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I've only seen two Private Party matches now but good god are they awful to watch. Just the most contrived shit I've seen in a long time.
I have to say this is the wrestling show I actually look forward to each week now (checked out the first episode of NWA and really liked it, will likely try to keep up there too) and I'm actually contemplating ordering the PPV depending on the price. I haven't ordered any PPV in a decade.
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Has Elias publicly hinted at wanting out or has he expressed such thoughts privately and Orton has now dropped him in it a little? That tweet to me doesn't look like Orton actually showing an interest in AEW and more just shit stirring among the boys.
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The Shorty G thing isn't great but you can see where they're trying to go with it. They're setting him up as a plucky underdog who'll pull off a surprise IC title win in the future. I'm surprised some of you guys are getting all worked up about it. Now whether it works or not or whether they get bored and forget about it is another matter of course.
Dull show overall and sadly I've been increasingly bored by their shows for quite a while now.
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Just coming online now after watching Smackdown this morning. I knew there'd be a ton of moaning about Kofi's quick loss but I wonder if the 7 second match wasn't due to Lesnar's contract? The thought popped into my head that maybe his contract doesn't require him to wrestle on TV and that this was a compromise between him and the company. "Look, we need you on this Fox show and we'd like to have the title on you for the Velasquez feud, how about wrestling one match but we'll make it quick and painless?"
I think I'm very much an outlier on here, but Lesnar is probably my favourite guy to watch on the roster. He genuinely comes across as a big deal whenever he shows up and because he's not on social media or Ride Along/other backstage stuff, he retains a kayfabe aura of being a legit tough guy and asshole that none of the other heels can even hope to achieve. His matches get shit on here too but give me a reckless and wild and sometimes brutal slugfest over overly choreographed stuff any day of the week.
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Does NXT just not air in Canada now? The Network had a 2 hour block listed, but it's just a goddamn watch along.
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When the limo showed up I was hoping that Vince threw a ton of cash at Jericho to have him show up. Would've been an hilarious dick move.
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So they're calling him King Corbin now. Does that mean that his actual first name is Corbin and that Baron just meant he was the head of a barony?
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Some notes from the Calgary house show last night.
Opener and match of the night was Ricochet vs. Cesaro. Both got loud pops. Cesaro was wearing the skinny pants and running shoes again so I guess that's his new look now and not just "the airline lost his ring gear" like I thought when watching Raw. Both guys work great together and are hopefully bigger stars in a year from now.
Dana Brooke & Tamina vs. Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross - I didn't even know Tamina was still working lately. Has she been on the road the whole time or is this the beginning of a comeback? I feel sorry for the people who get very little screen time and therefore have to walk out in front of a mostly quiet crowd amid hushed tones of "who's that?" Brooke did do some decent work in the match in terms of jawing with the crowd. Allow me just one moment of settledownitis to say that Alexa Bliss has a nice bum.
Viking Raiders vs Lucha Hose Party vs. OC - Decent match, not much to comment on
Robert Roode says he's glad to be back in Canada but pity it's in Calgary. Says Ziggler couldn't be bothered to come. Issues an open challenge and out comes Strowman for the loudest pop so far. This was the second best match of the night, not because of any ring work but just for pure entertainment. Roode did a hilariously ridiculous amount of cowardly stalling before finally locking up. I've always found him a bit dull so his comedy heeling impressed me here. Later, they did a seemingly unnecessary and unexpected spot for a house show where Strowman ran full speed and over the guardrail when Roode moved. Strowman is an absolute giant in person and sweats immensely, just pouring off him at the end. He was probably the star of the show, spending quite a while after the match with the fans signing autographs as he made his way back.
Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch - Both were over, but basically a nothing match. It seemed like they had a hard time getting coordinated with each other which is something I've noticed with Becky. She looks to be scrapping with people rather than working smoothly. Sasha brings in a chair, hits Becky with a weak jab to the stomach and gets the DQ. They tease a chair shot, but Sasha misses and Becky does her submission on her on top of the chair.
After the intermission, we come back to Cedric Alexander vs. Mojo Rawley. A dull match with Rawley in control mostly. Some boring chants broke out. I guess they figure a match like this is a good thing to put on after intermission as everyone gets back to their seats. I find Rawley dull as dishwater but he did a heel spot I've never seen before where he wiped sweat off the backs of his legs and flung it at the crowd which is probably the most memorable thing I've seen him do.
Natalya obviously gets the loudest pop of the night. She beats Lacey Evans who had run down Calgary in pre-taped segment earlier. Brings her (presumably) nieces and nephews into the ring afterwards to celebrate. There was a guy following her the whole time filming - maybe just her personal videographer or possibly the subject of a WWE doc.
Seth Rollins gets another loud pop. Place goes dark for Wyatt's entrance. Everyone's hugely into it - cheers mixed with awe-filled apprehension, but man his entrance took forever. Images flashed across the tron for maybe a full two minutes before he comes out. His new look is impressive in a Slipknot way but it's still the same guy wrestling. He seems to have gained some super powers though as he would no sell the curb stomp and just get right back up. By the way, either the move is very weak or Wyatt just takes it badly. It looks much better on TV with commentary covering for lack of a thud and I guess the shakey-zoom camera thing helps too. Match ends in a DQ after Wyatt doesn't stop choking him while in the ropes. Very anticlimactic ending to the show with the crowd confused and booing. Rollins tries to get his heat back with more curb stomps to keep him down, maybe 5 or 6. Wyatt then recovers to get the mandible claw and the flashing lights and then goes to the back. Rollins, selling the finish, just kinda slinks to the back too clapping some hands as he goes and the show's over. Like I said, bad way to end the show and they should've just put on Natalya to finish on a high. I get that Wyatt (and Sasha) need to be protected but there's better ways of doing it surely.
