Cort Marshall

I definitely think the shows are long enough to be tough to get through but I just don't see an all-pleasing solution to that. We book promos, people don't get to be as creative. We start pruning the less necessary promos, half the roster feels buried. We make another show, it's just shifting the content. I think it's just kinda how it is. Sure it fucks with us trying to get an audience, but for this specifically I think what would be better for hypothetical audience members would be worse for the people who make the content. I don't quite "enjoy" shows but if all the people who aren't 10/10 on the mic were forced into guided promos or booted off show, I'd enjoy them less. One of the appeals of OCW is that you don't get forced into a role by a booker or anyone, you do what you want to do on your terms and get over that way. In kayfabe, you put all this on video and OCW is a pretty tight show--about an hour of matches, maybe hour and a half, and probably 30 mins of promo stuff? It's just that it being in writing makes it long by nature--a 1 minute fight becomes 3 paragraphs. So in conclusion, besides Yukes not being incompetent tardwranglers and bringing back story creator for easy fun and quick segments... I don't think the length problem can be solved to please hypothetical viewers without sacrificing some satisfaction on the creative end. Ambition is basically our test run for a less wordy, tighter show like you want--and it's cool, but if someone told me I couldn't do my 6 paragraph America rant I wouldn't be here at all. I think the most likely path for future fans is with the Twitch streamed PPVs, commentary filling in casual viewers on the story, and video-focused formats like Ambition, while Riot and Turmoil and supplementary web content stay as-is to please us text wall types. Oh, and to grab casuals, our streams should be on intervals. Dates n times. X pm X day of the week, every time. That's how you gain viewers through attrition. Dunno if it's feasible to make weekly shows full commentary and streaming but... that's how you get views. Unless we wanna pay for advertisement or shill on the net? I dunno. I don't do marketing, I just try and hit passing children with soggy paper towels.

I think the best team is still Jake/Sensation but Rust was great for a first-timer. International flavour!

Saw the ME on YT last night, some great spots... have a lot of catching up to do but comments eventually. Maybe. Who knows!

So called because the fans won't stop telling TTT to "go home!"

Nah, nah... I can think of something more appropriate:

Thanks for the info but I forgot to catch up on promo room stuff, go fuck yourself

