02-02-2022, 06:48 PM | #63441 |
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Lol yeah. He always used to do these rope walk/spring board moves but would fall off 90% of the times. In the racial discrimination lawsuit Arn Anderson goes into details how he kept telling Walker to practice those things in training, not on live T.V but Walker would ignore him
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02-02-2022, 07:30 PM | #63442 |
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02-02-2022, 07:34 PM | #63443 |
quesque fuck?
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Lollllll wtf.
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02-02-2022, 07:37 PM | #63444 |
It's a blood match!
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My God.
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02-03-2022, 06:07 AM | #63445 | |
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02-03-2022, 08:49 AM | #63446 | |
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But they gave Beth Phoenix HBK's eyes. |
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02-03-2022, 09:56 AM | #63447 | |
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There will always be fans who can appreciate the slow burn of old school wrestling, but as long as we live in a culture that needs everything right this instant, it will never take off with mainstream audiences. |
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02-03-2022, 12:21 PM | #63448 |
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Outstanding lol
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02-03-2022, 03:47 PM | #63450 |
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I have this image of a product that looks similar to Lucha Underground at The Temple, is wrestled a bit more like Bloodsport where less is more. The promotion would start with a G-1 Style tournament. Call it something different of course but it's a league tournament.
Imagine a 20 or so show tour broadcast on FITE with a mega roster of available talent out there right now. Based off that you could have an entire promotion to go forward. |
02-03-2022, 05:10 PM | #63451 | |
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02-03-2022, 05:13 PM | #63452 | |
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I was excited for AEW because when Cody was describing it, that's what it kind of sounded like, but it's obviously not what we got. |
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02-03-2022, 05:20 PM | #63453 | |
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02-03-2022, 05:26 PM | #63454 |
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I have doubts whether that's enough anymore. The draw of wrestling during its biggest boom periods were the characters more than the wrestling itself. Obviously having great wrestling compliments those characters, and you want that in the product, but if you can't create stars, does it even matter whether your product old school wrestling or modern spotfests?
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02-03-2022, 05:53 PM | #63455 |
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I think you’re drawing a line between characters and psychology that doesn’t need to be there. Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin and The Rock all had excellent psychology. People might attribute it to “character.” More casual fans might attribute it to them being “cool” or just who they are as people. But that is conveyed a lot of the time through psychology. It’s like a grounding of that character.
If Austin started coming out doing cartwheels, in fluro pink trunks and his finishing move was a moonsault that he got power for from kissing a baby — the whole act falls apart. Good psychology means being “on” as an entity, and doing things that your character, based in a sports-setting, would do. |
02-03-2022, 05:54 PM | #63456 |
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Or just read Destor’s posts.
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02-03-2022, 06:06 PM | #63457 | |
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Fans really cared a lot more about the story and how their guy grows to overcome the bad guy. But still within that you had those more athletic performers like Shawn, Steamboat or Owen, the technical aces like Bret or Mr. Perfect, but obviously the characters that were compelling like Jake, Heenan, DiBiase and Flair. Then the monsters like Yoko or Bundy, Andre or Vader. When I was a kid I only really noticed the match quality when it was a shit match, otherwise I was pretty much into whatever. |
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02-03-2022, 06:07 PM | #63458 |
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Foleyhausen is really good people. |
02-03-2022, 11:42 PM | #63459 |
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02-04-2022, 09:47 AM | #63460 |
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lol Goldberg vs Reigns at Blood Money 7 seems to be the plan atm.
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02-04-2022, 09:49 AM | #63461 |
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02-04-2022, 09:59 AM | #63462 |
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02-04-2022, 10:23 AM | #63463 | |
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Two, not releasing Jeff isn't necessarily "evidence" he never asked - or more importantly what I actually said of *wanted* to ask - for a release. There may even be other oeople who are/have been quiet about wanting to leave and being kept in the background while silently hoping to get dismissed early. We don't know that either, though, because if they exist, they're quiet. If Mustafa Ali didn't take to social media, there's still no guarantee he would've been granted his release just because he was publicly quiet. He might have been just as mad, and just as beholden to his contract, but nobody would have known. Jeff might have even asked and also told no. They probably wanted him to ride out his time as well. We really don't know that, because the only speculation at the time was about a potential wellness policy violation vs his history of them. Three, you would think that "badmouthing the company" would be a fast track out the door, not a reason the place keeps you around. It is a perverse sort of "punishment"and once again, a strange business strategy. If I publicly told my boss in so many words to go fuck himself, I'm 99% certain (margin of error and all) he wouldn't keep me around just to prevent me from potentially working for a competitor. There is no "their side to see" here, and it goes back to the hyperbole I used about being "held hostage". He can't leave, without some sort of contractual detriment, and they won't let him just