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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 1h

Horror month kicks off with the famous Fire Match between Carlos Colón and Hercules Ayala. It’s a hot angle, but @colettearrand.bsky.social expected a singed eyebrow, if nothing else. 🤼

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Carlos Colón and Hercules Ayala Walk Through Fire

Carlos Colón and Hercules Ayala pioneers one of wrestling's most incredible (and incredibly risky) spectacles in Puerto Rico.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 8h

Or is it all treats no tricks? Find out this month.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 8h

It’s October, so @josephweirdness.bsky.social and @colettearrand.bsky.social are doing HORROR MONTH, featuring a fiery bloodbath, a Halloween Havoc classic, Leatherface, and La Parka. All tricks, no treats. 🤼 🎃 🔥 🩸

BIG EGG Horror Month

Carlos Colon vs. Hercules Ayala (WWC 9/10/88)
Vader vs. Cactus Jack (WCW 10/24/93)
Terry Funk vs. Leatherface (IWA Japan 11/17/94)
El Hijo Del Santo vs. La Parka (Monterrey 12/23/01)

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 8h

Joseph and Colette bring rematch month to a close with a MASTERLIST post about the big, famous Chigusa/Asuka clash from 1986.

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Chigusa Nagayo vs. Lioness Asuka

PLUS: It's October, so BIG EGG is doing horror stuff. Blood, skeletons, and Leatherfaces!

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 7d

Nitro posts usually live behind the paywall but this one is free. It also has screenshots of every low blow that took place during the show. There are more than four. *Ric Flair* hits more than four.

Rey Mysterio kicks Scott Norton in the yambag.

Scott Steiner mule kicks Booker T in the nards.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 7d

NEW WCW MONDAY NITRO MASTERLIST, covering the 3/8/99 episode of Nitro. Three hours of show, zero hours of wrestling until hour two, but then you get Flair/Goldberg, Mysterio/Norton, AND Hart/Hammer? All that and a million kicks to the dick! 🤼 READ:

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A Kick to the Dick Is a Kick to the Dick (Except in WCW) | WCW Monday Nitro 3/8/99

“It feels good to tell the truth. I love telling the truth.” - Hulk Hogan

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Joseph Montecillo @josephweirdness.bsky.social · 28d

Thoughts for @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social on Chigusa vs. Asuka from 1987.

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Nobody Fights Like Sisters

There's never been a sisterly dynamic in pro wrestling quite like the Crush Gals. Not even real, blood sister tandems in wrestling like the Bellas or the Hamadas ever really get close to what the Crus...

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 12d

Everything about the Chig/Asuka clash from 2/26/87 rules until AJW decides, without the benefit of 100 years of wrestling rules guiding them, that there MUST be a winner. New from @colettearrand.bsky.social 🤼

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The Crush Gals Meet the Moment. AJW Does Not

The Crush Gals EXPLODE ... but AJW does their best to put out the resulting fire.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 21d

They were right to move the event into a ticketed arena for 1996 but there is a universe in which Hulk Hogan joined the nWo on a literal beach, Hogan talking his trash to the literal sea. Kevin Nash’s hair luxuriously voluminous in the ocean breeze.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · 21d

WCW would sometimes be like “fuck it let’s put a wrestling ring on a beach” and that’s why WCW is the best.

A wrestling ring in the middle of a sea of people in a literal, boardwalk-ass beach.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s a perfect TV show. No notes.

BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Sep 8

People are probably right about Mongo McMichael not being a good fit for commentary, but he was hired because Bischoff wanted to emulate Monday Night Football, but the formula rules. WCW had like 3-4 teams in 1996-1998 that were varying shades of great, a mix of knowledge and personality.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Sep 8

WCW Nitro was an incredible television promo where Larry Zbyszko would invoke the name of some old French catch wrestler who wore ballet shoes, get made fun of for Tony Schiavone for it, and have Mike Tenay back him up in extolling the French ballet wrestler’s virtues.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Sep 8

I looked up and saw this sign on Nitro for a split second and, only registering the words and a hand tenderly cradling a bump I thought someone had brought Larry Zbyszko mpreg to Nitro.

