rzombie1988
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2 hours ago, Michael Sweetser said:
People really do underestimate how much wrestlers' outfits are predicated on who gave them free shit that week.
I think companies in general underestimate this too. If my gym or favorite restaurant gave me a free shirt, I'd wear it all time. If you give people free shirts, they will wear them.
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1 minute ago, Tromatagon said:
Stud Stable
Another quality suggestion!
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Should my fantasy team be called The York Foundation or Gagne's Raiders?
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17 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
I disagree I thought the whole 28 minutes was awesome but for those who didn't love it, they should have at least been happy to finally see it.
They will eventually put up Superstars and all that in very high quality but if you can't wait for it most of it is out there or even all of it. WWE is great for the quality and the easiest access and the ability to stream seamlessly with all devices. I can watch 80s NWA in high quality from my phone while I'm at work I mean come on.
I heard eventually in the mid-2000's with WWE 24/7 when I was in high school. Might it be released by the time I'm in my 40's?
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On 9/8/2016 at 11:16 AM, Matt D said:
I have a 12-disc Dangerous Alliance comp. Plus, most of the WCW Pro Chicago episodes are online in one place or another (I love the Chicago centric feuds between Larry and Windham and then Larry and the Dangerous Alliance), and I think most of the Power Hours from that era too.
It's all out there minus the WCW Pro Chicago eps. Have only ever seen those on Dailymotion.
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11 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
What footage does WWE own that isn't going to be put out? If you're super die hard a lot of the footage is already available. The stuff that's not available well we don't know if they have it or not.. they might not know either because again it takes time.
You know, I read on some other sites, not here but other places where people were being very very critical of The LaSt Battle of Atlanta. Why should WWE if they read spoiled comments like those hurry up and put up more stuff? Instead of just being super stoked to see the footage, which I loved, you have the hardcores trying to shit on how the match was worked. Really?
It's hard to see WWE ever putting out anything from a non-A show from WWE or WCW or anything aside from various one-off's from many regional companies or anything pre-1984ish.
Then we also need to consider the stuff that we don't know they have and the stuff they probably don't even know they have.
LBOA had impossible hype to live up to and it didn't live up to it. No one is trashing WWE for it as it's not their fault, but the match was disappointing. People were expecting MOTD level stuff and I'm not even sure if the Ole Anderson vs Ellering match after wasn't better.
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8 minutes ago, Matt D said:
And that is why I would rather the footage be out in the wild, where it has at least a chance of getting out.
Yep. You will get the footage if it's out there because someone will want to make money. WWE hasn't even released years of 80's Superstars yet which was only second to the Attitude era.
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Just now, Technico Support said:
I think this is a "more casual but still smart fan" vs "damn near Asperger's level smart fan" argument. I can pay $10 a month for a decent selection of stuff I grew up with and, once in a while, cool new stuff is uploaded. That's fine with me. Then there are fans who will go to tape traders, scour the Internet, etc. I don't have that level of obsession regarding wrestling. I like wrestling a whole lot but my life will still be great if I never see some random match from the Padukah Fairgrounds that the kids in the know are touting. Nobody is going to convince anybody here that the other way is better.
It depends on what you want. It's great if you were a WWF or WCW fan. You're screwed if you were a fan of anything else.
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15 minutes ago, Matt D said:
What are the most exciting footage finds of the last 10 years?
Buddy Rose's Portland collection, the USWA Texas stuff, the Houston tapes, the Luce things that showed up on the Chicago archives, everything dataintcash is posting for old CMLL about 20% of which is new to us, the new AJPW matches that Our Friend in Japan was posting. I'm probably missing a few but what do all of these things have in common? Quantity. That 20% of new CMLL we've gotten out out of dataintcash is maybe what? 50 matches? That one source is more than the sum of the new matches we've gotten from the Network from all of their territories.
Footage gets purchased by WWE to die in the short and medium terms.
We have:
- Memphis from 1982-end. 2 guys basically gave us most of the footage, one from vhs home recordings. We have complete seasons and almost complete seasons for near 20 years of Memphis.
- WWE aired some of early 80's WWF Championship Wrestling on British Networks that no one else had seen
- Tons of various WWF/NWA seasons from people like landy, bottomlessjack and wrestlingclassics. We have pretty much everything minus All American/Spotlight, which were recap shows.
- Ginnetty gave us a ton of rare Puro including the famous Sato/Kandori shoot
- Bottomlessjacks' 100 Disk GWF and WWC collections
- Watts' various UWF/MS releases giving us most of the run
- The WCCW Supersets and the full run of Legends of World Class, which was 100+ disks
- International Superstars of Wrestling from the WWF which had a bunch of rare stuff.
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7 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
You're crazy if you believe all of this footage would be better off in the hands of random individuals.
There's not a situation where their own content wouldn't be first priority. It's not WWE spoon feeding anyone their own version of events. WWE has always been the big dog, New York was always the big dog, therefore, their own footage would always be at the top of the list for most people.
Blaming them because it takes time to sift through random reels labeled "Omni stuff" is so damn ridiculous I can't believe it's even a discussion.
Tape traders have done an excellent job of releasing stuff. No edits, no blurs, no music issues, just footage as it aired. There's full seasons for so much stuff that we may get in another 5-10 years on the network.
There's so much WWE stuff that WWE has they haven't released anywhere. Pretty much all non-Primetime WWF 80's stuff and before..and even the Primetime releases are missing tons of episodes.
