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  • Birthday 05/31/1986

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  1. Knowing TTK as I do, I'd wager 70% serious, on the downside. To answer the main question, I'd invest in a good booker, first and foremost. He had the production and the talent pool, but he didn't have the mind that others did. He wanted to be the star, and while I think he definitely had a certain kind of charisma that would've attracted attention? He had no business running a wrestling program with the ideas he had.
  2. It's funny, because Deadlock Pro, a company started by Twitch streamers that specialized in presenting the goofiest wrestling video game matches they could think of, feels like what MLW should have been.
  3. No. No it did not. Now, has there been a recorded entrance of someone coming out to Don Felder's "Take a Ride (Heavy Metal)"? Seems like it would be a perfect entrance theme.
  4. In lighter news, XPW brought back their King of the Death Match tournament...and it was 7 hours long. I...I don't even know how...
  5. 1985: Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper 1995: Bret Hart, Toshiaki Kawada, Cactus Jack 2005: Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles 2015: John Cena, Tommy End, Ricochet 2025: Jade Cargill, MJF, Danny Rivera
  6. Everything surrounding AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe from the summer of 2005 through late 2006. Unbreakable may have seen them in the ME, but the majority of their work took place in the midcard, delivering a smorgasbord of great workrate-driven matches that also showcased storytelling growth between the three.
  7. MVP smokes weed. When he still did the VIP Lounge with Alex Greenfield, they'd occasionally swerve into chats about their favorite strains and thoughts on legalization.
  8. I enjoyed Contra, overall, but they never truly felt like the "invading army" they were presented to be, regardless of their ~2 year dominance. Samael was a fine promo guy, doing a take on the Iron Man 3 version of the Mandarin with a hint of Kevin Sullivan added in, but the only viable worker they had was Fatu...who felt more like an afterthought unless he was actively defending the title. Their roster woes are excusable, given what happened to the talent pool between AEW's launch and WWE signing any and all, but I think most of their issues in regards to stories just sorta ending because of talent being signed away could have been prevented (and could STILL be avoided) by running more than one show a month. I get that Court wants to keep the budget as low as possible, having learned his lesson the hard way way back when, but the landscape now requires content flow, and it's hard to invest in a company when the only talent worth paying attention to keep disappearing.
  9. Bocchini is very, very solid. He does a good job calling the action and leading the stories. MLW, as a whole, always seems to take one step forward and two steps back. There's usually some damn fine booking decisions, but then the execution detracts from it. Take the Los Parks/5150 Street Fight as an example: the right team went over (5150, hottest act in the company), there were some real fun spots that called back to earlier matches, and 5150 looked strong by winning clean...but the match was just your average middling plunder brawl. Even more, I love the idea of Tankman going out of his way to assault Alex Kane so much that he was arrested for it, followed up with a phone interview from jail, but then I know we'll get a Tankman/Alex Kane match that will just expose both of their shortcomings as in-ring workers. The booking is willing, but the roster (for the most part) is not.
  10. Major love for including the CZW/ROH Cage of Death there. My personal favorite match in ROH history. Though I'll argue that the best Danielson/Morishima match is the blowoff at Final Battle.
  11. Aye to this, but it kinda made sense, in a roundabout way. Joey Styles would often clarify that the katahajime was "illegal in judo, but legal in ECW."
  12. Hook, at the very least, has the idea behind "big badass in a small frame" down. His complete blowing off of Fuego during the introductions, his body language during the bout, and his sneer all scream "little shit that can't wait to prove you wrong." Fuego made him look incredible, true, but Hook more than carried his end of the match and made things count. I can't wait to see him with more seasoning. One thing that irked me, and it is a personal thing, is that he wasn't wearing knee pads. I know his dad didn't, either, but I think Taz is one of the only workers after the Thesz era that didn't wear knee pads and it didn't bother me. And maybe scrap the white boots. Keep the fight shorts, though, because that's an immediate way to differentiate him.
  13. Fusion ALPHA #1, C&P'd from elsewhere (my post).
  14. See the "absolute anti-draw for me" part. Nothing he's done, outside of a few of the Homicide matches forever and a day ago, have had me interested.
  15. Yeah, but Miz was able to get some knowledge after the Bryan feud and stop embarrassing himself each time out.
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