SirSmUgly
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Go to the Chicago area dammit!
They could always...come to....Idaho....
Fuck.
Never mind...
If they ever come to Seattle, I will buy you a ticket myself if you supply the trans and drive/bus/Amtrak(?) on over. Poor guy.
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Watching Charlotte handcuff Vince Russo at the GAB 2000 might have been one of the retroactively weridest things I've ever seen in wrestling.
Vince Russo yelling YOU BITCH! repeatedly at young Charlotte after she did it was uncomfortable.
Also, young Reid was involved, which was sobering.
I'm kinda sorry that I saw your post and watched that whole thing.
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This episode of NXT really worked for me. I highly enjoyed it.
I know that smarter and more insightful people than me have mentioned this, but doing one hour a week really helps this show out because when people wrestle, it feels special. One might go two, three, maybe even four weeks between seeing a favorite wrestler. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that, and when they do show up, you get amped.
Another evident thing people talk about is how no one buys false finishes anymore unless the match is a WWE-main-event-style finisher-spammer. I thought about that as Itami kicked out of Breeze's Supermodel Kick. I wish they would set up a tiered system where signature moves can take out mid- and lower-carders and occasionally take out an upper-carder. If Breeze had beaten Adam Rose with the Supermodel Kick last week, I would have been able to buy it as a potential finish instead of waiting for the kickout.
Anyway, this was the best Itami/Breeze match so far. They have wonderful chemistry together.
Alex Riley should never be a heel again. Terrible heel, but cut a hell of a fired-up white meat babyface promo tonight. If he's going to use the Blockbuster, maybe someone in the back who is a Boondocks fan will successfully get it renamed "Riley Wuz Here."
Big Cass saying "Fuck it, we're winning this thing" might have been my favorite part of the night. Those guys have their characters down pat in the ring. Enzo talks shit, dances around, and then gets his ass kicked until the big man takes over and bails him out.
I thought some of Alexa Bliss's higher-end stuff looked a bit off, but other stuff she did looked fluid. Carmella was kinda lost on offense sometimes, I thought, but she's learning and was fine for where she's at right now. She should definitely amp up the dirty moves, though, as a shitheaded Jersey girl who fights dirty in alleyways for fun after she's off her hairdressing gig. More eye pokes, eye rakes, back rakes, crotch kicks, and pulling faces around by the nose, please.
EDIT: Oh yeah, that dumb Geico bit by Enzo and Cass had me laughing. It was the right mixture of corny, yet funny.
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Alpha Protocol 2!
I'm pretty sure we could just pool together our pocket money and buy Sega so that we could get this made.
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This is REALLY hard. I mean, I enjoy Gulak more on a preference level, I think, but I think you could argue that Ziggler has been the hero of the undercard. He had the Cesaro matches (loved the 2/3 falls, even though it's not a match everyone loves), the Harper matches, the great work in the 5v5 at SurSer, etc. I mean, he is really, really flawed in some ways, but he stealthily had a TON of work I really loved, and I typically don't enjoy him that much.
Gulak has that match with Timothy Thatcher from just at the beginning of the voting period that I really liked, and I have seen him in enjoyable stuff here and there all year. However, probably because of easier access, I've just seen a ton of Ziggler last year that I really genuinely enjoyed and would put up as "match of the card" stuff. Oh man, I'm voting Ziggler with some reservations.
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Look, Honma got a fun match out of Bad Luck Fale, and that dude sucks.
I think this is important to consider.
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Harper had those tags against the Usos that are my favorite traditional tag matches in YEARS from this company and also he tried to murder Dolph Ziggler on a few occasions and did a damn fine job of entertaining me along the way. Harper is awesome and I will vote for him as long as I can come up with reasoning for it.
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Honma had a ton of matches against the other top New Japan guys that were really good. I enjoy Brock a ton, but Honma has the amount of good matches to beat him here.
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Neither of these guys had a particularly good year, but Ambrose has the Shield/Evolution tags and is also better in general than Balor.
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I'm voting Mastiff here because what little I watched of him for this tournament was better than another Seth Rollins segment leading to a match where he is not very good on offense.
Rollins needs a) another year in the mid-to-upper midcard and b) to be a face.
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Never liked Drew Galloway except for when he would kill himself bumping like mad in some of those 3MB matches. Otherwise, I never got the hype around him and can't remember one singles match that I enjoyed that included him.
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HHH being a bigot in that angle wasn't the issue so much as having him proven right by beating Booker cleanly was. Can't do that type of angle and then have the face lose without the aesop being broken completely.
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The Rock went on Opie and Anthony years ago. One of the guys they had in studio ran a web site that had racist jokes about the Rock. Something like because the Rock is half black and half Samoan he doesn't know whether to eat or steal. Rock said I'm not staying with this guy here. Opie and Anthony backed him and the Rock walked. Some people just don't like being on the receiving end of racially disparaging remarks.
I understand that. The difference is that this dude in your example was just an asshole telling shitty bigoted jokes, not a guy who is playing a bad guy shithead character specifically on television.
