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DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Allysin Kay/Sienna is always a good promo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynYRQ8FCmM

# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 01:16

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 21:12

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

One year ago, Kimber Lee/Abbey Laith vs Veda Scott. Really good match here. One of Veda's best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LaJwr7-1A

# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 21:18

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

One of the stand outs from this past SHIMMER weekend was Deonna Purrazzo. She beat Cheerleader Melissa and Cherry Bomb before losing to Hudson Envy, Nicole Matthews, and Nicole Savoy.

Also, Britt Baker did not leave immediately after the shows like most of them did. WWE Medicals for the MYC were today,so I guess Britt won't be in it.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 03:07

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

TheHock posted:

I was kind of surprised that Tessa Blanchard retained the Shimmer Tag Titles. I'd just assumed she was going to get signed with the rest of this swath after the Mae Young Classic.

Tessa was amazing all weekend. There was a little girl in the crowd both days and her and Tessa went back and forth all weekend long. It was great. At one point Tessa told her t-shirt made her look fat. Tessa was by far the most over heel of the tapings. Reminded me a lot of Alexa Bliss. When they finally do lose the tag titles, Kraven is gonna get cheered massively when she turns on Tessa. It will be glorious.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 03:39

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Super No Vacancy posted:

was it the same girl from shimmer orlando that she got into it with

i only went to rise but deonna vs melissa was good. also they imported a mini-peyton royce and mini-the other one team

Yes. She's been dubbed SHIMIzzy.

And yeah, Charli Evans and Jessica Troy were awesome. Charli Evans spent the entire weekend flipping my hat off. It was a running gag for 3 straight days. They are both really cool. I think they will be the new Kimber Bombs by the next set of tapings in November.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 03:52

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

There will be alternates in Florida this week in case anything else happens. I know of at least 2 that are in Florida but not part of the tournament yet.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 23:31

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Of note during SHIMMER, there wasn't any crazy brawls or weapons based matches. No "around the arena" fights. Not even that many dives to the outside really. Not saying it wasn't good, because it was, but it was def more "controlled" than normal SHIMMER weekends.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 01:07

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I hope it wasn't Tessa. That woman was basically the MVP of SHIMMER weekend for me. She was amazing. Most over heel by far and she feuded with a 9 year old girl all weekend long. It was great. She has all the tools to be a big star. She just need to mature and get her attitude straightened out. I feel like if WWE never signs her, it will be a huge missed opportunity. Good thing is, she's only 21, so there's plenty of time for her to change.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2017 00:08

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Watching SHIMMER Vol 79.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2017 00:55

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Asuka is weird. Here is a match from 2014 SHE BOOKED at her own show where she is getting the poo poo kicked out of her. Apparently, this was done to gain respect of the locker room.

Also, I hate using my own tweet, but I dont know any other easy to way to share the video.

https://twitter.com/DaveMuscarella/status/888824123660660736

# ¿ Jul 23, 2017 17:53

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I am amazed Ivelisse got a booking outside of SHINE/LU.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 23:40

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

GLOW is so good that even Alex Riley had a fun part in it.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 16:35

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

coconono posted:

Ivelisse is really good at wrestling, her theme fuckin rocks. Just stop posting on social, lady.

She's still a garbage person who has slept with boyfriends of other women wrestlers and intentionally hurt opponents in the past.

So, yeah, gently caress her.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 22:48

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

GLOW Season 2 announced. Hopefully more than 10 episodes this time

# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 00:22

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Aphrodite posted:

Is Candice Canadian or was that an early gimmick? Various websites claim both.

She is not Canadian.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 01:05

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

The first minute of Abbey vs Jazzy was so great. The fighting spirit of Abbey combined with the crowd going apeshit for her comebacks was so good.

All the green PC rookies kinda dragged the match quality down but at least they all had a cool entrance and/or look. Xia Li just looks really badass.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 23:58

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I really like Sarah, but her country bumpkin gimmick doesn't really work IMO. It's very GLOW/Wrestlelicious. Plus, Sarah had some really nice gear she stopped using because she had to switch to the country look.

