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The general consensus like six years ago was Joe would never end up in WWE because he was too broken down, so all this has been a pleasant surprise. I specifically remember that every time him possibly signing with them was brought up someone would post that gif of that dumb dropkick that he did in the crowd in TNA as a sign he was physically a wreck. This would’ve been around the same time it was unthinkable that Taker would ever wrestle again too, so it was a more innocent time I guess. 

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That Samoa Joe dropkick was a good spot though. Consider AJ Styles, who has done thousands of dropkicks in his career. Can you remember any one specific dropkick he did? Probably not. You just remember he has a good one.

Whereas, if you say Samoa Joe Dropkick, everyone knows exactly which one you mean. Because whilst he only did single figures of dropkicks in his life, one of them was the craziest thing ever.

Just imagine if the Hell in a Cell matches after 1998 never did the 'exit the cage and climb the walls' spot. The Foley bumps off the top would be so much more special if nobody else had done them afterwards.

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28 minutes ago, AxB said:

That Samoa Joe dropkick was a good spot though. Consider AJ Styles, who has done thousands of dropkicks in his career. Can you remember any one specific dropkick he did? Probably not. You just remember he has a good one.

Whereas, if you say Samoa Joe Dropkick, everyone knows exactly which one you mean. Because whilst he only did single figures of dropkicks in his life, one of them was the craziest thing ever.

Just imagine if the Hell in a Cell matches after 1998 never did the 'exit the cage and climb the walls' spot. The Foley bumps off the top would be so much more special if nobody else had done them afterwards.

I remember Mick Foley saying something like this in his first book...which is ironic, because like we discussed earlier Foley is kind of the tipping point for a lot of this stuff.  There is a argument to be made that the reason there hasn't been a wrestling boom in so long is that there is just too much wrestling on television.  It's hard to create electric, must see television when the WWE is broadcasting 7+ hours of television every single week.  Nothing is memorable, because there is too much to process.

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2 hours ago, D.Z said:

Jerry Lawler says WWE may be moving away from heavily scripted promos. They're letting some wrestlers be themselves again on the mic. And bringing back bullets points instead of line by lines thanks to Heyman.

Mostly just for top acts for Raw right now.

I'll believe that when the competitors stop asking for championship opportunities and going to the local medical facility when they get a contusion after getting decimated by other Superstars.

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On 2/13/2020 at 1:03 PM, Dewar said:

Yes. I remember Tyson taking all of the blame for the injury, saying he tried to take the bump in a different way to make the move look more devastating. 

Going back to the Tyson Kidd injury, has this statement ever been verified? This board is the only place I’ve ever heard it, and it’s been reported as truth ever since.  It’s kinda like the Jimmy Valiant glass table story, but I’m not going there. 

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6 minutes ago, A Guy Named Tracy said:

Going back to the Tyson Kidd injury, has this statement ever been verified? This board is the only place I’ve ever heard it, and it’s been reported as truth ever since.  It’s kinda like the Jimmy Valiant glass table story, but I’m not going there. 

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2018/11/tyson-kidd-on-not-blaming-samoa-joe-for-injury-648301/

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WWE producer Tyson Kidd recently spoke with SLAM! Wrestling for a lengthy interview and discussed the June 1, 2015 dark match with Samoa Joe that ended his in-ring career.

Kidd was injured while taking the Muscle Buster from Joe. Kidd talked about how he wasn't supposed to wrestle Joe that night but last minute changes were made. This would be the first match between the wrestling veterans.

"The night of injury, it was just one of those days where the show was being changed -- up to the last minute -- but the show was being changed and the next thing I know it's me against Joe in a dark match," Kidd said. "I'd never worked Joe before. I'd of course seen him. I'm a student of the game, I've seen everybody. But I'd never physically worked him. When we landed on the Muscle Buster, I saw the whitest light I've ever seen. I thought it was a concussion for a second. I remember thinking, 'Man, I did this whole match, completely on the fly, I pulled it off and then I get rocked at the end.'"

Kidd said he believes he had his hands in the wrong position for the finish, which is what caused the injury.

"I have a picture and I think my hands are in the wrong position compared to other ones I've seen. I wasn't able to run through it with him (before the match)," Kidd explained. "I drop, bang, and at first I saw this light and I was like, 'Ah, man.' And then my whole body went limp. It felt like it weighed a million pounds. I was completely paralyzed. I was paralyzed from the neck down."

 

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1 hour ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

Colonel Robert Parker was his idea!? ...And you guys say this man isn’t a genius.

Yeah, he wouldn't come into WCW in 93 without him. According to Schiavone during the Slamboree 93 WHW episode, it was also because Sid kinda had a "roid rage" issue. So I guess Parker was his handler.

From that though, Parker kept drawing a check from being on the booking committee long after he wasn't on the booking committee. That's so WCW.

3 hours ago, DreamBroken said:

 

So weird hearing Sid talk about "the man" and it not being about his own wrestling persona.

I want a TED talk with Sid on institutional racism and how the prison system in the 21st century is symbolic of that.

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6 hours ago, supremebve said:

There is nothing more unrealistic in wrestling than someone being in a sleeper for more than about 10 seconds.  If you cut the blood off to the brain for more than about 10 seconds that person is going to pass out...100% of the time.  I watched the Kushida/Adam Cole match from NXT last week and Kushida locks in his kimura and steps over Cole's head, which is the exact right technique.  Here's the problem, from that position he has all the leverage in the world, and Cole has none.  Kushida could have ripped his shoulder out of it's socket and taken it home as a trophy, and Cole couldn't really do anything to stop him.  Of course, Cole drags Kushida's entire body weight to the ropes despite the fact that Kushida could have used a fraction of his strength to destroy his shoulder in a way that could end his career.  If Cole can drag a fully grown man who clearly knows how to apply a kimura to the ropes, why can't someone suplex a man with his penis?  It's just as realistic.

This is probably how our opinions differ, but my argument is not directly contrarary to yours. Both are unrealistic, but never in the same vein. 

One is a move with instantly hurts, knocks out, makes one tap in a fight, milked & drawn out for dramatic purposes. The other is a move that would never work in real life. 

If the overworked Kimura is more unrealistic to you than the Penis Suplex, that's definetly your cup of tea, but you yourself laid out perfectly while it is still perfectly reasonable to differentiate the two. My point is that I don't agree with the sentiment of "Wrestling always had unrealistic stuff in it, there is no difference between invisible handgrenades and an Irish Whip or a Sleeper hold!"

What breaks ones immersion is subjective. But if the Taken movie all of the sudden has a scene with a dude grabbing Liam Neesons crotch, then sommersaulting it would be a different way of portraying unrealism than Liam Neeson fighting out of a choke in 20 instead of 10 seconds. 

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Did Chucky T ever even do a second invisible hand grenade? Because to the best of my recollection, it was a spot he tried once on a PWG show, it didn't get over, and was almost completely forgotten for like 4 years before it suddenly started flying around Twitter and people started tagging Cornette.

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12 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said:

Did Chucky T ever even do a second invisible hand grenade? Because to the best of my recollection, it was a spot he tried once on a PWG show, it didn't get over, and was almost completely forgotten for like 4 years before it suddenly started flying around Twitter and people started tagging Cornette.

I know of 2, one in CHIKARA vs. The Colony, and one on Ciampa during that BOLA.  

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