Author: Jay Hunter

Request music for Super OSW 64 Level 5!

Yo! The next Super OSW 64 is LIIIIIIIIIVE SATURDAY 1pm BST at OhhRadio.OSWreview.com, and I’m taking requests for music – no limitations! Please include a youtube link as it really helps me out and I’m far more likely to choose it. Comment below and make sure to give your name and city so I can give you a shoutout! If you tell me why you love the song I’ll include that too 🙂 FYI I’m just taking requests here in the comments section (not on FB or twitter) – I need everything in one place! Cheers!

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September 21, 2015
Download Super OSW 64 Level 4!

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Yo! Download the latest broadcast of Jay’s videogame music show, Super OSW 64!
Featuring MGS V, Katamari, LA Noire, Tron and more amazing videogame music!

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Super OSW 64 Level 4 Playlist:

1. Goldeneye 64 Main Theme
2. Goldeneye 64 Watch theme
3. Goldeneye 64 Mission Death
4. OSW Cinematic Theme
5. Capcom vs. SNK 2 OST – This Is True Love We Makin’ (London Stage)
6. Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Django Django
7 Tom Winter: F-Zero – Mute City
8 Tom Winter: Ducktales – Moon theme
9 Tom Winter: Pokemon – Lavender
10. Tom Winter: Donkey Kong Country – DK Island Swing
11. Katamari Damacy – Que Sera Sera
12. PaRappa the Rapper 2 – Sunny Music V Come a Long Way
13. Bumper Music: Sonic The Hedgehog – Labyrinth Zone
14. GTA V: Oh No – Welcome to Los Santos (Main Theme)
15. GTA V :Shine a Light by The C-90s (Did Somebody Say Yoga?)
16. GTA V: The Chain Gang on 1974 Sleepwalking (End Credits)
17 .GTA V: Favoured Nations – The Set Up (End Credits)
18. Mercenaries 2 – Oh No You Didn’t.
19. Mirror’s Edge – Still Alive
20. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Main Theme)
21. Bumper 2: Sonic The Hedgehog – Spring Yard Zone
22. Dr Mario (RAC): Chill Ver. 2 Remix
23. Tron Evolution: The Grid
24. Tron Evolution: The Game Has Changed
25. Tron Evolution: The Son of Flynn
26. Tron Evolution: Derezzed
27. Warriors – League of Legends 2014 World Championship
28. Lucky Luke – Quiet Place
29. Final Fantasy VI – The Impresario
30. Final Fantasy IX – Chocobo Theme
31. Bumper 3: Sonic The Hedgehog – Star Light Zone
32. Crysis 2 – Epilogue Main Theme
33. Gitaroo Man – Legendary Theme
34. LA Noire: Main Theme
35. LA Noire: New Beginnings
36. LA Noire: I Always Kill The Things I love
37. Xenosaga III – Promised pain
38. Dragon Age Inquisition – Main Theme
39. Portal 2 – The National – Exile, Vilify
40. Portal 2 – Robots FTW
41. WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain – Original Entrance Theme 14
42. Neo Geo (Inst.)
43. Super Smash Bros WiiU – Zelda Win Theme

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September 7, 2015
Super OSW 64 Returns this Saturday!

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YO! Super OSW 64 returns this Saturday! The show I’d been covering for isn’t returning to the same timeslot so they’ve asked me to fill another programming hole, giggity. Another 2 hours of fun-filled frolics with videogame music! It’ll be airing LIVE on PiledriverWrestling.net at 1pm BST! I’m taking requests (no limitations!) just leave a comment below with your name & hometown and I’ll give you a shoutout on the show! Please include a youtube link to the song as it’ll make it SO much easier for me and I’ll be more likely to choose it!
– Jay

