Welcome to Monday… hope everyone had a great weekend! Thanks to those that joined in on the Live Watch last night, it was a great time as always. Another SummerSlam edition will go down next Sunday night!
Until then, feel free to talk about tonight’s Raw as this year’s SummerSlam is now less than two weeks away!
Also, be sure to leave any feedback you have for the PTB Podcast on The Big Event right here and JT & Scott will read it on air tonight!
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Yay!!!
It looks like every 2017 AJPW show is dropping on the Fite App for free! I’ve been following them regrowing from near death for the last two years and it’s legit awesome to see them easily available in America.
After listening to the FYC on the Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Era, where do you all fall on Bobby Heenan as a candidate? I thought Will and Johnny made interesting arguments about his inclusion…
When the project started, I was all in on counting him. But I’ve found myself wavering more and more, especially when I drew a line in the sand that I won’t be including Vince on my list. I think Bobby as a performer is top five or 10 all time without question. But the list is for wrestlers.
Real emotional tribute package for Dutch Daulton on MLBN
Question for the PTB podcast for tonight. Do you think the Moondogs should have gotten a bigger push in 85-86? I thought they were awesome in the early 80’s and always put on solid matches. They put Jimmy Hart with them for a while but never did anything with them.
Seeing how they had the Dream Team Sheik & Volkoff, and Hart Foundation, at best they would have been the 4th heel team
Newest set of Hidden Gems are going up on the Network.
The Kurt set looks dope.
I was at the Hall/Credible match they added on Hidden Gems. Surreal night. Hall opened the night by coming out to “Ready or Not” by Fugees. One of those holy shit moments.
When I went to a WCW house show in 1998, Hall came out to an instrumental version of Ready or Not… was random but I guess he really liked that song lol.
Man, Don Baylor passed too. Rough 24 hours for MLB.
How old was he? Rockies’ first ever manager right?
68 and yes, first Rockies manager
All-time leader in HBP
1979 AL MVP with the Angels. Great power hitter in the 70s-80’s. Played for the Yankees & the Red Sox.
Gotch really buries Enzo here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMXdAHQ087A&t=67s
http://68.media.tumblr.com/4db5651b18294a1a15ca8f05d77852a7/tumblr_old9qby9Ay1s05wxzo1_400.gif
Holy shit, how have I not seen this? I fast forward through Enzo matches usually, but that doesn’t ring a bell.
Wow. Awful.
Had to work last night so couldn’t partake in the SS 97 Live Watch..hopefully I can for this Sunday.
Go home SD before WM X-7…there’s no foreshadowing at all of Austin turning heel and aligning with Vince.
Austin calls out Rock which prompted Vince to come out and get laid out by Austin. Vince then brings up his history with Steve with Debra after in a segment backstage and says that he still hates Austin’s guts…
Guess they really wanted to go for the shock value by not dropping any hints whatsoever of Austin teaming with Vince.
It is subtly done by Austin being so obsessed with the title… the Providence SD face to face is where you really get the hinting when he says he will do whatever it takes.
That said I am guessing they didn’t go TOO heavy on it because they may not have been 100% sold on the finish until that night.
The build for both Austin/Rock and HHH/Taker has been fantastic…you could’ve bought H/Taker as part of a double main event.
Rest of the card, aside of Vince/Shane, has barely been promoted. It’s been like “AUSTIN/ROCK, HHH/TAKER, VINCE/SHANE,…and the here’s the rest of the card…”
See, I disagree with you in some respects. It was there, they just didn’t go “all in” on beating us over the head, as JT said.
The face-to-face previewed it, but so did the finish of No Way Out. Austin losing clean to his most hated rival is essential to the story.
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Almost through season five of Shameless and still really enjoying the ride.
Sorry i missed the live watch last night as I had on Summerslam 1999. Will try and join the next one on Sunday.
Bailey will miss Summerslam. Matches to determine Bliss’ new challenger will begin on Raw tonight.
Sounds like a mini tournament or beat the clock challenge tonight for Alexa’s new opponent.
Sucks for her… guessing Sasha just steps in.
Gonna be a two week series for #1 contender. They are in Boston next Monday. Sasha it is.
http://www.thasportsjunkies101.com/wrestling-news/wwe/enzo-amore-gets-serious-heat-stripper
Salty stripper sour because hotter chicks get more tips. Hope she isn’t planning on working Cheerleaders during RR weekend when a gang of 12 cheap fucks roll in.
