twiztor
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i felt the main story was good for what they were intending to do. Although now i can't think of it without thinking "Flashpoint: Barry Allen fails at everything he tries to do" due to somebody posting something along those lines back when it was coming out.
Some of the minis were awesome (Frankenstein was my fave) and some were terrible. Very uneven i'd say. But they definitely helped flesh out the event and made me enjoy the whole thing a bit more.
that being said, i think the event gets more hate than it deserves due to it ending the DCU as we knew it. and rightfully so.
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The division would be much better off if Benavidez wins the rematch, since he's a lot more exciting of a fighter. It's not so much that the FLW division itself is boring that people fail to realize, it's the champ is boring and as figure head for the division what your opinion of a division overall is usually based on who the champ is.
this is true. the group i watched the last event at was super excited after the Benevidez match. DJ gets an eye roll.
A title changing hands doesn't change that fact that many lower level promotions still aren't running flyweight fights at pace to produce quality talent. The hope was a few years ago that places like Shooto (and Shooto Brazil by proxy) and Tachi Palace would churn out guys to be at the top. But it turns out that many guys who had several flyweight fights already weren't that good (ex. Jussier Formiga, Urushitani). Because of that, the guys who aren't burning down the house at bantamweight are going to smash the gatekeepers to earn their way into the top ten. If Scott Jorgensen ran all over Ian McCall to earn a title shot, are you excited to see him fight Benavidez (or DJ)? A Benavidez vs. Jorgensen co-main ain't selling no PPVs if a legit headlining fight fell out. Hell, that fight might do average WEC Versus numbers on Fox Sports 1 as a main event.
this is what i was getting at, but put much more eloquently than i did.
i know the plan was to use Flyweight to expand to other areas (Asia/Mexico) but they should speed up the process. With how shallow and small (pun intended this time) the division is, it is already stale. If Johnson beats Beneviez in November (again), what do they do next?
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can we say the Flyweight experiment failed yet? DJ's already beaten all 3 possible opponents for him, and not a single person is excited to watch him fight.
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i love Frank Dux stories. one of my good friends still claims Dux is the best fighter of all time and sees Bloodsport as the gospel.
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yeah, i have no idea who G Gordon Godfrey is, and i was like
WTF is he doing on Apokolips?
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i'm not super hyped up over these movies but will no doubt watch them in theater and buy them on blu-ray. haven't read much of the novels/comics/anything else.
that being said,
Shadows of the Empire was an awesome book and video game. i'd support this as a movie.
i read some other book (can't remember the name ATM) that was about some Jedi dude on the Wookiee planet when Order66 hit that was pretty rad too.
also, is it wrong to hope for Disney to release the Holiday Special on Blu-Ray so i can really complete my collection?
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the wife and i have watched both seasons of Young Justice in the last couple of weeks. neither of us watched it until now. i have a few thoughts:
-this show made me invested in characters i previously never cared about: Blue Beetle (Reyes), Static Shock, Superboy. and made me really interested in others (Lagoon Boy, in particular).
-the Roy Harper/Red Arrow/Arsenal stuff was my favorite angle. couldn't get enough of it, and hoped for more Harper-Harper interaction.
-Wonder Girl was severely underused. she barely even has a character outside of the WW symbol.
-i can only assume that LongShadow was a stand-in for Apache Chief, which i highly support. We need more SuperFriends in our Justice League.
-why did this show have to end? i thought it started off slowly but liked it from the get-go. my wife didn't care for it at first but was hooked after around 6-7 episodes.
-what the fuck? why did they kill Wally? i was pissed and my wife cried.
in other views, it's a better way to go than he did in the comics.
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there was a local MMA show here this weekend. i got there in time to see the 2 main events (was actually going for the after-show concert, but was glad i got to see as much as i did). first went to a 5-round decision and was fairly uneventful. the 2nd ended in the first after an armbar from the guard.
after the main event, i heard numerous people complaining that they only threw a couple punches and then "started hugging on the ground". one person actually was arguing that the person on top won, because the other guy was "just laying on the ground". this was someone that PAID to go to the show. made me shake my head, so i had to share.
