Thomas Bugg
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Heels cutting awesome promos
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12 hours ago, The Natural said:
New entry from this week's RAW:
Other than the Show-Braun match, this was the best part of RAW.
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In Joe Pedicino's outlaw territory in Georgia, Austin Idol and Randy Rose bloody Tommy Rich the fuck up
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This was an emotional moment! #RIPIvanKoloff
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Well if you're looking for good selling, you'll find it in droves here
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5 hours ago, Matt D said:
If you asked me on the spot to name the worst match of all time (non-indy version), that's what I'd pick. If I really thought about it, maybe I could come up with something else, but that match is the best example ever of just how egregiously terrible Brody and Mascaras could be. There are points in it where you can tell Hansen just wants to give up because he can't believe the no-selling, narrative-crushing pieces of shit he's in there with, one of which being his regular partner. Nothing brings out the worst in an already selfish wrestler like tagging in All Japan in the mid 80s.
Yeah, honestly I've seen much better Brody/Hansen matches, and I've never really been impressed by Mascaras. Guess I was just drowsy and looking for something a bit quick, but not like a TV match.
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This thread needs more Hansen and Brody
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Died this morning in Los Angeles at the age of 76.
This man was about as smooth of a jazz singer as you'll ever find. Here's a small sample of his best work.
And here's my favorite song that he ever did!
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10 hours ago, Attila The Hut said:
Is it just me, or has Kawada not aged well? Maybe that has to do with the weight loss.
Anyone got a recent photo of him?
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There was that one time where Herb Abrams ordered Dr. Death to beat the fuck out of Steve Ray...
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On 1/13/2017 at 0:22 AM, Kevin Wilson said:
I miss the days when each major promotion had their own fan-made site in Stuart's Network with all the latest news. Purolove is great for results but can't go into detail like those sites used to.
Yeah, that was how I kept up with All Japan. Now I can't find reliable updates anywhere.
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On 1/6/2017 at 7:53 AM, John E. Dynamite said:
In a more general sense, Inoki-ism involves the importance of "legitimacy" over more sensible things like entertainment value. The original concept of "strong style" wasn't stiffness and head drops but the idea that pro-wrestling was its own form of martial art that could stand up to and defeat other disciplines. Booking matches where regular roster members face off against judoka/boxers/Olympic wrestlers/etc. There's usually a reliance on "shoot" moves like armbars and sleepers. It also involves this nonsensical, markish tough-guy attitude that thankfully can no longer exists as it did due to modern MMA exposing Inoki's bullshit.
Some really, REALLY dumb stuff went down from about 1997 to 2004 in regards to Inoki's booking. The Shinya Hashimoto / Naoya Ogawa feud, hot as it was, featured a non-wrestler absolutely CHUMPING NJPW's biggest draw of it's hottest period. Another great example is the 0-2 MMA record of one-time top dog Yuji Nagata. He wins the G1 Climax in the fall of 2001, and on NYE gets knocked out in 21 seconds by some guy named Cro Cop. Then, in 2003, after holding the IWGP Heavyweight Title for nearly a year and defending the title a then-record ten consecutive times, he's knocked out in a little over a minute to some other guy named Fedor.
So it sounds to me that Inoki's booking was only a couple of steps above being Russo-rific in the sense that it ruined careers and weakened top stars in the eyes of the NJPW audience.
Well shit, at least they had the juniors.
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I was reading a blog on AJPW. Just a couple of questions:
1) What is Inoki-ism? The blog I read never really went into detail about what it was, but the tone made it seem like a tiresome thing.
2) What's everyone's opinions of Kento Miyahara? I've seen a couple of his matches, including when he won the Triple Crown from ZEUS, and was actually impressed.
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Nowadays the penultimate example of a justified heel is Rusev. Somebody tell me how this man is the bad guy in his feud with Enzo Amore. If some bird-looking clown flashed his junk in front of your wife, then made jokes about it, what man wouldn't want to break his neck on site?
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On 12/6/2016 at 8:59 AM, Technico Support said:
All the good old school ones have been taken, so I'll go with the team of Excalibur/rotating guest commentator in PWG. I wouldn't enjoy PWG as much without their commentary, which is funny while still calling the match pretty seriously. Excalibur and Steen were awesome and Chuck Taylor has really come into his own lately. Never forget that nobody kicks out of a falcon arrow, his name is Chris Hero and he throws elbows, stiff kicks to the back are fucking unnecessary, and that El Generico is undoubtedly a big boy.
The one problem I have with Excalibur is how everyone and their mothers on small indies tries to emulate his style, as well as the aforementioned Dave Prazak/rotating commentator in IWA Mid-South, of being funny, and it rarely works and winds up being fucking annoying.
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On 12/6/2016 at 0:52 PM, Curt McGirt said:
or PLUNDAH
Or FILIBUSTERIN if ya WHEEL
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Ross/Caudle and Ross/Schiavone are two of my favorite commentary teams
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13 hours ago, MORELOCK said:
Mauro trying to figure out where he can squeeze in his aging-white-dude hip-hop references grows more irritating with each episode of SDL.
I really want to believe that it's not him doing that shit. Well it is, but remember he's got a headset and somebody in production- more than likely the Bucky Beaver motherfucker- is telling him to put those annoying references in, because when he called New Japan matches on AXS TV I don't remember him doing that one time.
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If you think about it, Brian Christopher and The Spellbinder had it coming. But damn, I lost my shit when they came out dressed like Tommy Gilbert and his wife!
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11 hours ago, nofuture said:
The worst was Striker marking out like crazy when Booker T returned at Royal Rumble a few years ago that Cole had to tell him to calm down.
When Michael Cole has to tell someone to shut the fuck up, that's next level annoying.
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Pull Apart Brawls or Donnybrooks
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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