Those who know me, also know about fact that wrestling is my love all these years since I was a kid and I watched it for the first time at my friend’s place on Sky One channel. Many decades later, I still watch WWE and AEW promotions and last night’s Monday Night Raw episode was coming home episode for this coming Saturday’s Money In The Bank pay per view event. There were some highs and lows of this episode. definite highs were the Raw debut of NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes, who, although lost a match to Finn Balor of Judgement Day, made quite an impression. Other high was main event match Cody Rhodes vs Damian Priest of Judgement Day with that Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio boring characters going in the way and distract the ref. Judgement Day faction is for me one of the most boring factions in wrestling of all times. Dominik’s match vs Akira Tozawa was comedy and nothing but a mid segment to emphasize his match with Cody Rhodes this Saturday at MITB. The feud between Tommasso Ciampa and The Miz continues with no contest scheduled match. Men’s MITB ladder match was advertised via match of Richocet vs Shinsuke Nakamura with Bronson Reed creating chaos at ring. I grew to hate this feud and it is quite boring segment last couple of weeks. All the women from MITB women’s ladder match were present in the ring starting a brawl with one another to emphasize the coming match. Tag Team Champions Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are indeed workhorses of Raw with Zayn facing Intercontinental Champion Gunther and losing to him in the ring, with all Imperium faction being there and making a mess of a fine match, especially with Zayn/Owens scheduled to defend their titles against Pretty Deadly this Friday night on Smackdown. It all served to announce match for Intercontinental Championship this Saturday at MITB with Gunther defending vs Matt Riddle to which I am looking forward very much. In all this episode had same amount of lame and great segments.
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(tv series) AEW ALL ACCESS season 1 – wrestling up and close!
I love wrestling! I remember when I watched it for first time on cable tv at my friends Igor and Jura and we together concluded that this is something great! In the meantime, they stopped following wrestling and I still love it and watch it for all these years! Of course, I love WWE(former World Wrestling Federation), but in the last few years there is another wrestling league worth watching and paying attention to, because it is getting better and better month to month, pay per view to pay per view. That is AEW(All Elite Wrestling). Formed by Tony Khan, this promotion holds talents that are original, but also many former WWE talents that were cut loose due to expense cuts during covid pandemics, like Dean Ambrose(in AEW known as Jon Moxley), Daniel Bryan(in AEW Bryan Danielson) or Cesaro(here as Claudio Castagnoli), also Paige(here as Saraya) or Ruby Soho too. This is quality wrestling, only they should work more on angles and storylines a bit. This six episodes docu series deals with behind the scenes of their flagshow AEW Dynamite and lives of couple of wrestlers like Britt Baker DMD, her boyfriend Adam Cole and also married couple Sammy Guevara and Tay Mello, also Ruby Soho and her return, Young Bucks and Elite. This is interesting watch for all of us who love to peak behind the scenes and how this all looks behind the curtain and backstage. To be safe, this show does not show how it is made, how the wrestling moves are done and matches booked, this show is about real people and their injuries, their heartbreaks, hopes, luck and life behind the glamour, sweat and blood of wrestling ring. That is why it was interesting to me and I am sure, if you are wrestling fan, that you will watch this show and enjoy every single minute. I can’t wait for season two to return with some other interesting and my favorite AEW characters, some of them larger than life.
8/10
(movie) Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair (2022) – moving documentary about wrestling legend!
I remember when I was a kid, my friends called me to their place to watch wrestling together. Then that was WWF Superstars and WWF Challenge on cable tv. I was immediately struck by the storylines, characters larger than life, matches, betrayals, brotherhood and sisterhood and although it is ‘only’ sports entertainment, I stick with wrestling even today and never miss ‘Monday Night Raw’ or ‘WWE Smackdown’. But I also follow AEW Wrestling who also have quality stories, great wrestling and characters. I also watch WWE NXT with younger talent coming to fold and one day get to main roster of WWE. So, when this documentary was announced on Peacock, I waited and the wait is finally over, I have watched it. This one tells the story about 50 year career and Hall of famer Ric Flair in two hours time, also known as ‘Nature Boy’ whose daughter Charlotte is nowadays WWE Women’s Smackdown champion heading into Wrestlemania season in three weeks from now. This one lets Ric tell his story in his own words mainly, from being adopted kid, to his wrestling start, being hit by lightning and surviving, also surviving plane crash, alcohol, drugs, having his son fatally overdose on drugs and his marriages and women adventures. I was left wondering how is this man even still alive after what I watched in this movie. There are touching moments of his final WWE match, his comeback from death and some of that brought moist to my eyes. I think, one day there will be biopic of his life for sure. Great one indeed. Hats off to the legend of wrestling!
10/10


