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I like the argument that WWE PPVs are near 100% wrestling when they're actually around 50-60% wrestling which is what an AEW TV show is, and AEW PPVs are actually near 100% wrestling.
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Lead Pipe Cinch posted:Come to see the superstars do what? lovely little skits? Yes. https://twitter.com/WWEisRollins/status/1467432926610702339?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheKingMikhail/status/1467351369300467719?s=20 Davros1 fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Elephant Ambush posted:People who talk poo poo about flips and stuff are extremely boring people IRL and are mostly olds who want us to go back to the 80s where 2 extremely fat sweaty guys just stand in the middle of the ring and slap each other awkwardly and maybe do headlocks That sounds dope, actually.
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IGgy IGsen posted:That sounds dope, actually. [gestures toward the peacock network] Knock yourself out
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:I like the argument that WWE PPVs are near 100% wrestling when they're actually around 50-60% wrestling which is what an AEW TV show is, and AEW PPVs are actually near 100% wrestling. yeah I believe there was something like 18+ minutes of entrances and commercials prior to the men's survivor series match?
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Elephant Ambush posted:[gestures toward the peacock network] No, I'll just watch Ishii matches. We're skipping the "extremely fat" part but we get to keep the important aspect: Slaps slaps slaps slaps. Sometimes we get a little forearm to the chin as a treat.
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IGgy IGsen posted:No, I'll just watch Ishii matches. We're skipping the "extremely fat" part but we get to keep the important aspect: Slaps slaps slaps slaps. Ishii strong style matches are completely different from something like One Man Gang vs Tugboat. Ishiii and Shingo both no-sold a superplex into a huge loving lariat on each other and it was amazing.
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A group consisting of 9 people has multiple personality disorder. Crazy that they're not all the exact same person, smh.
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https://twitter.com/Bull59318840/status/1466525345440419846 https://twitter.com/Bull59318840/status/1466528299027361793 https://twitter.com/Bull59318840/status/1466527868759027715
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https://twitter.com/rod_2109/status/1467310059646599168?s=20 Petition to change thread to "Bro I can spot talent" https://twitter.com/GarySylveonOak/status/1467562337787801600?s=20 Davros1 fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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If wwe was still doing ppvs aew would probably be doing higher buy rates than all of them except wm, sa, and the rr
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Elephant Ambush posted:People who talk poo poo about flips and stuff are extremely boring people IRL and are mostly olds who want us to go back to the 80s where 2 extremely fat sweaty guys just stand in the middle of the ring and slap each other awkwardly and maybe do headlocks i just want more worked grappling Lamuella posted:It is sometimes fun to see what the people who grumble about "unrealistic" wrestling actually watch. Because if they like realistic wrestling they must be watching, like, Bloodsport or UWF or some of the MMA guys in Noah, right? exactly
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I think it's also partly Attitude era poisoning and conditioning to some degree. Rock, Austin, Foley, Undertaker, etc. didn't do a lot of acrobatic stuff. It was mostly punching and kicking and forearms and stomps in the corner, some outside the ring brawling, and finishers. Anyone doing high flying stuff was almost always in the midcard and these people seriously think that acrobatic stuff should be reserved for opening matches and maybe the upper midcard at best. It's so dumb.
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Young up and comer Serena Deeb
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Most of AEW's top stars aren't even flippy guys. Punk, Danielson, Cody, Moxley, Baker etc. aren't exactly out there doing Sasuke Specials and 450s.
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Benne posted:Most of AEW's top stars aren't even flippy guys. Punk, Danielson, Cody, Moxley, Baker etc. aren't exactly out there doing Sasuke Specials and 450s. Jon Moxley, should do constant 450s and standing ssp's
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Endless Mike posted:Young up and comer Serena Deeb could easily swap in Leyla Hirsch in that group
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"They should put Leyla Hirsch in this faction" is the new "x should be the leader of the Dark Order"
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Tampa Bae posted:"They should put Leyla Hirsch in this faction" is the new "x should be the leader of the Dark Order" We just want Leyla on TV, damnit
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The Taxman posted:We just want Leyla on TV, damnit
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Tampa Bae posted:"They should put Leyla Hirsch in this faction" is the new "x should be the leader of the Dark Order" I'm going to be the millionth person to make this joke: 
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Davros1 posted:Yes. The idea that you can only do storytelling in promos and lovely skits is probably the single worst WWE popularised. Brah, if you don't think there's a story in the matches then why are you even watching Pro Wrestling?
