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Ganso Bomb posted:https://twitter.com/jordananimate/status/1480617646081167361 I hope he has a dark secret, as well.
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forkboy84 posted:Inokiism is unfairly maligned. It outworking its welcome, but Don Frye, Bas Rutten, Brian Johnson, were all funa additions to NJPW. Honestly, it's taken as a truth than Inokiism was rotten to watch but I reckon it's past time to re-evaluate it. The other thing is that it’s not like anyone else was doing a whole lot better. NOAH had a few hot periods but the next generation (KENTA, Marufuji, Morishima, Rikio etc) never could replace the old guard as top draws so they had to keep on going back to Misawa and Kobashi until they could no longer; All Japan had flashes but nothing consistent; Joshi was well and truly in the shitter and would remain there for years; and the various splitter promotions generally had a brief run as the new big thing before declining and either folding or becoming modern Zero-1. The two places that managed to achieve some sort of growth in this period were Dragon Gate and DDT: both of which tried to do something completely different, both of which attracted a completely different fan base and in the case of the former became the model that everyone would follow going forward. People tend to ignore wider factors when looking at these things: throughout the 2000s the Japanese economy was really struggling (deflation and stagnation your two main issues); the MMA boom dramatically impacted pro wrestling because the two were a lot more overlapped there than they were in the US; and also while all of the companies did very well in the 90s that’s when the main two both lost prime time TV and that may have made it harder to get a new generation, who’d begin to have money to spend, into wrestling. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the New Japan boom coincided with a period where the economy was doing better and was after MMA had declined: and while it wasn’t an inevitably and NJPW had to work hard to build (it’s not like everyone else went up as much if at all in that period) it certainly helped. One thing that Inokiism accidentally contributed that I think helped was that you had a lot of departures and it meant that afterwards they had to go for the next generation as their big push - while they absolutely brought in vets that left and even others it’s forced them to stick with Tanahashi and Nakamura when things carried on going down after Inoki left (fun fact: business bottomed out in 2009, because building up the next generation cost them more older fans than new ones in the early years) rather than doing what NOAH did and just going back to Misawa repeatedly.
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It makes sense that people like Inokiist matches and its emphasis on athleticism and intensity, but it did prove once and for all that focusing on those two qualities is a poor promotional strategy. UWF rules, Bloodsports and Pure rules matches and shows have their place but they almost completely fail to bring crowds back at a level to sustain a promotion. It's theatricality, characters and storytelling that makes people come back to wrestling time and time again. Just look at how many more hardcore/deathmatch focused promotions have managed to survive where no strictly "sports"-style promotion has managed to.
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Ganso Bomb posted:https://twitter.com/jordananimate/status/1480617646081167361 I'm not sure if this guy really belongs here, if I had to be honest.
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it's funny, that's all that matters click thru to their bio
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flatluigi posted:I'd rather have low stakes bad takes than the virulent bigotry people used to post constantly but yeah it's so mild it's not really worth posting That or the "here's some tweets from a clearly deranged person that is their revenge fantasy porn/thinly veiled outline of how they're going to kidnap and/or murder someone" stuff that we'd get in here from time to time
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Rarity posted:Inoki vs. Zangief you say?  Zangief in Street Fighter was based on Russian wrestler Victor Zangiev after he wrestled in Japan.Which is why it's funny when people say "Miro is Zangief!" No, Zangiev is Zangief. 
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I think it's funny that Tony Khan will go rounds with random WWE reply guys with 15 followers but completely ignores this dude. You know it drives him crazy.
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Zombie Lemur posted:I think it's funny that Tony Khan will go rounds with random WWE reply guys with 15 followers but completely ignores this dude. He desperately wants Tony to notice him so much, he thought he had it when he did a skit on youtube about Tony Khan berating him and calling him the N word.
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Testekill posted:He desperately wants Tony to notice him so much, he thought he had it when he did a skit on youtube about Tony Khan berating him and calling him the N word. With some of the things he's said and done I'm surprised no one has responded, but I'm glad they haven't because it's so much funnier that way.
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TK knows he's bought. With grocery store charcuterie.
