The Clash 2019

[Valkyrie]

I just can't see her being friends with Valkyrie though, it's just polar opposites personality-wise. I'm sure this friendship will be explained in time but for now that has me slightly puzzled

 

 

Alyssa was Valkyrie's old friend who has been calling her on the phone since December, as it was revealed on Turmoil 220

 

Edit: As I said on Discord, I'm working on some sort of a review. It should be up by Friday.

[Justin Jehst]

Alyssa was Valkyrie's old friend who has been calling her on the phone since December, as it was revealed on Turmoil 220

 

Edit: As I said on Discord, I'm working on some sort of a review. It should be up by Friday.

 

I know who she is, I'm saying I don't k ow why they're friends when Valkyrie is supposed to be a lawful good paladin and Alyssa is a neutral evil Warlock whose patron is The Internet. Their personalities, to me, just seem like they should... clash (lol).

[Quartz]

RUDO's 'THE CLASH' PPV NOTES:

 

I know a lot of people thought this match went too long but watching it again at 2x speed it was fine. A lot of great spots in this one and it felt bigger as there was actually something on the line in the match in terms of a career which made it feel tense during the end phase. That finish was fuckin’ awesome too. Will be sad to see Dillinger gone as I liked his dickishness on the shows and his slime-ball heelish ways. Now we gotta find out how Telos fares without him.

 

It warms my heart to see at least someone enjoyed the match and the angle at least a little bit after having it totally disregarded, ignored, and vocally bood in the VP. Jokes aside, I enjoyed the feud with Telos and expanding on Tayy's character, but it was clear to me from the moment he re-emerged at Devil's Night that it wasn't going to be received well. Telos is awesome and I hope he uses the exposure to bounce himself into the main picture. Sorry, bums! Tayy is sticking around!

 

I really enjoy the Alyssa Winters Twitch thot gimmick, it's a great heel shtick. I just can't see her being friends with Valkyrie though, it's just polar opposites personality-wise. LG hanging out with NE, like, what? I'm sure this friendship will be explained in time but for now that has me slightly puzzled as it brings all of Valks previous Face work into question. HEEL VALK CONFIRMED!

 

I actually think it's a fun nuanced friendship. The unexpected and contrasting personalities are a fun peek into Valkyrie's character as more than a vanilla super hero. She has complex relationships with people and this "outgoing mean girl with super fun nice girl" was a fun shock to me a few weeks ago. I see it more "interesting" than "nonsensical".

 

 

Thanks for your reviews you fuck!

[Lotus FloJo]

What a eventful PPV this was. Alrighty then, let's get into it.

 

Things that I liked

 

1. TLBS did well but Drago was just too much.

2. Like the finish to Tayy vs. Telos match.

3. Always nice to get involve in a feud. #Don'tbeaEmpress

4. That spot where Ashley had Valk in the seated position and Valk pushed Moore off and hit her with the knee.

5. That Six-man tag would have been better if not for that FPR break, but I'm not the person to talk. Glad B-17 won.

6. B-17 soloing it.

7. Ugh. Dragana lost and now femininity is gone from the women's championship. Only one and obvious opponent for Blaine. (Not me)

8. Wrex becomes CCW Champ. Another cunt. Feuds not over, I hope.

9. Pugh over Kass and H2Choke. (sorry love ya H20)

10. Mataudaaaaaaa

11. Can I call FAME The Horsemen?

[Justin Jehst]

Thanks for your reviews you fuck!

 

I would say "nonsensical" might be a little harsh, I didn't mean to come off that way. Maybe I'm just old school in that respect where faces and heels should be enemies, not to say it's not an interesting angle. It's just like Bayley hanging round with Mandy Rose or something I dunno. Maybe that's just me.

[Quartz]

I would say "nonsensical" might be a little harsh, I didn't mean to come off that way. Maybe I'm just old school in that respect where faces and heels should be enemies, not to say it's not an interesting angle. It's just like Bayley hanging round with Mandy Rose or something I dunno. Maybe that's just me.

