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Edge & Christian posted:When I was in college I had a Shakespeare professor whose last name was Jimenez and he would get super mad at people who pronounced it "correctly", because his family has always pronounced is Jim Ah Nezz. I also had teachers/TAs in high school who were named Quinones ("Kwee Nowns") and Dubois ("Duh Boise"). I used to work with a Dave Peletier whose last name was pronounced "pella-teer" One of my best friends has the last name Boucher, pronounced, Englishly, "Bowcher"
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forkboy84 posted:Giancarlo isn't even a hard name to pronounce, & I say that as a cretinous Brit whose grasp of foreign languages in about on-par with my average countryman, which is to say non-existent. I think we benefit from having a few more adjacent famous people of various nationalities through things like football... though that comes with its own baggage, like the above-mentioned Peletier example and whether it should be pronounced Frenchly or Englishly.
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Imagine if his name was Joachim.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Chris Brookes And The Gang are great, but they're great in the "listen to some folks who know the product podcast around it in a chill way and make jokes while taking the serious moments seriously" way, not really ones I can rate as, like, Wrestling Commentators. It's a different vibe. sounds like pandemic AEW Dark
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Halloween Jack posted:Imagine if his name was Joachim. Or Xavier
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Lamuella posted:The best English language commentator in Japan is Chris Brookes. Chris Charlton is pretty good as a play by play guy with great knowledge, but if he tried to do Excaliburs breathless segues he would instantly combust
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Halloween Jack posted:Imagine if his name was Joachim. The next city over from where I live has a main road called Joachim Street that, yes, is pronounced "Joe Akkum Street." Love the South. edit: Don't get me started on New Orleans and their "Leonidas Street;" the local pronunciation which is so far removed from even the bad version in 300.
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Was watching the Do Fixer vs Blood Generation match and was wondering about the wrestlers in whether they were young lions when they did the match or whether the match in ROH was a rehash of something they did in Dragon Gate or what.
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TV Zombie posted:Was watching the Do Fixer vs Blood Generation match and was wondering about the wrestlers in whether they were young lions when they did the match or whether the match in ROH was a rehash of something they did in Dragon Gate or what. that was the major feud in dg for about 18 months by that point. those guys had done that match probably 200 times
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TV Zombie posted:Was watching the Do Fixer vs Blood Generation match and was wondering about the wrestlers in whether they were young lions when they did the match or whether the match in ROH was a rehash of something they did in Dragon Gate or what. I'd say less a rehash and more just perfect time & place. The vets of the match, CIMA & Dragon Kid, had only debuted in '97, the least experienced in 2000, so while not young lions they weren't exactly grizzled vets either, so much as just guys approaching their physical peak. And yeah, between 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 vs 3, 6 vs 6 matches & everything in between, Do FIXER & Blood Generation must have met in DG over 120 times in the previous 15 months, so they knew each other extremely well & everything was an extremely well-oiled machine, but then that's the DG style, especially of that time. But Blood Generation was also about to have a major change the month after this match with Gamma getting kicked out & Doi leaving with him to form a new heel unit, Muscle Outlaw'z, so ROH's big Mania weekend show basically came at the perfect time to leave a life-long impression with the fans in attendance & those who bought the DVD at the time. CIMA had been in ROH the year before, with his young boy Shingo Takagi for a Boston show, but this was DG vs DG & they really couldn't have done more for basically an exhibition of their entire style.
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Ah ok. I was wondering how that match came together. It was a good match and in hindsight, I figure that they had done some variation of the match already in Japan but at the time, it felt so smooth that it really impressed me at the time.
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Was listening to the ROH retrospective podcast ThROH the Years and in passing they mentioned the concept of being stuck on a desert island with a collection of one wrestlers entire body of work (in the context of Christopher Daniels clearly not trying his hardest in ROH in his 2nd run because by this point TNA are on Spike & so his œuvre would be a bit hard to get through). So what would your choice of one wrestler to be stuck watching for the next 2 years with no other form of entertainment? I'm kind of split between a guy like Bryan Danielson who I've seen a hell of a lot of, or Kobashi, that sort of comfort food equivalent, or someone where I've really mostly only seen the high points like Eddie Guerrero
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The answer is Shibata so you can rewatch those dope BigMouthLoud matches when he was young and hungry going against legends Or someone with a crazy long career spanning a bunch of different eras, like Terry Funk
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Masaaki Mochizuki. There's no part of his 30 year career I don't like.
