LoneWolf&Subs
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1 hour ago, AxB said:
Wasn't Sin Cara 2 a better Sin Cara than the original?
And ironically, Mistico 2 was a bigger star that the original Mistico, but that was two guys getting the same gimmick independently of one another, not one replacing the other.
But Sin Cara II wasn’t really a success compared to the first Sin Cara. He basically just existed. He did have that thing with the soccer star, but him falling into obscurity following his post WWE run basically shows his lack of relevance to Mexican popular culture. Like he was just propped up by WWE’s PR team using connections to sneak him into major media articles.
Good-ish worker, who sucked as a flying tecnico luchador. I honestly think he’s fucking delusional about his in-ring ability. His maskless run proved how much better he was working a grounded style.
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La ParkAAA pretty much is the gold standard of successful replacements.
I don’t believe anybody has ever come close.
Maybe Dragon Lee? But that was a temp gimmick passed on from rookie to rookie. I don’t believe the current Dragon Lee was even supposed to be that gimmick forever. He just popped too much under that mask that he broke out better than his brother did with that gimmick.
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TK should do @Phil Schneidera solid, and buy him McManor.
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Yeah, true the first Kane replacement worked. The second one failed. Kerry’s Warrior I guess was a success.
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They sort of did, but it’s kinda a proven failure.
-Doink
-Sin Cara
- Maybe also Razor & Diesel
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I fucking hate when Dr Wagner Jr. wears his mask for 90% of his matches. Well he lost both his mask, and hair, and his kids getting better. So whatever he wants to do at this point I guess, especially now that he’s out of his prime. I still don’t like it.
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On 12/22/2021 at 3:27 AM, Shartnado said:
So, did I understand this correctly? Abe "Knuckleball" Schwarz character for Steve Lombardi was made for the sole purpose of making fun of Baseball strike of '94 as well as rather constant pitcher/catcher jokes by Vince? I have yet to see a single match by him, except that he was in that IC-title battle royal which had Razor and Rick Martel as the final two. I think his name was MVP, originally.
You’ll probably never see a one fall match on the Network for Abe. Unless more 90’s syndicated, and weekend USA shows show up on there. You’ll have to look it up online.
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If you watch full Dark’s Him, and Eddie take big digs at their partners. Most of the time it’s actually Ex taking the biggest digs at everyone.
Actually one thing I know about Taz is he loves to be the butt of jokes. Kind of like how Heenan would set himself up to be the idiot for a moment.
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36 minutes ago, Pete said:
I want to say he snaps after Spears gets on his last nerve, but who the fuck wants Spears to be that tipping point? The tip of the spear, as it were?
Well Spears has been a great foil this year. He’d be a really great first test for Wardlow(As in finding out if he’s good enough to be carried by a vet in a program), and easy first real face win. Pulling the trigger on MJF Vs. Wardlow so soon would be a mistake. Especially if the ultimate goal this year is to put the belt on MJF.
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I can see him as a Lou Thesz just being the legend. Who’s this years Penthouse Pet of The Year?
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40 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Okay, one more and I'm done. Was Taz trying to get fired at the end? Did he piss off Ex or was that a work? Did he shit on Tony or was THAT a joke?
It’s Taz… He likes to fuck around like that. He does that on Dark too.
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It’s not being talked about much, but I thought Hangman sounded great as soon as he got the mic back during that segment. It’s like he felt upstaged by Danielson si he decided to rattle off his promo quickly to show him up.
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I was thinking Mox could comeback, and turn heel. He was always heading in that direction, and he’s a massive Funk mark.
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I really loved FTR getting a visible pin on Punk. That was a nice way of putting them over without giving them the win.
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12 minutes ago, Craig H said:
I also do not want the Bucks as faces again. Their heel act in AEW is maybe the stuff I've loved of theirs the most.
I do too, but I think with their long heel reign, and all the crazy shit they did with their looks, that they ran through everything too quickly. So I wouldn’t mind a turn at this point. If they lost the belts, and disappeared from TV, and then came back to attack the top babyface team you could justify them continuing the act. But they stuck around too long after at this point.
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I think Ruby either got legit hurt, or she’s the best seller in years. That Nyla hang lady knee drop might’ve been the scariest one she’s hit in AEW. Outside of the jacket issues in that match that was another great women’s match in this tournament. Also I heard some complaints about the TBS title tournament recently that I just couldn’t stand to listen to the rest of the podcast these comments were on. Like I don’t understand how you can feel any negativity towards it. Like maybe your issue is that it’s taken too long, but honestly I feel like that has been a benefit. Every match is lengthy, and has a grueling big fight feel to it. Also they’ve sprinkled some non-Tournament matches in-between because they need space for the TBS premier, but those too have been bangers. The only negative thing I’ve seen in my eyes is that it’s exposed some talents mediocrity because it’s highlighted the very best women in the division.
