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Suplex Liberace posted:Is there any interest in a watch along of 90s njpw? Ive been going through 1992 chronologically and i've got a lotta matches to post about but no thread! Yes. As long as I have a way to watch the matches too.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Honestly weird that there isn't really a non-modern wrestling chat thread, not counting the WCW thread, or if there is I missed it. Would be good for anything before 2010 or what-have-you. When New Japan blew up and then especially AEW people stopped caring as much about old wrestling since there was easily accessible good new wrestling to watch.
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There are already too many hours of new wrestling to keep up with without having to also go through the last 40-50 years on top
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i watch some old wrestling just about every day. gets the mind right. watching 2019 stardom and 2005 dragon gate right now. that's the stuff.
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I really want to watch 90s AJPW stuff again but I dunno, it's all a matter of time. And I'm trying to watch too much 2023 wrestling. Someone was streaming NOAH from the start on Sunday evenings for a while and I loved that, and would be happy to join in on something similar with a group watch at set times, New Japan 90s would be fun. Or AJPW. I kind of want to do a Best of the 90s project, or for the 00s but finding easily accessible footage sounds hard
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i watch a lot of ahmed johnson
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I can understand that, it's good to watch more things than just wrestling and it's great that there's so much Actually Good Wrestling out nowadays. I watch AEW every week and TJPW whenever I'm in the mood to watch a new show. But sometimes, nothing hits quite like a Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta match, or a terrible old episode of Raw. Fun to refresh and get a bit of perspective every now and then, and old wrestling makes for some killer background noise.
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yea ok posted:i watch some old wrestling just about every day. gets the mind right. watching 2019 stardom and 2005 dragon gate right now. that's the stuff. Watching Araken with a full head of hair and doing 450 splashes is wild.
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are former WWE wrestlers "allowed" to just go to shows or is there some sort of policy against it? Like Chelsea Green is having a match against Becky Lynch tonight, if Matt Cardona just bought a front row seat facing the camera would WWE go "Ok we dont want Zak Ryder here distracting" or would they just not care
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Kvlt! posted:are former WWE wrestlers "allowed" to just go to shows or is there some sort of policy against it? He would just be backstage.
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MassRafTer posted:He would just be backstage. thats what i figured but ty for confirming. I assume if youre in good standing you just go backstage, not in good standing just not welcome, and anyone else isnt big enough to matter if they wanna buy a normal ticket.
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Kvlt! posted:thats what i figured but ty for confirming. I assume if youre in good standing you just go backstage, not in good standing just not welcome, and anyone else isnt big enough to matter if they wanna buy a normal ticket. Well there is that time wwe fired one of the Highlander guys for sitting in the crowd at a tna show. And also the time they thought Britt Baker would get in trouble for being at a nxt show, that didn’t work out though (spoilers)
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Sandman McMahon posted:Well there is that time wwe fired one of the Highlander guys for sitting in the crowd at a tna show. And also the time they thought Britt Baker would get in trouble for being at a nxt show, that didn’t work out though (spoilers) Whats the Britt thing? I didnt hear about that
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Kvlt! posted:Whats the Britt thing? I didnt hear about that when adam cole was still in nxt they cut to a camera shot of her in the audience presumably to cause her to get heat with AEW since they fired one of the McAllisters for being seen and identified on camera at a TNA taping.
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Kvlt! posted:Whats the Britt thing? I didnt hear about that https://twitter.com/_kennythoughts/status/1541315240327004160 This guy was immediately corrected that it was not an accident (and presumably an attempt to get heat on Britt backstage at AEW ) but that's the general story
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STONE COLD 64 posted:when adam cole was still in nxt they cut to a camera shot of her in the audience presumably to cause her to get heat with AEW since they fired one of the McAllisters for being seen and identified on camera at a TNA taping. Got it ty! Thats such a petty wwe thing to do lol ud assume shed cleared it w/ tony first anyway
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until they started openly tampering with people under contract in AEW tk used to let guys do work with WWE if it didnt interfere with their AEW schedule, usually this was just appearing on interviews or podcasts or panel stuff with WWE or prerecorded messages like they did for cena appreciation day
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STONE COLD 64 posted:until they started openly tampering with people under contract in AEW tk used to let guys do work with WWE if it didnt interfere with their AEW schedule, usually this was just appearing on interviews or podcasts or panel stuff with WWE or prerecorded messages like they did for cena appreciation day random follow up this post made me wonder: in AEW are the wrestlers actual employees or "independant contractors" like in WWE?
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Kvlt! posted:random follow up this post made me wonder: in AEW are the wrestlers actual employees or "independant contractors" like in WWE? most are independent contractors, though there are a handful that are employees that have secondary roles in the company like the bucks, qt marshall, rebel not reba, etc
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STONE COLD 64 posted:most are independent contractors, though there are a handful that are employees that have secondary roles in the company like the bucks, qt marshall, rebel not reba, etc ty!
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Kvlt! posted:random follow up this post made me wonder: in AEW are the wrestlers actual employees or "independant contractors" like in WWE? Independent enough that they would be better represented by a guild than a union, unlike WWE's.