Crazy Mary was a cooler gimmick, but they basically gave it to Nikki Cross. I am hoping it morphs into something a bit more subtle like Hardcore Country Mickie James or whatever.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 04:59

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I still wanna know why they flew Nicole Matthews down to the MYC only for her to be an alternate. They had no one from Canada in the tournament. She easily would have been better than Renee Michelle or Miranada.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2017 04:39

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

KungFu Grip posted:

Delirious and her are loving.

You could say Delirious sees a lot of himself in her.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 01:00

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

The commentary is a BIT better in these later rounds, but I feel like JR kept going back to the same talking points for each woman. It got really annoying by the semi final matches.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 22:51

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

In non MYC news, Sexy Star has doubled down on her innocence and now claims Rosemary was never hurt.

http://stillrealtous.com/sexy-star-shares-lengthy-statement-explaining-happened-rosemary-triplemania/

quote:

�Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, September 4, 2017

First of all, I want to thank the people that have been with me in these past few days, which have been turned into a nightmare and became one of the most difficult moments of my career and personal life.

As some of you know, this past Saturday, August 26, I was present at the TripleMania XXV event in the Mexico City Arena to fulfill a championship match for the AAA promotion, of which I have been signed as an independent worker so that I can keep using the mask and character of Sexy Star, which is the character I have portrayed for the last 11 years.

At first, I was informed that I would be fighting in a Reina de Reinas title match in a one-on-one match against a female Mexican wrestler from one of the nearby promotions. But a few days before the event, I was told that they would be including two more wrestlers into the match, one of whom belonged to the North American promotion Global Force Wrestling. AAA brought this wrestler, whom up to my knowledge, has never wrestled in Mexico or at least with one of the major Mexican promotions, and I just met this wrestler mere minutes before we went up to the ring to have the match that she was signed onto.

As I have been doing for more than 10 years, as I reached the arena, I met with those that I will be wrestling with so that we can coordinate the match that we would present to the public, being that AAA are the ones responsible for making this happen.

Since it has been tradition whenever I go out and wrestle with people I have never worked with, especially foreigners �the wrestling styles change between countries�I would tend to favor wrestling a more American style. I asked if what we had planned out would be fine with them, or if they would like to change something so that they may feel safer in the ring.

Those that have worked with me know that I have always done things that way, with the idea of protecting everyone working with me and myself from any type of incident, not just out of etiquette and the values instilled upon me at home, which include compatriotism, but to be on constant alert of the dangers that wrestlers face every time they step into the ring, be it their first match or match No. 100. I want to clarify that [Rosemary], at no point, asked me to change anything that we would present, something that is very important to me. So I did what she knew and I had control of everything that we would do. The talent coordinator for AAA gave the �ok� to do our match without any prior meetings to change anything.

The moment of the match came, I made my way to the match to wrestle the way I have habitually done in front of the wrestling public for many years, with the same style, fury, and energy that has characterized �Sexy Star� in each of her fights.

The match came to its conclusion, and when I tapped out [Rosemary] with the submission that was agreed and selected upon, which is also one of the least dangerous submission moves in the danger range that I have applied and have been applied to repeatedly. At least that�s how it has always been.

At the end of the show and after the foreigner was walking under her own power without medical assistance, our protocol continued, and I was handed the title belt by Martha Villalobos, whom I have deep admiration and even first showed me the ropes of the wrestling sport, whom I love with all of my heart, and has made me be constantly prepared my body to handle bumps and submissions. Very few people know the secrets of professional wrestling and if I reveal any of them in this letter, it is for the security of my integrity and for the respect earned throughout my professional and personal life. I can�t stress this enough, I will only say that those who have conserved their careers through the highs and lows, falling and getting right back up, with injuries and being bloodied, know what I am referring to.

Twenty minutes after I was handed my belt, I went to the locker room in which I was bombarded by Global Force Wrestling representatives who have had a working relationship with AAA, saying that the wrestler I submitted suffered an apparent injury in their native language, something that surprised me because, as previously stated, she walked down from the ring without any help.

Immediately, and not just out of etiquette, but also because I was worried, I went to her to see if she was okay and I see her with another person, standing up in the room where the production monitors are located, with just a bag of ice on her elbow. There was nobody tending to her nor did she have anything to help her, which is a security protocol in the event somebody is suspected to have an injury. She wasn�t even sitting down and that put my mind at ease because I did not see anything wrong with her with my own two eyes. The talent coordinator for AAA reiterated that everything was fine and so, I left the venue with my husband with the tranquility and security that everything was going to be fine. I did not get any indication from Dorian Roldan, the owner of AAA, that something was amiss and I suppose if that is the case, then he wouldn�t have let me leave without resolving any type of potential situation.

