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Bonk posted:Where were you folks at Defy? I got standing room tickets so I was right behind the back row on the concession/merch side where you come in. I try to always get 3rd row closest to the entrance. Close to the action, can see most of the out of ring stuff, but low chance of having to rush out of the way of a dive
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ARMBAR A COP posted:I love rushing out of the way during dives i was gonna say who wants to AVOID that its one of the best parts of the show!!
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Apr 10, 2023 21:59
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Yeah, the point of front row tickets is that you get to catch the wrestlers and any shards of glass
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Got glass in my shoes sitting front row last weekend
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https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_/status/1645581065069707264 Guessing CZW is losing out on Zandig vs Shlak!
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Gumball Gumption posted:Yeah, the point of front row tickets is that you get to catch the wrestlers and any shards of glass I dunno, I didn't like getting kicked in the face that one time...
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Pinwiz11 posted:I dunno, I didn't like getting kicked in the face that one time... Maybe you'll like it a second time
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7_7UbC_E2M Love how MV Young just decides to book matches at random bars in Lawerenceville; crowd sadly not as into it
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Defy posted a really good video building up the history behind the card at The Realest. The part about Swerve & Nick Wayne goes back over a year. Highly recommend you catch that stream on April 13th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jWcT3jbYw Here's the first Nick/Swerve match from last year. Bonk fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/defynw/status/1645876020430655488?s=46&t=g_TRNjFJNFS2lONLhogelA fuckinnnnn DEFY really went “which venue in town has the highest ceiling okay cool cool let’s book that one”
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Oh god dammit, I have to drive all the way down to Oregon now? Defy, I already come down to Seattle for you, why you gotta do me like that? There better be a Prestige show that same weekend too. Watch it be in San Francisco.
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A friend of mine sent me this tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7219548066418887979 Do any of you happen to know what match this is from?
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SalTheBard posted:A friend of mine sent me this tiktok: Tournament of Survival 3
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Kvlt! posted:Tournament of Survival 3 Thanks!
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ToS3 might be the overall peak of GCW. Drawing 1,000 people after a CZW cop call caused venue change, running a really entertaining show and feeling like you were seeing a company make a lot of new stars in front of you.
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the escape goat posted:https://twitter.com/defynw/status/1645876020430655488?s=46&t=g_TRNjFJNFS2lONLhogelA Dang, I'll be at Forbidden Door
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Nation Extreme Wrestling has now posted their entire show from March for free. It's been their biggest show so far, and it was awesome live: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfw6JkYCbX89pdZxjNs4TdZMGhL9bADY8 Travis Williams vs. Nick Wayne NEW Women's Title: Nicole Matthews© vs. Miyu Yamashita Daniel Makabe vs. Cody Chhun Maki Itoh vs. Cat Power NEW Tag Titles: Re:Loaded (Jacky Lee & $hareef Morrow)© vs. The Wisemen (Billy Suede & Tony Baroni) Tables Match: Bambi Hall vs. Liiza Hall (sibling fight) NEW Title: Evan Rivers© vs. Artemis Spencer vs. Mr. Ferguson Minoru Suzuki vs. Judas Icarus
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Bonk posted:Nation Extreme Wrestling has now posted their entire show from March for free. It's been their biggest show so far, and it was awesome live: It's very funny how uptight they are about booking Gentleman Jervis for their next show.
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ARMBAR A COP posted:Dang, I'll be at Forbidden Door FD is the next day (the 25th) e: unless you meant you were planning to go live, in which case yeah that might be tough
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Manwithastick posted:I’d love a Chikara where are they now report - who has done well since Chikara closed? Orange Cassidy has probably done the best.
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Kazuchika Okada became a multi-time world champ after his time in Chikara, after that I'd say Jon Moxley or Claudio Castagnoli did the best But for real most of the good guys from Chikara are now with AEW, with the rest either in the WWE system (Drew Gulak, Riccochet, Sara Del Rey) or hanging out with Ultramantis Black SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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SG Bamboo posted:But for real most of the good guys from Chikara are now with AEW, with the rest either in the WWE system (Drew Gulak, Riccochet, Sara Del Rey) or hanging out with Ultramantic Black Sara really went off the grid after becoming a trainer, now that I think about it. (Which is fine.)
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Manwithastick posted:I’d love a Chikara where are they now report - who has done well since Chikara closed? Of the most recent crop of trainees, Edith Surreal's probably done the best.
