SirSmUgly
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Legit questions: just who in the entire flick-flack takes the belt from Lesnar? When does it happen?
Obviously The Undertaker in his retirement match at WM 32
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Alright, let's do Bryan/Brock before Bryan kills himself now!
If Reigns wins anyway somehow, I will be so bummed.
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I guess Rusev needed to get used to losing. All downhill from here.
By next March he'll have the Titus O'Neill role of "He's having really good sub-10 minutes on Superstars guys!"
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Puro style is slightly different to me. Most Puro I've seen has it so that, for example, I might not beat you with my head-drop finisher, but I will do enough damage that the regular ol' right hook I land after you kick out of it will put you down for three. It's more like an "accumulated damage" thing than a "tiered finisher" thing; I guess more modern NJPW leans more toward the tiered finisher idea I'm talking about, though, and some finisher spamming that guys like Tanahashi do is really reminiscent of WWE-style use of finishers.
I could be wrong, though, not being nearly as much of a Puro follower than many people here.
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WWE's insistence on having only finishers and flash pins win matches has led to finisher kickouts to get convincing near falls, so they should just go with my idea (and probably the idea of lots of other people who have thought about this) and basically have tiered finishers.
For example, using Paige:
Paige Turner ---> beats mid-level wrestlers consistently, never beats upper-level wrestlers unless she spams like three of them in a row.
Scorpion Crosslock -----> gets submissions on mid-level wrestlers consistently, gets submissions on upper-level wrestlers only sometimes and may take multiple applications to do so
Rampaige -----> Beats everyone and is kicked out of only rarely when high-level opponent's adrenaline is going due to big show excitement (like at WM).
This way, Paige can get wins with the first two moves fairly regularly so that when someone kicks out, it's more of a surprise.
Signature moves should get more pinfalls and each wrestler should have three of them on top of their one or two finishers.
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Obviously no one would ever actually riot. You're not going to see a riot with an arena or stadium show for the WWE.
We know that because we're reasonably intelligent creatures, but trying telling some of these 47-year-old juice box drinkers.
HEY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH DRINKING A JUICE BOX EVEN IF YOU'RE AN ADULT?!?!
THEY ARE REFRESHING!
ECTO COOLER 4-LYFE!
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I think the most interesting thing to come out of this years March Madness is the unabashed hatred that people have for Bad Luck Fale. It's astounding. Can we get Davey vs. Fale for next years March Madness?
Whoa whoa whoa, buddy. I don't dislike Fale that much.
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I saw this thread pop back up and was hoping the people running the Network got around to putting up the shows through about 1998.
No dice.
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As someone who died about a
hundredthousandhundred thousand times playing Land of the Livid Dead on Rayman Origins just a few days ago in order to beat it, I'll be picking up Bloodborne, getting frustrated, and feeling accomplished and only slightly resentful once I beat it. -
Maybe Roman was inspired by the Barrett vs the playing field match.
We'll know if Reigns is inspired by Barrett if he wins the belt and then immediately gets injured for six months.
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Is Vince secretly trying to make Roman Reigns look like a doofus? I genuinely feel bad for Reigns at this point. I guess that's one way to get him over as a sympathetic babyface - make him act like a total moron so everyone feels bad for him.
I popped in here because I wanted to see reactions to the go-home show. Honestly, reading the RAW threads on DVDVR are a billion times better than watching RAW, something I haven't done since Bryan got hurt last year.
I am hoping that the crowd turns on WM and makes it completely entertaining. That sounds like a show that I'll watch the week after just to see everyone share their loathing for it.
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I actually think Rusev could do something with Fale. His selling, especially over time is that good.
EDIT: also, in true march madness fashion, I'm finding the NJPW supporters more annoying with their hard sell than the Rusev supporters, so I'm going for Rusev.
To paraphrase another great Russia-affiliated person, the illusion which exalts Rusev is dearer to Matt D than ten thousand truths about how great Nakamura is.
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I have to say that even though I voted for Nak, I would be delighted with Rusev winning. Actually, I would have been happy with Zayn or Cavernario winning too (on the latter, I trust the lucha fans here to have good taste in wrestlers of that style and would have been okay if he had won). This has been the best final four ever: Three guys I actively like, one whose work I respect, no shitty-ass CM Punks gumming up the works and being a threat to win, etc.
It's been a pleasure, ladies and gentlemen.
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Voting Nakamura. When it comes down to it, I'd rather watch all of Nakamura's last year than Rusev's.
