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26 Jul 2025
When we watched the French Catch uncovered in 2020, I tried to capture gifs of unique holds, sequences, and character bits. I began posting them too early into this account so some are flagged, but if you start with the one below you can scroll back and forward to see/share them.
29 Oct 2024
Gilbert Leduc vs Michel Chasine next (JIP: 9/20/57). Electric finishing stretch. Power bombs somehow disappeared from the world in the 70s and only reappeared in the late 80s, as if the NWA brokered some sort of deproliferation accord that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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One thing I enjoy about Khan bypassing the need for traditional authority figures is that even with the occasionally glee of Schiavone announcing a heel's comeuppance, there's usually real neutrality. If a heel convinces him that the fans would want to see a match, he makes it.
I think the "I've just been informed by Tony Khan" approach that they often do accomplishes everything an on-air authority figure could and takes far less TV time.
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AEW is a matchmaker's promotion. There are angles. Obviously, by the very nature of pro wrestling, every match has a story, usually both inherent and externally driven, and almost always leads to something, but it's that image of the weekly card that sticks with you over time.
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TK's on screen role being that of a neutral arbitrator in service to the fans (from a kayfabe perspective of wanting to put on the best matches possible) allows for them to get to it as quickly as possible.
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Two more things to steal from this 1982 six-woman tag. First there's Devil Masami doing a gutbuster out of a suplex position. Then something simple that looks great and no one does anymore as Velvet McIntyre hits a sledge off a whip to send Jaguar Yokota flying.
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Jun 13
Everyone should experience 1988 Sting in all of his glory at least once. This sums it up well. He jumped off the screen, but once he ended up in your living room and was cutting promos, you were left wondering how to get him back into the TV.
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Jun 13
Rarely is it a good idea to try to hit a tope on Mason Madden as Terry Yaki learned the hard way.
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Jun 13
Minoru Suzuki and Tatsuo Nakano, two fighters who were all go and no stop, Nakano because given his size, he had to take people out early and Suzuki because there was an impetuous youthful demon within him in 1990. This is where "all go" took them.
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Jun 12
No one was doing it like Jaguar Yokota. And the fact that this all seems totally organic too. This was 1982!
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Jun 12
In JCP, Dusty was always so good at talking about all the other feuds going on. That's not something we got to see much during his WWF run, but on this one episode of Spotlight, he waxed poetic about the Savage/Warrior situation and it was absolute gold.
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It's hard to explain to people who weren't there, but everything the WWF in this period was isolated. Feuds lasted months on house shows and rarely came together in tags. That's why the Rumble and Survivor Series were so special. It really WAS novel to hear Dusty talk like this.
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23 Nov 2025
French Catch 1959 GIF Thread:
As we locked into chronological watching of the footage around '59, I'm going to try to do one thread per year.
First we have the hard headed Jose Tarres, one of the great Spanish draws, vs Dr. Adolf Kaiser, who here does a 1959 Full Nelson Slam.
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Jun 11
Wrestlers, have you considered stepping on your opponent's foot, hitting a snap mare, and then dropkicking him right in the face as he starts to get up?
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Jun 12
Last gif from Reggiori vs Bernieres, just showing some pretty tricked out hammerlock escape attempts which don't work in the least.
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Not everyone gets Eddie Kingston. That's ok, but like with any other wrestler, it's useful to understand why people do like him. Then we can have conversations. What I like about him best is how alive he seems in the moment. He's embodying what's happening in the ring. (1/2)
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Jun 12
If you try, if you squint just a little, if you let yourself stop and search for the wretched beauty of it all, you can see it in how he carries himself, in how he moves, and how he stands out relative to most of his peers. That's what makes Eddie special to me.
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Jun 12
Obviously, this went a lot more than (2/2) but it's hard to stop when you start talking about Eddie, or at least it is for me. That's part of the point. He's the easiest wrestler to write about in the world right now. There's just so much there with every little movement.
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Look, sometimes you just need to see Tito Santana taking someone's head off with a dropkick. If I can't give you that now and again, what good am I?
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