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SturmCRF

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  1. If they 'usually', or now 'always' make shit up, I'd appreciate even one example.
  2. Where do you get that from? They're not a news podcast. They have some sources, and on rare occasions they'll have a minor scoop that they'll make some hay out of, like this year's G1 having a big man block, but I've been listening to them for years and have never known them to be intentionally dishonest or make stuff up. They'll speculate at length, sure, but they don't pretend that they know things or present themselves as insiders.
  3. Right, NOAH people and/or Japanese understanders, question. When they flash up the wrestlers' name, weight, finisher and stats before a match and just after it starts, there are three stats out of ten. If you know what all of them mean then great, but I'm specifically fascinated by what the third one is, as it seems to always be 10.
  4. Right, NOAH people and/or Japanese understanders, question. When they flash up the wrestlers' name, weight, finisher and stats before a match and just after it starts, there are three stats out of ten. If you know what all of them mean then great, but I'm specifically fascinated by what the third one is, as it seems to always be 10.
  5. I had to jump on that as soon as I saw the first trailer. Played a little bit last night, the art style is glorious, and grafting the hack and slash gameplay to a Woodland Critter Christmas style cult simulator definitely seems like it will be the secret sauce to get me invested in a management game.
  6. Crush was my absolute favourite wrestler when I was a kid but I only saw WWF PPVs, so that was mainly from thinking he was cool in the magazine. I was eight, the amount of neon in his ring gear went a long way. Having seen more of his matches since then, he is remarkably bad in quite a lot of them, he just doesn't look natural moving around a ring. The first live wrestling I ever saw was in 93, when my parents took me to Wembley Arena, where they ran back a lot of the Wrestlemania IX matches, including Crush vs Doink. As at Mania, Doink won by underhanded means. After the match, Crush got his heat back and ran off Doink, and his music played. I hopefully ask if that means Crush won, and my Mum, who has never had the slightest interest in wrestling and was probably already flagging at that point, sharply informs me that no, he lost. And that's how Doink The Clown ruined my childhood twice in the space of a few months.
  7. I've heard this a lot, both about wrestling and culture in general and have always wondered why this is the case. Is it that Japan has a culture that particularly values maximum effort, which extends to hobbies as well? Or do people not have enough free time to be more omnivorous with how they spend it? I realise you also might have no idea.
  8. Or Kofi being from 'Ghana, West Africa', which is basically like announcing AJ Styles as being from 'The United States Of America, North America'. This company could literally string us along for years by gradually removing ludicrous Vince-isms one at a time. 'It's getting better, HHH is starting to get his feet under the table, this week there were only eight interference finishes and Graves describe Mustafa Ali as a wrestler while Omos was squashing him!'
  9. Also, Wales and Scotland are two completely different countries (well, Wales is a principality, but they have their own football team) with subtly different ways of hating the English. Really, they should have Mason Ryan headlining against Roman, or more topically, Mark Andrews. Special guest referee Gareth Bale, Charlotte Church as ringside enforcer, James Dean Bradfield timekeeping.
  10. I bought the show for the undercard, enjoyed the lucha four way, was massively let down by the Takeshita match getting five minutes, what a load of shit. KEN Mode are the best Canadian band, and their singer is a wrestling fan. Filthy levels of heaviness when they're not taking an album off from pure aggression to sound like Shellac but better, and phenomenal lyrics that are sort of joyously miserable. Jealous of Dean seeing Hüsker Dü, was too busy being a literal infant to see them at the time, and only realised how incredible they were about two years ago after a friend of a friend ranted at me in a pub til I promised to listen to them.
  11. The fact people are even debating whether Wheeler might win shows that this has been well booked. If they hadn't specified that he could take Jericho's place next week with a win, everyone would see it as a foregone conclusion.
  12. I'd happily watch a weekly show that was just RJ City and William Regal having a chat for, I dunno, four hours at a time.
  13. Don't think so, no. They pretty much all had some good matches (really liked Mox vs MJF and the first Stadium Stampede, off the top of my head), but I think their thing of having a stacked card where nearly every match delivers corresponds quite neatly with crowds being back.
  14. I'm one of those people, I watch NXT because at least the roster churn keeps it fresh, mainly avoid Raw and Smackdown, will stick the PPVs on in the background while working. Partly it's because I've loved wrestling for over 32 years, WWE was the most big time version of it for most of that time, and for all their efforts to shit on continuity, it's like a big soap opera that I've been invested in for most of my life. As far as Vince specifically, ever since I was wised up to the fact that he was the bastard in charge, and certainly since discovering this board through Big Tony's Sleaze Thread, I've kind of thought of him more as some kind of disgusting lab specimen than an actual human being. He's so patently awful that nothing he's done or been accused of will ever shock me, and I can't really square the idea of taking a moral stance on him, any more than I would a seething bucket full of scorpions, or a chimp that broke into a Viagra factory. The specific crimes he's been accused of aren't funny, but for better or worse, worse I guess as far as reflecting on my own character, I find him grotesquely hilarious, an absurd living horror story about the depths that humanity can reach when you give it any power and a big enough rock to hide under. I probably should cancel my Network subscription, but I won't, because I care about the fake belt they allow to be defended every couple of months, and the child in me is still blown away by the idea of having most of wrestling at my fingertips for a few quid a month.