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Goldust is a great idea. I was trying to think of guys that are solid in ring, but that could use a trip down to refine their character work ala Tyson Kidd, too. Maybe Erick Rowan could go back down and work Owens for a bit?
I'm a Catahoula Leopard type of man myself.
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*Because if all he does it just smoke fools, he won't be a heel for long. Brock has the best heel promo on the planet at his back and he's just barely not a face right now.
Part of that though is that WWE has fucked up Reigns' push so badly. If it were Lesnar/Bryan, Brock would be the most massively over heel in the company.
Oh no, not Reigns/Bryan/Lesnar talk in our sweet little NXT thread. I've stopped watching any current WWE shows except for NXT and only sweep through the RAW/WM threads when bored; I think I got my fill talking about it during DVDVR March Madness.
Instead, let's discuss more mid-level face opponent options for Kevin Owens. Or puppies!
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Bought a bunch of PS1 games for my Vita. Good times.
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Bastion is on Vita now and part of the Spring Fever sale, and I am sorely tempted to buy it. I played it from a Humble Bundle on PC and came in with no expectations, and it became one of my favorite games last gen.
By the way, I've said it before, but more people in general should get Vitas. It is my favorite handheld ever by a looooooong margin.
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Nintendo's strategy is "withered technology," pioneered by Gunpei Yokoi. They like to stay behind in tech a bit and to try and max out slightly older tech. They'll never compete with Sony or Microsoft on specs.
Frankly, I think competing directly would be death for them anyway because the ship has sailed for Nintendo's brand as a place to get the type of third-party killer apps that are favored in the West.
I assume that Nintendo is going to use their healthy parts of their business (handhelds) and their foray into mobile to try and drive console sales. Cross-play, cross-buy, remote play, unified account system, something like XBL or PSN with a yearly sub (Sony prints money with PSN, for example) except that rewards you for how many Nintendo consoles/mobile products/Amiibos that you have linked to your account with coins or whatever Club Nintendo-like thing they want to do.
I also assume that, using withered tech strategies, they'll have something still sub-PS4 specs wise, but that they can put on the market for something like Gamecube's launch MSRP (which was $199 U.S.). This will make it a viable Nintendo box where I finally will feel like it's worth the money to play the four or five Nintendo IPs that I want to play (for me, Starfox, Smash, Kart, DKC, non-Canvas Curse-style Kirby off the top of my head). On top of it, if I have a 3DS or if I play their F2P mobile stuff, I find it even more worthwhile to have a NX because now I get cross-play and buy, I can just do remote play off the 3DS (or whatever the next handheld is after the 3DS) instead of being stuck with the shittiest controller alive on the WiiU to get the same function, whatever I play on handheld or mobile might earn me coins to buy NX downloads, etc.
Plus, considering Nintendo's profitable move toward making toys with Amiibos and their forays into QOL products, it's pretty clear that they understand that they simply can't compete directly in the home console market right now with the big boys. They're branching out and diversifying their product line while also trying to get that 20M-25M of home console buyers they'll need worldwide to make the type of profit with the NX that they want to make.
That is my (somewhat) educated guess.
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Leaning Zayn, but have to think about this.
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Yeah, instead of playing solely to the hard camera, he did a good job of working the crowd and interacting with the ref. I think he does a lot of little things right (I also like his facial expressions, which I think are good, and what little stalling he does is usually well-worked; he should do more of it). Good call, RandomAct.
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Grumpy old man Undertaker dishing out soupbones, bitching about the young'uns coming into his yard like they own the damn place, and ditching Big Show in the desert with no water just to teach him some character > Zombie Wild West Undertaker who draws power from the souls trapped in his demon-spawned urn and puts defeated wrestlers in bodybags.
Just barely, man, but it's true.
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It's a crime that big-man workers only become really good right as they pass their physical peaks a lot of the time. 'Taker, Mark Henry, Big Show...it's a bummer, man.
If I read this thread the week after the show and it turns out that Biker Taker shows up dishing out soupbones and beating up and kidnapping Bray before stranding him in the desert somewhere, I'm definitely going to hit up the replay to see it.
KEEP ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN'
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You say that like it still wasn't a better match than Cena/Rock.
It wasn't.
Yeah, it was not. They forgot the key stipulation of the match about three minutes in and had a total borefest in every way.
Looks like they're setting up Mark Henry as Reigns's first guy to feud with after winning the gold, which is a sight better than Show or Kane. I think Henry can get some real heat on himself and get Reigns over on his comebacks.
MARCH 2015 WRESTLING DISCUSSION
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Moral of the story: Booker T is awesome and so is Rikishi.