Jump to content
DVDVR Message Board

EVA

Members
  • Posts

    10,484
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    16

Everything posted by EVA

  1. I only caught Sami/Gable but that was awesome pro wres. It’s pretty rare for Sami to feel like the wrong guy to put over, but yeah. Should’ve been Gable! It definitely seems like they’re setting up a path for him to get there anyway, but I really hope it isn’t a lame 3-way. I’d rather see Gunther/Sami night one, then the winner (Gunther) versus Gable night two. That seems like a much more interesting way to protect Gunther in defeat (two grueling matches on back-to-back nights) than some 3-way chicanery.
  2. Chase Owens defeating Ishii is the new worst thing Gedo has ever done.
  3. I know you’ve always had a problem with Nick, so I’m not totally surprised, but you’re grossly misrepresenting what he actually said. His full comments are really insightful and introspective. And he *explicitly* said that he doesn’t think it’s bad or wrong that the players are focused on money. It’s right there in the text, almost verbatim what I typed. What he’s actually getting at there is his growing realization that his approach to the college game is incompatible with the modern culture of the college game, with the Rose Bowl post-game (which I honestly don’t even remember happening to any significant degree) being one of the last strong indications that his way just wasn’t resonating as well anymore. He’s very clear that it’s just an issue that the modern game stopped being as fulfilling to him anymore, and that’s a him thing and not a negative judgment on anyone else. Honestly, it’s just another reasons he’s the GOAT. He knew when to get out and *not* be one of these Dabo or Gary Patterson types who just complain all the time while the game passes them by.
  4. Pairing Okada with the Bucks is interesting. On one had, it’s working against what the fans want (to cheer for him), but at the same time, much like the Bucks, Okada is at his best when he’s being kinda bitchy, so this is probably the best context to introduce him as a character (not just a wrestler) to America.
  5. The clear mandate coming out of Revolution was “make Kyle Fletcher look less like Will Ospreay.”
  6. Man, great call on that RUSH match. Perfect matchup of their strengths. They had people online genuinely believing that RUSH was taking liberties with Jack.
  7. I don’t think NXT has done Pillman any favors, so I don’t know if that’s the direction Jack wants to go in, if actually improving is the goal. Rock’s daughter has been in the system for 4 years and still can’t talk convincingly.
  8. Yes! The Hook matches were good! People forget.
  9. I definitely think there’s a strong recency bias here due to the Pillars feud flop and the All In debacle being the last strong memories people have of Perry. But he was one of the top in-ring guys in AEW as a pure babyface for years, and I really think he was finding himself as a heel just before everything went sideways.
  10. Jack has been pretty upfront about loving wrestling for the in-ring and not really caring about promos, thus never really putting any effort into getting better until the past year or two. If I’m remembering correctly, the original concept of the Jungle Boy character was that he would be mostly mute for precisely that reason.
  11. He’s handsome, physically fit, famous, and rich. Hope this helps.
  12. Imagine being giftwrapped a talented wrestler who actually draws attention to your stale, star-bereft shows and thinking, “I’m going to attach this guy to the shittiest thing we’ve got so when people check in to see him, they’ll see just how truly shitty we can be.”
  13. I don’t think they’ve given up on Jack. His heel run was just taking off before All In. They’ve just got him laying low until the heat dies off. Sending him to NJPW for a while where he can remind people how good he is without CM Punk chants is a smart move. I’d bet anything he’s back on AEW TV with the Bucks by this summer.
  14. I realize they’ll have to swallow some pride after dubbing him a pillar, but it is beyond past time to cut bait on Sammy. It would be in everybody’s best interests for him to go somewhere else.
  15. The most only about ball man who was ever only about ball.
  16. Loving the implication that Arch is such a hardcore gamer that, if he can play as himself in the college football video game, he will care less about playing actual football. Hilarious that someone in the Manning camp thought this would be a good thing to leak to the press. Just say you wanted more money!
  17. Much to speak of tonight, but first we must acknowledge that a not-insignificant number of people in the audience in Greensboro apparently thought Will Ospreay is Australian and/or Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher are the same person (hopefully the post-match clarified the latter).
  18. The 4 highest ranked champs get the top 4 seeds, regardless of where they’re ranked. (So, if the Big 12 champ is ranked 7th but they’re the third highest champs, they’re seeded at 3 regardless of who’s in front of them.) The fifth highest champ is guaranteed a spot in the field but not a seed, so they could be slotted anywhere from 5-12.
  19. Nic Pizzolatto sulking about season 4 on Instagram is giving me life. Just constant passive-aggressive likes and shares, like a wrestler who’s unhappy with their push.
  20. They didn’t tie *everything* up…
  21. If there’s anything to be learned from Kelly leaving UCLA and Elliott leaving Georgia State, it’s that you should definitely FIRE your fucking coach when you have the chance. Guys are not going to coach out obvious lame duck years anymore. Elliott will now get paid comparable money to be an SEC position coach and not have the stink of “fired G5 coach” next time he wants to go out for a HC job. Hafley leaving BC was the same deal, too, really.
  22. To me, one of the great disappointments of the WWE Network is that they never even really tried with scripted programming, beyond a couple of lame cartoons and the short-lived E&C show (which people loved). Just larded it up with cheap reality slop.
  23. The arc of Rock’s Hollywood career is so interesting. You can see that initial rush to make him the next big action star, which mostly flops because the low-to-mid-budget action movie was already kinda dead by the early 2000’s. But then he has a surprise hit with THE GAME PLAN, and he immediately pivots to mostly making family films, with just a couple of not-exactly-straight-to-video action movies sprinkled in to keep his tough guy credentials active. Then FAST FIVE hits, and within a couple years, he’s parlayed it into starring in every other effects-heavy tent pole in theaters, amassing astronomical wealth while simultaneously losing everything that made him interesting as an actor.
×
×
  • Create New...