Frankie Watches Wrestling

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[cosmic-spider]

Wait wait wait I've always wanted to do this

LALLIE v French Art

[cosmic-spider]

Look, there are a thousand thousand reasons you should watch EVE 150, but if you want to see a genuinely epic 25 minute tag team match with four women giving everything they've got, you need to watch EVE 150 so you can see LALLIE (Lana Austin & Hollie Barlow) v French Art (JGU & Corey Zero)

[hittingthehiddenblade]

LITERALLY PLS DO!!!!!!!! IM GOING INSANE MOTY CONTENDER

[moxleyrollins]

#when you're both some of the many "skeletons" in each other's closets

[cocopommel]

these are so funny i’m gonna throw up

[old-no7]

Will Ospreay with straight hair is my depression indicator

[straightedgesavior434]

Excalibur neglecting to mention Jake is also a former Speedball tag team partner, probably because he doesn’t wanna imply this is some sort of cuck thing (it is)

[grapplingwithadhd]

Jon 'I don't like gang warfare' Moxley doesn't remember most of 2025

[orange-catsidy]

ladies, please!!!

[spinetacks]

[hittingthehiddenblade]

thinking about the collision trios match and roddy jumping the gun before the match officially started AND before orange (still in the ring) to attack trent? roddy not being there for kyle to tap out to because he was helping orange getting caught out by trent (I think, either way point stands)? roddy going full attack dog for his boy like usual but especially when they're facing the spectre of orange's past? fucking obsessed

[sir2dtrash]

hes literally the devil on ospreay's shoulder im going to kill someone

[hittingthehiddenblade]

mox and kenny as the angel and the devil on will's shoulders really compels me. if we're setting up will to be the big face (regardless of alignment) of the company to carry AEW into the future, having one of its founders and EVP and its most successful champion to be the ones watching over him is perfect. having one of the first and most enduring feuds started in AEWs first show circling around wills journey to the men's world title. if we are heading towards an ospreay win at Wembley regardless of who he beats for it, having the company's history guiding its future is so fucking good. the passing of the torch and all that.

[hittingthehiddenblade]

ok so the thing about kenny is that he is a deadbeat, he's a shit friend, he's flakey (in kayfabe obvs) and will had every right to retort that he's never there when kenny talks to him about the death riders

BUT

kenny does come when he's called, the bucks literally dragged him into stadium stampede less than a fortnight ago, more importantly, he came when WILL called

he was broken again after all in, m.i.a., no guts omega and having lost his title to his biggest rival, he'd been out of the loop and hadn't even bothered with the death riders since double or nothing (he is a terrible EVP) but will called him and he came out to England, he brought Ibushi into all of it despite the danger BECAUSE WILL CALLED

despite kenny being kind of the worst friend ever, i really do feel that if will called kenny would come and I'm going insane.

[orange-catsidy]

thinking about roddy strong's role in the conglomeration being like 'dad whose kid keeps bringing weird misfit friends home and has reluctantly accepted his house is their hangout spot now'. he keeps a sleeping bag and blankets in the closet for any unexpected tagalongs that might show up

[cosmic-spider]

Top 5 favorite wrestlers? Hard list to make I know!

Oh shit! I never actually answered this! I'm so sorry babes! Okay, let's do this.

Number 1 is of course the Galaxy's Greatest, the Cosmic Killer, Big Statdaddy, Kris Statlander. Not only was she constructed in a lab to drive me crazy, but I also earnestly believe she is the best professional wrestler on the planet at the moment and only getting better.

After that, numbers are impossible, so in no particular order, we have:

Timeless Toni Storm got me hooked on professional wrestling. The first show I watched was AEW's All In: Texas last year (thank you @hittingthehiddenblade), and I was slowly warming up to the sport throughout the card, but Toni Storm v Mercedes Moné changed me on a fundamental level. I honestly would put both of them in this top 5, but I want a little more variety, and while I've definitely come to love Mercedes a lot, 90% of my internal dialogue during that match was some mix of the words 'Timeless', 'Toni', and 'Storm', and that's gotta count for something.

The Jet, the1youlookup2, Kevin Knight, is honestly the only male wrestler who could stand a chance of flying this high up my list. He's just something else, man. So fucking excited about everything he's getting right now, cannot wait to follow this guy's career for decades.

Alex Windsor is a hometown hero for me. I love a lot of British wrestlers despite myself, but she's definitely my favourite. Her two matches against Syuri in EVE are so important to me, they're part of my canon in the same vein as Storm v Moné. Windsor v Syuri 1 was the match that got me to properly explore indie wrestling, and I was one of the first people in the O2 Indigo to get on her feet after their second match at Wrestle Queendom VIII. I'm so glad I got to see them live.

I'd be remiss to not include a more indie British wrestler, though, and there's an obvious pick for me: the Maiden of Metal, Rayne Leverkusen. She has had a phenomenal career on the British indie circuit; I can especially recommend her feud last year with Dani Luna at Pro Wrestling Chaos, which I believe is up for free on YouTube. I adore Rayne, it's so sad that she mysteriously disappeared, coincidentally around the time someone who I can only assume is her evil twin signed with NXT (do not talk to me about Lizzy Rain right now).

And hey, look at that, that's basically five! I'm gonna stop now before I lose control. Thank you again for the ask Reynie, sorry I ADHD'd all over the place for a few weeks!

(If anyone else wants to send an ask, you're always welcome! I might just lose track of time 😬)

[hittingthehiddenblade]

You're so welcome and everyone who enjoys Morgans freakposting can also thank me for making her watch all in: texas (asking pathetically if she and some friends wanted to)

Also absolutely banger top 5, all so so good

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 1 hour 3 minutes

[homoeroticgrappling]

Trent recreating the moment he turned on Orange, oh why don't you rip my heart out of my chest it'd hurt less