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The most consistently devastating move in professional wrestling is the low blow. Works regardless of who's using it
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2019 18:33 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 14:59 |
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CombineThresher posted:"wrestling cool" is whatever was cool 5-10 years before wrestling caught onto it. This made me start thinking that maybe at least a part of "pro wrestling cool" is whatever your 5- to 12-year-old self would think is cool, and I am being serious and don't mean that as a bad thing. At its purest, when it's not trash carny garbage, there is a sweet innocence to pro wrestling
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 03:42 |
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Taintrunner posted:I’m going to Kyoto and Osaka in mid January 2020 from the 13th to the 24th, is there any way to see if there are any pro wrestling shows happening in that area between those dates? Check this out https://en.puwota.com/ Edit: Doesn't look like they have anything listed for January yet. Dunno when they'll start adding stuff Edit2: Ah, it just didn't load. Well, there's not much there yet anyway. It's still a long way off so I'm sure there'll be something, looking at Januaries from past years a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Sep 10, 2019 |
# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 09:35 |
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Show the sea of people holding tiny EVIL scythes, Harold you coward
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 19:18 |
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Never forget that time he considered changing his name to "Fuckin' Jeff" on Wrestlesplania
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# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 10:30 |
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Does anyone have the excellent and incomprehensible "davebnmeltzer" post lying around somewhere? I can never find it when I want to read it I should probably save it.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 21:36 |
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jesus WEP posted:I got you fam Hell yes, thank you My problem is I can kind of remember the post but recall the particular typos that would make it easy to search for wrong. "dean amanda" is a good keyword to remember.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2019 12:53 |
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MassRafTer posted:I am glad sentiment on Big Show has changed around here. It helps that he hasn't been on TV in ages
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 07:20 |
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I'm extremely fond of shirtless Jericho rambling on a random road in the middle of nowhere and cutting a promo on a tortoise. That one also got us "I'll see you on June 6 at Dominion... FUCKFACE!"
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 20:23 |
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Pollyanna posted:What I have learned is that Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior are both Regrettable. Honestly, like 99.5% of old school wrestlers are/were awful garbage trash people. The amount of those has thankfully decreased in the modern times.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 06:54 |
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Yeah, fighting spirit is extremely important. The Japanese crowds will show their appreciation for a cheating rear end in a top hat who also displays fighting spirit. See: Suzuki, Taichi
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 07:10 |
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Edit: yeah
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 13:18 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Wrestlers should always say the name of their finisher, and it should always, always be a pun on their own name. This guy Gets pro wrestling
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2019 15:11 |
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jesus WEP posted:Should I watch NWA Powerrr? It's a fun, compact show that looks and feels unlike anything else out there. The wrestling itself is mostly solid but not amazing, but they have some really excellent and charismatic talkers there and they let them improv pretty much everything as far as I've understood. Give the first episode a watch and see if you like it!
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2019 14:02 |
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Pollyanna posted:Is it passé to get a poster for an event you never went to? Who cares (and who cares if someone does care), if you like it, get it
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2019 17:03 |
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Hellblazer187 posted:NWA Powerrr is pretty cool. Like, I don't know it's not a replacement for big arena type wrestling but it is a nice supplement. I can't imagine having NWA as the only show I'm watching but if you're following AEW and think like, what other show would I like to add to my wrestling menu I'd put NWA above all the other C tier leagues (ROH, Impact, MLW, probably more I'm not even remembering). It being on YouTube really helps.
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2019 04:18 |
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Remember that time Undertaker threw Shane off the HiaC and Michael Cole said "for the love of mankind" like he was reading it off a paper, which is, in fact, exactly what he was doing
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 18:13 |
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One more post about closed-fist punched: Actual punches are REALLY loving BAD for you and a single good one can easily knock you out cold, break facial bones, cause permanent damage or, yes, even kill. This is obviously not optimal for pro wrestling where faking them would make the whole thing look (even more) ridiculous (than it is).
