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OK, here's a quick story about my first day in judo class. The class was set up so the first hour was instructional and the second hour was all rolling. The first hour I learned how to break fall and we ran through the o goshi, and a kesa gatame. It was basically enough instruction that allowed me not to die during sparring. So the second hour starts and everyone is being super light with me, and kind of walking me through things as we go...except for this 130 lb. dude named Rohan. At the time, I'm 19 about 190 lbs. and in very good shape, and this 130 lb. dude is literally throwing me around the gym. He is unleashing his entire arsenal of throws and I'm getting fucked up, because until I got matched up with him I'd done maybe 15 break falls. So, there is a judo throw where you put your foot on your opponent's hip, and roll back which allows you to throw your opponent head over heels. Rohan, who is a yellow belt, which is much better than a day one noob, but is only one promotion above white belt, tries this throw on me. When he kicks his leg up, I grab it before his foot gets to my hip. I pull his head down with his gi, reach around his head, lock my hands and hit that punk bitch with a perfectplex. That dude was an asshole, and taking advantage of the fact that I didn't know enough to defend myself. Sending him on that ride is one of the most satisfying feelings of my entire life. I will take your word for your schoolyard vertical suplex, but I'm skeptical...but I know for a fact you can hit a fisherman suplex.

Strange bedfellows

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William Regal's son Bailey is the newest Young Lion.

@NikoBaltimore Rick Rude would knock them both out with open hand slaps

I legit thought Sammy was dead, but then he rolled right out of the ring, and was involved later. Given that he was fine, that was amazing timing, bumping, and selling. Fucking hell. Then, seriously, this show just casually threw out back to back "US TV MOTYC" matches go close the show (by my count, they've put on three legit great matches in the last two weeks, with Riho/Rose last week joining these two) Fuck what a great show. Like Moxley and Cobb had a really good match with an excellent post-match angle, and it's an afterthought to me.

All i know Kurt is based on everything you've posted, I 100% would want you to be my defense attorney. ?

I'd love to hear JR give that his "this guy has a real athletics background" sell.

Or that he walked away like this.

Yeah, I really do like @JonnyLaw's idea of Arn slowly corrupting Cody until it's too late. @Infinit's Star Wars prequels analogy is spot on. Cody: Is it possible to learn such power? Arn: Not from a babyface

Arn being a quasi Sith Lord and turning Cody to the dark side would actually be cool. Arn and Tully get Cody and Spears to kiss and make up and Spears becomes Cody's "enforcer" and the Revival join them to go to war against The Elite. Not the worst AEW fantasy booking I've heard.

Also. It's 2020. If internet fans aren't bothering to do research and only parroting what they see other internet fans saying. They aren't going to get it. OC is talented and skilled as fuck. Now. If you have done a bit of research and seen more than just his gifs. Maybe checked out some of his highly regarded matches, and still don't like him, fine. But OC has a unique combo of stuff to make him a huge star.

Roland is Cornette.

Yeah, he wouldn't come into WCW in 93 without him. According to Schiavone during the Slamboree 93 WHW episode, it was also because Sid kinda had a "roid rage" issue. So I guess Parker was his handler. From that though, Parker kept drawing a check from being on the booking committee long after he wasn't on the booking committee. That's so WCW. So weird hearing Sid talk about "the man" and it not being about his own wrestling persona. I want a TED talk with Sid on institutional racism and how the prison system in the 21st century is symbolic of that.

It’s kind of odd when you think about it. Orange Cassidy has an almost Arthur Fonzerelli gimmick, and Kris Statlander is Mork from Ork. And apparently they are both dating in real life. It’s the Happy Days gender swap slash fiction fans have wanted for years.

Goddamn, DZ. Go outside.

I wish there were video of this so that I could set it to Mr. Perfect's theme song.

Just interjecting: Captain America could always lift Thor's hammer. He just faked like he couldn't that one time because Cap is an all around solid dude who didn't want Thor to feel bad. Not if they kicked out his tiny legs first.

There's a very simple explanation for that:

A dragon suplex, and most other suplexes is a guy using leverage and technique to throw another guy. A penis suplex is just a guy holding onto someone else's dick and doing a front flip. I don't see how they're comparable.

I need more footage of the Demolition bondage-tuxedo

It seems like most of the tag teams are “shades of gray” rather than aligned along a clear face/heel dynamic. So I would have the Revival come in and tease a Bucks confrontation, only to have a clear heel team jump the Revival to serve as their first real feud and hold off the first Bucks match for either All Out or DoN. My first thought for the heel team would be H2, because I think Revival could get them over and could be good bases for them. But the more I think about it, I think Spears and a partner may be a smart choice. They obviously know each other, and if the Revival can’t get Spears over, no one can. You could also use that feud to align Revival with Arn. (Which is also part of my “Instead of Arn turning on Cody, he corrupts him into being the Flair of a new Horsemen group” fantasy booking.)

