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FullLeatherJacket posted:tbf some of this is the fault of american m bison cody rhodes, who said a lot of stuff when AEW started around it being more diverse Nah, they 100% are. They have at least one openly trans wrestler, the Rhodes brothers have actively campaigned for and promoted trans rights (Dustin (not Cody -- thanks, Rarity!) has a trans daughter), they have Sonny Kiss who is openly genderfluid, a bunch of LGBTQ-wrestlers who feel comfortable enough to be open about their identities, and they seem to be taking an active stance against wrestlers saying hosed up and bigoted poo poo. They're not perfect, but compared to the WWE where "let's laugh at the large woman" is still a hot thing in 2021 it's like night and day. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:(IIRC Cody has a trans daughter) Dustin actually
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Rarity posted:Dustin actually Right, that makes sense with him being older than Cody and having older kids.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Nah, they 100% are. oh yeah, AEW are hiring people based on ability rather than what a panel of 70-year-old men in bowties think a pro wrestler should look like, which is cool and good (and one of the reasons that WWE only has about two wrestlers left that people don't see as completely interchangeable), it's more that there was a certain niche that took that to mean that pro wrestling is praxis and who got mad when Tony Khan just booked a fun wrestling show instead which again, who even cares, this is the La Parka thread, but the suggestion that a forum that forced some poor intern to read a bunch of "dear Tony, you employ too many Republicans nowadays, please fire three" letters is irredeemably chuddy was a good chuckle 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I enjoy wrestling because occasionally Kenny Omega will bust out a loving Boo-urns reference in front of an international audience. He delivered it so perfect. Like you know Don Callis told him “uh no they’re saying ‘noooooooohooooOoohooh’”
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FullLeatherJacket posted:this is the La Parka thread 
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MakaVillian posted:Today I learned that Goldberg is main eventing SummerSlam in the year 2021 Reigns vs Cena will be the main event. But still, lmao
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Soon, hologram technology will allow the WWE to show Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant as the main event of every big event, completing Vince’s dream of reliving his glory days while not paying wrestlers a dime. Although presumably he will keep a few actual humans around for embarrassing comedy sketches between matches.
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MakaVillian posted:Today I learned that Goldberg is main eventing SummerSlam in the year 2021 Track down his match with the Undertaker from a couple years ago. It's the saddest poo poo ever and it's a miracle they survived it.
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MakaVillian posted:Today I learned that Goldberg is main eventing SummerSlam in the year 2021 This was Monday on the go home show for SummerSlam https://streamable.com/i33dxo
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Gavok posted:Track down his match with the Undertaker from a couple years ago. It's the saddest poo poo ever and it's a miracle they survived it. Digital Jedi posted:This was Monday on the go home show for SummerSlam Thanks but no thanks. I prefer to keep my memories of Goldberg's original run pure MakaVillian fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Digital Jedi posted:This was Monday on the go home show for SummerSlam Waiting for the inevitable Kid Goldberg vs. Kid Rey Mysterio
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Flair still gettin it! I hope that's his wife though, dude doesn't need anymore alimony payments.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:the muff diving photo isn't actually ric flair Let your heart believe
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Prof. Crocodile posted:Soon, hologram technology will allow the WWE to show Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant as the main event of every big event, completing Vince’s dream of reliving his glory days while not paying wrestlers a dime. I won't be budged from my opinion that despite the fact that they were overwhelmingly the winners on the night, WCW's death spiral began in 1998 when Hogan beats Nash by poking him in the chest and resetting the entire nWo storyline (immediately after spoiling the results of the WWF title match on the other channel, causing 500,000 people to switch over to watch Foley win the belt). Arquette didn't kill them, or even the worked-shoot nonsense that they went wild with, they were already dying at that point and throwing poo poo at the wall. I have exactly the same feeling about the bit at Wrestlemania XXXII where Del Rio, Sheamus and Rusev beat the tag team champions and then issue an open challenge, which is answered by three 50-something retired wrestlers with career-ending spinal problems (Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels, and Steve Austin in dad jeans and New Balances like he's about to go out and trim the hedge) who dispose of them in a fair fight in literally less than a minute. They were in Texas, they got a huge pop from the crowd, but why would you watch the product after that? All the cool dudes have podcasts now.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:I won't be budged from my opinion that despite the fact that they were overwhelmingly the winners on the night, WCW's death spiral began in 1998 when Hogan beats Nash by poking him in the chest and resetting the entire nWo storyline (immediately after spoiling the results of the WWF title match on the other channel, causing 500,000 people to switch over to watch Foley win the belt). Arquette didn't kill them, or even the worked-shoot nonsense that they went wild with, they were already dying at that point and throwing poo poo at the wall. I was at that wrestlemania. It might be one of the worst shows of all time. It certainly killed my interest in the WWE aside from like following 2-3 people. It was the definite end of weekly viewing though. Spent too much money on dogshit to watch anymore.
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Shinjobi posted:Let your heart believe https://twitter.com/RicFlairNatrBoy/status/1428090843735396357?s=20
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Shinjobi posted:I was at that wrestlemania. It might be one of the worst shows of all time. It certainly killed my interest in the WWE aside from like following 2-3 people. It was the definite end of weekly viewing though. Spent too much money on dogshit to watch anymore. iirc that's also the wrestlemania where the rock got a ten-minute entrance appropriate perhaps for someone who had solved world hunger or physically conquered the moon, beat erick rowan in six seconds by hitting one move, and then went back to hollywood forever like, wouldn't it be great if you could get the 90s chicago bulls team back together for one game against last year's champions, and then the bulls just win by 100 points and do a dance where they grab they dick and balls before retiring again and going back to doing their own projects, wouldn't that be great for the worldwide profile of basketball
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Might be some contractual thing he wasn't allowed to actually wrestle or something. He wins either way. If enough people hate him he can turn heel and then babyface again because of it.
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blunt posted:Yeah but Cena has hair And can wrestle.
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