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Sanguinia posted:Another point of interest: one of my friends was telling me that Sakuraba is his hero, since he knew him from both real fighting and pro wrestling. I asked him since he at least in the past had followed both MMA and Puro if he knew Brock Lesnar, what with Brock having been NJPW Champion and being famous as both a pro wrestler and a UFC fighter. He said the name was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't picture him. Why are you friends with this person?
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Gaz-L posted:While we're on the subject, as a casual NJPW fan, WK10 is gonna be on New Japan World with English announcing, right? St Evan Echoes posted:Also what time will it be on in Gods own time zone, GMT? Yes there will be English commentary on NJPW World. The English team is Matt Striker, Kevin Kelly, and Yoshitatsu. You can also watch in Japanese if you'd like. Show will be at 8:00 AM GMT on the 4th. I try to keep the OP of the NJPW thread updated with that sort of stuff and feel free to ask any newbie questions there too. I'd strongly encourage everyone with any interest in NJPW at all to check it out. It's the biggest show of the year and a month of NJPW World is only about US$8.30. There's now even an English language signup page to make it easier to join. The one thing I would caution everyone though is that unlike western steaming services it works on calendar months rather than 30 day periods, so wait until January 1st to sign up.  Wrestle Kingdom 10 from Tokyo Dome January 4th at 3:00 AM EST/08:00 GMT 0.New Japan Rumble 1.IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship 4 Way Match: reDRagon(c) vs. The Young Bucks vs. RPG Vice vs. Matt Sydal and Ricochet 2.Inaugural NEVER Openweight Trios Championship Match: Toru Yano and the Briscoes vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi, and Tama Tonga) 3.ROH World Heavyweight Championship Match: Jay Lethal(c) vs. Michael Elgin 4.IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship Match: Kenny Omega(c) vs. KUSHIDA 5.IWGP Heavyweight Tag Championship Match: Bullet Club(c) (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows) vs. GBH (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma) 6. Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuya Naito 7.NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Tomhiro Ishii(c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata 8.IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: Shinsuke Nakamura(c) vs. AJ Styles 9.IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Kazuchika Okada(c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Santino corpsed and Cornette physically attacked him, which was very dumb and judging by how much WWE tolerates from farm league people, probably the 15th time something like that happened before WWE fired him. Discount Trombones posted:Let's put it this way: spending half an hour youtubing Santino's best moments is fun. Having to sit through skits of him and Khali interacting with the guest host every week is not. Pope Corky the IX posted:Why are you friends with this person?
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Dec 23, 2015 20:16
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Halloween Jack posted:Is anyone interacting with a guest host going to be fun? I mean, that's the kind of thing I care 0% about since they're not going to do anything with it. Chris Jericho and Bob Barker.
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Halloween Jack posted:He also threatened to shoot Brock, but Brock deserved it. Actually, Brock probably deserved to be actually shot. It would've just angered him.
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Dec 23, 2015 21:03
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Brock would've ate the bullet and spit it back at him like that Rambo scene in UHF.
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Dias posted:So it's pretty much like America when it comes to wrestling, people can tell you who John Cena is, kinda, then they remember The Rock, Austin, Hogan, Savage, etc, and they probably couldn't name a woman at all. Oddly enough I've found that the most well known woman wrestler to the general public tends to be Chyna for whatever reason. Reality shows or something I'm assuming
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Aesop Poprock posted:Oddly enough I've found that the most well known woman wrestler to the general public tends to be Chyna for whatever reason. Reality shows or something I'm assuming It's the jaw. I know I spent many a night wishing it was resting on my inner thighs...
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Yeah Chyna's star was made by the Surreal Life, sure.
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DynamiteKidd posted:Yeah Chyna's star was made by the Surreal Life, sure. chyna's star was made by amphetamines
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Is it just me or does X-Pac look like he smells terrible?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Is it just me or does X-Pac look like he smells terrible? xpac looks like he smells like grease, weed smoke and carls jr.
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Halloween Jack posted:Is anyone interacting with a guest host going to be fun? I mean, that's the kind of thing I care 0% about since they're not going to do anything with it. Sheamus is related to Beaker from the muppets.
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Not to mention Cousin Daniel. Muppets are an obvious exception to the rule.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Oddly enough I've found that the most well known woman wrestler to the general public tends to be Chyna for whatever reason. Reality shows or something I'm assuming Well there is that whole "porn" thing, too...
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Thauros posted:Yes there will be English commentary on NJPW World. The English team is Matt Striker, Kevin Kelly, and Yoshitatsu. You can also watch in Japanese if you'd like. Show will be at 8:00 AM GMT on the 4th. I try to keep the OP of the NJPW thread updated with that sort of stuff and feel free to ask any newbie questions there too. Has there been a single Wrestle Kingdom without Tanahashi in the main event? And could they really not come up with a better main event than a repeat of last year and three years ago?
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nakamura faced takayama at one. and one had chono and muta against tencozy i think
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Baron Corbyn posted:Has there been a single Wrestle Kingdom without Tanahashi in the main event? And could they really not come up with a better main event than a repeat of last year and three years ago? WK I and IV didn't have him in the main.
