tbarrie
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Jack Perry is 26 years old. That's still young enough to be a bit of an idiot, in my opinion, even if he's been wrestling a while.
Sammy Guevara is 30 years old, and married with a child. So he has less of an excuse for idiocy I'd say.
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33 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Unfortunately if you do this for WWE you really have to keep your eyes peeled for any select good parts that will be overwhelmed by the suck.
Is that still true, though? I jumped ship to AEW when it started and haven't been sufficiently dissatisfied with it to jump back, so I have no direct knowledge. But I occasionally pop into the WWE folder here, and I got the impression its shows had improved significantly since then.
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24 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
I take it you don't follow New Japan. Kyle Fletcher and his partner Mark Davis were part of Ospreay's faction, United Empire. Plus, Excalibur mentioned that Aussie Open lived with Ospreay during their time in the UK. So, the story was definitely there. It was more than Ospreay vs. some guy.
Thanks, but my comment was less to do with any perceived lack of backstory and more to do with how inherently uninteresting What's-His-Name is.
I mean, if they pulled some random guy off the street, told us he had been Ospreay's gardener for years, and put him in a match with Ospreay, would that be main event worthy?
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Well, putting Will Ospreay vs Some Guy in the main event slot was certainly a choice.
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35 minutes ago, EVA said:
Jack has been pretty upfront about loving wrestling for the in-ring and not really caring about promos, thus never really putting any effort into getting better until the past year or two. If I’m remembering correctly, the original concept of the Jungle Boy character was that he would be mostly mute for precisely that reason.
I actually liked Jungle Boy more before he started working on his promos. He was so bad it was oddly charming. Now he's just sort of okayish, which is a lot less interesting.
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Wasn't it explicitly stated in the show's intro?
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On 3/4/2024 at 10:33 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:
I don't think Roman retains. But, until the palm hits the mat for the 3rd time... anything is possible.
Or even after! They could have Cody pin Roman then reverse the decision the next night on Raw. Cody might even like this idea, as an homage to his father.
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24 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
I still think Christian and his tribe have great value but I will agree with one thing, Danny should have won and the belt needs to go elsewhere. He doesn't need a reign like two of the champions on the other channels. Wouldn't an insecure and panicky Christian running after the belt again be better than just lording it over everyone?
I honestly thought we'd see Copeland intervene leading to Garcia winning the title. (More likely preventing Christian's flunkies from interfering than outright screwing Christian over, of course.) Disappointed that didn't happen.
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1 hour ago, Sublime said:
Wasn’t Sammy in the match with Matt too? Maybe Sammy has a subconscious desire to kill the Hardy’s
Or a conscious desire. We don't know!
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13 hours ago, odessasteps said:
Brazil show up Only to find out it’s a team of Doombots.
If that's a joke specifically about Brazil's team, I'm afraid I don't know enough about soccer to get it.
But yes, the top human team probably has to play a team of Doombots for the Cup.
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But thinking about it further, why would he want to? For the prestige of the World Cup is as nothing compared to the CUP OF DOOM - which only DOOM may bestow! So let the greatest footballers make their way to Latveria to test their mettle - IF THEY DARE!
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On 3/3/2024 at 5:11 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:
Owen is thigh slapping his ass off in WWF in 93/94 so that is way before Tajiri.
Well, you want a nice loud sound when you kick the leg out of somebody's leg.
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26 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Was thinking today about the Latverian national futbol team. What formation do they play? Would even Dr. Doom hire JoseMourinho as his coach? Is he pro or anti using his team for sportswashing? Would he ever bid to host the World Cup?
To your last question: no. If Doom wanted to host the World Cup, he would seize the right to do so by force.
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23 minutes ago, EVA said:
Much to speak of tonight, but first we must acknowledge that a not-insignificant number of people in the audience in Greensboro apparently thought Will Ospreay is Australian and/or Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher are the same person (hopefully the post-match clarified the latter).
The latter seems like an odd mistake to make. Doesn't Ospreay have a personality of sorts?
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Also, it turns out an All-Star Scramble includes a Meat Madness! I need to familiarize myself more with the Denny's breakfast menu.
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So am I just high on emotion, or was that the best Young Bucks match ever?
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1 hour ago, AxB said:
If Swerve and Christian had defeated Stong and Darby at All In 2023, would that have really mattered? Unless Darby is supposed to have an "Undefeated in Coffin Matches" gimmick I suppose.
I think he is supposed to have such a gimmick.
51 minutes ago, JLowe said:I’m on the record (in this thread I think) predicting that after they win the tag match, Sting is going to challenge Darby to a (short) singles match where he puts Darby over.
I thought of mentioning that scenario (but couldn't remember who proposed it). It would be sort of a best-of-both-worlds situation. I'd like to see it, though I'm not sure we will.
1 hour ago, Matt D said:It's 2024. I'd say there's more value in fan perception and brand trust to having AEW treat a legend on the level of Sting properly than to have him put over someone established on the way out.
Oh, certainly having somebody already established beat Sting would be pointless. But somebody who's popular but hasn't really been treated as a top guy? Like, say, a Darby Allin? That could do some good I think.
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1 hour ago, JLowe said:
All in tags/multi-man matches though.
Fair. But still, if you bring in a legend who's near retirement, you'd think you'd want them to put somebody over before they retired.
Of course, you'd want that somebody not to be a Young Buck, so...
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31 minutes ago, The Natural said:
Sting should go out on a win.
My only qualm with that is that, on paper, letting a sexagenarian go completely undefeated over your roster for a couple of years is odd booking.
But then, it's Sting and everybody loves him, so why not?
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Why is Willie Mack teaming with heels?
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8 minutes ago, Craig H said:
All That You Can’t Leave Behind has a pretty decent argument for being one of the best albums of this century. Or does 2000 count as part of the previous century?
2000 was the last year of the twentieth century, yes.
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7 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
Nope, amazingly Cash has only had three AEW singles matches, all losses: Jay Lethal, Jeff Cobb and Dax himself during the Owen qualifiers
And Dax has had loads of singles matches, but I believe that win over Cash is his only singles victory.
Still unsure whether they're deliberately portraying the members of FTR as terrible singles wrestlers.
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I figured Ric would pretend to turn on Sting only to turn on the Bucks. It reinforces that you can't trust Ric Flair without ending things for Sting on a sour note. But I thought they would save it for the actual PPV match.
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7 minutes ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
Is Julia hurt? I don't remember her wrestling lately.
Hmm. Googling "Julia Hart status" turns up a couple of news sites saying she is in fact hurt. No idea if they're reliable, though. So maybe?
WRESTLEMANIA XL - 4/6 & 4/7/2024
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That reminds me - I saw part of last year's match and wasn't sure how to react to the finish. I meant to ask here for some context but never got around to it.
Specifically: had Roman been relying on copious interference to retain his title in previous defences? Or was he just mowing opponents down prior to 'Mania? If it was the latter, then I think the outcome was fine, because having to resort to means he hadn't before at least represents a progression in the story. But if it's the former, I think doing a "same old same old" finish in the Wrestlemania main event is pretty bad writing, at least when it's not the result the fans wanted.