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On 12/29/2019 at 8:01 AM, Ryan said:
I like to imagine the front figurine is Inoki trying to slide into a base.
I like to imagine it’s a homage to the Ali match with him laying on the ground trying to kick Ali’s legs the whole time.
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7 hours ago, AxB said:
Lots of talk in the Raw thread about Samoa Joe in WWE, and wishing he would have gone there sooner. Which I will disagree with. The way he joined WWE, as a player/ coach for NXT, getting over on his work and moving to the main roster because of it, that's the only way he gets to be Samoa Joe in WWE.
Had he gone to WWE ten years earlier than he did, he's changing his name, painting his face, wearing a grass skirt and wrestling bare foot. Jobbing to Cena at Summerslam and joining his team by Survivor Series. And then getting released for not losing weight. "But think of all the great matches he would have had". He did have great matches, in TNA and sometimes Noah. And the great WWE matches he could have had, he still could. The thing holding him back from great matches in WWE isn't age and injuries (except for him being Injured right now, obviously), it's WWE house style and schedule. He might have lost half a step, but he has gained veteran timing with it. The man can still go.
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25 minutes ago, OSJ said:
Let's be as objective as possible...
1. Did NJPW underpay the Bucks and Kenny? Maybe.
2. Did the Bucks and Kenny use the stardom that NJPW gave them to jumpstart their own fed? Certainly.
3. Did the Elite jumping effectively kill NJPW in the States? Sadly, yes.
4. Would we be better off with NJPW having a strong US presence instead of AEW? I think so.
5. Who gives a shit? Well, as a wrestling fan for longer than you've been alive, Ryan, I do.
2. Kenny? Sure. The Bucks got over in PWG though.
3. US fans just don’t have the patience for every match on a show being 20-30 minutes so you get stuff like “Let’s go red shoes” when they get tired of duel chants.
4. I don’t see this one at all. NJPW on TNT? Would be doing WWE backstage numbers(100-200k).
New Japan needed to keep the Bullet Club strong after Kenny and the Bucks left but they just kind of let it blend in to the background.
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53 minutes ago, christopher.annino said:
My main issue with AEW crowds is that they pop for everything, chant for everybody, and totally don't help with the face/heel dynamic. Great energy overall, though.
Is it really that different though?
Any time a match starts getting good on either show it always turns in to dueling chants.
Aren’t they still darkening the crowd and filming Finn’s entrance to avoid showing everyone in the crowd still going along with it?I will admit when it comes to the latter NXT does try harder to make the distinction between face/heel clearer but come match time it’s all out the window on either show.
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They should just go full overkill mode and put Bray’s mask on his knee pads, gloves and boots and just about anywhere they can squeeze it in.
On a different note “Crying Vince McMahon” was not something I expected to happen so often in his older days-
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51 minutes ago, Goodear said:
Lucha Brothers vs Kenny Omega & Adam Page
PROS: Page wrestled more to his character in this to me with a ton of clotheslines and forearms and even his dives were meaty instead of fancy. I really like that development. Fenix's spin kicks are goddamn fierce and Pentagon (when he's not spamming the taunt button) is a favorite of mine.
CONS: Kenny doesn't come off as special in these matches considering he's the number 4 or 5 star in the company. Obviously Pentagon doing a taunt for a minute and half is going too far and plays too much to the crowd for a heel. Fenix botched pretty severely no selling a dragon suplex in order to forward roll into a cutter to … no one because Kenny moved over to Pentagon. Oops. At least the truck didn't show it on replay. Fenix over forward rolls for someone who is not RVD. I liked the finish since I called it and feel so very smart.
Was Pentagon doing a La Parka tribute in this match with the “dancing”?
Also you could tell early on the Lucha Bros were hella worried about tagging in and out properly to the point Fenix looked confused as shit about whether he was the legal man or not a few times and for the last 1/3 they were just like fuck it and went back to not giving a shit.
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23 hours ago, Wee Bey said:
Shawn Spears finally involved in something great and it wasn’t on TV.
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56 minutes ago, supremebve said:
I have a question, am I the only one who thinks the third movie could have been broken up into a trilogy and been better than this current trilogy? That way you can expand on Poe's past, and we would actually care about the people from his past that we meet. We can get a solid answer about any of the 23535346534 things they imply about Finn, but don't ever actually say. We can have a villain that has a character arc that isn't the same exact character arc from the original trilogy. I honestly don't really know if you need to see the previous two movies before you watch this movie. This movie tried to set up so many things and then just ran out of time before they could pay them off. Honestly, If you had to bet your life on whether or not Finn had feelings for a third of the cast, do you think you could get the answer right? After 3 movies, give me 3 things you know...not think you know, but actually know...about him that have nothing to do with him being a former stormtrooper, which we learned in the first scene of the entire trilogy. We learned a little about Poe in this movie, but it shoved a series worth of back story into about 15 minutes. I watched the movie last night, and couldn't tell you the name of anyone who was introduced in this movie...not a single one...and almost all of them had some sort of moment that would have worked better if we cared about them. We had 3 movies worth of plot, and about 3 minutes worth of character progression.
How about we just break from this whole “Trilogy” mindset if they want to try to be unique and stop living in the past.
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Haven’t listened to the Observer in some time so I can’t speak to the AEW criticism but as for WWE it always felt like Dave had to be the “positive light” about the product to Bryan’s ranting and raving about everything on the show being garbage.
Is this still the case?
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Would it be more fair to say Dave expected AEW to be more like a televised version of PWG and not NJPW?!