[/vc_column_text][vc_accordion active_tab=”false”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Click for track listing of Level 1!”][vc_column_text]1. GTA Vice City Theme Song (1:18)
2. OSW Cinematic Theme – Zeomne Delinden (1:12)
3. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Theme (3:05)
4. Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix – Made in U.S.A. (Ken Stage) (1:41)
5. Ducktales Remastered – Transylvania (3:16)
6. Halo 2 Theme (Mjolnir Mix) (4:11)
7. Metal Gear Solid 3 – Snake Eater (2:57)
8. Batman Arkham City Main Theme (2:47)
9. Bioshock Infinite – Welcome To Columbia (1:01)
10. Bioshock Infinite – God Only Knows (3:09)
11. Zelda 3DS – Title Screen (0:19)
12. Zelda 3DS – Lorule Field 1 (2:11)
13. Zelda 3DS – Death Mountain (2:18)
14. Zelda 3DS – Milk Bar – Thieves’ Hideout (1:07)
15. Zelda Skyward Sword – File Select (Great Fairy Fountain) (1:36)
16. Zelda Twilight Princess – Midna’s Theme (1:33)
17. Zelda Twilight Princess – Midna’s Desperate Hour (3:09)
18. Resident Evil – Wandering About (2:04)
19. Resident Evil – A Moment of Relief (1:06)
20. Diablo II – Tristram (4:46)
21. Super Metroid – Samus Aran’s Theme (2:06)
22. Super Smash Bros Wii U – Metroid Title (2:07)
23. Killer Instinct – The Instinct (2:31)
24. Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambiance (3:25)
25. Shadowrun Returns – Followed (1:35)
26. Silent Hill – Not Tomorrow (Tears of Blood aka Lisa Dies) (3:05)
27. Silent Hill 2 – The Theme Of Laura (3:24)
28. Silent Hill 2 – Promise (Reprise) (1:44)
29. Journey – Austin Wintory – Nascence (1:46)
30. Assassin’s Creed 2 – Ezio’s Family (3:41)
31. Uncharted 3 – Nate’s Theme 3.0 (1:49)
32. The Last of Us – Main Theme (3:03)
33. Red Dead Redemption – Far Away – Jose Gonzalez (4:39)
34. Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare – Bad Voodoo – The Kreeps (3:41)
35. Super Mario 64 – Dire, Dire Docks (3:06)
36. Super Mario Galaxy – Rosetta’s Observatory 3 (2:44)
37. Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Throwback Galaxy (Super Mario 64’s “Athletic”) (2:41)
38. Portal – Still Alive (2:56)
39. Portal – Want You Gone (2:21)
40. Neo Geo (Inst) – FantomenK (3:52)[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Click for track listing of Level 2!”][vc_column_text]1. Streets of Rage 1 Round 1 & Round Clear
2. Final Zone II – Bowie’s Chance
3. Duke Nukem Theme – Megadeth
4. Final Fantasy VII – Aerith’s theme
5. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children – One Winged Angel
6. Alan Wake – The Poet & The Muse – Poets of the Fall
7. Alan Wake – Children of the Elder God – Poets of the Fall
8. Double Dragon Neon Mixtape – Song Snatch (0:24)
9. Grim Fandango – Casino Calavera
10. Grim Fandango – Smooth Hector
11. Grim Fandango – Hi-Tone Fandango
12. Grim Fandango – Hector Steps Out
13. Fallout 3 – The Ink Spots – I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire
14. Gears of War – Mad World – Michael Andrews & Gary Jules
15. Gears of War – Main Theme
16. Dead Island Teaser Trailer – Giles Lamb
17. Deus Ex Human Revolution – Icarus
18. CastleVania Medley – Super Guitar Bros
19. Dark Pit’s Theme – Kid Icarus Uprising
20. Double Dragon Neon – Mission Bumper
21. Halo 1 – A Walk in the Woods
22. Halo 2 – Blow Me Away – Breaking Benjamin
23. Halo 3 – Never Forget
24. Chrono Trigger – Solo Cello Quartet
25. Bastion – Get Used to It
26. Bastion – A Proper Story
27. Bastion – In Case Of Trouble
28. Battlefield 1942 Intro
29. Donkey Kong Country 2 – Forest Interlude
30. Donkey Kong Country 2 – Stickerbrush Symphony
31. Kingdom Hearts – Dearly Beloved
32. Double Dragon Neon – Title Theme
33. Mass Effect 1 – Spectre Induction
34. Mass Effect 2 – Suicide Mission
35. Mass Effect 3 – An End Once and For All
36. Mass Effect 3 – Leaving Earth
37. Thomas Was Alone – Inertia
38. Thomas Was Alone – Where Are You
39. Wolfenstein: The New Order – Berlin Boys and Stuttgart Girls
40. Wolfenstein: The New Order – Zug nach Hamburg
41. Wolfenstein: The New Order – Ich bin überall
42. Wolfenstein: The New Order – Mond, Mond, Ja, Ja
43. Awesomenauts main theme
44. Neo Geo (Instrumental) – FantomenK[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Click for track listing of Level 3!”][vc_column_text]1. Street Fighter II (Arcade) – Guile’s Theme
2. Super Street Fighter II HD Remix – Fei Long “Flying Heaven”
3. Super Street Fighter II HD Remix – Zangief “Red Cyclone”
4. Akuma “Mountain Breaker”
5. GSM Capcom – “Power of Four” (M. Bison part)
6. Sonic The Hedgehog CD – Sonic Boom
7. Buck Bumble – Main Theme
8. Marvel vs Capcom 2 – Select Your Heroes
9. Marvel vs Capcom 3 – Arthur’s Theme
10. CarboHydroM – CastleVania Medley “Vampire Killer The Ending”
11. GTA San Andreas theme song
12-14. GTA IV: Trailer 1 – Things Will be Different, Theme Song, Seryoga – King Ring
15. Bumper: TMNT IV – Big Apple, 3 a.m.
16-19. Zelda Wind Waker HD – The Legendary Hero, Outset Island, The Great Sea, Staff Credits (Title Theme)
20. Snatcher – One Night In Neo Kobe City
21. Malukah – Skyrim – The Dragonborn Comes
22. Rebecca Tripp – Secret of Mana – Fear of the Heavens
23. Deadly Premonition – Life is Beautiful
24. Catherine Warwick – Earthbound – Pollyanna (I Believe In You)
25. Metal Gear Solid – The Best is Yet To Come (Aoife Ní Fhearraigh)
26. Bumper: WWF Attitude – Agent X
27-34. Resident Evil Franchise – 2 (PS2 Startup, Front Hall), Code Veronica (Theme of Alexia Type 1), 4 (The Drive/First Contact, Serenity, Mercenaries, Wesker) 2 (Credit Line of Whole Staff)
35. Tekken 5 – Antares (Cathedral)
36. PAIN – Main Theme
37. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 – Reincarnation – I’ll Face Myself (Battle)
38-41. Earthworm Jim 2 – Title Screen, Anything but Tangerines, Subterranean, The Ending
42. Bumper: Scott Pilgrim’s Another Winter
43. The Simpsons Game – The Land of Chocolate
44. Play! A Video Game Symphony – Commodore 64 Medley (Last Ninja)
45. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future – Title Track
46. The Hobbit – Working The Mill
47. Dragon Age: Inquisition – Main Theme
48-53. Super Mario 3D World – Main Theme, Shifty Boo Mansion, World Bowser, Highway Showdown, Athletic, World Clear
54. Discworld 2 – That’s Death
55. Neo Geo (Instrumental) – FantomenK[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][/vc_accordion][vc_column_text]

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September 2, 2015
Tough Enough Week 10 – FINALE!

