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They actually are pushing Miro...they just brought CJ (as his "hot and flexible" wife) in for the storyline. He's in a program with Powerhouse Hobbs and it's just getting going but has been good so far. They definitely wasted him for a long time, but I'm hoping he's going to be a focal point for collision going forward. I don't have a lot of faith in TK booking, but it should be hard to fuck it up given how good both guys are and the fact CJ is actually a fantastic promo (loved her as Lana), plus collision seems to do more pre-tapes than live promos which is where they really shine.
Kurt is from the other end of Pittsburgh from me. He's kind of a local celebrity but interestingly his family is somewhat notorious for being kind of stereotypical violent trashy yinzers. Eric (the one that WWF used as a body double) got caught selling roids and got thrown out of a youth wrestling tournament after chokeslamming an 8 year old - I wish I was making that up. I cant remember if he got arrested for that one but he might have. Kurts older brother killed his wife by dragging her off the couch and standing on her chest while pulling on her arms and caved in her chest. Again, wish I was making this up. Iirc Kurts sister died of a heroin overdose as well. When Kurt talks about his demons, a lot of people don't realize how deep they run... I suppose they're kind of like the Pittsburgh Harts in a way.
Pittsburgh doesn't have the best wrestling tradition aside from Bruno and Kurt haha. We can also claim Shane Douglas, Corey Graves, Britt Baker, Rob Conway, and Elias but I'm not sure why anyone would want to.
Oh I guess there's Denucci too...Foley tells some pretty great stories about training with him in his first book. He's always been really good about showing love to us when he comes here because of that and the fact hes forever linked with the city because of Hell in a Cell 98.
I’d like to add Foxcatcher into PA wrestling tradition. Angle was there
Virgil’s from Pittsburgh.
Good call, I can't believe I forgot him... I used to buy smack off someone in the Wilkinsburg area that claimed he was related to him. He constantly shorted me so given all the stories about Virgil in retirement I guess I believe it haha.
You just reminded me of this legendary tweet from last year
https://twitter.com/TheRealVirgil/status/1575291603299753984
And that reminded me of the story in Foley's book about Virgil getting to Memphis? (Might have been a different territory) and walking around naked all the time bragging about how big his dick was until Rob Fuller showed up and put him to shame. Foley said he never quite recovered from that haha
I was going to embed this but it might qualify as nsfw depending on where you work.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDI6KAdWMAEj1K_?format=jpg&name=medium
I heard Virgil doesn’t actually write any of those tweets. It’s some white guy who runs his account like the Iron Sheik had.
I’m going to my second AEW Grand Slam tomorrow night and I can’t wait.
Also headed to the Burgh this weekend and may have to skate the Atwood lot and maybe Milliones if I’ve got some free time.
Fuck dude when are you gonna be here? I'm actually going up to slippery rock for the weekend to visit some friends. You picked the first weekend in like months that I won't be home hahaha.
Milliones was a little messy on the run up a few weeks ago but it's nothing a good sweep or a bigger wheel can't handle...shits still an accidental skatepark haha. I have no clue how Evan Smith and those dudes skate the big bank, last time I looked at it the cracks were so big vines were growing out of it. Really is the quintessential pgh spot though and its been cool to see it still poppinf up in lakai and thrasher videos recently. I got broke the fuck off bombing the hill down to centre a few years ago and I get still like mild ptsd when I walk up it haha.
Have you heard about our new DIY? It's the old boundary st playground down in panther hollow and it's pretty fun. I think it's marked on Google maps but if not just take centre away from downtown til you hit Neville St, then hang a right and follow that all the way down into the hollow, once you get across the train tracks and under the bridge boundary st will be your first left. 5 minute drive from Milliones. You could probably skate it almost as fast if there was no such thing as traffic because it's basically downhill the entire way and you know how steep those hills are haha.
If you haven't been to radio yet definitely check that out if you're passing through Bloomfield and have a minute. They always have great shop tees. If you need a board or anything else just lemme know and I'll leave it with the secretary or stash it somewhere for you before I leave.
I should be there Saturday afternoon. Staying in East Liberty.
Crazy to think I was skating Milliones 23 years ago. I always had fun at that spot, even with seasonal allergies. I did classroom observations there as an undergrad and lived in one of the fraternity houses right by it.
I hadn’t heard too much about the DIY in Oakland. I’ve skated the DIY by church brew Works in Bloomfield. I know that one’s come along way since I was there last. My friends built that one.
I always hated going to house parties in that part of Oakland.
Haven’t been to radio yet, but I remember when it was overcast. I know they had some issue with a fire or some thing. I’ll probably go check radio out while I’m there. I was around for when One Up first opened. My friends opened that shop. I used to skate 885 all the time on weeknights during the winter. Those were fun times.
Grand slam last night was pretty fun. I can give you guys spoilers for rampage if you want. One funny thing that they did off camera was they got Daniel Garcia to talk Tony Kahn into doing that dance lol. I actually really like the Sammy Guevara - Don Callis partnership. Dan Calais got so much heat when he talked. You couldn’t hear him because of how loud the crowd was. It was a complete shut out. The last two performers I saw get shut out due to heat were Elias at an NXT show when he first used the Drifter gimmick and Dan Lambert at the first Grand Slam.
They put more emphasis on rampage than they did on Dynamite. The Moxley pin botch definitely weird to see in person. The crowd was also very anti-Claudio and pro Kingston. I figured that would be the case with New Yorkers.
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