LoneWolf&Subs
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Watching The Hunted(1995)… What a weird ass movie. I remember loving this when USA first started showing it in the middle of the day. It really hits that early weeb itch of wanting to watch more Samurai flicks, but this is what was available to me. It’s inspirations are obvious. Especially when they drop in a Sleepy Eyes of Death clip in the first act of the movie. But the casting of Lambert, and modern Ninja Vs. Samurai stuff is also a try at the Highlander fans without doing a Highlander movie. But because of these weird meldings of ideas they sort of accidentally made a live-action OVA anime with its graphic violence, and sexual themes. It honestly feels at times like a Kawajiri film(but less graphic) because of it.
For a hack film, made by a hack director it’s still surprisingly well made. Makes me think he must’ve gotten a lot of help in directing it. According to IMDB, the man directed those bad early 90’s Bill Maher movies, and I see that in the scenes with the ninja clan in their hideout. They come off like a bad cheap Andy Sidaris film. But the scenes with Yoshio Harada, Lambert, and the samurai feel like they were handled by a Japanese film crew. The film stock even looks different in those scenes too that it reminded me of those 80’s Samurai flicks that were the last gasp of that genre. I also got a Mr. Baseball vibe from it as well with the way the film was lit.
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So I woke up, and I left the TV on with YouTube up. It was one of those auto play things where they play nearest interest. As soon as I open my eyes I see it’s the Rick Martel RF shoot. It’s near the end of it, and Martel is explaining why he’s retired. I thought it was just one freak injury that caused it, but the way he explains it he says it was more of a combination of things.
For one he didn’t like how stiff Booker worked(Kinda basically said he didn’t care for the man). He hated the Harlem Hangover. It apparently gave him a nasty concussion. The freak injury when he landed on the ropes. Then in a match with Stevie Ray(Who Rick actually really likes), he got a neck injury trying to protect his knee on a Slapjack(Ray’s finisher). The way he tells it, it sounds like he could’ve returned, but wrestling got so much more stiffer around that time, he saw the writing on the wall, and retired.
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Him, and Jack Noseworthy have the funniest heel turns. As soon as they reveal themselves they drop their southern accents. It’s such a weird choice.
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Orton sounds like he’s talking about Braun Strowman in that clip.
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3 hours ago, RunningFromAmerica said:
I like Julia but she's super green and I am not quite sure what the point of that match was.
More than likely slowly going up the pecking order of women on the roster. But they’ll need to start looking for challengers from outside the company if they want her to get 50. I wonder if that’s why they are experimenting with Megan Bayne to set up an obstacle for her in the future.
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Watching Rumble 1990 right now. I didn’t realize until re-watch that entrants are mostly coming in face, heel, face, heel… Like it’s War Games. It definitely works when some of the first ten entrants are Dusty, Andre, Piper, Jake, and Savage.
I guess it goes to shit once all the territory stars are gone, and you have to rely on the bad acts, as well as the un-over stars of the later 90’s, and beyond into the 00’s.
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Just now, Matt D said:
Who were ace Barista’s top heels? King Booker and Edge?
Batista’s top rival was JBL, but realistically it was being injury prone.
It’s kinda forgotten, but anytime Batista got any momentum as a top face, he would get sidelined with an injury. His most consistent time was as a heel.
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11 minutes ago, Krone Meltzer said:
I am speaking it into the ether, Wardlow needs to be the absolute next person they push to the moon. I genuinely could see him being an incredible "homegrown" face of the company within 2-3 years with the right push.
We’ll see… He’s missing a roster that compliments his potential run as a top face.
Like if say he needs rivals to challenge him. You might have to look for people like Hammerstone, and Jacob Fatu for potential people to put him over.
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11 minutes ago, Infinit said:
15 years ago(!)
Cena's best match?
Wow, did that really happen before the Benoit murders? This felt like it happened in 2010.
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Seeing that cutter from the ladder over, and over again is making me savor an eventual confrontation between Dante & Sammy. I just don’t think Dante is ready to have a singles match classic just yet. He’s like a year, or two away from figuring it out.
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He was released. So it’s one of those 90 day no compete clause situations.
According to what the WWE reported to the sheets at the time, they claimed he “Refused rehab”, and that’s what they used to justify the release.
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I’m reading speculation that they jumped the gun, and fired him before test results came in. So maybe it’s a simple “He swerved them” situation.
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Ehhh… It’s not like they really wanted to do anything with him at this point, and if he asked for his release they would’ve if he agreed to not do a Hardy’s reunion for AEW. I think swerving them was his best play to get out of a contract Scott free without having to jump through too many hoops.