- Moore convinces Blain to help her take down Valkyrie… Blain could definitely be a Stone Cold esque face, but she’s heel by default if she attacks Valk. Though, I don’t blame her, I fucking hate Frozen. One note, if your character is going to be thinking something, and it isn’t in a highly edited pretaped style thing, might as well just have them say it out loud. It’s expository and weird, but that’s how wrestling is. - Another well-edited debut tease from Empress. With her and Keith here now, maybe Kass can finally shirk the chain of GRAFIX GUY? Listen, if him or Pugh try to talk you into taking a possibly cursed copy of adobe photoshop, refuse. It will bind you to do arena graphics via a soul contract. - Belle looks a little too much like a Bella, but I’m not gonna lie--I nodded my head to that theme tune. Sue me! Starts the match with a poison frankensteiner… first match and you go straight for the neck injury huh. Liking all the reversals that send her to the ropes, don’t see that very often--I assume only certain running moves/reversals proc it. Belle’s corner move late match looked weird, I guess Valk is so short it fucks up the mocap lol. No pin from Belle after the moonsault to the back, and she suffers the knee outta nowhere… but here comes Blain, with a hammer! That’s a bit over the line, even for what Blain THINKS Valk did! Thankfully Belle saves her from the chair afterwards… good match, clean editing on the end. Valk was in the lead the whole time but it wasn’t a squash, Belle held her own. No FPR issues that I could see. - So why DID Flojo get suspended? I swear it slipped my mind. I just remember her fighting Dragana and then being stuck at home playing with herself. - Slick editing with how the B17 ent fades in instead of cutting! I liked BEEE 17 BAAAAAALMER coming back before but now he has no hair again so that hair was a wig but that devalues his entire current quest, which is for a wig. THE wig, I guess, but still. Kind of steps on its own toes there. As I said in the stream, I’m tickled pink I could recognize the first match song--Clutch by Miami Nights 1984. Usually I mute matches so I can play my own music overtop and get two things done at once, but good song. Interesting matchup with a rookie vs B17, who’s a relentless motherfucker if you get behind on reversals because he combos eeeeverything. - Nice rope running sequence and a nice classic heel move from Hendrix by simply pulling B into the ropes… something old Cort woulda done. Headbutts with a helmet… somebody stop him. That’s clearly illegal. - Hah, I can even hear the cars from the music video of Le Mans. When B17 rolls into the ring after the chair drop, Keith does parker, so watch that. B does that weird thing where he just stands there and stares at the guy for 4 seconds before doing anything, it’s creepy. Shame about the countout, as Keith was keeping up better than I expected, but at least the ending of him swooce-ing out fits well. - One note to both Keith and Belle, both matches were good from an FPR and watchability standpoint, but one ingredient to add are flavour pins. In real matches people try pins more often--just because you can’t shoot win until a fin doesn’t mean you shouldn’t kayfabe try. So after big moves, try a pin to make ‘em look good. Or strategically to get more reversal regen time after a heavy combo! Or be a desperate heel and pin off the nutgrab because you wanna steal one, etc. - Long segment from the collective members of “The Experience.” Very good writing here, establishing Sparks as a seemingly nice enough dude and Bank as an IMMEDIATELY annoying heel. Congrats on getting out of the gate strong with that one, I was already going OH PLEASE, SISTER by the third paragraph. Many have tried to topple the pecking order… but 99.9% of yous FAIL! - CQC attempt a DX and try to blame The H20 Foundation for property damage and sic the Nation of Malu...nation… on them. That comparison got a bit tortured, but oh well. Great slimy but comedic heel shit. - To be fair, that kid’s sign was pretty trash. Empress vs Flojo huh? Should be a good matchup, unproven rookie vs someone who usually has good matches but struggles to put down the upper echelon players. Reminds me of… me! - Laughed out loud at the wet willy from Loki. He’s just B17 after his sanity meter drops all the way and he becomes hollow. - Loki’s music should be quieter so we can hear the pyro. Sounds like it was dubbed over instead of played into an arena. Rust’s genre-schizo music is interesting. Once again we see a taunt->get bodied combo. Rust coulda had a ground attack on that first reset. Fierce, strikey match as I’ve come to expect from these two. This ref must be stronger than the ref that Trance hit because he got up like “nah fuck that buddy.” Also apparently one person was watching this match. Was it you, Mikey? Rust falls flat on his got damn face and barely gets Loki with the running move. Botchamania! LAST RIDE for Loki… he didn’t go soft on that one either. B17 claims another victim with the “stand there menacingly” strat. - Finisher by Loki but Rust says PLEASE GOD NO and kicks out just before the 3. Somehow Rust manages to counter the flying punch despite the ref being in the EXACT FUCKING WAY. OUT OF THE SHOT, KID. Standoff… Rust is gettin nervous! Another kickout by Rust. Both men are down after a springboard… see that would be a great time to flavour pin. Both men exhausted and down. Though, he could actually win off it at that point. Loki counters a Rust fin! Weird move where Loki chops Rust after he’s already ran past… it supposed to look like that? Reminds me of that Shenmue counter the old homeless guy at the docks teaches you. Finisher counters