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    2023 Puroresu General Discussion

    in JAPAN

    Posted

    My apologies for the double post, but my childish excitement got the better of me.

    I just watched a Scott Norton match for old times' sake and remembered something else which made me smile: before he does a Clothesline, he slaps his hands together. He did that a lot and it always made me so happy. I started doing it in mock-fights with my friends as well. It didn't add any power to the strikes, but I felt good doing it, by God!

    2023 Puroresu General Discussion

    in JAPAN

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    On 4/5/2023 at 4:38 AM, Horangi said:

    I am not sure if he qualifies based on achievements, but one of my answers for this would be Scott Norton. On paper, his achievements probably disqualify him as a choice, but at the same time I kind of feel like they also qualify him as an answer as he isn't spoken of on the same level as heavyweights of that era like Hansen, Vader, Gordy & Williams, and he's definitely not spoken of with the same revere as the modern gaijin like Omega or Ospreay. He's even well overshadowed by NJPWs junior gaijin of the era too (Guerrero, Benoit etc.). Maybe it is because of the lack of epic, famous matches, but I always enjoyed Norton and thought he was solid & consistent in his role. Trying to think of my favourite Norton match...maybe vs. Muto in the 95 G1, or the Nagata title win. I just can't decide if he's underrated due to his success. 

     

    My second-ever pro-wrestling match I watched was Brad Armstrong and TNT (Savio Vega) VS the Jurassic Powers (Scott Norton and Hercules) in NJPW. One of the thing that stands out was Norton (I think) messing up a top rope splash. He jumped, hit the ground with his feet, which then caused him to stumble and fall forwards onto Armstrong with what ironically looked like more impact than if he had done a regular splash.

    After that, Scott Norton became a regular on that weird NJPW show that was aired here. Lots of tag team matches where he was paired up with random team mates you'd never see again afterwards and who invariably were the ones who took the loss, but also some singles matches like the one against Mutoh that started with Mutoh flying out of the ring and onto Norton during his entrance. The look that he had was so intimidating. His chest was something else, but in those matches he also had a mullet and a beard. He looked nothing like he'd later look in WCW. That look, though... It was just so damn intimidating and captivating. I don't even remember other specific matches of his, but I always watched them and he was one of my favourites. Back then I didn't get why he never became a champion in WCW. He was just The Man to me.

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    WrestleZAYNia XXXIX - 4/1 & 4/2/2023

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    I haven't watched wrestling in years, and the last WWE content I watched has been at least a decade ago. I saw on another site that WrestleMania just happened, so I thought, 'Cool, let's check the results.'

    First thing I somehow read: Shane McMahon VS Snoop Dogg and Shane injures himself -- and it's not from that 'elbow drop onto the announce table' spot.

    Time is a flat circle.

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    Vince McMahon Retires

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, The Natural said:

    2022 in wrestling will go down as a historic year and it's still not over. Here's the year so far. Tried to do chronologically:

    • Shinjiro Ohtani is paralysed from the neck down during a match for Pro Wrestling Zero1.

    Wait, what?! ?

    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    I just read Stranglehold by Larry Nelson, an AWA announcer. I cannot recommend this book at all. It has nothing of interest in it. Some thoughts:

    - He is a bad storyteller. Stories that could potentially be somewhat interesting or funny are ruined by his complete inability to string an entertaining sentence together.

    - The vast majority of stories he tells are insipid and boring, like that one drunk you always see at the bar and tries to be popular by making a big deal out of telling a story that’s just... completely unremarkable. ‘Two women shared a room and one of them paid for it. While she was gone, the other raided the room refrigerator. She drank all the wine and her roommate had to pay! Hahaha!’

    - He tries to put himself over so much in terms of what a manly man he is. ‘Very few people drank as much as I did,’ and ‘Every tour I found a groupie to sleep with.’

    - He mentions a few angles, but none of them are described in a captivating way. Once he has to mention how he put over a big angle by saying on commentary, ‘Who could possibly win this thing?!’ Brilliant, Larry. Brilliant.

    - The most offensive thing is how he describes women: either in uncomfortably and disgustingly lecherous detail (both random women and wrestlers like Sherri Martel) or in insults about how fat and/or ugly they are. And he does this constantly.

    - He takes credit for bringing Eric Bischoff into the wrestling business because he chickened out of coming in for a day of doing interviews so the producers had to use Eric Bischoff. (The AWA was in dire straits and Larry Nelson had decided to leave the state and start over elsewhere without telling the AWA about it.) The book was written in 1999.

    - There was one very disturbing (but mercifully short) story about Road Warrior Hawk sexually assaulting a minor in Winnipeg. Larry Nelson was mainly worried about how this would get him in trouble. (To be clear: he had no part in the action; Hawk just told him what had happened the night before.)

    - They have sections where they go over the history of professional wrestling, and it borders on level of cringe with how inaccurate and amateurish it is. There are frequent mistakes of names (and spelling, which is another matter) like calling Harley Race ‘Harvey.’

    All in all, don’t get this. It’s boring, bland and occasionally infuriating.

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    October 2021 Wrestling GIFs and Pics

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    17 hours ago, D.Z said:

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    I loved that match. You knew there was no way in hell Fujita would lose, but it was going to be a lot of fun to see not only how much punishment Shibata could take, but also how many times he could kick Fujita really hard and annoy/mildly hinder him. If I remember correctly, the match sagged in the middle, but the beginning and the end were intense.

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    Raw is King's X - 10/18/2021

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    This was the first time in many, many years I watched (i.e. skipped through) Raw, but... my God, I pretty much gave up during the McIntyre/Big E tag match. When did they start doing the insanely quick ADHD cuts between cameras? It was giving me a headache.

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