions on there

https://independentwrestling.tv/promotion/zona-23
https://independentwrestling.tv/promotion/DTU

also iwa:ms king of the deathmatch 1997 and its worth clicking around the iwa:ms/czw shows if you see something interesting on the card

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rovert
Jun 10, 2013
A fun watch, nice character work to build up Mance and a hot angle at the end but that medical update video shouldn't have made air

https://twitter.com/MLW/status/1104774096175415298

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