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Wait until someone makes another McMahons = the Lannisters comparison and spoils what happened to _____ in the next book.Someone mentions Breaking Bad plot shit in this thread one more time and I'm going to do something drastic.
Wanna hear a WWE / Star Wars comparison?
only if it doesn't spoil "Attack of the Clones" for me.
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There's an oblique reference it in the 11/21/94 Observer:
It absolutely aired, but it was just a just a quick little 1:00 piece on Superstars. I cant remember WHY precisely it aired, maybe just a generic personality profile thing or something, but I remember recognizing Heath as Vampire Warrior from USWA.here's a quickie:In October 1994, Luna Vachon and David "Gangrel/Vampire Warrior" Heath were married. i keep running across references to this appearing on WWF tv, but it's always referred to in a vague sense, never a date or show listed. Any ideas if this actually aired and when?
There's a lot of Superstars episodes up on Dailymotion, but I haven't been able to locate any clips of this in particular from Nov 1994 episodes.Dave Heath, who married Luna Vachon, clips of which aired on WWF television last week, debuted as The Vampire, dressed up with hair like Vachon but didn't get over. He also worked as a jobber Black Phantom on the same tapings.
watched WWF Superstars from 11/5, 11/12, and 11/19 and Wrestling Challenge from 11/6, 11/13, and 11/20.
finally, while watching WWF Action Zone on 11/6, cohost Todd Pettengill mentions that he recapped Luna's wedding to a vampire yesterday on WWF Mania.
unfortunately, i can't find any WWF Mania episodes online anywhere, so if anyone runs across the 11/5/94 episode of WWF Mania, please let me know.
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I think, to refer to the discussion awhile back, that WWE has the talent for a brand split, but for whatever reason, they have almost no interest in booking the midcard in a fashion other than having really awesome guys that the crowd wants to get behind trade wins for months on end until no one cares about them.
I think that the talent is there to sustain one main event feud, a tag team feud or two, and three or four midcard feuds per show. Given the chance, I think the crowd would get behind a lot of guys that aren't getting steady enough pushes right now.
this is it. the fans aren't given a reason to care, and then the wrestlers are punished because the fans don't care about them.
i'm not sure at what point it happened, but sometime in the last 10 years, the midcard became disposable. Outside of the main event roles, any wrestler can be plugged into any open slot on the roster with very few changes (if any) made. Nobody's feuding with anyone over anything, guys are just wrestling for no real reason. Apathy breeds apathy.
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Marc Andreyko will Batwoman's new writer starting with #25 which pisses me off as Williams and Blackman aren't even being allowed to finish their last story. It seems DC wants to force Batwoman into the Batfamily despite her little connection to any of the characters as well. Its all so disappointing.
i don't even read Batwoman regularly, but a team should be allowed to finish its story, especially if it's already completed or near it. And doubly so since the team said they'd be able to have everything tied up nicely.
honestly, i wondered how long they'd be able to keep Batwoman away from the Batfam. the "Bat-" in her name and the fact that she operates in Gotham practically dictate that she team up with the rest at some point.
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Read the Death of Superman. It was...a fight. Its not bad or anything, but it didn't come off like the pic end to the Man of Steel that I think they wanted it to be. It was a bit bloated, being a least 3-4 issues longer than necessary, while the actual fight with Doomsday is nothing amazing. You never really get to learn anything about Doomsday either, and the build to the encounter itself was just kind of there. Its decent, but not a particularly great story. I can't help, but feel it could have all been done better. It felt very much more like the beginning of something rather than the end which makes the bloated length a little worse.
It is. The fight and death are merely a lead in to "Funeral For A Friend" and "Reign of the Supermen" which are both fantastic.
this. i always found "Funeral for a Friend" to be the real shining point.
