Welcome to the inaugural edition of Wrestle Threads, your go-to source for thoughtful wrestling discussions! In this first issue, we'll dive into some major moments that have shaped the wrestling landscape recently. Let's get started!
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Forbidden Door 2024 - Mercedes Mone vs Stephanie Vaquer
💭 - The match was decent. Stephanie Vaquer is a polished wrestler. Mercedes did some interesting things during the match. Now if only her personality and robot talking skills didn’t overshadow how good she could be and not get the hate she gets. She doesn’t need to play a character all the time especially in certain kind of interviews. However, this match was decent, and a little slow in execution of moves. The spots were obvious, and I wish there was more selling in between waiting for these spots.
📼- Tape Study Series Reaction match: Stephanie Vaquer vs Mercedes Mone
📼 - Tape Study Series Reaction match: Stephanie Vaquer vs Giulia (Stardom - Cinderella Tournament)
(More info about where to watch my reactions coming soon.)
AEW/CMLL/NJPW Fumbled Stephanie Vaquer as she makes her WWE debut soon as CONFIRMED by Shawn Michaels himself?
📢 - The Internet Wrestling Community and spearheaded by Uncle Dave will have you believing that Stephanie burned bridges, CMLL/NJPW were super upset by her actions of signing with WWE, that Stephanie didn’t want to fulfill her dates, that Stephanie was always going to sign with WWE (we all saw the video floating around - this isn’t news to report and pass it as your own), and more. This is what happen in real time: Approximately around Tuesday, there were rumors about AEW and WWE being interested in signing Stephanie Vaquer. On Wednesday July 10, 2024, CMLL and NJPW released joint statements about the departure of Stephanie Vaquer and how she relinquished her two CMLL championships and has been taken off all bookings. Then on Thursday July 11, 2024, Stephanie Vaquer released her statement in Spanish. After her, Shawn Michaels - HBK - congratulated Stephanie Vaquer on signing with WWE, welcomed her to the team, and said that they’ll see her in Orlando soon. We are watching all this is real time. No “reporter” - not even Uncle Dave - knows nothing about this situation. We are ALL WATCHING THIS SITUATION IN REAL TIME.
💭 - Tell me your thoughts?
WWE superstars like AJ Styles & IYO Sky are in Japan to have matches in Pro Wrestling NOAH and Marigold
💭 - The partnership that WWE has going with Pro Wrestling Noah and Marigold and TNA is refreshing and is done right. It feels and looks even on the surface. All companies are helping each other by sending over wrestlers to create new fresh stories that have wrestling fans interests.
🤼 - AJ Styles vs Marafuji | 🤼 - IYO Sky vs Utami Hayashishita
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I'm excited about Pro Wrestling Noah's collaboration with WWE and think it's great for Noah to get more visibility with U.S. fans who may only currently watch WWE and AEW. Many checked out the Noah PPV to see AJ Styles, and I think they will keep following Noah now that they've seen their first show in its entirety. So, short and long term, the partnership will get more English-speaking wrestling fans to give this excellent promotion a chance, I hope. I started watching Pro Wrestling Noah a few years ago and really enjoy their shows, with the physical match style and hard-working wrestlers as a whole from top to bottom. I'm not sure what it will mean yet for the future of wrestling in Japan, just that it will hopefully result in more viewers to the product from around the world and that having WWE stars on the show may boost significantly live crowds too and attract more new Japanese fans to support and passionately follow Noah too.
Of course, Meltzer had to make it about his "team," and a lot of the other sites picked up on what he said being gospel. The portion of the IWC that actually pays this man good money to basically listen to a talk radio show and his "star ratings" amazingly have become his pied pipers despite the fact he honestly hasn't broken any news outside of All Elite in years.
