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Neodoomium posted:What would Drew Gulak know about beating Daniel Bryan Sometimes the best coaches weren't very good competitors in their sport.
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DarkstarIV posted:Lol WWE is giving this match away for free. WWE gives every match away for free at this point? Or do you think there's people who would specifically sign up to the Network to watch Baszler vs Asuka who don't already have a Network sub?
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Mar 1, 2020 23:34
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, it kinda undersells the idea if they're not selling PPVs anymore. I mean, I hate WWE but we commend AEW for giving away good matches on TV. Yeah, but almost nothing they do has any consequences & the stuff that does have a build is generally dogshit. If you watch their programming you must be aware of this. Just doesn't seem worth commenting on, it's WWE, it's more notable when they accidentally stumble into booking something logically & sensibly for a change.
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Mar 2, 2020 00:09
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Smoking Crow posted:The world class and gino Hernandez ones are really good because the first has a really great kevin von erich interview and the gino one has new information surrounding the case Seconding this recommendation. The Kevin interview was equal parts heart breaking and heart warming, in the sense that he seems to be in a decent place considering everything. The Gino episode is definitely the must watch and I also got stuff out of the Brody episode. It being renewed is worth it for more people to find out about Herb Abrams alone. Especially if they do one of their recreations of the hours leading up to his death. What a guy.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:05
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Incessant Excess posted:JBL is going into the hall of fame. To be inducted by Blue Meanie I hope
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Mar 5, 2020 23:33
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Cerebral Bore posted:Did they just memory hole Okada or what? You can't put Okada on the front cover of a US magazine and get a boost in sales, where as AJ on the cover you might.
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Mar 6, 2020 14:00
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TV Zombie posted:How is Ligero the worst when Dunne and Seven exist? Because at least Dunne and Seven have done some interesting wrestling in between licking boots. Ligero can't even claim that.
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Mar 7, 2020 22:06
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flashy_mcflash posted:My reaction was Probably the single biggest indie wrestling tournament in Europe. Usually a good mix of WXW regulars, other European indie guys & some flyins from the US & Japan. Unfortunately now that WXW is basically just an NXT UK feeder promotion I think this year will be the last 16 Carat of note.
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Mar 8, 2020 19:58
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Incessant Excess posted:
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Mar 8, 2020 21:31
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Intruder posted:Looking at the card, Elimination Chamber might be a contender for worst PPV of all time How soon we forget that Blood Money was a week ago
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Blaise330 posted:What if Sami wins the IC title tonight tho This seems about as likely as Katsuhiko Nakajima winning the IC title tonight
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Mar 8, 2020 21:51
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John Dudebro posted:correction: there is no wrestler wwe has hosed up more disastrously in recent history than sami zayn Braun Strowman. Despite being green he was over as hell in the beginning and now he's just another guy. Great booking Sami's ceiling was always going to be low in WWE.
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Mar 8, 2020 22:21
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Blooming Brilliant posted:Whoever said Braun's death nail was playing that double bass was entirely correct. I used to loathe comedy in wrestling but it turned out the problem was just that WWE comedy is really terrible. Toru Yano would be too subtle for Vince.
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Jerusalem posted:Elimination Chamber Results 3/8: You love to see friends supporting friends 
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Mar 9, 2020 12:12
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Yeah but it's established WWE canon that all babyfaces are so stupid that they can barely remember to breathe so it is clearly the most dastardly thing to take advantage of that simplicity.
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Wazzu posted:Imagine what Orton would do if they told him to work Main Event. Half arse it like he does every single time?
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Hopkins FBI posted:quote: Ah, the McIntyre family estate. Won't lie, loving hilarious notion that Drew McIntyre is some Highland Lord rather than a working class lad from Ayr, and he's got his own version of Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez. In fact gently caress it, just bring in Sean Connery, he can't cost that much money at this point. It's like a stupid mix of Groundskeeper Willie, The Highlander & The Master from the legendary WCW stable Dungeon of Doom. Is Drew at least a heel? Or are we meant to think that the landed nobility are the good guys? forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Blaise330 posted:I know Corona news has everyone down but somebody's having a good week What the gently caress have they done to the glorious IC belt? This company can't even get titles right anymore.