everywhere! - And another postmatch attack… is this WCW? One of the things that happens when you’re all producing content separately and don’t let others know about it to keep the surprise from the audience--because we’re he audience--is “Dammit D’Lo” moments like this where we get repeated angles or spots. Oh well. Beatdown went long IMO; after all,Loki is just a random filler character and it’s not an angle or feud--you don’t always need to get your heat back. - I’m imagining Terra riding up on one of those little pink Walmart tricycles. I want you to know that. This bullying angle sure gets sympathy, but it also kind of reminds me of my childhood. Cheap heat? You decide. - Fucking cat ear headphones. Ugh. - Trance, the big scary guy in a blood-covered goat mask, kindly apologizes to the referee he splattered with his gravitational cross-body. Not quite sure about Wrex with hair--it makes him look a lot younger, less evil. More like… the other guy who isn’t Tim Allen from Tool Time. Or a millennial lumberjack, or some sort of motivational speaker who douses himself in aftershave and clasps his hands a lot. I like the Nasty Boys-esque jacket though. - *Would HAVE. - Like a classic heel, Wrex talks good trash and then gets his lackey to take out Trance. Nice and short, too, even though this one would have also fit a longer beatdown as well unlike the Loki annihilation. Back in the territories that kind of shit put people out for months! - I laughed that Lee isn’t ashamed of reading yoga books, it’s just books entirely. Also a good line with the “no, I’m gonna kick him in the face” line. Nice interplay between the characters with Aries being all rage mode and Lee being like “So? This is Tuesdays!” - Damian is now taking orders from Palpatine. Who could it be? I hope it’s DDP, here to stalk Jehst’s wife and then get fired a year later. Fuck you, Vince, the invasion ruined EVERYTHING. - God Bray looks all sortsa fucked up. Ginger, weird stringy beard, the glasses, the halo, the shiny shirt… I’m sorry but this is just throwing your entire fridge into a pot and hoping for gold. I’d say change the beard, hair colour, remove halo, make scarf just black instead of inexplicably organza, change shirt to white cloth. Then we’re getting somewhere. Fury’s got a nice look, sort of slimy clubgoer. - Oh god not the ass-to-face! Weebs don't WASH! I swear Jamie doesn’t reverse as often as he could. Is it strategy? Is he letting people get their shit in? Or is it just actual bad timing? Also does corner seated=ground move? Nice pin reversal off the powerbomb. Bray knocks down the ref and Fury attacks him afterwards, not a good week for refs. I woulda pinned after the airplane spin spot. Good ethics by Jamie after the roll reversal, lets Bray hit him after a whiff. - Spine to spine contact on that senton… ouch. Ref down AGAIN! Just get out of the way ya striped fuck. Misses a dive and taunts, smooth. Bray hits him with a… really low elevation Rock Bottom. Maybe it was the angle? Kick at 1. Fury hits the 2nd rope Perfect Plex… REEE! Bray hits a sig and taunts, sits him up and THEN pins. Mind… games? Nice finisher reversal by Bray and the 2nd Rock Bottom puts him away. Not gonna lie, at the start I thought Jamie was letting Bray win because he was playing as an alt, but it got closer in the end. - Damian’s CAW looks good, ripoff or no. Damian really takes it to Lee at the start… I see you on the outside, Mystery Hoe. Piledriver on a man as big as Lee can’t be safe. Damian tries a rollup thanks to Mistco interference… better watch out, hashtag squash puny mexican. Lee really isn’t pressuring Bourne on reversals, even though he has rev gain and Damian doesn’t; that’s where combos come in handy rather than just a ground move. I like how Damian leans down to shittalk and gets punched in the face. The taunts are very good here, appropriate for the situation, like Lee motioning for Mistico to get in the ring. - IF THIS POST IS STILL TOO LONG, READ THIS. NEW MECHANIC WITH CERTAIN PAYBACK. Or... maybe you all knew this already. Anyway. VVVVVVV - Bourne uses a payback, the momentum one I think, and it removes his heavy reversal debuff? Didn’t know it could do this. Dunno if this makes that ability balanced, because you’re giving up the anytime +1 advantage of the rev gain for a situational +2, or if it’s unfair because you can just freebie out of a heavy. My gut reaction was THAT’S SLIMY, but it would provide a nice safety net for people with heavies on their fins, and change the game so that a lategame heavy when everyone is legal to fin might actually be a bad idea rather than always a good one. Something to think about! - Mistico gets some hits in on the outside but Lee gives no shits, comes in and slams Damian again anyway. Mistico does so many grabs from the outside, if I were there I would been running out and slapping his shit. Quite funny that both men were in the super videogamey DIZZY state at the same time, next to each other. This game likes to pretend for realism but then the dizzy animation is like Streets of Rage or something. That springboard neckbreaker could a been a pin. Holy fuck that suplex from Austin with the one leg up is so nasty, just low elevation fast impact. Yet another ref bump! Jesus! - Austin finally gets Damian red--he was getting FUCKED UP earlier but he crawled back. Gestures for Mistico to come at him and he does, landing a quick kick before he can react, helping his partner up and leaving before the ref sees. Great spot. Damian tries something flippy but Archer just lazily kicks him and he lands on his head. That’s a Kevin Nash spot if I’ve ever seen one. Lee finally has enough of Mistico and slams him into the steps--this