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    WWE TV (10/9/23 - 10/15/23)

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    46 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

    Bron getting promo time with Cena did get off the line of the night though:

    Bron: "They didn't come to see you, Cena..."

    Cena: "They cant."

     

    (I think Bron even broke for a moment.)

    Bron broke when Taker came out too, you can see the smile on his face when the gong hits even though his eyes are trying to sell shock.

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    August 2023 Wrestling Discussion

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    25 minutes ago, BobbyWhioux said:

     

    Is that Corino in a wig and under a Vince McAlias?  I completely missed this era of Raw/WWE

    This is EC3 in his first WWE run on the old pre-black and gold NXT Redemption that was web only (I think? Maybe it was in syndication too or on Hulu?) - some real weird stuff in that run, with Johnny Curtis (now Dango) as the highlight.

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    MONEY IN THE BANK XIV - 7/1/2022

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    The other problem with two top line championships... why wasn't Damian Priest out there when Roman Reigns was out, beaten by Jey Uso? Just have him approach the ring and have Solo get in the way. I know storywise you want to let Jey have his moment, but Priest comes off as the dumbest dumdum there is when things like this happen.

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    MONEY IN THE BANK XIV - 7/1/2022

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    Kind of a mediocre show. I enjoyed the Women's MITB and thought it had a really clever ending. GUNTHER was good, but the match was a glorified squash. Rollins/Balor was looking to be decent in the beginning with Rollins slowing down to work the ribs, but forget that after like 3 minutes. Main was a slog, Cody/Dominik was a nothingburger, and the only thing I remember from the men's MITB was Ricochet's dive through the ladder to the floor (which was pretty sweet! All props to him for the kind of spot that is new and isn't escalating ladder idiocy.)

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    Backlash X8 - 5/6/2022

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    Caught the show this afternoon and outside of Bad Bunny/Damien Priest (for obvious reasons) and Bianca/IYO, this felt like a big house show. Which isn't a sleight. House shows have great atmosphere and are usually pretty fun even if the matches are very by the numbers. The PR crowd was unreal hot all night and it took a B or B- show in ring and pushed it to an A experience. WWE should run more major events in neglected markets or smaller buildings and embrace their audience reactions instead of doing as much as they can to homogenize the TV product.

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    Pro Wrestling's HIDDEN GEMS.. !!

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    On 3/21/2023 at 10:39 AM, Zimbra said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivN1d8Bl60

    I will keep pimping this match until it is no longer a hidden gem: Terry Funk, Dustin Rhodes, JBL vs Jerry Lawler & Too Much from Shotgun in 98.  10 minutes of near-perfect tv wrestling.

    Christopher and Taylor were such good stooges. The platonic ideal of Memphis heels, dirty fighters always looking for a shortcut and never afraid to embarrass themselves to get the face over in the comeback.

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    NXT In Your House XXX - 6/4/2022

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    It's amazing how much NXT has made me miss the fake woke Joe Gacy gimmick over the past couple of months. Bron should go over here, Gacy is a good enough and experienced enough worker to be a good foil for Bron. Kinda wish this was a spot for someone like Roderick Strong as an experience builder for Bron, but this will be fine and overbooked and I'll hate the overbooking.

    The whole of Toxic Attraction have to be close to being called up at this point - two fairly large roster spots are opened up and they're the most TV ready group of women in the promotion. I don't think Wendy Choo is the woman to take the belt off Mandy, but I really like a switch to Kayden/Katana. Not sure who the next challengers are after that, though. Rose/Choo should be very good.

    Grimes/Hayes one on one should be very good as well, and a title change here wouldn't surprise me. It's hard to tell if Hayes and Williams are going to be heading up post-Summerslam or not, but they're pretty good candidates. Hayes's gimmick translates well to the big stage, Cameron Grimes does not. I can see them putting the belt back on Hayes to elevate someone else Summerslam weekend or keeping it on Grimes to give some stability to the title.

    Pretty Deadly/Creeds has a decent chance of being match of the night and I expect Pretty Deadly to retain so they can cement the Creeds face turn vs. Roderick Strong. It actually feels like all of the Diamond Mine folks are likeable and I kinda expect the resolution to this angle is all of them kicking Strong out. Decent chance that within a year of the group starting, everyone that was in the initial Diamond Mine group will likely be out of it (and most of them out of the company entirely).

    I don't care about the family feud. Santos is languishing in NXT at this point and probably either needs to be called up or released.

    Should be a pretty good show as usual. NXT has a great track record of delivering on these events, even when the cards are a little lackluster.

    Backlash X7 - 5/8/2022

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    1 hour ago, For Great Justice said:

    The only time they did the announced waiting til Mania to cash in gimmick was Kennedy, right? And then he got hurt? 

    Not a bad idea to dust that one off again. Hey, Cody could go from never getting a title shot again to guaranteeing he’s getting one in 9 months

    Daniel Bryan did as well, and then cashed in/heel turned in the Big Show/Mark Henry feud.

