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they did my boy fenix dirty!
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Jan 28, 2016 04:09
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StarkRavingMad posted:Also murdered his general spine/neck/head area. But you know, he does that rising from the ashes thing the booking, not the deerman and the skeleton people
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I like that Matt Striker drove to pick up Vampiro, and then put that sheet over his car for no reason other than to reveal it dramatically to him
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Jan 28, 2016 16:57
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Lucha guys chop louder in general but the show is produced and edited differently which probably also helps
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Jan 28, 2016 23:17
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keevo posted:Oh yeah what's the deal with that Angelico guy? Is he basically Justin Gabriel adjace? Better wrestler, but yeah handsome x-treme south african
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ZoDiAC_ posted:profightdb.com is better as you get Meltzer's snowflakes for historical PPVs! cagematch offers slowflakes for good matches and has far more matches in its database !
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Jan 29, 2016 16:11
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The median age is 50 howwwww
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I actually think a lot of his critiques are sound but filtered through the Jim Cornette lens of gimmick hyperbole i.e. killing everyone with nuclear bombs. For a lot of people legitimacy is the ultimate goal of wrestling and that's cool, but for a lot of people it's not. I'm fine with both extremes as long as there's consistency. There's a lot of stuff lucha underground does that I think is really lazy and stupid but it is consistent and operates with its own logic. The strength of the performers and their charisma really rises above the negatives and makes the whole thing work also who cares what jimbo thinks
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fatherdog posted:Who are these people and what does "legitimacy" mean in this context
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Jan 30, 2016 02:53
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fatherdog posted:"presented like a sport" and "credible" are two different things. I'm sure there are many people that prefer the kind of old school stuff where rankings are important and the motivations of the wrestlers center around advancement and belts. If there are people out there who think wrestling should try to make people think it's not predetermined, I would say that they are a very small fringe of morons. I don't know of anyone in the former camp, that's for sure. There's a difference between pro wrestling trying to convince you it's real and pro wrestling that respects you enough not to show you it's fake. If you don't immediately buy into the crazier elements of LU the whole thing falls apart but if you give it a chance there's enough dedication and consistency to the fantastical elements on the show that the only thing coming across as corny is the only "real" person on the show, Matt Striker. It's good. I'm glad it's back
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fatherdog posted:Do you mean "the latter camp"? Sorry I'm 12 hours into a 14 hour shift and words have lost all meaning tonight
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Jan 30, 2016 05:59
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Wait they're already taping the season finale? What the gently caress? How long are these tapings? I thought they only had done a couple tapings so far.
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Supposedly when they secured funding for S2 they got it for S3 as well. Taping 60% as many episodes this time around probably helped with that
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Dario was kicked out of the temple at the end of season 1 so he's on the road with Black Lotus and his monster cannibal brother making a living the only way he knows: murdering tourists And yes Fenix is an actual phoenix
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I thought the implication was that Dario was lying The timeline on that angle was bizarre
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for me the strangest thing about Lucha Underground is seeing Justin Borden ref matches without constantly getting poo poo on by the crowd
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Gavok posted:I feel like I might get lumped into the same crowd as the guy who suggested Heath Slater is the next Shawn Michaels, but Pentagon Jr. really gives me the same feeling of investment that I had years ago when Austin was starting to catch on. I didn't care about Austin fighting McMahon that much. I was more about Austin fighting EVERYONE. He was a piece of poo poo villain with a ton of charisma who had it in for everyone and it was rad because he was depicted as a total badass. Pentagon gives me the same vibe in the way that he'll snap the arm of the company's unstoppable monster heel and then outright tell the top face that he's going to do that to him without having any provocation. He gives zero fucks in a way that gives me deja vu. I've seen Pentagon work a bunch of different places and he's instantly the biggest star in the building no matter where it is (except aaa which hates him for some reason and keeps him as the lesser half of uninteresting tag teams). He's very charismatic. If LU folded tomorrow i would still consider it a success in that it created demand for the luchadores in the US
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speaking of pentagon, his mixed tag title partner sexy star just announced she's vacated their tag team championship because she doesn't want to do the job (again). This is after faking an injury to not work the previous show where they wanted her to drop the title
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Feb 5, 2016 07:54
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I'm shocked Borden hasn't joined Mt Rushmore tbqh
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Feb 5, 2016 08:20
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i was forever a justin borden fan when after the show he emerged from the locker room wearing a silk dragon ball z button down
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Australian Suicide is pretty cool actually
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from PWIquote:There has also been a lot of discussion lately that AAA performers who were booked for Lucha Underground's second season were unhappy about being required to pay the promotion a percentage for their LU bookings. According to multiple sources, talents booked for the first season through AAA received their pay directly from AAA after the Mexican promotion was paid by Lucha Underground. By the time wrestlers received their pay, as the story goes, AAA had taken a pretty sizable percentage. this is insane!