  15. Surprisingly fell asleep quite quickly last night, maybe on account of the heat draining all life out of me. Did wake up at two AM though, with sweat pouring out of whatever the elbow equivalent of armpits are. Fun times! Can't wait for the balmy climes of about 25 degrees we've been told are due tomorrow.
  16. More recently, having the gall to run Roman vs Brock AGAIN to main event Summerslam has to be up there. Absolute middle finger to the roster.
  17. I know you hate it more from a physical perspective. I'm not saying it looks good, far from it, but ultimately I don't care if it's a gold plated close up of Yoshi Hashi's face, the issue was that they explicitly said they were ending the lineage of the IWGP title, which is a shameful decision. The history matters. Or, it doesn't, but it has to be treated like it matters, or nothing does.
  18. You have Cesaro not being a multi time World Champion in there twice. Great list, can't fault it, although I might have the IWGP World Heavyweight Title featuring twice too, for emphasis.
  19. Cheers dude. As a pasty, redheaded man, I hate this weather with a passion, but I'm coping alright so far. By the time I'm trying to get to sleep and it's still 30° I'll be fucking furious, though.
  20. I'd rather not have anyone else win multiple G1s any time soon, let's freshen things up and elevate someone. Naito vs Jay would be a fresh match though, so I'd infinitely prefer that to an Okada win. I think ZSJ has the best idea though. G1 win, then he can dethrone Jay White to a rapturous reception in London in October and I can be there. Alternate ideas- Give Yujiro back his old, filthy saxophone theme, give him back his push from 10 years ago. He wins the G1, Naito beats Jay, final No Limit megapowers explode at Wrestle Kingdom. It doesn't matter that he's not that good, the music transcends everything and it's narratively satisfying. Goto wins, Goto wins the title at Wrestle Kingdom. Seldom has anyone looked like more of a loser than he did when he lost to Okada and promptly joined his stable like some kind of vassal. It's the most frustrating dangling story thread in wrestling, give him the heel turn and megapush that he's been due for about a decade. Ishi wins, wins the title at Wrestle Kingdom. No explanation needed, writes itself. Jay White wins, crows about how there are no more worlds to conquer and he's earned the right to take Wrestle Kingdom off. Then HOOK appears, chokes him out with the Kata Hajime, throws down the gauntlet, beats him at Wrestle Kingdom.
  21. I don't remember that, I watched a bit of Live & Kicking but I preferred Fully Booked, it had Zoe Ball, a hotel theme and a talking cow. I do remember Bulldog being on one of those shows and giving a fairly ambiguous answer to the whole 'is it real?' question. I loved Mania IX despite hating Hogan, because of the whole outdoor, ancient history atmosphere. Obviously KOTR 93 is better though, as the matches are good and the Yoko/Hogan feud gets its happy ending.
  22. Yeah, but they were only in a position for that to happen because the decision makers thought the correct role for Sasha Banks was 'placeholder title defence for a filler PPV' rather than 'biggest star in the company, build shows around her like we did when her and Bayley were the only reason to tune in to Covid WWE, protect her match with Ronda with our lives and headline a Wrestlemania with it.' Which probably reflects that the company is run by a racist and sexist lunatic whose producers mainly act as extensions of his will, in as much as they can grasp any meaning in his crazed whims. That tweet is arguably wrong as far as blaming Ronda though. Like Sabremike said, she'd be perfect as a sadistic heel who would then get massively over as a face, if they weren't dead set on sanding any edges off anyone they want to present as a hero, because obviously Stone Cold and The Rock were renowned for being perma-grinning baby kissers at the height of their popularity.
  23. Tony, and also Nyla and Marina, if you're reading this, thank you for calling the one team in your women's tag match tonight Thunderstorm, but also you could and should call the other one Beast Problems. You're welcome.
  24. Wrestler Of The Year: Will Ospreay. Fantastic matches with an insane variety of opponents, and for someone who may be a bit of an idiot savant, he sure can work a lot of fans into thinking he's a total prick who isn't expertly playing a character, but is actually the monstrous result of dropping both Paul brothers and Connor McGregor into a vat of radioactive Essex. Match Of The Year: Hangman vs Danielson II. Would have gone with the first one, but the pesky laws of linear time dictate that it happened last year, so this brutal masterpiece will have to do. Tag Team Of The Year: Team Taz. Yeah I know, I know, FTR are on another level, but their consistent brilliance is (rightly) spotlighted constantly and therefore bores me a little, whereas every time Starkman Jones and Hobbsman Jones get to do anything is like a special treat. Card Of The Year: Revolution. Could have been any of the AEW cards really, but looking back at the list of matches here and it's an absolute embarassment of riches, which also hit before the current spate of injuries. Promotion Of The Year: AEW. I'm unfairly biased towards the company that is currently giving us the best era for wrestling in my lifetime. Wrestlewoman Of The Year: Jade Cargill. It's probably Bianca, her vs Becky was a match of the year contender, but WWE weekly TV hurts me physically in a world where AEW exists, so I haven't seen enough of her matches. Jade has the character stuff nailed, Cut The Shit Tony will never get old, and now she's improving week to week at the whole business of actually wrestling, too, which is barely necessary with that much star power. Her adding Stokely to the act is like John McClane finding the machine gun.
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