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Let's get some Thunder Rosa v Britt Baker hot takes from the less talked about cesspool in wrestling, youtube commentators.quote:Jose Hernandez quote:Eric L B quote:Dylan Smith quote:KW Music quote:Steve McCullagh And my personal favourite, the one who is trying to make an intellectual critique and manages to get everything wrong: quote:Makainternational
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“barely sold”
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I keep running into this one guy who absolutely insists that the only reason people like the match is because "Britt busted open hardway."
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Mar 23, 2021 17:25
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Pylons posted:I keep running into this one guy who absolutely insists that the only reason people like the match is because "Britt busted open hardway." people apparently missed the solid minute of unnatural camerawork during both bladejobs that were a dead giveaway that someone was blading and they didn't want you to see them
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:people apparently missed the solid minute of unnatural camerawork during both bladejobs that were a dead giveaway that someone was blading and they didn't want you to see them Everyone was too transfixed by Rosa's look of utter insanity while Britt was gigging to notice
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Mar 23, 2021 17:41
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Wait, Britt vs Rosa was just suplex after suplex? Maybe I need to watch it after all because that sounds cool as hell
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forkboy84 posted:Wait, Britt vs Rosa was just suplex after suplex? Maybe I need to watch it after all because that sounds cool as hell It's good, I'm not as big on AEW stuff as most yet...it's very good.
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Lid posted:
I will put money down that this person did not make the same complaint when watching matches featuring Benoit, Eddy, or Angle (or maybe even Taz)
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Mar 23, 2021 19:24
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I would absolutely watch a deathmatch that was nothing but suplexes.
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Mar 23, 2021 19:25
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Lamuella posted:I would absolutely watch a deathmatch that was nothing but suplexes. Pretty sure this was Samoa Joe against Necro Butcher and yes it was
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Mar 23, 2021 19:27
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Sydney Bottocks posted:
Or Lesnar?
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Mar 23, 2021 19:33
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Lid posted:Pretty sure this was Samoa Joe against Necro Butcher and yes it was I can't make it through this match. The commentary is way too much.
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Lid posted:Pretty sure this was Samoa Joe against Necro Butcher and yes it was there was also a power slam! or at least half of one
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Not so much a bad take as a funny one, but I saw this in a Youtube livestream.  I thought Daniel Bryan was the only farm. Turns out Team Hell No was a farm all along.
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Isn’t wrestling history literally full of racist promoters who still had the business sense to push PoC when it would make them money? Like this isn’t even a unique Vince thing at all right
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jesus WEP posted:Isn’t wrestling history literally full of racist promoters who still had the business sense to push PoC when it would make them money? Like this isn’t even a unique Vince thing at all right Plus it's still hella racist to have the POC nearly exclusively working with other POC.
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Testekill posted:Plus it's still hella racist to have the POC nearly exclusively working with other POC.
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jesus WEP posted:That’s been true for much of the last year for sure but not right now. Roman’s feuding with Edge/Bryan, New Day with AJ Styles, Lashley with Drew, Asuka with It's not happening at the moment (probably because Wrestlemania season) that's correct but it's been happening for years now.
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jesus WEP posted:Isn’t wrestling history literally full of racist promoters who still had the business sense to push PoC when it would make them money? *insert Bill Watts pic here*
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Mike is my favorite reply guy. Sorry to my other reply guys. https://twitter.com/Michael45749369/status/1374937078669193217 https://twitter.com/Michael45749369/status/1374923631059464192
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jesus WEP posted:Isn’t wrestling history literally full of racist promoters who still had the business sense to push PoC when it would make them money? Like this isn’t even a unique Vince thing at all right
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sticklefifer posted:Not so much a bad take as a funny one, but I saw this in a Youtube livestream. The Lore of the Farm.
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Mar 25, 2021 05:24
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you inpatient fuks
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I prefer my wrestling on an outpatient basis
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jesus WEP posted:Isn’t wrestling history literally full of racist promoters who still had the business sense to push PoC when it would make them money? Like this isn’t even a unique Vince thing at all right I think it's mostly just Bill Watts.
