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I've always said that Douglas' understanding is both complete and compelling
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 14:36 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:41 |
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quote:honestly Cena shouldn't even regret taking the DDT on the concrete and then pinning the Nexus. Cena is simply the top dog, and Barrett was very green at that time. Cena just can't fall to anyone to appease an immediate story angle. It's called protecting the business.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 20:54 |
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I didn't even make it past the first sentence of the new Sack, where he says the exact same thing three times.quote:Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of wrestling, watched a lot of wrestling, and have noticed a lot of old school wrestling on YouTube. I've seen, watched, and noticed a lot of wrestling.
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# ? Jul 10, 2014 14:46 |
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Hey, now, 'noticed' is not the same thing! He just sees it in his recommendations, finds that it doesn't feature Bruno, and ignores it.
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# ? Jul 10, 2014 15:33 |
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TNAMeccaquote:I am really surprised by how well this new direction that TNA has taken is resonating with me. For those that actually know me, you know that I don't always like everything that TNA puts in front of me every single time that they have a show (contrary to popular belief). I am not a "fanboy". I don't think you guys consider yourselves to be "fanboys" either. I will tell you if I think something is wrong (in my opinion) or if I don't like something, but it's true that I am a fairly optimistic person. I form my own opinions and don't let the dirtsheets and "pundits" dictate how I should feel about TNA and it's product. Being independent of the popular mind-set that circulates the IWC: it's like deeply breathing in fresh mountain air that isn't trapped in a stale office building and recirculated over and over again until all of the bacteria and microscopic debris in said building make it nearly impossible to breath properly. I'm not putting myself on a pedestal, I'm simply expressing my metaphorical experience of what "not buying into the anti-TNA negativity" is like to me. That being said, I believe that the company is on the precipice of turning a MAJOR corner with their product. What an exciting time to be a TNA fan!.
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# ? Jul 13, 2014 17:29 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:
I keep hearing this in Scott Steiner's voice.
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# ? Jul 13, 2014 17:32 |
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The rabidness with which TNA fans defend "their" product is astonishing. I can't imagine what sort of person thinks that that garbage is worth the vitriol and bile they spew out.
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 04:57 |
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To interrupt TNA idiots with a WCW idiot: this is a comment from Cagematch.net by "Wolfpac4Life": "Instead of rating this whole episode of NITRO with it's angles and matches, I'd like to comment this ''Fingerpoke of Doom''-incident. Some people describe it as a ''beginning of end for WCW'', but to me, it was one of the most brilliant, PPV-caliber angles of all-time. Fans first believed that they were going to get Nash vs. Goldberg, and then Nash vs. Hogan, but instead they got a formation of the new elite nWo and one of the greatest beatdowns ever, and starpower was off the charts. Some people claim that ratings hit the downward spiral after this one, but few days later, Thunder drew a 4. 3 Nielsen rating, which was 2nd HIGHEST rating Thunder ever drew during it's history. And also NITRO next week drew 5. 0, and average rating for NITRO in December 98 was 4. 24, but after FPOD, average rating was 4. 75, so that means average rating increased 0. 51, and ratings kept stayng in average rating of 4. 0-5. 0 until April 99 when nWo angle was dropped quietly. People too keep complaining that this incident devalued WCW World title. I dispute that argument, as nWo never respected traditions or titles (as seen by spraypainted belts), so FPOD really matched with nWo ethics. And if WCW World Heavyweight title was so devalued, then why Flair vs. Hogan for title in Superbrawl 1999 drew 3nd HIGHEST buyrate of 1. 15?" It was the nWo that put asses in seats, brother.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:16 |
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Rodney the Piper posted:It was the nWo that put asses in seats, brother. Real talk, the nWo was the only reason I ever started watching WCW. But then again I marked for the FPoD.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:22 |
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Only thing I have against the Finger Poke is that DX already did it.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:24 |
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coconono posted:Only thing I have against the Finger Poke is that DX already did it. But when DX did it, it was for a secondary title that Shawn Michaels had spent months treating like a joke.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:47 |
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With Daniel Bryan's amazing victory at WM30 and a plethora of talent in NXT such as Neville, Zayn and KENTA you just might be wondering about the best way to inorporate these guys into the main event scene of WWE, especially since they don't fit into the prototypical Big Guy mold. Well Joe Babinsack has the the answer we've all been looking for: a new mid-card belt! quote:There’s an interesting accumulation of talent in the WWE these days, notably with the signing of Kenta Kobayashi and Prince Devitt; two world class, lighter weight guys joining an NXT already loaded with top US indie talent. OctoberCountry fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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TL posted:But when DX did it, it was for a secondary title that Shawn Michaels had spent months treating like a joke. It may have been a joke belt, but he would die before he would lose that title to Davey Boy Smith!!! haha