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sticklefifer posted:TK knows he's bought. With grocery store charcuterie. Nobody can own Alfred more than him thinking that was cool poo poo.
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xbilkis posted:I would have been pretty happy to get the charcuterie board Does 'selection of cold meats from the nearest supermarket' really count as a charcuterie board?
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Rarity posted:Does 'selection of cold meats from the nearest supermarket' really count as a charcuterie board? Yeah it's a cold meat and cheese selection from a supermarket with a branded cheese board, let's not act like it's anything more than it is.
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One time when I was a very young wrestling fan I managed to buy a bootleg New Japan DVD on the internet and get it sent to me and it was kinda cool but it was the middle of Inokism so it was mostly guys doing lots of thigh kicks so I didn't like it that much
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El Generico posted:mostly guys doing lots of thigh kicks Err this was Taichi and Ibushi's 2020 G1 match and it owned???
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Rarity posted:Err this was Taichi and Ibushi's 2020 G1 match and it owned??? Taichi and Ibushi could do a blindfold match and it would own somehow
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El Generico posted:One time when I was a very young wrestling fan I managed to buy a bootleg New Japan DVD on the internet and get it sent to me and it was kinda cool but it was the middle of Inokism so it was mostly guys doing lots of thigh kicks so I didn't like it that much I remember the first ever Puro dvds I got were Indy Summit 2006 and WrestleExpo 2006. Both were real fun, had to watch them on my own because one had Fluro Light Tube death matches and Danshoku Dino. Some times it's all about getting off on the right foot. Testekill fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Testekill posted:I remember the first ever Puro dvds I got were Indy Summit 2006 and WrestleExpo 2006. Both were real fun, had to watch them on my own because one had Fluro Light Tube death matches and Danshoku Dino. Some times it's all about getting off on the right foot. I somehow copied a video of Bob Sapp hatching out of a giant egg at a lab party. That's the best way to discover Puro.
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Hiroshi Ta-Nehisi is a solid username
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Penguin Patrol posted:Hiroshi Ta-Nehisi is a solid username Yeah that's a fuckin A+
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Zombie Lemur posted:I think it's funny that Tony Khan will go rounds with random WWE reply guys with 15 followers but completely ignores this dude. Tony didn't send him any cheese so now he gets the whine.
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fez_machine posted:It makes sense that people like Inokiist matches and its emphasis on athleticism and intensity, but it did prove once and for all that focusing on those two qualities is a poor promotional strategy. this, but at the risk of belabouring the obvious, you can have both theatricality and intense athleticism in any given wrestling match. I do wish I could find a copy of Nagata/Murakami from December 2002 on here, because not only is it intense as gently caress, Nagata is as beautifully theatrical as someone like Mutoh before him and Tanahashi after him. That happy medium is one of the best things about wrestling.
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Important Catch Wrestling updates: https://twitter.com/CatchWrestling/status/1480875899641806849
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Who could forget such 5 star indie classics as Summer Rae/Samoa Joe 3 It was the Summer of Summer
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Fish Of Doom posted:WWE fans are now getting angry at Botchamania for...showing botches. I bet a dollar at least one of these people has made concern troll posts in the past about botches in AEW
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Fish Of Doom posted:WWE fans are now getting angry at Botchamania for...showing botches. I'm sure they are as considered in their response to AEW Botches
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Fish Of Doom posted:WWE fans are now getting angry at Botchamania for...showing botches. looks like new japan won't be the only folks sending maffew dcma strikes
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Take note of how often the post she is replying to makes it about AEW vs WWE. https://twitter.com/JP121469/status/1481022517867429890
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MassRafTer posted:Take note of how often the post she is replying to makes it about AEW vs WWE. 'stop making it about aew vs wwe when wwe's already won'
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MassRafTer posted:Important Catch Wrestling updates: This account is run by a humourless goober who spends time searching for "catch wrestling" on twitter and kramering in with the dumbest comments. I've gotten into it with them in the past when I made a joke about catch wrestlers being stereotypically defensive about lineages and then they showed up to uh... get stereotypically defensive about catch wrestling lineages.
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