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Hot diggity drat. You're my hero. Now I just gotta get around the region lock.
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Decades posted:Woah apparently Moxley is on the Bloodsport card tomorrow? Barnett's about to get my money. I was inspired by this post to watch Barnett/Suzuki, having never seen boodsport before and my first thought was "Oh my those people are very close, and there's so many of them!". It's so jarring to watch this stuff while I still have quarantine-brain (obviously this is pre-restrictions, but I still didn't anticipate how out of place it should seem).
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XeeD posted:Hot diggity drat. You're my hero. Now I just gotta get around the region lock. You can sign up for Peacock (the freebie version), and watch the entire episode (3/18/00).
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Feb 19, 2021 22:01
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XeeD posted:Hot diggity drat. You're my hero. Now I just gotta get around the region lock. VPN. Otherwise, hope that the region lock is similar to most region locks on SNL videos and randomly gets removed for a while before being put on again.
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Feb 19, 2021 22:29
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This is my favorite chokeslam of all time from Big Show/The Giant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKABblKDu-4
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Feb 19, 2021 22:54
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Nick Jr. Face posted:This is my favorite chokeslam of all time from Big Show/The Giant: I prefer the one where he kersplats Ric Flair for his first belt. It helps that you have Woman and Liz freaking the gently caress out, because they know Flair is toast. Come to think of it, Flair was often a good opponent for Show.
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Feb 19, 2021 23:27
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I was wondering if most of the matches on AEW PPVs were unique matches that werent previously shown on Dynamites. It seems like they wouldn't be...but maybe they are?
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Feb 19, 2021 23:35
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Okay so WWE famously fired CM Punk on his wedding day and they're scummy motherfuckers that knew when and where to twist the knife for maximum emotional distress. But why exactly was Punk so bothered by this? He's claimed that after leaving he had no intention of returning to WWE or wrestling ever again. Surely when he walked out in January he must have known that was it. Was he expecting WWE to yield and have him back?
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Feb 20, 2021 00:03
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Punk is an odd cat. In his RF shoot Hornswoggle tells the story of how he used to ride with Punk and by all accounts though they were friends until one time Swoggle asked for somebody's phone number and Punk decided that Hornswoggle was using him and froze him out. I don't even think he and Cabana are friends anymore, although admittedly that might be Cabana's doing.
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Feb 20, 2021 00:10
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TV Zombie posted:I was wondering if most of the matches on AEW PPVs were unique matches that werent previously shown on Dynamites. It seems like they wouldn't be...but maybe they are? So looking at the six pay per views AEW have done or planned since Dynamite started: Full Gear 2019: one Dynamite rematch (Page vs PAC). Revolution 2020: no rematches Double Or Nothing 2020: one Dynamite rematch (MJF vs Jungle Boy) All Out 2020: two Dynamite rematches (Sammy vs Hardy, Jericho vs Cassidy) Full Gear 2020: three Dynamite rematches (Darby vs Cody, Sammy vs Hardy, Mox vs Kingston) plus one PPV rematch (Shida vs Nyla) Revolution 2021 (based on what's booked so far) one confirmed Dynamite rematch (Kenny vs Mox) potentially a second depending on who wins the women's tournament and faces Shida.
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Feb 20, 2021 00:47
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Okay so WWE famously fired CM Punk on his wedding day and they're scummy motherfuckers that knew when and where to twist the knife for maximum emotional distress. According to Punk HHH called him a couple days prior wanting to talk. Punk said he was about to get married and he would have all the time in the world to talk after he was back from his honeymoon. This was after months of phone calls trying to get his merch money after they refused to send him a check. So instead of waiting another couple weeks they specifically Fedexed his termination so it would arrive on his wedding day. Vince can deny that all he wants but they absolutely did it. He probably knew he was done, but they were still loving around with his money and he presumably wanted that taken care of first. That combined with the company being purposefully spiteful probably pissed him off to no end and Punk doesn't handle grudges well.
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Yeah, based on the way he talked about it, I'd assumed it was more about the principle of it, rather than the fact that he got fired. It was always a matter of time that he'd get his termination papers, but to do it in a way that, even in a small way, ruins what should be one of the best days of his and AJ's lives is some next-level petty poo poo.
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Feb 20, 2021 00:58
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Lamuella posted:So looking at the six pay per views AEW have done or planned since Dynamite started: And how many of those are different gimmicks or title matches? AEW is nowhere near as terrible about repeated matches month after month.