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:49 |
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OctoberCountry posted:With Daniel Bryan's amazing victory at WM30 and a plethora of talent in NXT such as Neville, Zayn and KENTA you just might be wondering about the best way to inorporate these guys into the main event scene of WWE, especially since they don't fit into the prototypical Big Guy mold. His article assumes WWE would be able to book both the heavyweight division and the lightweight division equally. Spoiler: They wouldn't. The heavyweight division would be where the "real stars" are, while the lightweights have a good little spot near the bottom of the card. Even if they wanted to book it right, I don't think they'd be able to. It doesn't fit their MO. Hell, one of the best parts about WWE right now is its lack of division. Makes match-ups that much more exciting, and doesn't pigeon-hole guys as much. Good god, Babinsack sucks.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:53 |
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I don't mean this to be sensationalist at all - I literally believe that Joe Babinsack is, in some form, retarded.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 17:13 |
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jesus, ive heard a lot of lovely "bring back the cruiserweights" ideas but only this chuckle gently caress would fantasy book a burial as big as "you got injured playin with the big boys so here is a division for midgets like you"
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:56 |
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WITH A NOD TO ANDERSON SILVA WITH A NOD TO GEORGES ST. PIERRE
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 21:09 |
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lol this guy thinks that having smaller guys fight bigger opponents is a bad idea. Uhhhhh it's only been in storytelling since the BIBLE but yeah, lets not have them cross paths anymore.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 21:13 |
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sportsgenius86 posted:I don't mean this to be sensationalist at all - I literally believe that Joe Babinsack is, in some form, retarded. I don't think it would be sensationalist to suggest that Sack is retarded in every possible form.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 21:16 |
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triplexpac posted:lol this guy thinks that having smaller guys fight bigger opponents is a bad idea. Uhhhhh it's only been in storytelling since the BIBLE but yeah, lets not have them cross paths anymore. Those were shoots not stories.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 21:17 |
MassRafTer posted:Those were shoots not stories. If David could kill Goliath with nothing more than a slingshot, then god drat it Bryan can kill Lesnar with a running knee to the face.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 21:52 |
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quote:From a sports logic perspective, isn’t it about time that the WWE notices that pitting monsters against smaller guys just causes bad dynamics? Vader vs Sting/Mutoh/Inoki/HBK/pretty much everyone = bad dynamics, everybody. (Actually Vader vs HBK kind of was a bad dynamic but for different reasons) hunnert car pileup fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jul 24, 2014 |
# ? Jul 24, 2014 22:56 |
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The 'Sack is a wrestling scholar who studied under the king of babyfaces (his personal friend Bruno Sammartino) please show him the respect his authority deserves also please send him some DVDs for free so that he can give them a positive review
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 23:01 |
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MassRafTer posted:Those were shoots not stories. Look'it this mark, thinks the bible wasn't a work from bell to bell.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:35 |
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Even ignoring how stupid his opinions are, Babinsack's writing reads like an alien trying and failing to emulate human language.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 09:49 |
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Endorph posted:Even ignoring how stupid his opinions are, Babinsack's writing reads like an alien trying and failing to emulate human language.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 12:50 |
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Perigryn posted:Oh, like Troll 2 then? Either way: yes.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 13:04 |
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I loving knew that was a Babinsack article just from the headline and knew I didn't have time to read it and be pissed off at every aspect of lovely writing. God drat, Dave and Bryan have enough news content & reprints of media appearances, why the gently caress do they need to keep loving around with Babinsack's articles?
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 13:28 |
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Salty Bullet Club marks are what sustain me.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 14:22 |
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The really dumb thing about adding a Cruiserweight division nowadays is that there would be lighter wrestlers who don't wrestle a light heavyweight style, and there are also a ton of guys who work really well together despite size differences so it would rob us of all those matchups. I have to say the X-Division idea was one of the few things TNA ever did right - I know they've changed it over the years, but for a time rather than a weight class it was just a different style, and promoted heavily, so the roster could shift in and out of the division at will.
