01-13-2017, 04:32 PM | #31521 |
President of Freedonia
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jesus, that's horrifying
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01-13-2017, 05:03 PM | #31522 |
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Brock Strowman looks like someone and I am trying to put my finger on who.
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01-13-2017, 05:50 PM | #31523 |
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Hearing Cornette rant on Okada/Omega is like fine scotch. He's right, but then you go to the comments and hear all the butt-hurt fans misquoting him and not getting the point when the video is right fucking up there. |
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01-13-2017, 06:12 PM | #31526 |
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Holy fucking shit Lana.
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01-13-2017, 06:14 PM | #31527 |
President of Freedonia
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Pretty sure I'd let Rusev fuck my asshole Iron Sheik style if the payoff was a night with Lana
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01-13-2017, 09:12 PM | #31528 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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01-13-2017, 09:15 PM | #31529 |
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01-13-2017, 10:22 PM | #31530 |
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01-13-2017, 11:15 PM | #31531 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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01-13-2017, 11:37 PM | #31532 |
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01-13-2017, 11:38 PM | #31533 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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It's already been answered it's Donald Gibb. We've called him Orge on here a few times before.
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01-13-2017, 11:44 PM | #31534 |
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01-13-2017, 11:52 PM | #31535 | |
Taller than Adam Cole
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That having been said, I do like the fact that Omega has dialed back on the dumb shittery. He has, to an extent, moved on from the whole wrestling blow up dolls and 8 year old thing he did earlier in his career. And good on him for it. Also, my dad and I both thoroughly enjoyed the match. |
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01-14-2017, 12:07 AM | #31536 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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01-14-2017, 12:11 AM | #31537 |
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She has a face?
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01-14-2017, 12:35 AM | #31538 |
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Those look like new boobs. The nudes may now be out of date.
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01-14-2017, 12:37 AM | #31539 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Just a good bra I think.
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01-14-2017, 01:05 AM | #31540 |
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That Cornette rant, btw, is a nice example of why people shit on him and think he's out of touch.
The matches he feels are 5 stars are 20 to 30 years old. More of them closer to or older than 30. He spends a good portion shitting on Omega based on what he saw 10 years ago. Not to mention, outside of one spot, I don't think he complimented the match at all. I get that it's all subjective, but Jesus even if it's not your cup of tea, how anyone cannot watch Okada v Omega and think that it was a good to excellent main event match is beyond me. Cornette is still talking like it's the 80s with the idea that you have to present it like a real fight. People know it's a work. Times have changed. It'd be like someone telling the guys in the 80s that they needed to replicate the old timey style of the 50s. Wrestling evolves and what worked then doesn't work now. I feel like Cornette doesn't really get that, or he doesn't accept it. |
01-14-2017, 01:09 AM | #31541 |
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All he said was it wasn't the greatest match of all time which is what 6 stars would imply. He said it was a good 20-minute match that went 40. He also said he had a list of his five-star matches but forgot where he put it. He could have had some stuff from ROH when he was a booking which would be more recent.
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01-14-2017, 01:15 AM | #31542 |
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He could've. And I'm sure he may some in there. I just find Cornette hard to take seriously anymore. Not because he isn't a wealth of knowledge, but more because he just seems like he's hanging to a time that's long past.
My citing of him rattling off these 30 year old matches just indicates to me that he feels that a certain era and certain style is "pro rasslin", and I disagree with that Maybe in that time it would've worked. But itv won't work now. People are in on the rib. They know it's a work. Trying to present it the same way it was 30 years ago isn't gonna work. He makes valid points. I don't think he's a loon and I respect his opinion. I just think, similar to Jim Ross, he's hung up on a certain era and doesn't move past it. |
01-14-2017, 01:21 AM | #31543 |
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I think he somewhere in the podcast called Revival Vs. DIY 2/3 Falls a Five Star match or didn't disagree when his co-host mentioned it.
He just doesn't like Kenny Omega: 1. He lied (sent a fake injury photo to Adam Pearce in 2009 saying he wouldn't make it to Final Battle when he wrestled in Japan the same weekend. 2. Two matches that are hard to argue aren't disqualifying to Kenny Omega being taken seriously as a pro wrestler. |
01-14-2017, 01:29 AM | #31544 |
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I watched the match with my uncle today and he enjoyed it. Said it was like what wrestling used to be like. He liked the false finishes and the fact that Omega truly didn't have anymore left in the tank. Cornette's hatred for Omega clouds his judgment on this match though. He actually suggested they do count out finish which is dumb for the biggest match of the year. I like Cornette but hardly ever agree with anything he says, he just an amazing listen though.
