like watching wrestling. mostly puro, lucha, world of sport, old territories and mid 2000s Indy stuff, account for other violence sports @PryorWater 🏳️🌈
With TNA out of the running as a fed psyop designed to make me sad, which of the rest of the weekly US wrestling shows is the best? I'm leaning JCW lmao, then MLW (would be higher off they got rid of R*ddle) OVW then NWA. Maple leaf don't do a TV show otherwise they'd be here.
If you told Seth Rollins to do anything that wasn’t completely artificial, something that seemed human, something that seemed natural and believable, he’d try to run you over with his Cybertruck
Foley was the backbone of the attitude era and without him The Rock & Austin wouldn’t have been as successful.
Austin had no one at all to feud with after Mania 14. Foley gave him two incredible PPV matches
July 1 2022 I wrestled what would be Joe Doering’s last match.
A month prior I’d noticed something was off with Joe. But it never crossed my mind that his cancer might have returned. In my mind he’d already faced that battle and won.
I’ve thought about it all countless times since and never asked. I think he knew the cancer had returned or at least had a gut feeling. Regardless he kept it all to himself. When it came time for the match he was down for everything. Angle slam off the apron to the floor? Let’s do it. Superplex? He was down.
I remember going to him before the match and telling him “Joe hopefully I don’t regret this. But I really want you to lay your stuff in on me out there. If you clothesline me I want my boots to come loose.” He kind of smirked like only Joe could and agreed. (And he sure did what I asked 😂)
We had a 20+ main event title match on ppv. I can’t imagine the pain or discomfort he was feeling at the time. But in true Joe fashion he was an absolute warrior.
Joe always was a professional. A class act and one hell of a wrestler. I left that match sore as shit but proud. It’s a strange feeling being both honoured and sad to have been the one that he closed out his career with. I’m just fortunate to have known him both in and out of the ring.
He fought cancer for so long. I can only hope that now he can finally rest.
❤️Joe
Joe was one of the main reasons I remained a fan of wrestling for a long period. That era of him, Zeus, Miyahara, Ishikawa, Suwama, Shiozaki and Akiyama was such a golden period for All Japan that I think a lot of new fans missed out on. RIP to the last real cowboy.
At 9:13 a.m. today, June 26, our brother Joe Doering passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Though his time on this earth lasted only 44 years, Joe packed a thousand years’ worth of living into every one of them.
Joe is survived by his beloved wife, Lindsay, his family, and leaves behind countless friends and devoted fans around the world who will forever remember his strength, courage, and spirit.
Rest in peace, Joe. You will never be forgotten.
I just saw Tommy Dreamer telling a woman to lose weight because "it's a cosmetic business"
the fucking irony hearing that from a dude who's wrestled in a T-shirt since 1994
This is going to be unpopular with a lot of their peers and the fans who want to see them, but stop booking WWE ID talent.
Stop letting WWE impact your company with zero recourse or consideration. Focus on the talent that will be there when they say they will.
@Fightful The “who would he face here” is a pathetic excuse by every fail creative member. It’s the job of creative TO MAKE A GUY BETWEEN JUNE & OCTOBER. If you can’t, then you don’t belong in creative. Imagine Vince going “not Rock or Austin now because who do they face in 6 months”
Tommy Dreamer spoke about why Mike Santana didn't win the TNA World Championship at Slammiversary 2025.
"Mike Santana’s story. I’m so close with Mike, and his daughter and his family, and when I talk about the internet, everyone wanted Mike to win at Slammiversary and it’s cool. Then who do you face at Bound For Glory? And when Bound For Glory beat Slammiversary in attendance, you know you made the right decision. It’s so easy to make everybody happy. But you also have to make people mad to get you to where you wanna go, and then when you draw more people, it’s like, you did your job right, and no one’s gonna give you that credit for it. It’s a thankless job, but I’m thanked by the people and their text messages.”
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I couldn’t imagine a bunch of women coming out and talking about how a friend of mine made them uncomfortable and my response being to get online and tell everyone how he’s just misunderstood because he can’t grow up.
Being into AJPW for 10+ years means you're built different and by that I mean just really being into never ever hoping anything good happens in your life and that's okay
different style lovers - you owe it to yourself to watch this feud. some of the best different styling of all time, on the same level as the various martial arts invasions in FMW and seishin kaikan’s raid of new japan
Joe Doering going into hospice care is such terrible news. Legitimately an all time favorite of mine, especially in the 2010s. Great matches, all time classic quote, and one of the best t-shirts of all time during his first go with this shit. He was already missed. Fuck cancer.