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Dunbar posted:What is your Match of the G-1? very close between suzuki/styles and honma/shibata
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Dunbar posted:What is your Match of the G-1? Melina vs. Alicia Fox
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Dunbar posted:What is your Match of the G-1? Scott D'Amore vs Jeff Jarrett's guitar case
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Dunbar posted:What is your Match of the G-1? Captain New Japan vs A Girl
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Aug 10, 2014 16:19
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when is New Japan Pro Wrestling Destruction or whatever
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Tokyo Slutty Gal posted:when is New Japan Pro Wrestling Destruction or whatever sept 21
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yea ok posted:sept 21 wth thats forever... is there gonna be any smaller shows in the interim?
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Ouhh Duhh I dont know will there be smaller shows like every tour ever theyve ever done??
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I actually don't know and I'm sorry
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Tokyo Slutty Gal posted:wth thats forever... is there gonna be any smaller shows in the interim? They will probably take a month's break then start touring, I'd guess.
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Aug 10, 2014 16:27
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the g1 made me forget how lovely the first half of most every new japan show is so it's gonna suck to go back to that
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Tokyo Slutty Gal posted:wth thats forever... is there gonna be any smaller shows in the interim? http://www.cagematch.net/?id=8&nr=7&page=4 next show is september 5
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So they're doing the 2 shows thing again for Destruction? I assumed they'd given up on that after New Beginning. I guess one show will be Tanahashi vs. Styles while the other is Okada or Nakamura vs. Fale?
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Flameingblack posted:I'm so glad Something Awful user Tokyo Slutty Gal is here to star rate New Japan matches because that silly Dave Meltzer can't be trusted, what with all his years of journalism and possibly thousands of hours watching wrestling tapes. Meltzer genuinely believes that pro wrestling can only be judged in the moment and you can't re-evaluate workers by going back and watching old footage, even when it's stuff that wasn't available in the past. He also tends to think that the opinions of fellow wrestlers trump all else. I think that is downright silly, and it makes it hard for me to take him seriously on this stuff. I think of Meltzer the Reporter and Meltzer the Analyst as two separate people - have a lot of respect for the former, and not much for the latter. I could go into far more detail on myths that Meltzer has pushed over the years, but that would put this into tl;dr territory. I mean poo poo, he barely even watches lucha anymore. How can you be the authority on work when you don't pay much attention to one of the top 3 pro wrestling markets in the world?
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rashreflection posted:I mean poo poo, he barely even watches lucha anymore. How can you be the authority on work when you don't pay much attention to one of the top 3 pro wrestling markets in the world? because most lucha sucks poo poo and isnt worth watching
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Aug 10, 2014 17:16
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So Jeff Jarrett Joins the Bullet Club vs. Seth Rollins Turns On The Shield, is there anything else even in contention for best pro wrestling angle of the year? I have to give the edge to Jarrett because the Bullet Club guitar was such a cool visual. I guess you could throw the Jones/Cormier press conference in there...
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TSG stars are the anti-matter of Matlock Stars.
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Tokyo Slutty Gal posted:
I value the whole match where two men who were clearly friends with some issues took it slow coming out, worked like two people who like each other should, things slowly break down further and further until Okada puts his foot on Nakamura's face to get out of the armbar. Nakamura gets pissed off and things go crazy from here.
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Ishii. From your biggest fan, please take some time off and get well
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Yuriy posted:because most lucha sucks poo poo and isnt worth watching Though Dave does watch lucha, when CMLL I think we're streaming their weekly show online Dave was always tweeting about it.
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MassRafTer posted:I value the whole match where two men who were clearly friends with some issues took it slow coming out, worked like two people who like each other should, things slowly break down further and further until Okada puts his foot on Nakamura's face to get out of the armbar. Nakamura gets pissed off and things go crazy from here. I like this way of looking at it but I don't know that I can see the early to mid match stuff as respectful competition. Even with two guys that like each other there has to be a sense of struggle and I felt that was completely lacking - I didn't see two guys trying to win a match, I saw two guys taking turns to do their typical early-to-mid match offense, essentially doing stuff just to fill up the 15-20 minutes before they got to the hot finishing stretch. It was all very rote, like a stock "I do my poo poo, you do your poo poo, we go home" house show match except with an amazing final 5-10 minutes. I will try watching it again with what you said in mind at some point though. Spermgod fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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Yuriy posted:because most lucha sucks poo poo and isnt worth watching I challenge you to go watch some Extreme Tiger deathmatches. Lucha and deathmatches go together like gravy and mashed potatoes
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coconono posted:I challenge you to go watch some Extreme Tiger deathmatches. Lucha and deathmatches go together like gravy and mashed potatoes See also: La Parka's entire career.
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coconono posted:I challenge you to go watch some Extreme Tiger deathmatches. Lucha and deathmatches go together like gravy and mashed potatoes tweet me a link to w/e and i will watch it
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Yuriy posted:tweet me a link to w/e and i will watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhypyD4UapE
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Tokyo Slutty Gal posted:I like this way of looking at it but I don't know that I can see the early to mid match stuff as respectful competition. Even with two guys that like each other there has to be a sense of struggle and I felt that was completely lacking - I didn't see two guys trying to win a match, I saw two guys taking turns to do their typical early-to-mid match offense, essentially doing stuff just to fill up the 15-20 minutes before they got to the hot finishing stretch. It was all very rote, like a stock "I do my poo poo, you do your poo poo, we go home" house show match except with an amazing final 5-10 minutes. I will try watching it again with what you said in mind at some point though.
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Aug 10, 2014 21:01
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rashreflection posted:Meltzer genuinely believes that pro wrestling can only be judged in the moment and you can't re-evaluate workers by going back and watching old footage, even when it's stuff that wasn't available in the past. He also tends to think that the opinions of fellow wrestlers trump all else. Hardly downright silly or even silly. Pro Wrestling is a public performance. Closer to stand up comedy than music or film.
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Just finished watching the final, god drat I loved Okada vs Nakamura. It built to a perfect finishing sequence, drat. Had me on the edge of my seat.
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