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JOIN THE DORK ORDER pro wrestling is byob's greatest dream: there's music and fireworks when you enter a room, you are encouraged to wear a robe at all times, and any dispute can be settled by tossing your friends back and forth. as such, i want to bring the wonder of wrestling to byob and invite all of you to come along as we watch people rolling in tights in cool ways. i'm your guide through the wild world of pro wrestling, your friend sk, and i'm literally a pro wrestler: ----- the reigning byob chill champion is ORANGE CASSIDY! ORANGE CASSIDY is a wrestler who is kind of hung over and wearing shades. much like the rest of us, he's good at his job and COULD do it, but he just doesn't really want to. a few months ago he had an incredible match against WILL OSPERAY that you should go out of your way to watch. ORANGE is a member of the BEST FRIENDS along with CHUCK TAYLOR, TRENT?, KRIS STATLANDER, DANHAUSEN, and ROCKY ROMERO. he is also friends with TRENT?'S real mom, SUE. as the current AEW all-atlantic champion, he has recently declared himself King of the Atlantic Ocean. --- world wrestling entertainment is run by PAUL "TRIPLE H" LEVESQUE. it was owned by VINCE MCMAHON, a horrible person, until very recently when he was forced out for being a piece of poo poo. it used to be called the wwf but lost a lawsuit against the world wildlife fund and had to change it. they do a lot of simpler storylines aimed at younger viewers, though it's gotten more interesting in the past few months now that someone who isn't senile and a sex pest is in charge. it's usually v bad, but sometimes they accidentally put two good wrestlers in a match and then it's really good. they hired all the best wrestlers and won't share with anyone :angry:
wwe's shows are raw mondays 8-11 ET, smackdown thursdays 8-10 ET, and nxt wednesdays from 8-10 ET (i think). they also have monthly "special event" shows that you can watch with a subscription to nbc's streaming service Peacock for $10 per month. --- all elite wrestling is a new company that's more like old wrestling than new. it's run by TONY KHAN who also co-owns the jacksonville jaguars and the soccer club fulham. one time aew had a match where byob's chill champion ORANGE CASSIDY won by throwing CHRIS JERICHO into a huge mimosa. they have some problems, especially around giving more time to non-male wrestlers, but they also prominently feature LGBTQ wrestlers so i have confidence. people bleed a lot more in aew matches than wwe, so if you don't like that you might want to keep an eye out for it.
aew's shows are dynamite wednesdays 8-10 ET, rampage fridays 10-11 ET, dark tuesdays 7 ET on youtube, and dark: elevation mondays at 7 ET on youtube. they also do special events once every few months that cost about $50 each, but they're usually worth it. there's more wrestling to talk about but i need to go to sleep for real instead of starting another effort thread today. i hope everyone will share their favorite wrestling stuff for everyone else to enjoy! |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 11:00 |
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new Japan pro wrestling angles which come to mind as I write this post: “the rainmaker” okada aka guy who always wins won again this time winning the g1 to be “king switch” “a bunch of nicknames” jay whites challenger for the world heavyweight title at wrestle kingdom the big big show rn it’s the tournament for the first ever tv champion bushi (guy who wears 2 masks) and titane (also wears 2 masks) hate “the united empire” tjp and fransesco akira cuz of their light heavyweight championships elp and shingo are still fighting over the daddy gimmick master wato especially hates taiji ishimori “the bone soldier” for his light heavyweight championship the most out of some other guys who hate him for it jay white expelled guerillas of destiny for getting “the machine gun” karl anderson and doc gallows back. will they stay who knows but leader tama tonga was whites last unsuccessful opponent. his younger brother hikuleo now longs to beat anderson for his us title a bunch of young lions like shota umino and ren narita are getting shots at the big time with big time gimmicks and matches FTR who don’t even work there are the tag champions rn the house of torture are still real & everything is EVIL im a die hard bullet club mark since 2015 unfortunately
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# ? Oct 27, 2022 23:35 |
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a good strat for watching shows without cheering is pretending wrestling is just a really intense play i don’t want this thread to die cuz that’s a sweet tag thing & it looks dope
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# ? Oct 30, 2022 21:12 |
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I haven’t watched wrestling in about 6 years or so and was thinking about getting into AEW then this thread pops up. it’s kismet. anyway, what the hell is dean ambrose up to these days? |
# ? Oct 31, 2022 13:20 |
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John Silver appreciation society |
# ? Oct 31, 2022 15:16 |
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Mummy Napkin posted:I haven’t watched wrestling in about 6 years or so and was thinking about getting into AEW then this thread pops up. it’s kismet. he’s being “the death rider” “the wild thing” “the aew champ” Jon moxley wwe names are funny af. imagine calling a wrestler dean ambrose or neville or dolph ziggler
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# ? Nov 1, 2022 03:41 |
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i have tuned into wrasslemondays on the byob discord a few times and wrestling is this extremely rare thing where the more i am exposed to it the more i like it. when i was very young i loved it, but then was a cynical youth who got weird about kayfabe but fell in love with lucha, and then in my adulthood i realized kayfabe rules and have been slowly getting more and more into it. anyways good thread humans are animals it makes sense we hoot and holler when watching heightened dominance plays. there's this thing in nature where the vast majority of interspecies aggression is non fatal and part of me thinks maybe people used to be that way, and that wrassle and sumo and stuff are some sort of undercurrent of ritualized combat that has existed since pre history.
