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Mr Hootington posted:Ok was wondering if it was worth anything. I saw Matt Riddle signed with the MLW promotion after being let go from the wwe. MLW is the same now as it was during its first iteration: a roster of talented guys completely half-assing it and a handful of toxic dickheads who've burned all their other bridges.
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Mr Hootington posted:How is Major League Wrestling? Or is it too big to be an indy? I get it pushed on youtube all the time. MLW is basically the biggest joke in wrestling. They pay really poorly and wrestlers would do it for "TV exposure" but they don't really have TV. So wrestlers just half rear end their shows leading to MLW being the most boring product to watch. It's not really too big to be an indie since there are indies bigger than MLW. At least the NWA is weird bad, MLW is just boring bad.
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I saw Bad Boy Joey Janela smack a guy in a wheelchair last night it was a work ya marks but still really something I did not expect to see at the indies https://www.instagram.com/p/C2Suvvfrd93/
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That was obviously self defense on Joey's part. The other dude was about to rush him
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 A reminder that you have until midnight on January 24th to get in your Top Ten Lists for this year's Top Ten Favorite Wrestlers of the Year Thread.
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Hey all, I extended the deadline for submissions for The Top Ten Active Wrestlers of 2023 Thread, please pop by and add in a Top Ten before midnight Eastern of Friday, January 26th!
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You know you're too tired from work when you read this and think "I thought Daniels that he was never going to the Curry Man gimmick again", before looking at the picture, re-reading the text and realising "Oh wait, it's Daniels VS Curry Man".
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kidcoelacanth posted:hello indie goons, here is a thing that is happening in a couple weeks for anyone in the DC area: hey this went well https://twitter.com/JayLeeAC/status/1751101063308972174?t=H1ZV7_mHM06-XkLoUC8Z7g&s=19 night two tomorrow!
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Just went to my second Pro-Wrestling Revolver show. Long story as short as possible: My wife's ex has a step-grandson who's father is totally out of the picture and mother is mostly out of the picture. So his aunt, who is mid-20's, has a huge part in raising the boy who is 9. The aunt and my wife are close and we don't have any kids (currently trying) so we've been going to his basketball games to support him and to try and be supportive people in his life. We learned he likes wrestling (WWE) although he's not a superfan or anything. Anyway, we had talked about taking him (his name is Roman lol) to a wrestling show and I figured we would just wait til WWE came to town. She ended up buying tickets to PWR without my knowledge. We've been to one PWR show before and had a really fun time. This is a Dayton show, she had never been to an indie level show before and loved the atmosphere. When I found out it was PWR I was a little aghast and told her she should make sure Roman's aunt knows there will be ton's of f bombs and possibly blood. The aunt was non-plussed but I was still worried because she had also told us that when "the wrestlers get too intense he gets pretty upset" and given he watches WWE I don't even know what too intense would be. All this to say I was extremely nervous about the show. The place was packed, way moreso than our previous visit a year prior. I'm not sure if it was Mox having a match (last time he was there but just cut a promo) or just the wrestling scene but there was almost nowhere to stand inside the little gymnasium. I don't like crowds so I hung out right by the exit while my wife, Roman, his aunt and her boyfriend went in and got a halfway decent spot. To my dismay the first match was Masha Slamovich vs. Jake Something. I think intergender matches can be cool but a minute into the match Jake Something just wallops Masha in the face, something he did over and over again during the match. I could see Roman covering his eyes and looking distressed. Later I heard it was because he thought it was too loud but I question that because even I felt a little uncomfortable. That said, it was a good match, Masha won which everybody loved, the boy went wild. From there everyone had a great time. We did not stay for the main event as Dayton is over an hour away from us and it was well after 10 pm. But at intermission Roman checked in and was over the moon. His aunt had given him earplugs. He loved Myron Reed (who is amazing) and really enjoyed when they brought doors out and were going through those. Sami Callahan had a really fun match with a guy I don't know (maybe JT Dunn?) and bit a lemon and squirted it in the guys eyes and papercuts he had administered. There were legos too. I had never see Alpha Sigma Sigma, but the crowd loved them. Maclin was there and was great. Mance Warner too, although he also hit a woman which seems like a weird thing for a good guy to do. To be fair when he first played it up like he was going to hit her he instead poked her eyes, but then he did the Dusty bionic elbow to her head. There was a really fun tag match with the Rascals and the Grizzled Young Vets as well as RED (Ricky Shane Page and another guy). Anyway, PWR is