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IceAgeComing posted:Kairi Sane was scouted by Stardom because she played a pro wrestling heel in a play and Fuka, one of the executives in Stardom at the time, saw the thing and offered her a spot in the Stardom dojo. Makai is wonderful, and a bunch of their shows are online. Imagine a mythological play set in the afterlife, taking place in a wrestling ring, with heavy metal accompaniment and LARP weapons. A section from a recent show can be found here, and lots of their full shows are on their youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHGLyAm6k4
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Lamuella posted:Makai is wonderful, and a bunch of their shows are online. Imagine a mythological play set in the afterlife, taking place in a wrestling ring, with heavy metal accompaniment and LARP weapons. A section from a recent show can be found here, and lots of their full shows are on their youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHGLyAm6k4 gently caress you for showing this to me because now I'm all in addicted to it and can't stop watching. I hope you're happy.
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Lamuella posted:Makai is wonderful, and a bunch of their shows are online. Imagine a mythological play set in the afterlife, taking place in a wrestling ring, with heavy metal accompaniment and LARP weapons. A section from a recent show can be found here, and lots of their full shows are on their youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHGLyAm6k4 Why isn't Taichi doing this?
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:gently caress you for showing this to me because now I'm all in addicted to it and can't stop watching. I hope you're happy. Delighted.
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Why is Canadian Destroyer everywhere know? Seems like everyone does it and the move has lost its "impact".. is it because it pretty simple to do? Does it even pop the crowd anymore?
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Super No Vacancy posted:there were gifs at some point of her doing headscissors and ranas in the play i think but they're less easy to find https://twitter.com/dramaticddt/status/1158008508056526849?lang=en
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TheCool69 posted:Why is Canadian Destroyer everywhere know? Seems like everyone does it and the move has lost its "impact".. is it because it pretty simple to do? Does it even pop the crowd anymore? because it's badass
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shiksa posted:so I didnt realize that the hair in the jushin liger costume was fake and sewn in until like two years ago. this wasnt always the case, right? anyone know when ligers hair became more costume than man? i thought it was always like that. even in WCW it looked like a wig.
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Did we ever find out what the personal story about Vince Punk alluded to at the end of the pipebomb was?
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I Before E posted:Did we ever find out what the personal story about Vince Punk alluded to at the end of the pipebomb was? my assumption was always that it was nothing, and that "personal story about Vince" was the cue to the sound desk to cut Punk's mic in about 5 seconds.
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TheCool69 posted:Why is Canadian Destroyer everywhere know? Seems like everyone does it and the move has lost its "impact".. is it because it pretty simple to do? Does it even pop the crowd anymore? Easy safe big move that was an easy pop, It's slowly starting to make it's exit like the reverse rana or handspring cutter, old dudes like Rickey Morton or Dustin pulling one out still gets a great pop.
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FunMerrania posted:Easy safe big move that was an easy pop, It's slowly starting to make it's exit like the reverse rana or handspring cutter, old dudes like Rickey Morton or Dustin pulling one out still gets a great pop. I thought you were making poo poo up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvbpmjQI55s
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I thought you were making poo poo up. Morton did one on AEW TV a few months ago too.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Dustin Rhodes has had such a weird late bloom. Like it was in the 2010s that he started buckling down and really improving in the ring. Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad.
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TriffTshngo posted:Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad. Yes, and when he made his comeback about tagged with Booker and later Cody, he reminded people hes a fantastic tag wrestler El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Feb 1, 2020 |
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TriffTshngo posted:Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad. Was there ever anyone with a blue chipper gimmick who got it over/showed a ton of charisma?
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The Senator Giroux posted:Was there ever anyone with a blue chipper gimmick who got it over/showed a ton of charisma? Sting and Tanahashi are the main two that immediately come to mind.
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The Senator Giroux posted:Was there ever anyone with a blue chipper gimmick who got it over/showed a ton of charisma? There was this guy called Rocky Maivia? Dunno what happened to him.
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Deathlove posted:There was this guy called Rocky Maivia? Dunno what happened to him. Who didn't get over with that gimmick at all.
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Defiance Industries posted:Who didn't get over with that gimmick at all. Oh "got it over" misread as "got over it" 🙃
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The Senator Giroux posted:Was there ever anyone with a blue chipper gimmick who got it over/showed a ton of charisma? kind of cheating but multiple von erichs pretty much did that. then again i guess that gimmick goes hand in hand with family ties at least 50% of the time
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Low Desert Punk posted:is it true that the NOAH announcers made fun of Samoa Joe and thought he was a comedy act because he kept doing King's Road moves in his match against Misawa That's hilarious if true.
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TriffTshngo posted:Sting and Tanahashi are the main two that immediately come to mind. I always forget just how well surfer Sting connected with the crowd, especially kids. He basically acted like a big kid that was given a chance to be a wrestler and it somehow clicked.
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Low Desert Punk posted:is it true that the NOAH announcers made fun of Samoa Joe and thought he was a comedy act because he kept doing King's Road moves in his match against Misawa This convinced me to finally watch Joe vs Misawa after well over a decade of putting it off, thanks. The most damning thing I can see is Takayama having a laugh over Joe being a huge puro fanboy and "he moves well for a fatty". But they both put him over and say all of these are what make him dangerous against Misawa. finalcake fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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TriffTshngo posted:Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad. Yeah, he was really good. Too bad he fell into addiction like that
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Dustin and Austin had some really good matches in WCW, too. Dustin's charisma wasn't there yet, but he wasn't as bad as some other second gen wrestlers
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TriffTshngo posted:Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad. Anyone with doubts about Dustin's ability when he was young should check out the series he had against Vader.
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TriffTshngo posted:Wasn't he always regarded as a really good talent early on, pre-Goldust? I remember a lot of wrestlers saying Dustin totally lived up to his nickname at the time, "The Natural," he just had the issue of... y'know, having virtually no charisma, made even more apparent by being associated with his insanely charismatic dad. When he very first came to WCW he was seen as a nepotism push but he got good pretty quick.
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