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Vandar posted:IIRC the main event for that episode was literally 'The Shield versus everyone else' so the Shield was beating up everyone to even the odds and take them out of the match. It was great. It absolutely was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXF0mu0Q4o Just completly wrecking everybody, and destroying 3MB was probably the best part of that. Edit: Their attack on Maddox is not that video, so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sluaZYykMYs
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Well I watched the back half of Raw and it didn't annoy me once. Gunther/Gable was good and the Miz segment was actually funny. The Dom stuff was good. And none of the rest pissed me off. This is my most successful interaction with Raw in a pretty long time.
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Rarity posted:Everyone here talking like EVIL and House of Torture aren't main eventing New Japan's next big show lol well yeah they stopped watching and assumed Gedo came to his senses Gedo did not come to his senses
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Eh I don't like House of Torture but the downturn in business was really due to Clap Crowds making shows just really not fun to be at and the matchs being long than House of Torture. Though booking a heavy heat unit during clap crowds where you really should be focusing more on short hard hitting matches sure was a choice Yeah, I think HoT are the worst thing going in all the wrestling I watch and I watched 2023 Necrobutcher look unbelievably sad and pathetic, waving a Trump 2024 flag in Korakuen Hall while wearing a MAGA cap. But New Japan's downturn coincided with a downturn for the whole industry aside from Stardom. The whole world is acting like covid is over and Korakuen still hasn't needed to reopen the balconies. I don't know if it was actually the top seller since March 2020 but the NOAH show from July headlined by Kento Miyahara vs Katsuhiko Nakajima was the busiest Korakuen has felt and still did just over 1,500. New Japan for the G1 did 1470 for a show with Kaito Kiyomiya vs SANADA & Okada vs YOSHI-HASHI. It's an nation wide thing
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Ganso Bomb posted:Don’t know why but I read this in Hank Hill’s voice checks out https://voca.ro/1hSLc63CvtoQ
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Popy posted:i still have a gif of this someone made here on my pc heath slater was the mvp of pretty much anything he was booked in for years and they still let him go the guy could make the dumbest possible poo poo on the page work on screen, it was pretty impressive I still laugh about his 'how am I supposed to wrestle in the dark?!' line
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Hahahaha this so loving perfect. I couldn’t figure out how to explain the tone I had in my head for “Rocky Maivia” but you nailed it here anyway. Thank you for this gift.
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NJPW had Toru Yano fight Chase Owens for 20 minutes during the pandemic. I love Yano but his matches should rarely go beyond 5 minutes including entrances. Chase Owens can gently caress off forever.
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[hushed] "... rocky miavia" is so perfect
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"Vince, it's been eight years, I'm really not sure about this Rocky Maivia character." "IT'S SUCH GOOD poo poo."
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MJeff posted:lmao oh my god, that show must've been such a death march. I wanna go back to this real quick to give the opinion that Wrestlemania 32 is genuinely a Bottom 3 Mania for me not because it’s bad wrestling, but because almost every match was booked for heels or somebody no one wanted to win top to bottom. The one exception, Zach Ryder winning the Intercontinental Title, was only because the boys pitched for him to win together, and Vince settled on beating him the next night on Raw, which negated any good vibes. Miserable show that death march doesn’t begin to describe.
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MJeff posted:lmao oh my god, that show must've been such a death march. heres the PWWiki summary of all the segments. If you prefer just results here those are  Two minute Ascension match...
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bladeworksmaster posted:I wanna go back to this real quick to give the opinion that Wrestlemania 32 is genuinely a Bottom 3 Mania for me not because it’s bad wrestling, but because almost every match was booked for heels or somebody no one wanted to win top to bottom. The one exception, Zach Ryder winning the Intercontinental Title, was only because the boys pitched for him to win together, and Vince settled on beating him the next night on Raw, which negated any good vibes. Miserable show that death march doesn’t begin to describe. I was looking at the card for that mania and thought “surely the new day retained after the booty-os entr-oh, nope.” There was also the rock flamethrowering a metal sign
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Is this the Mania where Alberto's team won but then were beaten up by HBK, Foley and Austin? And then Austin also stunned Xavier Woods too but at least that was funny.
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bladeworksmaster posted:I wanna go back to this real quick to give the opinion that Wrestlemania 32 is genuinely a Bottom 3 Mania for me not because it’s bad wrestling, but because almost every match was booked for heels or somebody no one wanted to win top to bottom. The one exception, Zach Ryder winning the Intercontinental Title, was only because the boys pitched for him to win together, and Vince settled on beating him the next night on Raw, which negated any good vibes. Miserable show that death march doesn’t begin to describe. This was the only time I have felt like a wrestling show actively hated me and I wish I could find who in the GDT was calling me hyperbolic.
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rotinaj posted:There was also the rock flamethrowering a metal sign I mainly remember that WrestleMania for my friend, hosting a watching party, suffering from a fever and with the show going on forever and getting stranger and stranger as it went on, he was regularly questioning reality. "Why is Shaq here? Is that Tatanka? ...What is happening right now?"