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01-14-2017, 01:58 AM | #31545 |
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I get why Cornette hates him. Understood. It doesn't mean he should shit on the guys work when it is deserving of praise. Which is what he's doing. Back handed compliments, talking it down, running down a guy for shit he did 10 plus years ago when he was barely old enough to drink.
It's just, I dunno, childish. I know it's his gimmick and all. Maybe I've just had my fill of good of James E. |
01-14-2017, 02:01 AM | #31546 | |
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I think that idea was based on the severity of the spot. He's not totally off base here. IMo some of the spots took away some of psycology and made it a lesser match. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the match but sometimes too much is just... too much. |
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01-14-2017, 02:09 AM | #31547 |
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oh yea. The count out finished. Shook my head at that. I mean, I get the logic. But, the biggest show of the year?
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01-14-2017, 02:26 AM | #31548 |
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I don't think, hope, he would ever book it like that but I understand what he meant by it being something that should be near the end of a match or the end itself, as in the count out or to drag him back into the ring and pin him.
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01-14-2017, 02:32 AM | #31549 |
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I get that. But we've seen just as brutal spots not end a match. Mankind in hell in the cell. HBK in hell in the cell. Etc.
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01-14-2017, 03:35 AM | #31550 |
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Time to go into Cornette defense mode. This is going to be fun.
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I think you're right that Cornette doesn't like that wrestling has changed. I don't think you're right that he hasn't accepted it. He even says in that video something like "I guess that's what people want to see these days" or something like that. But his current hobby is tearing the holes in it open. I think he's accepted it just fine -- he just doesn't want it to be the case. |
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01-14-2017, 03:48 AM | #31552 |
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Cornette DID NOT suggest that the biggest show of the year end in a countout. He said that the spot should have been sold to end in a countout. If you don't want to end the biggest show of the year in a countout, don't fucking kill yourself with that spot is Cornette's point. He is not saying that you should have ended the show with a countout. I repeat, he did not say that.
This is that shit where he said exactly what Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn needed to do to make it on the main roster in WWE, and they did basically everything he said and are successful and people are like "Suck it, Cornette." It literally proves him right. In fact, the only way you can actually say he was wrong is that it looks like Owens and Zayn will do the things Cornette said and will just be guys. He may have overestimated their ability. |
01-14-2017, 03:50 AM | #31553 |
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A-fucking-men. And I did like the match. I wouldn't call it five stars though. Maybe 3 1/2 to 4. I guarantee you there will be better matches this year. Hell, I think Omega and Okada could each have better matches.
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01-14-2017, 03:54 AM | #31554 | |
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Taker/HBK is another match, for the record, that got five stars, and I think it's a better match than Taker/Mankind despite the stunts. Maybe you could argue that the stunts in Taker/HBK were ridiculous themselves, but there is certainly more of an applied and effective context there. Point being: HBK/Taker, despite the stunts, was not made by the stunts, therefore stunts do not a good match make. Now, was Okada/Omega just stunts? I don't believe so, but it certainly had a few and I'd say they took drama out of the match instead of adding it. That is subjective, but it is not an unfounded opinion to have. |
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01-14-2017, 03:57 AM | #31555 |
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It's a shame that so many people shut themselves off to Cornette's wisdom on wrestling. I've become a mark for him, but I can still find things I don't completely agree with. Apparently James Dudley was more than just Vince's limo driver (Gerty taught me that). That being said, people dismiss Corny like he's not largely responsible for planting the seeds that have made so many things great.
It might be easier for some people to listen to Cornette credit something they love. Listen to his sage advice on the American Alpha/Revival match. The dude goes into some sort of savant mode where he picks up on little things that most people wouldn't have even got. Listen to him talk about Dolph Ziggler. The dude has got so much to offer if you switch off your sensitive feelings about modern spot-based wrestling. |
01-14-2017, 04:02 AM | #31556 |
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01-14-2017, 04:56 AM | #31558 | |
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He's exposing the soap opera! What a mark Jim Cornette is. |
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01-14-2017, 04:58 AM | #31559 | |
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Cornette, like anyone who's been in the business as long and has had the level of successes he's had, is wise and does have an endless amount of knowledge to listen to. It doesn't mean everything he says is going to resonate. Like obviously suggesting a table spot followed by count out or hospital angle to finish your main event match in the biggest show of the year. On a different show? Absolutely. He's right. But this is more of the commenting on something he isn't actively aware of with context and story. |
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01-14-2017, 10:34 AM | #31560 |
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I'm trying to figure out why people care what Cornette thinks about wrestling in the year 2017. Stuff from 25+ years ago..sure..He's naturally gonna hate 99% of the current product for 1 reason or another.
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