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LOVED his gimmick as European Champion as being announced from a different city in Europe each appearance. his 2003-2004 run in TNA was surprisingly good, too. He comes in, cuts what is now the standard "i'm going to show [the previous company i worked for] that they didn't know what they had" promo. He seemed motivated in his matches to prove that.
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AEW TV - 3/13 - 3/19/2024 - Takin' Care of Business
twiztor replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
i just looked her up. i remember hearing about the Bayley superfan, but have never watched NXT so didn't view it firsthand. Izzy Moreno is now 16 and made her debut a few months back at Mission Pro Wrestling (run by Thunder Rosa). so that's.... pretty awesome actually. OTOH, former Raw Tag Team Champion Nicholas Cone is also 16. based on a recent picture online, i would not assume he is pursuing an in-ring career. -
her Secret 6 run is fantastic, isn't it? you framing her upcoming X-Men stint as relative to that could not excite me more. [Reader, you make your own determination if i mean that in a sexual or non-sexual way]
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i just want to pop in here and point out that the 80s Transformers and GI Joe cartoons are legitimately good. they're not the fucking Sopranos, or Game of Thrones, or what have you, but for 80s kids TV, animated or not, they are pillars of quality. Their contemporaries: He-Man, Thundercats, MASK, GoBots, et. all., are all objectively of lower quality, but Transformers and GI Joe i found hold up reasonably well for what they are. source: i love cartoons (you may remember my 'Help me find all the cartoons' thread from a few years ago) and finished rewatching those two series a year or two back.
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Napoleon is awesome. been a fan since he did the humongous PRIDE NEVER DIE videos. i even ordered his new tshirt a week or two ago. i never thought i'd be someone who has a "favorite youtuber", but here i am. good luck and speedy recover to Coleman.
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did he say a timeframe for this report? yearly? monthly?
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i was really hoping that i could track down Enos getting a TV title shot sometime in the near future after this match, but alas.... to make up for it, they do run back the Enos/Flynn match on a February Nitro, so you have that to look forward to! Enos DOES eventually get a shot at the US Title, but it's on WCW Saturday Night about a year from this point. Based on the champ at that point, it's probably a pretty good match, but unfortunately, it's also Enos' last for WCW. oh, sorry. Spoiler alert! but then again, with the state of 1999 WCW, maybe that doesn't signify anything....
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JoJo Wood goes out with a good win, in a fight i had her behind in. Almabayev decimating Vergara. this kid is gonna do big things. Despaigne proving all the hype correct. a KO while. moving. backward. Pereira looked like a fucking champ. and after a walkout dance too! awesome beginning!
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Mercedes will not be as big a deal as she could be as long as AEW sticks to its "one women's match per show" mandate. i hope this is the incentive they need to get rid of the rigidity and be able to mix things up.
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Action Figures, Statues, Collectibles!
twiztor replied to The Unholy Dragon's topic in READING & WRITING
Blink is on my radar, and i am waiting for the right price. i'm also looking at some other figures to complement the set, even if they're not really AoA figures- obviously need a Mr. Sinister. there's a nice black suit/mohawk Storm that i think fits as well. Keeping an eye out for a Gambit that thematically fits as well, but that is proving more challenging. -
Action Figures, Statues, Collectibles!
twiztor replied to The Unholy Dragon's topic in READING & WRITING
you guys were no help at all, and my impulses won out over my self control. that said, i did score quite a good deal to get 75% of these figures. the rest were all at or near market value, so i still spent more than i should have, but what can you do ..... -
quoting you in lieu of tagging, since that always seems hit-or-miss for me. Hoping this birthday is an awesome one for you! I know you've been going through some stuff lately, but today is YOUR DAY set set it to the side to celebrate!! You're a good dude and we are all blessed with your presence here on the board. The match we never got to see: and what kind of Bday wish would it be if i didn't say: "FUCK HUL K HOGAN!"
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more so than that, the site was sold and the entire staff was laid off. BE had a big hand in bringing light to the anti-trust lawsuit against the UFC, as well as exposing a lot of ONE's questionable financials. i didn't visit the site often, but their work will be missed. Hope the staff can find new places to ply their trade.
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in lieu of bringing Kane/Glen Jacobs back, they could always put Doc Gallows back under the fake Kane mask/wig. OTOH, it would be really funny if Kevin Nash made a one-off appearance as Fake Kane.
