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I..Yeah. Arbys Creates Portrait Of Jon Moxley Out Of Arbys Sauce.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:42 PM PDT
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What do you even say to this? Last month at AEW’s Double Or Nothing, Jon Moxley appeared at the end of the show as the big moment. While he might
have been a bit of a predictable debut, it did not make the moment feel any less interesting. Moxley has since exploded on the wrestling world and a rather surprising company has made a very unique tribute of their own.
On their Twitter account, Arby’s has posted a portrait of Moxley made of Arby’s sauce. Moxley’s wife Renee Young also responded to the tweet, which Arby’s turned into a bit of an advertisement. Arby’s is known for its odd tweets and is not the only fast food Twitter account to talk about
wrestling. Wendy’s has made wrestling references as well, once talking in
a similar style to Broken Matt Hardy.
This is a guy who doesnt have an off switch. pic.twitter.com/FK1qY8PmUy
- Arbys (@Arbys) June 28, 2019
He will be pleased. Roast beef sandwich afficianado.
pic.twitter.com/c38RRi58Eh
- Renee Young (@ReneeYoungWWE) June 28, 2019
Just saying.. pic.twitter.com/JWYPKB3es7
- Arbys (@Arbys) June 28, 2019
Moxley is certainly an interesting name. Check out one of his first AEW promos:
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Opinion: I mean….it’s a portrait of Moxley made of Arby’s sauce. What in the world do you need to say to follow this up? Who thinks of something
like this? I don’t know the answer to that but they seem rather awesome.
If nothing else it’s quite the nice portrait given the medium that was
being used. Moxley is certainly a hit so far and hopefully everything goes well for him in the future.
What is the weirdest tribute you have ever seen? Does the portrait look
good? Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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RUMOR: One Down? WWE Could Be Canceling A Weekly Television Show.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:38 PM PDT
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/rumor-one-wwe-canceling-weekly-television-show/
Down goes the schedule? There is a lot of television on the WWE schedule.
In addition to the five hours between Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live,
WWE also produces, NXT, NXT UK, Main Event and 205 Live. That is a quite a
bit of wrestling to cover every single week and it doesn’t leave a lot of time to breathe. Some of that trouble could be going away soon.
According to Brad Shepard on Twitter, there is a chance that 205 Live could
be canceled later this year. While there is no word on why the show would
be ending, it could be connected to SmackDown Live moving to Friday as 205
Live is filmed after SmackDown Live. The show has had severe problems with fans not staying for the show, leaving mostly empty arenas during the show.
According to a source in #WWE, Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman will be
heavily involved on-screen, and Triple H will take a step back from the
gorilla position on both #SDLive and #RAW to focus on #NXT. I’m told #205Live will likely be discontinued before the end of the year.
- Brad Shepard (@TheBradShepard) June 28, 2019
The show has some awesome action. Check out this week’s main event:
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Opinion: I certainly hope this is not the case as 205 Live is one of the
more entertaining shows that WWE produces every week. They seem to be completely independent from almost anything else that is happening in WWE
and it is rather nice to see a more action based show every week. I can understand why the show would be canceled, but the show has been fighting uphill since its debut.
Do you watch 205 Live? What show could replace it? Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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RUMOR: Here We Go Again? Undertaker May Be Having A Controversial Match At Summerslam.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:36 PM PDT
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I don’t think this is going to go over well. In recent months, WWE fans
have had a variety of criticisms about what WWE has been doing. While
there are a lot of different things to complain about, one of the bigger
ones has been Baron Corbin. His time as a main eventer has not been the strongest in the world yet it does not seem to be going away. It turns
out, he might be in a major match.
According to Brad Shepard on Twitter, Corbin is rumored to be facing
Undertaker at this year’s Summerslam on August 11. Corbin is currently scheduled to team with Lacey Evans to face Universal Champion Seth Rollins
and Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch at Extreme Rules. At the same show, Undertaker will be teaming with Roman Reigns to face Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre. The two have never fought each other in a singles match before.
According to a source in #WWE, the Undertaker is expected to make quite a
few appearances this year and work at least 1-2 matches before WrestleMania
36, to prevent any ring rust. One match currently being considered versus Baron Corbin at Summerslam.