A month or so ago I wrote a relatively innocent article about my journey with the "dirt sheets," which began out of a hourly radio spot at roughly 3 AM on the then-new WFAN here in New York in the late 1980s. It didn't quite get the traction I expected (9 out 10 commenters generally detest the man), as a few people who hadn't been around since Punk became a hit in his return to WWE suddenly reappeared to defend their beloved Unca.
As I was nearly suckered into a pointless argument, it hit me; Dave is working these people just like the promoters worked people during the carnival days. Ethically, this should bother me but the reality of it is he's providing a "service" that some people value and others try to base their own businesses after. I can't work that way. That's probably why I'm broke.
I'm new to Substack but not new to writing about things that mean something to me, so unless this place throws me in the bin out of a thinning of the herd, I'll be happy to chop it up with you about people in stretchy pants and whatever else might come along!
Fuck yeah! (That was my initial reaction to reading your comment. lol) Totally understand. I don't like that either. I wouldn't want to make up BS with the golden gate ticket of: Subject to change for when things get proven wrong or getting called out on a report, you know? I rather be truthful to my friends and fans I've made along the way, and we can celebrate wrestling for what it is. Glad you're here. Thanks for sharing your journey! Love it!
Remember what you tell the people you work with. We're not competing, we're killing it!
I'm excited about Pro Wrestling Noah's collaboration with WWE and think it's great for Noah to get more visibility with U.S. fans who may only currently watch WWE and AEW. Many checked out the Noah PPV to see AJ Styles, and I think they will keep following Noah now that they've seen their first show in its entirety. So, short and long term, the partnership will get more English-speaking wrestling fans to give this excellent promotion a chance, I hope. I started watching Pro Wrestling Noah a few years ago and really enjoy their shows, with the physical match style and hard-working wrestlers as a whole from top to bottom. I'm not sure what it will mean yet for the future of wrestling in Japan, just that it will hopefully result in more viewers to the product from around the world and that having WWE stars on the show may boost significantly live crowds too and attract more new Japanese fans to support and passionately follow Noah too.
Wholeheartedly agree. Welcome to the Noah family and the Squared Circle Podcast Hub. Glad you can join us. :)
I enjoyed AJ Styles vs Marufuji
And enjoyed Iyo Sky vs Utami
Wrestling is fantastic right now.
We'll see in some 6 months or so how the partnership with WWE and Japan pans out. I'm hopeful.
Of course, Meltzer had to make it about his "team," and a lot of the other sites picked up on what he said being gospel. The portion of the IWC that actually pays this man good money to basically listen to a talk radio show and his "star ratings" amazingly have become his pied pipers despite the fact he honestly hasn't broken any news outside of All Elite in years.
A month or so ago I wrote a relatively innocent article about my journey with the "dirt sheets," which began out of a hourly radio spot at roughly 3 AM on the then-new WFAN here in New York in the late 1980s. It didn't quite get the traction I expected (9 out 10 commenters generally detest the man), as a few people who hadn't been around since Punk became a hit in his return to WWE suddenly reappeared to defend their beloved Unca.
As I was nearly suckered into a pointless argument, it hit me; Dave is working these people just like the promoters worked people during the carnival days. Ethically, this should bother me but the reality of it is he's providing a "service" that some people value and others try to base their own businesses after. I can't work that way. That's probably why I'm broke.
I'm new to Substack but not new to writing about things that mean something to me, so unless this place throws me in the bin out of a thinning of the herd, I'll be happy to chop it up with you about people in stretchy pants and whatever else might come along!
Fuck yeah! (That was my initial reaction to reading your comment. lol) Totally understand. I don't like that either. I wouldn't want to make up BS with the golden gate ticket of: Subject to change for when things get proven wrong or getting called out on a report, you know? I rather be truthful to my friends and fans I've made along the way, and we can celebrate wrestling for what it is. Glad you're here. Thanks for sharing your journey! Love it!
Update! WWE announced that Stephanie Vaquer will appear at the WWE Mexico shows as her first appearance under the WWE banner! 🥳