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# ? Jul 26, 2014 07:44 |
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sticklefifer posted:The really dumb thing about adding a Cruiserweight division nowadays is that there would be lighter wrestlers who don't wrestle a light heavyweight style, and there are also a ton of guys who work really well together despite size differences so it would rob us of all those matchups. I have to say the X-Division idea was one of the few things TNA ever did right - I know they've changed it over the years, but for a time rather than a weight class it was just a different style, and promoted heavily, so the roster could shift in and out of the division at will. I would legit be for this whole sale. It was one of the best moves WCW every did and I loved it. It made the mid cards interesting and gave you a break between the intro story line segments and the main event matches. Right now on WWE you pretty much just watch to see Daniel Bryan, the authority, John Cena or the Shield do something in between watching matches of the same 10 wrestlers hoping one of them will get enough of a pop to shake up the main event, but generally just get Randy Orton or another ho-hum safety bet. The tag team division had a lot of potential and during the Attitude Era was basically your cruiser-weight division in terms of diversity but now they have what...2 tag teams worth watching? I also enjoyed the Hardcore division because it added variety though I know that wouldn't be possible in today's PG environment. That said the Cruiser weight added enough of a change to be interesting. Having a division of a bunch of technical/high flying flippy wrestlers who don't need a feud but tell a story during matches? Hell yes. Not every wrestler has to act like a Bill Goldberg or Rock to be successful, just have a great cast that feed off each other and make the 2 hours in between fun to watch. I use to mark harder for Dean Malenko vs Chris Jericho than i did for Hogan, Goldberg or Sting a lot of the time. At the end of the day, Wrestling is pretty similar to the cirrus, you go to see the acrobats and high risk stunts they do at the end, but they don't just give you that for 3 hours (you'd get bored), in between the main attractions you get Seals on rolling balls, and clowns throwing pies into each others faces. Same concept.
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# ? Jul 26, 2014 16:36 |
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I think a Cruiserweight division as something to flesh out the undercard would be fine, just as it was in WCW. What makes the article wrong-headed is the idea that you'd segregate all the lower weight wrestlers into it and try and make it seem as important as the heavyweights, which A) is never happening in WWE because both Vince and HHH love big muscly guys and B) they're not really structured in such a way that they can have more than one top-of-the-card scene. Actual combat sports can make it seem like that primarily because not everyone is fighting all the goddamn time, so sometimes it's one belt up for a big fight and sometimes it's another. [C) "Muscly" is an actual word. Huh.] Of course WWE's heavy size bias means that even an undercard cruiserweights division would be hard for them to pay attention to. Like, if I had absolute power over the WWE card I'd try to move away from the old tradition of just focusing on big guys tossing each other around, but realistically that's not going to change much soon. (Plus if you think it's bad now, try watching the 1998 Royal Rumble. That was peak "everyone looks like everyone else" saturation.)
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# ? Jul 26, 2014 17:35 |
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Endorph posted:Even ignoring how stupid his opinions are, Babinsack's writing reads like an alien trying and failing to emulate human language. Whenever I read Babinsack's writing I'm reminded of Mark Twain's takedown of James Fenimore Cooper, where he says that a writer should "use the right word, not its second cousin," and "say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it." Babinsack will write a sentence like this: quote:By 2007, the WWE Cruiserweight Title went away, which in many ways was too bad, but considering the WWE, and their often inexplicable hold on logic, it was probably for the best. Even ignoring his poor grammar, he doesn't mean what he says here: it's not the WWE's hold that's inexplicable, it's their logic. At least, I think that's what he's trying to say? Then he'll have a sentence like this: quote:But in terms of drama and serialized entertainment, it creates opposition and emotion at a level where storytelling ensues. Where he uses the wrong word about four times in an attempt to sound intelligent. He really is a precious gift.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 16:48 |
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TNA Mecca in crisis: http://www.tnamecca.com/2014/07/official-tna-tv-deal-discussion.html#disqus_thread
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 05:58 |
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rovert posted:
Even by TNA fan standards it takes a special kind of neurosis to dismiss the inevitable response to the literal deathknell of the company as "typical anti-TNA haters"
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 06:00 |
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Sanguinia posted:Even by TNA fan standards it takes a special kind of neurosis to dismiss the inevitable response to the literal deathknell of the company as "typical anti-TNA haters" They want to stay in their safe-space and not be exposed to people laughing at the fact that a man accidentally emailing the wrong Mike on his address book may have resulted in the death of their precious favorite wrestling company.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 06:06 |
Chris James 2 posted:They want to stay in their safe-space and not be exposed to people laughing at the fact that a man accidentally emailing the wrong Mike on his address book may have resulted in the death of their precious favorite wrestling company. Please give me details on this.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 06:17 |
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Good news, guys! TNA was cancelled, boom period incoming! Their optimism is inspiring
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 06:19 |
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TheJoker138 posted:Please give me details on this.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 06:20 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:41 |
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TheJoker138 posted:Please give me details on this. Vince Russo CC'd Mike Johnson of PWI on an email instead of Mike Tenay and that's how the story broke he was "secretly" working for them. Spike said they wouldn't renew their TV deal a couple days later
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