Dynamite
Date: October 28, 2020
Location: Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Florida
Commentators: Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, Jim Ross
We’re getting closer and closer to Full Gear and tonight we will find out the finalists in the #1 contenders tournament, with the match taking place at the pay per view. Other than that we have a town hall meeting with the Inner Circle and Maxwell Jacob Friedman to see if he can join the team. Let’s get to it.
TONIGHT! We got SPIN THE WHEEL MAKE THE DEAL on NXT and the semi-finals of the World title contender tournament on AEW.
Hopefully no one catches Covid from being at NXT.
Very sad about Tracy Smothers. I imagine we’ll get a word about him on both shows tonight.
Anything else going on tonight? Don’t think so.
Enjoy the shows!
Mentioned I’d take a look at this after the Death in the Family review the other day, so no need to waste time, let’s get to it!
Four reviews in a day! Have I mentioned it’s my week off?!
Monday Night Raw
Date: May 29, 2006
Location: Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Washington
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
We’re on the way to One Night Stand and the top of the show is starting to take place. Given that it isn’t a traditional show, there is a good chance that we won’t be seeing much more than just the two main matches. I’m not sure what we’re going to see on the way there, but Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena needs some build. Let’s get to it.
Chip Kessler and Les Thatcher are calling the action and they are concluding the tapings from Jellico, Tennessee. This is also the go home show for Fire on the Mountain.
Jim Cornette tells Kessler and Thatcher that Brad Armstrong has no chance against his militia in a gauntlet match.
James Fabiano asked for this when Scott posted an email about the show recently, and when I say he asked for this he really asked for this!
Farewell to the wild eyed Southern Boy. 2020 claims another victim.
Hello You!
We’re 8 days out from November to Remember, the event that traditionally acts as ECW’s version of WrestleMania/Starrcade as the big show of the year. This year’s show doesn’t feel like it’s on that level, but neither did last year’s either if I’m honest. Let’s see if they can speed up the hype train this week to really get us jazzed for the pay per view.
But it got me thinking… Is Edge vs. Booker T still the standard bearer for stupid reasons for guys to have a rivalry? What else since has made you roll your eyes and think “They’re Fighting Over Shampoo!”?
I think it’s inevitable that I’ll be reviewing the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soon, so I thought I’d review some episodes from the first few (good) seasons of the cartoon, which I took a minute to get into, but when I did I was into it I was REALLY into it!
The SmarK Rant for WCW Halloween Havoc 1990 – 10.27.90
Well, I give up waiting for the WWE Network to upload the full PPV version of this show, so let’s redo the Turner Home Video version that they put up there because it’s very due for a redo and of course Halloween Havoc returns tonight, and ‘tis the season and all. Plus I’ve always liked this show anyway.
It’s HALLOWEEN HAVOC time again, so I figured I’d celebrate with the 1990 show this morning. A bunch of others need redoing so we’ll probably continue in that direction because I love me some old classic WCW.
WWE Considering Changing Lars Sullivan’s Name
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wwe-considering-changing-lars-sullivans-name/
Chaos Backstage At This Week’s Smackdown
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/weeks-smackdown-chaos-backstage/
And if you’re got TWO AND A HALF DAMN HOURS to spare this morning, here’s AEW Dark.
So, I compared Masters of the Universe to Flash Gordon and someone loved the reference and said “Do Flash Gordon!” – you don’t have to tell me twice!
Filmed in 1980, there’s been a 40th anniversary Blu-Ray release of this recently, but I’m looking at the silver anniversary DVD from 2005, including an awesome Mike Hodges (director) interview, which I’ll make reference to after the review of the film.
The PG Era Rant for AEW Dark, Episode 58: Get Me Some Caffeine, October 27, 2020
From the AEW Arena.
Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz, with special guest boxing Olympian Anthony Ogogo!
TONIGHT! Fifteen matches, a few of which may actually be competitive, as we determine if anyone is bothering to watch this during election season! The Hybrid 2 will face SCU’s Daniels and Kazarian, Hikaru Shida faces Leyla Hirsch in non-title action, and Brandon Cutler and Peter Avalon finally see who can avoid being winless longer! Really! Would we lie to you?
PLUS – Ivelisse and Diamante, Jurassic Express, Matt Sydal, Best Friends, Sonny Kiss, Ricky Starks, Darby Allin, Brian Cage, Preston Vance, Anna Jay, Uno and Grayson, and Will Hobbs!
And we’re back with more of wrestling’s weirdest side-matches. This time some stuff Maffew showed me- possibly the greatest disparate bunch of dudes ever, all from a one-night tag tournament in Tenryu’s WAR promotion in Japan! Even better, there’s Buddy Rogers vs. Haystacks Calhoun from 1961, and Antonio Inoki versus the famous “Fat Motorcycle Twins”.
KOJI KITAO & EL GIGANTE vs. TYPHOON & THE GREAT SHINJA:
(One-Night Tag Tournament, Wrestle Association R, Japan, 12.08.1995)
* Maffew got this one for me, so you can blame him, lol. Gigante you know as the most hopeless wrestler ever; Kitao is infamous for the 1991 match where he & Earthquake shot on each other, and was a failed yokozuna-level sumo (promoted just to “have a native Sumo at the top level”), retiring in disgrace after never having won a tournament and feuding with his stable bosses (sumo is dirty as FUCK, though). Typhoon is from the WWF, and… Earthquake’s partner, so that’ll be interesting. The Great Shinja is Akio Sato of the Orient Express (in the shittier original version), and was also Hakushi’s manager Shinja in the WWF. Gigante’s in red shorts, Kitao’s in a white gi, Typhoon’s in his WWF gear (and pretty much exactly the same size as Kitao), and Shinja’s in a white shirt & pants that just make him look like someone’s dad who just wandered into the ring.
Just picked this up and thought I’d watch and review it – the main feature is an adaptation of a classic Batman story with a twist to match the original. The rest are shorts that appeared alongside previous DC animated movie releases, and in some cases were better than those main features!
watching Rob Van Dam vs John Cena for the WWE title at One Night
Stand. In that match, Edge did a run-in, the ref got knocked out, Paul
Heyman made the count, and RVD was announced as the new *ECW*
champion.
But then on the following RAW, it was announced that RVD was both WWE
and ECW champion.
Was the original plan to actually keep the WWE title on Cena, before
they realized how lame that would be?
Barry took time off for injuries and apparently married a super rich sugar mama while he was out, so he had zero motivation to do much he didn’t want to. Besides, when were they supposed to do that match? It’s not like there was some “big PPV” in December where they could blow it off. That’s crazy talk. When would they do the Battlebowl tournament then? I ask you, sir, WHEN???
So please break the tie: Roman vs Jey, or Magnum vs Tully?