This was our 4th time attending in recent years and these were the best seats we had. I only looked for tickets a few weeks ago and we ended up with centre ice tickets behind the player's benches for a similar price to what we've paid previously for higher up seats. That was awesome seeing the action up close. I don't know if it's just because it's a house show and they work looser but it was easier to notice a lot of moves not connecting and the cooperation involved in putting on matches. It always makes me wonder how adults could ever have thought this stuff was real back in the day.
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6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
So AOP are a Canadian and a Dutch Albanian. What language were they speaking?
The guy on the left, the Canadian, is speaking Punjabi. The other guy is presumably speaking Albanian (it definitely wasn't Dutch, and had an eastern European sound to it)
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Good to see AOP on TV too. That was a good evil foreigner promo in two different languages.
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Just saw that ad posted on the previous page. I'd imagine it's a safe bet to assume that Fox are pushing hard for WWE to bring back Rock for some shows?
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Any word on Canadian TV for this thing?
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1 hour ago, supremebve said:
This is one of those things that no one ever talks about, but is also one of the more obvious things in the world. Matter of fact, think about who actors were as teenagers, and you'll quickly realize how unnatural these perfect pecs and washboard abs are on most of them. Did your school have a theater class? Was it full of amazingly fit, beautiful people? Or was it full of scrawny, awkward kids without an athletic bone in their body? Now think about how many of the athletic kids in your school actually had pecs and abs when they were teenagers who were actually producing Human Growth Hormone. I played football, and it was mandatory for us to go to the weight room a certian number of times during the offseason, and I think we had one dude on the entire team with a six pack. On a team of big ass, in shape, fitness obsessed kids, I remember one six pack and it is because that kid was doing everything in his power to have a six pack.
Richard Madden, the actor who played Rob Stark, talked about this exact thing earlier this year right down from being a pudgy guy in school to now having to be toned and buff - https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/richard-madden-james-bond
“We’re projecting a very unrealistic body image. I find myself with actor friends – after we’ve done a kind of barely eating, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing thing for these scenes – looking at each other going: ‘We’re just feeding this same shit that we’re against.’” But that’s what they’re told to do, he says. “I’ve done numerous jobs where you’re told to lose weight and get to the gym.” He’s had his fat rolls pinched. He’s been given costumes so restrictive they feel like a corset – he mimes sucking in his tummy and not being able to breathe. “It doesn’t just happen to women, it happens to men all the time as well.”
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I'll always remember the line some wag had online after Randy Orton debuted. WWE were hyping up the third generation thing and in the video package, grandpa Orton said "He's got the looks of George Clooney combined with the wrestling ability of his father" to which some guy posted "more like the looks of his father and the wrestling ability of George Clooney"
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Haha wtf? I didn't even watch that trailer thinking it was just some generic action film, but the mention of D-von got me curious. WTF?
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Roman Reigns and Miss Elizabeth? Kofi Kingston and Ricky Morton? Yeah, that's some good shit.
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August photo challenge for you guys. It's fun to see pictures of wrestlers as kids posing with wrestlers of the time, but we always see the same ones - Bayley with Cena, Orton with Hogan, Rock with Andre, etc. Post some more unusual ones... I wanna see Alexa Bliss with Big Boss Man or Joey Janela with Owen Hart or Cody Rhodes with Doom. The last one is at least very possible. In fact, there must be a ton of Cody with old wrestlers.
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Daniel Bryan is such a hypocrite. His carbon footprint must be huge traveling from city to city just so he can tease us with an announcement. Just tell us in an eco-friendly tweet, Daniel.
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Almost certain she called her a "cow" which is a common insult for a female in that part of the world.
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1 hour ago, NikoBaltimore said:
I believe there were a couple matches on Smackdown for the title where they also suspended the 24/7 rule while it was going on.
Yeah you're right. Elias won the title in a lumberjack match, and it looks like there was a 13 second R-Truth/Drake Maverick match on Raw last month.
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7 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Last night's RAW was the first time in the history of this belt that a RAW or SDL hasn't ended with either R-Truth or Drake Maverick as champion
Which also means Maria will become the first person not named R-Truth or Drake Maverick to hold the title for at least a day
Am I right in thinking last night was the first actual match for the title (not counting the weird "pick up the title" thing at the beginning)?
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That was an astoundingly good Raw actually. Opening with the 24/7 stuff was fun. The gauntlet matches were great apart from Sami's botch. The tag match was really good though I would've preferred some kind of build to the OC being involved in the titles. I thought it would drop off for the final hour but who knew a segment starting with Rollins and Ziggler could lead to so much entertaining mayhem?
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I've been watching the Prime Suspect series. Most of you are probably aware of it but for those who aren't, it's a series of 90s British police dramas (Americans would likely refer to them as TV movies) starring Helen Mirren. The first couple of them have had appearances from Tom Wilkinson, Colin Salmon, Zoe Wanamaker and a young Ralph Fiennes.
However Prime Suspect 3 has a ton of familiar faces.
David Thewlis
Ciaran Hinds
Mark Strong
Peter Capaldi
Jonny Lee Miller
Danny Dyer
and James Frain
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No wait...
I moistly lurk from the shower. Moistly.
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AEW Dynamite - 10/23/2019
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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To Nash's point, it also doesn't help that it's the boss against his sworn enemy at the PPV, and yet the sworn enemy has provided a theme song for the event. Minor detail but still.