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18 hours ago, Infinit said:
Whoa....so they have the early 90s WCW Omni shows?? Like Liger/Pillman from the Christmas 91 show??? Color me excited.
WCW at least had the footage as they aired clips from Omni house shows often, so there's a chance.
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1 minute ago, JRGoldman said:
It's cool to know that Jim Cornette posts on this board and is a big fan of Rob Zombie. I assume the 1988 in your handle is in reference to the last year Jim Cornette was relevant?
I listen to a lot of Cornette stuff and he gets asked that shit all the time.
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1 minute ago, Brysynner said:
Confused why kids who can't spell think I'm mad @FightOwensFight was given a belt by a company I don't care about on a show I don't watch.
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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Somewhere in Kentucky, Jim Cornette is screaming to anyone within ear shot how that should have been Matt Morgan, or Kenn Doane, or the Damaja, or Doug Basham, or Mike Mondo...
Get it right if you're gonna troll. JC pushed him and recognized his talent, but the weight loss and his dangerous matches were the issues.
WWE loved Doane and Mondo was a really good face in ROH.
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11 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Our NEW Universal Champion, Kevin Steen!
Suck on that, Jim Cornette.
Cornette was the one who was pushing Owens. His issue was that Owens wouldn't lose weight, which increased his chance of injury. I'm sure Cornette is happy for him and agrees that he can be star.
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3 hours ago, Valcourt said:
Owens winning is just a rib on Cornette.
Cornette never said Owens wasn't talented. In fact he talked a lot about how good he was. He just wanted him to lose weight to avoid further injury, which he refused to do. I'm sure he's happy for him.
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8 minutes ago, Big Fresh said:
If only Low-Ki and Michelle McCool were still around...
Low-Ki is Low-Ki's biggest enemy. He was just as talented as the Punk/Joe/AJ/DB crew and fell off the planet while they became superstars. I'm one of his biggest fans but he fucked himself over.
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6 minutes ago, Charlie M. said:
Everybody has a different path. I wonder if Daniel Bryan had to endure the ridiculing, bullying and physical harm that Miz did simply because WWE chose to hire him? Miz took it all, kept his head down, kept working hard and made it all the way to the top. Even then influential co-workers treated him like garbage, the company pushed him way below his level, and he still worked his way out of it.
What's so bad about Mike Mizanin? Has he ever been in trouble? Has there ever been a story about him being a bad guy? Has he ever harmed anyone in the ring? No. His crime against humanity is that he has *** matches instead of **** matches.
I would like to remind you of Daniel Bryan's first few years in WWE where he was consistently portrayed as a goat, nerd and a complete loser by a company that was promoting him.
Miz did headline possibly the worst Mania of all time...
I don't know if I ever met Miz. I'm sure he's fine for the most part in person as most people are providing you catch them on a good day. I'm not questioning his character, just his in-ring work. Mickie James is one of the nicest wrestlers I know, and I have no interest in watching her matches. Meanwhile, Arn Anderson is a total asshole and I look forward to his stuff.
It also comes down to old school wrestling vs current wrestling and where you stand on it. Miz is the emphasis of what WWE looks for in a wrestler. Daniel Bryan is the emphasis of what the IWC looks for in a wrestler. People are pissing their pants over the brand that promotes DB's style(NXT) and The Miz's style(WWE) is getting some of the worst ratings ever.
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I'm sure it was a work, but one or the other hit a haymaker and it got into a bit of a shoot.
DB had to work hard to get here, and even then, WWE ignored him during his best years. He was the most over person in the company and THEY TRIED TO TURN HIM HEEL. Meanwhile, Miz did a reality show and got a shot. Put the other in the other's shoes and it doesn't happen the same way.
Miz hasn't been injured, but Miz also doesn't work main events. He works 5-10 midcard matches. No reason to go out of your way in a throwaway. Meanwhile, DB has been expected to produce top quality matches for almost 15 years. I can't think of 5 good Miz matches off the top of my head but I could name double that in Daniel Bryan matches.-
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1 hour ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
One two, princes kneel before you
That's what I said now
Prince Iaukea will always be my Prince...and the rightful warden of the South-Pacific.
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2 hours ago, donsem43 said:
Pretty sure the second head drop was unintentional.
The Korakuen floors are rock hard too.
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5 minutes ago, Vincey Greene said:
I'll never know, my dad's an electrician, I doubt he gives me millions to start out. Also not sure how it applies to the presidency, but I guess that's because I think of it as a public service position not a business opportunity.
I thought you were going to talk about football now? And you'd never get that net gain off of a $1 million dollar loan in a thousand lifetimes. You'd stop at one fail. Trump is doing us all a public service by becoming president.
Now let's go back to football.
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5 minutes ago, Vincey Greene said:
Running things INTO THE GROUND, you mean? Or were all six of those bankruptcies unavoidable?
I regret starting this exchange. The Why Your Team Sucks columns this year are really good so far, eh?
500+ businesses, 6 fails. Pretty good numbers. $4+ billion net gain. You'd take a fraction of that in a second, I'd settle for 251 successes to 249 fails personally.
Joshi Puroresu Discussion Thread
in JAPAN
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The thing is to me, none of the freelancers have any real "fuck you" power. Maybe in 70's America where there were a ton of places to work and make great money, but there's only a few places to work in Japan.