Not entirely sure about mainstream but he’s legit providing thrills, and I’ve been certain from the first time I laid eyes on him (vs David Starr) that he was going to be special and eventually money. So many ppl were singing ignorant Corny blues in the beginning, but not seeing many boo birds these days. All that said, he’s still slowly figuring things out for himself. Absolutely. We’re still less than six months in. The damning critics have mostly subsided as of late, but it’s still worth noting, even as good as the last three weeks have been, this is such a young company.

Again, norms over time. When you come up with a new thing that disrupts suspension of disbelief, it's worse than doing an old thing that disrupts suspension of disbelief.

Yeah. The idea the Flair flop doesn't expose the business is just ludicrous (and now that I used "business" in the same sentence as ludicrous, I'm gonna have Ludacris in my head all day)

It should be noted, since this is already being framed as "God DAMN that Cornette," that him saying that was the first missile dropkick he ever saw isn't the same thing as him saying it was the first missile dropkick to ever take place.

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Also Papi Steroid lecturing people on the rules is hilarious.

Or these guys from 1956?

I was stunned the first time I learned the classic Starrcade theme was a Frank Stallone song, and the theme for Staying Alive.

One of next's week's matches: Oh and the finish may be a

Depression sucks. I dealt with it for a lot of last year after my grandma passed away. If painting can help pull you out of it, get going man! In case you're struggling for inspiration, may I offer a suggestion for your first work?

The great deal of confidence surrounding Orange Cassidy isn't just in the fact that his gimmick is as over as anything else on the show, it's that he was fucking Fire Ant and can work his ass off. It's that he has this enormous in-ring upside (at the very least as a tag team wrestler) and when the time comes to actually push the guy in a serious capacity and thereby pull back on the lazy gimmick, he's going to be zinging around the ring like a top-tier Quackenbush trainee. Which is going to be awesome.

This thread has taught me that I'm much higher on Moonrise than everyone else.

Seeing these two posts next to each other, I didn't realise at first that the second wasn't actually replying to the first.

Get a generational superstar first, then Cody can be your great heel again. For now though, it’d be silly for Rhodes to turn. That would be Russo level dumb.

Not a gif, but not a match. Chris Van Vliet goes to Shawn Spears & Tyler Breeze's wrestling school and runs through some basics. And then:

Ever since the controversy over whoever (Jordyn Grace?) calling wrestling "performance art" happened, I've been trying to figure out any possible way pro wrestling doesn't fit that category, and came up with nothing.

It's the same with anything else. If in Avengers: Endgame Captain America started shooting lasers out of his eyes then it might not be any less "realistic" than him being able to boomerang his shield but it would be against established norms.

At least you can play it back in slow mo on Youtube: But yeah, streaming services, specially sports/fighting based ones like Fite TV should have some sort of slow motion or frame by frame option.

Yeah, but watching it air, once, at full speed... I legit thought Sammy was dead.

I don't think the problem with GoT was where the characters wound up, but rather that they seemed to skip major steps along the way the last couple years. Like, they planted seeds for where Dany would wind up, then they jumped over the transition between "a few seeds planted" to "final end point" That and they utterly blew up the sense of time the last couple years. Characters seemed to suddenly master teleportation. I think most of the biggest problems that don't tie directly into "got ahead of the books" can be traced back to them deciding to do 13 episodes total for those two years instead of 20.

Ok I've got a little beef with you because at first this looked to me like Billy Crystal, John Travolta and Steven Seagal were all starring in the same movie. Which would probably be greatest worst movie ever made.

The Dark Order angle at the end of that episode wasn't even bad or anything (unless you just don't like the Dark Order, period). What soured seemingly everyone about it was the phantom punches, then everyone lost their collective minds about it and they had to take a step back and reevaluate the entire thing. Kudos to them, though. They didn't shy away from mentioning that part of the show closing angle (well, online anyway).

In the short term, they have to be consistent which they've been but they probably need one or two "big names" which is unfortunate, I just feel that's how it works. That's how you get the 65+ crowd that's loyal to WWE (which is insane btw) to change the channel and say "alright, I'm on board." But they don't need that crowd anyway. They've been doing great in the 18-49 demo and they can build off that. That's also where the money is.

Martel was the greatest I-C Champ that never happened.