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Tough Enough

• Back at the Barracks, Amanda continues her ‘ring rat’ miiiiiiiind games and Sarah Lee doesn’t deny it (or that part was cut – makes her look guilty, and Amanda huge bitch)
• With the judges, they go through ideas for their live match on the finale, names for each one eg Sara (as “Hope”), theme songs – Sarah says she wants a rock song, Jericho plays some Fozzy and she stops smiling. Hilarious.
• Their match partners will be the Swiss Superman Cesaro and Alicia Fox (well she is 1/2 of the greatest match of all time, with Melina!)
• Amanda vs Fox first: Introduced as “Amanda as Mandy Rose”, she shimmies for the judges (very good) and cuts a grateful face then decent Bella promo. A “what did you expect?” match – hairpulling, hairpulling again; very sloppy, dodgy selling (she gets up first after being hit, that kind of thing) The crowd are SO KIND cheering for her. Fox isn’t the best person to be in with (why not Nattie?). However she pulls off a nice tilt-a-whirl hurricanrana, and turnbuckle bulldog almost perfectly, well done. It ends with Fox doing a scissors kick but hitting her crotch on her head for the three. The judges are SO KIND to all the performers; Bryan’s the most honest but still sugarcoats it with compliments and motivation, e.g. her intensity makes up for the sloppiness.
• Sara (they’ve dropped the ‘h’ and ‘Lee’) as ” Hope” vs Alicia Fox: a large step down from Amanda. You can tell is intimidated (she ‘runs’ past her entrance) and doesn’t say much on the mic. Her kicks SMASH kayfabe with their shittiness. She looks very awkward and clumsy, and the match just ends when she walks into place and is hit with an even worse scissors kick to her kidney. The judges congratulate her on doing a very good job. I’m pulling for her but damn, Amanda deserves this more.
• Jericho trolls the ladies them opening the phone lines but not revealing who won. Ha!
• ZZ as “The King of the Bayou” vs Cesaro: He has a large gator head/skin which is very cool, although he didn’t show much charisma here or in his promo. Was expecting Skinner attire but he’s topless (why?!) with camo and lime green shorts. He does a slightly delayed vertical jump, grand enough but fails to get down quick enough for the run over, and Cesaro has to cover, dropping for a headlock. Cesaro has none of the Gator Grip and crossface for the instant tap. Better than Sarah Lee but in the ballpark. Miz gives out about his cardio.
• Josh as “the Yeti” vs Cesaro: He wears a some wolf scrapes and grey briefs by the look of it. His promo has street lingo which makes no sense! He starts pushing “Yeti Nation” which is really lame, but the crowd get behind him as he fires up, which saves it. Cesaro stiffs him with an uppercut and Booker & Billy cackle and hug. Josh looks SO much better in ring in every way, much smoother and confident, he looks & is built like a wrestler. His big move is a running powerslam which is decent. Oddly, the judges are much more critical calling him choppy. It’s a bit sneaky that they show Josh’s young daughter in the crowd.
• To make sure to tip the scales, they show Josh’s young daughter in the crowd, and show before and after pics – ZZ looks the same, whilst Josh got ripped.
• Aitch comes out! He’s got ‘contracts’ in envelopes. Who’s getting that fuck money??? Sarah Lee! with 64% and Josh! Murdered ZZ with 70%.
• They congratulate the winners and save whatever for Tough Talk.

Overall: Flew by, always fun to see a finale, and even though hyper-edited, going through elements of a wrestler (music, outfits etc) is always fun. So WWE got one proper winner and we got one. Higher hopes for Josh; Sarah will make a fine backstage reporter like JoJo.

Tough Talk
• Sarah can’t speak she’s so happy. Paige asks her if she can hang with the NXT women and Sara’s reluctant to even pretend. If she was on the ball she could’ve said she’ll Takeover NXT! She hopes to be in WWE in a year which the judges and trainers -without hesitation or remorse- all laugh out loud at, Billy more than the rest – saying she will not be out of NXT in a year. Later we hear Billy’s “Billy-ism” that Sarah has “skittery feet” i.e. uncomfortable in the ring, and indirectly says she has no personality. A lovely on-screen burial of WWE’s newest talent.
• Amanda says sour grapes but resolves that she’s come this far and keep going. You should see Miz’s disgusted/quizzical face listening to the women, LOL!
• Jericho brings up Josh’s ghetto voice, which he can’t explain. Jericho mentions twice having the “correct final 4” rather than the correct winners, which will be expounded. This whole show is asking different people who should’ve won (Amanda and Josh). It got tiresome as everyone had the same opinion with various degrees of niceness – Amanda should’ve won because she’s the better wrestler & athlete, what does Sarah Lee have, and ZZ has no cardio and no drive. Aitch interjects saying charisma is intangible and his daughters bragged to him about meeting Sarah Lee. Aitch insults ZZ saying he missed Burger King and didn’t have the heart. The overall message is fuck ‘im, you didn’t want it so you got what you deserved; the positives & motivation comes packaged with disappointment.
• Lita mentions that Sara Lee & ZZ (the non-athletes) don’t like getting hit, as opposed to Amanda and Josh, which fuels them/fires them up, but that would come in time.
• The judges just harp on and on about ZZ’s lack of hard work and cardio. Booker describes ZZ being on top with the voting for weeks as pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. Fuck you!
• Horrible job by Byron asking the same questions and prodding the wrong way. And on that sour note, we bid you adieu!

