Guest Edwin Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 17 hours ago, Hayabusa said: Did Lio Rush and Darby Allin ever meet in a singles match? Tbh that's the one dream opponent I see for Lio with their fast forward style of dodging and countering moves in, to me personally, unique ways. They each have a version of spinning away from attacks running to the side out of harm's way that I think looks neat and I'm curious if this a match worth tracking down if it happened? That's possibly the worst match up for either. It's going to look a like choreographed dance routine. Their best matches are usually them playing the much tinnier underdogs against giants. WALTER/Darby and Lio/Keith Lee from EVOLVE for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 22 hours ago, odessasteps said: A large percentage of their audience would probably be jealous of his toy collection. Well now I'm sad that Lucha Underground still isn't a thing so he can use his real-life action figure collecting habit for a gimmick where he is obsessed with beating wrestlers so he can use some sort of Lucha Underground vignette magic to literally turn and trap the wrestlers he defeats into action figures. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 All that stuff about Lio being an egomaniac and hard to work with... you ever notice how stuff like that seems to come out about every WWE wrestler who isn't a total sycophantic bootlicker? Not to mention, Rhea Riplay uses the F word (the homophobic one, not the acceptable substitute for every word in the language one) on a stream and the story is She's young, everyone makes mistakes. Lio does one tweet in his kayfabe character and suddenly he's a shoot arsehole? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 2 hours ago, EVA said: IIRC it was one of those temperamental Vince deals where Colt had a bad match on the wrong day, and Vince was just fucking done with him. I believe there were a couple of weird firings like that around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnatural Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Edwin said: That's possibly the worst match up for either. It's going to look a like choreographed dance routine. Their best matches are usually them playing the much tinnier underdogs against giants. WALTER/Darby and Lio/Keith Lee from EVOLVE for example. To me they're Rey Mysterio and Rey Fenix all over again, a unique matchup with two guys with exclusive offense to their arsenal and seeing what they bring when they match up is where the fun lies. Hence the to me personally part. You want a worst matchup for Darby, give him Marko. You want a worst matchup for Lio, give him Nakazawa. High flyers with unique offense going toe to toe is probably 50/50 tied with David vs Goliath matches when it comes to using smaller flyers, although that probably comes down to individual taste? Choreographed dance routine? Like most go-go-go matches these days don't come off like that already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Another NXT victim: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorceressKnight Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 8 hours ago, AxB said: Damien Sandow first entered WWE developmental in 2003, nine years before his main roster debut-as-Sandow. He had lots of gimmicks before that (and quite a few after). They never fully explained why the intellectual saviour of the masses became a stunt double, did they? They did, but it took a few steps to get there: Sandow is intellectual savior of the masses. During the Occupy Raw segment, Sandow was sent out to try and disperse the crowd, and failed miserably, going back to it. They then sold as a plot point "The Authority lost faith in Sandow because he couldn't disperse the crowd and stop Daniel Bryan's protest." The fact Sandow had The Authority lose faith in him caused something to snap inside Sandow. For a couple months after that, Sandow started impersonating various people or things onscreen. Eventually one week, he impersonated The Miz, and The Miz kept him around as a stunt double. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Apparently Kassius Ohno was released (not moving to trainer as speculated) Also Twitter is saying Taynara and Tino Sabatelli are other cuts EDIT - Taynara's release was confirmed by PWI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 If Hero is indeed free, Phil and Eric and Matt should get him to review some French wrestling on SC. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Fightful said that they reached out to Ohno to confirm what is going on and he hasn't responded to anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 23 minutes ago, RIPPA said: EDIT - Taynara's release was confirmed by PWI She fake left only to get really released. I think Russo booked this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) Taynara and possibly Kassius, too? Taynara was one of the Florida loop favorites. Edited April 17, 2020 by Edwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Wasn’t Ohno already a trainer in UK or was he still doing the player/coach thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Just now, (BP) said: Wasn’t Ohno already a trainer in UK or was he still doing the player/coach thing? He denied the rumors he was a trainer on a reddit AMA and said he only did coaching once or twice when a trainer couldn't make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southside Jim Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) Vince making Ohno wear a singlet, with his gut, was just baffling. Just have the guy wear a t-shirt and long tights. Edited April 17, 2020 by Southside Jim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Okay - Fightful confirmed Tino Sabbatelli And PWI - besides Tanyara - reported that Cezar Bononi and Mars Wang were also released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 One of my favorite exchanges on the board was the first time Hero got hired and they announced his new name. Like four people posted “Oh no” at the same time, and then someone posted a picture of the Kool-Aid Man. 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, Southside Jim said: Vince making Ohno wear a singlet, with his gut, was just baffling. Just have the guy wear a t-shirt and long tights. I doubt Vince is in charge of what guys in NXT wear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Southside Jim said: Vince making Ohno wear a singlet, with his gut, was just baffling. Just have the guy wear a t-shirt and long tights. Was the a Vince call? I can't imagine him having a strong preference about the attire of someone who amounted to being a lower-tier NXT guy. Edit: Great minds, @Johnny Sorrow Edited April 17, 2020 by West Newbury Bad Boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Can't say I'm overly empathetic that Taynara is gone after that shitty pregnancy "April Fools Joke" of hers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said: She fake left only to get really released. I think Russo booked this. Oh man, and she’s expecting. Awful talent BTW. Couldn’t even run the ropes, and instead power walked. Edited April 17, 2020 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 32 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Okay - Fightful confirmed Tino Sabbatelli And PWI - besides Tanyara - reported that Cezar Bononi and Mars Wang were also released Mars Wang? That's rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Spoiler Say it to his face. Pic is safe for work, just gigantic. I can understand one not wanting to open up a spoiler box pertaining to Mars Wang. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 "HOLD MY GUN" huh? Well damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) deleted Edited April 18, 2020 by Nice Guy Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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