2023 Pro Wrestling Thread

They did it before, but now they have NXT that night.

 

Raw has always been on Monday nights, except for perhaps a few episodes due to some special circumstances.

Smackdown mostly was on Thursdays and Fridays, but went to Tuesdays in 2016 before going to Fox and on Fridays in 2019. In the early 2000s, they taped Smackdown on Tuesdays to air later in the week.

 

So, BCC is turning face? Or is this just a tweener thing for against Starks and Bill?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Night_Titans

 

Orange Cassidy with the surprise walk-on of the night.

 

I’m watching on delay, but Mox juicing in his hometown was a guarantee.

 

“You broke my pearl necklace!”

LOL. The number of wrestlers wearing necklaces astounds me. Jericho used to wear that bandana all the time and I always wanted somebody to choke him with it.

 

Yeah, that show was more of a talk show, although sometimes they showed match clips. Some of the shows are fun to watch.

 

So, judging by the sheets and prognostications, is this going to be like an Edge for Jade swap?

 

I mix it up a lot with Prime Time Wrestling, which has the all-time Bobby Heenan work. I sometimes get lost in a YouTube wormhole watching the compilations.

 

Saw this on Wrestlecrap the other day and decided to watch the whole thing. A "before they were stars" match from Sunday Night Heat in 2006, with Big Show squashing two jobbers — Jon Moxley and LA Knight (using the "how did they get it past the censors" name of Dick Rick) — in an entertaining handicap match.
Thoughts:
1) Moxley looks really weird with long, flowing hair
2) The announcer at the beginning saying, "I don't know who Jon Moxley is ..."
3) Interesting seeing LA Knight using the finger point way back then
4) Big Show looks like he's having an absolute blast in this match. Love him shooshing the crowd so the chops sound louder.

Full match: Actu Wrestling on TikTok

 

Seth, Roman and Mox were 1-2-3 in PWI's Top 500. Gunther at No. 5, MJF at No. 6, Orange Cassidy (!) at No. 8 and Cody at No. 10.

When this whole AEW party started and they brought in Orange, I never thought he'd be a lasting character, but he's had a helluva run. I thought he'd be more like the "gimmick" wrestlers (Marko Stunt, Sonny Kiss, Joey Janela for example) that AEW first started with before fading them away when they were able to pad out the roster with bigger names.

Andre Chase is "Mr. Irrelevant" of the Top 500, eight spots behind 61-year-old George South.

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/09/14/full-2023-pwi-500-list-revealed/