- Brad Shepard (@TheBradShepard) June 28, 2019
Maybe Undertaker should consult his brother. Check out Kane vs. Corbin:
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Opinion: I’m not sure how this is going to go, but it would at least
suggest that Corbin will not be winning the Universal Title next month. I still don’t see the appeal of Corbin yet his push continues month after month. If this match does happen, the fans are not likely to be thrilled
with it and WWE seems to see that as a good thing. Undertaker does not
have many matches left in him and I do not see the point in having him use
one of them on Corbin.
Are you interested in seeing this match? What do you see either of them
doing after this? Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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Can We Get A Straight Answer. Will We Be Seeing Eric Bischoff And Paul
Heyman On WWE TV Next Week?
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:33 PM PDT
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So is that a yes or a no? The biggest story of the week has been Eric
Bischoff and Paul Heyman being named the new directors of SmackDown Live
and Monday Night Raw. These names came out of nowhere and are an actual
way of shaking things up in WWE. It also presented a lot of questions, including when things would be starting. As it turns out, WWE may not be
clear on that either.
According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, WWE has sent out
emails featuring Heyman and Bischoff’s images for next week’s Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live. The emails talk about the shows being the first episodes under their control, but never says that the two will be appearing
on the shows. At the latest WWE creative meeting, nothing specific was
said about the two appearing on camera.
WWE has certainly confirmed that this is happening. Check out the official announcement:
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Opinion: Leave it to WWE to seemingly have no idea what is going on at the moment with their biggest deal of the year. While the emails never say
that the two are going to be there, it more than makes it seem to be the
case. That is something done on purpose, but WWE better know what they
have going on here, because I don’t know what else they could have to pick things up if it doesn’t work.
Are you interested in where things are going? Whose show will be better?
Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
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The Fresh Horses. A New Stable Has Been Formed In WWE And You May Never
Have Seen Them.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:28 PM PDT
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/fresh-horses-new-stable-formed-wwe-may-never-seen/
You don’t see something like this every day. There are a lot of wrestlers
in WWE at the moment and that has become a problem for them. The problem becomes that there is only so much time to get all of these wrestlers on television, meaning a lot of them don’t get anywhere near the amount of
time they need or would like. However, they might have found a way around
part of the problem.
This week on Main Event, Robert Roode, EC3 and Cesaro debuted a new stable called The Main Event Muscle Men. The trio had their first match together
on the show and defeated the Lucha House Party when Cesaro pinned Gran
Metalik. At the moment, there is no word on whether or not this group is
going to continue or if it was just a one off name with Renee Young, who announced the team name, was making a joke.
Roode had potential but things got dropped in a hurry. Check out his
recent return:
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Opinion: I mean, why not? It’s not like these three have anything else to
do so having them get together and try their hand at something is worth a
shot. They don’t have anything else going for them so it’s not like this is going to hurt anything. At worst, it’s a one off joke and they get to wrestle a match instead of just sitting around in catering waiting to have something to do.
Will this group survive? Who else could benefit from being in a stable?
Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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It Happens To Everyone. Current WWE Superstar Suffers Knee Injury And Undergoes Surgery.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:23 PM PDT
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That’s never a good thing. You never know when you might see someone suffering an injury in wrestling. It happens to everyone at some point and there is almost no way around such a thing. The worst part is they can
come up at any time with no advance warning, often coming during a run of
the mill match in a spot that someone has done hundreds of times. As it
turns out, another WWE name is going under the knife.
As posted on his Instagram page, Jinder Mahal has announced that he has undergone knee surgery to repair a ruptured patella tendon. The injury
took place during a match at a live event in Denver, Colorado against Ali
on June 15. At the moment, there is no word on how long Mahal will be out
of the ring. His most recent televised match took place on in the Super ShowDown battle royal on June 7.
View this post on Instagram
On the mend. Ruptured my Patella Tendon in Denver Colorado June 15 in a
match against @aliwwe . Happy to say surgery went well, and my knee was
better than expected. This comeback is going to be legendary.
A post shared by Raj Dhesi / The Maharaja (@jindermahal) on Jun 28, 2019
at 8:57am PDT
Mahal has certainly wrestled the big matches before. Check out his effort against one of the all time greats:
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Opinion: I’m not a Mahal fan but that’s a horrible thing to have happen.
