odessasteps Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 They would put Cena proposing on there, prob in the top 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonteCarl Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 That was at Mania, not on RAW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Man I live in the Northeast and I got wind there might be a rough snow storm tomorrow. I might be able to catch Wrestle kingdom live if it's bad enough to take a sick day so here's hoping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vgmastr Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 How about Smackdown invading Raw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I really hope they include Roman's "promo" from the Raw after Wrestlemania. That was fantastic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 A full blooper reel would be great. Just have someone on the net team sift through the Botchamanias. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 hours ago, MonteCarl said: When "Sheamus puts Marc Cuban through a table" is on their top 100 list from 5 years ago, I guess their bar is pretty low as to what constitutes a "top moment". That IS the bar. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathyBoy Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 12 hours ago, MonteCarl said: Yeah. Good call on The Shield breakup. I was trying to think of a Shield moment, and that one slipped my mind for some reason. Maybe Batista and the Evolution reunion/Batista quitting again could be there somewhere just because of Batista's Hollywood status now? Chatting with a friend now about big RAW moments and can't think of anything really from just 2017 outside of the Festival of Friendship. Is it just that we're spoiled on big matches/moments now that it takes something huge to even make a blip on the radar, or is it that the writing has been so mediocre the past year? Braun beating Roman up for five straight minutes has to be on there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 All the times Enzo got booted in the face, as individual entries. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Samoa Joe's "something very bad is about to happen to you" confrontation with Paul Heyman was one of my favorite promos in years. It definitely belongs on the list. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 So I've got a question for anyone who might know. Obviously Wrestle Kingdom was today and so wrestling Twitter is going wild with their star ratings. What I want to know is how come everyone rates wrestling on a 5 point scale? Leading to the absurdity of 4 3/4 stars and all that, which I've always felt was very arbitrary and not a bit silly. If people wanted that much granularity in rating matches how come we've not seen ratings out of 10 or even 20 catch on? As long as I've been online I've wondered how that became the standard, it just always seems a bit silly to see quarter points as the standard system for rating wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 19 hours ago, MonteCarl said: RAW's 25th Anniversary is in two weeks. I was looking at the listing for the Top 100 RAW Moments DVD that was released for their 20th Anniversary (https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe-raw/2012/12/12/3758956/the-top-100-moments-in-raw-history-the-list) and then trying to think of new BIG moments from RAW over the past 5 years that may make it on to a list now. Can't think of many. Festival of Friendship, Shane Returning, Daniel Bryan turning on Bray Wyatt in the cage, and the YES Movement when people filled the ring was all I came up with off the top of my head. Any other "Top 100 RAW Moments" from the past 5 years you can think of? Surprised I'm the first to nominate: Paul Heyman's post WrestleMania XXX Raw promo with Brock Lesnar ending the Undertaker's Undefeated Streak the night before. The opening segment to the post WrestleMania XXXIII RAW opening with Thank You Taker/Roman Sucks chants and Roman Reigns getting nuclear heat brought up by @Godfrey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph2112 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 19 hours ago, RIPPA said: In terms of how the WWE thinks - the Ball family show up is a "big moment" I'd say in hindsight it's clear LiAngelo really stole the show that night. I'll show myself out... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 48 minutes ago, Kropotkin's Beard said: So I've got a question for anyone who might know. Obviously Wrestle Kingdom was today and so wrestling Twitter is going wild with their star ratings. What I want to know is how come everyone rates wrestling on a 5 point scale? Leading to the absurdity of 4 3/4 stars and all that, which I've always felt was very arbitrary and not a bit silly. If people wanted that much granularity in rating matches how come we've not seen ratings out of 10 or even 20 catch on? As long as I've been online I've wondered how that became the standard, it just always seems a bit silly to see quarter points as the standard system for rating wrestling. Well movies usually are on a four star scale, so that probably influenced Meltzer to do it that way, and everyone else does it because he does it that way, or somesuch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Norm Dooley, a fan/sheet writer in the 70s, is generally credited with creating the star rating system in wrestling. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Glad we can kick off the new year with a fresh discussion involving Jim Cornette and whether or not Dave Meltzer has an influence on the way wrestling fans view things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sabremike Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 hours ago, Kuetsar said: Well movies usually are on a four star scale, so that probably influenced Meltzer to do it that way, and everyone else does it because he does it that way, or somesuch. The story I remember is that it was originally a 4 star system until a Funk-Lawler match they saw was so great they decided to give it a 5th star. And the rest as they say is history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kropotkin's Beard Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 5 hours ago, Kuetsar said: Well movies usually are on a four star scale, so that probably influenced Meltzer to do it that way, and everyone else does it because he does it that way, or somesuch. When you say movies are on a four star scale, is that an Ebert thing? Because I can't say I know of it in the UK. I always wondered, the .1/4 stuff always just weirded me. 5/5 makes sense as someone who grew up reading games magazines where it'd usually be out of 5, 10 or 100 (though I can remember one magazine doing it out of 25) but they'd only ever use whole numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRR Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I prefer the use of constellations to rate matches. The Big Dipper is what I put all the finisher fests under. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Movie star rating system started in 1920s in New York. To be wacky, when I was arts editor in college, we called the movie section Film Farm and graded films 0 to 4 and used pigs (4 was pork chops down to 0 for scrapple). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I judge matches on a scale of "that sucked" to "that was really awesome" 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 So the WWE has cancelled the 205Live House Show Friday Jan 19 show due to "routing and scheduling issues" Aka - we weren't selling tickets and Enzo has "the flu" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt925 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Long Beach tickets go on sale January 29. $50-$200. https://www.njpw1972.com/19854 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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