Ramsey
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1 hour ago, ChrisM said:
It's a good name. Neckbeards are just hateful.
I named my son Neckbeard...you insensitive bastard.
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I feel like a bad fan. This year I have ZERO interest in Mania. I'll be watching some of it with my youngest daughter, but the moment her 12 year old attention span is done, I'm out. I trust the brain trust here to let me know on Monday if I missed anything good. I HATE feeling this way about the biggest show of the year.
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This was tough. Very tough. At the end of the day, I grew up loving JCP in the 80's.
Old school...
Revival gets my vote.
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Currently a bunch of Legion of Super Heroes from the early 80's Levitz/Giffen run. Perfectly juggled a cast of of thousands while creating a unified vision of the DC Universe a thousand years from now(then.) Really very good stuff.
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Christ, they are gonna boo Roman out of the building. Mind you, I don't think there's much choice here. Also, PLEASE Taker...let this be the last one.
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While there is no denying how fun DIY has been, I'm waaaay old school and the old school vote goes to the Revival. They make me feel young....and pretty again.
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On the mic, Miz is somewhat better. In the ring, A.J. is one fo the top 10 in the world right now.
A.J. wins this one for me in a walk.
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Ric Flair + 80's + big gold belt and penchant for public nudity = please never tell me
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I'm very much looking forward to this game. The original ME series was so good, so immersive, I can't wait to get it on a next gen machine. With that said, I've always just played the RPG/campaign side of the game. I'm not a multi-player guy at all (in any game really) but ME was always good at making sure you could duck the multiplayer angle all together if you wanted to.
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AXE GROPAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
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I too was digging the hell out of some mid-80's Ron Bass recently. I first saw him as a kid in the WWE(F) but came to realize as an older dude what a great worker he really was. A killer bad ass cowboy.
RIP Outlaw.
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Well, I have an Xbox One so fuck this and fuck all of you for being happy.
Shit...I'm buying a PS4, aren't I...
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4 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Roode IS bland but I can't see how someone would think he's bland and Tye isn't.
Story line, baby, story line! Tye is the underdog, the Tommy Dreamer of NXT if you will. He gets close but gets screwed over and over again. The crowd is waiting for his big win. With Bobby, they see the guy with "Glorious" on his robe.
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Once Bobby's intro is over, he's Terry Taylor with better hair. He's just....there. Tye is growing as a character. I'm invested in his story. I want to see him get his big win. With Roode, I'm just waiting for Hero to knock his block off and move to the next program. Tye by a mile.
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35 minutes ago, Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 said:
It's really not that bad. The matches are short. I think i finished the whole thing in under an hour.
Ok, cool. I really only want Sting/Flair and Birds/Von Erichs and their respective arenas anyway. Thanks for the info!
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So, is there anyway to unlock all of the Hall of Fame stuff without playing the showcase? Please...oh please let there be...
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Well, I guess I'll have to hunt for a good CAW of Gordy and David. I WILL play the VonErichs vs. the Freebirds in a six man match.
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The UK title match was indeed great.
With that said, the women's division went from AMAZING to "we recycle the same four women and then Asuka." I realize the Horsewomen all moved up but sweet jeebus am I tired of the Aussie Mean Girls, "other Carmella," and Ember Moon. They have other women on the roster but keep dishing up mix and match of the same four over and over.
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1 hour ago, Victator said:
Its not like Savage and Steamboat were Mike Jackson and George South. Savage and Steamboat were the number two match on one of the biggest shows of all time. In the lead up Steamboat was teaming with Hogan on house shows.
By the exchange rate I just made up, Steamboat in 87 was a main eventer by modern standards.Steamboat's 1989 wasn't bad either. He had two or three good matches...
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3 hours ago, CreativeControl said:
We're doomed to having a 'Tripping JBL' gimmick now aren't we?
You say that like it's a bad thing. Anytime you feel bad about him tripping, remember "if you were going to build a sports entertainer from the ground up, he would look like Randy Orton" or "it's Big Fight John." That should ease your guilt...
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Tanahashi, Shibata, Okada,Omega, Suzuki, and Goto
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9 minutes ago, FFTHEWINNER said:
7:if AJPW is currently japan's ROH(3rd company),then what is japan's TNA(2nd company)? NOAH?
Probably.
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I realize you may disagree with what I'm telling you on these matters, but the facts are what they are.
1: Baba and his wife ran everything. All decisions were made by them, regardless of the size of the company. Some of the long term contracts with talent were handshake deals.
3. NTV's television show followed NOAH. This isn't subject to conjecture. That is what happened. It might not be possible here but it was there and it happened.
5. In Japan, in 2000 and after, it was 100% true. Thus, what happened, happened.
6. Mutoh felt personally responsible and it happened on his watch as boss so he did what he did.
7. I don't think there were a lot of volunteers lining up to captain a burning ship. Plus, Mrs. Baba was notoriously hard to work with. Ultimately, the soul of AJPW as it was belonged to Giant Baba and when he died, the company started it's decline. As it sits, AJPW is sort of the ROH of Japan.
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I think I can answer nearly all of your questions with "Japanese business culture works differently than it does here." Let's run down the list.
1: Baba was the booker, AJPW was a mom and pop shop but all of the actual wrestling stuff was handled by Giant Baba himself. Mrs. Baba needed a wrestler to handle that part of it and Misawa made the most sense. She did try and flex her muscles with him and he left. She no longer owns any part of AJPW as far as I know.
2. No clue on ratings but I know that both AJPW and NJPW (just like WWE and WCW) had up and down periods in the ratings over the years.
3. "Japanese business culture works differently than it does here." TV deals included.
4. NJPW did it out of respect for Baba's memory AND to spike their own houses as they were down somewhat in the early 2000's. By that point, it was clear AJPW was no threat to NJPW anymore. From what I remember, the booking was relatively fair to both companies.
5. The best talent AJPW had was gone. It would be like a buying a house Elvis used to live in just to try and make a new Elvis. Reputation does nothing when the talent has flown and it all did.
6. "Japanese business culture works differently than it does here."
7. Which backstabber are we referring to?
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WRESTLEMANIA 33 POST SHOW THREAD
in WWE PROGRAMMING
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I agree with a lot of what's been said here. WHY WHY WHY did Orton win here? The guy has the charisma of a glass of 1% milk and yet he keeps getting the ball over guys that can out work and out talk him. I LOATHE his gimmick, his matches, and his...oh fuck I probably hate his car too. Poor Bray...again...
I didn't HATE Triple H vs. Rollins but it was far too long. Hunter still does decent work for a dude his age. He's in great shape and knows how to get the crowd into the match. Rollins wasn't great here. Rollins really hasn't been great a lot post-Shield. It was what it was.
I will, however, part with the "Roman was awful" crowd. Seriously, what did y'all expect of him. You saw what Taker brought. He's been done for two years. Roman had a hostile crowd (as always) a sack of bones to work with, AND was in the main event of the biggest show of the year. It was a bullshit position to be in and I don't know that AJ Style could have done much better with what was left of the Undertaker.