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# ? Nov 1, 2022 03:46 |
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baka fwocka fwame posted:he’s being “the death rider” “the wild thing” “the aew champ” Jon moxley call me tugboat
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# ? Nov 1, 2022 03:46 |
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FutonForensic posted:John Silver appreciation society
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# ? Nov 1, 2022 23:29 |
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john silver is a member of the Dark Order, a group that used to be kinda sinister but are now a found family of goofballs. silver is pretty short compared to most wrestlers and has absolutely massive biceps, like he was playing with the sliders in character creation and made himself as small as possible with the beefiest arms he could i like to see him suplex big people and then do a big happy smile
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# ? Nov 1, 2022 23:31 |
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FutonForensic posted:John Silver appreciation society johnny hungie |
# ? Nov 2, 2022 01:40 |
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john silver calls himself the Meat Man and he is right
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# ? Nov 2, 2022 01:43 |
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BREAKING NEWS |
# ? Nov 2, 2022 17:44 |
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your friend sk posted:BREAKING NEWS lmao
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# ? Nov 2, 2022 21:44 |
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there’s so much new japan for me to catch up on cuzza school it’s really rough like 10 hours of poo poo has accumulated since i last watched wanna take the whole day off studying & watch it all real bad
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:06 |
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what if there was a wrestler called MUNCHO MAN RANDY SANDWICH
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 01:18 |
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Dr. Honked posted:what if there was a wrestler called MUNCHO MAN RANDY SANDWICH can i tempt you with DAN SANDWICH |
# ? Dec 10, 2022 01:20 |
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your friend sk posted:can i tempt you with DAN SANDWICH
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 01:21 |
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baka fwocka fwame posted:there’s so much new japan for me to catch up on cuzza school it’s really rough ya same every couple years i get this idea that i'm going to watch all of the tag league, or the entire best of super juniors, and about 2 days in i start to fall behind and by the 4th day or so i end up giving up |
# ? Dec 12, 2022 07:49 |
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bump for wrestle kingdom hype
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# ? Jan 3, 2023 21:31 |
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coleposting |
# ? Jan 3, 2023 21:58 |
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your friend sk posted:coleposting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I95HoxVPC0
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# ? Jan 3, 2023 22:44 |
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idk where else to talk about this but I’m finally playing the new japan phone game & got a super super rare KENTA before that I was beefing up tiger mask IV and lord did i kick the poo poo out of taguchi
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# ? Jan 5, 2023 19:51 |
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I've never really been into pro wrestling and I don't usually watch it other than like occasionally if it happens to be on at the bar or whatever, but I do have an honest question from seeing commercials and stuff on TV. I think I get that as far as organizations go there's like WWE as the big one, AEW as like the second one, and some other smaller ones. What I don't understand is the difference between the different titles they put on different nights or shows. Like what is the difference between "Smakdown, RAW, nxt" and others, etc. From someone who knows next to nothing, I can't pick up any real difference between them. Are they just random branding names or is there an actual distinction? To be fair, I don't actually watch it so maybe I would figure it out if I did but I thought someone here who knows things might be kind enough to explain.
