01-14-2017, 11:31 AM | #31561 | |
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Aas for Okada/Omega ..... Yes there was a story going into the match, but now that i think about it I feel that the story would have been better served being told by wrestling and not by "spots". It's like the difference between making love and just fucking. What we saw was alot of fucking. |
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01-14-2017, 12:56 PM | #31562 |
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Those outside spots helped with the story the match was telling. Omega could have won the title with a count out earlier in the match but he wanted to pin Okada for the win. The table spot could have easily been a count out finish is exactly what they wanted you to think but the pride that both men had made them want to pin the other guy for the win. To end the match on the count out or not do the spots at all would not have told that story.
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01-14-2017, 01:06 PM | #31563 |
It's a blood match!
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I could give a shit about Cornette, SMW was alright but mostly just rednecks rasslin in armory's. And I'm from his territory so I know.
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01-14-2017, 03:03 PM | #31564 |
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Another thing with Cornette's criticism is he contradicts himself. He complained about them doing moves no one could get up from and then also complains about selling to much. He also said a perfect match was exciting, drew money, got both guys over and showed no obvious cooperation. Now they hit the first three out of the park, crowd was hot for the match, New Japan World had a big and increase in subscriptions as well as a good live crowd, and both are more over now than be for the match. Cornette himself said they were crisp with their execution of the moves. In his words it was damn near a perfect match. Something else funny he said was the NJPW should fire them both for going into the announce and technical area. Like I said his hatred of Omega clouds his judgement of this match. He didn't watch it for what it was and wasn't interested in seeing the story they told in the ring so everything seemed like a spot to him.
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01-14-2017, 03:25 PM | #31565 |
King K Cool
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01-14-2017, 03:25 PM | #31566 |
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Kings Court is back on Smackdown this week. Hate how the quality of the show drops as we get to cross-brand PPVs.
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01-14-2017, 04:00 PM | #31567 |
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01-14-2017, 04:52 PM | #31568 |
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You can't have a rumble without R-Truth. It's known.
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01-14-2017, 05:00 PM | #31569 |
President of Freedonia
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I could actually see Golden Truth not being in the Rumble. They've already announced 13 entrants, I assume they'll have between 3-5 mystery entrants, and there are loads of other people I think will be in ahead of Golden Truth on the totem pole (Rusev, Big Cass, all 3 Wyatts, etc.)
Big Show, Kane, and Mark Henry feel more like "can't have a Rumble without these guys" picks. Because giants always are the favorites in Royal Rumbles of course. |
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I think you're right in that he thinks the pre-sports entertainment branding is an era that Cornette is nostalgic for. He'd admit as much himself. He frequently talks about how the business, in general, was a lot healthier back then before the hot-shotting of the Attitude era. He's kind of been proven right on that. Quote:
Hearing Omega's side of the stuff he did in Japan, it sounds like a lot of it went around him and he didn't plan for it to go viral and actually be filmed. I doubt some of that. A lot of it, actually. Given the legitimate risks of wrestling, working with a 9 year old girl shows a lot of the dude's arrogance and disregard for anyone but himself to be honest. He really sounds like a piece of shit. That's not to say the dude isn't a great wrestler now or grown as a person, but it's hard to sweep that stuff under a rug for some people, and I think that is fair enough. It doesn't matter to Corny how good Omega is now. That's the bit people don't really seem to get. Weirdly enough, I think it is the bit that has the most credence. Times do change people and Omega probably is a lot better now and is a more decent human being. The Miz is also a better wrestler than he was when he started. But Corny isn't really as interested in that as he is Omega's personal decisions. Should he be more forgiving? Yeah, I could probably concede that, but I can't say he's wrong if he wants to take wrestling seriously. Quote:
He nit-picked it because analyzing the match was the point of the entire exercise? As for not understanding it outside the context of the match -- firstly, that is what he is analyzing -- the match. Most of the people gushing over it don't understand it outside the context of it being just a match. Do you really think everyone talking about how great it was is a subscriber to New Japan World? Come on now. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm struggling to find sense in your complaints here. He watched the match, said it wasn't that great and explained why. You don't have to like his opinion, but to say "Well, he was negative about the things he didn't like and he probably doesn't watch all of Omega's stuff" isn't really a good logical rebuke of it. Analyzing a match as he has is something people do all the time, and outside of its context is how most people have taken it. Quote:
