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In 2020 the story was how NJPW didnt adapt to crowdless shows while NOAH was having a resurgance under Go Shiozaki and doing things you could only do without crowds. Seeing this fall apart Gedo and Dick decided "in 2021 were going to double down on Memphis heat except the crowds can only clap in response".
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 02:39 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 23:53 |
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The point of refs in every sport is to make bad calls and get the fans angry at them so they're not mad at their own team for losing. They're like rodeo clowns. If anything, wrestling refs are too competent.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 02:43 |
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NJPW has a great tape library but I can’t get excited about a product with Will Ospreay on it.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:12 |
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You can't have a bad referee discussion without talking about Kyohei Wada who not only has annoying distracting spots but also actively endangered a performer by letting Act/Yoshiko continue after they'd both backed off into their corners. Bryce and Red Shoes annoy me but not as much as Kyohei
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:13 |
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I just try to forget he hasn't retired yet and assume that Nikkan Lee is the main All Japan ref
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:14 |
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Nikkan is imo the best referee in the world so AJPW is a land of contrasts
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:19 |
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forkboy84 posted:I just try to forget he hasn't retired yet and assume that Nikkan Lee is the main All Japan ref This, Wada actively takes away from All Japan main events with his glacial counts. Nikkan Lee rules
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:37 |
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I Before E posted:The point of refs in every sport is to make bad calls and get the fans angry at them so they're not mad at their own team for losing. Mate, I'm still fuming about Romain Poite and Wayne Barnes.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:52 |
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Allen Iverson should've never made an NBA final.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:56 |
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I'm not even from Sacramento but Vlade Divac should have a ring
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 04:28 |
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NOAH probably had a better 2021 but I'm not sure you can call a year where not only Muto won the top title but beat it's young future ace and had a draw as well that much better booked than NJPW
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:17 |
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Catching up on GLEAT and how in the hell is Minoru Suzuki working for every single company e: the Chris Regal thread turned into the puro thread so gradually I didn't even notice
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:21 |
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You try telling Suzuki he can't work for a company!
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:22 |
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SatoshiMiwa posted:NOAH probably had a better 2021 but I'm not sure you can call a year where not only Muto won the top title but beat it's young future ace and had a draw as well that much better booked than NJPW When Mutoh won the belt the juniors really picked it up and carried the undercard by just being consistently good and not betraying each other every show (and letting guys like Haoh and Ohara shine). Since Marufuji (and later Nakajima) won the top belt the Juniors went back to being completely insane with PdMdJ. It's just loving baffling the choices NOSAWA makes
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:25 |
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https://twitter.com/Machobeard4life/status/1476723825811329025?s=20
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:45 |
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Surely it must be the Khan Man who is bribing WWE Superstars to BETRAY WWE, surely the weekly news reports about morale being at an all-time low have nothing to do with why anyone might want to not be there anymore.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:57 |
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I'm not saying that Tony Khan took a dump on Vince McMahon's office chair, but if he had that would have been illegal.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 07:16 |
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it's all legal. hahahahaa
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 07:19 |
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I mean look at the signs....Firing Urban Myer and trying to get out of the contract is step 1 - step 5 is getting WWE talent to quit while under contract. It's all clearly visable!