It seems to have been a normal match and out of nowhere, he has to go
through a pretty severe surgery and miss some ring time. I know Mahal
hasn’t been doing much since losing the WWE Championship, but having to
miss this much time due to an injury is never good for anyone at all.
Has Mahal grown on you? What should he do when he gets back? Let us know
in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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Better Late Than Never. WWE Inducts Legend Into Hall Of Fame In Tokyo.
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:19 PM PDT
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/better-late-never-wwe-inducts-legend-hall-fame-tokyo/
It’s not even in season. Every year over WrestleMania weekend, WWE inducts
a rather large group of wrestlers into the Hall of Fame. This is quite the honor for wrestlers as they are said to be some of the greatest of all
time. While some of them might not be as well known, WWE has added in
several older wrestlers in their Legacy Wing. In a surprise, a new one was announced on Friday.
As announced on Triple Hs Twitter account, Hisashi Shinma was inducted into
the Legacy Wing at a house show on Friday in Tokyo. Shinma was the
storyline President of the WWF from 1978 until 1984 when he was succeeded
by Jack Tunney. His most famous moment as President was dealing with the unannounced WWF Title change between Antonio Inoki and Bob Backlund in
1979. Shinma is the first living inductee in the Legacy Wing.
An amazing night in #WWETokyo. A city I’ve performed in countless times
with an incredible roster of @WWE Superstars. An honor to give Mr. Shinma
his #WWEHOF Legacy Award and team with The Club.
and if this was one of my last times to perform in Tokyo it was #TooSweet. pic.twitter.com/jED0yD5BlB
- Triple H (@TripleH) June 28, 2019
Shinma was announced with the other Legacy Wing inductees earlier this
year. Check out the official announcement:
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Opinion: This is rather cool and the kind of thing that WWE doesn’t do
enough of most of the time. Shinma is not well known to today’s fans and
it is great to see WWE acknowledging a piece of their history that doesn’t get the same amount of attention that others do. It is nice to see
something like this and hopefully WWE continues to do such a thing, just
for the sake of wrestling education.
Do you remember Shinma? Who else should be added to the wing? Let us know
in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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REVIEW: Defiant Wrestling Episode #6: With Some British Flare
Posted: 28 Jun 2019 11:10 PM PDT
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/review-defiant-wrestling-episode-6-british-flare/
Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net, starting today. It could be anything from modern WWE
to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using
letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be?
If you would like to see this show in full for free, you can check it out
right here:
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Defiant Loaded #6
Date: January 13, 2019
Location: 02 Academy, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Commentators: Dave Bradshaw, James R. Kennedy
So I took a look at this back when it was called WhatCulture Pro Wrestling
but they’ve since rebranded to Defiant so someone wanted me to look at it again. We’re in England of course (as opposed to Newcastle Upon Tyne, Indiana) and the big draw here is Pac (Neville) facing David Star in Pac’s hometown. I wonder if he’ll be over. Let’s get to it.
We open with a recap of the previous show with various clips of various wrestlers and matches with no context.
A guy named General Ameen is looking for who stole General Phantasmo’s glasses. While he’s gone, he needs a guy named Simon Miller (who used to
work for What Culture) to run things tonight. Simon, who looks like a
younger, deflated Goldberg, says he’ll handle things while Ameen
investigates things. Ameen is off to the battlefield.
Opening sequence as I try to figure out what in the world I’ve gotten
myself into.
South Coast Connection vs. The Models
This is an open challenge from the South Coast Connection (Ashley
Dunn/Kelly Sixx) with the Models (Danny Hope/Joey Hayes) answering. The
Models do their strut before the bell as I try to remember that Kennedy
isn’t Drew McIntyre (the voice resemblance is uncanny). Hayes dances out of Dunn’s headlock to start so Dunn goes with a dropkick to take over. A leg lariat gets two but Hayes drives him into the corner for the tag off to
Hope. That lasts all of ten seconds before it’s back to Hayes for a snap suplex.