Scott Dawson with a bicep injury
http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/scott-dawson-injured/#.WYimk1EpCUl
Bah, what shit luck. Hopefully they don’t give up on them due to injuries.
Everytime they get going, an injury occurs with them.
Oh dear God, The Big Event. Lol did you notice how Ernie Ladd just vanishes from the commentary for a few matches. Thr worst commentary I’ve ever heard on one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen.
The best part is, they show a view from the commentary booth and Ladd is just sitting there with his arms crossed pouting, almost like someone told him to stop talking
Ladd did the first set of Challenge tapings the day before The Big Event. Then he was gone. So maybe he was canned during the event.
Lol he should have been after that performance. My God was he bad during the opening match.
Man first Bayley goes down and now Scott Dawson too.
The Big Event is really just a glorified house show that is good for reliving the days of watching shows clipped to hell on VHS but not much else. The matches are either too short (though Steamboat/Jake is solid and the main event is okay) or rather sloppily put together (never seen so many wonky finishes and bad refs in one show); the commentary is less than great and really the only high point for me here is the rather loud audience, especially the fans seated near the ring jeering the refs and at one point cheering for Orndorff.
I remember being even underwhelmed by Jake and Steamboat, although the crowd was pretty awesome in terms of its size at the time.
A neat tidbit about Don Baylor…
The last three seasons of his career he played in the World Series with three different teams. Red Sox (86) Twins (87) A’s (88)
I’ll be at raw tonight and smackdown tomorrow. Will try to post any off camera happenings. Also can everyone tell me the bizzaro world references. Over/under is 10
Well Lawler isn’t doing commentary so it might be under 10.
I think only 1 last night when Graves said it after Bayley got booed out of the building.
Kudos to you guys by the way on that.
The Big Event is a show that was crying out for Jesse Ventura on commentary, though he was close to a return. The dullness of many of these matches would have been helped if he was there with his quips. This isn’t something I’ve gone back and watched in a few years.
Sheldon Richardson cutting a huge promo on Brandon Marshall on Michael Kay’s show.
http://www.pwmania.com/why-wwe-stopped-using-the-great-khali
Dammit Enunwa is out for the year? Jets are really gonna be dog shit.
Yup. Bowles said recovery time is 9-12 months.
Huge spoiler…….Curt Hawkins loses. This time to Apollo Crews here at Raw for the Main Event show
Hey fellas! Long time no chat!
Brock Lesnarrr
The end of that was pretty good.
They really are burning through Brock appearances. Do you think he is done after SS or is that a red herring and he retains?
I think he’s done.
He’s advertised for a few house shows in the Fall and supposedly on the Sept. PPV poster. Tough to say. At this point, I think he retains.
Great opening segment
Bo got destroyed on that F5
Even when Brock is roleplaying, he’s still just Brock. Roll a new character once in a while!
2/19/83 house show from the Spectrum and 10/16/88 house show from LA have been added to the Network.
The LA show is rough.
It looks like a decent show on paper.
It has Rod Trongard and Superstar Billy Graham on commentary.
Good God
Trongard is hammered and Graham talks about his favorite subject, bodyweight.
Has Shield vs Sheamus & Cesaro been made official yet for SS?
I don’t think so.
Not yet.
Here is the official match lineup
http://www.wwe.com/shows/summerslam/2017
Sheamus vs. Rollins was better last week.
Holy crap the crowd does not care about Jason jordan.
Why would they in all honesty? This storyline has been dogshit.
They could have done this angle and still kept AA together.
The thing is everyone knows its bullshit so you need a hook to make people interested. They are playing it straight and its awful and people are just waiting for him to turn and losing interest and growing restless in the process.
French-Canadian Jewish jobber? I dig it.
Like if you and Aaron had a child.
I can’t comment publicly on our life plans.
Bayley has nice hair.
Bayley getting booed quite a bit.
They are probably more upset about what happened.
Maybe if they cheered when she came out but they did not even do that.
First hour of RAW was alright.
That was a fun match, Emma looked really good in there, making the most of her chance.
Yeah. Fuck this crowd
She looked good but rough night for Fox. Match was fine.
