BillThompson
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I've been watching a lot of Owen Hart lately, and I'm wondering how the landscape changes if he doesn't die in 1998? I'm fairly sure that Owen would have remained a WWF lifer, but I think him still being alive would greatly impact the rest of the wrestling landscape. Maybe Jarrett stays with WWF for good, or even longer and never forms TNA. Maybe Bret and Vince reconcile earlier, and Bret doesn't lose his passion for wrestling and really makes a go of his run in WCW.
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This is one of those "if you turn off your brain and don't think about it, this match (movie, song) is really fun!" arguments isn't it?
Is rovert Michael Bay?
There's no way that argument works for that Tombstone spot. People are getting riled up over a spot that visually, technically, and contextually makes perfect sense and works.
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I'm usually one to not like overly contrived spots, and I've never seen a match from either of those tag teams. That being said, I'm with rovert on this one, I don't think that spot was overly contrived and it's really nothing to get worked up over.
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I actually don't mind that spot. Within the context of a wrestling match I think it works just fine. The kickout I can't comment on as that would depend on certain factors and I haven't seen the match.
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Who would you guys call the biggest missed opportunity among the major indy signings of the last 10 years?
Hero, easily.
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I do think there's some danger involved in the notion that if WWE/TNA decides to cut ways with a guy then they're obviously not all that good. There are plenty of guys/gals who are super talented and were passed over/let go by WWE/TNA for whatever reason.
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So Chris Sabin tweeted today that this is a unique period in wrestling history because more talent is unsigned than within the WWE. I sort of laughed because just the other day I was saying I felt as though this was the first time in a decade or so that there were no Indy superstars that remained unsigned. Am I in the minority? It seemed like a lot of people were agreeing with Sabin.
I think there's still plenty of talent in the Indies. Now, I don't think the talent level is as high as it's been in the past, nor do I agree with the notion that there's more talent that is unsigned than within the WWE. Still, when Chris Hero is still on the indies then there's always something to watch, and no matter what happened with him and the WWE I'd easily put him among the best workers in the world at the moment.
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Adrian Neville seems to get exponentially less interesting every week. He hasn't had a good interesting match on NXT since the ladder match with Bo. I think the biggest problem with him may be that Zayn is substantially better than him in every way, if their roles were reversed and Zayn had the belt and Neville was feuding with Breeze or Graves on the undercard I probably wouldn't feel this way.
Neville's rematch with Bo was good and he got quite a bit out of Brodus in their second match. He's not really getting a lot to work with, though. He's been getting the full onslaught of WWE rejects. I'd like to see him getting more interaction with Breeze to get a real feud going.
I'm in line with the original assertion. Outside of the Brodus series Neville has been the lesser worker in every match I've seen from him. He's physically gifted, but he lacks timing, understanding where to insert his moves, can't really pull off the sympathetic babyface, is an atrocious promo, and from what I've seen can't call a match whatsoever.
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Regarding the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, I had my eyes opened up about that case last year. I used to scoff and think, "What a stupid country we live in where a lady can spill hot coffee on herself and sue the company that made said coffee." However, finding out more about the case that particular chain kept their coffee something like thirty degrees hotter than they were supposed to, they did this to discourage people from being able to get free refills on their coffee. The cup the coffee was in wasn't padded enough to handle how hot it was, and she suffered serious third degree burns. We're talking her skin was obliterated down to the bones stuff here, and that is a very painful incident and recovery process. I do agree that sometimes we sue over stupid things in this country, but this is not one of those cases I'd say.
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The thing about Nattie is there's just nothing that comes off as natural about her on screen. She always seems so rigid in the ring, and it always feels like she's thinking about every move for a second or two before she does it. She's fine when she's in there with someone decent, but she can't carry a match on her own (which explains why she looks better on 2014 NXT than 2008-2013 WWE). Also, the internet backlash against ring-work is always amplified if you have any kind of workrate gimmick.
I'd say the Charlotte match was 80% Nattie and 20% Charlotte. Now, I think moving forward that Charlotte has the potential to be the best woman in the WWE, but I felt this match was clearly the Nattie show. Yes, they were working from a del Rey blueprint, but Nattie was visibly in charge and guiding the match along. And, besides the Figure-Four stuff, I felt it was a really good match with an intensity that was earned and came across well.