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If I say Roddy Piper do I get They Live and Hell Comes To Frogtown, or is it just their in-ring work?
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SiKboy posted:If I say Roddy Piper do I get They Live and Hell Comes To Frogtown, or is it just their in-ring work? Sadly just his wrestling work. So you get his promos, but not his movies.
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My immediate thought is Bryan Danielson, but I think William Regal would have a great case too because of how expansive his body of work is. With that you'd get all sorts of eras in all sorts of companies, great technical wrestling, great comedy, and lots of wild promos to enjoy too. The Regal/Benoit match from the 2000 Brian Pillman Memorial Show is one I've watched multiple times and would gladly watch even more.
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Aja Kong's had a great prolonged career with a lot of varied matches Minoru Suzuki as well fez_machine fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Rey mysterio jr
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Its going to be Tenryu for me
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probably Terry Funk tbh dude had a couple thousand matches over 50 years, and I'm willing to bet a significant amount of them made tape, so that'd keep me occupied for ages
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Suplex Liberace posted:Its going to be Tenryu for me This is a really good shout
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fez_machine posted:Minoru Suzuki as well Absolutely Suzuki for me. You've got so much variety to choose from with hard hitting stuff to technical stuff to comedy across a wide range of promotions.
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Rey Mysterio was my first thought but Terry Funk is a good call as well. There’s so much variety through so many eras that there’d always be something different to watch. Not always good, but different.
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Terry or Eddie Guerrero.
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Maybe Kensuke Sasaki so I can get rad big matches but also Florida Express.
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Does it include matches yet to come, do I get garunteed amount of future matches and promos? Probably a tie betwren shibata, kingston, suzuki.
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goldberg so i could ride the inflated streak numbers to the mainland
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Satoshi Kojima is becoming an excellent pick with the addition of his late career "NJPW doesn't care and just lets him work big singles matches everywhere" phase.
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Also going to have to say either Terry Funk or Eddie Guerrero.
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I’d probably say Jericho since he crosses so many eras and varies his gimmick so much
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Tonfa posted:Satoshi Kojima is becoming an excellent pick with the addition of his late career "NJPW doesn't care and just lets him work big singles matches everywhere" phase. 
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Who was involved in that angle from the 80s in the NWA or Crockett or whatever where some cops arrested a wrestler who was attacking another wrestler for tape, on the street, and the wrestler thought the cops had been hired. Seem to recall him complimenting the cops on how real it looked.
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the longest a normal weekly broadcast wrestling show has ever actually overrun to a main event finish? I think a good place to start is apparently 2/145/2011 with a 20 minute overrun Rock promo edit: Oh didn't read, properly. You're looking for a match finish in the overrun. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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How the hell does someone watch stuff like the recent Mei vs. Suzuki match or the Suzuki bullet train match that don't seem to be easily findable? I'd really like to see these two matches, I just can't find either of them, legally or no.
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KK would be a functional, if dull, commentator if he wasn't completely disinterested. But he doesn't seem to know what's happening with the product or with the workers half the time and emotes less than an Alexa. I think a lot of PSP's overwhelming hatred for him is an echo chamber effect but it didn't come from nowhere.
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bloodysabbath posted:How the hell does someone watch stuff like the recent Mei vs. Suzuki match or the Suzuki bullet train match that don't seem to be easily findable? I'd really like to see these two matches, I just can't find either of them, legally or no. They haven't aired in piratable form yet Mei vs. Suzuki will go on the Gatoh Move youtube channel this week likely The bullet train match will air on ppv (here: https://pia-live.jp/perf/2333287-001?lang=en&aetpia) this weekend and then go up for a Wrestle Universe subscription in a couple of monhts All the twitter stuff was either fan cams or DDT releasing clips early
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the longest a normal weekly broadcast wrestling show has ever actually overrun to a main event finish? The Giant vs. Hogan main event on the 1/13/97 Nitro wss a barn burner that had a 45 minute overrun, but unfortunately TNT could only show it during commercial breaks for The New Adventures of Robin Hood...
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