Happy Sunday Everyone!
Currently about 45 minutes into last night’s Dynamite and I’m enjoying it thus far. Dante Martin continues to impress every time he gets in there. I like how AEW essentially has a Young Lion system going on with it’s up an coming guys. They don’t have to expressly state it either, but it’s implied and you can notice it if you know what to look for.
Shout out to the bloke sitting in the front row in an Everton shirt too. Represent your fellow Toffees!
Belt The Hangman!
The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 10.16.21
Two straight nights of AEW! It’s a Festivus miracle! Actually I almost had forgotten about this show because I was kind of struggling this evening to decide what I wanted to review tonight and then remembered it was on.
Live from Miami, FL
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Excalibur & Jim Ross
Dynamite
Date: October 16, 2021
Location: James L. Knight Center, Miami, Florida
Commentators: Excalibur, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, CM Punk
We’re on a rare Saturday night due to the MLB playoffs and they are going to have a hard time topping what they did last night with Rampage. Tonight we see the brackets for the #1 contenders tournament, as Full Gear is less than a month away. Add in a AAA Tag Team Titles match and we should be good to go. Let’s get to it.
Judgment Day 2007
Date: May 20, 2007
Location: Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Attendance: 10,500
Commentators: Jim Ross, Michael Cole, Taz, Joey Styles, Jerry Lawler, John Bradshaw Layfield
It’s another B show but this one is trending more towards B- territory. The main events will see John Cena defending against Great Khali and Edge defending against Batista. Neither of those exactly sound like must see main events, but I’ve certainly heard of worse cards. Maybe the rest can pick up the slack. Let’s get to it.
Smackdown
Date: May 18, 2007
Location: 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore, Maryland
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield
It’s the go home show for Judgment Day and I’m not sure what that is going to entail. Everything was shaken up last week when Edge won the World Title from Undertaker, who seems to be going on the shelf. Edge is going to be defending against Batista on Sunday, meaning it’s time for the rapid fire build. Let’s get to it.
ECW on Sci Fi
Date: May 15, 2007
Location: 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore, Maryland
Commentators: Joey Styles, Tazz
It’s the go home show for Judgment Day and Bobby Lashley is still chasing Vince McMahon and the ECW World Title. That has been a well done story so far and we could be in for even more of the same going forward, as the whole thing seems to have some legs, just because of how gleeful Vince seems to be as champion. Let’s get to it.
Hello everyone, I’m Gorilla Monsoon, and you join us once again at a sold-out Blog of Doom, for the Saturday Night thread. The electricity is in the air for this one; you can literally cut it with a knife!
I enjoyed doing Mind Games recently so let’s do the follow up show, featuring Mankind taking on The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match, whilst Sid and Vader collide for the #1 Contender status to the WWF Title
This week I return, in a way, to someone I reviewed a lot of matches of when he died last year, the late, great Rollerball Rocco. I got into wrestling as a fan at the time he was retiring and have very vague memories of seeing him in the later days of wrestling still being on ITV. A holiday in the seaside town saw me going to some matches at a theatre in Rhyl where Rocco’s retirement due to heart issues was covered in an article in the programme. Later looks at his career via the Wrestling Channel and YouTube confirm how great he was. Not a big guy and not physically imposing, but he looked tough and dangerous and was one hell of a wrestler and a great talker and creative mind. Here I’m looking at some of his matches in Japan under the mask of Tiger Mask’s nemesis Black Tiger.
We know the phrase in wrestling in being “the Marty Jannetty” of a tag team – but besides Jannetty, who else qualifies for that term?
A lot of tag team breakups didn’t lead to major success for either person – but I can think of a few off the top:
Stevie Ray (Booker T)
Scotty Riggs (Buff)
Charlie Haas (Shelton Benjamin)
You could throw Bart Gunn into the mix, but I’m not sure if “New Age Outlaws” Billy Gunn counts since it was another tag team.
Who else qualifies as being the Jannetty of a team?
Bart Gunn. John Kronus in a sense.
Happy Saturday Everyone!
Suzuki Vs Danielson was everything I wanted it to be and a definite “must-watch” for any of you wrasslin’ fans out there. The Sports Entertainment crowd might not enjoy it as much, but hey, like what you like.
Halfway through the Sydal/Punk match on Rampage whilst writing this Saturday morning, so no news bits just in case something gets spoiled for me.
Belt The Hangman!
The SmarK Rant for AEW Rampage – 10.15.21
Part of me wanted to troll everyone by reviewing Smackdown instead tonight, but then I’d just be punishing myself.
Live from Miami, FL
Your hosts are Excalibur, Taz & Ricky Starks
Rampage
Date: October 15, 2021
Location: James L. Knight Center, Miami, Florida
Commentators: Excalibur, Ricky Starks, Taz
This is another special edition of the show as we have a bonus first hour airing on YouTube, which seems to be retaliation for WWE running an extra half hour of Smackdown this week. The bonus hour will feature Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki while the regular show has CM Punk against Matt Sydal. Let’s get to it.
Smackdown
Date: October 15, 2021
Location: Toyota Arena, Ontario, California
Commentators: Michael Cole, Pat McAfee
We’re in a unique situation as this is the go home Smackdown for a pay per view but there is one more Raw to go. Crown Jewel is in less than a week with Brock Lesnar challenging Roman Reigns for the Universal Title. Lesnar is here tonight as part of the special Supersized show. Let’s get to it.
