bodyslamdunk
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I would hope after everything with Brie Larson, Marvel would be smarter than to cast Jennifer Lawrence.
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Knew Cesaro wasn’t winning when he cut a smart, succinct promo on the preshow, which was then promptly shit on by the entire talking head panel.
They’ve almost built Roman up TOO much, to the point where the only person who can believably unseat him in storyline is Moxley. Don’t think that’s where they wanna be.
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Yeah, it’s tough, because once they introduce a policy like this, I’d imagine they have to be careful about selectively enforcing it. Big can of worms.
It can become very easy to let these things take away from the enjoyment of just watching wrestling. I try to remind myself that somewhere out there in the multiverse, Michael Cole is talking about how much Minoru Suzuki loves having fun with the WWE Universe. That usually makes me feel better about our timeline.
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Matt Striker quoted someone on No Surrender this weekend (in reference to Eric Young & Cody Deaner), “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” This immediately made me think of Vince.
A seemingly large percentage of current WWE wrestlers were huge WWE fans as kids, and this has been their dream job forever. They’re now there, making great (?) money, doing the only thing they’ve ever wanted to do (and in some cases, maybe the only job they’d really be qualified for at this point). I can’t imagine the mental gymnastics it would take to convince yourself to quit that job, and go work for a “lesser” company.
I think it highlights the difference between current wrestlers, and ones from say, the 70s, who didn’t grow up watching it, only stumbled into it by being recruited from their job as a bouncer or whatever, and viewed it as a business/way to make money ONLY. I could be wrong, but just can’t imagine Race, Brody, Funk, Hansen, etc. being told they can’t side hustle, and actually being ok with that.
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They pretty much had no choice but to run the GameStop angle with Grimes. His catchphrase has been “To the Moon” for his whole run, which was the Reddit battle cry for GameStop stock. It would have made no sense if they DIDN’T run with it.
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On 2/10/2021 at 10:54 PM, Raziel said:
Imagine pissing away Brinks trucks of sweet Disney money with merch just because you can't stop being a piece of shit on Twitter.
LOL, totally this. Worst thing is she already got away with it once, after the “beep boop” pronoun tweet not that long ago. You’d think she’d lay low after that, quit while she was ahead and let the gravy train roll on.
But no—she went all in on the Jews, of all people! Can’t imagine a faster way to get blackballed from Hollywood.
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@christopher.annino are you watching on YouTube TV by any chance? I gave up after 10 minutes and changed to NXT. Thought it was just me, all my channels seemed to be working but TNT.
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Haven’t watched Raw in years because I was living overseas, and since coming back I refuse to pay for cable. My brother just got YouTube TV recently and shared the login with me.
I watched tonight. Don’t think I’ll watch again for another few years. It was seriously CRINGE from start to finish. Smackdown has the exact same presentation (which is tired in itself) but at least it resembles pro wrestling.
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3 hours ago, Johnny Rodz said:
Unfortunately, I want to watch NJPW on my TV and not the computer.
The 4K Fire Stick is like $25 when it goes on sale.
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The Bucks/Good Brothers swerve is a great example that “predictable” doesn’t have to equal “bad.” They hinted at it, without making it extremely obvious, but the delivery by Callis and the commentators made it feel organic.
Tay Conti has room to grow but man it’s night and day from her NXT run to now, much improved.
Forgot about TK starting to license tunes until Jurassic Express came out. Props to that, music licensing is STUPID expensive.
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26 minutes ago, DreamBroken said:
Jericho said he did "ten days in isolation" so I guess that would fit the above 9/10-9/23 timeline.
This fits. There’s a lot of misunderstanding & misinformation about isolation and quarantine.
”Isolation” is for people who’ve tested positive, and is for 10 days.
”Quarantine” is for direct contact or symptomatic people who have NOT had a positive test, and is 14 days.
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5 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
So I ask, who is the greatest past their physical prime wrestler ever?
