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MassRafTer posted:How would Steve Blackman be a huge star, he'd be nothing today. I think if you put him in something like Bloodsport and he had an impressive showing then he’d probably get booked by every Indy out there before getting signed by a bigger company. He’s not as charismatic as Matt Riddle but he does look like he could kick anyone’s rear end.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Sadly I think her recent wrestling vids have gotten copyright struck. yeah everything wrestling has been scrubbed even the deep dive on heroes of wrestling and collision in korea
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Sep 9, 2019 22:14
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Can some qualify for me the main differences between ‘wrestling cool’ and ‘real’ cool.
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karmicknight posted:Can some qualify for me the main differences between ‘wrestling cool’ and ‘real’ cool. "wrestling cool" is whatever was cool 5-10 years before wrestling caught onto it.
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karmicknight posted:Can some qualify for me the main differences between ‘wrestling cool’ and ‘real’ cool. consider DDP in WCW
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karmicknight posted:Can some qualify for me the main differences between ‘wrestling cool’ and ‘real’ cool. Konnan is both.
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I asked this last thread and it never got answered: Did the most current Wrestlehut Awards thread get posted or did we just skip it this year? I haven't been checking these forums for awhile after 'Mania.
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We knew DDP was a dork even back then, but he believed in himself so much and had such great matches that it became impossible not to believe in him too.
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karmicknight posted:Can some qualify for me the main differences between ‘wrestling cool’ and ‘real’ cool. I promise not to use that word again for the rest of the week.
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super macho dude posted:I asked this last thread and it never got answered: Did the most current Wrestlehut Awards thread get posted or did we just skip it this year? I haven't been checking these forums for awhile after 'Mania. I don't recall and a search doesn't bring it up, The Goog used to run them and I think may have just skipped it this year?
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CombineThresher posted:"wrestling cool" is whatever was cool 5-10 years before wrestling caught onto it. This made me start thinking that maybe at least a part of "pro wrestling cool" is whatever your 5- to 12-year-old self would think is cool, and I am being serious and don't mean that as a bad thing. At its purest, when it's not trash carny garbage, there is a sweet innocence to pro wrestling
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extradite THIS! posted:This made me start thinking that maybe at least a part of "pro wrestling cool" is whatever your 5- to 12-year-old self would think is cool, and I am being serious and don't mean that as a bad thing. At its purest, when it's not trash carny garbage, there is a sweet innocence to pro wrestling I loving love One Piece and the author has been straight up in saying the entire inspiration for it was thinking,"What would I have thought was super cool when I was like 10 years old?" and then making a manga based around that premise. It loving worked, and that kind of earnest "check this awesome poo poo out!" mindset is what made season 1 of Lucha Underground work so well in my opinion.
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Jerusalem posted:I loving love One Piece and the author has been straight up in saying the entire inspiration for it was thinking,"What would I have thought was super cool when I was like 10 years old?" and then making a manga based around that premise. It loving worked, and that kind of earnest "check this awesome poo poo out!" mindset is what made season 1 of Lucha Underground work so well in my opinion. I love that Minoru Suzuki is a huge One Piece fan.
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I’m going to Kyoto and Osaka in mid January 2020 from the 13th to the 24th, is there any way to see if there are any pro wrestling shows happening in that area between those dates?
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Taintrunner posted:I’m going to Kyoto and Osaka in mid January 2020 from the 13th to the 24th, is there any way to see if there are any pro wrestling shows happening in that area between those dates? Check this out https://en.puwota.com/ Edit: Doesn't look like they have anything listed for January yet. Dunno when they'll start adding stuff Edit2: Ah, it just didn't load. Well, there's not much there yet anyway. It's still a long way off so I'm sure there'll be something, looking at Januaries from past years a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Taintrunner posted:I’m going to Kyoto and Osaka in mid January 2020 from the 13th to the 24th, is there any way to see if there are any pro wrestling shows happening in that area between those dates? If you get a chance to catch a show in KBS Hall, Kyoto I highly recommend it. Wrestling with a stained glass window backdrop is very interesting.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:What I've seen of Jeff Hardy as Willow in TNA is a bit like this. I don't know for sure though, because what I've seen also looked really horrible. Willow was cool actually
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Halloween Jack posted:
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Why does New Japan have the hard cam set up to face the entrance ramp where the fewest fans are visible? It seems like you'd ideally want an animated crowd as the background for the ring yet in a lot of their arenas they do it this way.
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Sep 10, 2019 18:36
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Incessant Excess posted:Why does New Japan have the hard cam set up to face the entrance ramp where the fewest fans are visible? It seems like you'd ideally want an animated crowd as the background for the ring yet in a lot of their arenas they do it this way. same reason they didn't move all the fans to the hardcam side and tarp off sections in dallas. They don't really care.
