DangerMark
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I love the intent behind the rule, but so far it seems like it has let teams keep the pressure on the defenders and run away with games. I saw Thursday and Friday's matches and they started close and turned into panellings by the end, and the only team who deserved it was Gold Coast.
Hopefully teams will adjust and we can get some close games.
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I cannot imagine any sort of Attitude Era happening that involves Johnny Saint.
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I've got similar thoughts about the Balor vs. Joe match where they just happened to clash heads early on, just happening to cut Joe, who needs to be cleaned up repeatedly, which just happens to perfectly play into this story about Balor only managing to survive Joe.
In both cases, I could believe either way, but I guess I'm too cynical. It's a good way to blur the line a little, as long as it's just a little blurring every now and then.
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You will excuse a certain amount of scepticism on my part about that Wolfe injury. A Heel vs. Heel match includes a moment that just happens to leave maybe the weakest in-ring performer on one side unable to continue and somehow Marcel Barthel, just happens to become as sympathetic as anyone with a gimmick that amounts to "head prison guard in 'the Dirty Dozen'" could ever possibly hope to be and he and his weakened team just happen to overcome the odds to win? Talk about your happy accidents.
Hell of a fun match, though.
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Turns out that no amount of Regal can make me vote Goldberg.
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Leg Roll Clutch style Back Stabber is daft enough that it was probably deliberate. These days, I can barely remember a time before people did Sunset Flips for the pin instead of a powerbomb.
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I'm sure that Tigers Mask had a rivalry with a Black Tigers, but now that I think about it, I could be thinking of Black Buffalo.
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This group is ridiculous. I went with Akira and Joe, but I feel like a traitor now that I've re-read that Mark list.
I don't seem to have a hard and fast criteria for these, but the person that I have the strongest negative opinion of seems to factor pretty highly, hence why I couldn't bring myself to go with Terry.
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I went Ricky and Dave.
I voted before I realised that Ricky Fuji was not Ricky Fuyuki. At any rate, Fuyuki deserves a mention here for his appearance, such as it was, in the Kanemura vs. Hashimoto barbed wire death match, so I feel like the Japanese Indy Sleaze is still well represented.
Dave got my vote because I love me some cannonballs into the corner. David Starr's ridiculous and ever expanding ring announcement was the tiebreaker over Daniel.
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I didn't read the tweet properly and assumed that it was the Chargers.
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Jeez. He probably should have just stuck with the old times in Rome schtick.
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That and all of Dragunov's moves would fit someone much bigger. It's like he hasn't realised he's not built like Joe Coffey or something.
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I often find myself watching things, wishing that WALTER had came in and chopped the ever living shit out of everyone involved.
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Aichner has the athleticism to be likeable, WALTER is a force of nature, but well done to Marcel Barthel for being so sympathetic when his gimmick is essentially "SS Captain from your favourite WWII film who dies near the beginning of the third act."
Dragunov is a weird one, because he fights like he ought to be Dave Mastiff's size. Match against Balor was about what we were all expecting
I love me some Trent Seven, but he didn't quite fit in with the other three in that match. Ciampa in full on Heel Mode vs. Trent would be fun, because he's basically the most likable guy in NXT UK; but with DIY Ciampa and Johnny Gargano, he looked out of place. Similarly, I rag on Toni Storm a lot, but I like her a hell of a lot more when she isn't the champion.
In conclusion, bit of a throw away show, but still fun, regardless.
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Whatever the hell Enho did to Abi should have got him the technique prize straight up, no questions asked.
Yeah, Tokushoryu might not have done it from five spots higher, but you fight the guys they put in front of you. He beat five guys who finished with ten or more wins, including Takakeisho who is no chump. Last person to beat so many 10+ win guys on the way to a cup (I didn't bother checking everyone, but I'm assuming you don't get to beat five 10+ winners in a basho without winning,) was actually Goeido in his Nagoya zensho yusho. Congratulations to Tokushoryu on the win.
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Enho is just ridiculous.
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Takayasu's hopes of going back to Ozeki are gone and Goeido's hopes of staying are fading fast.Enho feinted a henka on a false start, then went the other way when the match began properly. Have that, Goeido.
Bad day for Sanyaku, only Asanoyama and Abi won; Endo especially got clowned. Shodai and Tokoshoryu are your leaders, the former facing serious sanctions for smiling inside the Kokugikan following his win over Takakeisho. Takakeisho, Kageaki and Yutakayama all one win off the pace.
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Goeido lost, which I am super happy about, because I kinda want there to only be one Ozeki at the end of this basho, just for the chaos. Especially since Takayasu is going to struggle to win out and get back up to Ozeki.
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I find Kona Reeves entertaining in the Named Jobber kinda role. He looks ridiculous and he acts a prick. I could quite happily watch him get beaten for five or ten minutes per week easily.
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I do hope that the North American teams actually start to bring some North American players.
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Who does Abi need to murder to make sekiwake? This is ludicrous.
I have an irrational dislike of Goeido, so I hope he goes down this time. Takayasu is a surly hairy bastard, so I hope he goes back up.
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I'm the idiot grinning in the background when Luke Jacobs gets a rope break with his teeth.
I'm going to have to watch this show properly and not just watch out for myself and my idiot mate in the crowd. Novelty hasn't worn off yet though.
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I'm a little too short to be in that picture, but for the first half I was just behind the the cameraman standing in the corner on the right. If that picture was taken again for the second half, I probably would be in the middle somewhere.
EDIT: My associate wishes it to be known that he is actually a Duck Dynasty reject.
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13 hours ago, AxB said:
And I was already wearing my Unionize shirt, so he didn't try to sell me anything.
Jeez, not sure if I saw you there then. I had a plain blue hoodie for the first half and a Joe Coffey Last Man Standing shirt for the second half, and I was hanging round with a My Name Is Earl extra. (Here's where I find out that we were the ones blocking your view.)
Gotta agree with your assessment of the show; the Young Guns colliding was worth a t-shirt from me. I think there are a few from that first half who fit that UWF/Pancrase style that Tetsujin was going for than in the second half, which could also have played into it. Main Event was hella fun though.
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Backlash XV - 6/14/2020
in WWE PROGRAMMING
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Some kind of daffy joke match is probably the only way they can climb down from this without losing too much face when it sucks; which would require more self awareness than anyone involved has ever showed.