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I don't know why people aren't using the Twister as a finish either, loads of neat ways of hooking that up.
the twister is a variation of the Regal Stretch. or, possibly, the other way around.
and the anaconda choke is my favorite of the d'arce style chokes. the rolling of it would be fantastic in a prowres setting.
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He played him like Frank Gorshin.
holy shit yes. this explains my affinity towards the character 100%. mystery solved.and now, i just wish that a Batman vs. Repo Man comic could surface somewhere.
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just watched Regal vs Luger from 8/31/96 where Regal wins the tv title. i was pleasantly surprised by how good the match was.
also, on i think Worldwide in early '98, was Mysterio vs Kidman vs Psychosis in what remains as the only triple countout match i've seen, which i loved as a younger lad.
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Batman, Incorporated (Vol. 2) #11 name of the story is Interlude: A Bird in the Hand and it’s a fitting name taking a break from that main story to return to Batman of Japan. This wasn’t written by Grant Morrison but by the regular artist on this volume of the title, Chris Burnham. A decent story but I’d much rather have had the story carry on where the last issue left off.
yeah, the story was decent enough but i also would've rather had the story continue, even if the issue was a month or so late.
but this reminds me that i need to read the Batman Inc. Special that came out last week.
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i always loved the Repo Man as a kid. i'm desperately waiting for "son of Repo Man" to be an actual gimmick. i'd even start watching Raw again if that happened.
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ah hell. i was looking forward to that fight.
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yeah, to hell with oversaturation as far as i'm concerned as well. If it has the UFC name on it, i'm probably watching it. and i go out of my way to watch OneFC and WSOF as well, so the more the merrier.
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- Closed off potential revenue stream with the closing of the VOD service. I don't directly blame Hogan/Bischoff for this other than it was probably a cost cutting measure but it's a step backwards nonetheless. Always thought they should've bought video libraries that WWE didn't own like Continental, Deep South, Portland, whatever Memphis they could get, etc. Even more recent stuff like McManus' WWA, Wildside, Windy City and the various non-porn women's promotions. Maybe even license current AAA or NJPW footage for English commentary.
i don't know how much older stuff like Portland would translate to anything for TNA. WWE could use it, but i feel like TNA wouldn't really have a valid reason or way to use it.
As far as the WWA stuff from 2002 or whatever goes, absolutely. There was some really good stuff happening there, plus a lot of it was guys that at some point have worked for TNA. Indy NWA promotions would also be helpful, whether it be using it to introduce new guys or fill out dvds, or just offering videos you haven't seen before.
And i still can't believe someone hasn't gotten ahold of stuff like the Super J Cup, or J-Crown, and dubbed it in English. Hell, King of the Death Match would sell a million copies.
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Sonnen/Evans and Sonnen/Davis are both stinkers of fights and i don't really have any inclination to see either one.
and i thought sonnen and/or evans were moving to middleweight?
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so i just watched Henderson/Pettis 1 for the first time (travesty, i know). It absolutely lives up to all the hype given it and is, off the top of my head, the best 5 round fight i've ever seen. i don't expect the rematch to live up to those high standards, but it should be a fantastic fight. can't wait for saturday.
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the Condit/Kampmann fight was a classic. it continued to get better as it went on, and you could just sit back and watch Condit get more and more comfortable while dealing more and more damage. THIS is the reason main events are 5 rounds. It would've been a shame to see this end as a 3 round decision.
didn't notice beforehand that the Gastelum fight was at Welterweight. Everybody else is correct, he IS a beast.
Perez/Mizugaki was my personal FOTN. i'm not a huge fan of the feather- and underweights, but fights like this make them totally worthwhile.
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UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson (9/21/2013) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Air Canada Centre)
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controversial decision, to say the least. i had Gus 48-47.
i'd like to see Jones face Glover, Gus gets a high profile fight. With a win, the rematch is next in line. best of both worlds.