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yeah, the way i've always heard it was that Norton knew he had a damn good place in NJPW and would make WCW appearances around that. So he was never likely to get a sustained push, but it also lead to him being pretty protected from losses. seems a fair enough trade off.
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cagematch lists Eddy going to Japan for just a single match: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Black Tiger & Chris Jericho (9/23/98 @ Yokohama) if Chavo had an injury, it must have been pretty minor- you can expect to see him on the next Nitro.
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and, if i'm remembering the story correctly, someone (i think Jericho?) convinced Juvi to put it on his tights as a rib
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question to kick the month off: i just started 2005 in my TNA/ROH watch. i think the ROH/CZW feud mainly takes place in 2006. Which (if any) CZW shows do i need to watch to get the full effect? And are there any other promotions/shows that i should watch due to a strong correlation? edit: try to keep this as spoiler-free as possible, please.
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i fully agree with your larger point, but one of my favorite things about wrestling is all of those short-lived promotions. i have watched all of those "we're going to be the new National #2" (except Wrestlelicious) and have enjoyed each of them to some extent. Whether that be for their off-the-wall ideas, their up-and-coming talent, their familiar talent in new takes, or even their 'back to the roots' ideas, i appreciated them all.
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considering there's a monthly comic being published right now called "the Resurrection of Magneto", i'm going to go ahead and assume that no, he won't stay dead. i haven't read it yet (waiting for the Fall of X stories to all conclude) but that specific point made me laugh.
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first things first. Garza's last singles win in WCW was 12/6/97 Worldwide, vs. Hector Guerrero. He actually got a number of singles wins that year, even beating Alex Wright (!) and Scott Hall (ok, this one sounds good on paper but was more like the Razor/Kid angle a few years prior). He also teamed with Juvi a few times, and they usually won. So if they had a storyline coming into this match that was Juvi wanted to give his former partner a shot at the gold, it would have made sense. OR, if they had a storyline where babyface Juvi was giving title shots to all of the "deserving" guys that didn't get a chance when Jericho was the champ, that would have made for a series of good matches on TV without having to do much for each individual one. Of course, we did neither and just had a match for the match's sake. yes. yes it is. Silver King, on the other hand, DID get a CW title shot against Jericho (7/18/98 Saturday Night) which he of course lost. His last singles win was 6/27/98 Worldwide, against Lorenzo. i hope you weren't fooled by King's stocky physique. Speaking of Lorenzo, he only had 6 WCW appearances (7 if the "Johnny Lorenzo" in a '94 tag match vs. Nasty Boys was him), but 2 of those are wins. 11/9/97 vs. Tim Cheeks, and 7/19/98 Worldwide vs. Damien. Not good enough for a Cagematch profile apparently. since i'm spiraling down this rabbit hole, Damien has one singles win (over Ciclope). Ciclope got one singles win (over Shiima Nobunaga). Shiima later avenged that loss, HIS only singles win. I think that must put those two at the bottom of the barrel. Jericho's Spinal Tap tribute was, indeed, fantastic. Konnan's salad tossing line continues for a HELL OF A LOT longer than you might think. IIRC he will still use it with the Filthy Animals, which isn't until mid/late '99.
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The Wall Street Journal Vince McMahon Thread.
twiztor replied to Kang's topic in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
if you think TOO much about it, Dr. Frankenstein creating a monster out of dead bodies is also potentially/kinda/sorta human trafficking. and once you've reanimated dead flesh, is it even necrophilia anymore? Can a formerly deceased human give consent? If the reanimated body is a combination of multiple cadavers, can the brain/mouth give consent if the "other" part isn't originally theirs? Our society does not have enough rights protections for the undead. -
MMA Live Event Discussion Thread, Winter 2024
twiztor replied to Elsalvajeloco's topic in BOXING & MMA
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MMA Live Event Discussion Thread, Winter 2024
twiztor replied to Elsalvajeloco's topic in BOXING & MMA
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yeah, that was a lot of stuff that i didn't love. Sabretooth/Sabretooth & the Exiles was unnecessary. i haven't read the X-Force or Wolverine titles. but i LOVED Marauders. and Immortal X-Men/Sins of Sinister. and X-Men Red was pretty great too. i'm really curious what, if anything, happens with Arakko and her mutants. i was just thinking the same thing. like, how do you have this huge new status quo, literally world changing type thing, and then revert to good mutants vs. bad mutants? i don't see that happening, so there's got to be some new angle they're going with. i think after this big climax i'll probably take a couple years off from the X-Men, let it shake itself out, and then play catch-up.