Gatoh Move ChocoPro #59 (October 28, 2020)

My foray into Gatoh Move’s ChocoPro show with my kid was a blast so today we went back to the well for another episode. This time we’re checking out the October 28, 2020 episode which was their Halloween episode because nothing says Christmas week like watching a Halloween themed wrestling show.

AEW Dark (February 4, 2020)

During last week’s Double or Nothing I got to talking with someone about whether or not AEW would ever do legit intergender matches, not just mixed tags where the guys have to wrestle the guys and the ladies have to wrestle the ladies. That person informed me that they already had during the Jericho Cruise and that the match aired on an episode of Dark. This is that episode.

AEW Dark (March 3, 2020)

Like so much of the wrestling I consume, I ended up watching this because it popped up in my YouTube recommendations. Since it was only 19 minutes long and had a feature bout involving my kid’s second favorite grappler, Yuka Sakazaki, I watched it together with her. “Her” meaning my kid not Yuka Sakazaki in case that wasn’t clear…anyway here are words about a 19 minute wrestling show on YouTube from a year and a half ago.

WWE Money in the Bank 2020 (May 10, 2020)

The basic cable channel here that airs WWE shit broadcasted a mess of Money in the Bank PPVs last weekend and I ended up watching this one with my kid so I figured I would write some words about it since I’ve written about every single WWE show from July 1998 and thus have nothing to review for the remainder of the month anyway.

IMPACT Wrestling (December 8, 2020)

To say that 2020 has been a weird year is a bit of an understatement. Over on the wrestling side of things we’ve seen companies go on hiatus. We’ve seen audienceless shows. Cinematic matches have become a lot more commonplace. It’s been pretty weird.

Over in AEW you’ve seen the company bring in a lot of indie guys who weren’t getting a lot of bookings due to Corona to wrestle on AEW Dark or in Cody’s open challenge for the TNT Championship and in recent months the NWA Women’s Champion has probably been on AEW programming more often than the AEW Women’s Champ. So last week when they had current IMPACT Wrestling EVP and sometimes IMPACT announcer, Don Callis (formerly The Jackyl and Cyrus the Virus in WWF and ECW respectively), show up to call the main event it didn’t seem that weird…only it very quickly became the most insane thing to happen in wrestling in a long time. So today we’re looking at an episode of IMPACT to find out exactly how this all came to pass and maybe what it means for the future of wrestling.

AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw (August 17, 2020)

Because I recently fucked around and watched some random Wrestlicious shit on YouTube after like a month of not watching any wrestling and the YouTube algorithm was like, “Oh yeah, this guy likes random wrestling bullshit,” and recommended this third episode of AEW’s Deadly Draw Women’s Tag Team Tournament deal. I liked the first two episodes well enough and so decided to watch this one since it’s only like thirty minutes long.

AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw (August 10, 2020)

AEW’s Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw rolls on with its second week of quarterfinal matches. As I mentioned previously I’m a big fan of the Lethal Lottery concept and am absolutely stoked that AEW’s brought it back. I also enjoyed the surprise debuts last week and hope that the trend continues this week.

AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw (August 3, 2020)

I’m a sucker for a good gimmick match and one of my all time favorite gimmicks was the Lethal Lottery tournament. I didn’t really give a shit about the BattleBowl portion but the idea of random guys being forced to tag with each other in a tournament was a concept that I absolutely loved. My younger brother and I would stage our own Lethal Lottery tournaments with action figures in our bedroom as children. I’ll still do them in WWE 2KWhatever games.

Suffice it to say I’m a big Lethal Lottery fan, so when I heard that AEW was going to do one (rebranded as the Deadly Draw probably because WWE has the Lethal Lottery name locked down) for women tag teams and were going to put the entire tournament on YouTube for cheap as free I was stoked and decided to check it out. This is the first episode.

DDT TV Show #1 (May 2, 2020)

Goddamn those DDT goofs! I watch one show with water slides and dudes wailing on each other with pool noodles and it’s suddenly the only wrestling promotion I think matters. So here’s another DDT review! Since we’re smack dab in the middle of a pandemic, DDT has started doing studio wrestling shows sans an audience. This is the first such show.

AEW Dynamite (March 18, 2020)

As the Coronavirus Era of professional wrestling continues and I find myself going back to old shit from the 80s and 90s for some escapism I realize that I’ve yet to check out how AEW has dealt with the new normal so today we’re going to take a look at the March 18, 2020 edition of AEW Dynamite to see what Cody & The Boyz have cooked up to entertain us.