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Arbite posted:Independent enough that they would be better represented by a guild than a union, unlike WWE's. Follow up follow up question: whats the difference between a guild and a union
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Kvlt! posted:Got it ty! Thats such a petty wwe thing to do lol ud assume shed cleared it w/ tony first anyway Tony Khan's take on his wrestlers going to other shows is "you don't need my permission, have fun"
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Bonk posted:Tony Khan's take on his wrestlers going to other shows is "you don't need my permission, have fun" best policy tbh and even good for the company. Max Caster comes to my local indie a lot and one of my friends went to a show with me then started watching AEW bc i put it on one night and she said "Oh thats the guy we saw!" and got sucked in
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Honestly weird that there isn't really a non-modern wrestling chat thread, not counting the WCW thread, or if there is I missed it. Would be good for anything before 2010 or what-have-you. there is a not often used territory thread i started and also the what classic wrestling are you watching thread. STONE COLD 64 posted:i watch a lot of ahmed johnson a person of culture Erin M. Fiasco posted:I can understand that, it's good to watch more things than just wrestling and it's great that there's so much Actually Good Wrestling out nowadays. I watch AEW every week and TJPW whenever I'm in the mood to watch a new show. But sometimes, nothing hits quite like a Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta match, or a terrible old episode of Raw. Fun to refresh and get a bit of perspective every now and then, and old wrestling makes for some killer background noise. Yah im in the same boat, love new stuff but the old stuff is just always calling to me. I dont watch any stinky non wrestling tv though. forkboy84 posted:I really want to watch 90s AJPW stuff again but I dunno, it's all a matter of time. And I'm trying to watch too much 2023 wrestling. i would love to do some watch parties. wrestling is better with your friends and some of these matches dont even have cagematch ratings so the more people i can show these sweet matches too the better. Im gonna throw something together and see how it goes.
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Bonk posted:Tony Khan's take on his wrestlers going to other shows is "you don't need my permission, have fun" Didn't Britt ask permission to go to the NXT show, and Tony was like "We're not a cult."
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Kvlt! posted:Follow up follow up question: whats the difference between a guild and a union The short version is that a union is an organization made to advocate for the workers at a specific employer, and a guild is when a group of independent contractors come together to advocate for their rights with whoever hires them. An auto-workers' union represents people working at specific auto factories, the Screen Writers Guild represents writers as they bounce between any given writing job. The point is, WWE calls it's wrestlers independent contractors, but they're locked into an employee relationship with WWE and should be employees with a union. AEW actually treats it's wrestlers like independent contractors, and they should have a guild that would be positioned to advocate for them no matter what promotion they're working for.
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I've been looking for a specific article of clothing. It's a La Parka hoodie.  I can't remember if I included CMLL or AAA in my search. this thing was badass but it was about 5 years ago on eBay when I stumbled on this hoodie that had the same accents and styling as La Parkas gear but have had no luck tracking it down.
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i watch a lot of ahmed johnson I like how this is still true if you have only seen one Big T match.
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Bonk posted:Tony Khan's take on his wrestlers going to other shows is "you don't need my permission, have fun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edHoSv8JreM
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I've been looking for a specific article of clothing. If you find it and there’s more then one or it’s not your size hook a fellow parka fan up.
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As long as we're hunting white whales, I might as well ask again. I don't trust my memory because I would have been very young and maybe a sugar-addled child-brain was just remixing 1980s ninja craze, but I could *swear* I saw a vignette for Super Black Ninja (Great Muta) as a babyface. It was English, so it has to be WCCW, which I'm pretty sure we did have on cable. I think he was foiling a museum robbery or something? It sounds so unlikely recounting it, but if it wasn't for Muta, then there had to be some other media around that time period with a character named Super Black Ninja that a kid in Texas could have seen on cable.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:As long as we're hunting white whales, I might as well ask again. I don't trust my memory because I would have been very young and maybe a sugar-addled child-brain was just remixing 1980s ninja craze, but I could *swear* I saw a vignette for Super Black Ninja (Great Muta) as a babyface. It was English, so it has to be WCCW, which I'm pretty sure we did have on cable. I think he was foiling a museum robbery or something? This makes me think of a similar thing I’ve always had in my mind of some tag team walking through the woods and doing a promo or vignette. It’d be WWF and my brain wants it to be The Machines or The Conquistadors or something. I have a weird (maybe false) memory of them walking down a wooded hill in the day time. I may also just be remembering a dream about my grandparents camp from childhood.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:As long as we're hunting white whales, I might as well ask again. I don't trust my memory because I would have been very young and maybe a sugar-addled child-brain was just remixing 1980s ninja craze, but I could *swear* I saw a vignette for Super Black Ninja (Great Muta) as a babyface. It was English, so it has to be WCCW, which I'm pretty sure we did have on cable. I think he was foiling a museum robbery or something? Muta was aThe Super Black Ninja in wccw before becoming the great muta in wcw. He was also a White Ninja in florida
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Yeah. Because it was English it has to be WCCW and not WWC, where he was Super Black before that. But I can't find any evidence that such a vignette exists, and it sounds positively insane and high-concept for WCCW.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Yeah. Because it was English it has to be WCCW and not WWC, where he was Super Black before that. But I can't find any evidence that such a vignette exists, and it sounds positively insane and high-concept for WCCW. i miss read your question sorry homie! It could be WccW i don't think muta was a straight heel despite being managed by Garry Hart there. I do agree that sounds very high concept for WCCW or Championship wrestling from Florida
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It's loving crazy seeing him in WWC against non-giants and you remember oh yeah this guy is like 6'3, 235 and flipping around. It's like if Barry Windham was doing SSPs.
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I always had this notion that Sting was not big, because of the guys he wrestled.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:It's loving crazy seeing him in WWC against non-giants and you remember oh yeah this guy is like 6'3, 235 and flipping around. It's like if Barry Windham was doing SSPs. x-pac style
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Ok friends a new question: The greatest tall wrestler in history. By tall we'll say 6'7+. It seems like once a wrestler hits the 6 and a half foot mark they either just coast on their size, never get good, or wrestling conservatively to preserve their bump card. Am I forgetting some guy who is like the Vader of tall guys?
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