Overall, Tough Talk felt very long and wasn’t that entertaining, like this season! But sure, maybe we’ll get to see Vince slap them on RAW and send them packing never to be seen again, like Angry Andy Levine! Worth watching the Finale just for funsies and see what you haven’t been missing out on. So see you next year!

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August 27, 2015
Tough Enough Week 9

TOUGH ENOUGH

• The Penultimate edition of Tough Enough! 5 contestants remain: Josh, Tanner and ZZ for the guys, and Sara Lee and Amanda for the girls.
• Paige informs us since there’s only 2 women left, fans vote on the final 3 men for elimination.
• I said it last week, Josh is WWE’s boy, so you’re fucked Tanner! He and Amanda don’t get it’s a popularity contest – and blame the WWE universe for keeping Sara and ZZ, instead of finding a way to gain popularity.
• The final 5 set up the NXT ring. When completed, Booker says “pat yourselves on the back”, and only Tanner and Josh do (I wonder if either meant it like Barry Horowitz!). Not a Challenge, but we get Create-a-finisher!
• Sarah Lee (Russian leg sweep into arm bar), Tanner (The “Randy O” special, top rope cross body – that has to be a rib on how bland and generic he is, as it’s given to boring white-meat babyfaces starting off, like Randy Orton in 2002) Billy suggests yelling to try hide his lack of facial expression. Josh suggests a powerbomb but it’s immediately nixed because of safety (Dammit D’lo!). They give him the Ho Train instead (LOL!) into a powerslam. Amanda gets the Dudley Dog (running up the corner, as opposed to Trish’s bulldog off the ropes).
• René refers to ZZ as the Gator King. Woah. Nice! He gets a flapjack into the “Gator Grip”, which is just holding someone’s jaw and both guys selling with facials – something even the Great Khali could do. This is PERFECT for ZZ. He even comes up with a ‘snap’ gesture (like the lasso prior to a DDT) and a catchphrase “don’t get bit, by the Gator Grip”. Awesome. Murders everyone else.
• It’s a bit odd that ZZ and Sara practically never interact, considering their similar circumstances (bottom of their class but with massive fan support)
• A rare occurance, ZZ fucks up by telling his housemates “Other than cardio, I am what this business is”. The judges rake him over hot coals about trumping himself up (“so you’re a liar”) and he doesn’t deal with it well. Always find it weird how WWE fight with it’s fans – you don’t like what you like! You like who I tell you to like! Why not make better, accentuate his positives instead of trying to bring him down? It feels spiteful, every contestant is WWE’s contestant…
• It’s not news but ah man, the never-ending rounds of clapping. It’s so obnoxious and false, and they’re already covering themselves with the horrific autotune pop soundtrack! I wish we could see Vince just off-stage gesturing “clap goddammit!”. That would be incredible and turn this into a 10.
• There’s no “who’ll be in the bottom three?” segment so they ask everyone rapid fire questions. Paige grills Sara and then interrupts and gives out. What a huge bitch. It’s disappointing that the live audience do not boo Paige one bit. Tanner comes off much better, saying his lack of showing emotions is a defence mechanism from how he was raised, and says he has to work on showing it more facially.
• They hyped up Bryan pretending to make this hard decision not to save anyone. As it turns out, he really, really should’ve done it for WWE to get their way. No saves.
• Final pleas: Josh does the best, pushing his new catchphrase “bringing the sauce” and gives the lollipop to Paige. That confirms Tanner going! He’s out with just 20%. Wow – JOSH actually won the voting with 46%, ZZ being a good 20% less than expected. Their burying has paid off!
• Jericho lets us know that the two pairs will have wrestling matches next week – making their create-a-finisher segment more relevant. Can’t wait to see them incorporate it!
• WWE cut to the final 4 graphic they had on standby and we’re done.

Overall: Sadly it’s a very much a “show before the show”, the create-a-finisher segment was the most interesting, but with the elimination obvious, it was a missable edition.

TOUGH TALK

• Tanner uses his final interview time to politely chastise the audience, frustrated with the voting pattern. Byron actually proposes that it is a popularity contest.
• Bryan consoles Tanner saying he sees himself a lot in WWE, saying he didn’t have personality beforehand, and it can be learned. He’s far too modest to the point of lying. I HAVE ‘TIL FIVE!
• Chatting to Tanner is used as a springboard to turn on ZZ. It’s like a fucking Fox news debate. The judges, especially Paige, pick at him for the next 2/3 of the episode, hoping he’ll heel turn. “What’s ZZ *REALLY *like behind the scenes?”. “You’ve a minor in psychology, are you manipulating all of us?!” Oh go fuck yourself. Miz just calls him a liar outright. However Bryan’s so nice, he tells him he didn’t want to say it on TV, but he’s not trying half as hard as the others do cardio-wise.
• Their burial of ZZ is an awful watch and a transparent attempt trying to influence voting. Sadly, he doesn’t handle it well, sticking to what he’s said beforehand. He should’ve said he can’t ‘go’ like they go, yet. His max stamina is the best it’s ever been and improving every day; just next to the athletes, it looks bad. The judges close it with don’t be lazy and take the WWE universe for granted (as they do with Sarah Lee).
• Paige corrects Byron calling the ladies “ladies” as opposed to Divas. They’re not Divas – they don’t have a proper WWE contract.
• Amanda’s plea for votes is that she just plays a bitch character, she can turn it on and off, and she’s actually nice. A smart idea but I don’t think anything she could say will make a difference – Sarah Lee’s winning the popular vote. BTW, being a heel character outside of a promo class segment makes her a heel to the TE audience, which will always lose a popularity contest. Being prodded, she reveals she has a small congenital bald spot (another thing to make her more likeable). However this work is undone immediately.
• What happens next is a disgrace – Amanda literally calls Sarah Lee a RING RAT, and equally as bad, Paige milks for all it’s worth, boorishly agreeing with it as if it’s gospel. It’s wildly classless and a really trashy, scumbag accusation. (A ring rat is a tramp that tries to sleep with wrestlers, btw). Amanda did mention she’s trying to get inside Sarah’s head, but this is a lose-lose situation – whether it’s true or false, she’s publicly making damaging, unprofessional accusations for personal gain. Trying to take down Sarah rather than building herself up. Fun trivia, Coach Lita was well known for blowing the entire ECW locker-room and sleeping with anyone that would train her. Sarah Lee does very well to not let it rattle her. She says of course it’s untrue, and that’s about it. The burying continues – Byron hassles Sara about her nose ring. “Whatcha do, wake up one morning and say I’d like a nose ring?” Paige demands she give a gimmick name (and not “Sara Lee” like the cake). I would’ve said something bitterly smarky but she says “Smyle” because they’re always giving out about her smiling. And mercifully the show ends.
• Sadly the matches next week will be against Cesaro and Alicia Fox, not too newbs together (which would’ve been AMAZING) It could’ve killed the business!

