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Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: September 28, 2013, 3:03 am
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Sweden! Oh your beautiful fjords, endless supply of blonde air
stewardesses (apprently) and pro wrestling. Yup pro wrestling. I
discovered this little gem of a PPV while searching for matches
featuring Jenny Sjödin. For those of you who don't know who Miss
Sjödin is she is a very accomplished grappler and pro wrestler.
Meaning she is a genuine hard case as well as a top Euro Joshi
talent. I had heard great things about her and wondered if she
was as good as all that. Turns out she is. Anyone who grew up on
All Japan Women and was trained by Fergal Devitt is pretty much
going to be all right in my book, but she has a star quality and
the skills to back it up.
That aside of course having watch the first match it would be
rude not watch the rest and I was pleasantly surprised. GBG's
Night of Thunder is a tight show in the European style with a
healthy dose of characters and a mix of grappling, high flying
and straight up brawling. It reminded me greatly of Chikara,
especially in its early days. The setting is a night club, but
they clearly look after their audience. VIP seating areas with
champagne hats a plenty. Their main crowd is pretty much what I
would expect to see at a niche indie show like Lucha Britannia
or Chikara; punks and hipsters on a night out you also get more
hipsters in the ring itself. Sporting sleeve tats and ill
advised beards hardly any of these guys are going to make the
cover of Muscle and Fitness, but they know their crowd and know
how to work. They even have one guy, Kid Gorgeous who is clearly
a total hipster heel, cutting a promo on how he has tricked out
his fixie in a calm moderated tone. Its in Swedish, but you get
the gist. Anyone who can take the piss out of their own audience
and fill a nightclub while putting it on IPPV is doing the right
things. The ring work is competent if not spectacular, the
outstanding performer is clearly Sjödin, she has the background
and training to make things seem effortless, but there are
competent aerialists with a good understanding of modern
wrestling.
The work is not state of the art, but that is no bad thing. No
one takes a ridiculous bump, no one is blading, in fact there is
not a drop of blood in sight and the fans are a lapping it up.
As Jim Cornette has said many times, when you do the big stuff
it's harder to make the small stuff work. You can often tell
more about a wrestling company from its fan reaction than you
can from the performances in the ring, really check out Terry
Funk in 70's Japan, the crowd sits their as quiet as lambs while
Terry gives it his all yet he was the most over gaijin ever in
Japan at the time. At a guess there are probably very few full
time performers on this card and it is hard to give your all
when you have work Monday morning. Much like the British
performers of old, who saved the risky stuff for when they
really needed to do it. The result is an old school feel and and
old school response. Some top comedy, (wrestling has the
international language of prat falls going for it), with some
seriously scary looking heels makes for a great few hours
entertainment. I am sorry I can't give you much more information
but their website offers the following clues to their existence;
GBG Wrestling started in 2002 in Gothenburg darkest docklands
and has since grown to become Sweden's most professional,
extravagant and impressive wrestling federation. GBG Wrestling
gives its audience an experience and feeling that can not be
found in any form of entertainment anywhere. Good is set
against evil, speed pitted against strength, cunning pitted
against honor - and blood, sweat and tears are sure to flow,
every time. You MUST see GBG Wrestling live to fully
understand, and to fully experience the priceless feeling of
being a part of the magical atmosphere created, the wrestlers
and the audience together. Intrigues and conflict followed up
in the ring and there is always something to make up for. Come
and look, roar, cry and cheer. Today is owned and controlled
GBG Wrestling unanimously by Lady Dolores, the union president.
There isn't a whole lot more to say about GBG. Just cause I
can't find much on them. They clearly run professional slick and
entertaining shows. So enjoy Night of Thunder. That's all till
next week.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: tnagirl
Date: September 28, 2013, 9:00 am
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Love it like away . Can you do anew us or uk wreslting one plz .
Loved the ECW one
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: September 28, 2013, 3:07 pm
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I shall see what I can find :). I like writing about stuff
people know less about because its more interesting to write and
I want people to find things that are new :). The UK companies
tend to be pretty tight with their full show DVDs and either
don't give them away or protect them really well. There are the
old World of Sport ones which I tackle on my blog from time to
time;
HTML http://secondsawayroundone.blogspot.co.uk/
They tend to be match by match rather than full shows though. I
shall see what I can do, there is more ECW stuff out there, and
some other indie show stuff that is interesting. I should do
some more Mexican ones as well. See what next week brings,
though I have some Joshi lined up for the Blackberry to watch on
the way to work. So that maybe next week. Stay tuned and see
what comes up :).
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: 01332tnafan
Date: September 28, 2013, 4:01 pm
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I love reading them , but I loved the old ECW look back one more
because t was fun to read how it was made and what went wrong so
fast etc
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: September 28, 2013, 4:08 pm
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Then I shall slip another one in there when I get chance :).
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: tnafan
Date: September 29, 2013, 6:57 am
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I just like what ever you put up they are all good reads ..
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: September 29, 2013, 8:12 am
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Thank you very much for you kinds words both of you. I do like
the writing. I should also say Jenny Sjödin read this article
and thought it was good so I guess I am doing the right things
:).
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: 01332tnafan
Date: September 29, 2013, 9:06 am
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--- Quote from: SheriffLonestar link ---
>
> Thank you very much for you kinds words both of you. I do like
the writing. I should also say Jenny Sjödin read this article
and thought it was good so I guess I am doing the right things
:).
>
--- End Quote ---
big head lol lmao ;) :p and you are it reads good too . Also
not kissing ass or taking shit about them what is good to read
now days lol..
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: SheriffLonestar
Date: September 29, 2013, 9:39 am
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It is funny I was reading an article by Mark Kermode today
(Guardian's Film Critic) and he wrote how is only remembered for
negative reviews, which is unfair because he truly loves films
and you can see that in his writing and I hope that comes across
in mine. I love wrestling and try and be fair with what I see
:).
#Post#: 18793--------------------------------------------------
Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; One Night in Gothenburg
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: September 29, 2013, 9:55 am
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--- Quote from: SheriffLonestar link ---
>
> It is funny I was reading an article by Mark Kermode today
(Guardian's Film Critic) and he wrote how is only remembered for
negative reviews, which is unfair because he truly loves films
and you can see that in his writing and I hope that comes across
in mine. I love wrestling and try and be fair with what I see
:).
>
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That's what makes it a good read because it is not you bitching
or kissing ass and just saying the facts and things . Also some
good videos to lol.. That's good she sew it what did she say lol
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