SturmCRF
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I could see them having Rhea win it and challenge Charlotte to a rematch. In fact now I've thought about it, it seems so obvious it's practically a spoiler. It'll suck for Asuka to lose the title and big Mania match as an afterthought again, but it'd be par for the course, and I guess at least should result in a good match. No idea for the men's match, Bryan maybe?
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It struck me while half watching Roode and Ziggler vs Street Profits earlier that one of my number one most hated WWEisms is lazily starting a feud by having someone beat the champions in a non title match. Can there be any worse way to build excitement for an eventual title match than having a half formed, usually abridged version of that same match with nothing at stake? Particularly objectionable in the tag division, where their own stupid brand split contrivance means there are very few potential challengers and someone could just as feasibly be awarded a shot after reasonably pointing out that there are only two other tag teams, and the other just had a shot. Total garbage.
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I think 15's about right for the average match, any less and I'll usually be disappointed, unless it's a squash match or anything else where the relative shortness of the match is the story being told. I don't really worry too much about star ratings, but I can't see anything below about 25 minutes as a worthy of a top grade, any less and I'm probably going to feel like something's been held back.
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One thing people seem to keep missing when they want Butcher and Blade to get pushed is that Butcher is in Every Time I Die, one of if not the best band on the planet, and as soon as society starts opening up again they'll hopefully release the new album they've had on the backburner for a year and tour the shit out of it for the next two.
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They still have a second Dome show to think about, surely they repeat last year and have Ibushi beat Evil to earn a title shot on the 5th? If he never wins the IWGP title I'll be very sad.
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13 hours ago, Casey said:
Am I missing something? It's entirely possible I'm not understanding this - I just woke up so excuse me if I'm wrong or anything. The Smackdown titles are still on Smackdown, same with RAW. The lineage didn't change according to WWE, both teams forfeited their reigns and began new ones with the titles they now hold. It's not like the red belts traveled to the blue brand and vice versa, it's only the teams that switched brands. So the titles are still tied to the same brands they have been.
Except for the fact that apparently the RAW tag titles are actually the Smackdown tag titles that were created in the original draft almost TWENTY YEARS AGO (!!).
That last bit blows my mind.
Unless I missed something while idly half watching Raw with my finger on fast forward, they only changed back to the right brands because the two sets of champs happened to agree to the idea. If they hadn't, I assume they would have remained on the wrong brand. As it is, there'd be nothing to stop that happening in a future draft. Or to stop one brand grabbing both sets of a particular title.
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Really, now they've established that no title is tied to a brand, it's pretty stupid to call them the Raw and Smackdown titles. It's also a much worse idea than having one set of tag titles that can travel between brands to keep feuds fresh without needing regular drafts, but we can't expect too much. They obviously need two of every type of title or those lucrative house show dollars will dry right up.
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Why is the triple threat match advertised as No Holds Barred, when triple threat matches in WWE are no DQ by their very nature, and therefore do not bar any holds?
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I know the Sonya Deville stalker sounds particularly disturbed, but you only have to look at the replies to any of the WWE women's social media to realise how impossible it'd be to preemptively get psychiatric help for everyone displaying signs of obsessive and creepy behaviour. Honestly, I think the sort of fan culture that has sprung up in the last ten years or so alongside Twitter, especially, is fucking alarming. There's a whole world of lunatics out there who think they're entitled to famous people's attention if they try hard enough to 'earn' it, and even if 99% of them are harmless, that leaves a scary amount who might be far from it.
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My main takeaway from this is that they really need to stop having their main events start with under 15 minutes to go. The TV time remaining thing is fine, but they should at least try and maintain the illusion that they begin each show intending for the main to get up to 20 minutes. As it is, they keep hyping me up for a match one week, and lowering my expectations for anything better than a solid TV match by the time it finally starts.