Overall, the worst episode of Tough Talk. The shameless scrutinising of ZZ & Sara Lee to try influence next week’s final voting made for a horrific watch. Sarah did a much better job of deflecting it, ZZ could actually lose this. I hope WWE have to give them both a quarter million! Serves you right!

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August 19, 2015
Tough Enough Week 8

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TOUGH ENOUGH WEEK 8

• Only 6 competitors left! René looks great in a leather jacket
• Fashionista Jericho (sleeveless hoodie, bare chested, with a scarf) is showing more skin than the ladies. He congratulates the remaining peeps for surviving this far. They talk about ZZ and Sara having the popular vote for some unknown reason, sneakily planting that they aren’t worried about being in the bottom 3 (subtext: they’re taking you for granted, WWE universe! Stop fucking voting for them!)
• Do Americans all drink liquor out of red plastic cups? I thought that was a college movie thing.
• WWE test something very important, ability to drink, then get up & wrestle the next morning. They do headlock and shoulder tackle drills – maybe it’s just the footage but they looked poor.
• CHALLENGE 1: They pair up to try tell a storyline in the ring. This is a fantastic idea, I wish WWE would take their own advice. Kicking out of each other’s finishers is cheap.
• They have an audience, the NXT roster! I hope they’re not too embarrassed what they see. It’s a bit of a slap in the face making the NXT peeps pretend to be excited for these fuckwits play wrestle, — contestants are gunning for a legitimate $250,000 contract, whilst some of these actual wrestlers were brought in at $30,000.
• They chant truffle shuffle at ZZ; who is topless. I wonder if they ever forced Bubba Dudley to wrestle topless.
• ZZ/Josh (“Try outsmart the big guy”). Blah. Being highly edited with loud rock music/’crowd’ reaction, lots of slow motion camera effects, you can’t get a feel of how it actually went. ZZ shows the most personality, shaking/biting the ropes etc.
• Amanda/Sara Lee (“mean heel vs nice girl”) HUGE groan when I heard Amanda explain this. Jaysus, nice creativity. It looked horrible but the coaches said it was grand. Booker gets angry for Sara pulling a Marty Jannetty, constantly smiling.
• Tanner/Gigi (“you dumped me”). Had the most potential for a great storyline match (especially with an intergender match) but like the previous two, it was just using basic hip-tosses and shoulder tackles – no real match or storyline drama. Despite supposedly being a face Gigi got booed and worked heel (admonishing the crowd). Winner: Josh. Loser: Sara Lee.
• The girls read out mean tweets, which would been SO much funnier read out in front of the live audience! Seriously. Read out one mean tweet each live at Full Sail.
• John Cena‘s here and in a horrific blinding orange and green new merch. But WHAT BAR is he? Cena the phony character shows up, shit. He says “many people are calling Tough Enough the greatest show in the history of shows”. He recites his ‘go get ’em’ script and leaves 2 minutes later. Fucking useless!
• BOTTOM 3: Tanner (Miz, lack of charisma), Sara Lee (Paige, big surprise, calls her a C+ player), Gigi (Bryan, for a babyface getting booed). Final pleas – Gigi (aint no stopping me nowwww, ok) Tanner (nothing u can teach that I can’t learn, very good) Sara Lee (improving, never give up, good). Bryan (the only judge with a save) – No saves. You’re fucked Gigi! She loses with 22%, Of course Sara wins with 43%, so Gigi’s going home.

Overall: Really evident this week – The format of the show really strips the feel of actual performances, making the show kinda useless. It’s like if RAW was presented solely as a 5-minute recap YouTube video, you don’t get a good sense of what actually happened. Seeing them try to pull of a match live would’ve been compelling TV but perhaps it would’ve exposed them as terrible wrestlers (but sink or swim is supposed to be the draw of the show!). Cena’s appearance was channel-changing fluff. Sadly, avoid.