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Lumbermouth posted:Of the most recent crop of trainees, Edith Surreal's probably done the best. I've loved what I've seen of Edith, she is/was my local indie, LLL's womens champ and she does great even with some of the less skilled workers she faces. Speaking of they're doing Heidi Howitzer vs Miyu Yamashita vs Masha Slamovich in June which is gonna kick substantial amounts of rear end.
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Matt Makowski was starting to get a lot of hype too, but he's been out for more than a year with a knee injury.
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LionYeti posted:I've loved what I've seen of Edith, she is/was my local indie, LLL's womens champ and she does great even with some of the less skilled workers she faces. Speaking of they're doing Heidi Howitzer vs Miyu Yamashita vs Masha Slamovich in June which is gonna kick substantial amounts of rear end. I love how Miyu came over and all these promotions want to work with her.
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LionYeti posted:I've loved what I've seen of Edith, she is/was my local indie, LLL's womens champ and she does great even with some of the less skilled workers she faces. Speaking of they're doing Heidi Howitzer vs Miyu Yamashita vs Masha Slamovich in June which is gonna kick substantial amounts of rear end. Heidi was a mainstay in my local indie before it folded and I loved her and I'm happy she is getting so much shine. She did a match with Billie Starkz that was incredibly funny when she kept complaining about how young and energetic Starkz was.
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Thanks for posting this, just bought my ticket!! I opted for SRO over fifth row ringside, anything will be better than the stage seating last time I have been waiting way too long to yell ITOH-CHAN
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The Taxman posted:Thanks for posting this, just bought my ticket!! What was wrong with ringside seating? That show looks like fun.
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Lumbermouth posted:Of the most recent crop of trainees, Edith Surreal's probably done the best.
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mariooncrack posted:What was wrong with ringside seating? That show looks like fun. Fifth row on flat ground is not usually my jam If it will be set up like the last show GCW did at Harpo's, the ring will be on the floor in front of the stage. There is an elevated level with a railing basically opposite where the stage is on the other side of the ring, that should be a great place to be for the show (I had to stand the whole show on the stage to be able to see, so I don't mind either way). Now, if I can't get a spot on the rail it will suck, but I'm usually early enough for these things
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SG Bamboo posted:Kazuchika Okada became a multi-time world champ after his time in Chikara, after that I'd say Jon Moxley or Claudio Castagnoli did the best Remembering going to see King Of Trios in 2017, which in retrospect was a perfect confluence of weird era Chikara and the last days of the BritWres boom. Picking out just the people who went on to do more, that show featured: Chris Brookes (in DDT) Pete Dunne, Trent Seven, and Tyler Bate Fire Ant (Orange Cassidy) Kyle Fletcher (immediately pre Aussie Open) Millie McKenzie (who went on to NXT UK) Sylverhawk (Wheeler Yuta) A-Kid (Axiom on NXT) El Phantasmo (in NJPW) Meiko Satomura (Meiko loving Satomura) Cassandra Miyagi (Michiko Miyagi in GLEAT)
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I just want to say I miss Gavok's preshow summaries whenever there was a Chikara event. He was really good at summarizing the general insanity of their plot lines. One of my favorite Indy things is when a guy is promoted as "former WWE Superstar" and you look them up and find out they were a jobber on a single Saturday Night Heat in 01. But I think I saw a new one, a wrestler promoting themselves as an "ECW Original" who I had never heard of. Turned out they wrestled 4 matches in ECW in 1998.
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syzpid posted:I just want to say I miss Gavok's preshow summaries whenever there was a Chikara event. He was really good at summarizing the general insanity of their plot lines. Who was it??
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Lamuella posted:Remembering going to see King Of Trios in 2017, which in retrospect was a perfect confluence of weird era Chikara and the last days of the BritWres boom. Picking out just the people who went on to do more, that show featured: Man Quack is a turd but he had a good eye for talent, pretty great taste, and mystifyingly deep pockets (or great skill in convincing people to work cheap).
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itsnews posted:Who was it?? The Prodigette when she was in ECW, although she was a Valet for over a year and didn't wrestle much. But I have absolutely no memory of her and I watched ECW pretty religiously
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Man Quack is a turd but he had a good eye for talent, pretty great taste, and mystifyingly deep pockets (or great skill in convincing people to work cheap). He ran an indie in the late 2000s and 2010s, there was a lot of talent available. He was also very, very cheap. He was paying Hero peanuts even though Hero was the company's biggest star and trainer. The pay was so bad that it dominated the discourse about him leaving CHIKARA even though the rumored other reason (him sleeping with Shane Storm's girlfriend) was a pretty valid reason not to want to use him.
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