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Feb 20, 2021 01:14
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Kvantum posted:And how many of those are different gimmicks or title matches? AEW is nowhere near as terrible about repeated matches month after month. i think their point is that it's very few rematches instead of a lot of rematches or at the very least 'aew gives a lot of ppv-quality matches away on dynamite'
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Feb 20, 2021 01:15
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Hedgehog Pie posted:- Turns heel by forming a tag team with The Undertaker, which is mostly notable for Paul Bearer driving them out into the desert and Undertaker having a motorbike and Big Show also maybe having a motorbike so Undertaker can bury Big Show up to his neck in the sand and Big Show said gently caress you or something and this was all a test to see if Big Show had what it took to be a dead man so Undertaker went back with his motorbike and Hahahahaha
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Feb 20, 2021 01:20
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That promo really does sound insane no matter how many times you hear it. Big Show came out of the desert with a snake for a neck tie... Then I guess Undertaker went back in the desert and turned snakes into those weird pants he wore a few years later.
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does everyone else assume big show was bollock naked apart from his snakeskin tie and boots or is that just me
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Feb 20, 2021 01:28
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TheKingslayer posted:That promo really does sound insane no matter how many times you hear it. please, you're underselling it he came out of the desert with lizard boots and a snake necktie
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Feb 20, 2021 01:30
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jesus WEP posted:does everyone else assume big show was bollock naked apart from his snakeskin tie and boots or is that just me donkey kongin' it that promo always felt like Taker trying to do a Hulk Hogan style promo to me
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Feb 20, 2021 01:49
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Funny story about that terrible neverending promo: I got all my wisdom teeth out the week this segment aired, so I was all doped up on prescription painkillers, and I had set my VCR to record all the wrestling that aired during the week. So Taker gets in the ring and starts saying some weird poo poo about motorcycles, and I doze off from the loopiness of the meds. I woke up several hours later, it's dark outside, and Taker's still in the ring rambling about riding his bike out to the desert. I later figured out that my VHS tape ran all the way to the end, rewound, then auto-played again, and I just happened to wake up during the exact same scene, give or take a couple minutes. But from my drug-addled post-surgery perspective, the Undertaker came to the ring and rambled for several hours about this time he buried the Big Show up to his neck in the desert. So however long it felt like that promo was for you, it was about the length of 3 Raws as far as I knew.
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Feb 20, 2021 02:01
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Psycho Mantits posted:Question for you guys: which Bloodsport card is generally considered the best? My roommate was big into combat sports for a while, and though she doesn't like pro wrestling at all she tries to keep an open mind since she knows how big a fan I am; thus I figured Bloodsport would be right up her alley. All of the Bloodsport shows have been at least good, but this show is the gem of the series so far. (Also: Matt Riddle's Bloodsport was less overtly shootstyle-centric, but still an absolute blast. It was best for the weird style clashes like WALTER-Tom Lawlor and Thatcher-Nick Gage.)
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davidbix posted:It's absolutely Jersey City/Barnett 1. The friends of Josh bookings overdelivered in a big way, everything that looked good on paper delivered big, it has three different Japanese imports, and even with the restrictions of the style, every match was different. Thatcher-Hideki Suzuki was more Muga/'70s-style, Barnett-Minoru Suzuki was more NJPW vs. UWF style, Gresham-Takeda was a wild style clash, Smith-Kross was a straight up UWF style match, etc. im so mad i didn't get to go to any of those White Eagle Hall shows
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Alaois posted:please, you're underselling it and carrying the motorcycle on his back
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Okay so WWE famously fired CM Punk on his wedding day and they're scummy motherfuckers that knew when and where to twist the knife for maximum emotional distress. Dawgstar posted:Punk is an odd cat. In his RF shoot Hornswoggle tells the story of how he used to ride with Punk and by all accounts though they were friends until one time Swoggle asked for somebody's phone number and Punk decided that Hornswoggle was using him and froze him out. I don't even think he and Cabana are friends anymore, although admittedly that might be Cabana's doing. Punk randomly deciding that Cabana was using him was, as best as I can tell, also what happened with them. Someone (Punk? A teammate at Roufusport?) had started a rumor that Colt went backstage at a WWE show in Chicago while Amann's lawsuit against the two of them was pending, but he's always sworn that it was made-up bullshit and I've never seen any reason to doubt him. (When Cabana sued Punk, Punk never claimed that this happened, either.) All of Punk's filings in the case that I've seen were to try to get the Cabana lawsuit thrown out on procedural grounds, so we don't have his side, but from what Cabana put into evidence, it reads like Punk freaked out when he got a legal bill in the mid six figure range and the sticker shock led to him disowning his best friend/co-defendant. If you didn't keep up with the lawsuit over the legal fees from the Amann case, this article that I wrote summarizes the things you need to know with links to the court records: https://deadspin.com/cm-punk-got-back-into-the-ring-but-does-he-want-back-i-1834286922 The very short version is that it looks like Punk got sticker shock, blamed Cabana, and decided to stop coverage their entire defense...even though the retainer they signed explicitly stated that both were formally clients even though Punk was solely responsible for payment. Then, when Cabana was ready to substitute new counsel for himself, Punk's lawyer, for some reason, decided to tell Cabana that they could keep the existing arrangement going. Months later, Punk's lawyer sent Cabana a letter dropping him as a client without explaining why; it specified there was no conflict of interest, but Punk's lawyers would later claim there was without specifying anything.