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spongeh posted:This is a dumb take since the intro HHH bit said something about taking your mind off of everything going on around you or something to that effect. It was acknowledged without saying CORONAVIRUS over and over again. Maybe he just meant taking your mind off the every day living hell of living in late capitalism. Did you consider that, huh? Did you?
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Mar 14, 2020 16:42
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spongeh posted:no because living in late capitalism is paradise If this is paradise then what on earth is hell? 
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Mar 14, 2020 17:04
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Blaise330 posted:When I say "reddit told me" i should preface that reddit also tells me stuff like not to evacuate for hurricanes. Ah, the Jose mindset (GBS mod Jose flew from the UK for a wedding in Miami & a hurricane happened and instead of evacuating he just bought alcohol and rode out the storm in his hotel room while playing his Switch & shitposting in a livethread in CSPAM. His balcony basically turned into a swimming pool, it was cool)
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Mar 15, 2020 00:02
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RealFoxy posted:We give a lot of poo poo to people on Reddit and Facebook but where did the groverhaus come from I'd like to think the difference is that Goons are self-aware enough to know we're all idiots.
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super macho dude posted:I just watched Smackdown and I can honestly say unless its Stardom or a deathmatch on a tropical island, no audience wrestling is pure garbage. Sanshiro Takagi vs Minoru Suzuki at the Tokyo Dome says otherwise.
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SalTheBard posted:https://twitter.com/fightoracle/status/1239763504061648896?s=19 Imagine rovert was a barely sentient slug. That's front row Brian
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Lid posted:The best way to get around empty arenas is to do multiperson matches as Stardom showed. Also have Jushin Liger as a commentator. Slightly cooler when he responds to you than Byron Saxton
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Lamuella posted:I mean, they have correctly zeroed in on the target demographic of 9 year old boys who like both trains and big strong musclemen Unfortunately they tend not to like losers which they managed to book Braun as
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Eat My Fuc posted:That's the best thing they can do. Pretty sure the best thing they could do would be to go out of business
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Watch WWE for "sports entertainment", watch AEW and NJPW for actual pro wrestling. Problem solved But AEW is well booked sports entertainment with good matches so as much as it's not for me it seems you'd be as well just watching that and filling the other good wrestling with All Japan or NOAH or DDT or Dragongate. Eat My Fuc posted:I see all your points of view and I get it. It’s just personally when it comes down to it I am a fan of pro wrestling. If i’m going to name my personal top 5 in the world right now, three of them are WWE performers, one is AEW, and one is NJPW, because of that there’s nothing either company could do that would get me to stop watching unless I want WWE to die precisely because they do have so many of my all time faves on the roster and proceed to do gently caress all with them. The moral issues suck but I'm a black metal fan and am trained at separating art from artist. I want WWE gone because they just make really bad wrestling and are the default name for wrestling in the west so do active damage to wrestling at large. I loathe the house style which turns everyone into an identikit worker who loses the unique poo poo that got then signed in the first place aside from a handful of signature spots. It's so watered down. The roster is the best it has ever been from an in-ring perspective and yet the matches are overwhelmingly eh unless you're really into the overwrought melodrama of "why am I so violent?" which, personally speaking I don't find remotely compelling. The last WWE match I remember actually being invested in was Bryan against Lesnar which must be 18 months ago? 2½ years? And that was because it didn't feel like a WWE match. Holy poo poo, I was so excited when Danielson, probably my all-time fave, was back from retirement. Oh the possibilities. Danielson vs KENTA again. Danielson vs La Sombra. Danielson against Generico in a PWG classic, gently caress yeah! Danielson Joe! Instead we got 7 feet tall and you can't teach that (to wrestle) Colin Cassidy. And then he signs a new deal and the dreams of a Danielson G1 go in the bin.
