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xbilkis posted:Everyone forgot how to behave
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Pinche Rudo posted:Got to do commentary for a few matches with Veda Scott and James Kincaid for West Coast Pro. Really amazing time! Check out the replay on IWTV!
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SalTheBard posted:How was the Tournament of Survival?
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LionYeti posted:I’m guessing part of how pwg previously could and currently does get the roster they have is precisely because they aren’t on streaming services.
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SalTheBard posted:I feel like GCW has really struggled without them.
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Bonk posted:Taking suggestions on things to yell at ZSJ tonight at Defy
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Oil! posted:Another consideration is how little a lot of professional wrestlers make despite being on TV and how much you can make off pictures/merch. There are some really over independent wrestlers that make a lot more than people you see on AEW a couple times a month.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Oh poo poo, Pivotshare was the only place left to get a lot of the fed I worked for's stuff since a lot of the masters were taken by a bad video guy and the fed shut down during the pandemic. Luckily the episode I did commentary for was on Fite as well but I may have to pony up $5 just to grab a few shows so they don't get lost forever.
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forkboy84 posted:Probably Rhett Titus, guy has had a 17 year career at this point. I always felt that the ROH school, particularly in the early years, was a huge racket since, like you said, there were so few advancement opportunities in ROH for the students. At least when Punk was the head trainer he made a point of getting the students booked elsewhere, which I don't remember happening nearly as much under Danielson/Aries/Delirious.
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syzpid posted:Invictus shut down over the weekend. I only went to one show that they gave me free tickets to, but I had a good time. Seemed like they had a decently sized fanbase and a lot of up & coming NYC talent. No idea what happened.
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syzpid posted:Wait isn't this the place High Tension Wrestling holds their shows? I've been to 2 shows there and it's not bad. But I thought it was a Union Hall? Bonk posted:What the hell is happening with CCW in New Jersey? A bunch of people are vaguetweeting about something bad that happened in the company and several top stars are vacating their belts and leaving the company because of it. The one thing that definitely happened is that a sponsor didn't get his name mentioned alongside every wrestler he sponsored (two of the four thank you graphics fell through the cracks), he raised some hell when he wasn't refunded immediately (he WAS refunded), and it spiraled from there. Nobody has tied a name to the "stranded without a flight home" story yet, and everyone I've talked to is skeptical it really happened because that's not the kind of thing indie wrestlers ever stay quiet about. There have definitely been some legit issues, but the vaguepost unleashed a shitstorm that would not have happened if everyone was upfront about their actual complaints.
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Oct 31, 2023 04:20
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syzpid posted:I have seen women's wrestlers complain that randos were just walking through their locker room because security was watching the show and refusing to help. Also saw complaints that the owner was writing paragraph long matches for the women but not men. And that the issue was misuse of sponsorship funds for specific wrestlers It's a problem in general with the Ridgefield Park venue: What's used as the locker room is a smaller event space downstairs where they have Zumba classes and whatnot. It's next to the bar and the main restrooms. There have been times during men's or mixed shows where I've gone downstairs to use the restroom and the locker room door was wide open. It's absolutely something that promoters who run the venue — especially for women's shows, of course — need to address. Have a security guard, put up a screen or pipe and drape or whatever by the door, etc. I hadn't heard the match script thing, but CCW shows proper are always all-women's shows. For their last show, they did add some weird new sub-promotion pre-show thing as part of the same ticket with a couple men's prelim matches, though, but it was new. Bonk posted:I mean it isn't NOT that, considering the women are being treated differently and not being protected enough. Harassment takes a lot of forms and it isn't always obvious.
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syzpid posted:Bix man, just don't defend them. More and more stuff about CCW is coming out seemingly every day. It's not like these are issues coming from small Indy wrestlers who might not be the most professional. It's coming from people that at least i would trust, Edith Surreal, Brooke Valentine, and now Steph Delander.
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Suplex Liberace posted:drat i hope she recovers. Is that super dragon posting that or someone else?
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Big Dave posted:Every week, yeah that's beyond. Given Drew doesn't pay the talent for the Thursday shows either I guess it's not surprising he doesn't pay production. Can't do the sponsorship scam for them For the wrestlers who have been regulars, it's clearly helped them develop as talent. Several months back I went to a House of Glory show that Ichiban was on, and watching him live, it was very noticeable how much smoother and more polished he was in the ring than almost everyone else on the card.
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MassRafTer posted:You will miss out on your chance to see Ellsworth too.
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IceAgeComing posted: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. I know for sure that GCW has co-sponsored a bunch of work visas for luchadores (with DEFY and/or Masked Republic) and got a visa for Kota Ibushi on their own. I don't know any specifics for anyone beyond that, though I'd be shocked if Rina Yamashita and Maki Itoh didn't have work visas at this point. And I would think that CyberFight takes care of the DDT and TJPW visas. I wish it was like Canada where all you need is a passport, but it's not. And even then, there have been stories of wrestlers being turned away at the Canadian border because the border guards aren't always up on the current law. I think it happened to Jake Something and some of his friends in the last month or two.
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syzpid posted:In all the shows I have seen live in the last 4 years, which includes a few Mr Grim matches, this is the greatest thing I have seen live. I thought he was just doing a dive
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syzpid posted:Enjoy has given him a continuing storyline for the last 2 years or so. But yea, he’s never disappointed, even saw him get a decent match out of Swole post AEW. I've seen enough Darius live that I think there are positives that he brings to the table, but he doesn't lean into them close to enough. Great Match Strong Style Darius doesn't usually do it for me unless he's working with a wrestling genius like Colby Corino. (I've seen them wrestle each other twice live, and both matches were fantastic while being completely different from each other.) But when he's more of a southern style character heel, I find him a lot more palatable. Like when he would team with The Carnies. But he's probably always going to have a ceiling where people look at him as That Guy Who Concussed Pete Dunne, since that match is what he's best known for to so many people.
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21 years later, Colby Corino and Masato Tanaka renew their legendary rivalry. Even though Colby is only 27. https://twitter.com/deadlockpro/status/1767263775407648984 https://twitter.com/ColbyCorino/status/1767265060345319818 https://twitter.com/KrisZellner/status/1497693605095428099 EDIT: IDK why Kris's tweet isn't embedding, but it's 6 year old Colby saving his dad and Tom Howard from Tanaka and Shinjiro Otani.
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