man plays so lackadaisical with reversals and yet lives. I love it. Unfortunately that leaves him open for Damian to hit his finisher and win, so maybe nevermind. - They argue postmatch and… another beatdown. Man D’Lo is really fucking this show up. Maybe we do need a road agent to say like… 8 other people are doing your finish this week? At least it wasn’t too long. - I hope this friend doesn’t turn on Valk by week three like the rest of them. She’s like female Sting. - Much better editing than before on this PSA from Jackman, though the “CHANGE” bit was goofy as hell. Backstage attacks, promises of new members… this is an interesting and unique storyline, with Jackman as deluded and crazy as ever, just dressed like a character from CLUE. One thing… the fucking beep is still too loud. Love having unique video content like this, but please spare my headphone-wearing ears. I’m already going blind, deafness would suck. - This promo has been established as going in the wrong place (smooth moves), but it’s a good one anyway. Though it does spoil an ambition result. Oh well! Thrace makes a good point that a 3 second pin is far from emphatic, sometimes. Kind of heelish of him to attack Damian first--proof that the Legion cannot be trusted. Join the NCR today! I’m eager to see how this man-mountain wrestles. - Is Ace’s character like the mercurial but harmless retard of OCW? Everyone seems to just go along with her despite her ass being kookier than a cherry pie on a stump in the woods. - Not sure about that horse head. Great rookie attention grabber, but doesn’t fit his serious character. Bad reversal by TLBS on the kick, gotta wait for that bar to fill! Jackman crowds in a bit after the pin. Jackman's moveset is very old school heel. He decides to bugger off, but then he reconsiders because of… what? Seems like there’s an action/thought missing between leaving and coming back to make him want to do so. Crowd reaction or something. Each man kicks out of a finisher, because fuck you Jim Cornette. TLBS hits the second pele, wins, aaaand gets kicked in the cock. Postmatch beatdown count: 56,241. - Good old quarter muncher arcade machines. I heard this one actually got pulled from locations after it snapped a particularly weedy child’s arm in two. No redos, Bubba. - Valk’s unnamed friend, the cigarette smoking diva, wants her to assert herself. I want her to stop watching Frozen. Please? Watch a better didney film like Atlantis or Treasure Planet or something. - This carnivore may have bit off more than he can chew. Geddit? It’s the Carnivore vs the Hunter. Interesting matchup, pretty big deal for a rookie to fight Drago… even if he loses BUG TIME. - Great, serious face promo from B17 after he stuffs a candle down his pants. -AND IT WOULDN’T BE OCW TURMOIL… without an awkward pause. - Nice job covering the belt being absent by saying it might get stolen by the Scummers. Wrex no-sells the FUCK out of a chop. He dictates an aggressive pace at the start, which commentary also points out. Main event RUN is too insider of a term to use IMO. Nice quick exchanges, but the ref is concussed from the events of the night and tries to run away in place like an anime intro. “How many brain cells does Wrex still have” was another good line; besides the insider type term commentary was very good. - Both men’s movesets are very well set-up, Wrex with power and striking brutality and Aries with the athletic facey stuff. Aries didn’t have to reset after he threw Wrex in with that reversal. Wrex stops midcombo? Hrm. Wrex sliiightly moonwalked the superkick on the outside but it mighta missed anyway. Nasty suplex similar to the one Lee used, only a 1 count. Everybody’s kickin out at 1 based on pride! Aries kicks out of Scumchester! Wrex is angry and goes outside, Aries follows--to his own doom. Wrex tries to take the countout but Aries slides back in by 7. Finisher out of nowhere as Jake makes noises… kick out! This is the kind of main event I can’t be in because I can’t do that shit. Sigh! Wrex the heel immediately tries a rollup. GTS but Wrex’s arm is under the ropes! - Wrex says fuck your spots and kicks out of a superplex at one. Wrex hits another fin but decides it isn’t enough and tries his opponent’s move! Reversed! Wrex is picked up… reversed! And Wrex says fuck it… if I can’t win, nobody can. Low blow, DQ win for Aries. Awesome finish, both men gave 150% and Wrex throws an anger/desperation nutshot. Fury comes in to assist in the beatdown, but Trance saves Aries… because he’s a nice guy or because #FUCKWREX? Also why didn’t Lee come out, dammit, that’s his partner! Oh well. - MOTN, for sure. I’d give 2nd to the Bourne/Lee match for the storyline of Lee almost triumphing over outside interference via sheer lack of giving a fuck. - Segment of the night is hard; The Experience had a very well-written establishing promo, Empress and Jackman had multimedia work, B17 did a rare heartfelt promo, and Austin/Aries showcased the differences between their characters. - I think I’m going to give the nod to Jackman on account of the unique format of the video content, NWO style PSAs that ALSO revealed new information happening on the show, like the attacks. Which to me were a bit confusing because they were implied to happen after Bray’s match and promos, so the pretaped promo looked like it had parts filmed just then… if you know what I mean. We can suspend our disbelief, anyway. - Good show, minus the fact that EVERY MATCH minus Bray/Fury and Hendrix/B17 had an attack. Just happenstance, but yeah, maybe we could have someone notify when something like that is gonna happen. Hard because almost everything gets in the last couple days before deadline...