TOUGH TALK WEEK 8
• Gigi looks genuinely upset and is grateful for her opportunity. Although this show is a terrible indicator of actual talent, of the women she looks to be the best fit, and not having the Tough Enough “Maven” stigma (should she get a developmental deal) would be good for her. The judges console her with positive advice.
• Byron asks boring questions. Conversely the hosts try spicy questions, but the contestants don’t bite. It makes for mustn’t-watch TV.
• Paige was only obnoxious once (twice if you count picking on Sara) so that’s an improvement. Bryan said almost nothing on both shows, reiterating points others made – he has already checked out. Miz wasn’t trolling this week. It needs to be said though – Miz dresses similarly but way better than Jericho.
• Tanner: They’re overly tough on him, chastising his lack of charisma, but at the final 6, its easy to be in the bottom 3.They manage to get him to bitch about ZZ not improving physically and lasting 2 minutes (heh) while he grinds every day (also heh). He comes off as obviously frustrated (similar to GiGi), and unwisely presents his positive attributes (cardio/skills etc) as a weapon against ZZ, as opposed to rallying support for himself. People just see that as picking on ZZ.
• Josh: The judges reiterate the coaches’ boy; the tallest, biggest guy there: Josh, saying he has the IT factor. He tries not to take sides but eventually chooses Tanner as a better in-ring partner. ZZ sweet talks the crowd, standing up for himself and wins that argument. Paige slyly quips he’s such a good manipulator.
• Byron remembers to ask the women (as Amanda and Sara are the final 2 women) but have to abruptly end the show…so I guess we’re out!
• So next week, put me down, Tanner will get eliminated – Sara can’t be the only woman going into the final show (so Amanda can’t go), ZZ’s not going, and Josh is their new boy, and comes off better than Tanner. I know she’s pretty but I’m shocked Amanda’s lasted as long as she has; perhaps as the sidekick of the main bitch she’s coasted under the radar.

Overall: Despite being the 3rd last week (and initially a hot crowd that they killed) it was quite a ho-hum low-key episode. Nothing memorable, WWE repeatedly (what I’d class as spitefully) mentioning that ZZ and Sara are there just because of their fans, for some intangible reason. They planted the “taking your fans for granted” card with Sara and it bore out with her dropping 10% of her voting dominance. They’d better have judges voting the winners in, otherwise its a slam dunk with Sara and ZZ, which it’s been since pretty early on. It’s weird how after 14,000 applicants that this group were the best. Verdict? How can I say it nicely? Well I saved you 90 minutes!

OSW Panel at Dublin Comic Con: Pics & review! OSWreview.com/dublincomiccon

Lastest update on the next OSW episode: OSWreview.com/osw-update-august-6

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August 12, 2015
Dublin Comic Con Panel!

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Wrestling is…Awesome! hosted by OSW
Dublin Comic Con @ Dublin Convention Centre
9th August, 2015

• Sorry there isn’t an audio version – the recording is unusable 🙁 You’ll have to make do with me recapping it here! BTW that’s Jay in the waistcoat, V1 in the grey shirt and OOC’s the tall one in the black jacket.
• The idea to do a panel in Ireland is thanks to our brah Nathan (pictured just above) who asked me about doing a panel at a Con after we announced the Ric Flair gig. Thanks Nathan! He also gave us each a sweet WINNER medal! We wore them out to the pub/club.
• It probably sounds cheesy but hanging out with our fans was far more enjoyable than meeting Flair! He showed up in loafers (no socks!) and a polo shirt – no chance of Naitchin’! Our fans are so nice it gave us confidence to submit an application to DCC.
• We hoped for like 20 people, but over 150 brahs (and bras) showed up! Was incredible. As V1 described it to the staff ushering us in, we’re a niche of a niche of a niche! She had the funniest half-compliment of “I’ve no idea who you guys are, but your queue is huge”. We assumed the queue was for the Charity Auction (Panel Room 1) or the Walking Dead photoshoot!
• It’s difficult to describe the feeling of seeing so many come to see us. We were blown away. OSW episodes are recorded at my sitting room table (the Yetay propped up by Jericho & Bischoff’s 1st books), it’s pretty ghetto! I know some people watch the show but it’s surreal to see it translate into actual peeps waiting around until the last Panel Sunday evening to see you!
• The first 5 minutes was us faffing around setting up the OSW X7 banners I brought. Completely unecessary as it turns out but hope you guys dug them!
• I gave some backstage info/trivia like about our recording sessions (Survivor Series 89 was recorded twice because V1 wasn’t around the first time), Neo/Niall (if you’re reading this, we love you and want you to come home!) and storylines we plan on doing (X7 wasn’t our original choice, it was actually See No Evil 1 & 2, then the May 19th Storyline). OOC is listed second in the credits because I guarantee he’d give out if he was listed third.
• One guy was dressed as Mankind (which was pretty sweet). I told him never to do stand up 😀 We learned that Garvin’s not nearly as over in 2015 as he was 2 years ago, so we gotta do something to highlight Rubbish Ronnie. V1 pushed Funlay/Regal as always and tried to besmerch the KING OF THE ROAD match. Queried about Taz being a boy: ECW no, WWF yes. I said he’s like a “nubile boy” and thankfully the police didn’t take us away.
• We gave a quick history of the show and did our OSW Alphabet game, getting the audience to shout out ideas for letters.
• V1 brought dozens of cans of coke and bars to give to anyone that made him laugh. Went over a treat. Give that man a can of coke!
• None of us had notes besides the alphabet! We were just buzzing off each other and the crowd for the hour. I wish I took more pictures and that but we were pretty hyped by the whole event!
• We did get the crowd to do a “welcome noggers”/”happy days are here again!” which was so awesome.
• DCC Staff started shuffling us (opening doors etc) at 5:15 (an hour after we started) and we just didn’t really budge, spent another 30-45m chatting to people afterwards. I told people their Virgil dollars were good for a free photo op with the man himself! Wish we got to spend more time, everyone was so lovely! Young Karl O’Donnell gave us a sweet signed Pitboy dollar!
• The tech guy actually cut our audio before we signed off, so I had to bellow out “it’s a goodbye from OOC, and V1, and myself Jay Hunter, and remember, a winner is you!”
• We went to the Ferryman afterwards and ended up drinking until about 4:30. OOC had the right idea of taking Monday off!