Answers will vary according to your taste, but for me the first three to spring to mind are Austin, Onita, and Jericho. Would rather watch their later work any day.
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8 hours ago, AxB said:
Makes a big difference to me, watching on Fite. You guys don't even know the Dynamite song has verses because you get commercials. I not only know it has verses, I could recite them in their entirety.
I watch on Fite as well (no cable=no TNT). Those breaks w/the song and graphic seem to go on forEVER, LOL
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Re: the references to last night being a taped show, how much of a difference does this really make to you guys? I would never have known the difference, and it doesn’t decrease my enjoyment any knowing it was taped vs live. Unless you get hit w/spoilers, does it matter?
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Austin Theory was a bit of a let down. They’ve been teasing this guy for weeks:
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42 minutes ago, Raziel said:
Suddenly, the one-off's are coming together...
Imagine that!
I get a strong sense that a lot of the posts in this thread are the result of years of being traumatized by WWE “storytelling.”
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Yeah, the FBI started when JT Smith, after a concussion, thought he was Italian.
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Last one I can remember is Tanga Loa being Mexican but that was like 6 years ago now, and I don’t remember anyone caring.
But I doubt Vince would even think twice about doing it again tomorrow if the opportunity presented itself.
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5 hours ago, Ziggy said:
I believe that if Punk hadn't left the way he did, Roman wouldn't have struggled so much to get over. I'm a fan of Punk and I support his decision to leave when he did, but I know him burying Roman did alot to hurt him as far as initially getting over.
This is a really good observation.
I agree with you that Punk didn’t do Roman any favors, but I also think this could have been overcome with better booking.
I don’t think it’s playing Monday morning QB to say Roman’s booking was horrible for a long period. We could all see how bad it was as it was happening. If they course corrected, they probably could have ended up where they wanted to w/Roman after a year, two at most. But it’s taken soooo muuuuch looooooooonger.
I don’t think it would be crazy to say that if it weren’t for Punk, Roman still would’ve had a hard time getting over with what he was given. Maybe not AS bad, but as @Ziggy mentioned, the desperation attached to his push was very, very stinky.
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4 hours ago, EVA said:
And KENTA *is* in the US right now.
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Just sayin’!
It really isn’t THAT far fetched at all, especially in the crazy times we’re in. Look at all the NWA women’s title crossover. Don Callis on Dynamite. Tanahashi shouting out Jericho’s anniversary. Etc etc
Kenta has the briefcase and is not booked on the tag league/super jr tour. Mox did mention being a champion on 2 continents and AEW has often acknowledged the larger wresting continuity.
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Double post, day drinking.
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22 hours ago, thee Reverend Axl Future said:
Spontaneous opinion due to posting errors: a card/TV show should have matches of several lengths,
VERY much this. I think with rare exceptions, an opener should never hit 10 minutes. Gotta pace the show as a whole, not just the matches.
25 seems good for a typical main, but there are plenty of workers/stories that can make 35-40 seem shorter.
30 minute Ironman has never worked for me, bc the average main is almost this long anyway, with 1 fall. Wrestling is based around lower card ppl getting beat quicker, where is takes much longer to wear down upper carders to get a fall. 3-5 falls in 30 min is immersion-breaking, IMO, most (not all) of the time. You gotta be extremely creative for it to work.
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11 minutes ago, D.Z said:
Mystery woman is Carmella?
I had been thinking they were moving Peyton to SmackDown, but Carmella is a good call.
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I was ROLLING when the camera cut to Tamina and Cole hit us with “Tamina also in this matchup.” Sums up her career.
I lost it again when she ate the pin.
Still funny to me that Vince didn’t “get” Broken Hardys, but Firefly Funhouse is now a thing.
Thought everything else was pretty good. Annoying how so many people are still “go away Roman” because his character is finally on the level of his in-ring, absolutely killing it.
Marvel Movies - 2021
in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV
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Only if they can also make her invisible in real life.
