bucky Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 When was the last time you saw a "vat of rubbing alcohol/salt/lemon juice" match? Hell, what promotions even run deathmatches anymore besides Big Japan and CZW and some of those scummy lucha indies? That gif is like five years old. You guys are goofy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 The first 5 things are impressive visually to the entire crowd, the needle through the cheek is too subtle for the paying audience to notice, thus it's a failure as a spot. Guy could have just as easily gimmicked the needle and gotten the same reaction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 The first 5 things are impressive visually to the entire crowd, the needle through the cheek is too subtle for the paying audience to notice, thus it's a failure as a spot. Guy could have just as easily gimmicked the needle and gotten the same reaction. This isn't a defence of a dumb spot, but surely something like this (which I'm guessing is CZW's Tournament of Death? I haven't watched deathmatch wrestling in 7+ years at this point) is aimed more at the people buying DVDs, especially in the case of TOD which isn't even held in Philly. And from that perspective at least I don't know if you can say it's a failure. The majority of people who paid to watch the show were able to see a dude stick a needle into and through another dudes cheek. It's still a really dumb thing to do. In a match where both guys are bleeding bucketloads, I don't really fancy the idea of having one of the bloodsoaked competitors ram a needle into me. I mean the whole thing about needles is them being sterile, & that is clearly going to not be sterile & that freaks me out far more than the actual visual of a needle piercing the cheek, which is kind of shocking to actually see, but as Hooks says, it's also something lots of people apparently do for fun so it's not the most shocking thing ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dusty Finish Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Tadpole Splash = most protected finisher in the WWE. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Afro Meng wearing enormous pants and doing a piledriver is pro wrestling. Come to think of it, Afro Meng wearing enormous pants and doing anything is pro wrestling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucky Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I watched the 2001 Rumble match a few weeks ago and had totally forgotten Meng showing up. Meng and Rikishi being numbers 29 and 30 in that Rumble should've meant complete destruction of the white man as we know it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manzk Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 The first 5 things are impressive visually to the entire crowd, the needle through the cheek is too subtle for the paying audience to notice, thus it's a failure as a spot. Guy could have just as easily gimmicked the needle and gotten the same reaction. This isn't a defence of a dumb spot, but surely something like this (which I'm guessing is CZW's Tournament of Death? I haven't watched deathmatch wrestling in 7+ years at this point) is aimed more at the people buying DVDs, especially in the case of TOD which isn't even held in Philly. And from that perspective at least I don't know if you can say it's a failure. The majority of people who paid to watch the show were able to see a dude stick a needle into and through another dudes cheek. It's still a really dumb thing to do. In a match where both guys are bleeding bucketloads, I don't really fancy the idea of having one of the bloodsoaked competitors ram a needle into me. I mean the whole thing about needles is them being sterile, & that is clearly going to not be sterile & that freaks me out far more than the actual visual of a needle piercing the cheek, which is kind of shocking to actually see, but as Hooks says, it's also something lots of people apparently do for fun so it's not the most shocking thing ever. Oh what people wi What did he get for this? A hotdog and a smile? I can't believe people are still doing these matches in 2014. Thumbtack Jack has retired and has done some dumb documentaries about being sad and death match wrestling being a a bad addiction. He's the german dude that was flying all the time to do the death matches who was assaulted by Ian Rotten after doing like 4 Death Matches in 2 days because he said he was going to put Ian's child on the oven. On the same show he had a match with Pondo, Pondo came up dressed as Hitler! Was hilarious... not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 God, we were marking out for weeks after Lawler threw that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Goto and Shibata counter the Rainmaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 They had me until the end. Just do the powerbomb neckbreaker villano buster there. Not some goofy knee thing. So Nova had a website in 1998 or whenever, and one part of his website was him talking about all the moves he created. One of those was the Sledge-O-Matic, which was a powerbomb where his elbow is between the guy's legs. The one gif of it I can find is broken. He said it was safer than a normal power bomb since he could control the descent better. You figure that would be a move where you could too. But yeah, no. They really screwed that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 The spot that Goto/Shibata is doing is basically a doubleteam version of a usual Goto move, the Ushikoroshi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Oh god, is THAT where those insufferable "Nova created [every move ever]" jokes came from? What a douche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 The spot that Goto/Shibata is doing is basically a doubleteam version of a usual Goto move, the Ushikoroshi. I figured they were doing it for a reason and I'll definitely give them a B+ for effort. It still looks unnecessarily goofy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 <3 <3 <3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Always loved that spot. Especially when Backlund and Hogan did it. Freakish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoriusvig Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Mr. Backlund would be pleased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Is it ok to request gifs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 RAW spoiler (show is still going on) in GIF form 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 That was pretty fucking boss, doing it in one motion and all... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Jesus is that real time or sped up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Jesus is that real time or sped up? A little speed up but not much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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