a really fun time although they do not at all enforce the seating. We had tickets for third row and when we showed up all the seats were taken and the staff was clearly on our side but did not/could not do anything to remedy it. I enjoy standing so no big deal. It s a fun atmosphere, an astounding amount of f-bombs dropped despite tons of kids, but it is very cool to see a thriving small-time wrestling promotion. Crowd was into every match, there was a chubby kid running around in a Sting mask cracking me up, and Jessica Havok, Sami Callahan and Crash Jackson all were milling around lots of the time. I'd recommend going but unsure if bringing a 9 year old is the move. We'll be taking him to a WWE show and he'll probably be bored out of his mind. He was super pumped about the show though and it's heart warming to think he might become a real wrestling fan someday (although I'm not a basketball fan, his games are enthralling for the kid drama and I am becoming a basketball fan). Anyway, PWR is cool, I would recommend going if it's nearby. So far I haven't seen a ton of technical wrestling but there's always several really fun gimmick matches on the card and being 40 feet from a wrestling ring (in the last row) is a fun time. Five stars
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Dayton was such a hotbed before the pandemic, loss of venue, and a lot of unfortunate incidents shut down the local promotion. I was thinking of going to that PWR show myself but I'm not ready yet and it wasn't at a good time. Really glad you had a fun time. I'll always have a soft spot for Sami and Revolver, and a lot of those talents are great ones that wrestle in Ohio often. Depending on where you're at I can also recommend Unsanctioned Pro in Columbus, as well as when GCW stops by there.
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kidcoelacanth posted:hey this went well This is awesome I wish I could attend. Congrats!
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inconsequential posted:It s a fun atmosphere, an astounding amount of f-bombs dropped despite tons of kids, but it is very cool to see a thriving small-time wrestling promotion. At the Saturday night Deadlock show last week, the dad in front of me was encouraging his kid (maybe kindergarten age) to chant cusses. Kinda weird, but I'm not a parent and hey, if you're going to do it, that's the place. Also this Bobby Hill-looking kid sitting right by the ramp was screeching "gently caress YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" at every heel all night,` but especially at Alec Price and Adam Priest. They deserved it - perfectly detestable - but it was cracking me up.
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JethroMcB posted:At the Saturday night Deadlock show last week, the dad in front of me was encouraging his kid (maybe kindergarten age) to chant cusses. Kinda weird, but I'm not a parent and hey, if you're going to do it, that's the place. that wasn't a dad and his kid, that was Pulse and Johnny
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Dayton was such a hotbed before the pandemic, loss of venue, and a lot of unfortunate incidents shut down the local promotion. I was thinking of going to that PWR show myself but I'm not ready yet and it wasn't at a good time. Really glad you had a fun time. I'll always have a soft spot for Sami and Revolver, and a lot of those talents are great ones that wrestle in Ohio often. Depending on where you're at I can also recommend Unsanctioned Pro in Columbus, as well as when GCW stops by there. I’m actually in Cincinnati, I think we have a very small indie here but I’ve never checked it out, that’s next on my list. Would definitely trek to Cbus for GCW sometime
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I just wanna give a heads up to check out AAPW’s stream tonight at 8 central. They’re a wrestling school here in Austin where a lot of really good talent is and has come from. But tonight they’re doing one of their drag wrestling shows. They usually do it 2 to 3 times a year. They got drag queens they got wrestling it’s a really fun show and my buddy Eric has started doing commentary for them. https://twitch.tv/officialaapw
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The_Rob posted:I just wanna give a heads up to check out AAPW’s stream tonight at 8 central. They’re a wrestling school here in Austin where a lot of really good talent is and has come from. But tonight they’re doing one of their drag wrestling shows. They usually do it 2 to 3 times a year. They got drag queens they got wrestling it’s a really fun show and my buddy Eric has started doing commentary for them. Hey, that’s my old school! Can’t say enough good about them. I trained for a bit with VertVixen and Jazmine Allure who are the most successful from that batch of students, and also just the nicest people. I miss that place a ton and dream daily of putting a ring in my garage so I can just do drills and stuff because of it.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Hey, that’s my old school! Can’t say enough good about them. I trained for a bit with VertVixen and Jazmine Allure who are the most successful from that batch of students, and also just the nicest people. I miss that place a ton and dream daily of putting a ring in my garage so I can just do drills and stuff because of it. Me and my friends have been going almost every week since we learned about them. It’s like a ten minute drive from my house, but yeah it’s insane how much top tier talent comes from them and how well done their weekly show is.