I mean, I don't mean to downplay people that are uncomfortable with a character being bigoted, but since bad people are bigoted in real life all the time, I think it ends up reinforcing that Heyman's character is not to be cheered for more than anything. Other viewers have their own baggage they bring to the broadcast and may construe it more negatively, but that's on them and not on the character.
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Bad guys hold vile beliefs in all sorts of media; I'm not sure why wrestling should be different. I suppose that an argument is that the audience might actually not see those beliefs as bad things, but you could make the argument that any audience could misconstrue or find strength in the ideas or words of someone who is supposed to be a bad guy no matter the form of media or art.
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I like Titus! I think he'd be a lot better off if they had never broken the PTPs up, though.
I watched Titus in person this year. I think it was vs. Big E (who I also like) for a Superstars taping and it was quite fun. Titus is very charismatic and he has the bark and other little things to keep the crowd. But obviously he wasn't going to win this.
I should have went to bat for Big E being in this tourney. Dude is probably the most criminally underutilized guy on the main roster, and that is saying something.
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Rusev had an amazing year in-ring, more I think about it. Those Big E sprints were some of the best stuff WWE did all last year in particular.
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I imagine it's different for kids.
Yeah, I was just going to say that maybe it's not WWE; maybe it's just that as a kid, I paid way closer attention to dates and stuff.
Heck, I can still tell you kayfabe heights and weights (Razor Ramon: 6'7, 287; Undertaker: 6'10 1/2, 328) that for whatever reason, I remembered as a kid, but no way I could do that now. It's just one of those "heightened awareness" things from being young.
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I'll admit I'm a little baffled by this one.
Would Rush be winning by 3? Would Hechicero? Virus? Is it just that the UG/Atlantis was the #1 watched lucha match last year by everyone?
New Japan popularity backlash?
Not that I don't personally see the arguments against Okada or anything (even though, full disclosure, I voted for him), but when things get hype online, backlash soon follows.
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A-Tex Corporation.
Yeah, Gary Hart as their manager is really what they need, but then again, "get Gary Hart to manage" is one of my obviously now-useless ideas that I still can't just let go. Heck, Gary Hart had me happy to see Al Perez on screen simply because it meant, "Hey, more Gary Hart!"
Maybe WWE can invest in a Gary Hart hologram that they can use with some of their lesser talkers.
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I think the story on Luger is that his contract had just expired and the office simply fucked up on re-signing him.
Those Billionaire Ted skits are terrible. Making fun of someone's mental illness in particular is uncalled for.
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If I hadn't already voted for Brock then Smelly McUgly would have certainly swayed me that way.
Not quite sure why calling out someone who lives to bash Bryan fans for being Bryan fans would cause you to vote for Brock, but your vote, your business.
Personally, I am fine with either of these guys moving on. They both entertain me immensely.
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They're probably fine in Tennessee. It's not a state that might recognize their buying of a house and living together as proof of a common-law marriage.
However, it depends on each individual state's laws: re common-law marriages and community property, and even if they are just cohabitating, there of course can still be legal proceedings when deciding what to do with a property after the end of a relationship.
Still, TMZ is wrong to insinuate that buying a house without being married is significantly more risky for either party than if they did it while married. Basically, if you buy a house with someone else and it doesn't work out, if you can't agree on how to deal with the property after the relationship dissolves, you'll have issues no matter the context.
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I'd agree but I thought they hammed it up too much when the ref was down for seemingly 5 minutes and Sami struggled with his conscience for most of that time. Otherwise, it was excellent.
I totally understand that criticism. Personally, it worked for me since Sami struggling with his conscience was a key part of the story of that character/match and because on a scale of Lance Storm to Shawn Michaels, the ham factor of the acting was only about a "Triple H when he's seething mad," which is fine for me when it comes to pro wrestling.
I also forgot to mention that the end with Owens coming back out and starting that feud was also perfectly done. Yeah, there aren't many "perfect" matches, and honestly, I can't think of another single match that I'd rate that way in the past decade that I've seen, but that hit the right spot for me.
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I know this will get rolled eyes from the growing number of "NXT is overrated" folks, but Zayn/Neville where Zayn won the belt is the last "perfect match" I have seen. Zayn had a chance to cheat and win the gold, and he resisted it. He got knocked down again and again and had every reason to take the shortcut, especially since Neville had done the same thing, especially since his career was on the line, but he didn't, and he won. He overcame temptation and listened to the better angels of his, and our, nature, and he came out victorious.
In a world where the good guy almost never wins and where entertainment often focuses on antiheroes rather than pure heroes, it was really nice to see a guy who was a good guy win by maintaining purity of heart and deed and doing things the right way.
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MARCH 2015 WRESTLING DISCUSSION
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Where does Eric Bischoff's 1994-1996 rank as one of the all-time periods as a booker? Is it up there with Vince McMahon in the late '90s? Giant Baba in the early '90s? Um...don't know who else you all would consider as having all time great periods of booking over a short period of time.