2025-star Frog Splash! Pro Wrestling Thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

Somebody's gonna have to check Moxley for punctured lungs.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Also, does Megan Bayne do promos? If she doesn't, why is she getting this push?

And why does she comes out with a chicken on her head?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Holy ship, those nails in the back!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

That was a very unsatisfying finish to the Copeland-Moxley feud.

 

[nietsroob17]

That Mox needs six additional people to beat a 51-year-old man whose neck is being held together by scotch tape is ridiculous.

Still, even if the match's finish was underwhelming as hell, there's no reason why it shouldn't have main evented.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Found this on a random Facebook post. Knowing what we know now, the fact that Giant Gonzalez is a runner-up to Steve Austin is something, but I guess pickings were slim back then. Chris Chavis = Tatanka, so at least there's some notoriety there.

Funny to see the future Taz(z) as simply one of the others receiving votes.

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I used to have a ton of those magazines … and they all were eventually tossed. Could have made a few bucks with them nowadays.

Best part of the year-end issue was the readers' submitted awards (or at least they said readers sent them in). Some of them were quite creative.

Kinda sad to also see Chris Von Erich in the honorable mention, considering he killed himself less than a year later. Billy Black was a guy who had some potential, did some work in Japan, and had a good tag team with Joel Deaton. I think he did something to Pish off some promoters and his career petered out.

Shelly Francis was a women's wrestler in the LPWA. They did a storyline where she was the "slave" of Adnan Al-Kashie. Pre-Iraq sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter aimed for Adnan, accidentally clotheslined Shelly, which woke her up out of a trance; she remembered her name and turned babyface.

The ship that I remember.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

At some point, AEW should have a match end during the commercial break.

I seem to recall they did that once a few years back, or at least in the picture-in-a-picture. I seem to recall Orange Cashidy got the win.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I seem to recall they did that once a few years back, or at least in the picture-in-a-picture. I seem to recall Orange Cashidy got the win.

Now that you mention it, I think I remember that as well. I know there's a lot of suspension of disbelief when we are watching wrashlin, but the "Welp, nobody is going to win while they're in PiP mode" always invades my brain leads me to pick up my phone, rather than watching the TV screen.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Also, Toni Storm's promo aimed at Bayne was darn near X-rated.

 

[nietsroob17]

Also, Toni Storm's promo aimed at Bayne was darn near X-rated.

Let's hope AEW doesn't hold a show in Forsyth County, Georgia.

 

[Huggy]

Now that you mention it, I think I remember that as well. I know there's a lot of suspension of disbelief when we are watching wrashlin, but the "Welp, nobody is going to win while they're in PiP mode" always invades my brain leads me to pick up my phone, rather than watching the TV screen.

I remember it as well. I record AEW so I always reach for the remote during PiP with one eye on what's happening on the off chance they do it again.

 

[Batman]

I seem to recall they did that once a few years back, or at least in the picture-in-a-picture. I seem to recall Orange Cashidy got the win.

AEW seems to be a little more self aware with that than WWE. I've noticed some of their guys, mostly the savvier veterans, sometimes doing stuff that almost qualifies as Easter eggs if you pay attention. Like Jericho holding a Liontamer for a full two minute break, or Claudio swinging someone around the whole time.

I think it was Cody, way back when, who said he really wanted to end a match during the break to emphasize that it could happen.