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# ? Jan 9, 2023 20:20 |
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I can’t tell u about rwa or smack but I can tell you like if a title says heavyweight it’s heavyweight and if it’s jr heavy it’s jr heavy and if it’s open weight it’s everyone and u don’t need to do much work usually if u ever feel like pretending to weigh a 1000 pounds or whatever they’ll announce you as if you wanna say ur heavy enough to be a heavy sometimes a title has an idea like you hope Americans challenge and defend the us title and that’s a safe title to take a trip abroad for a while but ultimately that stuff doesn’t get in the way of if it would just be a good match also sometimes wrestlers form “teams” in which they “tag” each other and with this arsenal fight for the tag team championships. idk if you know this, very deep cut
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# ? Jan 9, 2023 20:29 |
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also nothing is quite as exciting as a “tandem maneuver” in which 2 people take advantage of referee blindness to swiftly incapacitate their opponent in a technique similar to an assist in marvel vs capcom. a good example of a team who uses tandem manoeuvres is tmdk who are known to employ such techniques which exploit numerical superiority and associated tactical flexibility next, a Stone Cold Stunner is when
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# ? Jan 9, 2023 20:33 |
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Twenty Four posted:Like what is the difference between "Smakdown, RAW, nxt" and others, etc. for the majority, RAW is wwe's flagship program, where they push the wrestlers they care about most smackdown changes, sometimes it is live and just as important as raw, sometimes it is a pre-taped show and not relevant to the Big Stories whether raw or smackdown is actually better to watch depends on whether wwe recognizes who their good wrestlers are, and if they let them do good matches and give them good stories nxt is the developmental brand - originally it was just training indie wrestlers to be good enough, but then they started signing some incredible indie wrestlers so all they had to teach them was like "ok so work to this side of the ring more, because that's where the camera is" and they started doing more good story stuff. for a decent chunk of time nxt was 100% the best wwe show and arguably the best televised wrestling show i haven't watched wwe for years so all of this is stale information at best
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# ? Jan 10, 2023 02:38 |
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biosterous posted:i haven't watched wwe for years so all of this is stale information at best It's a hell of a lot more then I knew and pretty much what I was asking! My takeaway from that is that it makes sense that if RAW and Smackdown can vary from time to time that they can be hard to tell apart to the uninformed, and why if nxt is basically "the minors but actually really good" means that it also seems pretty indistinguishable, again, to someone who doesn't know anything. I think I've got a bit better of a handle on it now though! Thanks for the writeup bios!
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# ? Jan 10, 2023 07:34 |
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i know nxt used to be pretty good & I used to watch it myself but idk if anyone still says that anymore
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# ? Jan 10, 2023 15:31 |
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yeah i stopped watching nxt in 2019 when it switched from a taped 1hr show to a live 2hr show, where they also changed the camera work and general feel of everything to be more like raw and smackdown. fuckin hated the change, they added a bunch of filler to make up for having twice the time slot, and it lost a lot of the feel of the show that i liked. this also coincided with one of my periodic loss of interests in wrestling. 2018-2019 nxt was loving incredible imo
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# ? Jan 10, 2023 16:01 |
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biosterous posted:yeah i stopped watching nxt in 2019 when it switched from a taped 1hr show to a live 2hr show, where they also changed the camera work and general feel of everything to be more like raw and smackdown. fuckin hated the change, they added a bunch of filler to make up for having twice the time slot, and it lost a lot of the feel of the show that i liked. this also coincided with one of my periodic loss of interests in wrestling. everything was so good in 2018 lol why isn’t it still 2018
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# ? Jan 10, 2023 16:05 |
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your friend sk alerted us to this on discord and now i'm posting it https://twitter.com/SMuehlhausenJr/status/1613014122517655552 saudia arabia owns wwe, that is the world we currently live in
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# ? Jan 11, 2023 04:56 |
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tony khan's gonna tug tonight
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# ? Jan 11, 2023 05:00 |
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You know who the best wrestler in aew is that doesn't get enough play? Nyla Rose.
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# ? Jan 11, 2023 13:27 |
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your friend sk posted:tony khan's gonna tug tonight ok I thought of a good wrestling gimmick. you call yourself “the tugboat” and you wear idk a cardboard paper mache tugboat costume to the ring. the important thing is that you Win Every Match, can’t be stressed enough, get the gimmick over I’ll leave the nitty gritty to the fine folks in creative developmental tho
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# ? Jan 11, 2023 17:26 |
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hw&c made me think about Matt taven i just wanna say I’ll always associate him with getting kicked out of his own faction, coming back with a new and better faction that didn’t have the rights to its legacy theme and instead of their finisher being some crazy trip team move it was just 3 splashes from the top rope he’s a perfectly cromulent wrestler but sounded highkey drunk on commentary
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# ? Jan 12, 2023 04:52 |
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i don’t know much about Nyla rose other than she’s a beast but I’m so hype that like NJPW made stardom its woms division because every time those ladies wrestle it’s violet drivers and just all sorts of sickass moves for daze beyond hype to see more of them on the reg
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# ? Jan 12, 2023 22:33 |
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sad news about jay briscoe
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# ? Jan 18, 2023 18:37 |
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your friend sk posted:BREAKING NEWS big update re Daddy rear end who disowned his loser adult sons |
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lmao
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