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 08:39 |
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https://twitter.com/girloncinema/status/1476808143585828905?s=20 Girloncinema is now advertising fetish videos to own AEW? idk, she's a hosed up grifter and weirdo but I have to kind of respect the hustle, she's worked a lot of dumb as hell wrestling fans out of money by occupying this bizarre niche. I really get into all the weird off shoot personalities wrestling produces, the Mike Kurtz's or whatever, they freak me out because they seem to live in a different reality to me, not that mine is more legitimate but the idea that their experience is that vastly different than mine really makes me go inward and evaluate myself and try to live more in this experience I am in of life.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 09:46 |
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Every time I say something negative about WWE Tony Khan pops out from behind something and throws a handful of money at me. If it's not negative enough he throws a handful of change and it hurts.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 10:28 |
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All the bad ref talk and no one brouggt up the cmll refs, how the company has fallen
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 14:19 |
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This rules because it combines "Tony Khan is secretly behind everything in the wrestling world" and "That person that left WWE? They've actually been bad forever and not a big star." AND they're talking about Jeff Hardy not being a big star. If Roman walked out of WWE right now they'd say he was never really a big deal.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 14:33 |
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A Fancy Hat posted:This rules because it combines "Tony Khan is secretly behind everything in the wrestling world" and "That person that left WWE? They've actually been bad forever and not a big star." AND they're talking about Jeff Hardy not being a big star. I can see the arguments already. ”You shat on Roman for years and now you think he’s good? Wow toxic AEW fans are so bias”
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 17:16 |
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Pompín hasn't returned for CMLL since the pandemic so he may now be retired but CMLL hasn't issued anything official. He is/was very likely the oldest ref in the world, as he debuted in 1957 which would mean he was born between 1939-1942 for a typical lucha debut age range of 15-18. He took a Rush shotgun dropkick and bumped on the rock hard CMLL ring in like 2018 or 2019 so he was taking bumps at nearly age 80 which is loving insane. Pinche Rudo fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Dec 31, 2021 |
# ? Dec 31, 2021 19:09 |
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https://twitter.com/publicturtle/status/1476982626904797184?s=20
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 19:27 |
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Paul’s spirit knows no rest, forced to create new twitter accounts
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 19:49 |
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One the website NoDQ.com, the Young Bucks were voted Tag Team of the Year. This guy (Man on the Moon) thinks it should've been the Usos. This is part of his argument as to why the Bucks shouldn't be Team of the Year https://twitter.com/MrDeez965/status/1477023515027156999?s=20 Aw ... he deleted it. For those who missed it, he said "The only thing the Bucks had going for them was the quality of their matches." Davros1 fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jan 1, 2022 |
# ? Jan 1, 2022 00:30 |
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Sometimes I feel like the stuff posted itt really is making me dumber
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 00:53 |
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If quality of matches were the be-all and end-all then Astronauts or NEXTREAM would be winning team of the year every year, but nobody watches Big or All Japan outside of a square kilometre in Tokyo
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 00:58 |
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There were nowhere near enough Astronauts matches in 2021. They should sort that out. AJPW, gimme Stronghearts vs Astronauts.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 01:01 |
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Davros1 posted:One the website NoDQ.com, the Young Bucks were voted Tag Team of the Year. This guy (Man on the Moon) thinks it should've been the Usos. This is part of his argument as to why the Bucks shouldn't be Team of the Year thats hilarious
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 01:42 |
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There's a lot of bad bad bad takes given the current situation, and so many just not worth posting because just hateful bigotry. But this... this is something else.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 03:55 |
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A dumb but completely harmless take https://twitter.com/LaynieLuck/status/1477084647855210498
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 11:43 |
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Lid posted:There's a lot of bad bad bad takes given the current situation, and so many just not worth posting because just hateful bigotry. Jericho was a complete rear end in a top hat in this situation.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 12:05 |
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Jericho was a complete rear end in a top hat in this situation. Was Amanda Huber also an rear end in a top hat?
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 12:07 |
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Pylons posted:Was Amanda Huber also an rear end in a top hat? No, because they're in completely different situations and she's stil grieving her husband. Jericho is a drunk tweeting rear end who saw an opportunity to punch down at somebody paying tribute to their friend when he clearly didn't need to.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 12:28 |
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Jericho is a drunk tweeting rear end who saw an opportunity to punch down at somebody paying tribute to their friend when he clearly didn't need to. It was sad reading his autobiographies and watching him seem to become progressively more and more proud of getting black out drunk and being an rear end.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 16:25 |
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Speaking of NJPW, someone said House of Torture might win most disgusting promotional tactic this year. Why would that be, what's the deal with them? Sorry if this is off topic.
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# ? Jan 1, 2022 16:50 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 23:53 |
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Fsmhunk posted:Speaking of NJPW, someone said House of Torture might win most disgusting promotional tactic this year. Why would that be, what's the deal with them? Sorry if this is off topic. They poo poo up every single match they're in (and even matches they're not in) with countless interference spots and their non-stop push is the #1 reason interest in New Japan has plummeted off a cliff in the last 18 months
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