I think people want more, but I don't think their expectations are higher. I think they are just conditioned to accept mediocrity as excellence in this era. Goldberg provides a really good context for this. The dude comes out in 2016 and is INSTANTLY the biggest star they have, despite being 50 and, frankly, extremely limited in the ring. His promos carried more energy than almost anything else on the show. A Goldberg promo would wake people up. Think about that. Quote:
But it worked in front of that audience. I don't think you can call the main event portion of the show a flop by any sense of the word. It got people on their feet and in the current climate that is what you want. It's just a shame that people are conditioned to mark out for Superkick Parties as opposed to switching their minds off and getting invested in good psychology. And that is why The Revival are an infinitely better team to me than The Young Bucks. But yes, to the question "Did the match work?", the answer is clearly "Yes." That's pretty much it. But that doesn't mean that it was perfect or a five star classic or anything. Subjectively, I'm fine with people calling it a classic and I think just the emotion it stirs up in people is going to keep people going back to it even if it's not technically the best worked or most impressive physical contest in 2017. This is an Academy Award nominee for sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will win the award or that it's Citizen Kane. It still conforms to some terrible tropes of modern cinema. Loud noises and explosions in lieu of character development. It was another action blockbuster, but it is probably one of the very best action blockbusters in a long, long while. Hell, it might even be The Matrix of action blockbusters. Quote:
The basics of wrestling still work, but that doesn't mean you need to go back to the days of an atomic drop as a finisher. To steer this back to Jim Cornette, one of the modern matches he praises is Seth Rollins vs. Davey Richards from ROH Border Wars. Now, I have not seen this match, but from what I have been told it had a lot of MMA influence. Pacing-wise, general story-wise, I can see that some people may not see the difference between it and Okada/Omega -- but what Cornette praises about it, in addition to the athleticism he praises in Omega/Okada -- is the lack of obvious cooperation. As I said though, I have not seen it. But my point there is that Corny isn't calling for a regression of wrestling -- and this is often the biggest straw-man thrown at him when he is labeled out of touch. He regularly says that the best wrestling promotion in the world is the UFC. But I have been thoroughly considering getting into New Japan, because I want to support something that isn't WWE, and for the most part I find the main event stuff there fascinating. I didn't hate Okada/Omega. I am conditioned to accepting that as the modern style, dragon superplexes and all. But I don't find my views that dissimilar to Cornette's in that, no, I wouldn't give the match five stars, let alone six. I would go as high as four and a half, and I think that is perfectly wonderful praise. There's a good bit Cornette does on wrestling being dead. It's worth a listen to. He talks about how you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. You don't need to tell Corny that kayfabe is dead. Oh, he knows. He's just making money off its corpse at this point. That being said, given that "everybody knows it is fake" and yet how many people think that wrestlers have always used fake blood, or how easy it is to work people (remember people thinking Bryan/Miz was real just recently), and how stirred up I see Joe Citizen get about a UFC fighter being cocky and wanting to go down to the pub to see him get his lights knocked out, I actually don't think I'd agree with him on that. Political analysts would have never expected Trump to become President. People are extremely easy to work these days. |
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01-14-2017, 06:16 PM | #31572 | |
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If you're going to get dropped in your car from a forklift -- to use a familiar example -- that's an angle to explain your absence, injuries and further personal issues. That is what he is saying. In days when wrestling made sense, a spot like that (which Cornette praises for his its fluidity, by the way) would have been replayed and used as a way to generate money by getting people invested in the Omega comeback from injury. "Damn that Okada! He put Omega through the table on the biggest night of his life and now he's going to get back in the ring and avenge his fall...but I hope his neck is okay." You go on to say that would work. I'm glad you agree with Cornette's point. He was not saying that Wrestle Kingdom 11, in particular, should have ended with a schmozz. He's just saying that if you BREAK YOUR NECK ON A FUCKING TABLE YOU SHOULD KIND OF BE DONE. If you do not want that to be the finish, don't do the fucking spot. That is what he is saying. It would be like if Shawn Michaels kicked out of a Tombstone off the top rope through a flaming announce table surrounded by sharks at WrestleMania XXVI. "Man, that probably should have been the finish..." "But you can't have WrestleMania end in a shark fatality!". |
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01-14-2017, 06:20 PM | #31573 |
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Love Cornette and enjoy watching SMW on YouTube, but I've seen some fan-cam footage that...well, it made me a bit uncomfortable.
