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bebaloorpabopalo posted:when's the last time a match has had that much denim Probably not since reign of terror HHH.
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Coaaab posted:those are gonna some very lewd, nsfw minions coming up on his screen, then Oh not at all - there are idiots getting arrested for it regularly but people still do it to streamers etc even after seeing the consequences because they think they can't be traced behind a VPN (they easily can) so there's no looking for logical decisions in a broken brain
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:when's the last time a match has had that much denim When's the last time Orange Cassidy wrestled? Also: https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1258227379106975746?s=20
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Dango Bango posted:That guy deserves a swirlie At the very least a wedgie I was going to say a wet willy but I don't know if that translates to things other than licking your finger and putting it in someone's ear outside of where I'm from
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Was the Jake the Snake thing gross or is this the f4w recapper’s weird anti AEW bias? I didn’t watch the episode, but i’m probably gonna watch the PPV.
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Davros1 posted:When's the last time Orange Cassidy wrestled? Last week or two weeks ago against Havoc.
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Eat My Fuc posted:Was the Jake the Snake thing gross or is this the f4w recapper’s weird anti AEW bias? I didn’t watch the episode, but i’m probably gonna watch the PPV. It was pretty gross, but I wasn’t offended by it and thought it upped the ante to the Cody/Archer thing.
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Eat My Fuc posted:Was the Jake the Snake thing gross or is this the f4w recapper’s weird anti AEW bias? I didn’t watch the episode, but i’m probably gonna watch the PPV. It was gross
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Davros1 posted:When's the last time Orange Cassidy wrestled? matt's jncos alone have more denim in them than cassidys full gear
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Eat My Fuc posted:Was the Jake the Snake thing gross or is this the f4w recapper’s weird anti AEW bias? I didn’t watch the episode, but i’m probably gonna watch the PPV.
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blackshreds posted:It was pretty gross, but I wasn’t offended by it and thought it upped the ante to the Cody/Archer thing. I would have found it upsetting if the announcers painted it as anything other than reprehensible. This was one time that commentary definitely benefited from there not being any heel announcer, because if even one person was out there yukking it up, it would have come off really bad. As it was, all of them were really clear that everyone was supposed to think this was a reprehensible act. It also helps that in real life Brandi is a high ranked executive, and a pretty assertive lady, and her husband an EVP, so there's no way she'd be pressured into participating in the angle if she wasn't down with it. (She's also done an angle on the heel side before where she forcibly kissed Kenny, so it's not like she's shy about doing this kind of stuff in pursuit of an angle). If it was some new woman wrestler who might think her job depended on dealing with the angle, I'd be more worried about the real life behind the scenes part. With all that in mind, I didn't find it more offensive than the villain in a movie groping a heroine. You're supposed to dislike him for it and hope he eventually gets kicked in the nuts. But I can certainly understand why some people are more sensitive to these kinds of angles than others. It also was like a minute long bit and was pretty quickly blown away by the chaos of the street fight.
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I didn't get to watch the show but based on the recap wasn't the entire point of that segment for him to be creepy and uncomfortable like his character has been since the 80s
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Sugar Blaster posted:it was gross but jake is a gross old man so that was kind of the point.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:I didn't get to watch the show but wasn't the entire point of him to be creepy and uncomfortable like his character has been since the 80s Absolutely
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StarkRavingMad posted:Absolutely He's still got it Seriously though when I read the recap I just started flashing back to him being creepy around Elizabeth during his feud with Macho Man and how people HATED him for putting Elizabeth in any kind of danger. As a kid it totally worked on me and I hated him too. Then he let his snake bite Macho and I went out of my mind. Good times.
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Coaaab posted:i'm getting worked by it because brandi's all "stop initiating all this gross poo poo old man" and jake's all "nuh-uh" and brandi just takes it on the chin w/o a complaint in the world I don't know where you get the last part from. She cut a big promo before the match on Jake about how he better shut his dirty old man mouth, and then during the snake stuff she was knocked out by Britt, she couldn't complain.
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The snake thing was fine but I didn't care for the simulated sex/rape. I hope that's not repeated and that it was Jake being creepy and improvising.
