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SLUM KING posted:Rey is the easily the most mistreated world champion of all time. A better, less racist company would have built around him (and Eddy) and made some huge loving money but Vince is a dumb bigot who booked the greatest face of the last 30 years as a joke. Like the obvious story directions would be Rey taking the devastating chair-assisted move and losing valiantly, or getting the chair out of the way just in time and kicking out at 2.99999... but lol nah they came up with a 3rd option that made everyone look less cool
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forkboy84 posted:"Finally won the big one at the big one, then beat KENTA, had many months off before an interminable feud with EVIL where he dropped the titles in his 2nd defence, won it back immediately & then his first defence of that reign was also against EVIL." From the last page but my the funniest part to me about Naito vs EVIL is that Naito himself in one of his promos basically went, "Really? I'm fighting EVIL again? This is like the 4th time this year. If you decide to skip our match, I get it, I do. It'll be a great match, but yeah. I get it."
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ICHIBAHN posted:was there an AEW show last night? No you’re probably thinking of Dynamite on Wed which has the title match.
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Was Master Wato ever good? I thought he was a well regarded young lion and that there was a desire for him to come back from excursion but now, he’s a joke right?
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Isn’t Master Wato the flying anteater that owned Darth Vader’s mom?
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TV Zombie posted:Was Master Wato ever good? I thought he was a well regarded young lion and that there was a desire for him to come back from excursion but now, he’s a joke right? Look at comments on him from Cagematch from 2017 & 2018. It's all stuff like "He is the best young lion in New Japan History, great moves and great storytelling for a guy who have 21 years. He will be the next ace of the company and IWGP Heavyweight champion as well" & "I can definitely see him as a future star in the light heavyweight division, Kawato has all the tools to make it big." He was absolutely a good Young Lion. And then had a disastrously underwhelming excursion in CMLL & got stuck with a dumb gimmick while also seemingly being real uncoordinated & poo poo. That said, it's been 6 months, there's nothing to say he can't recover from this. There was at least hints of a solid guy in there.
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TV Zombie posted:Was Master Wato ever good? I thought he was a well regarded young lion and that there was a desire for him to come back from excursion but now, he’s a joke right? He was goofy but had a certain amount of charisma and promise when he was a young lion. Then he went to Mexico and never got better. In fact, he got worse. He botched more catches than the Miz. He was so sloppy and bad that I can't get behind even ironic Wato love. He stunk up every match he was in in Mexico, and he was dangerous while doing it.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Isn’t Master Wato the flying anteater that owned Darth Vader’s mom? That was Master Watto, underrated high flyer from the Tatooine territory
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Big Bidness posted:He was goofy but had a certain amount of charisma and promise when he was a young lion. Then he went to Mexico and never got better. In fact, he got worse. He botched more catches than the Miz. He was so sloppy and bad that I can't get behind even ironic Wato love. He stunk up every match he was in in Mexico, and he was dangerous while doing it. I think it's unfair to say he stunk up every match he was in. He was mostly fine towards the end of the excursion in random six mans on Puebla cards, and when Volcano was in the match he wasn't even close to the worst wrestler!
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Honestly I really liked the recent match Wato had against El Desperado otherwise I haven't been too impressed but he hasn't been complete garbage during the Best of the Super Juniors.
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Wato noticably improved towards the end of his run in CMLL and his caballera contra caballera match with Dulce Gardenia on New Year's Day 2020 (which admittedly feels like a lifetime ago now) was actually good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D85KkwML6oM&t=7205s
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do people think wato has been having bad matches in BOSJ? i feel like they've been quite good on average
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i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school
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Cavauro posted:i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school joey mercury
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Procrastinator posted:do people think wato has been having bad matches in BOSJ? i feel like they've been quite good on average Mostly mediocre. Of the stuff I've seen so far he's been solidly OK despite being in there with 3 guys who you'd be expecting to have better than OK matches (Taguchi, Eagles & Despy)
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The problem is that people here keep describing him as "fine" or "pretty solid" when just a couple years ago he was considered a prodigy and the best of his YL class. Even if he didn't have the goofy gimmick it's hard not to see that as a huge disappointment.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:joey mercury TY very much
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Cavauro posted:i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school I'm pretty sure trips levesque had good hair still when he shaved it
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forkboy84 posted:Mostly mediocre. Of the stuff I've seen so far he's been solidly OK despite being in there with 3 guys who you'd be expecting to have better than OK matches (Taguchi, Eagles & Despy) ok. i disagree with you. i hope you enjoy stuff more.
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incredible reply to the only answer you were asking for with that question
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Cavauro posted:i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school Flair. It didn't grow back nearly as thick.
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Cavauro posted:i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school Kane?
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Cavauro posted:i have a question, for the thread. how many wrestlers shaved their heads when they had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline? i thought of this after looking at the wrestling character beaver cleavage in the other thread. i can think of him and possibly danny basham but i don't have evidence of an 'after' photo on that. i am doing this for school Jeff Jarrett had thick hair and a completely in-tact hairline when he lost his hair vs hair match.
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i begrudgingly accept jeff jarrett and ric flair but not kane. he has the 'mange' style of hair where it slowly deteriorated all over his head in a chaotic yet paradoxically even pattern, and i don't trust that it had not started yet when he unmasked and had a friar's hair.
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Price Check posted:Kane? Kane's hair was a wig
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Seth Rollins posted:kane had psychological hair
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Who was the first 'Express' tag team in Wrestling? The Midnights? The Rock and Rolls? Why was 'Express' ever even a suffix you'd attach to a tag team?
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Midnight Express was a pretty big movie in 1978, though not one that has much of an obvious connection to the wrestling gimmick, according to Wikipedia:quote:In the book The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams Condrey explains that the name did not stem from the movie Midnight Express (although later versions of the Midnight Express would use the film's theme by Giorgio Moroder as their theme music) but from the fact that they all dressed in black, drove black cars, and were out partying past midnight. The Midnight Express formed in the summer of 1981, and the Rock N Roll Express came along in 1983 and I believe just borrowed "Express" from the Midnights because they were a hot tag team. That same year in Florida, Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo started feuding with "The Zambuie Express" (Leroy Brown and Randy Candy wrestling as "Elijah Akeem and Kareem Muhammad" in a.... "What if Mister T were two people who wore camo and maybe hinted at being part of the Nation of Islam?" gimmick"). Possibly coincidentally, Windham and Rotundo were called the US Express a year or so later when they jumped to WWF. Within a few more years, you got the Can-Am Express, the Orient Express, etc. and "Express" just became like a buzzword for tag teams regardless of if it made sense or not.
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Edge & Christian posted:Midnight Express was a pretty big movie in 1978, though not one that has much of an obvious connection to the wrestling gimmick, according to Wikipedia: The name US Express has always been curious to me since in the early 80s the Cannonball Run successor US Express was running, but these events were mostly kept secret to avoid law enforcement crackdowns. There was some contemporary coverage, but not a lot. With all the Express teams forming it wouldn't be weird for two guys to go "Well, let's be the US Express" but it would be kind of neat if they named themselves after the illegal road races.
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Cavauro posted:i begrudgingly accept jeff jarrett and ric flair but not kane. he has the 'mange' style of hair where it slowly deteriorated all over his head in a chaotic yet paradoxically even pattern, and i don't trust that it had not started yet when he unmasked and had a friar's hair. I thought we all agreed he had baby hair
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no thanks. cultural appropriation
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