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Baron Corbyn posted:Has there been a single Wrestle Kingdom without Tanahashi in the main event? And could they really not come up with a better main event than a repeat of last year and three years ago? not in the BushiRoad era. Last WrestleKingdom without Tana was IV in 2010 headlined by Nakamura vs. Takayama. Since then you've had Tanahashi vs.Kojima at V, Tanahashi vs. Suzuki at VI, Tanahashi vs. Nakamura at 8, and Tanahashi vs. Okada at 7, 9, and10. Karl Anderson actually has an even longer WK related streak going. He's been in every single Dome Show Heavyweight Tag Championship match this decade with three different teams (Bad Intentions with Bernard in IV-VI, Sword and Guns with Goto at 7, and his current partner Doc Gallows for 8, 9, and 10. And I personally think Okada should've gone over at 9 as the torch passing moment makes more sense with the younger ascendent star winning the title from the veteran ace rather than defending but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thauros fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Thauros posted:not in the BushiRoad era. Last WrestleKingdom without Tana was IV in 2010 headlined by Nakamura vs. Takayama. Since then you've had Tanahashi vs.Kojima at V, Tanahashi vs. Suzuki at VI, Tanahashi vs. Nakamura at 8, and Tanahashi vs. Okada at 7, 9, and10. I'm not intimately familiar with New Japan, but I watch the AXS show and also watched last year's WK with the GFW feed, and I agree. It felt like the crowd also really wanted the big moment, and it came off a little like how people complain about Cena's booking when the show ended with Tanahashi air-guitaring after a kinda-heelish promo.
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it rueld because okada cried and that was very memorable imo
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Thauros posted:Karl Anderson actually has an even longer WK related streak going. He's been in every single Dome Show Heavyweight Tag Championship match this decade with three different teams (Bad Intentions with Bernard in IV-VI, Sword and Guns with Goto at 7, and his current partner Doc Gallows for 8, 9, and 10. Bloody hell, until reading this I had completely forgotten that Gallows has already been in NJPW for over 2 years now, And since he joined NJPW, he and KA have held the tag titles for almost 500 days combined. That really speaks volumes about NJPW's tag division.
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I know people didn't like the whole guest host era but did people like that episode of Raw when the Muppets were on it?
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Meltzer was talking about that when the Tokyo Sports awards came out -- New JApan's heavyweight tag division is pretty bare. Atsushi Onita and Chigusa Nagayo won Tag Team of the Year despite not working any major shows and being really old, and he kind of felt the Killer Elite Squad was the only team that deserved it
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Who is this guy sitting next to Hogan? It was Marchish 1999 during his feud with Flair but I don't recognize him. Excuse the language, he was born in Tampa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_LBUYYbYo
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Chromatic posted:Who is this guy sitting next to Hogan? It was Marchish 1999 during his feud with Flair but I don't recognize him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Zito quote:Charles "Chuck" Carmine Zito, Jr. (born March 1, 1953), is an American actor, amateur boxer, martial artist,[when?] celebrity bodyguard, stuntman, former boxing trainer and former president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels.[1] You might know him from OZ, or filing a lawsuit claiming that FX stole the idea for Sons of Anarchy from him, or from that time Hogan called the cameraman a jiggly jiggly Jew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziCFZIbRfZg (About 2 minutes in. Funny story, his IMDB doesn't even list his appearances in WCW.)
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So wait, HHH and Lemmy are bros right? That's why Motorhead has done so many themes for him? How the gently caress did that start?
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SamuraiFoochs posted:So wait, HHH and Lemmy are bros right? That's why Motorhead has done so many themes for him? How the gently caress did that start? Pretty sure it was just HHH being a huge fanboy of Motorhead for many years and contacting them to do his theme, and Motorhead likes making money.
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sticklefifer posted:Pretty sure it was just HHH being a huge fanboy of Motorhead for many years and contacting them to do his theme, and Motorhead likes making money. Oh, why did I think Trips and Lemmy are legit buds? Or are they now?
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I think they formed a friendship out of the deal, yeah. There was some special segment about it like 10 years ago so I don't remember exactly, but that's the general idea.
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There's a great extra on one of the Mania DVDs where Motörhead and HHH are sat backstage and they perform an acoustic version of his theme. It's really awkward because the drummer has nothing to do, it goes on for ages and Hunter just nod along the whole time. It also shows up just how little there is to that song musically. About as good as when any fucker produces an acoustic guitar backstage at a wrestling show really.
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i remember when Alter Bridge played acoustically in front of Chris Jericho (i think?) backstage at a Raw one time? Might have been Edge
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Ostentatious posted:i remember when Alter Bridge played acoustically in front of Chris Jericho (i think?) backstage at a Raw one time? They did Edge's theme, so probably.
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This is the best guitar related backstage thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy2Ac-L_ETg
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Can Lemmy join the League of Nations?
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MrBling posted:This is the best guitar related backstage thing: Actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCDeP5dyaQ
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sticklefifer posted:Pretty sure it was just HHH being a huge fanboy of Motorhead for many years and contacting them to do his theme, and Motorhead likes making money. The story goes that when "The Game" was written, HHH asked who he would like to play it. He said someone who sounded like Motorhead. They asked why don't they just get Motorhead, but HHH just laughed that off, believing that there was no way they could ever get Motorhead to do his theme. It also led to an interview in a metal magazine with Lemmy and HHH where HHH was asked if he sang Motorhead songs while in the shower, and HHH replied "I try not to think of Lemmy while I'm in the shower."
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You know how when you were a kid you'd say "If I ever got rich I'd just eat cake all day every day", well that's Triple H and getting Motorhead to do poo poo
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If it's not clear, that rules. Why be humble when you can just make poo poo happen that makes you feel good
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