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Maybe this has been a regular talking point that I've missed somehow, but Dominik looks distractingly like Anthony Jr from The Sopranos. His match with Seth needs to end via stoppage when a bear appears.
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Cardona's music is terrible, but I still sort of like it? Abysmal 2001 nu metal is still better than a lot of current WWE themes, cos it's more wrestlery. Too many WWE top and mid card guys have instrumental tunes, which is fine when they're Mr Perfect level great, but how often is that the case? It used to be the case that when your entrance music got lyrics, it meant you'd evolved into a main eventer, now their two main champions have generic instrumentals. So AEW is clearing a very low bar by getting themselves a shitty wrestler metal house band, but I'll take it.
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Is it baseless and unfair to add this Marty thing to my hunch that quite a lot of 80's wrestlers probably murdered people back in the day? It was already a bit of a golden age (wrong phrase, but hey) for serial killers back then. Add in wrestlers' itinerant lifestyle, love of substances and well documented propensity for violence and perversion, and I do wonder...
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10 hours ago, Death From Above said:
Fall Guys is exactly what I wanted it to be. Day 1 had a ton of server issues but honestly, I expect that with literally every multiplayer focused launch title now. Fuck, Apex Legends is into season 5 and Origin's awful infastructure still can't get season launches to go smoothly. I am not sure about the PS4 numbers where it's part of the PS+ program, but I can say the game has already clocked over 10K reviews on steam which means it's already sold hundreds of thousands of copies at the very least, at $20. 500K is probably a light guess, since one out of 50 owners bothering to review a game on launch day feels pretty optimistic. I feel that's a pretty good price point for this and what it aspires to be really. It's such a big dumb fun clusterfuck of a BR game that actually doesn't feel like there's much in it to rage about. If they keep adding new costumes and minigames as they go, it could be a great long-term investment. The only game of the 25 it has at launch I don't really like is the team game where you put the eggs in baskets, because it seems super difficult to actually come from behind in that one. Best games are Slime Climb and the Rocket League knockoff.
I love this game, perfect for anyone who's into the idea of a battle royale, but doesn't want to test their twitch shooting skills against other people. Managed to win my first game before work this morning, felt like an hero and did an actual jig.
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Not to add unnecessarily to the 'my non wrestling fan girlfriend has surprising insight into wrestling' genre of post, but thought the board would appreciate this one. My girlfriend moved in with me last week for coronaviral reasons, and has never been a TV watcher, so she's generally happy to occupy herself with other things while I watch my usual non wrestling bullshit. But, she's genuinely gotten interested in wrestling and will give it her full attention, even in its current sad, fanless state. So far she's enjoyed Aleister Black and Shotzi Blackheart for coolness reasons, but of all the AEW, MLW and WWE we've watched, her favourite has been Dustin Rhodes. About one minute into his tag match the other night, she was commenting about how gracefully he moved for someone so tall and middle aged, and how everything he did was executed incredibly well. I'm now going to try and find his match with Cody for the weekend. And should probably seek out his Wargames match, which I've shamefully never seen.
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3 hours ago, Ultimo Necro said:
Tolkien Matt Hardy.
Matt dressed as wise old wizard leading a team of hobbits (Marko, Jungle Boy & Janela) against the forces of the Dark Order.
What's R Truth's contract situation? Cos if it's up soon, they can sign him up and give us Sauron Killings for a real blood feud. And I'd never advocate signing Enzo, but he's only a drastic shave away from being a perfect Gollum.
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Is there any chance of Sasha Banks going to AEW, or did she renew her contract recently? She has star power and is an excellent (albeit sometimes scarier than Darby Allin to watch) wrestler. And she seems like enough of a wrestling nerd to go to a company that'll give her more creative freedom, even if its crop of female wrestlers is much worse.
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I liked Code Orange doing Aleister's theme in NXT. My personal jury's still out on them, but in a wrestling context they're excellent.