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So I'm gonna hope I'm wording this right, has there ever been a wrestler that when you see them compete you can never suspend your disbelief that they can actually win? Not someone with an underdog gimmick or is small or that kind of thing so let me give my example. Road Dogg. He doesn't look fit. He doesn't do awesome moves. He's not put over as fast, strong, technical, or extremely tough. He just looks like some guy out there and I can't buy that he can beat any of these wrestlers in a fight
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Thanks. Given how I feel like there are fresh matchups every ppv, I figured that couldn't be the case given the roster size.
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TheKingslayer posted:So I'm gonna hope I'm wording this right, has there ever been a wrestler that when you see them compete you can never suspend your disbelief that they can actually win? Eddie Kingston gives me this feeling.
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TheKingslayer posted:So I'm gonna hope I'm wording this right, has there ever been a wrestler that when you see them compete you can never suspend your disbelief that they can actually win? Marco Stunt 100%. He's too small and doesn't really do enough cool stuff or flips to make me think he can possibly damage any of his opponents. Thankfully AEW doesn't really book him in a way to where you're supposed to believe he can beat bigger wrestlers.
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Lazy like a Fox posted:Marco Stunt 100%. He's too small and doesn't really do enough cool stuff or flips to make me think he can possibly damage any of his opponents. Thankfully AEW doesn't really book him in a way to where you're supposed to believe he can beat bigger wrestlers. Basically with Marko him getting in any offense at all feels like a victory.
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I can at least buy Marko Stunt as a novelty part of Jurassic Express who picks his spots and then perhaps snags a surprise rollup, but the trick with Stunt is that they never push him beyond his station. There's a certain crop of wrestlers who always get booked above their ability because they're marketable. So their strikes always look too weak and/or the bigger & faster opponents slow down to wait to take their move, or have to oversell to make it look credible. The Riho/Nyla Rose feud in AEW made me feel that way. It just didn't feel like Riho could realistically beat her, where I could totally buy Shida winning. Sexy Star had several matches in Lucha Underground that stretched credibility too. Her strikes were OK but her opponents, especially in intergender matches, had to slow down to take her athletic moves. By contrast, I always bought Ivelisse as a credible threat to the men, and I wish they'd made her the champion instead. Koskinator posted:Eddie Kingston gives me this feeling.
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sticklefifer posted:booked above their ability sticklefifer posted:Riho What.
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new to sticklefifer posts, huh
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because of the large amount of behind the scenes footage available, brandon cutler seems like someone who would feel extremely bad and need to take some time off if they hit another person
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sticklefifer posted:
That's pretty much describing CM Punk, except Punk decided to add "Muay Thai Expert" to the gimmick, so he's like every school yard kid who said they took karate and had learned the secret "death punch" so don't mess with them.
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Lamuella posted:What. Alaois posted:new to sticklefifer posts, huh
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ok brian last
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ok I don't know who that is or who you are
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It's a strange complaint coming off a match where Riho put her feet through Serena Deeb's ribcage
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DeathChicken posted:It's a strange complaint coming off a match where Riho put her feet through Serena Deeb's ribcage Both directions in different spots
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I was talking specifically about her strikes and her feud with Nyla, so it's not strange at all. edit: lol I watched the Riho/Deeb match after posting this, and the commentary even brings up several times that she's 98lbs so strikes aren't her forte. sticklefifer fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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