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:how does maryland still have kayfabed wrestling regulations, i thought vince managed to get rid of all those in the early 90s. * The 30th anniversary of the New Jersey deregulation push that made the major headlines: https://deadspin.com/thirty-years-ago-wwe-admitted-it-wasnt-a-sport-to-try-1832640826 * Louisiana's bullshit going into WrestleMania 2 years ago: https://deadspin.com/how-louisianas-archaic-commission-rules-will-burden-wre-1824118577
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The thing I've found most interesting about AEW is how it mixes the newer hyper-athletic in-ring stuff with the more kind of 80s wrestling storytelling and context. Sometimes you get the pathos of that awesome "whipping the hell out of Cody" segment and sometimes you get Jake's deal tonight. I absolutely get why people in 2020 are skeeved out by it but I think that's the reaction they were shooting for. This is a "throwback" sort of angle and that was definitely the sort of scene you could picture in a rickety smoke-filled arena with grandmas cussing him out from ringside.
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I'm not trying to "well actually" anyone who was grossed out by that angle or dismiss their concerns, but Jake has always been one of those old-school guys who thinks the heels should be as despicable as possible, and we're pretty sure that Cody and Brandi agree. For better or worse, that angle accomplished everything they were going for.
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I havent watched Matt Hardy in like 15+ years, since he left raw the first time in the 00's (didnt watch smackdown). I don't think i "get" this new character. it's a lot.
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I thought for a second when she got rolled in they were gonna recreate the Macho snake bite on Brandy. Definitely had my anxiety going for a sec, it’s weird feeling the hatred for the bad guys in wrestling I haven’t felt since I was ten, however fleeting it is.
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My very minor complaint of the night is that I really wish they had the faces win the main event, since it's the first night back from the COVID hole in Georgia.
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I'm not watching during coronavirus but I'm here with a meme from C-SPAM, enjoy 
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Punch McLightning posted:My very minor complaint of the night is that I really wish they had the faces win the main event, since it's the first night back from the COVID hole in Georgia. I'm guessing they're building to the big return of the Young Bucks
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StarkRavingMad posted:I don't know where you get the last part from. She cut a big promo before the match on Jake about how he better shut his dirty old man mouth, and then during the snake stuff she was knocked out by Britt, she couldn't complain.
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davidbix posted:There are still athletic commissions that sanction pro wrestling in close to half of the states in the union. (And Washington, DC.) How strict they are varies wildly. Useful reading from my Deadspin archives are my articles about : The DC commissioners that showed up at Prime Time Pro shows were pretty much entirely booed, to the probably kayfabe chagrin of the show runners.
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Coaaab posted:i'm getting worked by it because brandi's all "stop initiating all this gross poo poo old man" and jake's all "nuh-uh" and brandi just takes it on the chin w/o a complaint in the world. probably needed a paying crowd there so there'd be some loud booing e: just saw your followup post
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I don't demand much, but I demand this be put into the OP https://twitter.com/GetDaTables/status/1258214021343444992
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Coaaab posted:what i meant was outside of kayfabe, she let jake drape this big ol' live snake over her and she didn't flinch or break, she was there to do a job and sell She sold the snake better than Mox did
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I groaned when I saw Jake without his mask midway through that Archer match. Please just keep it on, please.
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The dozens of people without masks backstage for the street fight took me out of it. Really enjoyed the rest of the show.
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explosivo posted:Man, that main event loving ruled It's a match that I hope someday they release somewhere with behind the scenes commentary from the four guys in it.
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the booking of it was pretty nicely built up too. started mostly in the ring without much plunder, then started escalating after they did the table spot and then just went batty after matt escaped the freezer.
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Coaaab posted:what i meant was outside of kayfabe, she let jake drape this big ol' live snake over her and she didn't flinch or break, she was there to do a job and sell Well yeah, but her telling him to stop talking about her is a work too. She's an executive of the company and her husband is an EVP, Jake wouldn't be saying this stuff if she was actually offended by it. His promos weren't even live, they were pre-taped, so if Brandi wasn't comfortable in real life with this angle, they could have just edited the part about her out of it and told Jake offscreen to knock that off. Like I said before, Brandi isn't some kind of shrinking flower and she's done angles like this before -- hell, they did a gag for MONTHS on the indie circuit where she would accidentally get knocked out by Cody during a match and then Joey Ryan would show up and steal her away while she was unconscious. (edit) just remembering that stupid feud led to Brandi actually taking a back bump into thumbtacks before tapping Joey out. 2017 was a weird time StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 7, 2020 |
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Neodoomium posted:It's a match that I hope someday they release somewhere with behind the scenes commentary from the four guys in it. "Ouch" "ow" "That part really hurt" "Kenny, what the hell were you thinking?"
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Neodoomium posted:It's a match that I hope someday they release somewhere with behind the scenes commentary from the four guys in it. "So Matt and Kenny never told me they were going to run me over..."
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