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I didn't have any until I was 32, two years later I now have four. Sure they might look terrible when I'm in my sixties, but probably so will the rest of me. And I guess the more hair I lose, the more I feel like action needs to be taken about not looking too much like a generic office drone. Not sure about Cody's, but it'll look better when it's not as new, and he's already rich with a hot wife, so who does he need to impress?
Anyway, PPV was great. Orange Cassidy and Hangman rule, and I'm pleased for Cabana.
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15 minutes ago, OSJ said:
Let's drop this idea of Tyson Fury as a great boxer right now. He's not, he's a decent fighter in a horribly lackluster division. Prime Lennox Lewis would have him for breakfast, As far as being a piece of shit? I'm more surprised when a fighter turns out to be a decent person (see: Klitchkos, Lewis, etc.) than I am when they turn out to be be an obnoxious lout. After all, hitting people in the head for a living is not a choice that most sane people make.
BTW: Anyone else think that Tyson's remarks sound suspiciously like what you might hear from a closet case?
I have no idea if he is or not really (a great boxer, not a closet case), I have a decent working knowledge of MMA cos I watch a lot of it, a good knowledge of Judo from first hand experience, and a very spotty grasp of boxing because Anthony Joshua's from my hometown and I watch his fights. I assumed Fury was fairly top tier seeing as he convincingly beat an undefeated World Champ of some description, but if he's not then that suits me, more chance someone punches his face off in the near future.
And yeah, you don't look for your combat sports personalities to be moral paragons. The bar is pretty low, but he's managed to walk into it chest first repeatedly with a running tally of 0 genuine apologies, so I'm not having our press try and turn him into some national hero, which of course they are. If he ever actually expresses regret about the shit he's said, or if someone publishes research showing that depression can make you a bigoted religious fanatic, I'll be happy to reassess him then.
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"In the past Fury has equated homosexuality and abortions with paedophilia, claimed “Zionist, Jewish people … own all the banks, all the papers, all the TV stations” and “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”."
Good for him conquering depression and being a great boxer, he's still a piece of shit.
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At this point I just hope we get anything but another Okada Naito match at Wrestle Kingdom. And preferably a new IWGP Champ, I know I'll never get the Ishii reign I want, but at least put it on Ibushi, or even Sanada.
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19 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
I don’t know how you’d stop that unless you tell people they’ll be escorted out of the building if they don’t adhere to a new strict fan etiquette guidelines which I don’t remember any posted. They are also still selling 4- day packages for events. So they aren’t discouraging that kind of hardcore crowd to come.
You maybe are thinking about when they told fans to dress more appropriate to the Hall of Fame, and less fan casual.
As in, they were trying to stop it by putting on a more boring show, or at least one that appeals less to hardcore fans, so those people either don't go, or go but don't cause a scene when all they get is a bunch of rematches and a nothing tag match for a main event, because they've been trained not to expect anything that caters to them on that night any more.
I don't get the Observer or anything, so I can't quote Meltzer directly, but there was definitely some third hand report along those lines after last year's Mania.
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Weren't there reports that they'd intentionally tried to make the Raw after Mania less of an event, and more like a standard weekly show, to reeducate fans not to go all boisterous and Bizarro Land on them? There was a while there where it was like a yearly apology for the seven hours of lowest common denominator bullshit and heavily telegraphed Moments they were serving up the night before, but the last couple have been non events in comparison. Sure, the beachball dickheads and the misogynous chants can fuck off forever, but the overall vibe of 'tonight we're going to do the cool shit you wish we did the rest of the year', complete with big debuts, returns, exciting vignettes and maybe a title change or two, was something to look forward to. If they've decided to move away from that on purpose, it serves them right that they're selling fewer tickets.
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The Coolest Names For Wrestling Moves/Holds
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Towerhacker Bomb for me, great move but it's just so satisfying to say. Of all the puro moves I heard about through wrestling video games year before I saw one in the wild, it's the most evocative.