A man proudly holds a sign that says “This is what the nwo is going to do with Larry Zbyszko,” featuring an out of work Larry Z wearing a barrel like a depression-era cartoon hobo.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 24

It may not live up to the lofty highs of the original, but Toby/Necro has some of the sweetest punches you’ll ever see. New from @josephweirdness.bsky.social

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Fans Bring the Weapons, Necro and Toby Bring the Punches

It tickles me to imagine innocent basketball games played by middle aged men trying to get their weekly exercise in at the Oolitic Community Center. The rhythmic thudding of footsteps back and forth o...

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Andrew A 🍉 @arvidian.ca · Aug 22

Worth it at twice the price (and more)!

BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW Monday Nitro MASTERLIST, covering the final two Nitros of 1995. Madusa! Lex wrecks the American Males! Guerrero vs. Flair! Meditations on television presentation, John Cena’s entrance, The Giant’s frog splash, and more! Read it for $2!

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The Last Nitros of 1995 Shock & Go Down Smooth | WCW Monday Nitro 12/18/95 & 12/25/95

Madusa drops the belt in the trash. The Giant goes for a frog splash. Lex Luger faces The American Males. This. Is. Wrestling.

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D'anclaude, Buggy (Not The Clown) @lookofthesound.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎵american males, american males🎵

BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 22

THIS IS WRESTLING

Marcus Alexander Bagwell, fist pumped in triumph, hair INSANELY nineteen ninety five.

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW Monday Nitro MASTERLIST, covering the final two Nitros of 1995. Madusa! Lex wrecks the American Males! Guerrero vs. Flair! Meditations on television presentation, John Cena’s entrance, The Giant’s frog splash, and more! Read it for $2!

www.bigeggwrestling.com/the-last-nit...

The Last Nitros of 1995 Shock & Go Down Smooth | WCW Monday Nitro 12/18/95 & 12/25/95

Madusa drops the belt in the trash. The Giant goes for a frog splash. Lex Luger faces The American Males. This. Is. Wrestling.

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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · Aug 22

THIS KID WITH THE FLEX WITH LEX WRITTEN ON HIS FACE YAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

a kid at a WCW show who has the words "flex with lex" written on his face

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 22

THIS IS WRESTLING

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · Aug 18

Suzuki has come here to destroy Toru Yano, the same as anybody else. He will leave this match with a Toru Yano problem, something he will never figure out within the context of this tournament.

The next entry in YANO SEASON from @colettearrand.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/arrand_yanos...

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 13

Rematch Month continues, this time with a billed rematch between Necro Butcher and Toby Klein! It's longer and arguably more brutal than the original, but for @colettearrand.bsky.social, what's lacking is some of the original's charm.

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Necro Butcher & Toby Klein Go Bigger, But Not Better, at KotDM 2004

Like a rose from hardcore wrestling concrete, a lesser rematch emerges.

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · Aug 8

You have agreed to accept two things:

1. Professional wrestling is a simulacrum of human competition.
2. Professional wrestlers are simulacrums of the human condition.

This week's YANO SEASON from @colettearrand.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/arrand_yanos...

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 8

Gonna hold 1/4 of a star against Joseph forever

Joseph Montecillo @josephweirdness.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kazuchika Okada vs. Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017 4/9/17)

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Kazuchika Okada vs. Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017 4/9/17) - Joseph Montecillo

This review was commissioned by Nicholas Anderson over on my Ko-fi account. Without hyperbole, a mythic match. There’s so much wrapped up into this bout that it will forever exist beyond itself. The m...

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BIG EGG @bigeggwrestling.bsky.social · Aug 8

ROUND TWO, Y’ALL

Toru Yano

vs. Doc Gallows (2015)
vs. Shingo Takagi (2019)
vs. Hirooki Goto (2020)
vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (2020)

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · Aug 8

You have agreed to accept two things:

1. Professional wrestling is a simulacrum of human competition.
2. Professional wrestlers are simulacrums of the human condition.

This week's YANO SEASON from @colettearrand.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/arrand_yanos...

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