Thanks for comparing me to the champ--here's another comparison: I've beaten Loki in DMs.

Still gotta do Turmoil big fella.

Le premiere comment oui oui EDIT: fuck you cobra

Y'all can keep arguing while I get RP of the night time and time again. No factions needed! :cool:

- Not sure if the rap segment was good or cringy. Like, a few of the lines are good, but it feels like it kinda wasn’t the right tone for the Inception group and comes off a bit goofy. But then again they’re fighting a faction lead by a dude named Spider who dresses up a lot. - Braddock’s CAW/ent are pretty bare at the moment but I see the idea and think it could be better with a little work. First, his face/beard/hair/body are well-done, they can stay as is. Foley-ish without being too similar. If you wanted to make him look really top tier like Green, you could use a face texture, but that’s not what’s holding the CAW back I feel. It’s the outfit. Simple is good, but his is so simple that it detracts a bit. Just some more details, even textures around the rips, or fake stains would help it stand out more. Pants also make him look like he has bigger hips/arse/thighs than torso but maybe he’s just naturally THICC. For ent lighting I’d keep it dark but maybe add some flashes, and remove the BRIGHT spotlights, which don’t fit his gimmick. More orangey mood lighting, like his ramp animation, would work. Ent motions and theme are fine and can stay as is. Theme is a bit generic but his motions work with it. Maybe a bit too surfer rock, could go with something more “insane.” - Note for Braddock on match strats: in situations like when Green had one reversal and you were down on damage, you can try and “force” a reversal to take them down to 0 and do more damage to boot. This is where pickup strike combos are useful, as they do a lot of damage and usually when the opponent reverses one, they are left standing. This can result in standing rev exchanges that drain revs fast if they aren’t careful--easier to repress the urge to rev on one small damage ground move than 6 punches. - Rollouts are generally a bad idea as they take reversals without giving advantage. Good for character work, though. Also you didn’t use your payback, and running away after he reverses you is a no-no. - Not a bad match, though nobody attempted pins until the win. Big moves look better if followed by a pin so you kayfabe don’t know who’ll win. Clean FPR by rookie standards. - Now more than one person is saying “X would” in promos. That’s not correct. Damian was the only person doing it before, but now it’s spreading. Not X would sit down, X sits down. Present tense, third person. Otherwise good segment with people casually interacting backstage, nice and realistic stuff that helps ground a company that often goes quite crazy. Now, this promo also reminds me--via Ashley’s eating habits, and the mention of Capo, who looks like the guy--of a Don Muraco promo… in my top of all time. Enjoy: - Pugh with some very solid stuff, throws Minio under the bus--with the hint that maybe he does care--and gets in a slapping match with naked Spider. Everything with Spider in verges a bit too silly for my taste in upper card feuds… but hey, Rock did it. I like the “you were out there 4 times,” line, along with the other references to Pugh being out of the loop. Or maybe the rookies are just beneath his notice. - CHUCK PALUMBO--wait, BIKERTAKER--wait, a midget on a--NO, it’s VALKYRIE! She makes a good point that in wrestling, you have many fair-weather friends… and H2O makes a tortured egg metaphor. EGGSCELLENT. EGGS 2 EZ. EGGS… 2… O. - Braddock attacked Doc earlier, but we didn’t see it. Damn you Devin Kunn! You no-toothed Duck Dodgers motherfucker! - Hey, they actually did have KD reference his son’s actions. Everett has an uphill battle ahead of him, against OCW’s local big guy (for you.) Uncrowned manage to make the most VANILLA possible babyface gimmicks work for promos, something I was never able to do. GJ. - Blain’s tron made me think she joined Asstianity for a sec. Valk’s pyro and pose go together great. We get a lockup, which Valk wins! Great quick start with the exchange to the ropes, and then some action in-ring. Good flow despite the misses. Valk seems to get the upper hand with quick combos and agility, but Blain eventually evens it out after some big hamsmackers on the outside. Valk nearly had head meet steps… - One minus may be the 85 rocker droppers/famousers I saw. - Good story told here, with Valk consistently coming out on top but not able to land a finisher to put Blain down, who endures a torrential asskicking to pull out her lethal fin for the win. - Like the postmatch angle, with Moore coming out to take credit for the win and pose on top of Valk. This will be a good feud, sure to elevate Moore, and I like how neither of them are quite pure face/heel. They each have valid points. - Twitter banter? A return from Buddy Burns? Or maybe not because they have no retweets? Still, a good use of multimedia for promos. I hope this variety continues. - Not much to say about P3 promo. Funny but perhaps getting old. I like ‘em but there’s been a lot. - Tre’s back, baby. He’s got his eyes on the pride title, huh? Well, he’s welcome to a match… once I grab it out of Shepherd’s sweaty palms. And whatever Minio intends to do with it, probably cry while spray-painting “C4ever” on it. Also him shittalking the hairdresser kinda reminds me of