The Models get into a rhythm of double teaming but Hope takes too much time dancing on the ropes (seems to be a bad trend for them) and gets punched
out of the air. It’s off to Sixx for the first time and everyone else is
sent outside with a suicide dive taking out Hope. Back in and Hope catches Sixx, allowing Hayes to enziguri him down for two. Sixx breaks up a double suplex and sends Hayes outside, leaving Hope to take a spike over the back reverse piledriver (Adam Page’s Rite of Passage) for the pin at 5:58.
Rating: C. Completely watchable match here and a nice choice for an opener,
as tag matches often are. The announcers did a good job of playing up the Models as being a big deal on the indy scene with a ton of experience so
the win actually means something. Not a great match or anything but for a pretty quick win for the Connection, it was all it needed to be.
Post match Dunn says it’s usually not the best time here in Newcastle
because nine times out of ten it’s negative. They recently fought a guy
named Benji (the fans seem to like them) but he lost. They’re the kind of guys you can come up to at a bar and get a bit more time from them than the bigger stars. It’s time they remind you who they are, drawing a WHO ARE YA chant. Will Ospreay brought them here and they’re going to email him and
have him fix things. They’re about to be elevated. I’ve heard worse heel turns and Dunn isn’t the worst talker.
Lana Austin didn’t agree to face Bea Priestly, especially not in a falls count anywhere match. The word WHAT is shouted a lot as she finds out about
the stipulation.
Ameen asks Benji if he knows about Phantasmo’s glasses but Benji says just get some new ones because they only cost two pounds. Ameen: “To the battlefield!”
After a very big and full of praise introduction, here’s British wrestling legend Marty Jones for a chat. He’s been hearing the British wrestling is finished for a long time and now look at all this. Jones talks about some
of the great times and makes some soccer jokes before talking about running
a training school in Oldham. He’d like to introduce us to two of his students, who happen to be the nephews of the Dynamite Kid, who passed away about six weeks earlier. These two are part of the Breakout Division, which seems to be a newcomer division (hence the name Breakout more than likely). Tonight, we’re going to have an exhibition.
Thomas Billington vs. Mark Billington
These two are seventeen and fifteen with Jones saying they haven’t even
been training for nine months yet. They start fast with Mark grabbing a
belly to back to back suplex and some armdrags into a wristlock as Jones watches on. Some monkey flips can’t get Thomas anywhere other than into a standoff but some legsweeps work a bit better to put Thomas down.
Thomas catches him on top and slips while trying a superplex. A jumping Tombstone knocks Mark silly and the Swan Dive (required) makes it even
worse. Instead of covering, Thomas tries a suplex and they fall out to the floor in a hard heap for a double nine. And here’s the Connection, now in Ospreay shirts, for the no contest at 4:04.
Rating: N/A. There’s something weird about rating a match between two
people who combine to be only slightly older than I am. They certainly have some energy to them and they know how to do some things, but at the same
time they were packing in way too much stuff for four minutes. To be fair though, that’s kind of the point of an exhibition. It’s not fair to rate two trainees the same way I’d rate professionals but they were trying and could have been far worse.
Post match the Connection says they don’t want to hear from an old man like Jones, who asks the fans for some applause for these two young boys. Jones wants to know who the Connection thinks they are because as much as Ospreay
has taught them, it’s not as much as his boys know. Jones even insults the Connection’s hair before leaving. I’d assume a tag match is imminent.
John Klinger recently came back and won the Ringmaster tournament. He rants
in German before switching back to English to say he will thrill us.
An unnamed guy has a very closeup interview, talking about hidden Easter
eggs in videos he’s been sending in. He talks about 801 days passing since
he set foot in WCPW and how Primate must remember. Primate needed help to
beat him when the unnamed guy was told he was too wild for YouTube.
Now Primate has become the face of Defiant while this guy has kept making movies until someone kept coming back to have him pick up the slack. He’s started pre-production and is ready to be back to deal with Primate. They
were going to make the rise of the Sick Boy and the premiere is soon. Heck
of a promo here and I can live with not saying the guy’s name as the fans probably know who he is. I want to see more from this guy and his feud with Primate so this blew away everything else on the show so far.