They’ll call him back anyway eventually.
Funny thing is, Jeff will never admit this is what he did. So he’ll constantly play coy with it.
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10 minutes ago, (BP) said:
I think the catch is that they have to avoid it without putting themselves in a liable position. If someone refuses rehab then they’d have to either let them keep working anyway or pay them to sit home while they’re possibly sinking further into addiction (they did do this for Shawn for several years.)
Hard to do now that they are a publicly traded company.
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On 1/27/2022 at 12:09 PM, Curt McGirt said:
If they're gonna Mortal Kombat II then they should really Mortal Kombat II and make it crazier with better fatalities and stuff. I didn't see the new one but how wild did it really get in that respect?
Side note, friend of mine got a mini Mortal Kombat arcade console that plays that and stuff like Defender and Joust and Rampage for Xmas. Under the rules that he could not use Sub-Zero I played him and actually whooped his ass on a couple rounds. I am TERRIBLE at video games, so that was quite a surprise.
Ehhhh… It’s violent, but not in the recent MK way, where everything is disgustingly violent. It’s more like T2 levels of violent, where you can take your kid to see it. It’s also pretty tame in the language department too.
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It’s going to be a while before somebody can try this again. The WWE won’t take the bait the next time.
You’d have to fake a racist tweet for the WWE to jump the gun again, and then follow it up with a fake misunderstanding involving a minority wrestler who agrees it was a misunderstanding, and has evidence it was. Like it was a zoomed in picture, but they reveal after a week the whole picture zoomed out.
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So I’m just going to say it… He straight up faked it at the house show to force his firing. The WWE realized it, and are trying to convince him to change his mind now.
I’m stunned that it worked so well.
Didn’t this happen already with another wrestler in another company in some form in the past?
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On 1/24/2022 at 10:21 PM, Ramo2653 said:
The Flair period was great especially when they add Debra and Mongo.
Legit, the Dysfunctional Horsemen were incredibly entertaining. Especially the Jarrett & Mongo stuff. I’m sure I’ll hit a wall with McMichael eventually, but even with questionable in ring ability, the man still projects so much personality, and natural goofy charisma that makes him more entertaining than your average WCW wrestler from that time period.
I would gladly state that this incarnation of the Horsemen can rank third all-time amongst all versions of this group.
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On 1/26/2022 at 8:49 PM, John from Cincinnati said:
I wanna see a match on frozen waves.
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Danhausen has Hollywood connections right? You think he might know cast members of the Big Bang Theory?
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King Conan is impossible at this point. If he didn’t waste his life in politics, the odds of it happening would’ve gone up.
I honestly feel like if we get it, it has to be a Tarantino project at this point. It could be seen as a QT comeback special for Arnold. Otherwise it’ll be forgotten quickly like every other post-Governor movie that Arnold has made.
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I just noticed Breakdown(1997) is on HBOMAX.
I’ve noticed this movie itself has become the new “Hey guys, you know what guilty pleasure isn’t talked about enough?”(it gets a lot of mentions on podcast randomly), but this is one of the better ones. Mixing Rear Window, and the yuppie thrillers of the 1990’s with a great leading performance by Kurt Russell. It also has the 90’s trend of a modern film shot in the dessert, and it looks fantastic.
Recommended for a date night.
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2 hours ago, Matt D said:
Thinking that plans changed? There really aren't the sort of dirt sheet answers we get out of AEW relative to what we would have gotten in years' past. But it felt like Tony needed a title match for Battle of the Belts since it was a bit featured show on TNT but didn't have a champion that could wrestle and everything (The Garcia match, Cody's promo, the ladder match, Sammy carrying forward the belt, whatever Cody does next) stemmed from that.
As soon as I saw they were doing the rematch at Battle of The Belts I knew they just hotshot the belt to Cody just so they could get a title switch on that show. This ladder match was a make due for that.
Enjoyed the ladder match, but it was a “fit a PPV quality performance into a smaller timeframe” type of ladder match. Which is fine by me. Fans coming into these shows are expecting quick explosive matches, and angles when attending.
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16 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Then how the fuck are Casino and Scarface playing in mutilated form back to back the other night?! I'm pretty sure they were on FXX too.
Probably bought the TV rights to the TV version a long time ago, and are stuck with it?
“Where’d you get that beauty scar, tough guy, eating pineapple?”
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January 2022 Discussion of Wrestling
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Posted · Edited by LoneWolf&Subs
From the Reddit post from the mod, he’s claiming “It was a gift for his wife”, but hmmmmmmmm…
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