 

Ehh, me using quotation marks when you never said that probably misrepresented your point a little bit. I just meant to use it to define the general point, but I didn't intend it to be damning sorry about that. I get what you're saying.

[EMP]

I don't have a lot to say seeing as this is the first PPV I've really been a part of and got to enjoy. So, I loved it. Did i feel a couple matches went on a little too long yes. But, honestly the Blaine vs Dragana each second of that match didn't feel dull the same for the Telos vs Tay match. I also felt some matches came off as short but, when you're watching it vs playing it time is kinda up in the air.

 

I enjoyed every moment of it and I re-watched all the matches even after the live stream on the web show. Since the RPs gave more context to some of the matches.

 

Excellent work everyone.

[Cort Marshall]

- Nice show teaser… taking the RKO isn’t a bad spot I guess. Cough. Might be relevant later on.

 

- I feel like Enter Sandman is such an obvious entrance theme choice that I can’t give it full props; good song though. Bobby Minio has a support structure of men who know how to grind, and Tyson Wagner returns from FPR exile to team with KD, who breaks FPR like chicken necks. I’m sure this will be a good combo. Not so sure about having an alt in the same group as the main; I guess it works with him tagging with KD but it kinda dilutes the group. Solid promo.

 

- MATCH: Drago Vs. TLBS

 

- Decent match, not much to say except that nobody is ready for Drago! Nasty bump on the table edge. Too many times TLBS turned his back… and was polite enough to follow FPR on the ground reversal at the end. Got uppercutted to kingdom come for it, though. Also, I didn’t know that was Matsuda until Quartz said so. If you’re gonna do something like that and haven’t been here in a while, give us a note please. I know some of y’all are fetishistically opposed to spoilers and/or super educated on our past, but I’d personally like to avoid an “it’s… it’s Christian” moment.

 

- Quartz promo. Not much to say, it was fine. Did its job.

 

- Same with Jackman’s, check yo grammar though.

 

- The way Capo writes “scumbag laugh” in with the dialogue makes me think he’s saying SCUMBAG LAUGH out loud.

 

 

- Some weird formatting here and there… coulda used another run of editing. But who is da mayun behind the mask?

 

- Lee bullies Terra but can’t spell “ne’er do well.” Typical! I swear Terra just exists to make everyone reading feel bad. Stand up for yourself, girl! OCW will ruin you!

 

- Nice concise promo from Winters.

 

- MATCH: Tayy vs Telos

 

- Telos is still crispy. Also his snakeskin jacket ceases being snakeskin around the shoulders. Good chemistry with commentary, though. They kinda wander up and down the ramp? Weird. Neither can seem to decide what they’re doing with the objects the other set up. Slight moonwalk. Tayy jumps and the game just decides he shouldn’t hit anything. Ouch. Crapple by Telos, but at least the resulting move looked nasty. Song reference chain on commentary had me laughing. Moonwalk again.

 

- Big miss and Tayy goes through the table… uh… doesn’t that mean he loses? Anyway, nice finish with the taunt and the Canadian destroyer through the table. Great touch with the crowd chant!

 

- Decent match, both players seemed a bit confused occasionally and it went a tad long… could do with less random reshuffling of table and chair positions, but the game is fussy. Commentary was 10/10 this match with the references and all. Ballsy play to have two of your alts in a match where you have to drop one--I know we all like Dillinger and I’ll miss a managerial presence in OCW, but it’s the right conclusion storyline wise for the face to win and complete his comeback/redemption.

 

- Are vengeance and revenge not the literal same thing? Anyway. Good promo, Damian gets over his dickitude while leaving the door open for Mistico to turn eventually.

 

- TLBS once again set back. Tom (who?) is right, and it’s surprising of TLBS to not attack him. His heel character has a few dimensions, it seems. Blacksmith takes his taking-to and remains resolute.

 

- Once again, nice video content from Empress. “What’s a Flojo,” they ask. Harsh.

 

- Valk--who, by the way, is NOT heel--is ding-dong ditched by Moore in an attempt to gain a countout victory. Thankfully she’s saved by her annoying friend and a fat dude with disposable income.