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A Salty Affair posted:Something I want to get off my chest; the vibe of this thread kinda sucks. I mostly lurk these here rasslin' threads and post infrequently but I've noticed that these threads are getting super unfun. Okay, what are the fun things WWE has done in 2020? Releasing wrestlers so they can go and actually be good and entertaining elsewhere doesn't count. I know this sounds sarcastic but it's not. I'm sincerely interested to know what gets people to keep coming back. What's a WWE main roster match I should check out from this year apart from Bryan Gulak which I haven't been able to see because it's not been uploaded in any of the usual places sadly I get it, some people enjoy the WWE house style. That's fine. I don't and that's why I stopped watch it but there's nothing inherently wrong with evaluating something subjective differently to someone else. Or even everyone else. nowt wrong with being an outlier. But I don't think anyone is stopping you from posting about the parts of WWE you like. They might question why you can't find somewhere that does those bits just as well but with a much higher fun to bad ratio but ultimately it's your time to spend how you wish. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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jesus WEP posted:raw has been up and down in 2020 but most shows have been pretty watchable. it was especially good when the cucking stuff went on last because you knew you could just turn the show off. owens and joe are great babyfaces. andrade has had really nice tv matches. angel garza same. everyone on the forum except me and one other person was 100% wrong about this year’s men’s rumble it was fantastic apart from a slow stretch between brock’s elimination and edge’s return. everything edge or orton has done post-rumble has been must-watch. I was quite surprised looking on Cagematch, as their highest rated main roster match was the Rumble match that I remember being dumped on here.
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Chris James 2 posted:Dave says they've been talking with ESPN about giving ESPN+ exclusive rights to the major PPVs, but they're far apart on money. Vince wants more than UFC got Ahahahahahahaha Vince is a funny guy
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If WWE does shut down it'll be a good chance for you to replace the 15 hours a week or whatever it is hatewatching their TV with better wrestling shows! Japanese wrestling is ramping back up now, Champion Carnival is at least scheduled to begin on April 6th is a great time to get get into All Japan (if you aren't watching the show that started 20 minutes ago and features Kento Miyahara vs Suwama, which if he wins will mean Kento has the most title defenses in one reign, beating Kawada's record.)
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RealFoxy posted:WWE could put on the Monday Night Wars and Ruthless Aggression documentaries and still retain viewers with extended cuts of both and still come out fine in the end. All they'd have to do is sprinkle in promos and WWE Network ads. The WWE Network has thousands and thousands of hours of content. gently caress it, literally just put on WCW Nitro on Monday and RAW on Friday. They'd only do that if they could have someone dub over Nitro commentary like Cole and Graves to just poo poo all over it. Vince is still shook
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Lamuella posted:Justin Credible is playing for the Panthers? That's PJ Polaco. Imagine not knowing Aldo Montaya's real name.
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ChrisBTY posted:I dare not hope that an old, rich white person will be taken to task for their misdeeds. I have been hurt too many times before. Happened to the Romanovs.
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jesus WEP posted:the power plant rightly gets ragged on a lot but they trained up and produced a bigger star than the performance centre ever has or ever will Yeah, it gave us Ice Train, one half of the legendary & beloved tag team Fire & Ice with Scott Norton.
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Von_Doom posted:I know it didn’t give us Kronik but it should have. I still remember their 1 wwf appearance. I remember it was bad. Fun fact about Kronik, they later beat Keiji Mutoh & Taiyo Kea to become AJPW World Tag Team champs. Kid me only actually saw 1 Adam Bomb match but between that & seeing photos of him in the WWF annual I had & the magazines I'd very rarely get he looked like the coolest dude to me. He's huge & had that yellow & red singlet and long wet hair and the goggles & I guess I thought that was a good look. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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