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lol joey ryan is a stripper cop but actually just a real cop
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Takuan posted:As someone that's never seen Joey Ryan outside of that gif that went viral a couple weeks ago: What's the deal with the lollipop? He's a sleazy 70's guy and at live shows he asks who wants his blowpop and then feeds it to an audience memeber. There's also comedy spots where he tries to feed it to his opponent after sticking it down his tights or dropping it on the mat
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Chris James 2 posted:Didn't he give Dave one once when he came to a PWG show and the fans cheered Joey asked who wants a lolli and the fans started chanting "MELTZER! MELTZER! MELTZER!" and he politely declined
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this week's episode will be on dailymotion before you go to bed tonight Jerusalem
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lol sure thing
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Pentagon Jr. is now my favorite wrestleman. Yes, above Ambrose. I think pentagon is more skilled but they have similar appeal and skillsets. You could book Dean Ambrose just like this (minus the Higher Power stuff) and it would work. One is just booked to his strengths and the other is not. what's even crazier to me is that pentagon is a skeleton death cultist and comes across like less of a cartoon character than ambrose does these days
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Matanza is the one who has an Aztec God sealed inside him or w/e and their dad was (is?) the one who did the sacrifices/dark magic
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After refusing to job and no-showing a handful of events Sexy Star is seemingly done with AAA. Last night was the third (i think?) time she and Pentagon were scheduled to lose the intergender tag titles so instead of cancelling at the last minute again they had Pentagon wrestle a handicap match which he won. He then vacated the titles afterwards. Interested in how this affects her prospects with season 3 of LU
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they just broke up his two tag teams and had him win a handicap match rather than eat a pinfall i think he'll be ok We'll see how well he does in Rey de Reyes which is similar to King of the Ring. His qualifying match against Fenix, El Hijo de Fantasma (King Cuerno) and a mystery opponent might be the only good match of the tournament oatgan fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Chris James 2 posted:My only guess is she was real insulted they would give her a prize that she'd just never defend, and making the only time they would defend it be to lose it insulted her even more that she said "gently caress it, I'm just not showing up" Call Me Charlie posted:She held the title for over a year and only got booked to lose it after she complained publicly about what a pointless title it was. sexy star doesn't need aaa she has plenty of money and her husband is a famous athlete oatgan fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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i don't think its dario because then there will be the expectation that he wrestles and that's never happening unless he transforms into some big monster backstage which i guess is theoretically possible in lucha undergroundStarkRavingMad posted:It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on her, if any, for LU Season 3. I feel like it would be tough for them to drop her entirely, but if she pissed off the Roldans enough, who knows. I would have bet a large amount of money on S3 building to sexy star winning the title. Probably not right away, but after a roadblock early on there's no way they don't pull the trigger on being able to say they have a woman as world champion. But now? who knows. If she's really quitting AAA they won't want her on the show and this is a show where you can really kill someone off backstage so that's something to look forward to at least
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mainstream lucha is mired in nepotism and seniority so while its difficult to take konnan at his word i believe him when he said the older guys were pissed at him for bringing in outside talent to AAA to do little more than job on the undercard because they thought he was eventually going to replace themStarkRavingMad posted:I wonder how complex it is on the LU side of things since they don't own all the characters. Like there's a Puma shirt and they have Mil's face on one of the Lucha Underground shirts since those are original characters, but for people who wrestle in multiple promotions, or for those who sell their own merch already, I guess those deals might have more moving parts. Does AAA own the Pentagon Jr character or does he own it himself? When Cero Miedo merch is selling on Masked Republic, where is the money going? I mean, I know half these guys sell their own shirts/masks in parking lots half the time. You'd think it would be as simple as going "hey, how about we sell your poo poo and take a cut since you'll get a hundred times the sales" but maybe they have concerns about only selling merch they have 100% control/ownership of or something. AAA certainly owns Pentagon Jr. but if for whatever reason the man under the mask left the company you can be assured he'd start working as Pentagram Jr. or something similarly ersatz
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Dario needs to hurry up because Catrina might be the worst actor on the show
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Benne posted:I'm not familiar with Taya's work. On a scale of Sexy Star to Cheerleader Melissa how good is she? Taya Valkyrie is pretty good. I'm surprised she's still in Mexico and not NXT. She's a good fit for LU and especially Mundo. They've even got matching pants
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vinny massaro is a pro follow on twitter btw
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