 

- MATCH: 6 MAN TAG

 

- Good action despite the clusterfuck, some parkers from Damian though. Nice spots where each team get to taunt in ring… Damian seems to crowd after most moves. Like H2O, but worse. The sequence of B17 coming back to beat up both members of Bourneistico was fun, but too long. He kicked out, what, twice, then Damian didn’t pin after a fin, then Damian kicked out… coulda gone shorter for sure.

 

- Note, when I disappeared, it was my PC crashing. That was one of four times that night. Seems to happen mostly when watching vids off the hard drive (tried multiple drives), and I had some artifacts on screen the next day… I think my GPU is dying, friends. Pray for me. I hate being unreliable.

 

- Blaine still a bitch. Solid antagonism between the two for the past weeks, with Blaine not being a full-on heel so much as just too much of a cunt to cheer for.

 

- Sweet justice for Tayy fans, although in my opinion it came too soon. Heenan had decades of annoying fans done with before he finally got thrown out...

 

 

- That video segment from Mugen and Drago. Great stuff. 100% goofy in tone as usual and that was the worst musical thing I’ve heard in my life, but it was very creative and funny.

 

- MATCH: Moore vs. Valk

 

- Valk uses the classic combo of taunt to get bodied. Jay with the skeevy skeevster gimmick on commentary! I thought I was the only one who inadvertently remarked on such things live. But uh. We also lost that recording. Anyway, curbstomp from Valk, ooh shit Decent match, short and clean. Moore was a bit outclassed but what can you do, it happens.

 

- Matsuda heads into a feud with Drago, aligning himself with his protege Spider and TTT. One addition to an already strong faction. More to come I’m sure.

 

- MATCH: Dragana Vs. Blaine

 

- Big match! This begins the quartet of matches I saw on stream, so I’ll have less in-depth notes as I don’t really wanna watch them again. I will say it was a very good, closely contested match, though the ending was a bit, well. In terms of pure wrestling I’ve never liked too many finisher kickouts--though I understand in a competitive fed it’ll come up. I’m not gonna hop on it as an FPR thing but I’m torn--personally I would have surrendered after the 2nd fin in a row. BUT it made for a dramatic match, a surprising finish, and it didn’t go too TOO long. B17 kicked out a lot in his other match too--maybe I’m just envious of people that can, but I feel like it sorta cheapens things when it’s like… which finisher will they decide not to kick out of. Still best match on the show up to this point.

 

- Uncrowned certainly have a sense of style… I often avoid describing Cort’s clothing besides “street attire” or "ring attire" because I find it a) boring and b) annoying to think of things like that all the time (writing out the fact he’s dressed normally, how the camera moves… commentary intros… so hard not to be repetitive), but doing it can get over the characters. Great promo…

 

- And they’re attacked by CQC! Discoostin’. A classic heel beatdown on some very good faces, will be a good feud match-wise and promos. Riot tag division is much more alive than when I was in it… I’ll take some credit. A little bit. But funny that AWOL won the titles when there was like, one other team, and then CQC won them from us when we were that one other team. Good luck to them. I’ve had enough tag matches for the rest of my goddang life. That and having to prioritize tag titles over singles feuds. That was also annoying. Harder to have a feud with real, you know, personal stakes. But this one might.

 

- And a great moment as Dragana finally speaks, struggling to get over whatever it is that stops her… we’ve had a glimpse at that with the “old country” video Johnny Law showed her and Blaine’s allusions to them both being “freaks.” Blaine shows respect for once! Good show. I do love those classic shows of respect after the tension… Bret/Bulldog ‘92…

 

- MATCH: Shepard (lol he changed his name cause y’all keep mistyping it, god damn) vs. Minio vs… It’s me! It’s me! It’s Dee Dee Pee.