Okay actually you want to know a legit complaint I have about the tournament? Please TK, stop doing too many single elimination tournaments. It’s like you gave the book to CMLL all of a sudden. Spice it up a bit! And I don’t mean G1 style. Like what I’ve been begging forever that you should do a Torneo Cibernetico, or battle bowls(without the battle royale), or a trios tournament with singles, and tag title implications at stake. Just not the same old single elimination singles match tourney over, and over again.
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How is MJF not dead?
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11 hours ago, Leonidas said:
Could have done without so much fat-shaming though, I happen to like wrestlers who don't fit the mould!
That guy was a melted candle.
Entertaining match somehow. Dude is lucky a Steiner, or New Jack didn’t walk out there.
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I think I flipped after watching Juvi in WCW post unmasking again. Before he lost the mask he wasn’t very over, and was overshadowed by Mysterio. As soon as he lost it his gear got cooler, got in better shape, he adopted the “Never Say Die” gimmick, and he did the Juvi Driver more, that’s when the fans started cheering for him. He also wasn’t a bad looking guy either. Of all the WCW guys who lost their mask, he should’ve benefited the most. For a time he did, but in the end he sort of fucked it up for himself.
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5 hours ago, Shartnado said:
I remember Armstrong and Enos touring New Japan a lot back when Malenko, Eddie and that one other guy toured New Japan in the early to mid nineties. Now that you mention it, I recall nWo Sting's name on the PWI results over there, others I was not aware of, at all. Harlem Heat and High Voltage would have fit right in those Ring Warriors shows that were on EuroSport!
Anytime on these Nitro re-watches when Tenay says “*Insert name* just came back from a successful tour of Japan” I’m like “HIM?”. I immediately go to New Japan World, or Dailymotion to see if I can find footage. Barely anything out there. Only American wrestling super fans were obsessed with All Japan, so all the TV footage is on a streaming service. Of course New Japan , and TV Asahi also suck too when it comes to showcasing the old footage. Like even in the 00’s you’d get more raw, and uncut full All Japan shows, and matches on NHK television, than you do NJPW footage on TV Asahi television. At least that was my understanding, because the tape traders in the later stages would get small chopped up best of New Japan shows. So I just rarely touched that stuff.
I wish somebody at TV Asahi would just give a bootlegger all the cleaned up footage with original audio so he could be the middle man to upload this stuff onto a streaming platform. It’s a shame that these tapes might become destroyed in a fire one day without being seen again in it’s entirety.
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Apparently a fugitive that was hiding in plain sight.
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1 hour ago, Shartnado said:
I recall Scott Norton and Buff Bagwell spent some time over in New Japan when they were part of NWO-Japan, but other than that, a lot of the guys who used to go there, ended up not going anymore.
Brad Armstrong, nWo Sting, High Voltage, Steven Regal, Mike Enos, Harlem Heat toured New Japan. They actually had some interesting cast of characters going over there. It wasn’t just the big stars.
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What an amazing moment… Somebody actually recognized them that day.
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2 hours ago, twiztor said:
same. within a couple years, they stopped numbering them and stopped including the HoF ceremonies with the dvds, so i stopped buying them. and now they don't even make WWE DVDs!
cheap plug: i watched all the invasion-era cards a couple years ago. it may or may not surprise you to find out that they were overwhelmingly not good. the "wind beneath my ring" promo was the 8/20/01 Raw. i don't even remember talking about Austin's watch bit because it never ended up meaning anything.
God bless you for your Christ-like sacrifice. Speaking of the last two decades of WWF/E. I just watched MarkyD’s YouTube video of Wade Barrett’s run with the Corre. What a waste of time for that collection of mediocre talent. Or maybe it might just be blamed with all the blah booking happening, and not so much the talent on display.
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December 2021 Wrestling Discussion
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Posted · Edited by LoneWolf&Subs
The best matches I’ve seen live happened in 2021. It’s tough to decide on which, though. The worst one I saw live was HHH Vs. HBK 3 Stages of Hell. What a rush job of a match. It was like the equivalent of a mediocre MSG main event from the 80’s, but instead of one, you got three of them.