Firebreaker Chip

Just done in by this, what a tragedy. I really feel for Kairi and other peers of hers who were helpless to intervene, and are still in many cases stuck in lockdown scattered across the world

I...dont know whether to cancel the network or watch lots of Owen Hart matches on the network

The AKI system has aged badly, the grappling system and the on rails uninterruptible animations/strikes that don't connect wouldn't fly today, and I didn't like that the finishes were usually anticlimactic because you had to telegraph your finisher with a wakeup taunt and it then wasn't reversible. Obviously lots of stuff from those games should have been adopted as standards for the genre though ASPW would have been incredible if it had ever a) had full customisation options or b) been much fun to actually play (too much mashin'). it still looks great in motion today imo. Although it was restrictive I really liked that there were some finishers you could only hit if your guy was crazy hyped or the other guy was groggy, made the matches feel like they could evolve in different ways and you're not just working towards an inevitable Burning Hammer finish in every Kobashi match despite the move being ultra-rare and last resort-y IRL. Also submission chaining!

She was 48 ten years ago when she turned down the Mania cameo, she was 24 at the time of the screwjob

Layfield has been magically rehabilitated because he donated some money to charity or some shit iirc I kind of liked Heenan not giving a fuck in WCW? Idk it became increasingly obvious he was justified in not giving a fuck and he always seemed to perk up a bit and talk about how much he respected guys like Malenko and Guerrero when they were up

I did Shiva OK with just Cloud and Aerith (after thinking I was meant to do it solo and faceplanting hard), keeping your distance at the right times and popping Ifrit and Limit Breaks when you can should do it Rude was kind of like a heavyweight version of Ricochet lol, those extra fights were fairly enjoyable, moreso Reno I would hope they'd do carryover like the Witcher DLC, where you keep what you've got if you played the first one, but they give you a default suitably leveled loadout to start if not

That boss fight is amazing! This game is fun and really beautiful to look at, although there is also a lot of padding and weird pacing issues, and quite a lot of the female characters seem to be voiced by teenage restaurant greeters Combat is great imo

This is...more than a thousand words

I mean it's not really a "new Brawl for All" if Brock Lesnar's in it, is it

Congratulations to LimeTorrents on winning the broadcast rights for Wrestlemania

Vince will shortly convince himself he's invented a new genre of entertainment, and when they can run real arena shows again, there will be entire crowds howling with rage as they stop the show for the second time in the evening to play a 40 minute video presentation of Braun Strowman vs CGI Andre the Giant in a gladiatorial arena

Martel has the most entertaining face of any wrestler ever imo, just a magnificent piece of business

Goddamn that ECW security guy Made Doug Dellinger look like Judge fuckin Dredd

Stoked for the New Jack one to open with a disclaimer saying "Jerome Young was invited to comment on these allegations. For some reason, he agreed to appear and cheerfully and enthusiastically admitted to all of them on camera"

I rewatched most of Mania 19 today and good God there is a concerted effort of will on Brock Lesnar's part to not just straight up lose consciousness and die in the ring during the post-match there, what a tawdry episode Between Lesnar, Angle and the state Steve Austin was in, if ever there was a Mania you'd want a fly-on-the-wall WWE 24 style documentary on that, would be up there

Who could boo this man

Jinsei Shinzaki / Hakushi

I always enjoy when Austin loses the run of himself and just gets sucked into admiring the quality of his own work at length

This has almost unbelievably cursed energy

Why did early 90s WCW commentators care so much that Marcus Bagwell went to "Sprayberry High School"? It gets mentioned all the time! I don't think there are any other wrestlers where I could tell you what school they went to

Even before this intervention, you could easily tell by the quiet dignity of Hangman's countenance that he has no truck with prolonging the tiresome artificial outrage of the pineapple on pizza debate

Awesome. Next they should do all the male wrestlers standing next to an upright Tom Philips while not wearing lifts

WWE should be legally mandated to prefix any use of "cage match" with the phrase "Bullshit WWE-style"

Yeah Cody going for a Springboard so early in the opening exchanges felt off I will never not enjoy a heel winning a match after taking such a bad beating he barely knows he's won though I wonder if the plan for War Games is to do Fall Brawl 96 with Page in the Sting role

I liked Cody's ramp sprint clothesline, Sting-worthy Elsewhere, Adam Page combines the pisshead gimmick of Scott Hall with the brooding, melancholic inscrutability of peak Crow Sting - and folks, he ain't even wearing paint When it comes to Anxious Millennial Cowboy, the only thing that's for sure...is [daintily sips beer from a plastic glass]