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Sep 10, 2019 18:40
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Incessant Excess posted:Why does New Japan have the hard cam set up to face the entrance ramp where the fewest fans are visible? It seems like you'd ideally want an animated crowd as the background for the ring yet in a lot of their arenas they do it this way. Japanese crowds aren't necessarily the most animated, so I don't know that it matters. You aren't supposed to stand or hold things above your head as to not block anyone else's view and ruin their experience. If your thing is seeing a crowd of people sitting and clapping rhythmically while others hold tiny towels and teddy bears, I can see your point though.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Japanese crowds aren't necessarily the most animated, so I don't know that it matters. You aren't supposed to stand or hold things above your head as to not block anyone else's view and ruin their experience. If your thing is seeing a crowd of people sitting and clapping rhythmically while others hold tiny towels and teddy bears, I can see your point though. It's certainly true that they are less animated in some ways than other crowds but I figure seeing people react even in small or subtle ways still makes for a better visual. It's part of the reason I like Korakuen and and Sumo hall so much, they don't do it in those due to the layout of the place. It's a very minor thing in the grand scheme of things, just something I noticed and felt was a bit of an odd choice.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Japanese crowds aren't necessarily the most animated, so I don't know that it matters. You aren't supposed to stand or hold things above your head as to not block anyone else's view and ruin their experience. If your thing is seeing a crowd of people sitting and clapping rhythmically while others hold tiny towels and teddy bears, I can see your point though. The tiny towel experience is very underrated.
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Show the sea of people holding tiny EVIL scythes, Harold you coward
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Big Bidness posted:The tiny towel experience is very underrated. I really want a Suzukigun tiny towel. No, it has no practical use what so ever.
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I got to buy a Sekimoto towel directly from him, and it's not even something that can be displayed but I want a bunch more tiny towels.
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tiny towels are at their best when Tanahashi rubs his sweaty face on some of them in the crowd after a long, hard-fought match
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What's the best account/history of the Hashimoto double cross
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So, nowadays WWE tends to tape a lot of shows at once, to the point of exhaustion for some crowds. Was it always like that, especially in the Attitude era? Sunday Night Heat was live before any PPVs but what about Sundays when there wasn't a PPV? Same for Thunder, was it big enough for its own show or did they tape it before/after something?
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The exact details depend on exactly when you're looking, but if anything WWE has trended towards taping fewer shows at once.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:So, nowadays WWE tends to tape a lot of shows at once, to the point of exhaustion for some crowds. Was it always like that, especially in the Attitude era? Sunday Night Heat was live before any PPVs but what about Sundays when there wasn't a PPV? Same for Thunder, was it big enough for its own show or did they tape it before/after something? the wrestling wikipedia that still lists all the wrestler's finishes posted:From early 1994 to September 1999, Raw was shown live on one Monday and then the next day (Tuesday) next Monday's Raw was taped. This meant that Raw was live one week and taped the next. and i am p. sure they taped some of those recap shows with a few squashes for poors that could not afford the premium channels at the same deal (i was one of the poors)
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God that schedule must have sucked for the crew. Spend hours after a late taping to take everything down, drive it to the next show, and put everything up again. And then the refs still have to work some matches!
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Admiral Joeslop posted:So, nowadays WWE tends to tape a lot of shows at once, to the point of exhaustion for some crowds. Was it always like that, especially in the Attitude era? Sunday Night Heat was live before any PPVs but what about Sundays when there wasn't a PPV? Same for Thunder, was it big enough for its own show or did they tape it before/after something? Thunder was shown live from its launch until October 2000 when they started taping it after Nitro
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forkboy84 posted:Thunder was shown live from its launch until October 2000 when they started taping it after Nitro
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LividLiquid posted:I think it alternated between taped shows and live shows for a while, didn't it? Before the reboot, I mean. i remember kevin nash giving some apologia for his disastrous run as booker wherein he breaks down how complicated it was to keep things in any kind of coherent linear order. here it is in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6DWhkEeDg
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Diabolik900 posted:The exact details depend on exactly when you're looking, but if anything WWE has trended towards taping fewer shows at once. At the nadir in the New Generation, they were sometimes doing 3 tapings at the shittiest venues.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:At the nadir in the New Generation, they were sometimes doing 3 tapings at the shittiest venues. Going through any New Generation recap podcast is a joy to hear "yeah this was taped three weeks ago, I know last week was part two of the next set of tapings but this the order they released them in"
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Jerusalem posted:I loving love One Piece and the author has been straight up in saying the entire inspiration for it was thinking,"What would I have thought was super cool when I was like 10 years old?" and then making a manga based around that premise. It loving worked, and that kind of earnest "check this awesome poo poo out!" mindset is what made season 1 of Lucha Underground work so well in my opinion. Which Straw Hat would be the best wrestler and why is it Franky
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Which Straw Hat would be the best wrestler and why is it Franky Well he's a SUPERstar so it seems obvious, but the real answer is Usopp because he's the closest in spirit to Ryusuke Taguchi and Toru Yano. Also the really real REAL answer is Minoru Suzuki.
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Can anyone truly be a SUPERstar if Tony Chimel hasn't cracked his voice announcing them?
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