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In Milwaukee with the family for a weekend vacation. Went to see the Cubs play at Miller Park yesterday. Cubs wise the game was painful, especially with Rizzo getting the day off. Outside of my usual ballpark complaints- drunken idiots being drunken idiots- I have to say, Miller Park is a great facility and a great place to watch a ballgame.
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Apparently they're adding a giant bunch of stuff in August to get people to renew
Probably a silly question, but how is the renewal going to work in terms of auto-renewal? If you're already a member does your account automatically renew or do you have to make sure your account renews yourself?
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You'd be surprised at the amount of parents who choose to not deal with their child's medical issue. It's always a fun time transporting a child a hour and a half to a specialty hospital and despite all his pain, agitation, fear, etc. the parents decided it was best that they go home and get some sleep instead of at least one of them coming with in the ambulance.
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I hate them so, so much.
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All 3 of the top best wrestling podcast done by workers (Austin, Jericho and Colt) seem to also protect the buisness a bit. Austin being probably the losest with kayfabe. Colt sometimes protects tot much in what comes across as a concious effort to avoid a SHOOT!
I much prefer the approach of all three to the train wreck that can happen during wrestler interviews. Before I gave up on Shining Wizards I recall an interview they did with Austin Aries where they were trying to get shoot answers out of him but he kept responding in kayfabe and they had no idea how to react to what he was doing.
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Ah, I forgot about Cabana's, I enjoy his a lot as well.
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I enjoy Jericho a great deal as well. I'd say among the personality podcasts out there for wrestling he and Austin are neck and neck as well as being heads and shoulders above all the rest. I enjoy Cornnette, but his anti-modern wrestling stance is annoying. Ross I gave up on after a few eps because he's just a shill and his interviews are boring. Konnan's show is decent, but Laurent always drags it down. Haven't listened to Piper's and have no desire to, not sure if there are any others out there.
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I chalk it all up to the usual, "Bryan Alvarez is an idiot who has no place actually providing wrestling analysis/commentary."
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Please tell me it wasn't Bryan not getting what they're doing with Fox?
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The thing is though, one shouldn't just accept that RVD has a style that he works. That's part of the reason why he's such an awful wrestler. He has a style that he refuses to adjust for his opponent, and the end result is a match that comes across like a bad clash of styles. RVD should be willing to mesh his style with his opponent's style, but instead he just goes out there and does his thing, with diminishing returns every time.
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So, Cesaro is good enough to be a top three in the world, but not good enough to work something out of RVD?
But RVD is just old and slow. He's like Stallone still thinking he could play Rocky and people will buy it.
At this point in time I don't think any great wrestler from any era could get anything good out of RVD. I'm placing all of the blame for his Cesaro feud sucking on RVD, because well, RVD has proven that he is the worst of the worst at this point.
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Him flying around like a bird during his Great American Bash '89 promo is some epic shit.
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Early 90s Scott Steiner WAS a God, what the fuck
Yeah I been a watching early 90's WCW PPVs and he and his brother is untouchable.
Scott averages about 1-2 blown spots per match, and there's his way of transitioning which is to just start throwing suplexes, selling and injuries be damned. I don't find him terrible by any means, but he was at best a pretty good worker and most of the time a serviceable guy who could do good things with better workers who could take charge of the match.
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After all these years, I too would like someone to explain to me the 'appeal' of Scott Keith seeing as his reviews literally just consist of him listing the moves during the match and then going, um, ***1/4 but people (idiots) seemed to eat that shit up. I discovered today that he is still a thing and, in 2014, still has followers. I know on here tends to take the piss out of him but there are an awful lot of people out there who hang on his every word and, I mean, shit, there are people out there who have actually paid actual money for his old reviews. This is absurd to me.
I don't mind certain reviews of wrestling and that but I'd rather read a review filled with joy than a review filled with obnoxious miserableness.
As a youth his snark filled reviews appealed to me. Now that I'm older I honestly don't see the appeal. I still read what he has to say from time to time, but it's more as a way of gauging where my tastes were at and how they've changed. I mean it's hard to take a guy seriously who thinks early 90s Scott Steiner was a god, Stan Hansen was washed up by 1991, and that Lex Luger was a terrible wrestler in 1990-1991.
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Wrestling What Ifs
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Owen was more of a trickster though, so him being a coach on Tough Enough and not feeling the need to bea prick to every kid on the show would be a good thing, for the kids at least.