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  1. AxB
    Watch Bodyguard or shut up.
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    I always kind of got a Mexican Ultimate Warrior vibe from him. Like he's over because of his physique and his push, not because of his work. Although his promos are a lot more accessible than Warrior's were.
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    Was Konnan ever good? What's his best match ever? Is it a six man he was barely featured in?
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    Like that ECW angle with Lance Storm and Tommy Dreamer?
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    Spoilers, man, spoilers! People got pissed off to find out (before they saw the movie) that Ryan Gosling was a replicant who couldn't express human emotions*, and that was given away in the first five minutes. * and not only that, he was also playing one in this movie.
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    Right, about the end of Blade Runner 2049: Should have called it Blade Walker 2049. Blade Stroller. Blade Ambler. It's slow, is what I'm saying.
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    Khabib appears to be getting the hang of the whole media circus deal. First he said he'd had a WWE offer, and now he's challenged Mayweather.
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    Only available on Fite TV in the UK. 5Spike can't be arsed anymore
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    I watched Blade Runner 2049. Top tip if you are planning to watch it: Make sure you get a very good night's sleep before you do. Because the movie is paced ponderously. Very ponderously. It's 150 minutes long, but you could easily have told the same story in 90. Obviously my ability to enjoy it is handicapped by the fact that the main star is blank faced charisma vacuum Ryan Goosling (yes I know loads of you think he's great. I've mentioned several times that I irrationally dislike him and can't enjoy his performances. Just accept it. If Shia LaBeouf somehow made a great movie and Natural said he couldn't get into it, you'd accept that, right? Accept I hate Ryan Gosling). Now it looks fantastic, there's barely a frame of this film that doesn't look like it should be hanging in an art gallery somewhere. But the plot doesn't really live up to the visuals. And as for the ending, it's not letting me insert a spoiler tag on my phone, so I'll add my thoughts on that later. But let's just say I thought it was cowardice on the part of the writer. To be explained when I get home and am at a proper computer. I'm not going to say it's not worth seeing. But it wasn't worth waiting 32 years for. In a word, disappointing.
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    So I've been watching some of the early AJPW Triple Crown matches(from 1989 up to 91 so far), and it's odd how un-AJPW-ish they feel. Because you think of classic Triple Crown matches as the height of pure sport pro-wrestling, but here they are brawling through the crowd, using chairs, blading, doing post-match attacks. Now admittedly Stan Hansen is a part of most of these matches, but he's not always the one to instigate the 'fight without honour' style. And Misawa was swinging chairs around while wrestling Tsuruta too. The other thing is, the Misawa vs Hansen from July '90, for the vacant belt after Terry Gordy was hospitalised, Misawa spends the whole match working over the left arm. Which is Hansen's lariat arm, with all of his other attacks coming from the right. And Hansen is selling the hell out of this armwork, screaming in pain and that. And then later in the match he hits the lariat no problem. Felt a bit inorganic, that. He could have got another move over as an alternative finisher, but because they weren't planning on phasing him down, they wanted to keep his killshot a killer. I don't think they were planning on phasing Jumbo down either, but he had that medical issue. Another odd thing, Stan Hansen was born in 1949, and Tsuruta in 1951. So I'm watching matches where they're in their late thirties, or very early forties. And yet they look old to me. Even though I'm older now than they were then. They both looked older than, say, Dwayne Johnson (who is 46) does today. Is there something about growing up in the 50s and 60s that made people, like, age faster? I also watched a (clipped) Tsuruta vs Tenryu from 83. Meng was one of the young boys at ringside. Scariest young boy ever. It's all on the youtube, by the way. Earthquake was a young boy in 89.
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    How to break up a pinfall, Mr Pogo style:
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    Does 50 Cent actually part-own Bellator now? Because apparently he's offered Khabib $2 million to sign for them. On his twitter, which I can't be arsed to check. I couldn't figure out how Fifty was giving a Million bucks to the winner of the Middleweight tournament when he was bankrupt a year ago, but apparently it was one of those 'clear my debts and I'll keep my money' celebrity bankruptcies.
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    Not to shit on Gursinder too much, but if you look at Rohit's matches when he was a singles X Division guy (and apparently in his pre-Impact indie career), he was really working that style well. But in the Desi Hit Squad, he slowed it down and basic-ed it up quite a lot. Which might be because he knew Gursinder was green/ limited and didn't want to become the Janetty of the team, effortlessly outshining his partner every night. And Gursinder's more basic offence wouldn't really even be excused by him being the power guy of the team because he's skinny and not that tall (Ortiz only just gets away with being the power man of LAX because he has a few Cruiserweight strength spots, but it's not like he's Latino Dick Togo out there). Besides which, if they wanted to go High-Flyer & Power Wrestler tandem, they'd have put Mahabali Shera in the spot, surely? Oh. They had Gama send Gursinder off because they're bringing Shera back. Brilliant.
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    I didn't say he couldn't get in shape, I said he didn't have to get in shape. And for most of his life, he didn't. Even when he was young.
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    Also, anyone who worked for ECW or WCW is technically disqualified because the JKP era didn't actually start until after those companies went out of business (and it came out of an indie wrestling boom that was arguably facilitated by those companies going out of business; The Monday Night Wars created a lot of Wrestling fans who very suddenly had much less televised Wrestling to watch). Although obviously a lot of JKPs were strongly influenced by guys who worked for ECW especially, and most likely the first Japanese Wrestling the young kickpad kids saw would have been on Nitro. So AJ Styles escapes, by the skin of his teeth.
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    I might have to disagree on that one. Steff wasn't muscular at all when they got together, she didn't get jacked up until after they were married. So can we just accept his attraction to women is basically linked to how much his career will be boosted by associating with them? Think about it, Terra Ryzing and young Hunter Hearst were not getting over at all, for ages. Even the woman of the week deal with Mr Perfect couldn't get him over. But bringing Chyna in during the Goldust feud, and then the Mankind feud, that did get him over, at a mid-card level. But not as over as being the Boss' Son-in-Law will get you. If he is a muscle worship guy, he must have done a lot of persuasion to get Steff that into lifting (especially considering there's no career incentive for her to do it; McMahon's don't have to be in visual shape to get over. Look at Shane). Alternatively, looking at that picture and young Steff's McMahon jawline, and considering Chyna's old female bodybuilder 'enlarged mandible' look, maybe Hunter's a Chin man.
  17. AxB
    The question with Hellraiser is this: See the 'real world' sections of the movie? Are they set in London or New York? Because they appear to be set in some sort of transatlantic super-city.
  18. AxB
    The Night the Line was Crossed, ECW. Sabu vs Terry Funk vs Shane Douglas. Overly reliant on one guy or other being backstage for half of the match.
  19. AxB
    Why did TNA never market the James Storm "I'm a Chugger" t shirt? And why are there no photographs of it on the internet? I know for a fact I didn't imagine it. He was wearing it in the newspaper.
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    If the female version is Jenny KP, and the Mexican is Juan, would the Japanese equivalent be Jun Kikupadu?
  21. AxB
    Juan Kickpads Johnny Fistpad.
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    He's Lovecraft all the way. Although he's also a bigtime Jack Vance guy.
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    Which is odd, because Muay Thai fighters don't wear kickpads. Ankle sleeves, sure. But not kickpads. That's Buakaw Por Pramuk by the way.
  25. AxB
    I bought my Dad Shadows over Baker Street for his birthday a few years ago.
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