Black Dynamite… Euphoria, I knew it was you! Didn’t even have to LOOK! - Telos also wants the belt… looks like I’ve made it important. Good segment as usual with the duo of him and Dillinger, I think Dillinger’s char has perhaps longer legs than most in OCW--there’s always a demand for a heel manager, and he can Bobby Heenan his way from superstar to superstar, providing rookies a voice, regulars an ace up their sleeve, or even add flavour to alts. - H2O is “the good light” and has a bright ass ent, but his ally KD has a dark ent with a lantern… intentional? Not sure about this theme, though, it kinda needs a longer run to work (cut off mid lyric) and the lights coming up doesn’t match any dramatic motion or anything. Everett’s CAW/ent is as good as Doc’s, which is very good. - KD parkered while getting up. Also moonwalked off of a pickup by Everett. Mother of God KD stop moonwalking. Another crapple off the dodge roll reversal. That’s 3! Everett has used that leg sweep head drop thing a lot, is that weight detection? CAMEL CLUUUUUTCH!!!! Everett takes back control with a meteora to the outside. Nice clash with KD trying a clothesline but Everett hitting a dropkick, on fast speed looked like they took each other out. Big apron bomb, and KD beats the corpse’s skull in. Everett tries for a WARRIAH splash, but misses out on the 3. Love that move, very unique in OCW. Everett hits his suplex on KD, but gets clotheslined twice trying to follow up. - Match is much more exciting now, and the FPR is clean. Minus whatever happened in the cut, I guess, but KD hits his devastating looking fin and wins. Two pieces of advice for KD; lose auto rev, it sucks. Rev gain is great and even better for a superheavy with only three revs. Also quit moonwalking on reversals or getups, if you had rev gain you prolly wouldn’t have to. Nice ending as the two shake hands, though. I’d say Ev proooobably woulda won minus the FPR bizness. - Interesting idea here. Someone better beat up that child for calling Dragana a bitch! And for calling Blaine a man! Not only is that rude, I happen to like women who look like men. Interested to see what kind of events Law comes up with… I expect American Ninja Warrior with real weapons before this is over. Welcome… to the chunderdome… - Love the way they integrate Moore’s social media gimmick with this feud, feels very much like a real feud. Valk says what she always says; it’s not over till it’s over. - Quartz talks POOP. Well, he can go to HECK. Big win over Lee, though. Legend Killer Quartz? HEEL WERK as he immediately rolls out like a coward. Lots of big moves from both men… Lee resets really close. Is this an old school thing? Deadlift powerbomb from Quartz… don’t pull a muscle, kid. Quartz gets suplexed into the corner… unsafe. Surprise Black Phonics after a corner reversal and Quartz gets the W in ten minutes flat. Very clean match and big win. - PREVIOUSLY RECORDED--note to Jay, complaining about having a lot of non-live non-arena vignettes is stupid because they logically HAVE to be pre-recorded, that’s how wrestling IRL works and how it has to work here to allow these things to happen. It’s one line above an RP to indicate how it fits logically into the show shootwise. Stop bitching. - Anyway, Harvey has to exercise the demon inside Heather. Treadmill, pilates, you name it. Wait, no, exorcise. That makes more sense. I wonder if this will lead to them splitting into two chars, or will Heather vanquish the demon inside? She is just trying to lead her motherfucking life, after all. This shows what a facey face H2O is that he’s willing to do this for his cuh-razy ex. - I don’t find the DEEZ NUTS jokes that funny, but YMMV. - One day Terra’s gonna suggest fake meat to the wrong person and get murdered. Good segment, but just another one to establish her char without a real direction to it. Not that everything NEEDS a direction, but it's harder to comment on stuff like this without just grunting "GOOD" like some sort of caveman. - PUGH VS SPIDER. When Pugh clotheslines him he falls before any contact… BOTCHAMANIA! I like how both men taunt then get bodied, the truest combo in all of the OCW meta. Like the “eh fuck it” powerbomb. Pugh moonwalks a rev following the dropkick. Laughed at the “concussion protocol” line, but that’s a brainbuster. Pugh tries a veteran/pussy move and leaves the ring, but Spider gives him and eye rake and his own damn finisher! Nearly a countout. The spot where Pugh gets in, gets back out, throws spider into the barricade, gets back in, looks like he’s not gonna follow up but then dives… and misses… is like an early series Simspons joke: it’s layered and just when you think it’s done, it’s not. Then Spider taunts and gets kicked in the chest. What a spot! Dunno why he grabbed the hammer though. Missed springboard into the move nobody kicks out of… but he kicks out. Pedigree countered into sleeper! Fantastic match, lots of spots, organic. Definitely ME material. - Overall good show, just watch the damn FPR! I’d award MOTN to either Valk/Blain or Pugh/Spider, with segment going to, uh… I dunno, actually. It was all good but nothing stood out to me… maybe the Insta photo of Moore pinning Valk? Yeah, I’m gonna go with that. Not as a pure single segment of the night but more a nod to the dimensions and good planning of the angle. Inception/TTT is probably going to be the biggest angle of the company soon but it’s not quite revved up yet.