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01-14-2017, 06:28 PM | #31574 | |
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The point about the perfect match isn't a contradiction either. Even if you accept the first three, as you put it (and New Japan World is actually under-performing, sadly, even though this did spike it), you're still left with the cooperation aspect. So it's not a perfect match. Cornette is responding to assertions that this was a 6-star match. That is better than perfect. Corny's just saying that the match wasn't perfect and here is why. Then he lists the perfectly valid reasons why. He didn't say it was fucking Tomko/Richards. I actually didn't catch the bit about the technical stuff, lol. I was making a coffee or something. I'm going to go back and listen to that. |
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01-14-2017, 06:36 PM | #31575 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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He also said that the perfect wrestling match has never happened. The "obvious cooperation" will get every match every time. Every move has to have cooperation so the perfect match in that definition will never happen.
Boiling what he said to basics is that it wasn't the greatest match of all time which would be the only reason to give it six stars. Since the scale is supposed to only go to 4 like movie and tv reviews. |
01-14-2017, 06:41 PM | #31576 | |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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01-14-2017, 06:42 PM | #31577 | |
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But most of all, just listen to him when he gets his hands on something he loves. I very strongly recommend looking up him praising The Revival (I might even post it myself). Holy shit, when he flies into a tear about all the things they did right, pointing out some things they could improve along the way, basically giving them an OVW instructional lesson for free, by freakin' osmosis you "get it." Granted, Cornette didn't work directly with The Revival and they do have access to some of the best trainers wrestling has going at the moment -- you can't give him credit for them -- but I guarantee they heard what he said and took it on board. They are one of the most old school acts in WWE and they happened to have the best match of 2016 even by the WWE's standards. He's useful. Very useful. He's probably not the only source you should use for your wrestling knowledge, and he'd be the first to admit that -- there's an entire library out there -- but there is a lot to pick up from him. |
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01-14-2017, 06:42 PM | #31578 |
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01-14-2017, 06:46 PM | #31580 |
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The point about winning a title via countout in Japan is irrelevant. You shouldn't end the biggest match of your biggest show in that fashion. That is why you don't build to a countout finish. It's really not rocket science.
I'm not saying the table spot was the worst thing ever, by the way. We have become so desensitized to that sort of thing we're used to seeing it and now it doesn't matter as much. Soon Dragon Superplexes won't be accepted as finishing moves either. But it is a perfectly valid observation to say "Hey, maybe that shouldn't have been done that way." Neither of those spots was necessary to the match, I've heard both cited as moments where even people who loved the match got taken out of it. That doesn't mean the match is an instant write-off, but to say that they were perhaps missteps tonally is not fucking insane. |
01-14-2017, 07:02 PM | #31581 | |
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01-14-2017, 07:07 PM | #31582 |
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It's fair enough to say that they were part of the story. They obviously were. I can just understand why people would feel they were the wrong notes to play. I personally thought quite a few times that they were calling things in the ring which I liked. They obviously knew they were going to the table and the top rope for that superplex, but for the most part I thought the match did come off really well.
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01-14-2017, 08:16 PM | #31583 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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01-14-2017, 08:52 PM | #31584 |
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Michael Cole looks a lot older there. How did Nigel McGuinness do on commentary, by the way?
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01-15-2017, 09:02 AM | #31585 |
BAY BAY
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01-15-2017, 11:15 AM | #31586 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Cole is necessary. He also did very good in play by play. It's not WWE without the voice of the WWE.
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01-15-2017, 11:17 AM | #31587 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Do you figure he will be on Raw? How long is a flight 'across the pond?"
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01-15-2017, 11:36 AM | #31588 |
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Apex Pervert ha! |
01-15-2017, 11:38 AM | #31589 |
Grim Fandango
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01-15-2017, 01:00 PM | #31590 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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01-15-2017, 01:30 PM | #31591 |
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01-15-2017, 04:03 PM | #31592 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Smart WWE booking the Royal Rumble in the ProBowl Week
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01-15-2017, 04:22 PM | #31593 |
King of Love and Piss
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Huge titties are huge titties. They must be looked at.
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01-15-2017, 04:51 PM | #31594 |
Da Gif/Pic Pimp
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01-15-2017, 07:00 PM | #31595 |
King K Cool
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So I found out who won the UK tournament and I decided to read up on him.
I got as far as seeing "1997" as part of his date of birth and I closed the window. I now feel old as shit and also a little bit depressed. |
01-15-2017, 07:17 PM | #31596 |
Da Gif/Pic Pimp
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01-15-2017, 07:44 PM | #31597 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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01-15-2017, 07:45 PM | #31598 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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The only thing they are Elite at is shitheads.
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01-15-2017, 08:42 PM | #31599 |
Trickster Demon
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01-15-2017, 09:01 PM | #31600 |
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