Here’s my OSW Alphabet:
A Aloha Arn
B Boy
C Cunt Hogan (Catfiiiiiiight!) (V1 coughs)
D Doink Brah, Dammit D’lo! Dirty lee
E Eric Bischoff’s theme. Etched in stone. Excloosiv Pucktures!
F Fruit Booty (JBL), Farty Pyro, Funlay
G Garvin For HOF – never got to ask V1 about Gruesome Grannies
H Happy Days are Here again!
I It’s Tazz (We did the song)
J Jerry Lynn!
K Kronus
L Lesbian Pollen
M Muster Choppie
N Nogger!
O OOC’s Tenner
P Paul! Paul!
Q Quick rub & squeezy squeezy
R Robogarda
S STATE of your hair mate
T Take a boo, TRI, Total Elimination (V1 coughs!)
U Undertaker impression
V Vinnie Jones
W Worzel Alert
X X-Pac, X-Men 3
Y Yetay, You’re Outta Here
Z Zodiac, Zombie Linda

Anyway it’s back to editing Simulcast RAW. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone that came to see us. We’re quite shy so it’s a bit embarrassing, humbling but so amazing! I’ll never forget walking into the room first and be taken aback, everyone staring at us, and going HELLOOOO! and everyone cheering. Fucking incredible! Thank you!

If you’ve any pics of the event please email me at OSWreview@gmail .com!

Write-up of us on the Ric Flair tour: OSWreview.com/ric-flair-tour[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

August 10, 2015
OSW Update! August 6

Hey yo! Here’s what’s going on with OSW:

• I’m currently editing Episode 52, Simulcast RAW, I’ve been spending my days off doing it. Video editing an episode is like a giant puzzle. It’ll take 3 more big sessions, I don’t like confirming dates until the finish line is in sight! But in about 10 days. Next update will be a firm day & time (ooh-err).
• WHAT BARRRRR tees! The brown/bar combo is already out of stock! We’ll have a couple more brown tee/bars available after this Sunday’s Comic Con (i.e. Monday night). If you ordered one but it wasn’t in your preferred size, or want international tracked shipping, have a look-see here! Classic Black What Bar tees are available here for the UK and here for the US!
• Our Dublin Comic Con panel is this Sunday! (4pm, 9th August!). It’s gonna be super awesome. I got banners with special artwork for the event! I will try to record the show. Hope to see you there!
• Episode 53 will be SummerSlam 2015 with Maffew! That’d be out roughly the Friday or Saturday after the PPV.
• And closing the X7 story arc, Episode 54 will be WrestleMania X7! I’ve been get a ton of people asking me already about it, please be patient and don’t poke me about it, this ep is going to be an absolutely massive show! Got some really special stuff lined up for it, which tentatively puts it around the end of September.
• The next film/tv written review is Scream 2! I’ll also cover Scream 3 & 4. I’ve been trying to watch the TV show as well but it’s a real rough watch! Scream 2 review!

Latest media:
This week’s Tough Enough/Tough Talk without Hogan: OSWreview.com/tough-enough-week-7
Super OSW 64 Level 3 (Jay’s videogame music show): OSWreview.com/review.com/super-osw-64-level-3
My thoughts on Hogan’s racist comments: OSWreview.com/hogan-racist-comments
Latest video: Samurai Cop review: OSWreview.com/media/movie-samurai-cop
Latest written film/TV/game review: Scream 1 (1996) OSWreview.com/media/movie-scream-1

Alright, back to editing! See you in the funny pages!

Jay

August 6, 2015
Tough Enough Week 7

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• Kick off! The judges take turns quickly giving each participant a piece of advice. Great little add-in. However they’ve re-added the long bouts of clapping before and after the break, and the awful generic pop soundtrack is more pervasive than ever.
• Amanda is happy to have her looks help her get to the top, and ZZ is shown sulking about nobody wanting him here. He looks like he’s lost weight (later he says 8 pounds). This week’s challenges centre around pairing up and teamwork.
• Challenge 1: Work together for a quick in-ring sequence. Billy reads ZZ the riot act for gassing out in 2 minutes. A big hoopla is made over Sara Lee botching a powerslam (Daniel Bryan rightly points out it didn’t look that bad, as is disappointed in Gigi for playing it up), whilst Josh & Tanner kill it, winning the challenge. Josh gets the shine – He’s the guy WWE want, as the tallest/biggest guy. He’s put over as super-focused and capable. I get this is a reality show so they need to show “interesting” activities to grab ratings, but how is this a decent evaluation of in-ring talent? How is any of this useful?! 😀
• Miz oddly heels out on the fans, calls ZZ a lazy underachiever ‘which the fans can relate to’. Everyone reacts mildly surprised.
• Josh offers Tanner to hit on him to up his game (e.g. pretend I’m a woman) real reality TV fodder. They play it up on Tough Talk, boo.
• Challenge 2: Fireman (not the carry) rescue exercise – attach a hose to a fire hydrant, put out a fire, find a dummy survivor and get out. featuring the Prime Time Players! They show up with their tag belts. This sequence is INTENSELY edited (even for a reality show) so it’s just a mess. ZZ (who has experience as a volunteer fire fighter) and Tanner do the best, giving ZZ some much-needed props. Josh is shown as doing almost everything himself, but this doesn’t bite him in the ass.
• Calmer hen clucking as Chelsea admits to intentionally not working together with Amanda, wanting to stand out regardless of instructions. She’s gonna get put in the bottom 3 for that remark.
• BOTTOM 3: Amanda (Miz, a segment early, says him saving her went straight to her head) Gigi (Bryan, for over-reacting about the powerslam) and Sara Lee (Paige, for not apologising after botching the powerslam). So…none of those are really teamwork reasons, which the challenges centred around. Hang on! AMAZING swerve by Miz, he changes his nomination to Chelsea, for awful teamwork. What a troll.
• Final 30s Plea: Sara-Lee (“I’m here to learn” – meh), Gigi (“I need to be here” – very good), Chelsea (heelish “I deserve to be here” – good, but you won’t win sympathy with it). Weird to see an all-female bottom 3, first time that’s happened. Paige saves Gigi (which gets a big pop – she would’ve gone home), meaning Chelsea’s fucked. As the 2nd lowest with 25%, Chelsea’s gone. She puts over Gigi to win it, and we’re done

