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  1. Takes!

    I think Ospreay is the biggest HHH-wishlist guy that he's ever failed to get. I think he's going to try the global expansion/territorial NXT thing again. Not saying that Will wouldn't be a main roster guy but I think he factored into their broader European plans. Japan and Mexico have more talent to poach.

    I also think either A) they didn't know Will was this good of a promo and they're pissed about it, or, B) they knew Will was this good of a promo and they're pissed about it. I am the furthest thing from an Ospreay guy but his mic work is leaps and bounds better than I assumed it would be and it makes Will way more valuable than Okada and Mercedes right off the bat.

    Last take - Ospreay vs. Seth on Twitter was 90% a work, and WWE guys are gonna continue to start fake Twitter beef with potential future signees so they can score an early feud.

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  2. 2 hours ago, TheVileOne said:

    What AEW did tonight was pathetic, petty, nonsense. Trying to tie it into Young Bucks versus FTR was moronic. It served no one and it helped no one. Tony Khan proved Punk right by airing that footage. He’s a spineless clown.
     

    What did AEW gain in any way by airing that? They won’t even book Jack Perry on TV anymore. This was a disgrace. There is no coming back from this ever.

    Embarrassing trash.

    It's bad enough to have to tolerate iffy TV, but having to navigate a sea of scorching hot weirdo takes that insist on elevating "that sucked" to "(whatever the fuck this is)" makes everything so, so much worse.

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  3. I can barely have a civil, sensible conversation about AEW anywhere on the internet right now. Please God no more. Now we know what happened. Every child that already decided they were gonna scream WCW at this (despite not knowing what the fuck they were talking about) is going to for months and everyone that supports this company is going to have their joy eroded if they even bother to peek into the larger wrestling discourse. No mas.

    Please focus your energy on booking bigger matches when you have a presumed ratings bump. Please focus on giving Mariah May a microphone so she can explain to a live crowd who debuting wrestlers are. Please sequence matches and segments anything but randomly.

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  4. 10 hours ago, EVA said:

    Tony Khan doesn’t give a fuck about $1600.

    But the person running AEW’s travel, who wants to be seen as running a financially efficient department, probably does!

    No, Tony runs everything. Every single decision AEW has ever made was a unilateral decision by Tony, or at least the ones I don't like. Tony. TONY.

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  5. 3 hours ago, JLowe said:

    As for the main event: Swerve is on a heater, and is destined for the championship, and it needs to be soon...BUT...Takeshita deserved that win. It’s very fair to say that this one has too many kick outs of big moves (although at least not a top rope blue Thunder bomb this time). I think both guys were winded at the end, and maybe one or both were a little fuzzy (Takeshita got his fucking head stomped on the ring apron), and things ended a little shaky/slow. Let Takeshita take the Continental title off Strong and have a fun run with it.

    Given the face/heel splits, I think Takeshita being the one to dethrone Copeland makes the most sense. Cope vs. Callis Family seems so easy and obvious, and they've got some other Canadian shows theyre running in May and I think the timing for it would be perfect.

    And since Callis Family in-fighting is an established scenario following Ospreay's matches, there's no reason you can't run a Hobbes-Wants-His-Belt-Back match as a Collision main or something.

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  6. What's been lost in the AEW free agent talk is that they were bidding against a company owned by the most anti-worker entity in American pro sports. I think the number has been about 15% of the UFC's revenue goes to the fighters. Thr big four sports leagues are a hair under 50/50.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    As bloody as the IWA Japan match is (and man between all those guys that is a fuckload of blood) I think Sasaki/Nagata is on like an Eddie/JBL level of blood loss, rather than bloodletting. Does that make sense? 

    Also, if you aren't familiar, the IWA Japan match is the one Foley writes about in his book where they would have shut down the Tokyo Dome if they set the board on fire and the owner was yelling "YOU RUIN ME!" and paintbrushed the poor referee in the back over it. 

    Oh yeah, nah, it's a battle for second. Nagata vs. Sasaki is gross.

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  8. 1 hour ago, AxB said:

    What is the bloodiest match to have taken place in the Tokyo Dome?

    from that weird, good Bridge of Dreams card

    Barbed Wire Board & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Bunkhouse Death Match
    Leatherface, Shoji Nakamaki & Terry Funk vs. The Headhunters (Headhunter A & Headhunter B) & Cactus Jack

    https://archive.org/details/bridge-of-dreams-dome-spring-full-bloom/1995.04.02g-IWAJ-Barbed+Wire+Board+Super+Scramble+Bunkhouse+6-Man+Tag+Death+Match-Funk%2C+Leatherface%2C+Nakamaki+VS+Cactus%2C+Headhunters.mp4

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  9. 4 hours ago, blitzkrieg said:

    So I finished Deus Ex: The Conspiracy(the PS2 port of Deus Ex) and have to say it was a fun little game. I really liked the storyline, choices, and the feeling like you could do anything at any time. It is a game that undoubtedly is probably better experienced on the PC but they did a pretty good job of simplifying things for the PS2. Probably the only big complaints I had were that the skill/augmentation system felt a little useless at times, the lead-up to the ending(s) being a bit anti-climatic, and the load times between sections being a bit annoying if you got lost or had to back track. There's part of me that wants to try another playthrough but I think I'd be more inclined to do it with the PC version than the PS2.

    I too do not know why I liked the PS2 version. I think it might be on account of the fact that it trimmed some fat, but my better theory is that the framerate made me ditch sniper rifles and make that big blue fancy sword my main weapon, which wound up being a very fun way to play.

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  10. 16 minutes ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

    I've never really watched SMW but just started the TV from 1992 and I have nothing but love for Tim Horner coming out to "The Thunder Rolls."

    I like how it implied that Horner's opponent was always his husband and he was gonna murder him on account of all the cheatin'.

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  11. Has the recent surge of WWE success led to an influx of children infilrating online wrestling discussion? Is the continued practice of less moderation inviting negative actors to create abad takes -> more arguments -> more clicks reaching a saturation point? Does the wrestling I like suck now? Am I just terribly depressed?

    Why does talking about wrestling on the internet suck more now that it ever has? This board doesn't even feel right. I just don't want to do it. I think of conversations worth starting, or matches worth sharing,, and then I consider the effort that it would take to post them *anywhere* and then I don't.

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