because he wants it? That is a petty point for a publically traded company. Seeing the company ceasing to employ someone as a "reward" that they are unwilling to give is ass backwards. "He should be thankful he gets to be on TV" doesn't work when he isn't on TV, yet still is expected to travel like he is. It is also ironically making people figure this is some sort of work that is going to be the start of some SCSA type push or the thing when Austin Aries walked out of Impact how he did. Four, everything is NOT a Vince vs Tony argument. Who gives a shit about TK holding people to their contracts? Good for him. Not the same thing, though. He's been holding on to talent and just letting contracts lapse instead of cutting them in a manner of "post wrestlemania housecleaning". He isn't in a situation like this, though. If, say, Darby Allin wanted out and Tony said "no", then kept him off TV but made him show up for all the tapings anyway, we could make some sort of apples to apples comparison. And AEW would indeed be just as shitty as WWE. It isn't championing for AEW. It is barely even involving them outside of the natural speculation (but not guarantee) that it is the most likely place he'd show up and he'd likely be expected (but again not guaranteed) to thrive. But you could substitute any fed there, including New Japan. For the argument itself, AEW is a non-factor. The only thing that even *makes* this an "evil WWE" issue is the long history of this type of thing being an "evil WWE" issue. To pull a completely different example, I will mention Gallows & Anderson. No matter what anyone thinks about "Medium Show and Small Show", they made BIG NOISE in New Japan. Enough to warrant the attention of WWE- a company with deeo pockets, but notoriously wishy-washy about how they present and book and push tag teams... especially ones they didn't create. It wasn't super long until they went from Bullet Club buzz to just another couple of guys on the roster. Eventually, they would have been split up, repackaged, or shitcanned (or all three) if the formation of AEW wasn't happening. Now, suddenly, they had value to WWE again if only in denying somebody else - especially an organization made up of their well-publicized friends - access to them. They sign them to these big contracts to keep them off the table, then decide like five months in that they didn't want to pay the Good Brothers anymore. How shitty or not that was doesn't hinge on which side balked. If G&A weren't happy and walked out, there would have been a lot of hay made about them being "unprofessional", but because WWE changed their minds on the boatload of cash and multiyear deal they just signed, somehow "that's just business"? I mentioned before they've kept people under contract or even extended their contract time just to fuck with them. Publicly calling bullshit on that shouldn't make the talent the villain. |
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02-04-2022, 02:19 PM | #63464 |
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02-04-2022, 03:19 PM | #63465 |
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omg i am going to roll up to the WM party this year jamming this on max volume. It will be wondrous.
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02-04-2022, 03:32 PM | #63466 |
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Pretty smart match for the show. It was scheduled to happen and the last time we saw Goldberg he was going over the current WWE Champion. Plus, Reigns is now feuding with Brock, who is one of Goldberg’s most iconic opponents (definitely in this run).
You’ve got this, an Elimination Chamber featuring some pretty amazing talent and Becky Lynch vs. Lita. That’s a pretty stacked show. |
02-04-2022, 03:37 PM | #63467 |
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watching tracey smothers work a gcw crowd from 2019 and he is so damn good. using jim cornette's birthday to get heat. a brilliant man.
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02-04-2022, 03:47 PM | #63469 |
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02-04-2022, 03:56 PM | #63470 |
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Long twitter thread but none of it is really surprising
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02-04-2022, 04:04 PM | #63471 |
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02-04-2022, 04:06 PM | #63472 |
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Vince totally eye fucking Sunny
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02-04-2022, 04:06 PM | #63473 |
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he was fantastic in ecw. that's the era of ecw i'm most familiar with i'd say. but seeing him wrap a crowd around his finger with ease 20 years later is amazing.
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02-04-2022, 04:08 PM | #63474 |
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IF I HEAR THIS CROWD CHANT GCW, I'M COMING OUT THERE AND EVERYBODY DIES.
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02-04-2022, 04:19 PM | #63475 | |
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02-04-2022, 04:51 PM | #63476 |
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Was pumped for that 10 man tag as a kid. Was shook that it didn’t happen.
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02-04-2022, 05:07 PM | #63477 |
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what was the 10-man supposed to be?
also, i started watching wrestling in 1996. i fucking loved catching livewire on saturday, superstars on sunday and raw on monday (or whatever day when it was preempted by the dog show or tennis) |
02-04-2022, 05:39 PM | #63478 |
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IRS, Headshrinkers, Martel and Jarrett vs 123 Kid, Bob Holly, Tatanka and Smoking Gunns.
It could have been a fun match considering the participants. I think they ended up having the match on Raw but I haven't seen it . |
02-04-2022, 06:21 PM | #63479 |
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Kenny Omega randomly attacking Will Ospreay, very weird
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02-04-2022, 08:33 PM | #63480 |
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Yeah I looked it up and it's the April 4th episode. It would have been a fun match to add to that Mania because every match is so different. Really a buffet show with the brilliant Owen/Bret match, laced with the story of the WWF Championship triangle with Luger/Yoko/Bret, you've got the brawl with Crush and Savage, the spectacle of Razor/HBK and the "fun" intergender tag match with Doink and Dink vs Luna and Bam Bam. Gonna have to do a Mania 10 re-watch on the Road to Mania this year.
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