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The_Rob posted:Me and my friends have been going almost every week since we learned about them. It’s like a ten minute drive from my house, but yeah it’s insane how much top tier talent comes from them and how well done their weekly show is. Before I left I gifted them some semi-professional headsets for the commentary team and I was happy to hear they still used them a couple years on. Much better than sharing one mic on a table-top mic stand like we were doing before. Really love that they moved to some cameras on the floor too because it used to just be a single hard cam.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Before I left I gifted them some semi-professional headsets for the commentary team and I was happy to hear they still used them a couple years on. Much better than sharing one mic on a table-top mic stand like we were doing before. There’s a smoke machine now too.
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The_Rob posted:There’s a smoke machine now too. Hell yeah. I love that for them.
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inconsequential posted:I’m actually in Cincinnati, I think we have a very small indie here but I’ve never checked it out, that’s next on my list. Would definitely trek to Cbus for GCW sometime E: forgot the link https://www.facebook.com/nwfwrestling/
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Promoters need to stop with this having talent fly over without a visa poo poo. https://twitter.com/RighteousReg/status/1751446026576429413
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Barry Bluejeans posted:that's doubly lovely because it no doubt affects her future ability to enter the country to work 100% a 5 year ban.
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Dango Bango posted:Tweet was deleted. What happened? This: quote:Veny the freelance Japanese women’s wrestler was supposed to appear on this west coast pro show tonight but she arrived in America earlier this week, was immediately detained, held for a few days and DEPORTED back to Japan.
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Ganso Bomb posted:This:  Wasn't VENY the one who had to stay with the creep too?
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Yeah Wrestle Queerdom was a bad time for her. IIRC she was straight up like "don't ask me about it" when she got back to Japan.
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MassRafTer posted:100% a 5 year ban. fuuuuuuuuuuuck that sucks
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I had an inkling that the sudden burst of Joshi in the country was not on the up and up in terms of visas Although West Coast Pro should have known and protected her better
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If I had to guess 90% of imports working the US Indies are trying it on a tourist visa - and that includes Indies like WCP or GCW that are bigger and so have that higher perceived legitimacy. Some places do it but like there's a reason why Sukeban telling people low key 'we are getting visas for wrestlers' was a big story. This is primarily because US immigration law is very bad on this - to get a visa you basically have to prove why the person you are bringing in is going a job that you cannot give an American and unsurprisingly 'Japanese wrestlers are uniquely good' is not an argument you can make. What appears to have happened here (I know nothing specific; this is informed speculation) is the guy behind Kitsune is trying to do things properly so has applied for visas for everyone on that show; but that means that until a visa is given they are sort of suspicious about anyone coming in on a tourist visa that also has an application for a work visa and that might have triggered here. That guy has done a lot of very silly things but you 100% cannot fault someone for trying to do things properly; the issue is the promotions that don't do that but rely on imports will cause issues. The promotion is telling people that she told them she had a work visa but didn't - but that means nothing; because the promotion will not say anything that implies they encouraged someone to travel illegally to the US for legal reasons. Kitsune are apparently announcing card changes for their March show because of this - they've announced like two matches so that probably means they are facing some big problems; and its another example of why a promotion based on 'we fly in foreign wrestlers' is not a viable formula unless you are based in that country and the US is a secondary market.
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