New pod is out--I answer YOUR questions, and if you wanted a podcast that tackles NJPW's booking of Aaron Wolf, advice for wrestling media and the Irish Potato famine, boy do I have an episode for you!
The Best Of Unreal Paul Levesque by @iamjohnpollock.bsky.social
Edited by: @editorsean.bsky.social #wwe #wweunreal
It's better you learn in advance (as I did) before you watch the match. Trust me.
Fale beating Aaron Wolf is the kind of booking decision that is so bad, I now believe quite literally anything is possible in Gedo's NJPW--any booking decision, no matter how nonsensical, has to be considered as on the table.
Boltin Oleg vs Tomohiro Ishii from the New Jersey NJPW show was very much my shit.
He got to keep his name too!
I was thinking earlier that the Chamber is a great gimmick match, but doing two every year in a company that lacks match layout creativity has watered it down greatly.
I'll be doing a mailbag for an upcoming podcast--send me your questions either through DM, in a reply, or on the Voices of Wrestling Discord--they can be non-wrestling related.
I'll be doing a mailbag for an upcoming podcast--send me your questions either through DM, in a reply, or on the Voices of Wrestling Discord--they can be non-wrestling related.
* Marica Brisson
This is such a good photo, from Peter Pereira of the Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass. Marcia Brisson, a nursing home nurse, mushes through an unplowed section of the city on her way to work, spare clothes in a plastic bag. What a great photo illustrating determination to do one's job.
Those fucking cops dealing him with kid gloves. "So nice to meet you, wish it was better circumstances" "hope you enjoy your granddaughters birthday"
if that was a 19 year old black lad he'd be getting slammed up against the door.
Fucking pathetic.
Some quotes from Janel Grant's first public appearance today speaking on behalf of the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence:
Not surprised as a lot of people noted this at the time, I wrote about it--Paul Levesque didn't have time to read the lawsuit but did have the time to run a segment that mocked it on RAW: www.voicesofwrestling.com/2024/07/15/t...
Gagne, were you at this show? He tried to come back out from the back with his toy horse prop and ended up knocking down the entire curtain/entrance structure.
More content from me, I wrote about the one Observer award that you should be upset about, as it is objectively wrong
New pod--J. Michael returns to the show and we talk all about the changes in NJPW, the rising stock of the Knockout Brothers, Bolin Oleg, Yota Tsuji and (gasp!) Shota Umino.
The only WON Award worth getting upset about is Cena, who's robotic and passionless heel run largely derailed his final year in wrestling, winning Most Charismatic over Mistico, who set box office records based on being insanely charismatic to his fans. That was egregious.
It would take a lot of booking courage, but I would put the title on Brody right now. It would be seizing on some organic momentum that AEW will rarely see again and I think would get people really excited about the promotion. Doing it on a taped show you can "spoil" would help too.
I will just say that the voters pick has aged a lot better from a historical perspective
This playlist has the 1996 30-minute draw against Sabu, which was a formative match for young Jesse Collings to see when it was included as part of WWE's Rise and Fall of ECW DVD.
A playlist made seemingly just for me. 2 Cold is one of the most underrated wrestlers to ever wrestle mostly on mainstream American television. Guy was doing all sorts of crazy, never-before-seen moves at 240lbs or so.
Enjoy these last few moments before we are all pelted with comments about how much the WON Awards "don't matter" from people who clearly value who did and did not win them.
Hard not to notice the difference between AEW and WWE when looking at the Statlander/Thekla match from Dynamite, and the current women's division in WWE. On one side you have bloody, harsh violence between two women and the other you have Becky Lynch quivering in fear of AJ Lee in promos.
Just my two cents: Odd they specified "upcoming" schedule instead of just saying they didn't have any involvement in him not appearing live last night.
Incredibly inappropriate, take this down
That isn't a pop, its somebody on the production team hitting "CrowdCheer.mp3" and playing it over the broadcast.
I'll be the first person to say wrestling fans are dumb--but they are dumb in a way that is different than how most people think. They don't think wrestling is real, but they'll spend days yelling at Dave Meltzer for not giving Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker five stars.
Anyway, there was a real irony in people pointing out the ignorance of wrestling fans, while they themselves were clearly unfamiliar with the actual people who watch wrestling and what those people are like.
Yeah, if you watched some episodes of SMW you'd probably see some folks that look like they are out of central casting for a hillbilly comedy, but that is pretty small time compared to what the mainstream representation of wrestling has been for 50+ years now.
