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Hey. there are a lot of varied options to watch professional wrestling in the year 2020. it's easier than ever to beam large men (and women) with muscles into your home, punching each other live or on demand. I'm going to talk about ones I watch.

New Japan Pro Wrestling
https://njpwworld.com/ (streaming service, 999 yen ($8-9?))
https://www.njpw1972.com/ (english)

It's airing a special event with tags now, but the actual New Japan cup is back this week too. They used to be on TV in the states, but the powers that be fucked all that up However you gotta wake up at like 4-6am in the US to watch it live.




Impact (fka TNA Wrestling, NWA:TNA)
https://impactplus.tv/ (streaming service, $8/mo)

This has all the archives and most of the shows. I'm way behind on current Impact, but I've been using this to watch some old stuff for a while.


Ring of Honor
https://www.rohwrestling.com/ (Honor club streaming? dunno much about it)

They're also major in America, dunno much about their streaming. Their TV shows air in perpetuity on Sinclair networks/broadcast in the United States.


All Elite Wrestling

T-shirt company. They air infomercials on TNT occasionally.


World Wrestling Entertainment

Money Laundering front for Saudi Arabian murder-for-hire business interests. Sometimes airs fake punching?



Sorry, i ran out of steam partway through there, but please let me know what wrestling you're watching, what you're excited for coming up, and what old matches you like!!! I think right now my Match of the Year is between Ospreay/Hiromu, Page/Omega vs Bucks, and AJ vs Bryan

on second thought, nevermind

Charlie Don't Surf said:

on second thought, nevermind

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Sorry man, I love wrestling, I just don't really watch any at the moment.

I'm watching the series GLOW though, if that counts?

Yeah, wrestling's massive metoo right now makes it hard to be excited about anything wrestling related.

Just watched AEW and laughed out loud when Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian had new tag team music when a day later Havoc was all but fired for being a traumatically abusive rapist.

Ravenpoe said:

Sorry man, I love wrestling, I just don't really watch any at the moment.

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my reply was a subtweet to the #SpeakingOut stuff coming to light, not complaining about the lack of interest or anything

Yeah, this has been draining my enthusiasm for wrestling in general. There’s just...so fucking many now, and none of the companies are going to do the right thing.

AEW suspended Sammy, and will donate his paychecks to a women’s shelter. Good.

Jimmy Havoc goes to rehab and his past real-life violence is glossed over. Not good.

MJF is outed as a pretty nasty bully, and nothing has happened yet. Not good.

There’s rumors about Jake Hagar going around, and should be investigated.

Darby Allin seems in the clear, despite rumors. It looks like he was istaken for another guy with a similar name.

WWE, of course, won’t do any better.

Velveteen Dream appears to have multiple accusations against him. Maybe that’s why he hasn’t made the main roster?

Matt Riddle was upfront about accusations about him before WWE signed him, and it’s not clear what that situation is right now. Very he-said she-said.

Jack Gallagher should be in fucking jail. I haven’t heard all the details, but it sounds like it’s really, really awful. He’s been scrubbed from WWE entirely now.

British wrestling is a horror show with everything coming out.

In regards to MJF, I think there's a bit of a difference between a guy being an asshole and a guy being a sexual assault monster.

ALSO, in my happy place, if anyone tries to tell me that there's a wrestler with a better look than Andy Williams AKA The Butcher (aka one of the guitarists of Every Time I Die), I'm going to need proof.

EVERYTHING IS EVIL

Charlie Don't Surf said:

EVERYTHING IS EVIL

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An astute observation, but the politics threads are that-a-way

Hi there, both Anna Jay and Ricky Starks are unbelievably attractive people that I like to watch do things in wrestling.

Have I mentioned how into Ricky Starks I am? Because he has rocketed to my top spot and I love his cocky heel douchebag shtick and he has literally the best theme music in wrestling.



Oh, and Tay Conti and Anna Jay together?



Yup.

And in wrestling news, Vince McMahon is continuing to stretch the meaning of independent contractors to unbelievable lengths of absurdity.


TL;DR: Vince has proclaimed an edict from on high that no one is allowed to be involved in 3rd party companies like Cameo or Twitch, even using their real name, because the WWE owns their real names. This is something that would likely never stand up against any sort of scrutiny, but that has never stopped them before.

I can see more than a few telling Vince to fuck off and continue to do their own side gigs. If Vince releases them, they’ll just sign elsewhere. This whole thing goes back to AJ revealing he had COVID on Twitch. Vince hit the fucking roof and then this happened right after.

It could get bad for Vince personally, too, since he focused soooo much on building up new main event talent. The board won’t like a mass release/exodus on top of an increasingly poor product.

any of y'all like the G1 Climax??

RIP Road Warrior Animal, age 60.

Kota Ibushi is THE ONE