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punk rebel ecks posted:I remember like almost fifteen years ago I'd run into videos on Youtube of Japanese wrestling promotion called "Hustle". It had...erm....unique characters like Hard Gay and this dominatrix lady. I've heard that the promotion was apparently very lovely and wasn't/isn't well liked (for reasons that go further than aspects of it that haven't aged well culturally)? Hustle was run by the seem people who owned the MMA company Pride. It was weird. The first show was headlined by Naoya Ogawa vs Bill Goldberg & also had Hashimoto vs Vader, plus Dos Caras, Mil Mascaras & Sicodelico Jr. vs Dusty Rhodes, Steve Corino & Tom Howard & Kawada vs Mark Coleman. Or how about Naoya Ogawa, Razor Ramon Hard Gay & Shinjiro Otani vs. Toshiaki Kawada, Yinling The Erotic Terrorist & Yoji Anjo from HUSTLEMANIA? It was mostly based around Generalissimo Takada's Monster Army (that's former huge star of shoot style wrestling Nobuhiko Takada) against Hustle Union Army. KUSHIDA had his first matches in Japan with Hustle. I don't want to say that HUSTLE was just DDT with a budget because that undersells how great DDT was & is, but HUSTLE definitely had that "sports entertainment turned up to 11" vibe, but with a lot of household names like Tenryu, Choshu, Kawada, Ogawa, Ohtani, Great Muta, Akebono, Aja Kong. Also the guy who played Hiroki Awano in Yakuza 0 ended up leading the major heel faction near the end of the promotion. Also have to add that Razor Ramon Hard Gay was a comedian before he got involved with HUSTLE & afterwards. His friend from college was also involved, Razor Ramon Real Gay. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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All I know about HUSTLE is that The Great Muta impregnated Yinling by misting her crotch and that resulted in her laying an egg that eventually hatched Akebono. e: And HulkaMatt's General Takada avatar. frankenfreak fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Lamuella posted:Apollo Crews has a deeply problematic spear. 
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frankenfreak posted:All I know about HUSTLE is that The Great Muta impregnated Yinling by misting her crotch and that resulted in her laying an egg that eventually hatched Akebono. If nothing else, we got Generalissimo Takada looking cool as hell & KUSHIDA from HUSTLE so it can't be all bad.
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frankenfreak posted:All I know about HUSTLE is that The Great Muta impregnated Yinling by misting her crotch and that resulted in her laying an egg that eventually hatched Akebono. Didn't that story end with Akebono accidentally squashing Yinling, after which the action stopped and she gave a deathbed speech via spotlight?
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So I guess HUSTLE was "good". Hmm. Interesting that it was done by the PRIDE people.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I remember like almost fifteen years ago I'd run into videos on Youtube of Japanese wrestling promotion called "Hustle". It had...erm....unique characters like Hard Gay and this dominatrix lady. I've heard that the promotion was apparently very lovely and wasn't/isn't well liked (for reasons that go further than aspects of it that haven't aged well culturally)?
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Yeah, HUSTLE's vibe from what little I've seen of it is more "it was wild" than "it was good."MassRafTer posted:Hustle is one of those things that is much more fun to read about or see clips of than to actually watch a show. That makes a shitload of sense. karmicknight fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Hustle is one of those things that is much more fun to read about or see clips of than to actually watch a show.
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HUSTLE gave us Kawada's singing skills so it can't be that bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdHJbK43N4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNUQkjDEag https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hreh
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Turns out he taught Taichi EVERYTHING.
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afatwhiteloaf posted:Whatever happened to Lufisto? https://twitter.com/LuFisto/status/1373005972780748800
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afatwhiteloaf posted:Whatever happened to Lufisto? She retired. She's had both a heart attack and a stroke. Also fought cancer.
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Has there ever been a better entrance and theme than Christian’s upon becoming a singles wrestler?
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grand sword, kaze ni nare, jungle emperor, wild thing, the brood
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Police Man has a better theme and entrance.
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MassRafTer posted:Police Man has a better theme and entrance. You mean when you’re being arrested for public urination?
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AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES AMERICAN MALES
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the best theme outside of the incredibly famous ones like kaze ni nare or grand sword or using well known pre-existing music whether authorized or not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntVyC5QPA1Y
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Has there ever been a better entrance and theme than Christian’s upon becoming a singles wrestler? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0UB1eEGB4 the operatic theme that bleeds into the rock, and then goes back into the opera, while the masks are on the titantron and the gold curtain of sparks falls down? yeah it was for sure at the time one of the loving best. Christian getting that god-tier entrance alongside actually beating Edge at their first major confrontation was a huge push.
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Yeah, that’s right.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Has there ever been a better entrance and theme than Christian’s upon becoming a singles wrestler?
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What the gently caress
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Thauros posted:the best theme outside of the incredibly famous ones like kaze ni nare or grand sword or using well known pre-existing music whether authorized or not Truly the Triangle Lancer of Entrance Themes.
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D.N. Nation posted:Triple H at Mania. The ones in bold are the ones I think are bullshit. Touching on this one - HBK was the main event challenger that year and he used the DX theme and gear through the build to and at Wrestlemania (going back to his solo act the night after), just so you would have no chance of forgetting it was supposed to originally be HHH in there. It was really offputting.
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Didn't know that! Just to reiterate- the main event was originally going to be face/DX Triple H versus Cena, facing each other for the title in back-to-back Manias? Because that's dumb, therefore totally believable
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Yoshi Tatsu's theme was a song called "J-Pop Drop", which was either public domain or WWE bought the rights to it, and I can't imagine they did the latter just for Yoshi Tatsu. It's been used in a few other places, notably a Portlandia sketch and an old Nintendo DS game. forkboy84 posted:Also have to add that Razor Ramon Hard Gay was a comedian before he got involved with HUSTLE & afterwards. His friend from college was also involved, Razor Ramon Real Gay.
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What is the perfect wrestling match? It doesn't necessarily be the best match ever, but what are some matches that are perfectly booked, taking into account the wrestlers ability, the time, the location, the booking etc? I'm watching Cena vs Umaga Last Man Standing and my god does it own.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:What is the perfect wrestling match? I'd honestly consider Cody vs. Brodie Lee up there.
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Pylons posted:I'd honestly consider Cody vs. Brodie Lee up there. Which one? That first one was just so good, I really prefer it to the dog collar match.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Which one? That first one was just so good, I really prefer it to the dog collar match. The first one, yeah.
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i'd call cody vs dustin a bit better of a match in terms of it being exactly what it needed to be and doing all of it well, but cody vs brodie 1 was also very good
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Kosmo Gallion posted:What is the perfect wrestling match? Jumbo vs Misawa.
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also believe me when i say this is an entirely serious response: the invisible man vs invisible stan match is genuinely fascinating to watch and shows exactly how much a good crowd and a good ref can add to a match and the finish still owns
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