    WrestleMania XXXVIII - 4/2 & 4/3/2022

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    4 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Show of hands, how many here knew that End of Days was protected? 

    I was aware of it. The most protected move in wrestling finally busted.

    Unlike Cross Rhodes, which was busted night one back.

    Becky/Bianca was great, easy MotN, a little sloppy at times, but in a good way for the most part. Charlotte/Rousey felt sloppy and awkward throughout, which, Rousey's only been back for a little bit and is still really green.

    Logan Paul could be really good at this wrestling thing if he ever wanted to do it more than once a year. Just wildly charismatic and pretty decent for a first showing. The Three Amigos/Frog Splash section was fantastic.

    Kevin Owens is a goddamned treasure, bumping like a maniac for Austin and making this a real main event worthy moment. Austin looked damn good for being out of the game nearly 20 years. A worthy sendoff for the Rattlesnake.

    Cody Rhodes's entrance was a starmaker, but then the bell rang and it's Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins working WWE main event style and... it was fine. I don't care for it, but it was fine.

    The Ringer Matches of the Week

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    I'm not a big Lucha guy, but Flamita was dope in this and when Vikingo sold the leg, it made some of the sloppiness of his spots (the slam from the inverted DDT position after the twisting plancha to the floor) look more story-based than his general chaos. Not sure why Flamita rushed to roll into the ring from the stage after Vikingo's 450 to the outside and the cross armbreaker segment was pretty bad, but very enjoyable overall.

     

    EDIT: Almost forgot Flamita's frog splash, which was really, really impactful. Choice stuff there.

    2022 WRESTLERS LEAVING COMPANIES THREAD (Releases, FAs, etc...)

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    39 minutes ago, TheVileOne said:

    I'd be fine with AEW signing  Claudio if they hadn't just signed Swerve, Buddy Matthews, Tony Nese, Lee Moriarty, Keith Lee, Kyle O'Reilly, Brody King, Jay Lethal, Danhausen, and Bobby Fish in the last few months. Not to mention they're about to sign Jeff Hardy.

    Which of those guys do you sign over Claudio if you knew he was available? Keith Lee? I don't think you can compare Danhausen - you're certainly not spending money to do the same thing there. Brody King is a little different look and style so that's hard to compare too, but I'd rather have Claudio than Swerve, Buddy, Nese, Moriarty, reDRagon, and Lethal.

    Claudio's a guy that can play face or heel believably at any level of the card. Can he draw? We've never found out, but can any wrestler draw in 2022?

    February 2022 - Professional Wrestling Omnibus Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, Swift said:

    There was discussion recently of Anthony Agogo being from Lowestoft but being billed as being from East England, presumably because Lowestoft is basically unknown. I personally like when people are billed from their actual hometown rather than just being billed from the nearest big city (Edge & Christian for example). What are some of the more obscure actual places wrestlers have been billed from?

    Bray, Co. Wicklow is just a small seaside town south of Dublin so it surprises me that Balor wasn't just saddled with Dublin. No idea if West Newbury, MA or Aberdeen, WA are small places or not but I've literally never heard of them outside of their famous hometown wrestlers.

    EDIT: Just had a quick look. They're all small based on population - West Newbury ~4k, Aberdeen ~17k, Bray ~32k

    Aberdeen has two things going for it that make it make more sense to bill Bryan from there and not Seattle - it's actually pretty far away from Seattle (2+ hours on the central Washington coast) and already had someone famous from there (Kurt Cobain)

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    February 2022 - Professional Wrestling Omnibus Discussion

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    4 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:

    Well there is a food topic in LoC but that sadly hardly gets looked at.  I don't mind whatever happens here as long as it's not a repeat of the last thread that got locked.

    Oh, and that Batman pizza looks gross.  Little Ceasars is our go-to for AEW PPV parties as it's cheap and good to soak up the booze with.  But I'll pass on this one.

    I've already taken one for all the teams and yeah, the Batman pizza is not good. The pizza part is standard fair Little Caesars, but cut into squares, and those middle squares are real sad. The calzone parts are borderline inedible.

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    Royal Rumble XXXV - 1/29/2022

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    9 minutes ago, The Comedian said:

    Bottom line, Brock don't need the belt. Neither does Rousey for that matter, nor did Goldberg. They gotta stop putting the belts on special attractions if they ever wanna build up a pool of new main event talent.

    That's the rub. They don't want to build up anyone new. A rotating Greatest Hits section is good enough to keep the diehards watching and ratings good enough to keep Fox placated.

    The Rumble used to be building 2 month programs for folks based on who eliminated who because you have that hour to start and tell stories. What stories were told in either Rumble last night involving people who didn't win and will be on the weekly TV in a month? The only tiny thing I can remember is Gable throwing Damian Priest to the wolves before getting Omos out. Will that lead to something considering Gable and Otis are chasing the tag belts? Probably not.

    Pat Patterson was the master of taking advantage of this storytelling format to plant seeds that ripened 3, 6, 9 months down the line. The Rumbles this year felt like a dust bowl in comparison.

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