Overall: Oh man, it’s difficult to find things to praise about this week’s show. Em…my 5 minute review will save you watching 90 minutes?

TOUGH TALK
• Hilarious new graphic. I didn’t see the ring ropes for DB and Paige, thought they were posing like rappers. B Dazzle is back! He has to be prodded so say anything – his head was somewhere else this week. He just keeps grinding the same point about Chelsea playing up whining about a somewhat dangerous powerslam.
• Amanda: Paige says she would’ve nominated her for elimination, but didn’t as Miz said he would. They make Amanda out to look really bad, very shallow, and is put in a tight position and ends up slagging Chelsea’s looks. She should’ve referenced that she came to Chelsea nicely about their poor performance in the challenge, who responded by saying she’s basically going into business for herself.
• Gigi: Frustrated that she’s was in the bottom 3, as she’s been performing in challenges. Paige has really toned it down this week – great! – she gives out that TE is a popularity contest, indirectly jabbing Sara Lee. 52% of the votes! Take that WWE! This “Sara’s a liability” conversation lasts an ice age. She butts in to defend herself, giving us a perfect visual of Tough Enough and the fans’ (and my) voting preferences.
• The next 10 minutes is spent burying ZZ: Miz likens him to Daniel Puder (the fan favourite who was gone a year later). Kurt must not be anywhere close to coming back to WWE, but I appreciated the Tough Enough Season 4 reference. (Angle was embarassed by MMA-background Puder in a quickie shoot-fight on Smackdown – the most notable thing to come out of ANY tough enough season). Bryan HOUNDS ZZ about basically lying about wanting to get in shape. Smartly (and very tellingly) Miz asks about ZZ being a three-time Reality show star (the implication being ZZ’s not interested in being a wrestler). FYI, ZZ was on “Trading Spouses” when his mother traded places with a vegan mom when he was 8, and again was “Swamp People” when he was 16.
• Force that Josh/Tanner bromance deal again and we’re done.

Overall: Sadly it’s another forgettable week, Byron Saxton did a poor job keeping Tough Talk moving along, and it’s not enjoyable seeing WWE bury ZZ or making Amanda look bad. It doesn’t work well to have your top babyface as boring heel with no-one to take his place. But hey, Tough Enough is about people wanting to become wrestlers, and so it’s always interesting to me. It feels like Lance Storm’s students (Chelsea & Gigi) are the only actually decent hires out of the bunch (I can’t see Josh, Tanner or ZZ becoming anything/sticking around long term). Nevermind though, there’s only 3 weeks left! And Cena’ll show up next time.

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]My boy Raff from the Wrestling is Wrestling Podcast did a Tough Enough review video!

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August 5, 2015
OSW Update! July 30

Hey yo! Here’s what’s going on with OSW (Updated 6th August)

• I’m currently editing Episode 52, Simulcast RAW, I’ve been spending my days off on it but it’ll take 3 more big sessions, I don’t like confirming dates until the finish line is in sight! But in about 10 days. I’ll keep you updated.
• WHAT BARRRRR tees! The brown/bar combo is already out of stock! We’ll have a couple more brown tee/bars available after this Sunday’s Comic Con (i.e. Monday night). If you ordered one but it wasn’t in your preferred size, or want international tracked shipping, have a look-see here! Classic Black What Bar tees are available here for the UK and here for the US!
• Our Dublin Comic Con panel is this Sunday! (4pm, 9th August!). It’s gonna be super awesome. I got banners with special artwork for the event! I will try to record the show. Hope to see you there!
• Episode 53 will be SummerSlam 2015 with Maffew! That’d be out roughly the Friday or Saturday after the PPV.
• And closing the X7 story arc, Episode 54 will be WrestleMania X7! I’ve been get a ton of people asking me already about it, please be patient and don’t poke me about it, this ep is going to be an absolutely massive show! Got some really special stuff lined up for it, which tentatively puts it around the end of September.
• The next film/tv written review is Scream 2 which’ll drop tomorrow. I’ll also cover Scream 3 & 4. I’ve been trying to watch the TV show as well but it’s a real rough watch!

Latest media:
This week’s Tough Enough/Tough Talk without Hogan: OSWreview.com/tough-enough-week-7
Super OSW 64 Level 3 (Jay’s videogame music show): OSWreview.com/review.com/super-osw-64-level-3
My thoughts on Hogan’s racist comments: OSWreview.com/hogan-racist-comments
Latest video: Samurai Cop review: OSWreview.com/media/movie-samurai-cop
Latest written film/TV/game review: Scream 1 (1996) OSWreview.com/media/movie-scream-1

Alright, back to editing! See you in the funny pages!

Jay

July 30, 2015