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Yeah, ok it sucked to have Foley's family watching him get the chair from Rocky back in the day, ..ED.. you know what, this is stupid AF a thing to say to introduce the subject, but I'll just let this turd lie so it can get aired out. Man, seeing Gable's little girls heart's breaking after the spike sleeperplex/powerbomb/linzlariat from Gunter on live TV really hosed me up. I really, REALLY hope that they were coached. Otherwise....gently caress that. That's not a clown or an acrobat, that's their daddy. SpeakSlow fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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SpeakSlow posted:Yeah, ok it sucked to have Foley's family watching him get the chair from Rocky back in the day, ..ED.. you know what, this is stupid AF a thing to say to introduce the subject, but I'll just let this turd lie so it can get aired out. You can see -1's (and EMF's,) heart break in real time when Cody lost at WrestleMania, never smarten up children.
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SpeakSlow posted:That's not a clown Well… 
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projecthalaxy posted:heres the PWWiki summary of all the segments. i was a fan of the ascension’s nxt run before they got called up. their presentation, entrance, and theme all loving ripped. it’s criminal how they were treated on the main roster.
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DEAR RICHARD posted:i was a fan of the ascension’s nxt run before they got called up. their presentation, entrance, and theme all loving ripped. it’s criminal how they were treated on the main roster. At least they didn't make the one eat cheese again
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The peak of ascension was them coming back at whichever money in the bank 17 maybe, konnor being 80 pounds heavier for no reason, and them immediately becoming the bulk and skull/team rocket of the fashion files
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Lumbermouth posted:This was the only time I have felt like a wrestling show actively hated me and I wish I could find who in the GDT was calling me hyperbolic. You were definitely not hyperbolic, it’s one of the few shows I can think of that had that much concentrated gently caress You booking in it. Thank god All In toppled its attendance record.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Is this the Mania where Alberto's team won but then were beaten up by HBK, Foley and Austin? And then Austin also stunned Xavier Woods too but at least that was funny. This segment at the time really rubbed in the “Old guard are the only ones that matter” mood apart from Roman, so it only added to the frustration of the show despite being okay for what it was. EDIT: Whoops, double post, sorry bout that!
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Mania 32 was the last one I ever watched I think
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DEAR RICHARD posted:i was a fan of the ascension’s nxt run before they got called up. their presentation, entrance, and theme all loving ripped. it’s criminal how they were treated on the main roster. It's part of the reason I don't watch NXT, why bother watching it when the grand poobah will remake a wrestler in his image? Come to think of it, with the impending deal, who will run WWE once Vince dies?
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Endless Mike posted:At least they didn't make the one eat cheese again He had to know instantly when he got that rat boy gimmick he was hosed.
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Island Nation posted:Come to think of it, with the impending deal, who will run WWE once Vince dies? The entire company gets entombed with him
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Island Nation posted:It's part of the reason I don't watch NXT, why bother watching it when the grand poobah will remake a wrestler in his image? 
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Wrestlemania 32 felt like an assault. It truly felt like it was booked to spite absolutely every single person who was watching the show no matter who you were a fan of. The Rock/Erick Rowan squash nearly caused a friend group implosion because of how miserable the show was until that point, but it all culminated in an absolutely loving hilarious (awful) video package at the very end recapping the show we just watched set to one of my partner's least favorite songs, Victorious by Panic! At The Disco. It was like the show was laughing in your face and rubbing it in. One hell of a punchline. Just an utterly grim Mania through and through.
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Remember the Royal Rumble where Kane and Big Show dumped out literally ALL your favourites? That was the biggest most obvious spite booking of all the times
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Alan_Shore posted:Remember the Royal Rumble where Kane and Big Show dumped out literally ALL your favourites? Yeah that's the same Rumble where Danielson got eliminated and "Shattered Dreams Production" appeared almost immediately on the screen. Also the Rock getting booed out of the building at the end raising Roman's arm. That's a really funny Rumble.
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Doubtful, Big Daddy worked in WCWHistory Comes Inside! posted:The entire company gets entombed with him I think Vince cannot see WWE existing without him. The only reason he's selling it is to guarantee his presence after the company wanted him gone. Ironically, selling it to Endeavor could likely doom it. Dana White will make every attempt to have Ari shutter WWE when Vince dies.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wrestlemania 32 felt like an assault. It truly felt like it was booked to spite absolutely every single person who was watching the show no matter who you were a fan of. The Rock/Erick Rowan squash nearly caused a friend group implosion because of how miserable the show was until that point, but it all culminated in an absolutely loving hilarious (awful) video package at the very end recapping the show we just watched set to one of my partner's least favorite songs, Victorious by Panic! At The Disco. It was like the show was laughing in your face and rubbing it in. One hell of a punchline. Just an utterly grim Mania through and through. I remember it getting posted in the spoiler thread when all the betting lines majorly shifted before the show, and everyone was just like no way, there's no way they'd actually make all those the results. And then as the show went on and it became clear it was just an entire card of "gently caress you" knowing the rest of the results made it extra hilarious instead of depressing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTfkcSnTVMI I am having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that there are people who grew up hearing michael cole as their first announcer and being nostalgic for him Michael Cole is so bad
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