Jump to content
DVDVR Message Board

MORELOCK

Members
  • Posts

    2,818
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

Everything posted by MORELOCK

  1. I didn't question their motives until I read this.
  2. I guess the crowd loudly cheering the eye-rollingly extended heel beatdown isn't enough reason for them to call an audible and cut it short. The announcers going on about how offended the crowd were that Orton would dare do that to Matt Hardy was hilarious. Like, just cut the fucking crowd mics if you aren't going to live in reality? Just dub in the reaction you want, since you obviously aren't going to listen to the real one?
  3. One of the all-time worst fantasy booking ideas in the history of DVDVR.
  4. Oops. Boring show from a boring company. A few more of these and I'll start going full-on AEW Kool Aid Man.
  5. The biggest flaw in this analogy? Radio stations did eventually stop playing "Happy" after it wore itself out. There's no sign of NXT's booking or matches doing anything new or interesting anywhere on the card. Where's the next big hit? Who knows, because we aren't going to play any other song but "Happy," over and over, until the end of time.
  6. Nah. There's really zero reason for anyone to blade in that match. You know what match it actually makes sense to have blood in? Cody-MJF. Which is where the cage should have come in.
  7. Corny mentioned filming a bunch of random documentary interviews about various things around the time he inducted the Rock N Rolls, it's probably from that.
  8. I know you guys love my hot takes, so here's another one: no one should bleed in that cage match. Really, it shouldn't be a cage match at all, but mainly what I mean is that if there's blood in every cage match that just becomes another predictable spot in the creeping automation of modern professional wrestling, and as such will eventually mean nothing at all.
  9. Dustin-Cody was my MOTY last year, but I'd be lying if I said his stock didn't go way, way down with me the second he started doing that move.
  10. WONDERFUL news, as I was sure the injury he'd gotten so long ago was career-ending.
  11. I don't think anyone was making that argument. Size and look matters moreso here and not as much in your examples because pro wrestling isn't actually based on who is the superior athlete. It's based on who's the most marketable.
  12. Not saying it's excessively vulgar or anything, just that if the company was trying to present an image that encouraged kids to watch, they wouldn't be looking for an excuse to say "shit" once per episode. Is it stupid that anyone is offended by that word? Sure. But that's the status quo. I don't think it's a wise policy - I can't imagine that whoever is being drawn in by "gonna cuss on the mic tonight!" is worth the amount of younger fans it could potentially cost them. I can't be the only one whose parents were like "Yeah, you're watching Nitro on Monday nights or you aren't watching wrestling" during the height of the Attitude Era.
  13. The company is very intentionally not courting kids. Or we wouldn't hear "shit" in every promo. If they're smart they'll retool that awful fucking gimmick, too. Definitely not something that sets the promotion apart from WWE.
  14. I don't see why people are harping on the Darby-Jeff comparison, I think it fits perfectly and those kinds of analogies are directed at the same lapsed fans that JR is there to attract. It can only help in making Darby look more like a star. If AEW is supposed to be about "let's look ONLY to the future" then why are Tully and Arn and Dustin there? Why all the Dusty references? Why the regional old school tributes? JR is doing fine. He was also apparently instrumental in getting Tony there. I shudder to think about what an Excalibur-Marvez booth would have sounded like.
  15. The Bellas certainly deserve to be in more than Torrie Wilson, but I don't remember this much venom being sent her way. It's weird that people transfer their hatred for the Johnny Ace Diva Search Era to the Bellas. It's like the Randy Orton hate in that it seems to be based on what they represent rather than anything they've actually done. Nikki busted her ass to improve in the ring, and in the process kept up with the women referred to on this board as some of the best women's wrestlers in the world.
  16. This was the match I was talking about a couple of pages ago. I remember being impressed and thinking he could go if given the opportunity. But four years later I'm guessing this was his first and last opportunity.
  17. I don't know that Santana needed to cut a promo seeming mostly fine an hour after getting his eye stabbed. Maybe hold that off until next week, or Dark at least? Kind of a shame because that promo is the most I've seen out of either of those guys, but it seemed very out of place to me.
  18. Riddle tweeting that Goldberg is the worst wrestler in the business isn't grabbing for the brass ring. It isn't even building up a match between the two, because if one were to take place, Riddle is basically saying it would suck. It's also the same thing everyone jumped down Corey Graves's throat for. The difference is that the general IWC opinion agreed with RIddle and disagreed with Graves.
  19. The omnibus thread is for miscellaneous wrestling talk - things that don't have a clear place in a specific thread. There's no reason to be having the same conversation in several different threads, or have the same gifs posted across multiple threads.
  20. They absolutely should disband. Getting a new member would mean prolonging their story, which is already excruciatingly long. Their dominance over everything in the show for two years is a huge part of why NXT is no longer must-see.
  21. Her place in AEW would clearly be "Rusev's valet." There isn't a real reason why AEW should bring in Rusev without her. I don't see how she's an albatross. His issues with the company over the years seem to point to some creep backstage trying as hard as he can to break them up. Unless Tony Khan plans on running endless breakup angles trying to make life imitate art, it wouldn't be an issue in AEW.
  22. Anyone have a link to some kind of UK Professional Wrestling Rulebook? Need to see if there's an actual rule requiring everyone to have that haircut.
  23. Good to hear - they've always been better than Joy Division.
×
×
  • Create New...