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AJ Styles admits he’s ready to move on from TNA

11th February 2014 by Scott Keith

http://camelclutchblog.com/aj-styles-moves-dixie/
Sounded pretty passive-aggressive on AJ's part. Sounds like '97 Bret "I didn't WANT to leave" levels of disappointment, minus the public fuckjob.

Given hindsight, he should have left long before and taken his chances in the WWE development system.

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Scariest. Move. EVER.

11th May 2013 by Scott Keith

http://youtu.be/PfdDtMH0xQs

Dunno about you, but I had never previously seen this. F'n evil, man. Somehow worse than the idea of the same man coming off the top rope.

Yeah, I would not want to be on the wrong end of that one.

Meltzer actually had a FANTASTIC story about Andre and Dick Murdoch on the 3-hour Q&A podcast, as Blackjack Mulligan decided to put the Giant in his place by going all JBL on him with a sucker punch on the beach one day. Basically Murdoch was distracting Andre and then Mulligan came from behind and hit him with a punch to the back of the head that was supposed to put him down. So Andre casually grabs both guys without each flinching, 300 pounds each, by the ear like they were children, takes them to the water and holds them under to teach them a lesson. Apparently Murdoch preached the gospel of Andre's toughness until the day he died after that.

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Joe Gagne’s Funtime Pro Wrestling Arcade #40: Power Move Pro Wrestling

28th February 2013 by Scott Keith

Speaking of this game, I used to play Touken Retsuden for HOURS on the modded PS1. Good times.

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Move evolution

13th January 2013 by Scott Keith

Hi Scott. I've got a question for you (and the blog) about holds, and how they evolve.

I've always thought of the Million Dollar Dream/Cobra Clutch as a sleeper hold–i.e., a move that causes opponents to pass out, rather than tap out. But I'm pretty sure I've seen Sgt. Slaughter force submissions from it in the early 80s. And Rodney Mack's Blackout (basically the same move) caused opponents to tap out too.
Are there any other examples you can think of where the same move, over time, has been understood to have two different effects? (One might be the Kokina Clutch, which looks a lot like a sleeper hold with a bodyscissors.)

They don't really "do" sleeper finishes anymore, I've noticed. You get pinfalls and tapouts, but the old three arm drops just don't happen. In real life, the cobra clutch is absolutely a move that puts you out, as I've had it happen to me before. Maybe the justification is that you tap out to avoid passing out? Can't really think of anything else where the effects of the move change, although sometimes it "changes" because guys alter the application of the hold or get lazy with it over time or whatever.

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