People also need to know that I have never received any medical news, or any radiography that exists, which shows any injury to the wrestler in question.

I didn�t worry about the situation because I repeat, and I saw her with my own two eyes, I did not see that she was injured and that she wasn�t being tended to by medical personnel, much less need to have the use of medical equipment if she was injured. In my professional wrestling career, I have seen injuries, and I have been victim to accidents and believe me, nothing of the sort happened at the Reina de Reinas title match that night at TripleMania XXV.

The next day, I started to receive, on social media, a series of cyber attacks, which included an aggressive letter, written by this North American wrestler, who was already back in her home country, stating that I intentionally injured her, without showing proof of any kind, medical or other, and she only wrote it in text without showing her face or voice.

In this letter, a lot was unraveled, from male and female wrestlers from North America whom I have never worked with, much less be in the place that night. They have written about my supposed anti-professionalism, using words from [Rosemary�s letter], which has already been retweeted more than 4,000 times.

The bullying on social media only kept growing and even bloggers and media outlets, who were not present, who did not cover the event, outlets who don�t even work in Mexico, could not keep themselves from writing phrases such as �She dislocated her shoulder� or �She intentionally broke her arm,� confirming the alleged injury, and only using [Rosemary�s] letter on Twitter and the ending of the match through various angles as their only source. At no point did they look at the injured woman walking down the ring under her own power and using her hands. Some even assured that what I did was both wrong and intentional. Many members of the media and columnists online were not consistent and some mentioned that the injury was on her elbow, some said it was her shoulder that got injured and some said it was the whole arm.

I assure you in the video that is being circulated around the web, all that you see is me portraying Sexy Star making the submission move using the same energy and fury that is characterized by this character, in the same manner, and force without letting go seconds after the referee rang the bell, just as Sexy Star has always done. I can show that this submission has been done in plenty other occasions in the same exact manner and force with other wrestlers, including one of Sexy Star�s recent matches on [Lucha Underground]. I assure you that the wrestler who got the submission that time, with proof, did not suffer any injury because, as I have insisted, is one of the submission moves that, within the danger range, is one of the least risky and I have at no point, tried to misuse it to injure anybody.

This past August 30, I fulfilled 11 years inside the wrestling ring, a sport in which I have given my life, and my body, without being figurative, has suffered tons of damage because in this sport, if you have a career like I have been blessed with, you don�t rest. For wrestling, I have always had respect, respect that I exercise when taking care of my fellow wrestlers without exception and I will keep doing that, without caring the nationality or if they are aware of the respect that I inherited from my parents, my teachers, and teachers of this profession, people with dynasties inside Mexican wrestling, where the sport was born, and I am sure that my wrestling teachers can talk and mention that I have never mishandled any fellow wrestler.

With respect and love to my teachers and fans, who have shown love and care, and to those I owe my career to, especially those that personally know me, I dedicate this letter to you guys because you are the ones who truly deserve to know what truly happened. But above all else, I dedicate this to Sexy Star, a character that was presented to me and I have defended with honor, honesty, respect, integrity, and passion for 11 years. Those same values that belong to me, Dulce Maria Garcia Rivas, and I will not let anybody, without any unverified versions of the story who do not have proof, to discredit that.

-Dulce Maria Garcia Rivas�

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 23:54

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

tweet my meat posted:

Apparently Candice LeRae is a baker, I'm glad JR is around to really hammer this point home so I wont forget it.

Candice is a GREAT baker though. She brought cupcakes to AIW a bunch of times and they were amazing.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 00:01

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

MrBling posted:

Someone needs to sit Piper Niven down with some tapes of of Aja Kong, Bull Nakano and Vader so she can learn how to properly carry herself as a monster wrestler.
Nothing she does has any real impact to it and everything just looks so tentative.