 

- Dunno if I should talk about my own match, but my own inability to kick out doomed me to a loss but also a good finish. Had fun playing this, got to kick some butt for a while. The note I will make is that, with this and the Moore match, and Matsuda’s return… it all went a bit less smoothly commentary wise than possible. By that I mean, I didn’t know Matsuda was coming back. Had I had a note, I would have said something earlier and Jake wouldn't have had to cover me. Commentary on Valk/Moore didn’t know about the RP that set Valk up as being trapped, and I didn’t make it quite clear on my match whether my entrance should be a surprise or not. All three would have benefited from commentary having notes on as to what’s happening, so… I’ll do that next time.

 

- Promo I did at start was done via highlight reel and taunts that make your mouth move--there are like 10 or so, picked the most fitting ones. Ends up making a kind of bootleg RPG-looking talking loop, but better than standing there. Menacingly. Next time I’ll grab something from Pugh for a better text backing.

 

- Terra grows a spine and will not be bullied! Until the next time she is. Feels like some sort of anime villain origin story… everyone is mean until one day… superpowers and dead children… Elfen Lied fucked me up man.

 

- Burns is back and attacked! I laughed at the “9 minutes of leg attacks,” as did everyone else I’m sure. MJF… I mean Maxwale has potential. Reminds me of a malicious version of Tom from the Boondocks, with that dance ‘n’ all.

 

- Valk/Alyssa/Moore continues with you almost feeling bad for Moore, and Valkyrie wants to smooth things over… but the epic 1337 streamer ruins it. Damn twitch thots. Skyrim belongs to the nords!

 

- MATCH: Wrex vs. Trance.

 

- Loved it. What a slobberknocker. Just strike after strike after strike, felt like a real fight. One thing is, the Mistico cut I get is for a story… but I really liked the match, shame to see some of it cut. A smooth edit regardless, and a great visual with Wrex beating Trance with his own move after outside interference, and holding the belt high covered in raspberry jam. Old school, baby! Oh, and Trance didn’t conserve reversals for shit, he just kept relying on changing his timing to get moves in without being reversed. Crazy man.

 

- Shepard loses it! Lovely to see the heel freak out after losing. Sweet karma.

 

- Second Capo segment, some weird grammar again with past/current tense and so on. Loved the real enmity between him and Jehst, though. Felt like a movie. WHY’D YA DO IT, JIM????

 

- MATCH: TTTRIPLE THREAT: Pugh/Kass/H2O

 

- Great assortment of spots in this match, from H2O going all out at the start, to Pugh’s early pin attempt, to H2O trying for one too many immediate postmove attacks and getting surprise finned! Big win for Pugh, and after the match… VINCE MCMAHON IS THE HIGHER POWER! Or, Tiberius Dupree and Nate Ortiz. Big big returns this show, and OCW’s array of factions deepens. Now please let this actually result in some sort of faction war, Inception and TTT have been blue-balling me, poised to do battle but seem to have mostly faced off by proxy… I want WCW shit, gentlemen. The good shit, not the bad shit. You know what I mean.

 

- Great show. Nice and light on RPs, bunch of matches, huge returns and surprise title changes. Just get commentary some notes on surprise events or stuff established on RPs we won’t have seen.

 

- Match ranking, I’d say the three best matches were the last three on the card--maybe Dragana/Blaine can usurp our triple threat, I dunno. Wrex/Trance might have been my #1 but for the abridged/story conclusion, so the final triple threat edges it out.

 

- For segments/RPs, there was a lot of video content. Hard to choose, in terms of emotional impact Jehst/Capo and Dragana/Blaine postmatch are up there. Amusement factor, Drago and Mugen’s Matsuda voice crack song. Mechanically great writing, Uncrowned. Pick your poison…

 

- Final note: I do agree with Quartz, I think the Valk/Winters friendship is nuanced and fairly realistic. We all have that one friend who drags us into trouble. Maybe some of you don’t have friends. I don’t know.

[Bray]

Just for spoiling the end of Kingdom Hearts 3, I'm glad Trance got his ass beat.

[Lotus FloJo]

Just for spoiling the end of Kingdom Hearts 3, I'm glad Trance got his ass beat.

 

Petty.