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DancinBrud posted:I've seen Daivari wrestle a bunch (the commentary got it right: he really is the biggest thing going in Minnesota) and he really had to slow it down to carry Lun. Hope he gets a chance to show what he can do against more experienced competition too. I wonder if he was paired with Hoho early because he is good and they gave him assurances that he'd get a solid look by WWE for doing good business.
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That was a fun show. Look out next week Tajiri, Australia's gonna run right over you.
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Ohhhh shiiiiiiiit https://twitter.com/ATwiss99/status/753733440982421504
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AMReese posted:Ohhhh shiiiiiiiit He's super good
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ZenVulgarity posted:He's super good agreed, nxt paul is our savior e: i just wanted to make that joke, cedric was really impressive
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Cedric stood out the most for me of all of them on night 1 and that's a show that included Kota Ibushi, so hell yeah he should be getting recognized. Awesome.
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I've scaled back on posting who is and isn't signed the last two months due to the current climate. Even who NXT is vaguely interested. Angle and Moose aren't the only people who have gotten their deals yanked for things far less serious than domestic assault allegations. The screening process is stricter than ever. It is a scary time and I don't want to ruin anyone's chances. But Cedric's signing today is something that did happen and was a shoot. So that's great.
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rovert posted:I've scaled back on posting who is and isn't signed the last two months due to the current climate. Even who NXT is vaguely interested. Angle and Moose aren't the only people who have gotten their deals yanked for things far less serious than domestic assault allegations. The screening process is stricter than ever. It is a scary time and I don't want to ruin anyone's chances. Yes Rovert we all know how much power you wield in the IWC. Thank you for being a kind enough soul to not ruin careers.
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Just watched it and it was all great besides: Ho Ho who was really terrible and looked like he just started wrestling last week. Seriously dude, stop smiling after having moves done on you and actually loving sell a bit. Also, stop looking directly at the camera. The Third Uso was fairly garbage as well but he was a first round jobber so it isn't too bad because we don't have to see him in the tournament again. WWE will no doubt sign him anyway.
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How exactly is Sean Maluta in the Anoa'i family? They keep saying he's Afa's nephew but the family trees I've seen don't include him, so I'm assuming one of his parents must be a sibling of Afa's wife.
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yeah i was looking at the family tree earlier and he wasn't on it, i wouldn't be surprised if he's connected through marriage or something
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It says he's Afa's nephew, and there is an article from 2012 that includes an interview with Afa where he mentions him by name. It's quite possible that the family trees that are circulated, which don't include many of the family, haven't been updated since he became a pro wrestler.
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sticklefifer posted:How exactly is Sean Maluta in the Anoa'i family? They keep saying he's Afa's nephew but the family trees I've seen don't include him, so I'm assuming one of his parents must be a sibling of Afa's wife. I asked. Sean is from Staten Island. Sean was introduced to Afa through Afa’s wife, who is from Staten Island originally. No true relationship. He's been on file with WWE Developmental for years and years. Never hired for whatever reason.
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spudsbuckley posted:Just watched it and it was all great besides: There's an interview with Davari out there where he talks about Lun. Pretty much Lun is very green, but there is no wrestling culture in China at all. Lun is one of their pioneers, and has lots of potential to be realized, but there is work to do. That being said, Davari thinks people online are being a bit too hard on him.
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Xenoletum posted:There's an interview with Davari out there where he talks about Lun. Pretty much Lun is very green, but there is no wrestling culture in China at all. Lun is one of their pioneers, and has lots of potential to be realized, but there is work to do. Honestly, if Lun had come into NXT, and had had a few months at the Performance Center, or on the road with an Aries or a Bobby Roode? He'd probably be fine. It's throwing him in with a more polished dude in Daivari and on the same card as someone like Ibushi that shows up his weaknesses.
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Lun was pretty botch free the entire match and the spots he did looked nice. He just had no grasp of psychology or how to really string his moves together. I think he could be good if he started getting legit training.
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I think the best thing for Ho Ho Lun is for him to tour the independent scene in the US and bring that knowledge back to Hong Kong. If he doesn't just stay in the US, I mean.
