sevendaughters
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SSM's speech is on youtube with subtitles. It's really good. -
when watching the match announcements I was a bit like "they're really overdoing Tokyo here"
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people like LIJ and EVIL put in a real shift in the G1 last year, I think they respect the effort. I also think they like his gimmick. As do I. Like Alstein, I think SANADA is the future star there.
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watched the SSM retirement show live. from a wrestling standpoint it was just fine (the Jay & Juice bits interesting) but the main event was a lot of fun. the ceremony was rightfully the highlight with a lovely set of video packages, a touching reunion of Black New Japan (ft. Kazunari Marukami and Katsuyori Shibata!), and then a beautiful oration that I understood few words of but SSM was tearful under his mask. He was talking about how his wife passed away from cancer in the last few years. Not a dry eye in the house nor at home either.
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BALD TANAHASHI YES
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one presumes Kota-Kenny is going to call back their Budokan headline
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I am hearing Michael Nakazawa is booked on this
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I am okay with short-term reigns by legitimate hard-asses. He was an upper-level sumo (sidebar - I love sumo) and the whole deal was set up to put Nagata over big (and give Tenzan some shine too). The deeper we get into the 'match quality as king' era then it looks more bizarre but I'd defend it as a choice. Even if they barely drew flies to the big return match and nearly crashed the company into a ditch. Lot of weird stuff going on then but when you try and judge it as an artistic choice made in light of the ways companies were having to change against PRIDE et. al. it makes a strange sense.
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genuinely did not mind Yasuda as champ
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as a match it wasn't up to a lot but it made up for it in spectacle and like holy christ it's the coolest NJPW guy against the legendary man who reinvents himself and for some reason now has come as Poundstretcher Peter Criss? it was different to everything there. in a way it was, despite being a Canadian vs. a Japanese, quite like a lucha brawl. if you just click on it to watch alone I think it loses something against how it balanced the show out.
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I personally would miss Yano were he not in the tournament proper, but I understand the argument against him. His surprise wins are always a thing of beauty to me, and the matches where he's paired with someone new and foreign and they just have to deal with this frog-faced lunatic are brilliant. Platitudes about health aside, I just don't think it's good for the long-term goals of the style if every match is a hard-hitting 12-15 minutes of work rate. Also I don't think Taichi is the same, he seems to actually be a motivated worker as a heavyweight. I've been impressed by him, though I expect his ceiling is a 5-4 record with perhaps a shock pin on an upper-midcarder.
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Raw Is Baron Corbin's Barber - 6/11/2018
sevendaughters replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Funny, I always felt Jack Tunney a reasonably ineffectual authority figure. -
Just read the Cobb booked elsewhere thing in another thread, talking out me arse here lads.
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I reckon the amount of domestic heavyweights that couldn't legitimately kick his ass could be counted on as many digits.
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I can't see Jericho or the Bucks in this, to be honest. I think Jericho might turn up on finals night though. And I think Suzuki may as well step aside. It's not worth the 1 good match to endure the 8 ringside brawls he has to do to protect his body. Perhaps Kota Ibushi, Hangman Page, Taichi, and Jeff Cobb in for Tama Tonga, Minoru Suzuki, Yuji Nagata and Satoshi Kojima.
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think all the stables could use a shake-up, except for LIJ. CHAOS makes no sense now. Who is buying Ishii palling around Ospreay? They used to have the image of a real crew. Now it's Yano's drinking buddies plus 5.
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lol that wasn't even a response to anything I said either.
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I enjoy that you can read things that I didn't say into things I did say. It must make reading more difficult texts a lot more fun and less of a chore.
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trying to decide which of those two reigns I prefer. think they're both amazing. the one thing missing from Okada's reign, if I am nitpicking (and this is grabbing the smallest nit with an oversized pair of comedy tweezers) then I'd like him to have got his win back over Ishii and effectively take charge of CHAOS. would have obv been a great match too.
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yeah just got off listening to WOR and thought it was Bryan who was really talking the analytic sense while Dave was obviously just reeling emotionally.
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Bit aggressive, my friend. I came into the thread to chat about a the named event. Given that he lost, humiliatingly so, to a rank amateur hand-picked for the express purpose of being a potential easy win, it feels natural to speculate where he might jump to next. I care inasmuch as yes it is a topic that I am interested in because of the complex relationship between fighting and wrestling. And he definitely can make similar money if names of a lower status such as Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks are raking it in. But it doesn't affect my happiness whether CM Punks i. wrestles ii. fights iii. does neither. He could continue to guest-write comics or commentate or be in the media in a more general role. But the history of fighters and wrestlers, as I'm sure you know as an MMA-folk, is that it is difficult to replicate that experience in civilian life. In light of that, and his first major step away from the pain of wrestling was to enter a ring and accept pain, I'm skeptical of his not-returning to wrestling.
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best of luck to him then. i don't care either way, wrestling is getting on just great without him.
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he could probably make that now working a reasonable US-only indie schedule and not get punched in the head.
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yeah Nagata got flattened by two locks for the eventual MMA hall of fame. CM Punk got beat by guys who will struggle to achieve beyond the little they have thus far. also i don't think Nagata was exactly crazy about doing it either! i watched the fight and it was horrible. as bad as some of the white collar boxing you get in London. Punk is so unathletic, he lacks a fighter's instinct, and he's not even got a ton of heart either. i give him no credit for diving in on a payday when he could have started smaller, could have learned, climbed the ranks. i'm not saying i wouldn't do the same for money. i just don't think he deserves credit for having a dream that status allowed him a headstart on. a really sad waste of three years proving an arcane point that probably wasn't worth making. the only positive is that he must now look at what indie wrestling has become in his absence and think that maybe he can make peace, work his own schedule, and keep food on the table. sorry to sideline this. Whittaker is tough as nails, couldn't call that fight. Colby's a good heel, you have to hand it to him, but he's a dull fighter.
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