Braun continues cutting erotic promos on Reigns. Nothing wrong with a little dom play, buddy.
I love Braun’s promos. Last week everyone was talking about being the new world champ and Strowman is like I like stacking bodies.
Godfather should come out with that stripper and collect her cash from Enzo.
So….Enzo just traded one Giant for another.
Show should turn on him too.
Damn, Cole said Dawson likely needs surgery. That will put him up for at least a few months if true.
That sucks, they should let Dash wrestle solo this time around.
We think Balor wins clean or is this continuing past SummerSlam?
I hope he wins clean. Bray is a lost character right now
Cesaro and Deano getting a lot of time out there.
Already past 16 minutes
I had a match time of 19:18 for that.
They should do that every week, they have the roster to pull it off.
I agree.
I might be alone on this, but I hope the titus brand stable gets bigger
Me too, why not at this point. He is good in the role and better to keep him out of the ring.
He needs a partner for Crews.
Next week on RAW in Boston they are advertising Reigns vs. Strowman in a “Boston Street Fight” and Ambrose vs. Miz for the IC Title.
Did Ambrose and Miz get kissed by a witch and cursed to have matches against each other for the rest of linear time?
Its the feud that will never end. They’ll probably face off at WrestleMania 38 in another IC Title match.
And the Iron Sheik will have finally made his way to the ring.
Poor Mickie getting stuck with Dana and Nia.
Forgot she was even around.
The company seemingly does not trust her to do anything.
I meant Mickie.
Oh, ha. Yeah, she has been buddying up with Dana lately.
In this episode of the Place to Be Podcast, we head north of the border for a huge night of action as Scott, JT and John D’Amato relive The Big Event!
The boys discuss a night full of shit commentary, Hoss Funk’s farewell, King Tonga transitioning into Haku, Ted Arcidi’s heel turn, the never-ending Junkyard Dog/Jimmy Hart feud, the arrival of Dick Slater, Lou Albano’s last hurrah, the big Snake Pit showdown, another installment of the Billy Jack Haynes/Hercules feud, a hot Rougeau Brothers/Dream Team bout, Harley Race’s coronation as King, an epic atmosphere for the main event and more, including end of show awards!
So fire up this action-packed episode and join Scott, Justin & John as it’s time for another edition of the PTB Podcast!
http://placetobenation.com/place-to-be-podcast-episode-458-the-big-event/
That Garea vs. Arcidi match can main event any arena in the country.
Lol so fucking awful
Arcidi was really fucking bad.
F Tony Garea!
I could write a book on how he sandbagged other talents in the 80s
Garea is only 39 years old then too. He doesnt look a day under 50 though.
I liked this show. Thought the good outweighed the bad.
Yeah? We may differ a bit there…
I really liked the Dream Team tag match, Snake Pit Match, and Hogan vs. Orndorff. Rest of the card was putrid though.
Yeah same here, I had those three at ***
Muraco vs. King Tonga was torture.
Big disappointment after they had a pretty good feud earlier in the year.
Oh god, forgot about Adonis vs. JYD. That’s a negative star special.
So basically, my fiancé and I purchased nxt take-over tickets the day they came out, but when it came to summerslam, both mine and her car need to have work done in the same week. Now that we are back on track, summerslam tickets are crazy marked up. Anyone have a couple tickets they wanna sell us? Let me know
Nothing here, I am not going this year. You may want to ask in the PTB Live Chats page too.
Is Strowman the only competitor smart enough to notice that Roman’s vest constitutes a really good set of handles to throw him by?
Pretty damn good dropkick by Strowman!
Even a year ago, if you said Braun would continuously put on exciting main event matches, we’d all say you were crazy.
That chair spot was awesome.
“Fuck yo chair!”
Hot damn, what a match.
That was a really good match
RAW was decent tonight.
I can watch Roman & Braun fight every week. Those guys have had some great Matches this year. I liked Joe’s involvement at the end too.
I think Strowman has won this feud quite handily but yet it still seems like he’s behind Reigns in the pecking order.
I fully expect Strowman to win the title at SummerSlam to rectify that, however.
I honestly dont know what to expect, I wouldn’t be shocked if any of them won which tells you how even and well booked they have been.
Fantastic main event, great chemistry on those two
To be honest i’ll be happy with either of the 4 winning at Summerslam. At the same time it’s too close to call.