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Blog Update: August 2021

 My goodness, it's been a long time since my last blog update, almost four months. For the most part, I've not had any interest in discussing my future plans, partly because they change so frequently, partly because it's just not as fun as jumping straight into something. But I want to discuss some things today, and build hype to what's coming next, because I have some very intriguing ideas for August. 



To start, I'm pausing/cancelling my WWE pay-per-view reviews, as I've reached a point where the product is too stale for me, and I need something more exciting. That was planned to be a continuation of my AEW reviews, but with Bleacher Report still yet to bring back their archive of Dynamite episodes and pay-per-views, that option remains off the table. I hope it won't be for much longer, with All Out coming in about a month's time, they'll need some way for customers to pay for that event, so maybe the folks over there will have something sorted out by then. In the meantime, I need something to review, which is how I came up with a brilliant idea; just check YouTube. Wrestling promotions have uploaded tons of content over the years in an attempt to convince new fans to check out their product, and I'm ready to go mining through that potential gold. Keep in mind that everything I'm about to talk about is available for free right now, and as I do these reviews, I plan to include links so that anyone interested can check out what I'm discussing, completely free of cost. 


Over the next two weeks, I have planned two sets of three reviews, one for this upcoming week, and one for the week after. We start with a return to TNA/Impact Wrestling, a company that has always understood the appeal of promoting through YouTube, and have uploaded a number of entire pay-per-views, just for the heck of it. The three I'm reviewing are Lockdown 2009, Destination X 2012, and Bound for Glory 2012. Each feature an intriguing main event, beginning with a legend's clash between Mick Foley and Sting, then moving to two acclaimed bouts featuring Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, and the beloved Jeff Hardy. As always with this company, there will be a large variety of content through these three shows, and I think the three reviews are going to be a lot of fun to make. 


For the second trilogy, I'm going off the beaten path, and doing something I've been wanting to do for a while, as I make a trip to the East Coast to finally review some Ring of Honor. In an effort to hype up their 19th Anniversary Show back in March, they uploaded 19 matches, one from each year of their existence, into one uber-long video, which ended up totaling over 9 hours. I plan to break down this marathon of wrestling into three parts, each one consisting of about 3 hours of content, standard length of the pay-per-views I review. This is a project I'm very excited about, as I get to dive into a treasure trove of the best the company has to offer, which I think is a great way for me to get acclimated to a largely unfamiliar product. I'm not certain these three reviews will be as popular as the first three, but hey, if pure wrestling is your jam, I think you might love this. 



At the end of these next two weeks, I'll re-assess the situation with the AEW archive, and if it's still missing, that means more creative ideas will need to be found. But for what it's worth, I came up with these plans just last night, so I'm confident that I can find something more to fill time. 


- Henry

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