Omari vs. Conor Renshaw
The announcers can’t stop talking about what we just saw and I can’t blame them. Renshaw goes right at him and scores with a suplex for two. Omari superkicks him down and gets two of his own off a gutwrench suplex. A springboard double stomp to the back sets up a swinging Downward Spiral
(the O Zone) to finish Renshaw at 1:28. Just a step above a squash and
Omari looked good while it lasted.
Post match Omari talks about Nathan Cruz attacking him recently. If Cruz is really the Mr. Professional that he claims to be, he’ll face Omari next
week.
Ameen yells at Miller (on the phone) for not getting his dry cleaning on
time. Martin Kirby (Internet Champion) comes in to be interrogated about
the glasses. The only thing Kirby is guilty of is stealing the show. He’s
so awesome that he’s not even going to defend the title anymore. Ameen
pulls out the Defiant Rule Book (clearly not a phone book with a piece of
paper on the front), which says he has to defend the title for free on
YouTube. Actually hang on, as Kirby knows a rule of his own: if he wins the title from someone from Europe, he doesn’t have to defend the title if he doesn’t want to. Ameen: “WHY DID I PUT THAT IN THERE???”
Mark Haskins (again, not named) wants the Anti-Fun Police next week. They
need some name graphics around here.
Preview for next week’s show.
Preview for Unstoppable.
David Starr vs. Pac
Starr is a cocky guy with approximately 192 nicknames. Pac’s (with a great video saying ERROR: GRAVITY LOST) Open The Dream Gate Title isn’t on the line. The fans sing what sounds like a song about Pac coming home. Starr
gets a chant of his own and they lock up after over a minute of soaking it
all in. A shoulder puts Pac down but he nips up to show off a bit. Pac is
back up and moonsaults over Starr out of the corner before kicking some invisible dirt behind him.
Starr gets serious by tearing the tape off of his shoulder as the songs continue, this time with Starr being treated rather badly. They go to the
mat with Starr not being able to get very far by pulling on the leg. A crisscross lets Starr get two off a Thesz press, followed by a crotch to
the head. The crowd lets Starr know that he screwed up (more colorfully of course) and the fight heads outside with Starr going into the barricade.
Back in and Starr’s comeback is countered with a kick to the head and the
big middle rope moonsault drops him again.
Starr is trying but Pac is feeling it so far. A missile dropkick gives Pac
one and we hit the chinlock. Back up and a brainbuster onto the knee gives Starr his first big offense nearly ten minutes in. Starr picks up the pace
with a victory roll and a top rope elbow for two each, followed by a
gutwrench faceplant. Product Placement (arm trap German suplex) is blocked
and Pac grabs a slingshot cutter for a rather pleased reaction. Pac’s still great looking top rope superplex makes Starr bounce before the two count
and the fans aren’t sure about this aggressive side.
They slug it out until Pac superkicks him but Starr nails an elbow to the
face. Back to back lariats get a nice near fall but Pac blocks a superplex attempt. The Red Arrow misses and Starr grabs a Crossface. Thankfully Pac realizes that he’s a few inches from the rope and moves his leg over for
the break. Starr doesn’t know what to do so it’s a Canadian Destroyer, which is countered into a backdrop to bump the referee. Pac kicks him low
and the Red Arrow finishes Starr at 19:15.
Rating: B+. Yep he’s still got it and I continue to be astounded that WWE felt Enzo Freaking Amore was the way to go instead of Pac. The guy can go
like this and looks like that but for some reason he wasn’t good enough to
do anything but put over the goon with the catchphrases? Starr looked great
as well, but that tends to be the case more often than not.
Post match World Champion Rampage comes out to stare Pac down before
heading to the ring and granting Starr a title shot at Unstoppable. Starr accepts and promises to beat the censored out of Rampage because he’s
really good at professional wrestling
Overall Rating: B-. Much like last time, I could see myself watching this
more regularly. The wrestling was more than passable with an awesome main
event and a really good promo from someone who seems to be named Sick Boy.
They have some talent around here and I could go for watching some more of this. It’s more proof that it’s not about the size of the stage or budget (though those help) but rather how well you present what you have. Pac felt like a star here and they set up a heel turn for the Connection. It went
well and there were things that made me want to come back. Not too bad at
all.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since
2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.
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