Should have revyoo up by tomorrow. All I will say before then is yeah I forgot to censor the no-no words. Sue me! Glad people liked the segment though.

It's more close to being goofy by being a mostly-single colour attire than by any details, if you had the wrong material or colours you'd look like a condom or some kind of low-rent power ranger. But the darkish, not super saturated satin blue combined with the details in gold etc make it look cool. So just don't switch to matte rubber next week and you're good. Let that be a lesson to rookies, subtle things in attire matter. Like an idea may be great but if it has a kind of dingy or flat texture, or the item simply doesn't fit on you, it won't look great. Materials are your #1 friend to play with here, you'd be surprised how much better something looks when it throws a good reflection.

- Awesome interwoven segments from Kass, H20, TTT and Pugh. Felt like real wrestling, like WCW/Monday Night Raw in the GOOD times when all the different factions and singles guys would face off and interact. One nitpick. I get Quartz doing the H2O chemical name thing but it comes off a bit tortured if you say it out loud. Otherwise probably my favorite segment in OCW history (that I’ve been present for.) Very realistic. - The reading glasses and phrase “videogame discs” really do make Pugh feel old! Quartz still only starts talkin' shit once his back is turned! - I see Code’s watched some NWO clips. What a coincidence we both decided to do the same gimmick on the same night… dammit D-Lo. - Telos has a nice theme but why is his face sunburned. Meanwhile MJF looks like someone’s dad wandered on set. I like MJF’s RUNNIN WILD dance taunt, I’M WINNIN MOM WEE HEE HEEe. FPR break end of match but I’m sure someone will get to that before me. Ground strong strike signature then fin. - Forgot where in the show this was so the comment goes here. Damian gets his first taco that he didn’t pay for on a street corner. - Why is B17 paying Mugen royalties? - Coolidge keeps heelin’ it up as he beats down Ant Man in the hallway with the help of CQC. Again another interwoven segment… KD’s a face but his son is a heel. He better beat some sense into his progeny! - Those are LITERALLY Rude’s tights Jackman. C’mon. Hendrix’s ent is amazing with that rockin’ guitar, purple filter and even a twitter feed! This man knows how to use a video editor. Excommunicate the witch immediately. Nice attire too. - Good FPR by code letting him up from the reversal on the ground. BIG mistake not beating the fuck out of him after that heavy reversal though, if you’re using 2 revs you gotta do some damage or you’re right fucked. Also don’t parker when coming in the ring, that’s a semi reset. 2nd parker as he gets in, bad Code. Sucks to lose after you get their reversals down like that but what a finisher. Norman Smiley just killed a dude. Good FPR for a rookie, Keith. Jackman… ya just gotta optimize when to use/keep reversals, and make sure you get BEEG DAMAGE out of any heavy. Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em. - “Capitalist goon” is a great line. - HELL YEAH NATOLI JOE CAMEO! BIGGER RETURN THAN PAUL PUGH IMMINENT? AND WILL QUARTZ GET IRL ANGRY AT ME FOR THAT LAST LINE? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON DRAGGIN ballZ! - Twitch thot is an amazing heel gimmick. AC Cobra’s new love? They better do an angle. I figure this is an alt because the writing feels too clean for a new person... - Bourne and Benji big timing a rookie? HYPOCRISY I SAY. BOMBACLAT! - I hope Moore touches one of the unicorns and gets thrown out of a window. I’m interested in this going forward, seems like a great opportunity for both comedy and character development. Valk’s house rules are a tad… sheldonesque. I just don’t want people pissin’ on the toilet seat. - I don’t think Ryu’s headgear is regulation… gonna put someone’s eye out with that ya Darth Maul lookalike. Or maybe Voldo? - Drago looks cooler in a big shirt than most people do in detailed attire. Drago lands chest first on a seated opponent’s head… argh. And Drago lives up to Shane o-Mac’s motto by absolutely waffle-stomping Spider. So bad it might even be considered a pancaking. Dough the humanity! - Doc comes out solo, and actually puts up a good fight against the two men. Even ballsy enough to taunt in their faces! Unfortunately it’s not enough and he gets put down. That rope bounce to straight punch combo is nasty. Looks amazing. Kinda mad I didn’t think of it first. Use it more Quartz! Everett returns and the faces manage to scarper the three heels against them… lookin’ strong! - I didn’t know Flojo was a Cort mark… there are tens of them! - Laughed out loud at Bournistico’s attires, love it. Why was the Go Ninja Go song so damn quiet, though? It was at like whisper level. Never thought I’d say this, but turn the Vanilla Ice UP! Same with C Community’s theme as well, actually. Jackman’s dressed like Dick motherfuckin Tracy here? - Senton with a shell seems… illegal. - Start of the match is very co-ordinated, like it was a real match. Flowed really well. From the reversals and outside action at the beginning, to Damian getting caught with no revs and Mistico trying to intervene only for Bray to lay them both out. Bray shoulda tagged! Great tag moves from Bourneistico as Bray’s hubris keeps him in the ring. Finally Betaman gets in the ring, but heel tic tacs keep Bourneistico in the advantage. The Rock says NOPE as Betamax gets his ass viciously DDT’d. I like how all their tag moves use the shell. Nick’s in the danger zone but manages to reverse a fin attempt and do something fancy with Mistico’s leg, finally tagging Bray back in after getting lunchabled