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Dawgstar posted:I think it's mostly just Bill Watts. Yeah when Russo did it they just wanted to deflect from lawsuits.
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MassRafTer posted:Yeah when Russo did it they just wanted to deflect from lawsuits. The only other examples I can think of were Eddie and Rey who did not have the most, uh, sterling of title reigns. Rey especially. Good lord.
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Vagabundo posted:Didn't Eddie have a meltdown of sorts when his title reign wasn't immediately a smashing success? The story I remember isn't so much a meltdown but more that he knew the gates were down and so were the buy rates and he was extremely stressed out, and it partly lead to him dropping the title
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Yeah he was demanding way too much of himself and punishing himself for the drop in viewers and it was really bad for his mental health
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I dunno much about this story but I would probably assume Eddie blamed himself for falling ratings, gates, buys, whatever because people backstage were telling him to his face that it was his fault.
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MJeff posted:I dunno much about this story but I would probably assume Eddie blamed himself for falling ratings, gates, buys, whatever because people backstage were telling him to his face that it was his fault. That's quite possible but given how ingrained wrestling is in his family's history and that Gory was involved in NWA Hollywood and World Class as a promoter and booker, I'd bet Eddie knew just how important it was to have champ who drew Someone should write a book about the Guerrero family
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I’m sure none of that had to do with feuding with loving JBL.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That's quite possible but given how ingrained wrestling is in his family's history and that Gory was involved in NWA Hollywood and World Class as a promoter and booker, I'd bet Eddie knew just how important it was to have champ who drew At least we have Beat The Champ from The Mountain Goats.
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Pinstripe Hourglass posted:I’m sure none of that had to do with feuding with loving JBL. Wasn't this basically his whole reign, just ~3 months? I'm a little hazy but he beat Lesnar right before Mania, and transitioned straight from Angle to JBL
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Jackie D posted:Wasn't this basically his whole reign, just ~3 months? I'm a little hazy but he beat Lesnar right before Mania, and transitioned straight from Angle to JBL The Angle part of the reign took up a chunk. I think Kurt got at least one rematch, and he helped JBL retain the belt in a cage match
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Eddie's reign: No Way Out 2004: wins the belt from Brock Wrestlemania XX: retains against Angle Judgment Day 2004: retains against JBL in that match with the gnarly bladejob Great American Bash 2004: drops the belt to JBL in a strap match
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Here are all of Eddie's title matches per Cagematch: (obviously attendance/buys are estimates) 2/15/04 No Way Out: Beats Brock Lesnar for the belt (attendance 11,000, 350,000 buys) 2/17 Smackdown: Eddie vs. Chavo Guerrero goes to No Contest (first TV with Eddie as champ, attendance 3,000, rating 3.5) 3/14 WrestleMania 20: Eddie beats Kurt Angle (not the main event so I won't count attendance or buys for/against him) 3/16 Smackdown: Eddie beats Rey Mysterio (post-Mania TV, attendance 6,000, rating 3.6) 3/22 Raw: Eddie vs. Triple H ends by DQ (draft episode built around cross-brand matches, attendance 12,000, rating 4.5) 3/23 Smackdown: Eddie vs. Booker T ends by DQ (post-draft, notable for JBL's SD debut, attendance 4,000, rating 3.3) 5/16 Judgment Day: Eddie vs. JBL ends by DQ (the famous bloody match with the deep blading, attendance 18,722, 235,000 buys) 6/27 Great American Bash: JBL beats Eddie in Texas Bull Rope match (universally panned show with an overbooked title change, starting JBL's reign of terror, attendance 6,500, 238,000 buys) He would later lose a rematch to JBL on SD and get shuffled out of the title picture Out of seven title matches, just two had a clean finish (and of course Rey was one of them) and none of them were on PPV. His PPV main events did middling numbers but were about on par for Smackdown shows at the time. They tried to protect him a little by not pinning him to lose the title, but that match ended up helping nobody. The matches were good but rarely great, with the exception of the Judgement Day bloodbath. Eddie was very much leaning on schtick and charisma more than great matches at this point in his career. So yeah, not a great reign, but it could've been a lot better if the booking got behind him instead of making it look like a fluke.
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