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forkboy84 posted:The idea that you can only do storytelling in promos and lovely skits is probably the single worst WWE popularised. to see the Storytelling Segments
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forkboy84 posted:The idea that you can only do storytelling in promos and lovely skits is probably the single worst WWE popularised. my owners went out to dinner and i have terrible anxiety and rip up the couch when i think i'm alone
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JUNGLE BOY posted:my owners went out to dinner and i have terrible anxiety and rip up the couch when i think i'm alone Your owners sound like bad people, they should leave you with something wholesome to watch like looped playlist of random poo poo from Kings AARK YouTube page. Pets deserve Kobashi & Misawa & Akiyama & KENTA too.
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forkboy84 posted:The idea that you can only do storytelling in promos and lovely skits is probably the single worst WWE popularised. They literally can't see storytelling in the ring. They need to have it spoonfed to them in promos and skits.
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Elephant Ambush posted:They literally can't see storytelling in the ring. They need to have it spoonfed to them in promos and skits. This is legitimately the issue. WWE since Hulkamania has been actively destroying literacy in wrestling fans. It's why people overreact (we do it too) to losses and squashes and things like Omega/Angels, they can't register the story being told because they're still treating it like a real fight and all that matters is the ending. The average WWE fan enjoys the entrances, video packages for the drama, and the match basically boils down to a story note. More important than a meaningless fight scene, but less meaningful then a 20 minute talking segment.
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"bro I can spot talent when I see it either" I've read that sentence like ten times now and it's still funny
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:a 450 is 1.5 flips. it's in the name A flip is defined by continuous motion. A 450 is one flip, with one and a half rotations. 
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Gaz-L posted:A flip is defined by continuous motion. A 450 is one flip, with one and a half rotations. Go off
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Gaz-L posted:A flip is defined by continuous motion. A 450 is one flip, with one and a half rotations. One and a quarter. One and a half would end with the flipper lawn-darting themselves.
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Q7kid posted:One and a quarter. One and a half would end with the flipper lawn-darting themselves. And a quarter rotation is no flip at all. Its a splash.
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nadabolt posted:And a quarter rotation is no flip at all. Its a splash. Ok this is too much advancement in the flip discourse for one night.
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nadabolt posted:And a quarter rotation is no flip at all. Its a splash. 1 flip = 4 splashes?
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flip flip flipadelphia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqonSSOcrt8
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It's amazing how these people will call out Tony Khan for wanting to get all these talented wrestlers to put them on TV and let them do what they do best and have fun in the process as him doing a bad thing but when Vince does it then it's something like him doing it purely out of the goodness of his own heart to give these people a living. It's like in Blackadder Goes Forth when there's a German spy in the hospital and as Captain Darling is explaining to Blackadder about them, General Melchitt interrupts with "Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war!", before interrupting Darling's next sentence about a British spy with "Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty!" But then again, if I recall correctly, that ECW documentary WWE did was very good at making it seem like only WCW was raiding ECW for talent, while the honourable Vince McMahon was just giving opportunities.
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I still can't wrap my mind around all the "they're wasting Adam Cole" takes. Like his whole storyline right now is that he's plotting a subtle coup of the Elite, everybody knows that Kyle is coming in to join him and Bobby, and they went out of their way to say that Kenny didn't watch his last match so he doesn't know the Bucks let him lose. This is exactly the kind of slow-burn stuff people say they want in wrestling but then complain that "nothing happens" because it's not shouted into a microphone every single week.
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