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Every good sports tournament has a crap team that enters that can't play but everyone loves when they get through against the odds. Triple H should be commended for his soccer style booking. And I also dug the botch/commentary. It's always irked me that wrestling was supposed to be seen like a performance art where everything has to be setup for success. People should be able to botch a move and have the commentary say they screwed up rather than pretend it simply didn't happen. The botch in that match truly looked like someone who just went for it because they knew they had to give it their all, and it fit perfectly within the narrative. Ahhhh the cwc rules so much and everything so far has been completely how I wanted it since they announced it. The fight intro graphics rule, haters. The only one minor thing is picking up on the commentary punch-ins as they've obviously changed the order they're televised in compared to filmed, and they've added bits in to say things like 'the second match of the tournament' when it was the 8th or something. Not even a complaint.
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I hope HoHo Lun gets a bunch of training at the performance centre and then tours around the US as the new superstar we all know he is. Such natural babyface charisma.
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MrBling posted:Such natural babyface charisma. For some reason this made me start hearing Sami Zayn's theme in my head with the "Oh"s replaced with "Ho Ho Lun"
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MrBling posted:I hope HoHo Lun gets a bunch of training at the performance centre and then tours around the US as the new superstar we all know he is. Such natural babyface charisma. Yeah if anything he made me really appreciate what the NXT performance center can do
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rovert posted:I asked. Sean is from Staten Island. Sean was introduced to Afa through Afa’s wife, who is from Staten Island originally. No true relationship. Well that's certainly not going to stop them from saying it over and over!
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https://twitter.com/itsBayleyWWE/status/753767465340002304
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Just out of curiosity i looked up how long Ho Ho has been wrestling. 7 years. I think he might just be a bit poo poo.
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He's wrestling in Hong Kong, not Japan. They didn't have pro wrestling until he introduced it. I think you can give him a little leeway since he wasn't wrestling Shibata and Okada or something. "Man, that guy from the Democratic Republic of Congo sure sucks at golf." AMReese fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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AMReese posted:He's wrestling in Hong Kong, not Japan. They didn't have pro wrestling until he introduced it. I think you can give him a little leeway since he wasn't wrestling Shibata and Okada or something. If he's the best Hong Kong has to offer, I can't imagine what would be the worst. A guy that untalented shouldn't be introducing wrestling to the largest untapped market, he should be carrying someone's bags into a bingo hall in Kentucky.
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AMReese posted:He's wrestling in Hong Kong, not Japan. They didn't have pro wrestling until he introduced it. I think you can give him a little leeway since he wasn't wrestling Shibata and Okada or something. He seriously looks like a guy who had been training for a couple of weeks. Celebrities doing matches for WWE and WCW back in the day looked better than him.
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Gentlemen, I will not sit idly and tolerate any Ho Ho hate in this thread 
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Bunch of haters up in here
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Yeah, you assume too much about what those "7 years" mean. Brazil has SOME pro-wrestling tradition and people work like, once a month as a hobby at BEST, so if Hong Kong has even LESS of a scene, 7 years probably means "I did backyard poo poo with friends once a year". Plus it's an "untapped" market because no one gives a gently caress, it's not so much him being a bad influence as it is him being the only guy to care enough, I'd assume.
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in interviews he's said he does one or two shows a year in hong kong although he has done tours with ZERO-1 in japan, a few places in europe, and idk how but he's had a handful of bookings in bingo hall indies in the US. It's ok if he's bad you dont really need to make excuses for him. He wrestles like he's inexperienced
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If you'd care to, y'know, read stuff, I just said that the 7 year figure doesn't mean 7 years in American wrestling time. 
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as the self-proclaimed authority on ho ho lun i was merely clarifying on his relative inexperience!
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Jul 15, 2016 23:09
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Shame on Ho Ho Lun for wanting to be a wrestler!
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As far as the other guys in the hong kong pro wrestling are concerned, there really aren't any. Whoever is bankrolling those shows flies in unknown guys from southeast asia and europe and they work bland inoffensive matches in front of 30 people. Some of those shows are up on youtube its a very weird vibe.
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Isn't there another Hong Kong guy in the field? Or is he like Daivari or the Indian guys and actually from, like, Iowa?
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you might be thinking of Anhui's favorite son Bin Wang who was signed to a developmental contract around the time they were announcing names for the CWC. He's the first Chinese wrestler in WWE's system.
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Are Ho Ho Lun and Godfather's Ho related?
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