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2019 18:51 |
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Gaz-L posted:Suzuki had Tanahashi in a kneebar for like 6 minutes when he won the IWGP IC title. I think you will find it was closer to 9999 years. At least it felt like it. (That match is honestly one of my favorite matches of all time)
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 22:08 |
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Cavauro posted:maybe jake hager or corey graves. jake's real name is donald hager by the way. don't know why they didn't go with that They should call him "Donald Jr." that would be funny
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2019 11:44 |
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Even in WWE there are people who will have matches with zero planning. For instance the fantastic Sami Zayn vs Shinsuke Nakamura NXT match was, as far as we know, called entirely on the fly. Then there are people like Randy Savage who would insist on rehearsing his matches to absolute perfection, and if you saw his match at a house show and later on PPV, it would literally be the exact same match.
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2019 14:16 |
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Dell_Zincht posted:What the gently caress is KJing Karaoke host
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2019 08:36 |
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NikkolasKing posted:Sorry I got another question. I mean anything can go wrong with a flying elbow but as far as I understand, the main problem is (at least in Savage's case) the flyer basically lands all of their mass on their own knee, which with time and hundreds of elbow drops wears it out horribly. Savage had some major knee issues. Some people seem to land it more on their hip which can't be healthy either. I'm sure someone injured someone else doing it too, because it's wrestling and a big dude is landing on top of another from a considerable height Let me know if I'm talking garbage
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 12:38 |
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I once listened to the German announce team and I remember the sounding a lot like German announcers calling football.
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 20:30 |
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I imagine the difference is taking the impact on your own knees/hip/body vs actually having the other guy take the full brunt of the move
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 15:07 |
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Everyone should use the heart punch
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 17:19 |
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Or just the landings start to feel worse and worse over time. One day you'll be like "ok holy poo poo I'm not doing that anymore"
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 17:50 |
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I think that Extreme Rules match was the one where Big Show sold his nuts getting crushed on the turnbuckle for like three minutes straight I do recall that match being much better than it had any business being.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2019 00:02 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Is that the one where Reigns failed hilariously at doing a rana? Naw I believe that was a TV match. The Extreme Rules match was legit good.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2019 08:20 |
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Tenzan's skunk mullet is the worst thing
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 12:39 |
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Hedgehog Pie posted:But then you have even more eye-rolling cases, like Slick Johnson in TNA was an Evil Ref because he took sexual favours from Evil Women. Because it was TNA. How did anyone take TNA seriously?
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 13:18 |
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Son of Man posted:No one ever did I've heard enough about rabid TNA hardcore fans to know this isn't the case!
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 13:31 |
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Q: is Marty Scurll taking the book at RoH the right move for him? The guy could go anywhere and do well. WWE would want him and pay him handsomely, AEW is his natutal home and would also pay him a bunch. Why is he sticking with Ring of Honor? Can he even book? Word is 1) He doesn't have the book but will be working alongside Delirious. 2) The ROH offer was simply put the best he got. Main roster WWE money for ~40 dates a year, involved with booking (also probably creative control?), is free to work for other promotions.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 00:37 |
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I think the implication is "more than NXT money"
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 00:41 |
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(Parts of?) next week's Dynamite happening on Jericho's boat got me thinking... Would any of this, you know, AEW and poo poo, be happening, at all or to this extent, if WWE had just approved NXT talent to appear on Jericho's first cruise like he wanted to?
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 07:37 |
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It was one of the things that made Jericho go "yeah whatever, later Vince", and I don't think they'd have been able to get the TV deal or the viewership they have without Jericho. He's easily the biggest name they have
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 07:44 |
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Yeah it's "Sports Bar Karate Chop"
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 17:56 |
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Blampied repeatedly slid into the DMs of several women asking for nudes and generally being a creep. He then apologized and voluntarily disappeared for a few years. I guess he feels like he’s been in his self-imposed internet jail for long enough now He is a naturally charming guy with a knack for telling stories, be it summarizing someone’s career or fantasy booking an angle. So make of this all what you will, I’m sure you’ll come across him and his work if you follow even a couple of wrestling youtubers
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2020 11:19 |
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They put the belt on Jinder with the expectation that they’d grab a huge new market in India and immediately afterwards their numbers there tanked and they scrapped the plan lol I just love everything about how that poo poo went down and will use any opportunity to post about it. It’s why Jinder’s reign had to be immortalized in the champ poll.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 20:41 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 14:59 |
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The Croc posted:Apparently 20 x 20 for aew too. I always wonder how much it throws wrestlers off when they have a match in a ring that's smaller or bigger (or a different shape) than what they're accustomed to.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 09:33 |