I dunno what you saw, but Piper hitting those cross bodies constantly look like they'd kill people. It was awesome. I think she did a great job of being a monster. It's just that since she's a face, she didn't feel menacing like Gabby did.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 23:40

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I have no idea how the WWE deal with the UK dudes work, but if they wanna sign some girls for that division, KLR, Toni, and Viper/Piper are must signs.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 04:00

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Candice also designs and makes all her gear. That woman can do it all.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 04:16

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

A lot of women do real well with things like merch and customs. As weird as customs is, some of them make some real good money doing them. Also, the merch lines at places like SHIMMER are nuts. Not only do they sell shitloads of merch, but a lot of people just give them all kinds of gifts and stuff.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2017 02:20

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Astro7x posted:

That's kind of creepy...

I mean, its no different than any other celebrity fandom. I am sure actors and musicians get all kinds of stuff from fan at conventions and whatnot.

Aphrodite posted:

To be clear I don't mean Americans can't be creepy I just didn't know anyone from Chicago is capable of generosity.

Well, the majority of SHIMMER's crowds come from all over, so only I'd say 1/4 of them are locals.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2017 03:42

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Tessa and Britt Baker had a REALLY good match tonight at Wrestlecircus. Tessa also wrestled Candice LeRae the other day in California at BAR Wrestling which was their main event and got good reviews.

Tessa is really killing it lately with great matches. Hope whatever attitude issues she has had in the past goes away with maturity and WWE eventually signs her. She's just too good.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 04:18

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Speaking of customs....

https://twitter.com/JordynneGrace/status/906945988853501952

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 20:17

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

achillesforever6 posted:

Nigel and Tom doing commentary for the 6 women tag match gives me hope they call the finals instead of JR and Lita

Sorry about that...

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 04:41

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Tessa's kind of a bitch, but bitches get things done so whatever. I think she'll mature eventually and WWE will sign her.

Now, someone tell me why Rachael Ellering isn't signed, cause you never hear anything about her attitude and she seems to be in the same boat as Tessa.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2017 03:06

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

I honestly wonder why WWE decided to dump Emma but Dana Brooke is still there. I mean, Dana at this point will never be more than what she is now. Emma could have been moved to SD and done really well with the right push.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 00:27

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

12/6/17

Can't wait.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 03:15

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

So, Rick Cataldo runs these Matter of Pride shows in the same building that NYWC runs. So, I guess, the next one will have this theme. Here's the tweet for it.

https://twitter.com/LGBTWrestling/status/925906918199132161

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 03:40

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Rick loves the diva era of WWE. He's a big Sable, Ashley, Candice Michelle, etc fan.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 03:44

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Knowing Rick, it wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if Ashley had absolutely nothing to do with this and he's just using her name.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 03:50

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

PWI did the 2017 Female 50. Here's the list. 1 - 50.

1 Asuka
2 Charlotte
3 Alexa Bliss
4 Sasha Banks
5 Bayley
6 Io Shirai
7 Natalya
8 Sienna
9 Naomi
10 Kairi Sane
11 Mercedes Martinez
12 Shayna Baszler
13 Rosemary
14 Lufisto
15Mayu Iwatani
16 Mia Yim
17 Allie
18 Ember Moon
19 Becky Lynch
20 Madison Eagles
21 Nicole Savoy
22 Nia Jax
23 Candice LeRae
24 Toni Storm
25 Hiroyo Matsumoto
26 Chelsea Green
27 Saraya Knight
28 Shazza McKenzie
29 Kay Lee Ray
30Mickie James
31 Dakota Kai
32 Nicole Matthews
33 Alex Windsor
34 Deonna Purrazzo
35 Abbey Laith
36 Risa Sera
37 Piper Niven
38 Carmella
39 Ruby Riot
40 Nikki Cross
41 Vanessa Kraven
42 Santana Garrett
43 Tessa Blanchard
44 Arisa Nakajima
45 Lady Lory
46 Shotzi Blackheart
47 Veda Scott
48 Jazzy Gabert
49 Marti Belle
50 Zoey Skye

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 02:19

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Manami Toyota retired today. Loved her matches in CHIKARA.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 18:06

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Not that it was a tightly held secret, but Aja Kong is in the US this weekend for RISE & SHIMMER. Hoping for Mia Yim vs Kong at some point.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2017 01:40

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 21:12

DM Punk: Aug 24, 2004

Kaitlyn divorced the steroid pusher? Good for her.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2017 02:00

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