for a few minutes. - Another big heavy lets Bournistico hit their third tag move of the match, seeming more cohesive as a team than the animemes. Bray loves his irish whips (seriously like 70% of his moves this match were whips) and sends Mistico to every corner of the world before he says fuck it and tags Damian. Bray hits the first airplane spin I’ve ever seen in OCW, gets dizzy and flair flops. Great shit! Damian leaves Bray dazed and tags Mistico in for the finish, but no stairway! Denied! Nick pops off despite his partner eating floor… Bray finally gets a heavy and shotgun dropkicks Damian for the tag to Bates. Unfortunately Damian seals the deal with an eye rake into a finisher! - See, the match was so good I even wrote out a play-by-play. I usually don’t watch these things out of anything but obligation, but this shit had an actual story: Bray wants to be the hero but Bourneistico just want to win, and act as a unit. Tons of spots that happened organically and looked great, especially the flair flop. - Blaine throws Jay out of a bar and Dragana knocks herself out. Just another day in the hard knock life. - Another fancy video package from a newcomer, with only a bit of real wrestler stuff used so it doesn’t break immersion. Good shit! Will we come to fear the Empress, or will they leave after losing a match to a fat woman named Darryl? We’ll find out. - Blacksmith calls out DRAGO CESAR! The madman. I like the poetic nature of the line “darkness in a place where light should be the protagonist.” - Mguens entrenc gaev m,,,,e seziuuurr - Heterosexual B17 returns to a huge pop! Two tests of strength with B17 coming out on top--having hair means he’s 20% stronger--and stereo taunts. Great start. 3rd time round Muge wins the test… but then they both decide “fuck this” and go straight for the weapons. Imugenation on the steps! Crapple by Mugen. MUGEN! Two crapples. Stop that. - I don’t wanna play-by-play this match as a) I don’t want to spoil, and b) most of the calls would be “oh, that looks like it would kill you.” - Valk finally realizes the dark truth: fandoms are fickle. Especially wrestling fans. You arrive to a chorus of cheers every night, but then you get your face broken by a paraglider and someone yells at you to shut the fuck up during your return promo. Life hurts. She buries Moore, who can’t even heel it up in response. Really liking the layers in this. Moore is a rank bitch but you feel a bit bad… I smell a slow-burn face turn? Valk certainly isn’t heel here, she’s just RIGHT. Sometimes you need to get told why you suck. - Was Cobra donating to the other girl from earlier!? Also Telos wants the Pride title. Dream on. That shit’s mine in a few weeks. Nice character work from Cobra, Dillinger and Telomerase. - Love Aries’ tights. Lee’s shorts with that 70’s van stripe give a unique, legitimate fighter kind of look. Match wasn’t much to write home about IMO, but the ending was a holy shit moment. Bourneistico are all over the show… maybe talkin shit does get results. And another surprise after that… it’s everyone’s favorite Reichstaggfuhrenmuffinburnin, Wrex! Two codebreakers on Trance, who can now feud with someone who’s actually present. - Tayy is back. Not a bad face promo, just a little generic. Interested in seeing if he can take town Telus. I mean Telos. Fuck Telus though. Canadian internet is garbage. - Capo Genovese ascends to the heel we knew he could be… invested in this feud from day 1, though maybe we could have let Jehst have his success for more than one single show? Not sure I like the studio/films being part of this angle already, it makes sense for background purposes but I think it’d be better to have Capo secretly jealous at Jehst for making it this far and have Jehst keep his studio while the feud with Capo proceeds. Just a small nitpick but I’m never a fan of yoinking a face’s accomplishment right after they do it--feels very WCW Luger title win. - Dick Tracy cuts a promo… emphasis on cuts. Audio could be cleaner; some hard cuts and that BEEP is far louder than the rest of it. I like the presentation though. -Main event sponsored by the letter “O.” - H2O’s attire is SO close to being goofy but it looks great. Lots of detail and the right colours. - “Back in my day they’d just throw punches till someone stopped moving” is a diamond-tier line. - Clean match and H2O takes the W with a superkick… but who else but Bobby Minio to show up. Except we get SWERVED. Overall: Better show than any in recent memory. Everyone in the opening played their character to a T, alliances shifting, angles unfolding, and Damian Bourne somehow all over the show. A show of surprises. Best matches IMO were the Contendership Tag between anniemays and rookienays, and the Safety Zone Extravaganza. I’d give the nod to the tag, personally, due to all the quick action. I really thought I had the silver bullet this show with that videotape, but everyone else turned up the heat too. Seems like TTT has quite a few alliances forming to get them to shut the heyull up… good. Also, Shep:

Taking notes took like 3 hours, fuck me. Anyway great show!

They should deffo do the Mad Mike one with Stone Cold's Disturbed theme playing REALLY FUCKING LOUD over it

Hot tips boys. Will try to do better on commentary next time... whenever that may be.

The British are coming! The British are coming!

This episode of Hannah Montana took a dark turn...

No bulli. :(

Good stuff! Well-formatted, reads like a video (if you know what I mean) and an interesting/unique character. You write like Quartz, which is a compliment. Just watch out for mailmen.

The numbers, Mason. What do they mean!

Yes, but very quietly so he doesn't get a noise complaint.