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[DEAN]

Driverette.  2/5/2009.  Dean Rasmussen.  Chesterfield.  Virginia.

BACKSTORY:  Pepper isn't used to playing all day with another dog and it's pretty funny him drag-ass around all day while Zhora runs circles around him- it's kinda like Zhora is Arn Anderson and Pepper is El Gigante.  YES.  IT IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT.

THE WRESTLING:

- Watched more of the beloved and British LDN Wrestling on CapitalTV on DVD from Doug in Ontario in Canada while at home in Virginia in Chesterfield.  I really dug the weasly evil wrestle stylings of Project Future.   They wrestled Loverboy Shane Blaze and Bobby Old School Justice, I'm guessing (and kidding- but yeah they were indie faces you would see at an armory near you- except these are the English versions, so they can mat wrestle and can pace a wrestling match.)  Actually, it was Danny Boy Williams and CHRIS WYLD- who does actually have the indie-est name in all of Europe.  IF NOT, WHO?  This match ruled.  I think Project Future have uber-indie names too, hold on.  Let me consult the LND page that Google has corrected to the LDN page about fifteen times already.  Ah Bobby Hostile and the un-indie-sounding Ricardo Young.  Hostile and young are undersized and weasly and they cheat like motherfuckers so I like them.  Williams and WYLD are really good babyface highflyers and the key to LND so far seems to be old school psychology so this is like watching a good Nightmares vs Rock and Roll RPMs match with slightly higher grade high spots.  I dig that every strike is usually stomping and punching as opposed to everything a springboard crescent kick- which is the bane of guys this age.  So here's to the Brits for breaking that trend and offering up quality 1986 Continental Wrestling tag wrestling.  God, knows we needed it.  

I watched Leroy Kincaid destroy somebody.  I assume Kincaid is WWE developmental or he would be LDN champ because he's got the look that tends to go pretty far in the BIZ~! and his offense was pretty fucking choice and evil.  If not, what's the word?

- Watched last nights UWF and it had a really superfine Billy Jack Haynes vs Col DeBeers match.  Every part of that match looked like it hurt and that's about all i ask from guys who get paid to wrestling.  Thank you for convincing me, BJH and CDB.  You were appreciated.  Barry Horowitz and Sunny Beach had a spirited little affair but I was folding clothes.  Sorry.  And Vladimir Koloff is the only guy to make me lose interest in a Pistol Pez Whatley match.  Stinky.

- I watched the IWRG Trios title match between Los Oficiales (AK-47, Fierro and 911) and Pegasso and some guy and that Freelance guy that all the cool kids in the lunch room dig.  Freelance is spectacular and all but I WANT FUCKING EVERY MATCH WITH LOS OFICIALES EVER.  They are Los Destructores 09.  Talk about fucking bump freak rudos.  I fucking loved the tallest one taking the Peggasso Tope Con Hilo into the third row but fucking DESTROYING his back on the rail first to make it super-nasty looking.  MANLY.  The finish was also super manly.  I love finish where the match could go either way depending who can hit the big spot or counter out of the big spot.  Beautifully set up and executed.  And I love the losing side's ref signing off on the clean finish by saluting the other ref.  Thoroughly awesome.

I will watch the November BAT BAT and some Dragon Gate and some DDT and something else prolly for tomorrow.  Who could be sure.

NANIWA~!

DEAN.

[Big Rob]

DEAN, on Feb 5 2009, 07:22 PM, said:

I watched Leroy Kincaid destroy somebody.  I assume Kincaid is WWE developmental or he would be LDN champ because he's got the look that tends to go pretty far in the BIZ~! and his offense was pretty fucking choice and evil.  If not, what's the word?

Leroy isn't wrestling with LDN at the moment, he does some work for IPW:UK where he teams with The Kartel and Martin Stone, who you might have seen in Chikara last year. They are the company's top babyfaces. Leroy also lost to Vladimir Kozlov early in Kozlov's run. He spends more time on his rapping career than wrestling these days I believe.

[Doug Corti]

Just to disappoint DEAN, it appears that the Fight Network's LDN has already hit repeats. On the upside, Bushido (UWFI) has returned to the schedule, and it appears they will be adding NWE this weekend.

[DEAN]

Doug Corti, on Feb 5 2009, 08:13 PM, said:

Just to disappoint DEAN, it appears that the Fight Network's LDN has already hit repeats. On the upside, Bushido (UWFI) has returned to the schedule, and it appears they will be adding NWE this weekend.

What is NWE?

[Merchants]

I've always really enjoyed Leroy every time I've seen him, and God knows he actually looks like a wrestler, unlike 90% of British dudes. He should really give wrestling in the US a proper go, seeing as Burchill and Nikita made it into WWE from the FWA, surely that'd open some doors for him.

NWE is Nu-Wrestling Evolution from Italy I believe - that Rikishi-booked fed that was doing really well at one point. I watched a couple of highlight videos online and it looked right up my street, sadly we never got it on the Fight Network over here.

[DEAN]

Merchants, on Feb 5 2009, 09:47 PM, said:

NWE is Nu-Wrestling Evolution from Italy I believe - that Rikishi-booked fed that was doing really well at one point. I watched a couple of highlight videos online and it looked right up my street, sadly we never got it on the Fight Network over here.

Okay, my mind just EXPLODED with excitement.  I've been wanting to see that stuff forever.

[Merchants]

I've just watched a video of Romeo from the Heartbreakers winning some sort of title where him and the other guy are climbing a scaffold or a lighting rig or something, and then afterwards he's celebrating in the crowd and they're all mobbing him like the second coming of Christ. It's like the episode of Heat I booked in my head five years ago.

[Jamie Virtue]

DEAN, on Feb 5 2009, 09:02 PM, said:

Doug Corti, on Feb 5 2009, 08:13 PM, said:

Just to disappoint DEAN, it appears that the Fight Network's LDN has already hit repeats. On the upside, Bushido (UWFI) has returned to the schedule, and it appears they will be adding NWE this weekend.

What is NWE?

They used to show NWE a few years back, so these are all repeats also, and oh man, it's some horrible stuff. DEAN should love it. Really sweet production values however. I'm excited for my Bushido back on the network!

[Lee]

The two NWE shows from about 2005 that I've got on DVD have pretty bad production values but does have a bizarre Vampiro-Low Ki match with Ki in a coffin.

[pgi86]

DEAN, on Feb 6 2009, 04:54 AM, said:

Merchants, on Feb 5 2009, 09:47 PM, said:

NWE is Nu-Wrestling Evolution from Italy I believe - that Rikishi-booked fed that was doing really well at one point. I watched a couple of highlight videos online and it looked right up my street, sadly we never got it on the Fight Network over here.

Okay, my mind just EXPLODED with excitement.  I've been wanting to see that stuff forever.

If you're up for watching stuff on YouTube, I've got some NWE stuff online here on my YouTube page. I'd recommend checking out Jungle PAC. Flippy-floppiness + a wacky gimmick = FUN TIMES.



And actually, while NWE is based out of Italy, this last year they ran shows exclusively in Spain since wrestling's popularity in Italy nosedived and things exploded in Spain. Warrior had his comeback match in NWE while RVD had a bunch of matches there as well. NWE's pretty much the biggest European promotion in terms of drawing big crowds. Last year they ran about 25-30 shows and most of them were sell-outs, the biggest one being over 15,000 people.

[Clayton Jones]

That one picture of Jungle Pac is so, so much better than any match I've seen him in. He should do that gimmick everywhere.

[odessasteps]

Jungle PAC would be golden in CHIKARA.