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5 minutes ago, clintthecrippler said:
Have you considered that it could be Giant Baba?
I was thinking Rey’s son.
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Honky’s evil laugh at 3:25 that even makes RF gasp is fucking amazing.
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11 minutes ago, Flair’s Shadow said:
Tonight, Hangman Page turns on Omega during their tag team match vs Lucha Brothers.
Later on during the Main Event Hangman Page costs Young Bucks their Title match vs World Champions SCU.
Hangman Page gets help from Inner Circle when Omega attempts to help Young Bucks survive the beat down.
Hangman Page eventually becomes the leader of Inner Circle once Jericho loses the World Championship and takes a break to go do a tour with his rock band.
How do I know this...because...
The Shadow knows....
I see your AEW prediction record going 2-2 with this one.
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3 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Even if you decide that Charlotte was unaware of Kairi's condition during the spear spot and excuse her for the slap, which I wouldn't but how can you then excuse her also for the powerbomb spot when Kairi clearly cannot get up for it?
Either Charlotte is unprofessional, has a complete lack of awareness or both.
“Got to get your shit in” or they had to do their robot match spots like TJP discussed in his Reddit ama.
Charlotte should really dial it back a bit and just ride her last name instead of the Indy darling style she does now at least until she finds her figurative Steamboat to go all out with.
That said I don’t want to just single her out. Becky needs to watch a shitload of post neck break peak SCSA and Sasha is looking to build an injury list to rival Foley’s without even doing the hardcore crap.
I understand at the beginning of this “revolution” the need to go out and make an impression but I think enough time has passed and the women are established enough now.
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3 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
I wonder how the EVPs in charge of the tag teams took that.
Sucked it up and moved on? *cough* WuM *cough*
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Was it really worth dropping Juice World’s name so soon after his death for one of the (two)most reviled diss tracks of all time?
Garbage ,not even gonna post the other one with Suge Knights prison phone call intro/outro.
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Jerry Lynn now looks like the love child of DDP and Eric Young.
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21 minutes ago, christopher.annino said:
It would be really cool if people posted pictures and then listed who was in the pictures, for all of us who don't watch every single bit of wrestling. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first person to mention that, either.
Also, when is the board going to start saying Fuck Dick Murdoch?
I think it’s DDP with Orange Cassidy?!
This board will never turn on Murdoch. Not saying whether they should or shouldn’t it’s just not gonna happen.
Honestly I think we need a filter for this “Fuck Whoever” posts so people can stop slowing down the board with them and wasting people’s time checking threads for new posts only to read the same old shit.
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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Canadian F*ggot? That's really the best this guy could come up with? Whatever happened to hecklers that were creative? Racism and homophobia is such hack material.
Yea they could have just called me Canadian and I would have flipped shit like Sami.
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Great John Mclane cameo.
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2 hours ago, AxB said:
The major battle in Endgame took place in upstate New York.
Good point although in my defense after Thanos nuked the area it was just kind of a giant flattened dirt mound.
2 hours ago, J.T. said:The cargo plane in Spider Man: Homecoming tore the shit out of the beach near Coney Island and there was an international list of cities in Spider Man: Far From Home that got some serious superhero battle wear and tear.
It is no more convenient than Superman retreating in Superman II and luring the Phantam Zone Three back to the Fortress of Solitude in order to avoid the senseless destruction of Metropolis.
Sun Tzu says that it is the wise general that picks the terms of the engagement especially the location of the battle.
I actually count it as a ding on Superman in Man of Steel for engaging in a Kryptonian slugfest with Zod that practically destroys Metropolis. Is that what we can expect every time Superman needs to throw down? Is this a DC or a Toho Productions kaiju movie?
OG Superman had the benefit of not having to deal with Zod and co till his second movie where he did a lot to mature up until that point.
I’m not saying he’s completely innocent or that it doesn’t go against his character I just didn’t find it as blatantIy offensive as Batman just clipping bad guys left and right in BvS.
If I had a problem with anything in MoS it was Russell Crowe showing back up. You had Costner doing an amazing job up until that point all flushed down the toilet just so we could try to make his death even more tragic but actually taking away from it.
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Shazam felt kind of like the love child of Homecoming and Kick Ass.
I think it just took time for the “Nolan effect” to wear off and DC to stop listening to the people that trolled them with bullshit nitpicking like all the destruction caused to the city in MoS causing them to make it central to the plot of BvS and the finale of Justice League having to take place in like some Chernobyl esque desolate city.
Marvel kind of fell for the same crap after the first Avengers but worked it in to Civil War leading to major battles only taking place in Wakanda now conveniently.-
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On 12/4/2019 at 8:08 PM, Flair’s Shadow said:
Totally inexcusable that AEW is still struggling with audio on Dynamite.
Its killing their presentation. Visually AEW is good but the unbelievable poor audio is killing their brand. It’s becoming a joke. Tony Khan needs to start firing some people.
The death of AEW comes at the hands of audio issues.
Unbelievable.
Does “The Shadow Know” this for sure though?
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Anyone remember when Bryan Alvarez’s big thing with TNA was that no matter who they brought in within weeks that wrestler “was just another guy on the show”.
That’s pretty much every non-nxt signee now.
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Bellator, PFL, RIZIN, Glory, and LFA Thread (The Battle of Britain...in Connecticut Edition)
in BOXING & MMA
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I don’t know what was funnier about the Observer coverage.
The line about Rampage now looking like his idol Junkyard Dog or the wrestling bubble line about someone coming out to a wrestling theme which was Limp Bizkit Rollin which correct me if I’m wrong was not created specifically for wrestling.